Crowdfunding revolutionises venture fundingFunding from the bottom up, via crowdfunding, means many expert eyes can perform due diligence on a company, says Dan MaromThu Jun 19 2014 - 01:10
Aer Lingus offers a new connection: wifi on my transatlantic flightThe price is a bit steep, the service can be patchy but nothing kills time like the webThu Jun 19 2014 - 01:00
Developers will have to get used to closed mobile ecosystemsThe big three mobile players, Apple, Google and Nokia/Microsoft want to lure users and app developers into locked-down worlds where purchases and services are channelled through their platform offeringsThu Jun 12 2014 - 01:10
Hurrah for Vodafone, boo for the governmentThe Department of Justice has released figures suggesting about 10,000 requests are made to all operators for retained dataThu Jun 12 2014 - 01:00
Ireland could learn the lessons of social entrepreneurshipStudents who opted for a course which focused on Ireland as real-world case study are here to present their findingsMon Jun 09 2014 - 01:10
Google takes first step to enable ‘right to be forgotten’ECJ ruling means Europeans may request to have links relating to them removedThu Jun 05 2014 - 01:00
Cold look at the future sees a very different cast list in businessCisco chairman John Chambers does not expect many of today’s biggest tech firms to surviveThu May 29 2014 - 01:15
Our Foreign Direct Investment people can afford to smile after big swing to UkipAfter last week’s elections multinationals are likely to find Ireland increasingly more attractive in a key area: access to the European marketThu May 29 2014 - 01:00
Transatlantic divide on digital policyIf policy differences on data protection and net neutrality are not resolved, it’ll leave Ireland and Britain in a messThu May 22 2014 - 01:10
Differing definitions of net neutrality spells big troubleThe US regulator is effectively diluting true net neutralityThu May 22 2014 - 01:00
Data protection needs to be taken seriously or we will payPresence of so many established computing, technology and internet companies increases need for actionThu May 15 2014 - 15:08
Analysis: Google takes another hit with EU privacy rulingsTaken with last month’s ruling, this is a serious setback for internet companiesWed May 14 2014 - 01:01
Will investors in Twitter eventually see it as a failure?Karlin Lillington believes we’ll have to wait and see if a business model does eventually emerge for online servicesThu May 08 2014 - 01:00
Halting internet fragmentation tops agendasGrowing censorship, the threat of data controls and unequal access pose serious challenges to webThu May 08 2014 - 01:00
Internet under fire from states seeking to control informationEvents in Ukraine dominate discussions as delegates gather for fourth annual Freedom Online conferenceThu May 01 2014 - 11:28
US and Europe caught in spiral of hypocrisy over SnowdenKarlin Lillington argues nations must recognise they cannot continue to call Edward Snowden a traitor and refuse him a safe return to the US, or an offer of asylum elsewhereThu May 01 2014 - 01:00
Government leaders call for more open and secure internetGovernments have suffered blow to credibility following Snowden revelations, conference toldMon Apr 28 2014 - 15:46
‘Only EU can take a stand on privacy’A recent ruling has ended data retention, says Jan Philipp Albrecht, but digital privacy remains an issueThu Apr 24 2014 - 01:05
Silicon Valley’s time to be satirised has truly arrivedMike Judge’s new sitcom has ruffled feathers in California’s tech communityThu Apr 24 2014 - 01:01
Online fraud – why Heartbleed isn’t the only cyber threatIt isn’t so much what’s being done, as how it’s being doneThu Apr 17 2014 - 01:00
Back to square one on data retentionBut data retention is likely to return - in a carefully revised formThu Apr 10 2014 - 01:00
European Court of Justice strikes blow for data rightsAnalysis: Irish court challenge central to ECJ decision on EU data retention directiveWed Apr 09 2014 - 01:00
Analysis: ECJ ruling is a true David versus Goliath victoryDecision to invalidate the Directive could not come at a more relevant moment hereTue Apr 08 2014 - 10:52
2013 dubbed year of mega data breaches as attacks soarNew study shows a 62 per cent increase in data breaches last yearTue Apr 08 2014 - 10:32
Civil liberties at risk in the digital ageGarda taping scandal defies quaint old logicThu Apr 03 2014 - 01:01
