A blind faith in science can lead to much troubleNet Results: If you spend a lot of time talking to people in the technology business, you come across a lot of weird new words…Fri Feb 13 2004 - 00:00
Portaferry firm makes car rental its super NovaPatrick Baird believes the success of his firm is partly due to it being asmall operation, which has remained "lean and mean", …Fri Feb 13 2004 - 00:00
Ryanair named second worst travel site in surveyRyanair's image suffered another dent this weekend with its much-touted online booking system being named the second worst of…Mon Feb 02 2004 - 00:00
New year starts on a slightly brighter broadband noteNet Results/Karlin Lillington: You wait years and then all the broadband buses seem to come at onceFri Jan 16 2004 - 00:00
Mobile firm sold in €2m dealAn Irish mobile payments company only set up last summer has been acquired by US mobile payments infrastructure company MoreMagic…Thu Jan 15 2004 - 00:00
IKEA arrival shows sign of rejuvenation for poor Valley relationThe holiday period is a quiet business time in Silicon Valley. Most people don't get the kind of time off we take as routine.Fri Jan 09 2004 - 00:00
Chip redesign may herald a new dawnMarc Tremblay wants to serve up a grid computing network on a single computer chipFri Jan 09 2004 - 00:00
Web offers copyright solutionNet Results: Maybe you have a personal website and you're happy to have people quote from it or use resources on your site, …Fri Dec 12 2003 - 00:00
Indigenous software industry 'struggling'The indigenous software industry is struggling to create companies with a turnover of more than €2 million annually, according…Thu Dec 11 2003 - 00:00
Shoppers show how journalists can get it wrong, wrong, wrongNet Results: Many, if not most, journalists got it wrong when predicting success or failure with consumersFri Dec 05 2003 - 00:00
BMC's Dublin hub has evolutionary strategyMr Bob Beauchamp is president and chief executive of one of the largest and oldest software companies in the world - a $1Fri Dec 05 2003 - 00:00
Hipness is not going to make Wi-Fi successfulA while back I wrote a column about having a home wireless network - how having one changes the ways in which you use computers…Fri Nov 28 2003 - 00:00
Phone and mobile operators set to cash in on wi-fiSteadily growing interest in public wireless local access networks (WLANs) will bring the greatest financial rewards to phone…Wed Nov 26 2003 - 00:00
Amazon adds new dimension to online shopping for booksNet Results: Internet users got a fabulous new Web research tool last month when Amazon introduced its "Search Inside the Book…Fri Nov 21 2003 - 00:00
Esat BT urges State to force broadband competitionThe Republic will continue to see its competitive status slip unless the State intervenes to force a more competitive market …Thu Nov 20 2003 - 00:00
E-payments firm Network365 set to merge with US rival iPINIrish mobile payments company Network365 will merge with former US rival iPIN in a move that will create a leading global e-payments…Tue Nov 18 2003 - 00:00
Harnessing PC power to push database limitsGrid computing may be the business buzz phrase of the moment but for researchers at the famed Swiss physics laboratory CERN, …Fri Oct 31 2003 - 00:00
An overloaded favourites menu is a sign that the road to geek hell is paved with good intentionsNet Results: How could any geek not love a story with this headline: "New data says there's lots of new data".Fri Oct 31 2003 - 00:00
Staff find PCs up productivityIrish office workers may complain about their computers and the frustrations of information overload, but it turns out they rather…Sat Oct 25 2003 - 01:00
Tech groups unite on security facilityFour of the State's largest tech companies have joined to launch a "proof of concept" facility for disaster recovery and data…Fri Oct 17 2003 - 01:00
Two tech swallows may mark summer recoveryNet Results: Are we in recovery yet? We've all been asking that question about the technology industry for three years now, …Fri Oct 03 2003 - 01:00
Microsol seeks €4m in funding for US movesMicrosol, a Dublin-based producer of communication and automation products for the utilities industry, is seeking to raise €4…Wed Sept 24 2003 - 01:00
Computer conference thrives on argumentPoor Davis Lynas. Standing before a crowd of 30 or so computer security experts from around the world, he's trying to give a …Fri Sept 19 2003 - 01:00
Oracle attacks State's e-government policyThe State has been "ticking e-government boxes" rather than focusing on truly innovative online projects, according to an Oracle…Thu Sept 04 2003 - 01:00
Boards.ie knows how to get people talkingIrish online community bulletin board website is proving a popular destination for those who want to sell a car, debate the state…Fri Aug 29 2003 - 01:00
