Facebook policy on friends’ data is no friend of privacyDiscovering that information I never even offered to Facebook potentially has been made available to strangers is infuriatingThu Jul 04 2013 - 01:00
Some European states likely to put pressure on US over breaches of citizens’ privacyWe want to know clearly what has been going on, says justice commissioner RedingThu Jul 04 2013 - 00:00
Rerouting data to avoid prying eyesTwo investigative journalists published articles offering evidence that Echelon also had been used for industrial espionage by the USThu Jun 27 2013 - 01:42
Wayra Ireland: ‘It’s bringing together high-value people. They are raising the bar for start-ups’Telefónica supports entrepreneurship through start-up accelerators in 13 countries and the first Irish group has just graduatedThu Jun 27 2013 - 01:00
It’s good to talk in public about privacy and data protectionFundamental privacy and data protection rights are not negotiable, says Viviane RedingThu Jun 20 2013 - 01:00
Please, Facebook, enough with the tacky belly fat adsLet’s hope the online advertising market eventually lifts enough to price bottom feeders out of the web ad businessThu Jun 20 2013 - 01:00
EU says US should use existing rules to request citizens’ dataEU vice-president and US attorney general meet in DublinSat Jun 15 2013 - 01:00
Spamalot reigns: the spoils of Ireland’s EU kingshipProposals for amendments to proposed new data protection regulation overwhelmingly favour business and big organisationsThu Jun 13 2013 - 01:15
It is not the fact of surveillance but its sheer scale which shocks most in the Prism affairIreland falls into ‘less surveilled’ category, but information is gathered hereMon Jun 10 2013 - 00:00
‘New era of smart’ focuses on exploiting Big Data to improve the urban living experienceDublin is playing a role in the IBM Smarter Cities initiative which aims to help us better manage our resourcesThu May 23 2013 - 02:00
Release of more data is a good thing for citizensA successful open-data ecosystem, however, depends on organisations releasing useful sets, whether they charge for them and, if they do, how muchThu May 23 2013 - 01:00
Remaking an educational publishing giantFormer White House CIO Brook Colangelo has turned his attention to harnessing technology for educationThu May 16 2013 - 01:01
Chris Hadfield’s use of social media made space seem less alienI don’t think we – the people of Earth – have felt as connected to, or excited about, a space programme since the ‘Apollo’ moon landingsThu May 16 2013 - 01:00
Bright ideas to bring IP into the digital ageProf Ian Hargreaves’ influential report into the UK’s intellectual property (IP) system has generated much discussion globallyMon May 13 2013 - 01:01
What Big Data can tell you about your genome – and why it mattersFaster computing power means that decoding work on the human genome can now be done in hoursThu May 02 2013 - 06:00
Big data is watching youBusinesses are mining huge volumes of data to find out where we are, what we’re like and what we’re doing. In the first of a series, we ask if big data is a benefit or a threatSat Apr 27 2013 - 06:00
Harvesting the songs of nature to plead for its futureUniversity of Limerick computer scientist Mikael Fernström collaborates with humans and bees to make sweet musicThu Apr 25 2013 - 08:02
Mobile technologies can bring cost savings and efficiency gains to policingTechnologies are opening up new ways of on-the-move workingThu Apr 25 2013 - 06:00
The more the internet changes, the more it stays the sameMany aspects of an analytical piece about online issues from 1999 could have been written this weekThu Apr 18 2013 - 06:00
My name’s Karlin and I have social media personality disorderOr how I juggle Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Google+ and the rest – with limited successThu Apr 11 2013 - 06:00
Project Moonshot: a giant step forward for HP?Road not smooth for HP in recent years, but firm optimistic about new server technologyThu Apr 11 2013 - 06:00
Bringing tax to books in an online culture battleEbooks are more expensive here than in the US and a European move to change this could have far-reaching implicationsWed Apr 10 2013 - 06:00
Law enforcement agencies learning to tackle challenges of social mediaPolicing social media must be balanced against privacy protections, argues UK expert David OmandThu Apr 04 2013 - 09:00
Net Results: Time for PayPal boss to get a bit more slouchyLouise Phelan’s suggestion that staff should be genuflecting to their employer is disturbingly DickensianThu Apr 04 2013 - 06:00
