Cyber Monday continues to spread to all of DecemberThe rather dull and predictable reality is that it is Thanksgiving weekend in the US, plus the entire month of December, that has gone “cyber” and sales-focusedThu Dec 03 2015 - 01:28
You better watch out: drone invasion is coming to townDrones need to be traceable and trackable, and laws enforceableThu Nov 26 2015 - 06:00
Lost for words? The emoji is a sign of the timesTwitter hearts and Facebook thumbs-ups are woefully inadequate for the tragedy of ParisThu Nov 19 2015 - 01:00
Lisbon’s political swing left hits Web Summit strategyHopefully, pledges will remain in place and promised infrastructure will stay on targetThu Nov 12 2015 - 01:00
Au revoir, Web Summit - it’s time for you to goOrganisers need to take it elsewhere to learn maybe some of their ‘problems’ are self-generatedThu Nov 05 2015 - 21:32
Time is of the essence at Web Summit panelsSociety Stage panels are generally given 35 to 45 minutes and the value of that extra time showsThu Nov 05 2015 - 10:19
How do you like your reality – virtual or augmented?Web Summit hears how Nasa wants to send astronauts to Mars with an immersive worldThu Nov 05 2015 - 08:24
Never mind the Web Summit peripherals – feel the contentSummit’s usual initial vast confusion reigns in the RDS, especially for speakers and mediaWed Nov 04 2015 - 08:45
Web Summit: fantastic and frustrating in equal measureSummit is fantastic for its speaker line-up; frustrating, because the majority of the talks and panels are a dinky 20 minutes longTue Nov 03 2015 - 10:43
Security remains biggest concern says Oracle founderLarry Ellison says ability to turn off security features in software makes no senseFri Oct 30 2015 - 09:33
Oracle tech business looks set to remain overwhelmingly dominantAfter years of aggressive acquisitions, the company is huge, with more than 130,000 employees worldwideThu Oct 29 2015 - 01:02
Oracle keeps European data within its EU-based data centres*Company says certain cloud operations may require access from engineering resources in other regionsWed Oct 28 2015 - 10:16
Oracle chief Mark Hurd warns companies on market expectationsTech boss tells OpenWorld forum firms may not be ready for demands of internet generationMon Oct 26 2015 - 19:28
Larry Ellison mocks IBM, SAP for being ‘nowhere in the cloud’Oracle founder says transition to ‘new era of utility computing’ is still slowMon Oct 26 2015 - 17:17
Intel and Oracle team up for new cloud-based technologiesTech giants partner for ‘Project Apollo,’ which will offer enhanced solutionsMon Oct 26 2015 - 17:07
Getting a glimpse of the people who run the internetWithout set of governing standards, internet’s global platform could fractureThu Oct 22 2015 - 01:00
Internet governance body will not police content on the internetIcann has come under increasing pressure to step in and shut down websites or censor contentTue Oct 20 2015 - 18:05
Minister confirms support for internet governance transferAlex White says Ireland ‘firmly’ backs US handover of domain name managementMon Oct 19 2015 - 21:14
Internet governing body ICANN meets in DublinICANN in squabbles over whether it is ready to operate independently of US oversightMon Oct 19 2015 - 07:23
Merit of Web Summit complaints lost in self-important blusterComment: Public dispute does no favours to Government, summit organisers or DublinFri Oct 16 2015 - 19:33
Fadi Chehadé, overseer of the global internet piazzaIcann chief: an open meeting in Dublin next week has huge, divisive issues to debateThu Oct 15 2015 - 07:35
Wishful thinking guiding privacy policies after Schrems rulingMany of the 4,500 companies that relied on Safe Harbour are left a in a legal quandaryThu Oct 15 2015 - 01:00
NetSuite’s Dublin data centre will be its largest outside the USIrish base is first move in cloud-based software company’s European expansionMon Oct 12 2015 - 08:00
ECJ ruling on Irish privacy case has huge significanceKarlin Lillington: ECJ has jolted US government into taking EU’s privacy stance seriouslyThu Oct 08 2015 - 01:00
Data transfer case: Commerce will not falter but data centres will profitCostly technical solutions will be found to comply with the ruling in Schrems caseWed Oct 07 2015 - 01:01
