Ex-spam king out to end free lunchIn one of the strangest Net developments of the week, former spam king Sanford Wallace announced that he would henceforth do …Fri May 15 1998 - 01:00
Digerati and lawmakers in cautious courtshipUntil recently, the distance between Silicon Valley and Washington DC was not so much a matter of mileage as cultureFri May 15 1998 - 01:00
Microsoft's Cambridge lab still under the microscopeWhen Microsoft touched down in Cambridge last summer with the announcement that it intended to invest £50 million establishing…Fri May 8 1998 - 01:00
Time to get moving on encryptionSome misguided decisions taken by the British government last week regarding the hot issue of encryption the encoding of data…Fri May 8 1998 - 01:00
Thriving CBT keeps up training as sector becomes more competitiveFor years, they've been quietly successful, but things are beginning to get a little more lively for the chief executive of Irish…Fri May 1 1998 - 01:00
Glowing earnings give grumbling Sun man cause to beam a littleThe man with the most famous pearly whites in the technology industry Sun Microsystems chief executive, Mr Scott McNealy, whose…Fri May 1 1998 - 01:00
Dr Cerf - Father of the InternetDr Vinton Cerf is identified more frequently as The Father of the Internet, than by his working title, which is senior vice-president…Fri Apr 24 1998 - 01:00
Microsoft spins punters its Windows 98 webAt this point, flogging Windows 98, Microsoft's overhaul and upgrade of its Windows 95 operating system which is due out on June…Fri Apr 24 1998 - 01:00
Web awards map way to best sitesFor the past three years, the self-styled Academy Awards of the Internet the weighty-sounding Global Information Infrastructure…Fri Apr 24 1998 - 01:00
The `father of the Internet' cut off at Smurfit seminarAlas, advanced telecommunications technologies showed no respect for one of the founders of the digital age yesterday as "Father…Tue Apr 21 1998 - 01:00
Software minnow able to swim with the sharksSilicon Valley is full of bright young technology company start-ups that blaze one day and are gone the next, usually when their…Fri Apr 17 1998 - 01:00
Weaving a clear Website designSo you're thinking about hiring a new media company to design a Web presence for your organisation or perhaps you're considering…Fri Apr 17 1998 - 01:00
Intel hiccups cause ripples in industrySuch is microprocessor giant Intel's overwhelming importance to the technology industry that if the chipmaker sneezes, the rest…Fri Apr 17 1998 - 01:00
Dublin shows signs of Valley problemsConstant hype is the norm in Silicon Valley, where every company is the next Netscape (although these days, that isn't necessarily…Fri Feb 13 1998 - 00:00
Hard-nosed trading replaces glitter at Cannes multimedia exhibitionJust two years ago it was still one of the world's trendiest high-tech events, but MILIA, the huge annual multimedia developers…Fri Feb 6 1998 - 00:00
Gates gets better service with `model' Digital dealIt's been quite a week for Digital Equipment CorporationFri Jan 30 1998 - 00:00
Angry employees pose greatest threat to a company's computersActor Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible: despite the popularity of technical espionage films like Mission Impossible, in which…Fri Jan 23 1998 - 00:00
Consumers queue up to buy WebTV setsMost Net devotees seem to think that the cross between the Internet and a television set is an unlikely pairing despite some …Fri Jan 23 1998 - 00:00
Focus turns to spreading Web to TVLots of people who use the Web all the time think its integration with television - an idea being pushed by companies like WebTV…Fri Jan 16 1998 - 00:00
Brussels will not rule on encryption, says officialA European Union official claimed this week that Brussels has no intention of regulating digital encryption.Fri Jan 16 1998 - 00:00
High-tech image company enjoys exposure at Mac showpieceVisitors to last week's annual MacWorld Expo show in San Francisco couldn't possibly have overlooked the bright yellow oasis …Fri Jan 16 1998 - 00:00
Apple edges out of the doldrums with a little help from its old enemy"Think profit." The giant letters on the wall-sized screen behind Mr Steve Jobs, Apple Computer's acting chief executive officer…Fri Jan 9 1998 - 00:00
Internet means business with global trading set to doubleThe coming year should be a fascinating one for the technology industryFri Jan 2 1998 - 00:00
Industry not shocked by Seagate closeThe only real surprise arising from the loss of 1,400 jobs in Seagate's Clonmel plant is that anyone in authority could have …Fri Dec 19 1997 - 00:00
