Communications Bill may be passed before electionThe Government's delayed Communications Bill may yet make it through the Dáil before an election is called, after Opposition …Wed Mar 6 2002 - 00:00
Republic risks 'squandering' gains of technology policyWithout "fresh vision and leadership", the Republic risks "squandering" the gains it has made in technology policy and will see…Tue Mar 5 2002 - 00:00
Technicians will be able to upgrade to degree at planned NUI courseTechnicians will be able to upgrade their professional certification to a Bachelor's degree in engineering under a new, part-…Mon Mar 4 2002 - 00:00
Eircom prices ignore falling DSL tariffsNET RESULTS: Walk around the bustling banking city of Frankfurt and you see the advertisements everywhere: high-speed DSL (digital…Fri Mar 1 2002 - 00:00
ICT sector rides out stormTECH SECTOR: The Republic's information and communications technology (ICT) sector has outstripped the growth rate of the national…Fri Mar 1 2002 - 00:00
Linkrot poses serious threat to Web archivesNET RESULTS: Like many people who get an email account, I was intrigued by the chunk of server space for hosting a personal …Fri Feb 22 2002 - 00:00
E-government has multiple hurdles to leapGovernments will never be able to predict how citizens will use, or what they will want from, e-governmentFri Feb 15 2002 - 00:00
Republic bottom in telecom pollThe Republic has come in at the bottom of a European telecommunications scorecard that criticises the slow pace at which incumbent…Fri Feb 15 2002 - 00:00
Gates may not shine at forecasts but reactions are usually on targetFor pure chutzpah this week, I nominate the words of Mr Bill Gates, founder and chairman of software monolith Microsoft.Fri Feb 8 2002 - 00:00
Funding is still there for promising firmsTechnology companies face a range of legal and capital issues in the new "lean-burn" economic climate, but funding and support…Fri Feb 1 2002 - 00:00
Ireland must move to adopt appropriate e-business law before EU stakes its claimThe legal consensus internationally has been that US laws have set standards for e-business, with Europe trailing behindFri Jan 25 2002 - 00:00
Amazon.com battles its way to profits at long lastWEBSITES: The inventor of the "get big fast" model of internet business growth proved this week that maybe it was right after…Fri Jan 25 2002 - 00:00
Dail gives long-delayed Communications Bill top priorityThe Cabinet has agreed to give the long-delayed Communications Bill top priority in an attempt to get it passed into law before…Sat Jan 19 2002 - 00:00
Online retailers gain significantly from end-of-year buying spreesSHOPPING: Irish consumers rang in the holidays with a significant surge in online buying that outpaced the expectations of …Fri Jan 18 2002 - 00:00
Microsoft charity offer a wasted opportunityNET RESULTS: The decision not to allow the proposed Microsoft settlement to proceed only serves to block underfunded schools…Fri Jan 18 2002 - 00:00
Dublin needs leadership to become top e-cityDublin as an e-city? It's an easy buzzword concept for politicians, analysts and the media but open to much scoffing from the…Fri Dec 14 2001 - 00:00
Affordable broadband for homes essential for Republic's well-beingFew people would insist that the Republic is a highly competitive and cost-effective location for multinational industries - …Fri Dec 14 2001 - 00:00
Republic lags behind other states in e-trade battleThe State and its capital are lagging behind other world regions battling to be e-commerce centres, according to a new report…Thu Dec 13 2001 - 00:00
Network365 secures deal with Asian firmIrish wireless applications provider Network365 has secured a deal "in excess of six figures" to provide mobile payment software…Tue Dec 11 2001 - 00:00
Two surveys show State at forefront of Net interactionMinisters this week were preening over two surveys that place the Republic at the forefront of European nations in the area of…Fri Dec 7 2001 - 00:00
Interxion wins €1m contracts for Dublin plantData hosting and internet exchange company Interxion has won over €1 million (£788,000) in contracts for its Dublin facility. …Thu Dec 6 2001 - 00:00
Lessig's lonely crusade against corporate copyright hoardersThere's a thespianish side to Prof Lawrence Lessig, the tall, slender and bespectacled Stanford academic who is probably the …Fri Nov 30 2001 - 00:00
Government services for business go onlineA new website will enable Irish businesses to access Government services - from funding and public procurement information to…Fri Nov 30 2001 - 00:00
Irish technology innovator has low profile but star qualitiesThere's an Irish technology figure who very rarely features in national newspapers and magazines hereFri Nov 23 2001 - 00:00
HEAnet capacity rises tenfoldHEAnet, the high-speed internet network that unites the Republic's research and educational institutions, jolted its capacity…Sat Nov 17 2001 - 00:00
