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Google can sell trademarked keywords, EU adviser says

Google should be able to continue selling trademark-protected terms as "keywords" that link Internet searches and ads, an aide to the EU’s top court said in a case involving LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA.
Publication date: 2009-09-22 more

Netflix awards $1 million prize

Netflix, a US video rental service, has awarded a $1 million prize to a team of researchers who improved the company's recommendation engine.
Publication date: 2009-09-22 more

Dell plans move into service with $3.9bn Perot takeover

Computer giant Dell has agreed to buy Perot Systems for $3.9bn (
Publication date: 2009-09-22 more

US seeking new rules to prevent blocking of net traffic

US Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski has proposed new rules aimed at ensuring that network operators treat the flow of internet content without discrimination.
Publication date: 2009-09-22 more

Ringing the changes: telecoms sector plans for challenges ahead

The telecoms industry should come up with an investment strategy which avoids duplication of fibre-optic networks and it is imperative that parts of the country are not left without access to next generation broadband when the new system is rolled out, a conference in Dublin heard yesterday.
Publication date: 2009-09-22 more

Clampi Trojan could steal banking passwords

Computer users are at risk from a new virus that could leave their online bank accounts open to cyber criminals.
Publication date: 2009-09-21 more

Pay a visit to the cyber clinic

DO you find it impossible to watch TV medical dramas like House and Grey's Anatomy without leaping to the internet to see if you've got the same symptoms? When your baby develops a cough do you Google furiously to discover what it is?
Publication date: 2009-09-21 more

Microsoft previews Office Web Apps

Microsoft has launched a limited beta test of its Office Web Apps cloud computing software to rival Google Docs and Zoho
Publication date: 2009-09-18 more

Engendering a traditional work ethic in next-gen tech start-ups

With mentoring, hard work and tough love, Irish entrepreneurs can become world-beaters says Jerry Kennelly, founder and former CEO of Stockbyte, and co-founder of the Endeavour programme
Publication date: 2009-09-17 more

Ireland lays its claim to be the Silicon Valley of an emerging wireless world

An abundance of wireless spectrum - plus the arrival of WiMax - will change the game here
Publication date: 2009-09-17 more

Google acquires ReCaptcha fraud prevention software

Google has acquired ReCaptcha, a company that helps prevent fraud and spam at websites like Ticketmaster.ie.
Publication date: 2009-09-17 more

Facebook reaches 300m users

Facebook now has more than 300m users, making it the world's most popular social networking site.
Publication date: 2009-09-17 more

Google Fast Flip news website launched

Google Fast Flip will generate revenue for publishers and aims to replicate the magazine reading experience online.
Publication date: 2009-09-15 more

Ebooks? I

The first thing I did with the Sony Reader was to turn the size of the print up. Well, actually that was the second thing. The first was to turn it on, which was satisfyingly easy.
Publication date: 2009-09-12 more

Sky News website sabotaged by hacker with a grudge against Rupert Murdoch

A computer hacker infiltrated the Sky News website and tampered with a petition to support the proposed television debate between the UK's main party leaders, renaming it "The Windbag Debate Petition".
Publication date: 2009-09-12 more

Google technology to aid charging for online content

Google has admitted for the first time that it is developing technology that would assist newspapers in making money from website readers.
Publication date: 2009-09-12 more

Are ebooks the future of reading?

Ebooks, we are told, are the future of reading. These sleek devices, little bigger than a paperback, allow people to carry hundreds of books with them, and because they use eInk technology, you won’t experience the eye strain or discomfort you might suffer reading on a computer screen or mobile phone.
Publication date: 2009-09-12 more

Steve Jobs comeback unveils new video camera iPod nano

Apple's co-founder and chief executive, Steve Jobs, made a triumphant return yesterday as he unveiled a new range of iPods – including an iPod nano with built-in video camera.
Publication date: 2009-09-10 more

Greater energy needed to fully seize green-tech jobs opportunity

Publication date: 2009-09-10 more

'Digital Britain' architect outlines the size of the prize for Ireland's economy

Gordon Brown's former head of strategy, Lord Stephen Carter, says timing is important for Ireland.
Publication date: 2009-09-10 more

UK hospital staff suspended over Facebook 'lying down game' pictures

Seven accident and emergency staff have been suspended from the Great Western Hospital in Swindon, Wiltshire, after they allegedly played the 'lying down game' during a nightshift and posted photographs of the stunt on Facebook.
Publication date: 2009-09-09 more

Apple 'to kill off iPod Classic' as focus moves to touch-screen devices

Apple is expected to unveil a range of new iPod touch music players with built-in cameras as it looks to steal a march on rivals in the run-up to Christmas.
Publication date: 2009-09-09 more

Apple special event rumours: Will Steve Jobs make an appearance?

Speculation about Apple's "special event" on Wednesday is turning from what will be announced to who will announce it, with confusion about whether Steve Jobs will appear.
Publication date: 2009-09-08 more

Facebook 'enhances intelligence' but Twitter 'diminishes it', claims psychologist

Spending time on the Facebook networking site could enhance a key element of intelligence that is vital to success in life, a psychologist has claimed, but using Twitter may have the opposite effect.
Publication date: 2009-09-07 more

YouTube 'plans streaming movie rental service'

YouTube is in talks with the major film studios about streaming movie rentals in the US, according to reports.
Publication date: 2009-09-03 more

YouTube seals UK music rights deal

After more than nine months of bitter wrangling, YouTube has agreed a licensing deal with British songwriters that will see thousands of music videos return to the online video site.
Publication date: 2009-09-03 more

Sony unveils internet-enabled TVs

Sony's new range of televisions will let viewers access catch-up TV services and YouTube in their living rooms.
Publication date: 2009-09-03 more

Laying the foundations for Ireland's next-generation network rollout

Can Ireland's telecoms leaders collaborate to construct the nation's fibre network of the future?
Publication date: 2009-09-03 more

Businesses are nervous about taking a walk in the clouds

A CLOUD computing revolution is under way, but security concerns are holding business leaders back. Ian Cassidy is Accenture's senior executive for cloud computing
Publication date: 2009-09-03 more

Ireland's first self-sustaining mobile base station cuts emissions

Publication date: 2009-09-03 more

Nokia steps up attack on iPhone with 'free

Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, has stepped up its assault on Apple’s dominance of the lucractive smartphone market with the launch of a new phone with unlimited and 'free’ music downloads.
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Sony announces 3D television plans for every home by 'end of 2010'

Three-dimensional television, once the stuff of dreams in science fiction movies, is to become a reality in British homes by next year, after Sony announced plans to implement the technology across its range of products.
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Internet bully case dismissed

A US judge has explained why he quashed convictions against a Missouri mother for her role in an internet hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbour who later committed suicide.
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Gmail crash: millions of users across the world affected

Millions of Gmail users across the world have been unable to access the service for several hours, the company has confirmed.
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

Yahoo!'s Carol Bartz fires missive as Carl Icahn reduces stake

Yahoo! chief executive Carol Bartz has ordered her staff to stop debating the merits of the company's landmark search and advertising deal with Microsoft.
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

EBay gets

EBay agreed to sell 65pc of its Skype internet-calling unit to an investor group led by Silver Lake for about $2bn to focus on reviving sales at its main e-commerce site.
Publication date: 2009-09-02 more

BBC should charge for website and other services, says Dawn Airey

The BBC should consider charging viewers for its website, the iPlayer and all services other than two television channels and "a couple of radio stations", Dawn Airey, the chief executive of Five, has suggested.
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnap: did Phillip Garrido trail a Google Street View camera van?

Phillip Garrido, the man charged with the abduction of Jaycee Lee Dugard, may have followed a Google Street View van after noticing it photographing his street, it has been claimed.
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Sony to install Google Chrome browser on PCs

Google has struck a deal with Sony that will see its Chrome web browser pre-installed on some Sony computers.
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Violent tramp video game provokes controversy in France

A new online video game in which users are invited to be tramps and steal and fight their way to success has provoked controversy in France, with its makers accused of stoking prejudice against homeless people.
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Oldest domain name on the internet symbolics.com is finally sold

The oldest domain name on the internet, www.symbolics.com, has finally been sold, nearly a quarter of a century after it was claimed.
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Are mobile phones replacing laptops?

In October 1983 Bob Barnett, a former president of Ameritech Mobile Communications, telephoned Alexander Graham Bell's grandson from a Chrysler convertible at an American football field in Chicago. It was the world's first commercial mobile phone call.
Publication date: 2009-09-01 more

Microsoft plans to become a big player in Britain's news industry

It's really called a huddle but we are so whacky and new media here we call it The Cuddle," laughs Matthew Ball, as he heads off into a corner of the newsroom and gathers his staff about him.
Publication date: 2009-08-31 more

OMG, Twittering teens are changing the dictionary

TWITTERING teenagers have shown their influence over the English language by introducing dozens of new words to the dictionary and helping to reinvigorate older ones.
Publication date: 2009-08-31 more

Scammers target 100,000 AIB clients

INTERNET fraudsters have attempted to steal from the AIB online accounts of more than 100,000 customers over the past week.
Publication date: 2009-08-31 more

The Big Question: Why has Wikipedia changed editorial policy, and will it improve the website?

Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia launched by American entrepreneur Jimmy Wales in 2001 with the idealistic intention of being an online repository of all human knowledge, announced this week that it would have to abandon one of its founding principles.
Publication date: 2009-08-27 more

Facebook and Twitter users 'could be targeted by burglars'

Users social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter could face higher insurance premiums because burglars may be using them to find out their personal details.
Publication date: 2009-08-27 more

Wi-fidelity as smartphones tie users closer to web experience

Ireland's oldest Wi-Fi hotspot provider Bitbuzz is six years old next week, and has more than 5,000 access points in 201 locations. Shane Deasy is managing director
Publication date: 2009-08-27 more

First look: Windows 7 - one Vista closes, another opens for Microsoft

Publication date: 2009-08-27 more

Why Lisbon Treaty vote has mobilised Ireland's tech multinational leaders

Ireland's relationship with Europe is often central to swinging foreign direct investment decisions
Publication date: 2009-08-27 more

Lego refuses permission for Spinal Tap YouTube hit to be used in anniversary DVD

A popular YouTube clip of a group of Lego characters playing a song made famous by the satirical rock legends Spinal Tap, has been banned from use in an anniversary DVD.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

YouTube wants video creators to make money

YouTube is giving all amateur video-makers the chance to profit from their 15 minutes of internet fame.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Probe into Pirate Bay takeover after rise in buyer's share price

The Swedish Economic Crimes Authority has begun an investigation into events surrounding the planned acquisition of controversial website Pirate Bay -- the site Eircom said it will block its internet customers from accessing following a request from Irish record labels.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Cyberclinic: What would the end of The Pirate Bay mean for file sharing?

If you fancied downloading the new Tinchy Stryder album, but didn't think that Tinchy deserved any of your money – I mean, look at him, he's clearly not short of a few bob – chances are that you'd wrestle with your conscience for scant seconds before visiting The Pirate Bay website and grabbing it for free.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Laptop + iPhone = Apple Tablet - the world's first touch-screen computer

When asked to sum up the consistently seductive powers of the company that brought the world the iPod and the iPhone, a glassy-eyed devotee once said: "I'll buy almost anything if it's shiny and made by Apple."
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Microsoft erases black man from web photo

Microsoft has apologised for pasting a white man's head on to a black man's body in a promotional photo on its official website.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Is the Loch Ness monster on Google Earth?

A security guard claims to have spotted the Loch Ness monster while browsing Google Earth.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Wikipedia ends unrestricted editing of articles

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia which can be amended by anyone, has introduced new measures that mean changes made to the pages of living people will have to be approved before they can be published.
Publication date: 2009-08-26 more

Spotify to make 'significant' revenue for UK record labels 'within six months'

Spotify, the online music streaming service, will generate "significant" revenue for UK record labels within the next six months if it continues to grow at its current rate, industry sources say.
Publication date: 2009-08-25 more

SanDisk wins review of patent loss over flash-memory chips

SanDisk Corp., the world’s largest maker of cards that store digital pictures, won a second chance to argue that more than a dozen companies infringe its patents for flash-memory technology.
Publication date: 2009-08-25 more

Grumpy grandfather's foul-mouthed gripes become Twitter hit

The curmudgeonly observations of a 73-year-old grandfather are going down a storm on Twitter, the modish micro-blogging website.
Publication date: 2009-08-25 more

New Google Doodle to mark 400th anniversary of Galileo's Telescope

Google has unveiled a new logo to celebrate the 400th anniversary since Galileo Galilei, the Italian astronomer, showed Venetian merchants his new creation, a telescope.
Publication date: 2009-08-25 more

Blackberry users 'work an extra 15 hours a week' out of the office

Staff with mobile technology such as Blackberries work an extra 15 hours a week as they constantly check emails even out of the office, according to new research.
Publication date: 2009-08-25 more

Apple to launch Snow Leopard 'next week'

A listing that briefly appeared on Apple's UK website suggests that Snow Leopard could go on sale next week.
Publication date: 2009-08-21 more

Google rivals oppose book project

Microsoft, Yahoo! and Amazon have joined forces to challenge Google's efforts to create a vast virtual library.
Publication date: 2009-08-21 more

Windows 7 'free for first 120 days'

Computer users will be able to run Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 7, free for four months before having to purchase the product.
Publication date: 2009-08-21 more

Bloggers beware? Google forced to identify anonymous blogger

A US court has ordered Google to hand over the identity of a blogger who used her website to defame Liskula Cohen, a former Vogue cover girl. What does the ruling mean for the blogosphere?
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

Sony PSP Go to double as ebook reader

Sony’s new handheld games console will also allow users to read books and comics on the go.
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

Science is something worth talking about, isn't that right TED?

ACCORDING to the State Examination Commission, in 2006 the average mark for the Junior Cert written science exam was a disappointing 55pc.
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

European nations see digital economy as a sure route out of economic crisis

With one of Europe's youngest populations, Ireland's digital natives could have the most to gain
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

High-tech society: Irish start-ups and the social web

A winner of both the 2008 and 2009 Eircom Innovation Fund, tech entrepreneur and co-founder Pieter Oonk talks about new webmail application SocietyMail and socially-oriented Irish tech start-ups
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

Google book archive plan prompts growing opposition

Plans by Google in the US to scan millions of books into a giant digital archive have prompted fresh opposition from authors and publishers ahead of a court battle.
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

Internet firm refuses call to block 'net pirates'

AN Irish internet provider embroiled in an ongoing dispute about illegal music downloading has refused to block customer access to a popular file-sharing website.
Publication date: 2009-08-20 more

Broadband boost as Eircom told to slash fees

CONSUMERS should be able to avail of cheaper broadband services after telecoms watchdog Comreg last night instructed Eircom to slash the fees it charges competitors for accessing its network.
Publication date: 2009-08-19 more

Microsoft appeals against Word ban

Microsoft has filed a motion to suspend an injunction imposed by a US court that banned the company from selling copies of Word in the United States.
Publication date: 2009-08-19 more

Bebo launches online fashion show

Bebo is launching a new online fashion TV show called ‘The Closet’ which will be hosted by Jameela Jamil, ex-model and new face of T4.
Publication date: 2009-08-19 more

Cyberclinic: Why do I feel the need to Google everything I think about?