Agents scout for talent in tight marketInformally, high-technology employment agencies are rather unpleasantly termed headhuntersFri Dec 12 1997 - 00:00
SET aims to reassure Net shoppersAccording to an Irish Internet Association survey, 39 per cent of Irish Internet users have bought something onlineFri Dec 5 1997 - 00:00
Microsoft gets foot in door of bigger playersThere's nothing Microsoft seems to relish more than a new field of battle, especially when the winner's spoils are vast and lucrative…Fri Dec 5 1997 - 00:00
Microsoft teams up with Unisys on NTAnother concerted - and co-ordinated - attempt to move Windows NT forward as a "enterprise-class" operating system was made yesterday…Fri Dec 5 1997 - 00:00
Chat-up lines gain respectabilityBack in the early years of the Internet, one of the most popular forms of cyber-interaction was a technology called "chat"Fri Nov 28 1997 - 00:00
Surfing with confidence takes timeBusiness users of the Web seem to fall into two camps: either you can't live without it, or you can't figure out what everyone…Fri Nov 28 1997 - 00:00
Limerick firm has Y2K solutionIt wasn't Limerick company Piercom's original plan to be in a market where 90 per cent of the world's businesses might need the…Fri Nov 21 1997 - 00:00
Unisys to refocus on Windows NTMarking a significant change of direction for the formerly struggling company, computer giant Unisys has announced that it will…Fri Nov 7 1997 - 00:00
IDA outpost networks to send big business homeIn a nondescript building in Northern California, a little corner of Silicon Valley is forever IrishFri Nov 7 1997 - 00:00
Cork Seagate plant `on hold' for 6 monthsComputer hard-disk drive manufacturer Seagate Technologies has reassured the Tanaiste, Ms Harney, that its 1,000-job £150 million…Fri Oct 31 1997 - 00:00
Apple picks itself up to hobble next furlongIf Mr Steve Jobs decides to appoint himself chief executive officer of Apple Computer it will come as no surprise to anyone who…Fri Oct 31 1997 - 00:00
The art of the impossibleArthouse's outgoing director Aileen MacKeogh talks to Karlin Lillington about the centre's first five years and her concerns …Mon Jul 7 1997 - 01:00
How good is your ISP?UNTIL now, judging the performance of an Internet Service Provider (ISP) has been well nigh impossible, relying on anecdotal …Mon Jun 30 1997 - 01:00
The graphic details"COOL!" says Bart Simpson, stepping through a 2-D wall in the family's Springfield bungalow and popping out - literally - into…Mon Jun 16 1997 - 01:00
The superhighway robbersFORGET gold bricks - burglars these days know silicon is where the real money's to be made when planning a profitable heist.Mon Jun 9 1997 - 01:00
Yahoos are local heroesARRIVING on the Web for the first time helps you understand how Dorothy felt when she touched down in Oz: we're certainly not…Mon May 12 1997 - 01:00
The fastest spiders in the worldIN its first week it had 300,000 requests a dayMon May 5 1997 - 01:00
Seek and ye shall findWITHOUT a doubt, the most indispensable tools on the World Wide Web are the variety of search engines and search indexes which…Mon Apr 28 1997 - 01:00
Help! I can't find anythingYOU'VE got your Mac or PC, a spanking new modem, and your ticket to the world of the Internet via a subscription from one of …Mon Apr 21 1997 - 01:00
It's an intranet worldANY remaining doubts that the Internet's real market is business were swept away under the smoggy skies and palm trees of Los…Mon Mar 24 1997 - 00:00
New problems for new mediaFOR the third time, the disciples of CD Rom returned to the palm lined streets of Cannes last week to talk about new media at…Mon Feb 17 1997 - 00:00
Let's go to San FranciscoJOBS, NeXT, push, OS, Be, Gil, Steve and Woz versus multithreading, pre emptive multitasking, memory protection and object oriented…Mon Jan 20 1997 - 00:00
Fascinating gadgets you never knew you neededREMEMBER when you learned the true spirit of Christmas? When, as a child, the truth dawned and you finally understood the kid…Mon Dec 23 1996 - 00:00
Santa Claus goes on lineIF you're the kind of parent who still thinks a high-tech holiday means those Christmas tree lights that blink on and off, swallow…Wed Dec 11 1996 - 00:00
Crash!IT'S a Salvador Dali version of a computer, a meltdown of charred weeping plastic with bits of twisted metal jutting out at angles…Mon Dec 2 1996 - 00:00
New system lets shoppers swipeIF YOUR weekly supermarket safari has lost its zing and you've been unhappily suppressing the urge for a bit of personal interactivity…Mon Nov 11 1996 - 00:00