State must act on chronic broadband problemBy now, just about anyone with a pulse realises that the State has a big, big problem in the broadband departmentFri Nov 16 2001 - 00:00
SAS quietly going about its business of pioneering data mining and CRM softwareChances are that you have never heard of software company SASFri Nov 9 2001 - 00:00
Dell proves its hard nose in the hardware marketWhile most of the computer hardware industry fizzles, Dell continues to shine, albeit more modestly than in the past.Fri Nov 9 2001 - 00:00
Hope on horizon now Communications Bill might at last get proper Dail airingSome hope is on the horizon now that the delayed but critical Communications Bill should be published within the coming weeks…Fri Nov 9 2001 - 00:00
Dell 'committed' to Irish divisionDell Computer remains "very committed" to its operations in the Republic and does not foresee any further job cutsWed Nov 7 2001 - 00:00
Retention of mobile call records queriedThe Office of the Data Protection Commissioner is to seek clarification from mobile telecoms companies Eircell and Esat Digifone…Wed Nov 7 2001 - 00:00
Immigrant workers are not the State's flexible friendsFor some time now, I've had a reasonably clear idea about what I am doing in this country. First, I came here to studyFri Nov 2 2001 - 00:00
E-business concerns over new EU move on surveillanceEuropean legislation that permits the secret surveillance of e-mails, internet and phone usage - in many cases, without a warrant…Fri Nov 2 2001 - 00:00
Looking into the future but not being futuristicIBM'S Mr Tony Davison likes looking into the future and imagining technological developments in 2020 or 2080Fri Oct 26 2001 - 01:00
Delay in key Bill is bad news for the economyWhat can the Government be thinking of, leaving the extremely important Communications Bill to languish just when this country…Fri Oct 26 2001 - 01:00
Interactive TV leaves many viewers frustratedDespite huge investments, user interfaces for interactive television remain so poor that frustrated viewers are suffering from…Fri Oct 26 2001 - 01:00
Technology firms are finding it's good to talkAs with the US technology sector before it, the tech industry in the Republic realises it must interact in a more structured …Fri Oct 19 2001 - 01:00
Microsoft must lie in legal bed it's madeWe're back to a temporary draw in that incredibly long-running game, the antitrust trial brought by the United States Department…Fri Oct 12 2001 - 01:00
Media Lab's role evolves to match changing timesAsk Prof Nicholas Negroponte what issues are foremost in his mind as he looks at Media Lab Europe (MLE), the Dublin research …Fri Oct 12 2001 - 01:00
MIT chooses Republic for start-up ventureThe Republic will become the headquarters for a new venture that will launch start-up companies emerging from the Massachusetts…Wed Oct 10 2001 - 01:00
'For let' signs drive home tech realityAny doubt that a certain kind of sparkle has gone off the technology industry was laid to rest for me on a recent visit to Silicon…Fri Oct 5 2001 - 01:00
'Oodles of wonga' waiting out there for ideasRaising venture funding in the United States is a challenge, given the current economic climate, according to two speakers at…Fri Oct 5 2001 - 01:00
PCs and literature make complementary bedfellowsAfter a summer in which several mainstream publishers have dipped a cautious toe into the slowly emerging electronic books, or…Fri Sep 28 2001 - 01:00
Sobering times call for look to pastIs it just me, or does anyone else think the widely-used American business phrase, "open the kimono", is rather crass? Every …Fri Sep 28 2001 - 01:00
House filled with dreams and possibilitiesThe jewel in Microsoft's research crown is the place where it gets to show visitors a real glimpse of the future: the Microsoft…Fri Sep 21 2001 - 01:00
Privacy vital to democracyHow do you find a voice to describe the unspeakable? How do you gather words into orderly form, as the world twists out of shape…Fri Sep 21 2001 - 01:00
No doubt for Gates on Microsoft's future healthFiguring out how to blow $5 billion (€5.5 billion) in a year is a challenge - even for one of the world's richest men.Fri Sep 21 2001 - 01:00
Mammoth merger of battered but not yet beaten tech giants{EDITION} The proposed melding of technology industry giants Compaq and Hewlett-Packard will, if approved by regulatory authorities…Fri Sep 7 2001 - 01:00
Eircom is set to publish DSL pricesEircom is believed ready to publish prices for its digital subscriber line (DSL) broadband internet offering as early as next…Sat Aug 18 2001 - 01:00
Republic risks becoming the dark horse of Europe if telecoms network not upgradedThe Republic, its businesses and its researchers risk becoming the also-rans of technological innovation if telecommunications…Fri Aug 17 2001 - 01:00