If an etiquette manual for the internet era were to be written, many pages would be devoted to the reasons why we shouldn't whip out a smartphone during a social gathering and start prodding, flicking and pinching the screen while absent-mindedly murmuring "yeah" to the people we were having a conversation with.
Publication date: 2009-08-19 more

Sony reveals the PS3 Slim

Sony has unveiled a cheaper, slimmer version of its PlayStation 3 games console, as it seeks to win over users from rival platforms, such as Microsoft's Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii.
Publication date: 2009-08-19 more

MySpace 'close' to buying iLike for $20m

MySpace is rumoured to be close to acquiring iLike, a social music recommendation service, for $20m (€14m).
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

Sony may cut PS3 price to stimulate sales

At 5.30pm this afternoon in an exhibition hall in Cologne, Germany, Sony may make an announcement that will give the computer games market the shot in the arm that many argue it badly needs.
Publication date: 2009-08-18 more

How to stay safe online and avoid cyberbullying

Cyberbullying is one of the sinister new offshoots of the age we live in where bullies use technology, such as mobiles and the internet, to harass other people. It can take many forms:
Publication date: 2009-08-17 more

Wikipedia reaches three million articles

The English version of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, has received its three millionth article.
Publication date: 2009-08-17 more

Facebook 3.0 for iPhone submitted for review

A new version of the Facebook app for the iPhone has been submitted to Apple for review, according to one of its developers.
Publication date: 2009-08-17 more

Microsoft to rival Apple with new Zune HD music player

Computer giant Microsoft is stepping up its challenge to Apple's iPod by launching a high definition version of its Zune digital music player.
Publication date: 2009-08-14 more

New Google doodle to mark Danish physicist Hans Christian

Google has unveiled a new logo for its search engine to celebrate the anniversary of Hans Christian
Publication date: 2009-08-14 more

Invisible doorways or portals a step closer to reality, claim scientists

Invisible gateways like the one to platform 9 and 3/4 in Harry Potter and to Lewis Carroll's hidden world in 'Through the Looking Glass' are a step closer to reality after scientists developed a new theory.
Publication date: 2009-08-13 more

Adverts fail to engage majority of social networkers

New research has shown adverts on social networking sites fail to engage 96pc of users, despite a rise in the number of brands opting in for promotion purposes.
Publication date: 2009-08-13 more

Google Wave: Why we'll soon be waving at each other

For the past couple of years, Lars Rasmussen and his colleagues at Google have been working on a communication and collaboration tool that takes advantage of the capabilities of modern computers and networks.
Publication date: 2009-08-13 more

Adding up the numbers on Ireland's worsening tech and science deficit

Leaving Cert results show Ireland is failing at maths and science, skills that are vital for future jobs
Publication date: 2009-08-13 more

Ireland is gambling away a golden job creation opportunity

DEV must be turning in his grave. A former church on Fitzwilliam Street, where one of the most dominant political figures of 20th-century Ireland used to go and pray every day before attending the Dáil, is now a casino.
Publication date: 2009-08-13 more

Under no illusion: the future of optics will be truly smart

Tessera develops tiny yet powerful optics that transform next-gen devices, providing technology to Samsung and Toshiba amongst others. Michael Bereziuk is executive VP of imaging and optics
Publication date: 2009-08-13 more

Microsoft Office coming to Nokia phones

Microsoft has confirmed reports that it's Office suite of word-processing and spreadsheet software will be coming to Nokia smartphones.
Publication date: 2009-08-13 more

Facebook Lite looks like Twitter rival

Facebook appears to be upping the ante against Twitter with the launch of Facebook Lite, a simplified version of the site, which provides a stream of user updates and looks similar to the microblogging service.
Publication date: 2009-08-12 more

Microsoft banned from selling Word in US

A Texan court has granted an injunction against Microsoft, preventing it from selling copies of Word, its word-processing software.
Publication date: 2009-08-12 more

Cyberclinic: Why did my YouTube account get closed down?

Anyone whose participation in the YouTube community goes beyond staring at videos of cats walking up and down piano keyboards will be aware of the message that greets you when you upload a clip to the site.
Publication date: 2009-08-12 more

Google reveals caffeine: a new faster search engine

Google has revealed project "caffeine", a new test version of its search engine which it claims will be faster and more relevant than ever before.
Publication date: 2009-08-11 more

Facebook buys Friendfeed to slow the advance of Twitter

Social networking giant Facebook has bought relative newcomer Friendfeed for an undisclosed amount in a deal aimed at stealing a march on the seemingly unstoppable rise of Twitter.
Publication date: 2009-08-11 more

Al Gore and Mikhail Gorbachev battle over green domain name

Al Gore, the former US vice-president is battling with Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Russian president, over the rights to operate a ‘green’ domain name.
Publication date: 2009-08-11 more

Giorgi: 'The hackers want me to stop writing the truth'

Giorgi doesn't seem like the sort of man who'd be at the centre of a massive internet meltdown.
Publication date: 2009-08-10 more

Facebook attracts top US advertisers

The majority of top US brands are using Facebook to promote their products, dispelling the myth that the social networking site is an unattractive environment for advertisers.
Publication date: 2009-08-10 more

Publicis snaps up Microsoft's Razorfish for $530m

France's communications group Publicis has outbid WPP to buy the Razorfish agency from Microsoft, paying around $530m (€373m) for a business that entrenches its position as the world's leader in digital advertising.
Publication date: 2009-08-10 more

Video calling: Webcams are a welcome sight for sore ears

Seen it? Heard it? Video-calling is hard to avoid and new webcams and services are making it easier to keep in touch.
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

Teen suspected in Twitter shutdown

An attack on Twitter which prevented users from "tweeting" yesterday could have been the work of a teenager in their bedroom, an expert said.
Publication date: 2009-08-07 more

'Twitter phone' lets mobile users tweet in real time

Mobile phone users will be able to update their Facebook status, send instant messages, check their email and access Twitter on a new handset that offers 'always on' web connectivity.
Publication date: 2009-08-06 more

Text-message security flaw could leave iPhone open to hackers

A vulnerability in the way Apple's iPhone handles text messages could enable hackers to take control of your handset, warn security experts.
Publication date: 2009-07-31 more

Microsoft launches MSN Video, its first web TV service

Microsoft has announced the launch of MSN Video, an online TV player which will go live within the next week, and marks the technology giant’s first foray into long form video.
Publication date: 2009-07-30 more

Cost cuts help IBM boost 2009 forecast

International Business Machines topped estimates for second-quarter earnings and raised its full-year forecast as it squeezes costs during the recession as sales fall.
Publication date: 2009-07-30 more

Microsoft posts 29pc fall in fourth quarter profit

MICROSOFT, the world's biggest software maker, which employs up to 1200 people in Dublin, reported a 29pc drop in profit last night.
Publication date: 2009-07-30 more

iPhone app tracks sex offenders

Offender Locator alerts iPod touch and iPhone owners in the United States to nearby sex offenders.
Publication date: 2009-07-30 more

A new beginning for Ireland's last-mile broadband hopes?

Publication date: 2009-07-30 more

Telecoms industry forms next-generation network plan

The Telecommunications and Internet Federation (TIF) is funding an Analysys Mason study into the best way Ireland can build its future next-generation network (NGN). Tommy McCabe is director of TIF
Publication date: 2009-07-30 more

'We need to have two universities in the global 50 and create 200,000 jobs'

Cisco vice-president Barry O'Sullivan says Ireland needs to think big to survive the next five years
Publication date: 2009-07-30 more

Yahoo drops on disappointment over Microsoft deal

Yahoo! fell 12pc, the biggest drop since November, after terms of an Internet-search accord with Microsoft were less favorable than analysts predicted.
Publication date: 2009-07-30 more

Cyberclinic: Why have the DVDs I recorded become totally unwatchable?

Like me, it's possible that you had a moment a few years back when your shelves of VHS tapes suddenly seemed like a grotesque waste of space better used for pot plants or commemorative porcelain.
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Yahoo and Microsoft agree search ad deal

Microsoft and Yahoo! have agreed to collaborate on Internet search and online advertising, creating a united front to challenge Google.
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Twitter launches new home page

Twitter, the internet phenomenon and microblogging service which allows users to send messages with a limit of 140 characters, has launched a new home page.
Publication date: 2009-07-29 more

Internet music firm wants bite of Apple's business

The internet music service Spotify has thrown down the gauntlet to Apple, announcing a system that allows people to listen to millions of songs on the iPhone, wherever they are.
Publication date: 2009-07-28 more

Apple disconnects Google Voice apps

Apple has banned Google Voice applications for the iPhone and iPod touch from its iTunes app store.
Publication date: 2009-07-28 more

Couple's wedding entrance dance becomes YouTube viral hit

Kevin Heinz and Jill Peterson, the wedding couple filmed dancing down the aisle, have become an internet sensation after the video received seven million YouTube hits.
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

Bill Gates 'too popular' for Facebook

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has stopped using Facebook after being deluged by friend requests.
Publication date: 2009-07-27 more

The man who is allergic to Wi-Fi

A club DJ, Steve Miller, has revealed he has been forced into exile by a powerful allergy to Wi-Fi internet waves which leaves him feeling dizzy, sick and disorientated.
Publication date: 2009-07-24 more

'Ireland needs to get competitive to keep winning investments' says Dell

Reduced costs and smarter kids will set Ireland on road to recovery, says Dell's Dermot O'Connell
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

Entrepreneur's plan to shake up online job search market

Serial internet entrepreneur Ray Nolan talks iPhone apps, Irish entrepreneurial talent and Worky.com, his latest venture that plans to challenge the traditional job-seeking site
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

EBay share price up as earnings exceed estimates

EBay rose in European trading after second-quarter earnings topped analysts’ estimates, a sign that buyers and sellers are returning to the site.
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

Digital infrastructure: Ireland's next Ardnacrusha opportunity

SOME may ask why do we need to invest in digital infrastructure and why are we in a hurry? Simply put, it's about job creation.
Publication date: 2009-07-23 more

Google Wave to open in September

Google has announced that Google Wave, it’s new real-time online communication and collaboration tool for friends, will go live at the end of September.
Publication date: 2009-07-22 more

3D FujiFilm camera to go on sale in September

A camera that can take three-dimensional photographs and videos will go on sale in September, promising to "revolutionize the world of photography".
Publication date: 2009-07-22 more

Cyberclinic: Is it wrong to hide behind an alternative online identity?

I have an alter-ego named Geoff who occasionally pops up on various online forums.
Publication date: 2009-07-22 more

Starry-eyed fans are all a-twitter over spacewalk

Astronauts inside the international space station yesterday used robotic arms to move a storage pallet holding equipment for three experiments from the belly of the docked space shuttle Endeavour to the outside of the outpost's Japanese-made lab.
Publication date: 2009-07-22 more

Lehman sells off trinkets on eBay

Roll up, roll up, to assemble your Wall Street Survival Kit, using only the finest memorabilia from the credit crunch's biggest casualty.
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

Yahoo! revamps home page with Twitter and Facebook integration

Web giant Yahoo! has redesigned its home page to make it easier for users to access content from across the internet, including the latest news headlines and their Twitter and Facebook profiles.
Publication date: 2009-07-21 more

Samsung plans Windows and Android-based mobile devices

From nowhere two years ago mobile maker Samsung has captured 20pc of the Irish handset market. Gary Twohig is country manager at Samsung Mobile
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

'This generation's appetite for online must be matched by education system'

Future generations will want Ireland to be a science and ICT leader - Telefónica O2's Danuta Gray
Publication date: 2009-07-16 more

Eircom is closing in on cyber attackers

EIRCOM was on the trail of suspected computer hackers last night after many of its 500,000 internet customers were prevented from going online following a "deliberate targeting" of the company's network.
Publication date: 2009-07-15 more

Cyberclinic: How did a total stranger gain access to my Paypal account?

This is a tricky confession to make. It's a bit like an agony aunt admitting to infidelity, or a gardening columnist announcing full details of their potato blight.
Publication date: 2009-07-15 more

Google aims to reduce Microsoft's dominance with cloud computing

Google's introduction of a new operating system is a direct challenge to the dominance of Microsoft, as the companies battle over the future of how we use personal computers.
Publication date: 2009-07-10 more

High-speed broadband rollout years away, warns watchdog

Telecoms watchdog ComReg has warned that the introduction of a high-speed broadband system might take between three and five years and may not be in time to satisfy the country's smart-economy requirements.
Publication date: 2009-07-10 more

'It's time to prepare for the next generation of Ireland's digital industries'

Ireland needs to capture the next industrial wave, says Data Electronics' CEO Maurice Mortell
Publication date: 2009-07-09 more

E-Day plan: Ireland needs to tear up old-fashioned cheque books

Ronnie O'Toole, chief economist at National Irish Bank, and Liam McKenna, head of advisory performance improvement, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Publication date: 2009-07-09 more

Speeding up Ireland's next-generation network rollout

ComReg today publishes a paper on the best way to rollout next-generation broadband, which will be central to revitalising the Irish economy. Alex Chisholm is a commissioner at ComReg
Publication date: 2009-07-09 more

Google to challenge Microsoft with operating system

Google plans to release a computer operating system to challenge to the dominance of Microsoft’s Windows.
Publication date: 2009-07-08 more

How can YouTube survive?

It must surely rank as the most mundane business launch in history. Jawed Karim, one of the founders of YouTube, shuffles timidly in front of a video camera while standing in front of a group of elephants at San Diego zoo, with precious little idea of what he was starting.
Publication date: 2009-07-07 more

Facebook tests new privacy-setting page

Facebook, owner of the world’s largest social-networking site, will test simplified privacy settings and eliminate the site’s regional networks, an effort to quell concerns about the use of personal information.
Publication date: 2009-07-02 more

Dell takes to the cloud to manage hardware remotely

Computer giant Dell is spearheading a new strategy to provide services to SMEs via the internet cloud. Tim Griffin is global head of services and solutions at Dell
Publication date: 2009-07-02 more

'We need to connect Ireland with high-speed fibre and we need to do it fast'

Magnet CEO Mark Kellett believes deploying fibre networks across Ireland is a national imperative
Publication date: 2009-07-02 more

Armed with a 'Wiimote', Irish students are fighting blindness

THERE are 37 million blind people worldwide. Ten million of these are in Africa alone and suffer from cataract blindness.
Publication date: 2009-07-02 more

Apple pulls iPhone program containing pictures of topless women

Apple said it removed a program from its iPhone store yesterday because the developer added pictures of topless women, violating the company’s policy against "offensive content."
Publication date: 2009-06-30 more

Pirate Bay founders facing jail sell to Global Gaming Factory X

Global Gaming Factory X AB will buy The Pirate Bay file-sharing website from its founders and will start paying owners of content on the site.
Publication date: 2009-06-30 more

Jobs’s return to Apple greeted with little fanfare by investors

Steve Jobs’s return from medical leave was greeted with little fanfare by investors.
Publication date: 2009-06-30 more

Microsoft Windows 7 early orders will be half price

Microsoft, trying to fuel early demand for its Windows 7 operating system, will charge half price for the software when customers preorder a copy online at retailers like Best Buy and Amazon.
Publication date: 2009-06-26 more

Massive blunders exposed in €87m broadband rollout

THE Government has spent €87m building a broadband network that is largely unused, an Irish Independent investigation has found.
Publication date: 2009-06-26 more

Google says it hopes to restore site as China renews criticism

Google, which today faced renewed criticism from China for spreading pornographic content, said its google.com service had resumed in parts of the country after being inaccessible to "many users" during the past day.
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more

Sarkozy in new attempt to halt illegal file-sharers

French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government presented a new bill to curb illegal Internet downloads, two weeks after a key clause in a previous law was struck down by the nation’s highest constitutional court.
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more

Google has spread pornographic content in China says Ministry

Google.com has spread "pornographic, lewd and vulgar content, which is a serious violation of Chinese laws and regulations as well as self-discipline," China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said in Beijing today.
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more

Twitter and Facebook used to serve papers on Pirate Bay officials

The Dutch entertainment industry association -- Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland -- is using Facebook and Twitter’s social networks to serve legal papers to the three principals associated with the Pirate Bay file-sharing Web site, the Swedish Wire news Web site reported yesterday.
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more

Selling Ireland's technology sector: 'the diamond in the rubble'

YOU could argue that Eileen Sharpe has one of the most important sales jobs in the land. She and her team of less than 30 people spread across the globe are responsible for landing the multi-billion tech investments by multinationals that Ireland is still winning despite the global downturn.
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more

Vodafone boss predicts a golden age for gadgets as mobile takes to the cloud

THE view from Charles Butterworth's Sandyford office reminds me of one of those Chinese wall prints that tell a story.
Publication date: 2009-06-25 more

MySpace axes two-thirds of global workforce

MySpace is to slash two-thirds of its workforce outside the US, just a week after a huge cull at home, as it struggles to compete with rival social networking group Facebook and the economic downturn takes its toll.
Publication date: 2009-06-24 more

What a poser: A robot that thinks it's human

KOBIAN, a "humanoid" robot which can express seven human emotions, has been unveiled by researchers at Waseda University in Japan.
Publication date: 2009-06-24 more

Cyberclinic: Is spending more on high-quality media worth it?