Net Results: Digital economy begins with teaching kids coding‘Learning how to programme teaches you how to think,’ said Steve JobsThu Mar 28 2013 - 06:00
Hadfield’s space odyssey widens social media orbitThanks to the captain of the International Space Station, we earthlings are getting to know about life in space and gaining a view of our own world from a different angleThu Mar 21 2013 - 12:36
Immigration policy must target entrepreneursOpening the doors to skilled talent will boost economies on both sides of Atlantic, says leading academicThu Mar 21 2013 - 06:00
Businesses alert to major concern that is securityAs cyber threats get ever more complex, the need to address them becomes more pressing, writes Karlin LillingtonThu Mar 14 2013 - 06:00
Time for the EU to forget ‘the right to be forgotten?’What worries the US most, of all the elements in the proposed data protection regulation from Brussels?Thu Mar 14 2013 - 00:00
The perils of operating in a brave new digital worldNET RESULTS : Hacked computers? We all know about that problem, and it’s scary enoughThu Mar 07 2013 - 00:00
Nevada rolls the dice on online gamblingEurope may be debating how best to manage online betting and gambling companies and their profits, but – in what will hardly …Thu Feb 28 2013 - 00:00
Time for jammin' sessions in theatres and concert hallsWe’ve all heard it. During a wedding or a funeral. At a tense point in a play. In a quieter moment of a symphonyThu Feb 21 2013 - 00:00
Helping business to make the most of social mediaFor American social media and business consultant and educator Mark Schaefer, it really all began with a blog and a tweet.Thu Feb 14 2013 - 00:00
Revolutionary use of social media changes Arab worldEver since some people started calling elements of what came to be known as the Arab Spring, the “Twitter Revolution”, the actual…Thu Feb 14 2013 - 00:00
The art of fusing science with music and performanceA section in Douglas Repetto's website is simply labelled "Strange Things"Thu Feb 07 2013 - 00:00
Less money going to start-ups now than in last three yearsFor start-up technology companies, securing venture capital is generally seen as a solid sign of a company's potentialThu Feb 07 2013 - 00:00
Ireland turning to data centresIreland is the fastest rising nation in its region for data centre use and sophistication, according to an independently-produced…Thu Jan 31 2013 - 00:00
Getting wifi networks up after disaster strikesIrish charity busy rebuilding wifi networks in disaster zonesThu Jan 31 2013 - 00:00
US visa reform holds vital lessons for Irish economyI’m not sure what’s in the Washington water at the moment – silicon? – but for some reason, they’ve gone geek-happy on Capitol…Thu Jan 31 2013 - 00:00
In sickness and in health, the webdoc will see you nowNET RESULTS: We’ve all been there, I thinkThu Jan 24 2013 - 00:00
A middleman in the great internet copyright debateRobert Levine is attacked on all sides in the polarised online piracy debate because he’s so reasonableThu Jan 24 2013 - 00:00
Computer recycling partnership clicks for Oxfam and RehabIf you’re looking for a laptop or desktop computer, but are keeping a close eye on costs, Oxfam and Rehab may have an answer …Thu Jan 17 2013 - 00:00
Young scientists who inspire faith in the futureNET RESULTS: The cab driver grew animated when I said my destination was the BT Young Scientist and Technology exhibition in…Thu Jan 17 2013 - 00:00
An old art form gets technology better than many businessesNET RESULTS: I’ll come clean right away: I did not manage to do an ounce of work on Monday.Thu Jan 10 2013 - 00:00
Full on and full up: Digital agenda overflowing for the year aheadTECHNOLOGY: From copyright to patents and from finance to visas there’s a lot to play for in the digital worldFri Jan 04 2013 - 00:00
Boldly going where other gamers have gone beforeIf you want to see a particularly intriguing vision of the future of gaming be sure to get over to the Science Gallery at Trinity…Thu Dec 20 2012 - 00:00
When dropping out might be right choice for studentsMany university faculty members would be disconcerted to have their doctoral students give up on their degrees, but Stanford …Thu Dec 13 2012 - 00:00
Serious issues set to surface at Dubai internet gatheringNET RESULTS: This week promises to be a sticky wicket for the internet. Sorry, but I couldn’t resist the punThu Dec 13 2012 - 00:00
Getting an accurate read on the world of technologyHere’s my pick of the best technology books of 2012 – and a few timeless classics to bootThu Dec 13 2012 - 00:00
