Cumbersome litigation is damaging telecoms developmentA series of legal challenges to licences awarded and a readiness to take court action over the telecommunications regulator's…Fri Mar 24 2000 - 00:00
EU, US privacy agreement a cause for alarmAt the end of last week we were told that the United States and the European Union had reached agreement in the hotly disputed…Fri Mar 24 2000 - 00:00
British bill may `drive' e-commerce to RepublicThe British government's Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Bill will badly damage Britain's e-commerce environment and…Fri Mar 24 2000 - 00:00
Web offers perfect vehicle for instant debateOne of the more astonishing aspects of the Web is its powerful ability to link people in new, often unexpected waysFri Mar 17 2000 - 00:00
True, free Internet access is needed nowBritain may be making incredibly foolish decisions regarding privacy issues on the Internet, but it is about to get what users…Fri Mar 10 2000 - 00:00
Loss-making Amazon turns to bullyingMaybe it's those continuously absent profits that have warped the company's attitudesFri Mar 03 2000 - 00:00
TCD graduate linked to system set to serve up multimedia to hotel guestsWhat do you usually do in your hotel room? The Interactive Media Company, a London-based firm with roots in Trinity College Dublin…Fri Mar 03 2000 - 00:00
Net brings us old story of new technologyWe tend to think of the Internet and the whole mad gallop of accompanying digital change as "the new new thing" - to use the …Fri Feb 25 2000 - 00:00
Stay anonymous if you want to stay unnettedFor most Web users, the right to remain anonymous on the Internet is not yet a pressing concernFri Feb 18 2000 - 00:00
UK RIP Bill is killer blow to e-commerceOnce again the British government has proven that it still doesn't get the Net - or more precisely, the legal frameworks that…Fri Feb 18 2000 - 00:00
Geek heaven now docking near youYou're a programmer working in a technology-driven economyFri Jan 28 2000 - 00:00
Steve's Gulfstream jet takes corporate perks to new heightsDespite appearances in last week's Net Results, Niall McKay was not responsible for my opinions on the BT/Esat saleFri Jan 28 2000 - 00:00
Unexpected Gates move follows torrid Microsoft antitrust trialBrilliant, hard-headed and pugnacious - and the world's richest man - Bill Gates may not be everyone's favourite industry leader…Fri Jan 14 2000 - 00:00
Educational initiatives are vitally needed - nowDo we want a so-called "caring economy" - as Gerry McGovern of Nua has termed it - in this State? One in which technology enables…Fri Dec 17 1999 - 00:00
Online construction marketplace to introduce services into EuropeBuild-online.com, an Irish business-to-business Internet company which intends to create an online market for the Irish construction…Wed Dec 15 1999 - 00:00
Ballmer preaches gospel of PC supremacyForget access devices, dumb terminals and the primacy of networksSat Dec 11 1999 - 00:00
Ahern hails the arrival of MITThe future arrived in Ireland yesterday, according to the Taoiseach, as he formally announced the establishment of the Massachusetts…Sat Dec 04 1999 - 00:00
Concerns about Irish telecom facilities growSenior Government and industry sources are concerned that multinational companies interested in locating in the State are unable…Fri Dec 03 1999 - 00:00
Darker side of the Silicon Valley exposedIn previous years, US Vice-President Al Gore spent so much time out in Silicon Valley rubbing elbows with the digital crowd that…Fri Dec 03 1999 - 00:00
US technology research giant puts State centre stageThe State gains a centrestage position in the world of cutting-edge technology research - and the ability to pull in major research…Fri Dec 03 1999 - 00:00
Government approval for Dublin branch of MIT Media LabThe Cabinet yesterday gave its approval to an ambitious £150 million (€190Wed Dec 01 1999 - 00:00
Baltimore embarks on courtship to woo USThere's no question that Irish security software company Baltimore Technologies has style - it proved that during its well-run…Fri Nov 26 1999 - 00:00
Ads offer gauge for changing tech landscapeReturning to Silicon Valley after any sizeable time gap is always slightly surreal.Fri Nov 26 1999 - 00:00
IDA valley team selling Republic as an e-platformForget Ireland as an e-commerce "hub"Fri Nov 26 1999 - 00:00
Tech firms should use WITS to attract girlsEveryone knows the technology industry in the Republic is worried about the skills shortageFri Nov 19 1999 - 00:00
The detritus of timeOne of the satisfying paradoxes about William Gibson is that the writer who hardwired the circuitboard and silicon world to prose…Sat Nov 13 1999 - 00:00