I occasionally get these flashes of clarity, where technology companies are uniting as an evil force to persuade us that we need things that we've hitherto been able to manage perfectly well without.
Publication date: 2009-06-24 more

Geek gossip: The web is a hotbed of rumours – and not just about celebrities

There's no better tool for spreading rumours than Twitter, and no rumours spread faster on Twitter than rumours about Twitter.
Publication date: 2009-06-24 more

What a poser A robot that thinks it's human

KOBIAN, a "humanoid" robot which can express seven human emotions, has been unveiled by researchers at Waseda University in Japan.
Publication date: 2009-06-24 more

Independent.ie brings out branded web browser

Website users looking to get more from their favourite news site will now be able to download a branded web browser that gives them default access to the Independent.ie's online content and functions.
Publication date: 2009-06-23 more

Liver transplant 'must be disclosed' if Jobs comes back

Apple should disclose whether Steve Jobs had a liver transplant if he returns to work this month in the role of chief executive officer, corporate governance experts said.
Publication date: 2009-06-23 more

Facebook says customers of online ad system more than triple

Facebook Inc. said the number of customers using its automated online-advertising system more than tripled in the past year, a sign more small- and medium- sized businesses are turning to the social-networking site.
Publication date: 2009-06-22 more

Internet music pirate is ordered to pay $1.9m

THEY MAY not see much of it, but the world's biggest recording companies were celebrating yesterday after securing a $1.92m (€1.33m) verdict against a woman who downloaded and shared tracks over the internet from artists like Green Day and Sheryl Crow in violation of their copyright.
Publication date: 2009-06-20 more

E-view: Necessity is mother of invention for a greener world

In 1973, Sir James Dyson had an idea: the first uncloggable and bagless vacuum cleaner. It went on to become one of the popular brands in Ireland and the UK, with green energy ethics at its core.
Publication date: 2009-06-18 more

NBC will use Microsoft software to sell TV ads

General Electric’s NBC will use software from Microsoft to sell advertising on television, an effort to save money and automate the ad-sales process.
Publication date: 2009-06-18 more

EU backs Eircom’s internet fee cuts by Irish telecom regulator

Eircom will face more competition for its high-speed Internet service after the European Union endorsed a regulator’s decision to force the company to cut certain fees.
Publication date: 2009-06-18 more

Google gives Germans chance to pull images from Street View

Google will let users in Germany remove images of their homes from the Street View mapping service before it goes live in that country, a bid to soothe privacy concerns.
Publication date: 2009-06-18 more

Apple iTunes won’t work with rival devices, dealing blow to Pre

Apple said that devices made by competitors may not work with updates to its iTunes music software, dealing a potential setback to Palm’s new Pre phone.
Publication date: 2009-06-18 more

Necessity is mother of invention for a greener world

In 1973, Sir James Dyson had an idea: the first uncloggable and bagless vacuum cleaner. It went on to become one of the popular brands in Ireland and the UK, with green energy ethics at its core
Publication date: 2009-06-18 more

'We need to coach people, demystify business and cut through the red tape'

BT's man in Ireland, Chris Clark, says we need to urgently tackle the nation's digital divide
Publication date: 2009-06-18 more

Back to basics: rethinking the business of online marketing

THE average bricks-and-mortar business is under no illusion that having an online presence is useful, but beyond using email and having a basic inventory website it is easy to feel as though you are drowning in a sea of tweets, Facebook messages and YouTube videos.
Publication date: 2009-06-18 more

Cyberclinic: How can I be sure who I'm chatting to online?

The internet has made the world seem smaller, connecting us with friends across vast distances and allowing us to buy cheap Viagra from self-styled chemists in remote corners of India.
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

The pests in our pockets

Some come to solicit your money; others pretend they'll give you more of it. All make demands on your time, and very few are motivated by the noble intentions they profess to carry.
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

Do we need all this stuff to have fun?

It hasn't always been this way. Once upon a time, my living room was a sanctuary: a safe, peaceful place, a comforting cocoon that stood as a serene retreat at the end of the working day.
Publication date: 2009-06-17 more

Amazon pays Toys ‘R’ Us $51m settlement

Amazon agreed to pay $51 million (€37 million) to Toys "R" Us, settling a five-year-old lawsuit with the largest US toy-store chain.
Publication date: 2009-06-15 more

Facebook members grab more than 3 million names within hours

Facebook said more than 3 million people registered user names in the first 12 hours after the social-networking site offered members the chance to claim a personalized Internet address.
Publication date: 2009-06-15 more

Microsoft will strip browser from Windows 7 in Europe

Microsoft will ship the new Windows 7 operating system in the EU without the Internet Explorer browser, aiming to quell antitrust concerns.
Publication date: 2009-06-12 more

Facebook users cancel friday night plans to claim new names

Tomorrow night may be a late one for some Facebook users.
Publication date: 2009-06-11 more

IM strategy is more than just chat for Hibernian Aviva

Motor insurance provider Hibernian Aviva is using instant messaging to deal with customers. Chiara Murphy is e-commerce marketing manager at Hibernian Aviva.
Publication date: 2009-06-11 more

Microsoft boss: 'The recession is our chance to leapfrog global competition'

Tackling issues digitally will return people to work says Microsoft general manager Paul Rellis.
Publication date: 2009-06-11 more

Ghosts in the machine: Android phones to transform video gaming

The Vikings are coming! Powerful new Google Android-powered smart phone devices are being used across Dublin to spearhead the introduction of a new interactive game that will make the player not only fitter but more knowledgeable about the city.
Publication date: 2009-06-11 more

How Craig conquered the world

To most of its 50 million users, it is the world's largest car boot sale, where a little rummage turns up anything from a model of the F-111 Aardvark bomber to a Legend of Zorro DVD and a million items in between. It is a place to find a house, a car, a new job, or even love.
Publication date: 2009-06-11 more

China orders PC makers to install blocking software

China will require all personal computers sold in the nation to include a software used to block Internet pornography and other "unhealthy" online content by July 1, according to a government statement.
Publication date: 2009-06-10 more

Microsoft gets search market-share boost With Bing

Microsoft’s effort to gain ground on Google with its new Bing search engine got a boost today from data showing an increase in its share of US search results, according to ComScore
Publication date: 2009-06-10 more

EA sells 1.4m copies of ‘Sims 3’ in week

Electronic Arts, the world’s second-largest video-game publisher, sold more than 1.4 million copies of "Sims 3" in the game’s first week on sale.
Publication date: 2009-06-10 more

Get ready for a shakeout in the software sector, says Norkom chief

Norkom chief executive Paul Kerley expects a "shakeout" in the financial software sector in the next year and said the company's €27m cash pile could be used to fund acquisitions in North America and Asia.
Publication date: 2009-06-10 more

Cyberclinic: Should I bother using a search engine other than Google?

It's a pinnacle of achievement in marketing for a brand name to become a verb. There are surely companies out there who dearly wish that phrases like "Let's Volvo over to East Grinstead" or "I'm going out to get absolutely Strongbowed" had somehow edged their way into the English lexicon.
Publication date: 2009-06-10 more

New iPhone is designed for speed

APPLE served up a new, faster version of its uber-popular iPhone, with a video camera, more memory and a slew of new features, redoubling its effort to stay ahead of the pack in the increasingly competitive smartphone market.
Publication date: 2009-06-09 more

Parallel universe: A-Z of The Sims

It's the mega-selling video game that lets you build a virtual community - and its latest chapter is hitting the shops
Publication date: 2009-06-05 more

Sony joins Universal Music to show artists on YouTube

Sony Music Entertainment agreed to put videos from its artists on Vevo, the music Web site being developed by Universal Music Group and Google’s YouTube.
Publication date: 2009-06-05 more

iPhone to be talk of developer event as Jobs prepares return

Apple will unveil updated software for the iPhone and may introduce new versions of the handset at its developers conference in San Francisco next week, intensifying competition in the smart-phone market.
Publication date: 2009-06-05 more

Looking to nature for smarter software systems

YOU say there is a crisis facing software engineering. What is this?
Publication date: 2009-06-04 more

Only smart thinking will turn Brand Ireland into a digital economy leader

IN March, while the nation continued to digest more bad economic news and feel helpless as the rate of unemployment continued to accelerate, there was a break in the clouds.
Publication date: 2009-06-04 more

Playing the game: Irish playboy builds a global online empire

DYLAN Collins, the entrepreneur who three years ago, at the age of 26, sold his Dublin-based technology company, DemonWare, to the world's biggest computer game firm, Activision, for $15m, is focusing his energies on helping Ireland emerge as a player in the online games publishing business.
Publication date: 2009-06-04 more

Look, no hands . . . latest Xbox ditches control pads

THE battle for computer game supremacy entered uncharted territory yesterday as Microsoft revealed its answer to the Nintendo Wii -- a revolutionary control system for its Xbox 360 console that requires no hand-held device.
Publication date: 2009-06-03 more

Sony plans PSP Go and motion-sensing stick to challenge Nintendo

Sony introduced a handheld video-game player without a disk drive to compete against Nintendo’s top-selling DS and meet the threat posed by Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch.
Publication date: 2009-06-03 more

Microsoft to release Windows 7 in October

Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, will start selling its Windows 7 operating system on October 22, ahead of the holiday season when demand for computers is usually highest.
Publication date: 2009-06-03 more

Acquisition turns local firm into a global services player

Texan billionaire Ross Perot's IT services firm, Perot Systems, last year acquired Irish software company Original Solutions for an undisclosed sum. John Collins is the founder of Original Solutions.
Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

Cork voice technology firm prevents a catalogue of errors

THE main architect of Bank of Ireland's Banking365 online banking system, a former director-general of Cork University Fund and a venture capitalist are spearheading a young, Cork-headquartered technology firm that uses voice technology to boost customer service for some of the world's major catalogue and credit card companies.
Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

Battle of social-networking sites

Facebook's value has fallen a third in 18 months and many of its rivals are also struggling - but not all. Who's up and who's down?
Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

Intel boss: Ireland needs a clear digital strategy for the 21st century

TWENTY years ago, in an unused car showroom on the Naas Road, the jewel in Ireland's technology crown quietly started operations.
Publication date: 2009-05-28 more

Microsoft blocks Windows Live in countries sanctioned by US

Microsoft said it blocked access to Windows Live users in countries that are subject to sanctions by the US government.
Publication date: 2009-05-27 more

Cyberclinic: Does revising online give an unfair advantage?

I remember the horror on the faces of my parents when I informed them that I was allowed to take a calculator into a maths exam. Pretty mild, as teenage revelations go, but they felt that this was about as pointless as sending someone else to the optician to take my eye test.
Publication date: 2009-05-27 more

Irish website agrees with Warner Music to broadcast videos

Warner Music Group’s UK unit agreed with MUZU, an online music platform that competes with Google’s YouTube, to broadcast videos by Warner artists.
Publication date: 2009-05-27 more

Films for free: Lights, camera, download

After years of delay, the internet has finally been allowed to revolutionise my music consumption. I can discover new artists using Last.FM, seek out their back catalogue via Spotify and, if I have to own a song, I can buy it from iTunes.
Publication date: 2009-05-27 more

'Oled' TVs herald entertainment revolution

Just millimetres thick, energy efficient and with a far sharper picture, this is the new television tipped to take over our living rooms. Technology pundits expect a consumer stampede of the kind witnessed for flatscreen televisions when the first large Oled models go on sale at the end of this year.
Publication date: 2009-05-26 more

Microsoft says 3 million people trying out Windows 7

Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, said more than three million customers are currently trying out its Windows 7 operating system software.
Publication date: 2009-05-26 more

Bono's firm eyes web paper

ELEVATION Partners, the private equity firm backed by U2 frontman Bono, is thought to be looking at taking a stake in The Stimulist, a new online newspaper poised to challenge the popular Huffington Post.
Publication date: 2009-05-25 more

AccountsIQ secures major deal down under

AN Irish online-accounting technology firm has struck a deal with Deloitte in Australia that will see the accounting giant roll out online professional services to thousands of businesses down under.
Publication date: 2009-05-21 more

Microsoft loses $200m jury verdict in i4i patent trial

Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, was ordered by a federal jury to pay $200 million to a Canadian company over a patented way to process electronic documents in Microsoft’s Word products.
Publication date: 2009-05-21 more

Facebook adds directory to help users sort through applications

Facebook, the world’s largest social-networking site, is helping users sort through the third- party applications that reside on its site with a verification program and improved directory.
Publication date: 2009-05-21 more

Apple working to fix browser security flaw in Mac

Apple said it’s working to fix a security flaw in its Macintosh operating system software that may allow malicious programs to attack Mac computers as users browse the Web.
Publication date: 2009-05-21 more

Web, mobile and Facebook are the new trade routes for Irish business

FIRMS that don't have an online strategy at the heart of their business plan will find that the new routes to market in the 21st century will be closed to them.
Publication date: 2009-05-21 more

Are voicemail, DVDs and laptops about to reach their sell-by date?

It wan't long ago that the "must-have" gadget was a photo printer, but the rise of social networking put a stop to that.
Publication date: 2009-05-20 more

Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft to work on voice products

Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft will spend as much as $180 million over the next four years to jointly develop and sell hardware and software for messaging, video and voice in a challenge to Cisco Systems.
Publication date: 2009-05-19 more

Loopt aims to triple sales as competition from Google mounts

Loopt, a service that lets mobile-phone users track their friends’ whereabouts, expects to more than triple its revenue this year, fending off competition from Google.
Publication date: 2009-05-19 more

Google says sorry for 'traffic jam'

Google said a network "traffic jam" slowed or interrupted service for 14 percent of its users for about an hour yesterday.
Publication date: 2009-05-15 more

The power of internet TV is about to be realised

Samsung's new family of LED-based TVs come with widgets for Yahoo!, Flickr and YouTube. Kevin Maguire is country manager, Consumer Electronics, at Samsung Ireland
Publication date: 2009-05-14 more

Tech firm makes a tasty feast out of convenient cooking trend

A CARRICKMACROSS-based company that says it's a software firm first is taking the catering world by storm and has made it possible for operators such as Eurostar to serve up gourmet meals.
Publication date: 2009-05-14 more

Google is on a 'search and display' mission as media mulls over its future

AROUND 2000, a fledgling Google was faced with the very same dilemma facing start-ups today: how to commercialise to make money.
Publication date: 2009-05-14 more

Sarkozy’s web piracy law passed

France passed one of the world’s harshest laws against Internet piracy, giving the government the right to disconnect users who illegally download music and film.
Publication date: 2009-05-14 more

Intel vows to appeal €1bn fine imposed by Brussels

The decision by the European Commission to slap a record €1.06bn fine on chipmaking giant Intel for anti-competitive practices will not affect the company's commitment to either its Irish or European operations, the US giant said yesterday.
Publication date: 2009-05-14 more

Intel fined €1 billion by EU in antitrust dispute

Intel, the world’s biggest computer-chip maker, was fined a record €1.06 billion by the European Union and ordered to stop using illegal rebates to thwart competitors.
Publication date: 2009-05-13 more

Google allows search-engine users additional control

Google is adding features to its search pages, allowing Web surfers to manipulate query results to find the information they are seeking more quickly.
Publication date: 2009-05-13 more

Cyberclinic: Should I use ad-blocking software when I'm online?