US software firm NetSuite to open data centre in DublinFirm will partner with Telecity to provide data centre services to European customersTue Oct 06 2015 - 12:34
Net Results: Business awards are great inspirers – and levellersCongratulations to every company with the pluck to place itself under scrutiny of judgesThu Oct 01 2015 - 01:00
Karlin Lillington: Facebook case has huge implications for US-EU businessSafe Harbour is, and always has been, a joke. It needs to be replacedThu Sept 24 2015 - 01:00
‘Dancing baby’ can lead the way on Irish copyright lawThe Lenz v Universal case has been slowly making its way through California’s courtsThu Sept 17 2015 - 12:06
Overuse of word ‘entrepreneur’ has leached it of all meaningPeople who call themselves an entrepreneur these days are likely to be anything butThu Sept 10 2015 - 06:30
ICANN: The internet admins come to DublinThe non-profit group with oversight for the internet is trying to become more globalisedThu Sept 03 2015 - 10:00
Sexist stereotyping of Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer’s pregnancyDouble standards when it comes to lives of female executivesThu Sept 03 2015 - 06:30
Benefits of R&D projects that link third-level with industryProponents argue it attracts foreign direct investment and makes graduates more employableMon Aug 31 2015 - 09:00
‘Failure is grand’: the big, fat cliche that isn’t even trueThose now successful founders are not rushing to hire in people who made a mess of their previous companiesThu Aug 27 2015 - 01:00
Data handling key to corporate valueMergers, takeovers and other company sales are hinging on data-compliance and security issuesThu Aug 20 2015 - 07:00
Asylum-seeking students are valuable for our futureThe case of Anna Kern, the Leaving Cert high-flier, shows the need for reformThu Aug 20 2015 - 01:01
Google name change makes sense for a massive businessGoogle now part of Alphabet but much of the internet functionality still centres on itThu Aug 13 2015 - 01:00
Changing how female students see a career in technologyThe Ada Lovelace Initiative aims to change female students’ perspectives on tech sectorWed Aug 12 2015 - 09:00
Nothing ages you more than a dig through your tech pastThings that once made a geek heart beat faster now seem comically old and uselessThu Aug 06 2015 - 06:30
A very serious issue lies behind the ‘killer robots’ mockeryDeveloping autonomous weapons is not just the stuff of Hollywood summer blockbustersThu Jul 30 2015 - 01:00
Internet body pushes for domain owners’ names to be made publicControversial proposals would restrict ability to keep addresses, email contacts and phone numbers privateThu Jul 23 2015 - 07:45
Ashley Madison affair: When technology meets security risk meets stupidThe ‘terror’ a cheating spouse experiences as they fear being found out is not remotely equatable with suicide bombings or crashing a planeThu Jul 23 2015 - 06:45
Is Facebook facing up to privacy and security concerns?Facebook is moving to rebuild users’ trust, say two of its top privacy and security officersThu Jul 16 2015 - 09:00
Big benefits for all from UK’s Seed Enterprise Investment SchemeMore people have become interested in start-up investment schemes where smaller investments of €5,000 to €10,000 are pooledThu Jul 16 2015 - 07:00
Ireland’s regulatory reputation encouraged Facebook HQIreland also had the right skillsets in its population, says Facebook privacy officerThu Jul 09 2015 - 16:53
Sharing information about attacks will be key in the future of cybersecurityGovernments and business should collate their data to prevent attacks and limit terrorist recruitment onlineThu Jul 09 2015 - 01:45
Still just talking about EU-wide smartphone alert systemEmergency alerts in US expand from radio and television to mobile phonesThu Jul 09 2015 - 01:02
Keeping bandwidth neutral will help facilitate innovationThere should not be a fast lane and a slow lane for delivery of services to internet usersThu Jul 02 2015 - 06:38
Google ‘committed’ to transparency on user access to personal dataTech company evolving its approach to last year’s European Court of Justice rulingThu Jul 02 2015 - 01:00
Maverick BitCoin currency overcoming its image problemMainstream finance and venture capital beginning to take cryptocurrency seriouslyThu Jun 25 2015 - 01:35