Armoured malware the latest threat to defencesA more sophisticated form of hacking uses an extra sheath of code to get at your digital informationThu Apr 03 2014 - 01:00
Yahoo’s Dublin move gets it away from UK’s spying eyesCompany has been at the centre of two major Snowden surveillance storiesThu Mar 27 2014 - 01:10
TED’s been keeping it short and sweet for 30 yearsTED began in 1984 and has expanded into two annual conferences, as well as smaller, locally organised talk events in over 150 countriesThu Mar 20 2014 - 01:00
‘Just because it is legal doesn’t mean we should do it’US intelligence figures say Europe is acting ‘mock surprised’ at leaks on NSAThu Mar 06 2014 - 01:10
EU privacy rights derided in land of the free accessNet Results: to many Americans, data protection is a roadblock to enterprise and innovationThu Mar 06 2014 - 01:00
Security experts point to ease of access for bitcoin thievesRSA conference hears bitcoin exchanges are easily compromised by malwareFri Feb 28 2014 - 09:37
US firms increasingly wary of EU action over online privacyInternational Association of Privacy Professionals says issue has ‘exploded’ since Edward Snowden revelationsFri Feb 28 2014 - 01:00
New FBI director defends need for surveillance‘More information sharing needed’ to improve terrorist defences, Comey tells conferenceThu Feb 27 2014 - 08:07
Companies forced to clarify NSA links after Snowden leak claimsFocus on ties to US National Security Agency dominates conference keynotesThu Feb 27 2014 - 01:08
Everyone is after personal data, not just the NSASecurity conference hears of need to build better safeguards into the systems themselvesThu Feb 27 2014 - 01:00
Colleges fail to teach design of secure codeRSA conference hears top computer science programmes in the US deliver minimal content on securityWed Feb 26 2014 - 20:49
RSA chairman defends company’s links with the NSAArt Coviello says security company’s relationship is strictly above board as he calls for the breakup of the NSA into separate organisationsTue Feb 25 2014 - 18:11
Who can recall the fallen greats of the dog-eat-dog tech world?The history of digital technology is littered with the corpses of companies that didn’t make the cutThu Feb 20 2014 - 01:15
Emphasising the beauty and joy of computing for girlsThe way computer study is presented can draw more female interestThu Feb 20 2014 - 01:00
Keep the smartphone out of the bedroom for a good day’s workStudy shows using smart- phones for work-related activities in the evening leaves you tired the next dayThu Feb 13 2014 - 01:10
Silicon Valley elite in the cross hairs of inequality debatePerkins interview added more evidence to argument that Silicon Valley is out of touchThu Feb 13 2014 - 01:00
Sowing the seeds for a high-tech farming futureAdvanced technology expertise could help make Irish agribusiness more productive and sustainableThu Feb 06 2014 - 01:10
New brooms at Microsoft necessary for a company seeking relevanceThe announcement of Satya Nadella as the company’s new chief executive and John Thompson as chairman is intended to revitalise MicrosoftThu Feb 06 2014 - 01:00
How the Mac made computing possible for ‘the rest of us’Unveiled 30 years ago this month, the little, all-in-one Apple Mac succeeded in redefining home computingThu Jan 30 2014 - 01:10
It looks like 2014 will be a good year for data protectionTwo important initiatives to improve data protection and data privacy look set to be decided this yearThu Jan 30 2014 - 01:00
In technology circles, recruitment process in dire need of a redesignIt seems sometimes as if the sector is particularly cluelessThu Jan 23 2014 - 01:00
Squaring the circle of the Bletchley Park codebreakersThe writer of a fictional postwar crime drama hopes it will highlight the crucial role of women in the warThu Jan 23 2014 - 00:00
‘People make a fuss sometimes, but I don’t pay attention to that’The teenage prodigy who, at 15, developed the idea for a cheap, effective early test for cancer was at the BT Young Scientist awardsThu Jan 16 2014 - 01:10
US ruling could make the web a dangerously different placeNet Results: The torpedoing of the principle of ‘net neutrality’ shifts enormous power to broadband provider gatekeepersThu Jan 16 2014 - 01:00
Hollywood’s best friend at the box office just might be an algorithmEpagogix claims it can help film studios find out whether they have a hit or a miss on their hands before production startsThu Jan 09 2014 - 01:00