If there's one thing that the internet age has proved – other than our love of videos of kittens doing amusing things – it's that we don't like paying for stuff.
Publication date: 2009-05-13 more

3D: It's coming home

Duck as bullets fly over your head, hold your breath as oncoming traffic swerves past you, and feel like a rock star as adoring fans surround you and your band – all this, while you're sitting comfortably in your sitting room, thanks to the a new world of 3D gaming.
Publication date: 2009-05-13 more

EU to seek €1 billion fine against Intel over rebates

Neelie Kroes, the European Union’s top antitrust enforcer, is seeking to fine Intel more than €1 billion for using rebates to thwart a competitor, a person with direct knowledge of the case said.
Publication date: 2009-05-13 more

Irish Internet Association announces conference speakers

The Irish Internet Association has announced the speakers in the plenary sessions at their annual Congress on May 21st in Dublin.
Publication date: 2009-05-12 more

Nappies

Don't believe the hype. Even if the most advertised and catchiest sounding nappy has turbo stripes and resealable strips (why??), it is still going to look and smell horrible when the time comes.
Publication date: 2009-05-12 more

iPhones in Iraq – the US Army’s new weapon

The new applications are proving invaluable for soldiers on the battlefield.
Publication date: 2009-05-12 more

Kindle's bigger screen and higher price may make it a hard sell

Juthymas Harntha reads books and news on all sorts of gadgets, from the Kindle to the iPod Touch to the BlackBerry. That doesn’t mean she’s excited about a larger, pricier Kindle that Amazon.com announced this week.
Publication date: 2009-05-08 more

Internet heavyweights and local heroes line up behind prize for best internet start-up

Dublin internet consultancy iQ Content today announced the panel of judges for its internet start-up competition, the iQ Prize. Global heavyweights Google, Microsoft and Facebook are all represented on the judging panel, alongside local internet heroes Daft, Statcounter and Loudervoice.
Publication date: 2009-05-07 more

Cyberclinic: The notion of ‘beta’ software is increasingly redundant

Is it a bad idea to use beta software? If you’re as despicable a human being as I am, you’ll have noticed how the internet age has made you unreasonably greedy and impatient.
Publication date: 2009-05-06 more

Headphones: The head boys of hip hop

At the heart of hip-hop, right up there with the bling, the babes, the dollars and the dancing, is the bassline. It could be argued that, with the possible exception of reggae, no other genre of music loves the sound of a driving, thumping, migraine-inducing bassline like hip-hop.
Publication date: 2009-05-06 more

Apple’s iPhone release in China faces delays

Apple’s effort to sell the iPhone in China may be stalled as carriers argue over distribution rights and the government seeks to remove Wi-Fi communications from the device, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. said.
Publication date: 2009-05-06 more

Apple and Google board ties examined

The US Federal Trade Commission is examining whether Apple and Google are breaking antitrust laws by sharing board members, the New York Times reported, citing several people briefed on the inquiry.
Publication date: 2009-05-06 more

An invention that could change the internet forever

The biggest internet revolution for a generation will be unveiled this month with the launch of software that will understand questions and give specific, tailored answers in a way that the web has never managed before.
Publication date: 2009-05-06 more

iPhone developers focus on quality after ‘anything goes’ era

iPhone developers, who flocked to Apple’s App Store in search of a quick profit, are finding it’s getting more difficult to come up with breakout hits.
Publication date: 2009-05-01 more

Microsoft files response in European antitrust case

Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, responded to European Union charges that the company illegally ties its Internet Explorer browser to the Windows operating system.
Publication date: 2009-04-30 more

Bog Digest

JUST over a week ago, RaboDirect launched what it is calling 'Ireland's first banking blog'. Blogging equals transparency, so not a bad move, but somehow I cannot see the bigwigs from AIB or Bank of Ireland chatting frankly with concerned customers via an official blog. It's hard enough to get the information we're entitled to obtain.
Publication date: 2009-04-30 more

Twitter emerges as a powerful search engine

Micro-blogging site Twitter's real strengths lie in the area of real-time search. Iarflaith Kelly is the founder and CEO of WebStrong, which has created a technology to capture this space
Publication date: 2009-04-30 more

Toyota thinking needed to turbo charge a State in need of tune-up

COULD 'lean' business thinking - a strategy concept embraced religiously in organisations such as Toyota, where it was invented, and practiced by strong-performing companies like Intel and Ryanair - be the key to restoring Ireland's lost competitiveness?
Publication date: 2009-04-30 more

R&D provides building blocks for construction sector's road to recovery

A concrete example of how export opportunities still exist for Ireland's stricken building sector
Publication date: 2009-04-30 more

Can the internet answer every question?

Every day we have to make hundreds of decisions, some are as simple as choosing what sandwich to eat or what pet to buy, others are more complicated and come loaded with moral consequences.
Publication date: 2009-04-29 more

Cyberclinic: Am I really safe from computer viruses on a Mac?

I've always been complacent about the dangers posed by myxomatosis. I'm not a rabbit, after all, and I possess few rabbit-like characteristics other than a fondness for carrots, so I've never felt the urge to find a vet deranged enough to vaccinate me.
Publication date: 2009-04-29 more

Microsoft profit meets estimates after cutting jobs and expenses

Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker, reported third-quarter profit that met analysts' estimates after job cuts and lower expenses helped make up for slumping computer demand.
Publication date: 2009-04-24 more

Amazon profits up 24% as online sales hold up

Amazon, the world’s biggest Internet retailer, reported first-quarter sales and profit that beat analysts’ estimates, bolstered by free shipping offers and demand for the Kindle electronic-book reader.
Publication date: 2009-04-24 more

Pirate Bay defendant’s lawyer demands retrial, Billboard says

Peter Althin, a Pirate Bay defendant’s lawyer, says he intends to demand a retrial following reports on Swedish Sveriges Radio’s P3 news that Judge Tomas Norstrom, who presided over the recent music file-sharing trial, is a member of the same copyright protection bodies as entertainment industry representatives, Billboard reported.
Publication date: 2009-04-24 more

Apple beats estimates on sales of iPhone, new iPods

Apple reported second-quarter profit and sales that topped analysts’ estimates after the iPhone and new versions of the iPod helped the company sidestep a slump in consumer spending.
Publication date: 2009-04-23 more

Out-of-this-world technology has the potential to save Irish lives

TECHNOLOGY developed for astronauts working in the Earth’s orbit is being deployed by Dublin fire brigades and could soon go live countrywide.
Publication date: 2009-04-23 more

Comes with … a plan to rock the Irish mobile market

Nokia is the world’s No 1 mobile manufacturer and, in the coming months, will launch its Comes With Music service to the Irish market. Alan O’Hara is country manager of Nokia Ireland
Publication date: 2009-04-23 more

Smart energy and thinking needed to electrify our nation’s economic future

Building smart electricity interconnectors and gaining from renewable energy is a matter of urgency
Publication date: 2009-04-23 more

Yahoo to cut global workforce 5pc as ad sales fall

YAHOO, the US internet company which employs about 600 people at its Irish operations in Dublin, said it plans to cut about 5pc of its workforce.
Publication date: 2009-04-23 more

Google Q1 profits up after cutting jobs

Google, owner of the world's most popular search engine with a European HQ in Dublin, reported an increase in first-quarter profit after cutting jobs and jettisoning some businesses.
Publication date: 2009-04-17 more

Pirate Bay founders sentenced to one-year jail terms by court

The four founders of The Pirate Bay, an online site for free sharing of music and films, were found guilty of contributing to copyright infringement and sentenced to one-year prison terms each.
Publication date: 2009-04-17 more

Cyberclinic: Why do long web links break when I email them to friends?

Even If you're anything like me, you'll have shrugged over the destruction of our civil liberties that's supposedly heralded by Google Street View, and started using it to explore city centres – only to find that your former university digs are now used for filming amateur cook-off TV show Masterchef.
Publication date: 2009-04-16 more

Put to the test: Blu-ray high definition players

Are you a gadget addict who buys new electronics as soon as they hit the shelves? If so, you may have paid a high price for early Blu-ray high definition players. But in the last two years prices have dropped from €1,000 to an entry level price of around €230.
Publication date: 2009-04-16 more

The future looks good … on paper

Imagine a world where you can design your own furniture, bring your invention from a sketch to physical reality or even produce an exact model of yourself, all done quickly and cheaply.
Publication date: 2009-04-16 more

Shannon call centre to close with loss of 71 jobs

A Co Clare-based firm is closing its call centre in Shannon and relocating to the UK with the loss of over 70 jobs.
Publication date: 2009-04-16 more

PIN theft jumps as black market price falls to 38c

Businesses saw an ‘explosion’ in thefts of PIN numbers last year as criminals, faced with a glut of stolen credit cards on the black market, sought to add value to pilfered data.
Publication date: 2009-04-16 more

eBay looks for a way out of Skype misery

Online auction company eBay plans to float its Skype internet telephony unit next year, finally acknowledging that it has failed to properly integrate the subsidiary into its business.
Publication date: 2009-04-16 more

Microsoft settles patent claim over wireless networks

Microsoft settled a lawsuit with Australia’s science agency over a patent used for wireless local area networks.
Publication date: 2009-04-14 more

Amazon working to fix ‘ham-fisted’ book-cataloging error

Top internet retailer Amazon is working to fix a cataloging error after more than 57,000 books about gay themes, erotica and sexual medicine were dropped from sales rankings and search results.
Publication date: 2009-04-14 more

Google urges papers to lift online game

Eric schmidt, the head of Google, has criticised newspapers for dropping the ball in their internet operations, as he attempted to diffuse a growing row over the website's news service.
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

Sony and YouTube in talks to put full-length films on web

Sony’s entertainment division said it is in talks to post movies on Google’s YouTube video-sharing Web site.
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

Smart firms would be keen to erase data loss

UNDER the Data Protection Act, all businesses are expected to protect customer data. Are many opting for online backup and restore?
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

People, planet, profit – metrics that drive environmentally savvy firms

Where are Irish companies poised in order to reduce waste, carbon and energy usage?
Publication date: 2009-04-10 more

Cyberclinic: Is there any point in still having a landline?

I've been looking at my knackered old landline phone, with its tangled cord and its sticker for a long-dead international calls service, and wondering why I still have it.
Publication date: 2009-04-09 more

Gaming: Use your mind, not your mouse

We can chat to our friends across the other side of the world as if they were in the same room, carry thousands of songs in a box the side of a cigarette packet, and even travel to space. But there remains one science fiction standard that the human race has yet to master – mind-control.
Publication date: 2009-04-09 more

'Net pirates' face ban as Sarkozy declares crackdown

Anyone who downloads films and music in France without paying will face up to a year's ban from the internet under a disputed law that is to be approved by the French parliament today.
Publication date: 2009-04-09 more

Apple crumbles and ups cost of iTunes music

Music fans will have to pay more to buy their favourite songs after Apple raised prices to download tracks from iTunes, its online music store.
Publication date: 2009-04-08 more

Yahoo lets music site’s users add content from iTunes

Yahoo’s music service is expanding its artist pages to include content and commercial offerings from across the web, including Apple’s iTunes and Google Inc.’s YouTube.
Publication date: 2009-04-07 more

Entrepreneurs hope Greenhouse effect will undo damage of Dell cuts

Publication date: 2009-04-02 more

Broadband for planes, trains and automobiles

Established by ex-Eircom engineers, Next Generation Networks (NGN) is branching out into putting Wi-Fi on buses, trains and taxis across Ireland. Emmanuel Kennedy is a director of NGN
Publication date: 2009-04-02 more

Beyond the set-top box: what’s next on the horizon for TV over the web?

TV is still tethered to the living room, but the nature of the web is a moveable beast
Publication date: 2009-04-02 more

Phishing attacks jump by 150pc as some suffer €30,000 loss

THERE has been a 150pc increase in phishing attacks, with some bank customers having their accounts cleaned out, it has emerged.
Publication date: 2009-04-02 more

Cyberclinic: Is my PC about to experience a catastrophic meltdown?

April Fool's Day provides a perfect opportunity for us to post mediocre gags online in the hope they'll give us scant seconds of internet infamy.
Publication date: 2009-04-01 more

Wallace & Gromit: A World of Cracking Ideas

Take the lift up two floors at the Science Museum, go through some doors and a feeling of déjà vu envelops you. You have (surely?) been here before.
Publication date: 2009-04-01 more

Just one click... and the worm can eat your machine

It may have been the world’s biggest cyber-conspiracy, but it didn’t need to involve genius (of the evil sort). Just plausibility.
Publication date: 2009-04-01 more

Time for iTunes to face the music with competition

It's the free music service that's attracting thousands of new users every day, and now Spotify is taking on the daddy of online music – iTunes. The ondemand streaming service has signed a deal to sell MP3 downloads as well as just playing them.
Publication date: 2009-04-01 more

Have a good internet idea? Here’s €10,000

An Irish firm is offering €10,000 for a good business idea – and there’s no catch!
Publication date: 2009-03-26 more

Decision to go into business was a sure thing

WHAT was the catalyst for going into business as a telecoms outsourcing player?
Publication date: 2009-03-26 more

Radio 2.0 – why it’s not too late to save the broadcasting business

A COMBINATION of music downloads and audience engagement via social media platforms such as Twitter, MySpace, Bebo and Facebook could restore profitability to the radio business and, eventually, TV broadcasters too. That’s if proven Irish technology entrepreneur John Shiel has his way.
Publication date: 2009-03-26 more

Eco-server strategy has potential to save Irish Exchequer up to €30m

AS the emergency budget looms, and, with the Irish Government looking to cut spending, there is an opportunity for the State to save between €20m and €30m, as well as reduce carbon emissions by 18,000 tonnes, if it commits to an overhaul of its IT systems.
Publication date: 2009-03-26 more

'Nationalise Eircom to solve broadband problems'

The government is being urged to consider nationalising Eircom in a bid to solve Ireland's broadband problems.
Publication date: 2009-03-25 more

Cyberclinic: Why don't batteries last as long as they're supposed to?

As much as we can be certain of anything, we know that there are 100 pence in a pound, six eggs in a box and 53 seats on an executive coach. But one hour of battery life in a cutting-edge gadget contains substantially less than 60 minutes – to a point where the word "hour" has become as meaningless as, I dunno, "squilp".
Publication date: 2009-03-25 more

Why are video games so expensive?

Long before they see the "game over" screen, Xbox, Wii and PlayStation fans have already taken a big blow – to their wallets. The average price of console games makes them seem an exorbitant luxury in these recession-hit times, although the industry that creates these technological marvels tends to disagree.
Publication date: 2009-03-25 more

YouTube blocked in China over disputed video

YouTube, the video-sharing Web site owned by Google, is inaccessible in China for at least a second day, about a year after the country limited access to the site following protests in Tibet.
Publication date: 2009-03-25 more

It's market strategy, but in a virtual world of its own

University lecturers have come up with a novel virtual stock market in a bid to understand the boom and bust cycles of financial markets.
Publication date: 2009-03-25 more

Is there life after Windows?

Once it was fair to say that Linux was the preserve of small coterie of computer nerds typing away in their parents' basements and spare rooms. This is no longer so, however, as the free and easy-to-use operating system with a reputation for rock-solid reliability is coming out of the shadows.
Publication date: 2009-03-25 more

Big Brother to snoop on Facebook and Bebo users

Millions of people who use social networking sites such as Facebook could soon have their every move monitored by the British government and saved on a "Big Brother" database.
Publication date: 2009-03-25 more

eBay calls on EU to step up fight against counterfeit sales

eBay, the world’s biggest online auctioneer, asked the European Union to do more to fight sales of fakes by reviewing data-privacy rules and creating a continent-wide intellectual-property network.
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Facebook: These are a few of my random, favourite things

Like the bubonic plague or Lady Gaga's new single, it spread across the world in a matter of days and weeks. Out of the blue, users of the popular social networking site Facebook -- basically Bebo without the exclamation marks -- were bombarded with lists of personal trivia compiled by friends and acquaintances.
Publication date: 2009-03-24 more

Not so streetwise Google forced to remove images in privacy row

THE internet giant Google has been forced to remove dozens of images from Street View, its controversial mapping service, after complaints from users who felt it breached their privacy.
Publication date: 2009-03-23 more

Microsoft updates Explorer after Firefox and Safari gain users

Microsoft will release a new version of its Internet Explorer Web browser, a bid to shore up its dominance after losing market share to Firefox and Apple’s Safari.
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

University researchers: ‘We are hungry to help grow the economy’

SMEs who want to beat the recession should start talking R&D with their local colleges
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Why everyone is going, going, gone - to eBay

Last week, eBay announced that over 24,000 savvy Irish households are making as much as €10 a week from selling on the Irish auction site.
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Google car gears up for Irish streets

IF you happen to spot a black car with the Google logo cruising past you this week, give a wave. This is the famous Google car, used to capture panoramic images for Google Maps' Street View and, following its mapping of cities around the US and Europe, it has finally arrived on Irish shores.
Publication date: 2009-03-19 more

Cybercops: Keeping ahead of online criminals

In an anonymous-looking business park just outside Reading town centre is a room where row upon row of specially trained computer analysts sit staring at a bank of screens.
Publication date: 2009-03-18 more

Cyberclinic: Where can I get affordable insurance for my mobile?

Anyone who has bought a mobile-phone contract over the counter will recall the unrelenting pressure at point of sale to take out insurance. "Nice phone you've got there," the salesman might intone menacingly while chewing a ballpoint pen, "shame if anything happened to it."
Publication date: 2009-03-18 more

Apple announces new iPhone features

Apple unveiled the third version of the iPhone operating system, adding long-requested features such as a cut-and-paste function and giving software developers new ways to make money on their applications.
Publication date: 2009-03-18 more

ID theft and data security breaches 'pose threat to business'

IDENTITY theft is rampant and data security breaches pose a serious business threat, according to a report from consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
Publication date: 2009-03-16 more

Taoiseach to launch global Irish web site in NYC for St Patrick's Day

Taoiseach Brian Cowen will launch the first-ever global Irish website in New York on Sunday, March 15, with a worldwide celebrity crowd of Irish and Irish-Americans in attendance.
Publication date: 2009-03-15 more

Cyberclinic: Who are all these people wanting to make friends with me online?