State must act to make technology and science popularNet Results: The good news: students are showing a growing interest in physics, chemistry and engineering, according to the …Fri Aug 29 2003 - 01:00
EBay to go ahead with Dublin projectUS internet giant eBay is understood to have approved a significant operations project for Dublin, despite anger at Government…Mon Jul 28 2003 - 01:00
In the Valley, clothes certainly do not make the manNet Results: The Macy's department store men's section at the Stanford Shopping Centre, in Palo Alto, California - which occupies…Fri Jul 18 2003 - 01:00
Farewell then to a small piece of computer historyNet Results: The first computer I ever owned was one of those first boxy Macintoshes of the late '80s, a beige (there was only…Fri Jul 04 2003 - 01:00
Oracle creates 96 jobs in DublinOracle Ireland will create 96 new jobs as its Oracle University division sets up a new e-learning section in Oracle's East Point…Sat Jun 28 2003 - 01:00
Data retention plans cause considerable uneaseThe Department of Communications, Marine & Natural Resources has expressed grave concerns about the negative impact and high…Mon Jun 23 2003 - 01:00
Multifunctional mobiles open up new realm of possibilities for work and funConsolidation and aggregation - these have been the hype words of the technology industry for some time now.Fri Jun 20 2003 - 01:00
Museum with high-tech attitude invites involvementNet Results: At first glance, the room looks like, well, a roomFri Jun 13 2003 - 01:00
Lobby condemns data storage plansPlans by the Government and others to store records of all phone and mobile calls, emails and internet usage "will result in …Mon Jun 09 2003 - 01:00
Technology shows flair in dealing with disabilityNet Result: Playing around with an "avatar" a computerised, animated character which can represent you onscreen in cyberspace…Fri Jun 06 2003 - 01:00
Court threat for State over data privacyData Protection Commissioner Mr Joe Meade has twice threatened to begin High Court proceedings against the Government for using…Mon May 26 2003 - 01:00
Game on in battle to revive PC salesNet Results Games - often ignorantly derided as solely the weapons-and-gore territory of teenage boys - may well end up as this…Fri May 16 2003 - 01:00
Primary lessons in partnershipIrish charity Suas has linked up with Gatoto primary school in Nairobi, Kenya, to introduce technology to its pupilsFri May 09 2003 - 01:00
Digital media firms adapt to the new market realityIf you want two signs of how much the digital media business has metamorphosed in the past three years: consider its size and…Fri May 09 2003 - 01:00
Techs set for tough yearAlmost nine out of 10 Irish software companies believe growing revenue will remain a difficult challenge in 2003, while three…Thu May 01 2003 - 01:00
Get away from it all with some Net funSo we have a war, a recession, a strange Asian respiratory virus, a health service in crisis, woeful public transport, a new …Fri Apr 04 2003 - 01:00
IBM partnership proved match made in heavenTwo moments in Linux's shift to mainstream corporate operating system stand out.Fri Mar 28 2003 - 00:00
State's data website a model of confusionNet Results: Rather quietly, the Department of Justice launched a website this week to lay out its stall on data retention and…Fri Mar 28 2003 - 00:00
Geek punishment: are you ready for the Linux test?Until recently, the view was that Linux was too difficult to install and use for the average computer userFri Mar 28 2003 - 00:00
Trying to make a living out of open-source softwareThree years ago, a flurry of articles came out weighing up whether open-source operating system Linux could survive its growing…Fri Mar 28 2003 - 00:00
Dell gets into supercomputers with desktop clustersDell, best known for direct sales of personal computers, has quietly glided into the clustering market, where the big processing…Fri Mar 21 2003 - 00:00
Connectivity in the palm of your handNet Results: I know some people will scoff - you know who you are, you killjoys - but there are times when you're on the move…Fri Mar 21 2003 - 00:00
Flying the Java flag in high windsIn the world of computing, technology standards bodies are the glue that keeps the user experience a relatively smooth one, writes…Fri Mar 21 2003 - 00:00
University of Limerick starts to flex its software R&D musclesPlassey House, a serene 19th-century wealthy merchant's home, gazes down quietly on broad lawns and forests that slope towards…Fri Mar 14 2003 - 00:00
Atypical designer aims to create new sort of graduateNothing about Mikael Fernstrom is typicalFri Mar 14 2003 - 00:00