Microsoft hammered relentlessly by the judgeAlthough Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson had done little to disguise his irritability with Microsoft witnesses and defence strategy…Fri Nov 12 1999 - 00:00
US should protect citizens from online profilingOne of the more outrageous online violations of consumer privacy emerged last week when a stalwart company of the Internet world…Fri Nov 12 1999 - 00:00
MIT Cambridge partnership `different' to Dublin projectAn £84 million sterling (€131 million) joint research partnership between Cambridge University and the Massachusetts Institute…Tue Nov 09 1999 - 00:00
Consumer protection a vexed issueConsumer rights are beginning to emerge as one of the biggest potential barriers to the swift development of a comprehensive, …Fri Nov 05 1999 - 00:00
E-commerce to expand despite security issuesSerious problems face the global rollout of the computer and administrative network needed for keeping Internet transactions …Fri Nov 05 1999 - 00:00
Caught in the web of his columnsSo many separate strands of invention, selfless motivation and vision combined over time to create what we now know as the Internet…Sat Oct 23 1999 - 01:00
Formus hopes for speedy expansion of Internet accessAs far as Formus Communications' chief executive Mr Osmo Hautanen is concerned, the infamous "last mile" - in telecommunications…Fri Oct 22 1999 - 01:00
MIT lab would offer access to high-tech top tierIn the next few weeks, the Government has an extraordinary opportunity to place the State at the cutting edge of Internet and…Fri Oct 15 1999 - 01:00
Eircom offers free Net accessEircom has followed several competitors into the free Internet access market with an offer called Go Further for Free.Wed Oct 13 1999 - 01:00
Sun Microsystems plans to increase number of Irish software employeesSun Microsystems has said it will increase its Irish software engineering force by nearly 50 per cent to fill its 40,000 sq ft…Tue Oct 12 1999 - 01:00
'Key recovery' would be bad for businessLast week, key recovery - or rather, the Government's laudable opposition to it - was flagged in the press as a worrying issue…Fri Oct 08 1999 - 01:00
Big Blue sets out its waresComputers that look you in the eye and know when you're trying to get their attention, computers that take in spoken German and…Thu Oct 07 1999 - 01:00
IBM offers geeks a glimpse of tomorrowNothing thrills the true geek more than the phrase "prototype technologies", especially if they involve futuristic fusions of…Fri Oct 01 1999 - 01:00
Eircom in court clash with Regulator over interconnectionThe thorny issue of interconnect services is top of the telecommunications agenda next week with a court hearing on Monday for…Fri Oct 01 1999 - 01:00
Esat did very well to buy Postgem/IOL for £115mFollowing the sale of the Postgem/Ireland On-Line package to Esat, many were shocked by the price paid and the state of the goods…Fri Sept 24 1999 - 01:00
EU may stifle e-commerce - GIPControversial European Union Internet policy proposals could stifle the growth of e-commerce in Europe and set damaging precedents…Fri Sept 17 1999 - 01:00
Dublin enters digital age as First Tuesday arrivesDublin entered the official digital schmoozing scene this week with the advent of First Tuesday, an informal networking group…Sat Sept 11 1999 - 01:00
Internet is prescription for profit among drug companies in USDrugs - the legal kind - are at the centre of the latest online marketing war in the US, but don't expect to place an online …Fri Sept 10 1999 - 01:00
Republic is just a drop in e-commerce oceanLike it or not, whether the Republic ever becomes a global centre for electronic commerce has little to do directly with you.Fri Sept 10 1999 - 01:00
Windmill Group sets up `digital agency'Windmill Group, the independent, media-orientated subsidiary of Windmill Lane Studios, the recording facility used by U2, has…Wed Sept 08 1999 - 01:00
Happy birthday Internet - or then again maybe notYesterday might have been an important birthday, and then again, it might notFri Sept 03 1999 - 01:00
Government takes best line for e-commerceWith the release two weeks ago of its consultation paper on electronic signatures, contracts and what it terms "related matters…Fri Aug 27 1999 - 01:00
TeleNode to set up `carrier hotel' facilitySix telecommunications carriers have tentatively agreed to extend their networks into a £15 million (#19 million), 40,000-foot…Wed Aug 25 1999 - 01:00
Satellite bug could affect some networksSome Irish businesses could find their computer networks knocked out over the weekend because the satellite time broadcasts that…Sat Aug 21 1999 - 01:00