Joining online social networks can be a bit disorientating. Thanks to the media hoo-hah surrounding celebrities using Twitter, millions of people have signed up only to find themselves feeling horribly self-conscious, as if they'd turned up to a socialite's engagement party wearing egg-stained dungarees and sucking their thumb.
Publication date: 2009-03-13 more

How to make your PC last longer

It costs hundreds of pounds, but your PC may have a suprisingly short life. Fresh out of the box, it runs like a dream, but after only months of use, it can become frustratingly slow.
Publication date: 2009-03-13 more

The 10 best puzzle games

Pass the time with one of these puzzle games
Publication date: 2009-03-12 more

Google introduces feature that lets users manage phones online

Google is set to release software that will allow users to manage their phone messages via the Web, similar to the way they handle e-mails or online calendars.
Publication date: 2009-03-12 more

Innovating in a recession – are we on the right path?

The recession has meant many things for the Irish technology industry. While we watched large firms such as Intel and Dell shedding staff, we are now also looking at a surplus of highly skilled individuals, and the right mix of innovation, entrepreneurship and co-operation from larger corporates could sow the seeds of change.
Publication date: 2009-03-12 more

Playing to win big on the iTunes App Store

At just 20 years of age, Steven Troughton-Smith is a student of digital-media engineering at Dublin City University, and also a successful developer of iPhone applications for Apple’s iTunes App Store
Publication date: 2009-03-12 more

Put to the test: MP3 & MP4 players

Consumer electronics, including MP3 and MP4 players, are constantly evolving. Many now have touch screens and as well as playing music, viewing photos and videos, some allow internet connection. This week, Smart Consumer looks at portable media players.
Publication date: 2009-03-12 more

‘Internet’s power shifts to Ireland, and Dublin has a key role to play’

Head of Facebook in Dublin: Ireland underestimates its impact on the online economy.
Publication date: 2009-03-12 more

YouTube blocks music videos in U.K.

YouTube, the video-sharing Web site owned by Google Inc., is blocking users’ access to music videos in the U.K. after failing to reach a new licensing agreement with a songwriters’ organization.
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

Public Enemy’s Chuck D to promote fan-funded music site in U.S.

SellaBand AG, an Amsterdam-based music Web site where fans can listen to unsigned artists and help pay for recording costs, will be promoted by Public Enemy frontman Chuck D when it brings the service to the U.S.
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

YouTube blocks music videos in U.K. over fee dispute

YouTube, the video-sharing Web site owned by Google Inc., is blocking users’ access to music videos in the U.K. after failing to reach a new licensing agreement with a songwriters’ organization.
Publication date: 2009-03-10 more

Google’s Docs software exposes documents on web to other users

Google, owner of the world’s largest Internet search engine, said its Google Docs online software exposed some customers’ files to unapproved users last week.
Publication date: 2009-03-09 more

YouTube discussing possible music web site with Universal

YouTube, the video-sharing Web site owned by Google, is in talks with Vivendi SA’s Universal Music Group to create an online music Web site, two people familiar with the situation said yesterday.
Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

Facebook to let users create public versions of pages

Facebook, operator of the world’s largest social-networking site, is redesigning its service to let people create public profile pages and allow celebrities and businesses to reach users more easily.
Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

Irish IT to save UK city council £500,000 in costs

Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

Together in electric dreams: the Irish automotive industry goes green

Can electric cars and motorbikes power their way to the top of the automobile market?
Publication date: 2009-03-05 more

Amazon adds program for reading books on iPhone

Amazon.com, seeking to expand sales of electronic publications, is giving it's U.S. customers the option to read books, blogs and newspapers on Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch.
Publication date: 2009-03-04 more

Cyberclinic: Why can't I make internet voice calls on my mobile phone?

This might require something of a mental leap if you're not an optician, but imagine for a moment that you're an optician. Business is ticking over nicely, when another optician moves into some unused floorspace on your premises, substantially undercutting you on the price of contact lenses – and owing to a quirk in local byelaws you can't do anything except behave aggressively and try changing the locks.
Publication date: 2009-03-04 more

The gamer's book of records

The launch of the Guinness World Records 2009: Gamer's Edition last month brought video gaming out into the fresh air and broke a world record into the bargain. A motley crew of gamers, alongside Tomb Raider's Lara Croft (played by model Alison Carroll), hurtled through the cold, crisp air of central London at 57mph on a mobile gaming rig – achieving the fastest recorded speed for someone playing a video game.
Publication date: 2009-03-04 more

Forget sweets, Church wants you to give up texting for Lent

Gv up txt 4 Lent.
Publication date: 2009-03-04 more

You’re a PC, not a Mac: Gates bans family from using iPods

Most would expect the children of the world's third richest man to have grown up spoilt by a constant supply of the very latest in cutting-edge gadgets. But yesterday it emerged that the offspring of Microsoft's chairman, Bill Gates, are forbidden from owning the planet's number one gadget – the iPod.
Publication date: 2009-03-04 more

Cowen to face online grilling on FF website

IT'S a state of the nation address, but not as we know it.
Publication date: 2009-03-02 more

Paddy Power boosted by online growth

Paddy Power, Ireland’s largest bookmaker, reported a 9.6 percent increase in annual profit as more customers placed bets online, and said it’s "satisfied" with its progress in the first two months of 2009.
Publication date: 2009-03-02 more

Yahoo spent $79 Million last year for advisers on Microsoft

Yahoo! Inc., owner of the second most used search engine in the U.S., spent $79 million (€62 million) in 2008 for outside advisers related to Microsoft Corp.’s acquisition bid and a failed partnership with Google Inc.
Publication date: 2009-03-02 more

Electronic Arts to release Wii sports games in June

Electronic Arts Inc., the world’s second-largest video-game publisher, will ship two new sports titles on June 16 for Nintendo Co.’s top-selling Wii console as it tries to attract more casual game players.
Publication date: 2009-03-02 more

eBay and German police take battle to the counterfeiters

German police used tips from eBay Inc. to score the biggest success in their probe of a counterfeiting ring, snaring 20 tons of knock-off La Martina dress shirts, Ed Hardy tank tops and other brands last month.
Publication date: 2009-02-27 more

Facebook creates site principles after users complain

Facebook, the most popular site for friends to share messages and photos, is creating a set of "Facebook Principles" after customers complained about how the company planned to use their information.
Publication date: 2009-02-27 more

Microsoft may ship Windows in September says Compal

Microsoft may begin shipping its Windows 7 operating system as early as the third quarter, months before the software maker’s official prediction, a computer-industry executive said.
Publication date: 2009-02-27 more

Jobs remains deeply involved in Apple says director

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs remains deeply involved in strategic decisions and the company will disclose more information about his health if warranted, a director said.
Publication date: 2009-02-27 more

Vodafone set to enter fixed-line business market

Next week, Ireland’s largest mobile player, Vodafone, will enter the business fixed-line telecoms and broadband market. Anne O’Leary is director of business and enterprise at Vodafone
Publication date: 2009-02-26 more

We need to nurture the innovation economy, says Microsoft Ireland boss

There are two things occupying the minds of workers in Ireland today: the plight of fellow workers who have lost their jobs, and their own fate in light of the worsening economic situation.
Publication date: 2009-02-26 more

Is censorship the order of the day in protecting the music industry?

Following the recent High Court decision to implement the ‘three strikes’ rules against Eircom customers found to be illegally downloading or uploading copyright material, a solicitor’s letter from the Irish Recorded Music Association’s (IRMA) legal counsel has thrown up more worrying implications for internet censorship.
Publication date: 2009-02-26 more

Microsoft to ship Windows 7 in Sept/Oct

Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, will begin shipping its Windows 7 operating system in September or October, a computer executive said.
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

Cyberclinic: Is there any point in buying Nintendo's new DSi console?

Gamers would, until fairly recently, have dismissed the mobile phone as suitable only for painstakingly manoeuvring playing cards about, or directing a sluggish snake around in circles. Even phones that tried to muscle in on the gaming world, such as the Nokia N-Gage, were greeted with muffled laughter in some quarters when they were launched.
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

Mobiles get the crash test

Tied down with metal clamps on steel benches, ranks of mobile phones are being technologically tortured. If they could cry out, they would – but nobody would hear, because the noise of a hundred steel pistons pummelling their fascias is so loud that people rarely visit this windowless room for more than a few minutes at a time. And, anyway, the walls are soundproofed. "This is what I do," Kevin Smith shouts over the din. "I break mobile phones."
Publication date: 2009-02-25 more

The ten best pet gadgets

Treat your pet with one of these wonderful pet gadgets.
Publication date: 2009-02-24 more

Gmail back online again

Google's e-mail service Gmail is back up and running.
Publication date: 2009-02-24 more

Cyberclinic: Should camera phones really be allowed to take pictures silently?

I have to sheepishly confess that I’ve taken a surruptitious photo using my phone before. A few years back, some guy had spread his legs so wide apart while sitting in a packed train carriage that it prevented anyone from sitting next to him. I snapped him with the intention of shaming him online – but bottled out of uploading it, because he looked a bit dangerous and I feared bloody revenge.
Publication date: 2009-02-24 more

Keen on New Media: Twitter need only look at Facebook to see its future problems

February 2009 might well go down as the month when Twitter replaced Facebook as the hottest and coolest company in Silicon Valley.
Publication date: 2009-02-24 more

Steve Jobs won't appear at Apple agm

Apple will hold its annual meeting this week without chief executive officer Steve Jobs, his first absence since he reclaimed leadership of the company more than a decade ago.
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

The world’s most pointless inventions

EVER wore yourself out eating an ice-cream? The constant movement of the wrist to catch melting drops and ensure the ice-cream gets in your mouth and not the floor? Well help is at hand with the first ever motorised ice-cream cone – which has just been judged the most wasteful consumer product made last year.
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

Scientists on way to creating 'television wallpaper'

Scientists are embarking on a project that they say could one day lead to our homes being decorated with "television wallpaper".
Publication date: 2009-02-23 more

Facebook backtracks on data use after raft of complaints

Facebook has withdrawn controversial changes to its terms of service after receiving a storm of complaints from users of the social networking website.
Publication date: 2009-02-19 more

Ireland’s mini-Silicon Valley provides key blueprint for the next economy

The impact of R&D spin-offs on the south-east could mean 1,000 jobs in next five years
Publication date: 2009-02-19 more

Google bets on Vodafone’s Magic to break Apple’s spell

Google and Vodafone have teamed up to take on Apple’s iPhone, yesterday unveiling the internet search engine group’s second attempt to make a splash in the European mobile phone market.
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Facebook backs down from rule changes after criticism

Facebook Inc., owner of the world’s largest social-networking site, backed down from revisions made to its online service following complaints that the changes may hurt users’ privacy.
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Are flatscreens really worth buying?

Last Thursday was a difficult day for Susumu Kotani, president of Pioneer Corp. He’d only taken over as president in October. And now he had the unenviable job of announcing that the Japnese electronics giant was pulling out of the flatscreen TV market.
Publication date: 2009-02-18 more

Google scraps radio advertising business

Internet Google has abandoned its efforts to sell advertising for broadcast radio stations, acknowledging that the three-year project has failed.
Publication date: 2009-02-17 more

Mobile phone companies take the fight to Apple over new apps

The mobile phone trade show kicked off in Barcelona yesterday but industry insiders believe the economic downturn has taken its toll on the showpiece event of the year.
Publication date: 2009-02-17 more

Irish firms need to be more proactive about data loss

Apart from individuals losing laptops and data keys, what are the most common mistakes firms are making with their data?
Publication date: 2009-02-12 more

Dublin or bust: can Ireland prove itself to be a digital media leader?

When we think of movies, we think of Hollywood, and, when we talk of all things digital, our thoughts inevitably turn towards Silicon Valley.
Publication date: 2009-02-12 more

Survival of the fittest for Ireland’s emerging bioinformatics sector

Charles Darwin, born 200 years ago today on 12 February 1809, revolutionised science and modern thinking with the publication of The Origin of Species. His theories on evolution and natural selection are still hugely influential today.
Publication date: 2009-02-12 more

The ten best gaming gadgets

Stay ahead of the curve with our guide to the best gaming gadgets.
Publication date: 2009-02-11 more

Intel to spend $7bn on new plants in US

Intel, the world's largest maker of computer chips, with a major plant in Leixlip, is set to spend $7bn on new plants in the US over the next two years in an effort to extend its lead in manufacturing technology.
Publication date: 2009-02-11 more

Christian Bale: All the rage on the web

Cyberspace is reverberating to the sound of one man swearing. His expletive-per-minute ratio might pale in comparison with Gordon Ramsay delivering a verdict on a sub-standard mushroom risotto.
Publication date: 2009-02-09 more

Hi-tech visionaries are inventing the coolest stuff in a lab near you

'INNOVATION," said Apple guru Steve Jobs, "distinguishes between a leader and a follower." Increasingly it is viewed as a given that investing in great ideas is how we might reinvent the country's business appeal.
Publication date: 2009-02-08 more

India's $10 PC could be the future

A NEW $10 laptop launched in India this week could be the future of computer technology in a world grappling with global recession.
Publication date: 2009-02-06 more

Alcatel-Lucent cut to 'sell' by Goldman

Alcatel-Lucent, the world’s largest supplier of fixed-line phone networks employing 175 staff in Ireland, has been cut to “sell” from “neutral” at Goldman Sachs.
Publication date: 2009-02-06 more

Yahoo reveals demo of 'searchpad' product

YAHOO is testing a new 'searchpad' to help users automatically save notes and links to sites visited on its search engine.
Publication date: 2009-02-06 more

Are buggy smart phones now the reality in our new ‘beta culture’?

With touchscreen smart phones becoming the order of the day, the two biggest mobile phone releases of 2008 were undoubtedly the iPhone 3G from Apple and RIM’s BlackBerry Storm.
Publication date: 2009-02-05 more

A Lotto reasons why grassroots e-commerce play will keep it local

Ireland’s rural communities are the litmus test for the state of the nation, and that’s why the current economic downturn can be seen as a particularly rural tragedy.
Publication date: 2009-02-05 more

Is Facebook just a passing fad?

It's a tale of entrepreneurial flair that provokes awe and envy in equal measure. A student at Harvard creates a website for the amusement of his fellow undergraduates so they can exchange notes and keep tabs on upcoming events.
Publication date: 2009-02-05 more

It's spy as you go, as Google goes too

MILLIONS of people will be able to track each and every move by friends and family through their mobile phones, thanks to a new feature launched by Google yesterday. The new system dubbed "Latitude" uses a digital map to automatically show exactly where a loved one is at any time, pinpointing their location to a few metres.
Publication date: 2009-02-05 more

Amazon.com offers 600 downloadable video games on it's web site

Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest Internet retailer, began offering game downloads, stepping up competition with Yahoo! Inc. and other gaming Web sites.
Publication date: 2009-02-04 more

Cyberclinic: Should I bother upgrading to Internet Exporer 8?

You'd think that when one of the world's most widely used pieces of software was overhauled and put online for free download, the rush would cause the internet to collapse in on itself like a soufflé made by an unsuccessful contestant on 'Masterchef'.
Publication date: 2009-02-04 more

Rise of the machines, end of the humans?

So, there are these two scientists researching artificial intelligence. One is Satinder S Baveja, director of the University of Michigan's AI laboratory; the other is Miles Bennett Dyson, director of research at Cyberdyne Systems of California. Both men are asked to reflect on what the ultimate outcome of their work on AI will look like. Might it, for example, get a little bit dystopian out there?
Publication date: 2009-02-04 more

Is Wikipedia cracking up?

It felt like half a nation was pumping the air and singing along to "Born To Run" as the old rabble-rouser Bruce Springsteen blew through his half-time set at Superbowl XLIII on Sunday night.
Publication date: 2009-02-03 more

Dell may move into smart-phone market to expand sales

Dell Inc., the world’s second-largest maker of personal computers, may be entering the smart-phone market as soon as next month, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the effort.
Publication date: 2009-01-30 more

What is the funding future for Irish-based start-ups?

In the US, venture-capital funding has fallen by 71pc and the same can be expected here. Fergus Bolster is partner in the corporate and commercial department at Matheson Ormsby Prentice.
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

Is the computer industry shooting itself in the foot with the netbook?

Just one year ago, netbooks were still a novel concept – the now legendary minuscule Asus Eee PC was just beginning to generate buzz, while mainstream PC manufacturers such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Acer were yet to release their versions.
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

Eircom to Stop Illegal Music Downloaders

Eircom said it will disconnect customers if they illegally download music owned by four record labels.
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

Apply 21st-century teaching now or risk an under-skilled workforce

It may seem politically impolite – or incorrect – at a time of global recession to be telling a government where its investment priorities lie.
Publication date: 2009-01-29 more

Premature obituaries may force new Wikipedia rules

Entries on the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia may have to be pre-approved after it wrongly claimed that Senator Edward Kennedy had died.
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

Cyberclinic: What can I do if someone is impersonating me online?

This is tempting fate, but no one has bothered pretending to be me on the internet. That's probably because there's nothing to be gained from doing so, other than receiving a few press releases about webcams and a truckload of spam.
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

The ultimate remote control?

In these days of inflated fuel prices, central heating is both a necessity and a financial headache. If you don't want to leave it on all day, you have to wait for it to come on every time you arrive back from work, and even if it has a timer and you can work out how to set it, it's pointless to do so if you don't know exactly when you'll be back home.
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

Science solves 'Italian Job' cliffhanger

It was probably the greatest cliff-hanger in cinema history, leaving fans of The Italian Job wondering how the mobster Charlie Croker could have extricated his gang - and the gold bullion - from a bus hanging precariously over the edge of a mountain road.
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Why the world is suddenly all a-twitter

IT WAS established as a communication tool for geeks and now counts showbusiness stars and the American President among its users.
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

Philips slashes 6,000 jobs after loss

Royal Philips Electronics, Europe’s largest maker of televisions, will cut 6,000 jobs and stop buying back shares after reporting its first quarterly loss in almost six years.
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We will spy on your teen's website for you

Irish parents are the best in Europe at monitoring their kids on the internet. However, their kids are the least likely of all European children to turn to mum or dad for advice when something happens to them online.
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US Defense Department mimics Google, Microsoft in cloud computing

When the US Defense Department’s John Garing met Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. to learn about cloud computing, he liked what he saw. Enough to send him back to Washington ready to change how government technology works.
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Paper and pencil rival Nintendo for 'brain training'

A 10c pencil stimulates the memory just as well as a €150 Nintendo DS, according to a study that dismisses the machine's claims to boost the brain.
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

Irish writers invited to join class action deal with Google

IRISH authors may be entitled to cash windfalls if they are covered by a settlement reached with Google after a class action case taken in the US.
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

From geeky to glamorous: Gadgets for her

Most stylish clutch bags hold a lipstick, credit card and a set of house keys at most. Designer Vivienne Tam's peony-print clutch has a much greater capacity: at least 60 gigabytes.
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Premature obituaries may force new Wikipedia rules

Entries on the internet encyclopedia Wikipedia may have to be pre-approved after it wrongly claimed that Senator Edward Kennedy had died.
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

Pope channels mass appeal of YouTube

Pope Benedict may well play with light sabres in the privacy of his own bedroom, but don't expect to see evidence of this on YouTube.
Publication date: 2009-01-28 more

PC owners vulnerable to ID theft

ALMOST half of all computers in the UK and Ireland are vulnerable to identity theft.
Publication date: 2008-11-28 more

High hopes for Irish cartoon at BAFTAs

SKUNK Fu!, an Irish-produced cartoon, is in the running for a BAFTA in London next Spring.
Publication date: 2008-11-28 more

Woman found guilty of misdemeanor in MySpace trial

A Missouri woman was found guilty of misdemeanor computer fraud for posing as a teenage boy on News Corp.’s MySpace Web site and acquitted of more serious charges she did so to harm a 13-year-old girl who later killed herself.
Publication date: 2008-11-28 more

Dell to host event at Future of Computing show

COMPUTER giant Dell will be among the exhibitors showcasing the latest in technology at the upcoming Future of Computing conference, which will be held in the Pavilion at Leopardstown Racecourse on 1st and 2nd December.
Publication date: 2008-11-28 more

Divorced - for having an affair in Second Life

AS DIVORCE cases go, it is as explosive and sordid as it gets: a woman catches her husband having sex with a prostitute, forgives him, but finally throws in the towel after discovering he has been unfaithful again. Yet absolutely none of it happened in real life.
Publication date: 2008-11-28 more

Blog digest: Oxfam Ireland Eyewitness Blogs

Sometimes it can seem hard to understand exactly what happens in countries that organisations such as Oxfam work with, but the Irish segment of the charity has two ‘eyewitness’ blogs written by aid workers stationed in both Uganda and Goma.
Publication date: 2008-11-27 more

Cyberclinic: Why is so much broadband sold as 'unlimited' when it isn't?

If you're lucky enough to be told that you have "unlimited" access to something, you'd be forgiven for assuming that you won't get a slapped wrist when you help yourself to as much as you like.
Publication date: 2008-11-27 more

Ireland must boost tech skills to stay in the game

In May, Texan billionaire Ross Perot’s IT services firm, Perot Systems, acquired Irish software company Original Solutions Consulting for an undisclosed sum. Jim Champy is chairman of Perot Systems
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How I went on a killing spree

I'm not a violent man. My physical aggression is limited to kicking non-existent objects when my train gets cancelled, or slamming the phone down on British Gas when they cold-call for the third time in a week.
Publication date: 2008-11-27 more

Porn software can detect sex-addicted employees

With Ireland ranking top of the list for searches of the word ‘porn’ on Google, the country’s employers will be interested in newly-developed porn-detecting software.
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Irishman launches 'facebook for dogs'

TRUCKER Diarmuid Scullin is usually dog-tired after clocking up an average 1,500 miles behind the wheel of his rig every week.
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Finding a business idea by helping lost commuters

When Dave Rooney and his friend Vinny Glennon left college, finding a job was not the biggest challenge – it was finding their way to the interview in the first place via public transport.
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Google Ireland nets losses of €12m

Google Ireland swung into the red in 2007 but employee levels at the group increased over 300 this year bringing staff numbers to the 1,500 level, bucking a national and global trend.
Publication date: 2008-11-27 more

Eircom loses out as 3 Ireland wins €40m contract for high-speed broadband service

The Government is to award 3 Ireland the contract to deploy the long-awaited €40m National Broadband Scheme (NBS) -- shunning the only other remaining bidder, former state-owned telco Eircom.
Publication date: 2008-11-26 more

Hewlett-Packard sales up 10pc

Hewlett-Packard Co., the world’s biggest personal-computer maker, reported a 10 percent increase in PC sales last quarter as demand for laptops held up in the face of a slowing economy.
Publication date: 2008-11-25 more

Computer-fraud case over MySpace teen’s suicide goes to jury

A federal jury will begin deliberating whether a Missouri woman who used News Corp.’s MySpace social-networking Web site to embarrass a teenager who later committed suicide is guilty of computer fraud.
Publication date: 2008-11-25 more

Revamped R&D guidelines are designed to keep Intel onside

THE decision by the Government to amend its rules relating to tax credits by including companies using only part of their buildings for research and development (R&D) purposes was made in a bid to retain chip giant Intel at its Kildare base. Intel is currently considering whether to go ahead with an investment in a new line of products at its Leixlip plant.
Publication date: 2008-11-21 more

Blog digest: Just Routes

Although this is not technically a blog, I must single this website out as an essential Irish site to visit, simply because it lists almost all the bus routes around Dublin City. If you plug in where you are and where you want to get to, you will be given the distance, as well as the most direct bus route.
Publication date: 2008-11-20 more

How Virgin Galactic will make space tourists of us all

Catching a plane to London, Paris or Rome is effortless, affordable and, more significantly, quite routine, but it is all too easy to forget that commercial flying did not become possible until many years after the Wright brothers took to the air in 1903. Now imagine the task of commercialising space travel.
Publication date: 2008-11-20 more

First wooden computer in biodegradable breakthrough

THE seeds of a new IT revolution may have been sown, with the world's first biodegradable computer made of wood.
Publication date: 2008-11-20 more

Internet hero finds web is all a numbers game

This year’s Internet Hero at the Eircom Golden Spider Awards is Aodhan Cullen, chief executive of web analysis firm Statcounter. Cullen, who is now 25, started the company when he was 16.
Publication date: 2008-11-20 more

Two Kerrymen walk into an LA bar … and emerge as tech pioneers

Six years ago, in a bar somewhere in LA, Tony McManus from Ballyduff, Co Kerry was winding down after a long day at the office.
Publication date: 2008-11-20 more

More power in your pocket

In the embryonic days of computers, the world of software was dominated by callow youths in their bedrooms – or in Bill Gates' case, a garage – with some of the greatest names in software starting with little more than a book on coding and a lot of free time.
Publication date: 2008-11-20 more

Blog digest: Contrast – The Blog

Contrast.ie is a young and talented firm of web designers who really get online branding. Its blog is a great place to dip your toes in if you are an SME looking to establish your visibility and brand on the web, because the way information is presented on your site and how your visitor interacts with the information available is paramount.
Publication date: 2008-11-13 more

Lean, green firms will survive credit crunch

The current economic climate is the perfect opportunity for firms to get focused on green and lean business principles, says Dave Ferguson, principal consultant with the SAS Institute.
Publication date: 2008-11-13 more

Attracting C-level management will be key to the future of software start-ups

Today in London, six firms from around the world will take part in the Global Security Challenge at the London Business School.
Publication date: 2008-11-13 more

Businesses must watch out for gremlins in the machine

With business spending on IT liable to slow as economic conditions remain weak, firms will more than likely try to make do with their existing IT systems.
Publication date: 2008-11-13 more

10 best mp3 docks

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5 best sat nav consoles

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All the web's a stage

As dusk falls over east London, I find myself standing in front of a dingy, seemingly deserted warehouse. Despite feeling nervous, I venture inside. Climbing a set of stairs, I find myself in a dark series of rooms. The reason I'm here isn't because I've taken up cat burglary, but because I've been invited to experience an exciting hybrid of art and hi-tech entertainment.
Publication date: 2008-11-12 more

10 best flatscreen TVs

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In brief: Delta launches its CFD portfolio

Delta Index, the Dublin-based financial spread company, has launched its Contracts for Difference (CFDs) product for investors who want to take long or short positions on the financial markets.
Publication date: 2008-11-12 more

Don't get out of your facebook

Sometimes it seems as though the internet was invented so that bored office workers can find an enjoyable way of getting through dreary afternoons.
Publication date: 2008-11-11 more

In brief: First Active tops list of best buys

FIRST Active has moved to the top of the best buys list with a new six month fixed- deposit rate of 6.25pc.
Publication date: 2008-11-11 more

Desktop giant's profits take tumble

Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's fourth bigest PC maker, posted a sharp drop in quarterly profit and warned of tough conditions as consumers and businesses cut back on technology spending, sending its stock down 20pc.
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Product review: Why you'll want a Flip video camera

Imagine a hand-held video camera that fits in your pocket and allows you to begin recording within just three seconds, it also promises to create small video files that can be easily uploaded to a social networking site or emailed to a friend. Sound too good to be true? Danielle Cahill takes a look at the Flip to see if it lives up to the hype.
Publication date: 2008-11-07 more

Upwardly mobile Hartnett quits Palm for 'exciting new venture'

John Hartnett (right), one of the top Irish technology executives in Silicon Valley, is stepping down as head of global sales with mobile technology group Palm.
Publication date: 2008-11-07 more

TVC to sell stake in ChangingWorlds

Investment company TVC Holdings has agreed to sell its interest on ChangingWorlds an internet solutions company.
Publication date: 2008-11-06 more

In brief: Management fees 'need reform'

Private equity management fees, which allow large funds to earn hundreds of millions of dollars in addition to performance fees must be reformed, said top private equity investor Solomon Owayda.
Publication date: 2008-11-06 more

Blog digest: Frugal Ireland

We can more or less guarantee that Christmas this year will not be as extravagant as last year’s festive season.
Publication date: 2008-11-06 more

How a Galway firm secured Hollywood’s digital future

A Galway tech firm which has struck lucrative deals with a number of Hollywood studios, as well as major tech firms like Microsoft, Samsung and Toshiba, has warned that, with private equity drying up, the Irish Government may need to step in to help seed start-ups into the future.
Publication date: 2008-11-06 more

Meteor storms into mobile broadband

In recent weeks, Meteor went live with the first stage of its 3G network, and by next year plans to be a force in the mobile broadband business. Elaine Robinson is head of product development at Meteor.
Publication date: 2008-11-06 more

How a business-school thesis became Ireland’s prime competitor to Facebook

As Irish parents wonder what their little darlings are getting up to on the internet, they may be interested to learn that it could no longer be Bebo or Facebook holding their children’s attention online.
Publication date: 2008-11-06 more

Online fraud danger as research speeds ahead

Market research is seeing big changes and the days of interviewers calling to homes on winter nights armed with a clipboard and pencil are numbered. But while face-to-face interviews are giving way to online studies, researchers must be wary of deception.
Publication date: 2008-11-06 more

Liverpool man sued for alleged illegal software sales

Business Software Alliance (BSA) has launched legal action against a Liverpool man suspected of selling illegal software over the Internet. John Rothwell of Anfield allegedly sold BSA investigators pirated copies of design and office productivity software with a total retail value of over £2,000 for only £29.
Publication date: 2008-11-04 more

In brief: O'Brien raises INM stake to 26pc

Telecoms entrepreneur Denis O'Brien has confirmed that he raised his stake in Independent News & Media to more than 26pc. Mr O'Brien's vehicles acquired additional shares in the publisher earlier this week.
Publication date: 2008-10-31 more

Huge campaign to erase Vista shortcomings with Windows 7

BILL Veghte hesitated when Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer asked him to oversee sales and marketing for Windows. He even went as far as questioning the CEO's commitment to the program.
Publication date: 2008-10-31 more

Blog Digest: Barack Obama's blog

With only days left before the US presidential election, it is interesting to see the sheer volume of posts going up on both Obama’s and McCain’s blogs.
Publication date: 2008-10-31 more

Telecoms sector braces itself for the cold winds of change

The telecoms sector in Ireland spends €724m a year on infrastructure, but this rate of investment could be under threat as harsh economic realities emerge.
Publication date: 2008-10-31 more

High-performance computing puts Ferrari in pole position in Formula One stakes

On a sunny mid-week day in October, the racetrack at the Ferrari headquarters at Maranello in Italy is empty save for the occasional hum of a familiar red sports car being put through its paces.
Publication date: 2008-10-31 more

'Internet will play major role in rebuilding economy'

The way that businesses harness the internet and apply the solutions it offers to drive productivity, innovation and improved financial performance will determine their longer term success and ultimately the success of the economy a senior Google executive has claimed.
Publication date: 2008-10-31 more

In brief: Societe Generale shares up 6.4pc

Societe Generale SA, the bank that suffered a record trading loss in January, rose in Paris trading after it stood by its third-quarter profit forecast. The shares climbed as much as 6.4pc and traded up 1pc at €38.38 at 9.35am, valuing the bank at €22.6bn.
Publication date: 2008-10-29 more

Dell learns Kermit had it easy - he never built PCs from bamboo

Proving Kermit's adage, Dell Inc. spent three years building 25 prototypes before the computer maker found a way to twist bamboo into a natural fiber exterior for its new ''Hybrid'' desktop.
Publication date: 2008-10-24 more

Obama is game for online campaign

Web-savvy Barack Obama has started advertising his campaign on online video games.
Publication date: 2008-10-24 more

Woman arrested for killing online husband

Police have netted their first case involving online murder
Publication date: 2008-10-24 more

CVs could be identity fraud targets

Job applicants are being urged to check sites before uploading their details
Publication date: 2008-10-24 more

Blog Digest: LouderVoice

This is not a blog but has the essence of one in that it encourages a great community feel and plenty of participation. Anyone who has an opinion can write a review, be it directly on the site, from your own blog, your microblog such as Twitter or even your mobile phone.
Publication date: 2008-10-23 more

Automattic buy puts Sligo start-up in ‘poll position’

A hot young tech firm from Sligo on Ireland’s west coast, that allows websites to perform polls, has been snapped up by WordPress’s parent company, Automattic.
Publication date: 2008-10-23 more

Online sales will rise as high-street sales fall this Christmas

The credit crunch and subsequent recession will result in a surge in online spending over high-street retail spending this Christmas, as prudent shoppers will shop early to purchase smaller items.
Publication date: 2008-10-23 more

The West is awake to Gaeltacht areas becoming digital entertainment hubs

Broadband is the magic ingredient bringing Ireland’s Gaeltachts to Hollywood
Publication date: 2008-10-23 more

Broadband 'safe from cutbacks'

Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan has reassured the Irish telecoms industry that the Government remains committed to rolling out the National Broadband Scheme and continuing investment in broadband infrastructure despite the economic difficulties.
Publication date: 2008-10-22 more

Picture these

The words "photo album" have changed in their meaning over the past 10 years. Back then, you'd be talking about a leather-bound volume, probably brown, containing slightly faded snaps of tedious family events, hanging at a diagonal because the corner mounts had come unstuck.
Publication date: 2008-10-22 more

Parents pay firm to 'spy' on kids online

A US firm will monitor your kid's Facebook or MySpace site for a fee
Publication date: 2008-10-20 more

New LED cinema display from Apple

The new MacBook's Cinema Display is greener and cleaner than ever before, says Apple
Publication date: 2008-10-20 more

Apple unveils new family of ‘eco’ MacBooks

Steve Jobs' new babies are smarter and more innovative than their predecessors
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UK defends plans for 'Big Brother' database

Plans to create a giant database of mobile phone and internet records have been unveiled by the UK government
Publication date: 2008-10-20 more

Son's website may help solve Mum's murder

A website set up by a son for his murdered mum may have yielded results
Publication date: 2008-10-20 more

SIM cards to protect kids from bullying

REGULATED SIM cards that protect children from unwanted texts and calls on their mobile phones could be available for the Christmas market.
Publication date: 2008-10-20 more

Search engine ads roar in downturn

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Publication date: 2008-10-18 more

Harry Potter's 'invisible' cloak almost reality

Harry Potter's cloak is no longer 'fantasy' as scientist publishes amazing findings
Publication date: 2008-10-17 more

Identity theft website closed down

Criminals who were trading credit card details online have been put out of business
Publication date: 2008-10-17 more

Mobile users hit by skin rashes

It's official - mobile phones are bad for you. They can cause skin rashes.
Publication date: 2008-10-17 more

From mouse to the White House

Kill the pork! Bam! Bam! Bam!" I yell, banging down hard on the spacebar of my laptop. Vegetarians shield your eyes. I'm blasting pigs to oblivion, mercilessly frying them with a deadly laser beam. It's a video game called Pork Invaders, on the website of the US Republican Presidential candidate John McCain.
Publication date: 2008-10-17 more

The first YouTube election

American voters go to the polls next month to elect a new president, but a clear winner has already emerged -- the internet.
Publication date: 2008-10-17 more

When the Net is just too good to be true

Heard the one about the steam-powered android who fought in the trenches during the First World War and later helped explore the Antarctic? Unveiled at the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair, Boilerplate the robot was an overnight celebrity: presidents and tycoons clamoured to shake his hand; newspapers chronicled his every endeavour.
Publication date: 2008-10-17 more

In brief: Jameson's Elite special mention

Pernod Ricard, the co-leader of the global spirits and wine industry, said that the company topped the recently released IWSR 2007 Elite Brands List.
Publication date: 2008-10-17 more

Cyberclinic: How can I avoid message board drivel?

Avoiding outpourings of cretinous ignorance online is like trying to avoid goths at a My Chemical Romance gig.
Publication date: 2008-10-17 more

Google uses UK as gambling guinea pig

GOOGLE has been slammed for lifting its four-year ban on allowing gambling sites and casinos to advertise on its website in Britain.
Publication date: 2008-10-17 more

Smart card firm close to administration

TECHNOLOGY ID Data, the UK company that makes smart card systems, is on the verge of calling in administrators after falling short of raising the cash it needs for short-term funding.
Publication date: 2008-10-17 more

Blog digest: Rick O’Shea

RTÉ 2FM radio DJ Rick O’Shea is a bit of a pop culture king really, isn’t he?
Publication date: 2008-10-16 more

Eircom pursues ‘Locle’ approach to social media

Ireland’s incumbent telecoms operator, Eircom, is to launch a new social media application on its website that will enable internet and mobile phone users to discover on a map where friends and colleagues are at any time.
Publication date: 2008-10-16 more

Storm warning: the next generation of mobile is here

Vodafone Ireland chief executive Charles Butterworth is quite generous in his praise of Apple’s iPhone. Although Vodafone doesn’t sell the device in this country, Butterworth nevertheless gives credit where it’s due.
Publication date: 2008-10-16 more

Intel boss warns that revenue will decline due to economic climate

The financial crisis will impact corporate computer budgets and will hit Intel's business, the company's global chief executive Paul Otellini has warned.
Publication date: 2008-10-16 more

US hotel WiFi hack attack could happen here

Global Secure Systems, an IT security consultancy, has warned that insecure WiFi systems installed at hotels could be hacked with embarrassing consequences, as has happened with the high-end Thompson hotel chain in the US.
Publication date: 2008-10-13 more

Blog Digest: Sarah Palin facts

We all like to take US politics seriously, but when it came to the recent Palin v Biden debate, it seemed as though the media were just as interested in the 44-year-old hockey mom’s choice of shoes (yes, I found one site with about five articles on her shoes), or why she wears glasses with no frames.
Publication date: 2008-10-09 more

Hit the road, Jack, but not without your IT armoury

In times like these, travel can be seen by many as an unnecessary expense, but when your firm is aiming to hold onto loyal clients and drum up new business, getting out there and pressing the flesh is much more effective than communicating by phone or email alone.
Publication date: 2008-10-09 more

Tough-talking commissioner drives hard bargain with telcos

She has raised the hackles of European fixed and mobile telecoms operators by forcing them to slash call and message costs, but is the toast of Europe’s 500 million citizens who feel ripped off when they get their post-holiday phone bills or who live in border areas.
Publication date: 2008-10-09 more

Makers of Norton anti-virus buy rival

Symantec Corp., the world's biggest maker of security software, agreed to buy closely held MessageLabs Ltd. for about $695 million to improve protection for its e-mail programs.
Publication date: 2008-10-09 more

How pirates hijacked DS

Think of a pirate and it's likely that an image of a bandanna-clad, eye-patch sporting villain springs to mind. But these days, piracy has moved out of the high seas and into our homes. For millions of people, downloading an album for free or buying knock-off DVDs in the pub is a normal part of life, with no yo ho ho-ing required.
Publication date: 2008-10-08 more

Nokia unveils rival to iPhone

Nokia have unveiled a touch-screen handset with unlimited music downloads, challenging Apple Inc.'s iPhone and iTunes.
Publication date: 2008-10-08 more

Ireland is not lagging behind in broadband league, says minister

Communications Minister Eamon Ryan rejected data showing Ireland at the bottom of the broadband penetration pile, saying it was out of date and not accurate.
Publication date: 2008-10-03 more

Facebook chooses Dublin for its HQ

Social networking site Facebook has chosen Dublin as its European Headquarters.
Publication date: 2008-10-02 more

Facebook chooses Dublin as location for European HQ

The social networking website Facebook has reportedly chosen Dublin as the location for its European headquarters.
Publication date: 2008-10-02 more

The green web – sowing seeds of change online

Climate change is happening and getting people to think green – whether in business or in the home – has a knack to it. It is quite a social thing because it involves a change in lifestyle, and a rethink of how you view your world and the people around you.
Publication date: 2008-10-02 more

Asking what people want is the way to bridge the digital divide

All eyes will be on the Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan TD this week as he formulates an early Budget geared at keeping the economic wolves from Ireland’s door.
Publication date: 2008-10-02 more

Nintendo unveils new DSi

Nintendo have introduced a new model of its best-selling DS handheld game player with camera and music- playing functions to widen its lead over Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Portable machines.
Publication date: 2008-10-02 more

No fear of banking crisis in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley lawyer Mark Stevens paused only a moment to check Google's finance site during a client meeting as U.S. lawmakers shot down the $700 billion bank- rescue package. Then he got back to work.
Publication date: 2008-10-02 more

Sound waves

Man has gone to great lengths to make exercise less mind-numbingly boring. Visitors to gyms have it pretty good - TV screens show music channels, while rowers and runners can compete in virtual races via built-in computers. And outdoors, joggers have the ubiquitous iPod.
Publication date: 2008-10-01 more

Can Google take a bite of the Apple?

Move over Apple. The Google phone is here. Hoping to take a bite out of iPhone's Christmas market, Google's much-anticipated G1 phone was met with some tepid reviews on its debut this week, with critics pointing to a number of shortcomings.
Publication date: 2008-09-27 more

How the church is slowly catching up with the internet

Awesome. That was the word employed this week by the Primate of All Ireland, Doctor Sean Brady, to launch the Church's new website, catholicbishops.ie. Addressing the global reach of the internet, the Archbishop described it as "an awesome tool of communication", adding that he regarded it as "the single most revolutionary communications medium of all time".
Publication date: 2008-09-27 more

Majority of Irish adults now online - JNIR results

The JNIR (Joint National Internet Research) was published today. Its findings reveal that 51% of Irish adults are now online and over half of those have made at least one online purchase in the past month.
Publication date: 2008-09-27 more

Ireland's talent meltdown

IT has been said to me before that the average schoolchild in nations such as China and India dreams of being a scientist.
Publication date: 2008-09-26 more

In brief: Energy minister's symposium talk

The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan and a host of leading national and international speakers from the worlds of science, academia and industry will address a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Symposium on Science and Engineering underpinning sustainable energy and energy-efficient technologies On October 1.
Publication date: 2008-09-25 more

Successful classroom tech is about educating the educators

Teachers are becoming bigger proponents of using ICT in classrooms than they are given credit for. That’s according to a company whose spelling software is deployed in 50pc of Irish schools.
Publication date: 2008-09-25 more

Are new web start-ups more Me 2.0 than Web 2.0, and is this deterring investors?

Watching the nervous entrepreneurs standing in front of the panel on Dragon’s Den can be a nerve-wracking experience – it is not always obvious which ones may succeed and which are destined for the start-up graveyard.
Publication date: 2008-09-25 more

Ireland’s move to digital audio broadcasting could signal interesting times for radio

It promises more choice and better sound quality, but are we ready for DAB?
Publication date: 2008-09-19 more

Irish firms need to innovate to survive these tough times

There is a common DNA strand linking the activities of Apple and home-grown global success stories such as Havok.
Publication date: 2008-09-18 more

Ireland’s move to digital audio broadcasting could signal interesting times for radio

It promises more choice and better sound quality, but are we ready for DAB?
Publication date: 2008-09-18 more

New IBM data hub to give €30m boost

COMPUTER giant IBM is to spend €30m on a new data centre in Dublin.
Publication date: 2008-09-18 more

E-books don't furnish a room

A generation of electronic book readers, new to the market, promises to 'revolutionise reading'. Katy Guest wonders why
Publication date: 2008-09-15 more

Switching it on for the virtual generation

Irish telecoms firms are investing 1700m in upgrading their infrastructure. But to ensure their confidence, Government needs to re-evaluate telecoms regulation, says Tommy McCabe of the Telecommunications and Internet Federation (TIF)
Publication date: 2008-09-11 more

Guitar heroes identify a niche and strike the right chord

All around the world this weekend, grown men with beer guts will be leaping across their living rooms, bashing out neat riffs as they relive rock and roll dreams from teenage heydays.
Publication date: 2008-09-11 more

Netbooks versus notebooks – is the PC industry trying to cannibalise itself?

Laptop computers have been with us for over 20 years now and today they are the largest-selling segment of the personal computer (PC) industry.
Publication date: 2008-09-11 more

Small Scottish enterprise set to launch free music downloads

The brainchild of singer Indiana Gregg and her record producer husband Ian Morrow, Glasgow based company Kerchoonz is about to launch it’s free and legal music download service.
Publication date: 2008-09-11 more

Green technology 'must be priority'

DEVELOPING green technologies, including wave, wind and solar power, should be a priority for Ireland as it faces into difficult economic times, Environment Minister John Gormley urged yesterday.
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Nifty device tackles energy waste

ECO-aware householders can now measure their energy usage with the launch of an innovative product.
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Jobs defies health rumours with iPod fit for Christmas

It has been the talk of the blogosphere for months. Occasional bursts of speculation even sent Apple's shares plunging. So when Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive and genius-in-residence, strolled on to a San Francisco stage yesterday, a sigh of relief went up around Silicon Valley.
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Colao makes his mark at Vodafone as former rival quits in reorganisation

Vittorio Colao, the new chief executive of Vodafone, has made his first big mark on the business with a package of personnel and organisational changes that include the departure of one of his rivals in the race for the top job.
Publication date: 2008-09-10 more

Google Chrome is rough but has potential say reviewers

Google Inc.'s new Chrome Web browser, designed to crack Microsoft Corp.'s dominance in Internet-surfing software, is a nimble program whose potential makes up for its lack of polish, reviewers said.
Publication date: 2008-09-05 more

Google Chrome has security flaws say researchers

Google Inc.'s new Chrome Web browser has two security flaws, including one that could enable hackers to trick users into downloading and running a malicious program, security researchers said.
Publication date: 2008-09-05 more

Electrifying the picnic: the music festival turns techy

It all began in the Seventies at Glastonbury with free love and lots of mud, but the modern music festival has evolved. From connecting with nature to connecting via Bluetooth, the picnic has been electrified.
Publication date: 2008-09-04 more

Can Ireland get up to speed on broadband?

Created by former broadcast engineers, AirSpeed has deployed a nationwide wireless network that helps businesses like RTÉ and Dairygold in broadband-poor areas. The company is headed by Liam O’Kelly
Publication date: 2008-09-04 more

Inside Intel — how ‘Lean Thinking’ could pave the road for future chip investment

The technology world marches to a single beat known as Moore’s Law, created by Intel founder Gordon Moore, which dictates that the number of transistors on a single microchip doubles every 24 months.
Publication date: 2008-09-04 more

Ringtones most popular downloads among Irish mobile users

A new survey has found that ringtones are the most popular downloads among Irish mobile phone users.
Publication date: 2008-09-04 more

Google may face antitrust challenge on Chrome

Microsoft has vowed to fight back against the launch of a new web browser by arch-rival Google, promising new features for its market-leading Internet Explorer and putting itself on alert for a challenge to Google on competition grounds.
Publication date: 2008-09-03 more

Google launches new web browser

Google Inc., owner of the most popular Internet search engine, plans to introduce a Web browser today to take on industry leader Microsoft Corp.
Publication date: 2008-09-02 more

Datalex sees reduction in losses

Datalex Plc, a maker of software for the travel industry, said its first-half loss narrowed as online sales increased and the company won new contracts with customers including Saudi Arabian Airlines.
Publication date: 2008-08-29 more

Disharmony at iTunes

Five billion and counting fast. That is how many songs have been downloaded since Apple's iTunes music store flung open its digital doors in 2003, putting more than 8 million individual tracks within a click and a dollar of anyone with a computer.
Publication date: 2008-08-29 more

IT veteran achieves perfect Zen through open source

Utah software company Novell employs 150 people in Dublin. The advent of open source software, particularly Linux, gave this long-standing IT giant a new lease of life. Ron Hovsepian is the company’s CEO
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

The long arm of the law has just got longer, says Dublin tech firm

Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

Will BlackBerry boldly beat off ‘killer’ iPhone in competitive business market?

BlackBerry and Palm’s dominance of the business market is to be tested
Publication date: 2008-08-28 more

Tomorrow's world today

While scientists continue to pull off extraordinary feats of ingenuity in harnessing our physical world, there are a few technological advances that have, over the years, proved to be stubbornly resistant.
Publication date: 2008-08-27 more

How Google changed all of our lives

Ten years ago a pair of students at Stanford University tried to sell a new internet search engine they'd developed. American Larry Page and Russian Sergey Brin reckoned that they'd come up with a system that was quicker and more user-friendly than anything available, but when they pitched their invention at AltaVista, Excite, Yahoo! and the other big players of cyberspace, there were no takers.
Publication date: 2008-08-23 more

Can Jerry Seinfeld make Microsoft cool? $300 million says he can

For two years, Microsoft has been prodded and poked fun of in Apple's "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ads on both sides of the Atlantic, and the company has finally snapped.
Publication date: 2008-08-22 more

In brief: Quarter losses down for Trintech

Financial software firm Trintech said yesterday that its second-quarter loss narrowed as revenue rose.
Publication date: 2008-08-21 more

Ireland needs to do the math for the ICT sector

Ireland’s ICT sector risks being seriously undermined by the continuing maths failure rates at second level and the Goverment needs to act, says Shane Dempsey, director of the Irish Software Association
Publication date: 2008-08-21 more

Firms take the hi-tech road in a bid to counter rising fuel bills

A telematics company from Galway has come up with new technology which it estimates can reduce fuel bills by 10-15pc by tapping into a vehicle’s engine and monitoring driver behaviour such as harsh braking and acceleration.
Publication date: 2008-08-21 more

Social media’s lingua franca is ‘Tweet’-talking its way into business

If ever an emerging technology had its ‘flash in the pan’ moment, it was this week when popular messaging platform Twitter informed the world it was no longer footing the bill for sending SMS messages to its 1.2 million dedicated followers.
Publication date: 2008-08-21 more

Apple to face music over iPod nano fires

JAPAN’S trade ministry said yesterday that three fires had been caused by overheating Apple iPod nanos, which it said could be due to a battery defect.
Publication date: 2008-08-20 more

The wolves inside your door

IRELAND has been rocked by revelations of laptops belonging to banks and state agencies, which contained thousands of private citizens’ information, being stolen. In the UK, disks containing data on thousands of welfare recipients got lost by a courier.
Publication date: 2008-08-19 more

Firms should look closer to home for data loss

The recent loss and theft of laptops belonging to both Bank of Ireland Life and the Irish Blood Transfusion Board attracted headlines. But Michael Conway of Renaissance Software is still not convinced Irish firms know the real dangers
Publication date: 2008-08-14 more

Irish academic spin-outs make the leap from research lab to real life

The translation of research outputs into tangible technologies in this country is a slow burn, but we are beginning to see outputs and some spin-out companies have had success, according to Martin Lyes, divisional manager for research and innovation at Enterprise Ireland.
Publication date: 2008-08-14 more

Femtocell technology: cheaper, faster 3G so then why the hard cell?

Apple’s iPhone may have grabbed this year’s mobile industry hype all for itself but another technology with a much broader reach is on its way.
Publication date: 2008-08-14 more

How cyber crime went professional

Publication date: 2008-08-14 more

Dell to sell business laptop with battery life up to 19 hours

Dell Inc., the second-largest personal-computer maker, introduced business laptops that can run for as long as 19 hours on a single charge.
Publication date: 2008-08-13 more

Re-using technology to liberate and educate

Former investment banker Cormac Lynch believes education is key to solving Africa’s problems and has persuaded Irish businesses to donate some 7,000 computers for schools and colleges on the troubled continent
Publication date: 2008-08-07 more

Are the odds stacked against start-ups in the search engine space?

Publication date: 2008-08-07 more

Faster services and lower prices herald mobile broadband arms race

Does 3G technology offer a viable alternative to fixed-line broadband?
Publication date: 2008-08-07 more

11 charged with 'world's biggest ID fraud'

The Justice Department charged 11 people with stealing more than 40 million credit- and debit-card numbers from nine retailers including T.J. Maxx, calling it the largest U.S. identity theft prosecution.
Publication date: 2008-08-06 more

You won't believe your ears

In a swish recording studio deep within the bowels of the Abbey Road complex in north-west London, the play button is solemnly depressed on a shiny, tiny, all-in-one £70 stereo system.
Publication date: 2008-08-06 more

No online retail war after tycoon ditches web plan

BUSINESS tycoon Ben Dunne has abandoned plans for an online retail venture just as his former company, Dunnes Stores, seems to be gearing up for its own internet launch.
Publication date: 2008-08-06 more

Jobs bonanza for tech sector despite worrying economic climate

IRELAND has reaped a fine harvest of new technology jobs despite the nation’s propensity to talk itself into a recession. In the first three weeks of July, some 160 technology jobs were created by four technology and telecoms providers.
Publication date: 2008-08-05 more

BT says it will 'shake up market' with new broadband

BT has rolled out a new high-speed broadband service ahead of schedule, claiming it will "shake up the market".
Publication date: 2008-07-31 more

Tech titan: sector will survive crunch

$11.6bn storage technology giant EMC employs 1,600 people in Cork and last week announced 50 new jobs as part of a €20m investment. Joe Tucci is the company’s chief executive
Publication date: 2008-07-31 more

Sidelining SMS bullies is a numbers game, say tech firms

If emerging Irish technology companies have their way, consumers will soon be able to avoid receiving text messages from bullies and stalkers by blocking their numbers.
Publication date: 2008-07-31 more

Ignoring website accessibility is not just wrong – it is bad for business

If someone told you that your shop or business property was so badly designed that 10pc of your customers had great difficulty finding your products or services, would you consider a better layout or just watch them leave in frustration?
Publication date: 2008-07-31 more

iPhone: The new web is born

A quarter of a century ago, Apple sparked a personal computing revolution with the Macintosh 128K
Publication date: 2008-07-31 more

From zero to hero

Swooping through Gotham with more gadgets than 007 while beating bad guys to a pulp and receiving the adulation of the masses - who wouldn't want to be Batman?
Publication date: 2008-07-31 more

Cars to run on household rubbish

Fuel made from food scraps rather than crops could be powering vehicles soon
Publication date: 2008-07-28 more

Scrabble owners to sue Scrabulous makers

Hasbro Inc., maker of the Scrabble board-game, sued the creators of ''Scrabulous,'' an online version found on Facebook.com, claiming it violates the company's copyrights and trademarks.
Publication date: 2008-07-25 more

The Celtic Tiger is alive and well - in cyberspace

There was a time when kinky toys and naughty knickers were the only things that red-faced shoppers had smuggled to their doorstep through the secrecy of online shopping.
Publication date: 2008-07-25 more

Just the medicine for ailing health system

Publication date: 2008-07-25 more

Could video really be the saviour of the radio stars?

If someone had to save the music industry from itself, it seems fitting that the city which brought the world U2 and Thin Lizzy is the place to start arresting the steep decline the industry has allowed itself to fall into.
Publication date: 2008-07-25 more

Online spread betting tipped to even the odds for novice investors

SPREAD betting, a form of gambling that has its origins in the Seventies, is big business in 2008. As markets around the world rise and fall, the genre has been seized by one of Ireland’s largest betting firms as a way to allow punters to gain using the internet, whether stocks rise or fall.
Publication date: 2008-07-25 more

Mind games: Harnessing the power of your thoughts

The year is 1983 and, in a Tokyo suburb, man (well, one man) is evolving a new use for his opposable thumbs. His tool: a strange lump of plastic attached, via cables and a bigger lump of plastic, to his television.
Publication date: 2008-07-24 more

Nintendo Wii passes Microsoft Xbox as top console in U.S. homes

Nintendo Co.'s Wii, the machine that plays games by swinging a motion-sensing controller like a bat, overtook Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 as the leading console in U.S. homes among the latest generation of video-game players.
Publication date: 2008-07-19 more

Time to start getting personal with the PC

The senior vice-president for global marketing with HP’s personal systems group, Satjiv Chahil, discusses how the computer company came to rethink and redesign the personal computer.
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

NUI Maynooth’s road trip to technology success

Last week, while many Irish college students were enjoying their summer holidays and still sleeping in, three National University of Ireland (NUI) Maynooth lads were zooming towards the Channel Tunnel to Paris, smelling faintly of chip oil with a few hungry seagulls hovering overhead.
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

Innovative businesses emerge as true heroes of the Irish internet

Irish firms are more innovative online and one firm has created a ‘Facebook for foodies’
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

Icahn claims Yahoo! 'distorted facts'

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said Yahoo! distorted the facts in explaining why directors rejected a proposal for Microsoft to break up the internet company and urged shareholders to help him oust the board.
Publication date: 2008-07-17 more

Digital Dickens

In a one-bedroom flat above a noisy San Francisco street, Scott Sigler is plotting a revolution in the world of books. Sigler is a science-fiction writer with a host of fans, who are described as "junkies" on his website. His work is gripping, pacy, and often stomach-churningly violent. He tells stories that are, as the saying goes, hard to put down.
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

New Wii gadgets go on show

Nintendo Co., maker of the top- selling Wii video-game console, introduced accessories that will enable users to talk to each other during play and simulate musical instruments through its motion-sensitive controller.
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

Xbox to focus on social gaming

Microsoft Corp. will add new features to its Xbox Live online network, including games that let users put themselves in cartoon-like videos, in a bid to attract a broader audience.
Publication date: 2008-07-16 more

A trinity of biotech, nanotech and IT will define 21st century

THE first half of the 21st century will be defined by advances in biotechnology, nanotechnology and information technology. And scientists will be pressed into networks of editors responsible for managing vast amounts of knowledge, an acclaimed scholar and economist told siliconrepublic.com.
Publication date: 2008-07-11 more

Irish firms leave themselves wide open to data thieves

Devices like the new iPhone 3G are being hyped as the business tools of tomorrow. But firms don’t realise that employees are losing devices with valuable information to eagle-eyed, opportunistic thieves.
Publication date: 2008-07-10 more

Carphone Warehouse plans some big buys

In recent months, US electronics retailer Best Buy paid $2.5bn for a 50pc stake in Carphone Warehouse. This may result in Ireland’s first 4,000sq m Best Buy store this year, says Stephen Mackarel, chief executive of Carphone Warehouse Ireland
Publication date: 2008-07-10 more

Meet the brave new wave of Irish technology start-ups

What makes the current crop of technology start-ups in Ireland so different from their predecessors like Iona? It’s the unusual dichotomy of wisdom and hindsight, mixed with an appetite for somewhat risky business.
Publication date: 2008-07-10 more

Energy exceeds property costs

Irish data centre energy costs are to exceed property costs by 2010, according to a study carried out by market research firm iReach.
Publication date: 2008-07-09 more

ISPs key to beating the botnets

DELETING reams of spam from email inboxes is, for many people, as much a part of the daily routine as a morning coffee or chatting by the office water cooler. Despite the industry’s best efforts, the problem hasn’t gone away; if anything, it’s worse. Last month, spam accounted for more than three quarters of all email traffic worldwide, according to MessageLabs.
Publication date: 2008-07-07 more

Google seeks to keep YouTube user information private in Viacom lawsuit

Google Inc., owner of the YouTube video-sharing Web site, said it's seeking to remove users' login information from a database of all videos viewed on YouTube that it must turn over to Viacom Inc.
Publication date: 2008-07-04 more

Impact Earth

A century ago this week, an asteroid fireball exploded over Siberia with the power of 185 Hiroshima bombs. Steve Connor asks how we can prevent a similar catastrophe in a major world city
Publication date: 2008-07-03 more

Yahoo! goes full circle as shares drop to pre-Microsoft bid levels

SHARES in Yahoo! plunged below the $20 (€12.6) mark earlier this week, coming close to its trading level before Microsoft launched its failed buyout attempt in February.
Publication date: 2008-07-03 more

Live movie-making takes to the streets as Qik cuts to the chase

Publication date: 2008-07-03 more

Launch of iPhone 3G sets stage for mobile revolution

The iPhone has changed mobile forever, says chief executive of O2 Europe, Matthew Key
Publication date: 2008-07-03 more

Digital real estate player is powering up

Backed by a Californian pension fund, Digital Realty Trust has being buying 13 million sq ft of data centres around the world, including two centres in Dublin. Chris Crosby is senior VP of the company.
Publication date: 2008-07-03 more

Yahoo! defends strategy to shareholders

Yahoo! Inc., battling billionaire investor Carl Icahn for control of its board, told shareholders that a partnership with Google Inc. was a better choice than a deal with Microsoft Corp.
Publication date: 2008-07-01 more

New 3G iPhone arrives starting at €45

THE much anticipated, nextgeneration iPhone has been announced by Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, with an 11 July release date set for Ireland and the UK.
Publication date: 2008-06-30 more

Online bingo poised for growth

For most people, bingo brings up images of elderly ladies in smoke-filled halls. But many online gambling executives say it's the next big growth area.
Publication date: 2008-06-27 more

Fear and loathing online

Every step you take in today’s digital world, every credit card transaction, every email and every phone call reveals something about you.
Publication date: 2008-06-27 more

Gathering the data to green the machine

Daniel Tinkiel, COO of Data Electronics, talks about his firm’s new data centre in Ballycoolin which is using a combination of green technologies to reduce its carbon footprint
Publication date: 2008-06-27 more

Planting the seeds for growth on the campus

After a slow start, there are promising signs that efforts to turn ideas from Irish universities into products or companies are having some success.
Publication date: 2008-06-27 more

The time of sleeping satellites is over

Earth-orbiting satellites may be mankind’s current monument to our state of evolution, but they haven’t always had good press. They’ve been cited as expensive failures, shot out of the sky by ballistic missiles or are simply viewed as an expensive method of communication.
Publication date: 2008-06-27 more

Product Review: Ultra-light laptop

Pros: Light but sturdy and powerful Cons: Old-fashioned appearance Price: From €1,995
Publication date: 2008-06-27 more

Facebook turns to Visa

Facebook Inc., the biggest U.S. social-networking site, will host a program run by Visa Inc. to support small businesses and attract more advertising.
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Nokia to buy remainder of Symbian for $410 million

Nokia Oyj, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, offered to buy the 52 percent of Symbian Ltd. it doesn't own for about 264 million euros ($410 million) to create royalty-free operating systems for handsets.
Publication date: 2008-06-25 more

Google's reputation ranked highest by consumers

Google Inc. has the best reputation among large corporations in the eyes of U.S. consumers, helped by a perception that it treats employees fairly, a research firm found.
Publication date: 2008-06-23 more

Yahoo introducing two e-mail domains to lure users

Yahoo Inc., operator of the most popular Web e-mail program the U.S., is introducing two new domains so users can choose names already taken on the main site.
Publication date: 2008-06-21 more

'Computers and phones can combat climate change'

Telecommunications and computers can be used to help cut carbon-dioxide emissions and save more than $1 trillion worldwide by reducing electricity and fuel use, the Climate Group said.
Publication date: 2008-06-21 more

Yahoo faces exodus of top managers after ending Microsoft talks

Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang faces an exodus of top managers, challenging his effort to turn around the Internet company.
Publication date: 2008-06-21 more

Microsoft buys Navic to add television ads to online campaigns

Microsoft Corp., the third-largest seller of Internet ad space in the U.S., will add television spots to its advertising system by acquiring Navic Networks, stepping up competition with market leader Google Inc.
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

The geek's guide to netiquette

Social networking is a minefield for manners - should you poke your boss? Can you have too many friends? Rhodri Marsden shares his golden rules
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

Ireland is facing the threat of a data tsunami

Currently the amount of data worldwide is doubling every 11 months – but by 2010 it will double every 11 hours.
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

Viewers will call the shots in TV revolution

Ireland is emerging as a force in the evolution of home entertainment, where viewers can be their own producers
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

Product Review: HP personal digital assistant

Pros: Google Maps and GPS nav combo is pretty cool Cons: Screen is far too small Price: From €399
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

Interview: Supply and demand for the internet economy

Google’s Dublin base, which employs over 1,300 people from 40 nations, has a unique role in the search giant’s operations. Nelson Mattos is vice-president of engineering for Google EMEA.
Publication date: 2008-06-19 more

Spy satellite will monitor illegal logging across six African countries

A spy satellite is to be trained on the vast rainforests of central Africa as part of a British project designed to protect them from illegal logging under plans to be unveiled today.
Publication date: 2008-06-17 more

Hewlett-Packard repackages high-powered server in blade format

Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's largest maker of server computers, cut the price of its most powerful model and changed the design to deliver twice as much performance in half the space.
Publication date: 2008-06-16 more

Yahoo shares drop after Yang's new deal

Yahoo! Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang's five-month conflict with Microsoft ended at the wekkend, but the outcome may not be good for him or for the internet company's investors.
Publication date: 2008-06-16 more

Grief of the gadget geeks

Yes, that strange noise you heard this week, a cross between cursing and crying, came from the people who bought the first iPhones. Ed Power reports
Publication date: 2008-06-15 more

Google admits it still can't make money from YouTube

Almost two years after it paid $1.65bn (£848m) for the YouTube video-sharing site, Google still has not worked out how to make money from the business, its chairman and chief executive conceded, even though hundreds of millions of people visit it every day.
Publication date: 2008-06-13 more

Yahoo 'damaged goods' after Yang fails to revive Microsoft deal

Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang's five-month conflict with Microsoft Corp. ended yesterday. The outcome may not be good for him or the Internet company's investors.
Publication date: 2008-06-13 more

Crisis? What crisis? Flower power to fuel students' continental trip

As truck drivers consider plans to mount blockades in protest at soaring fuel costs, three intrepid university students are planning to drive to Paris powered by rape seed oil.
Publication date: 2008-06-13 more

Keeping IT directors at the boardroom table

$400m-a-year business software player ASG employs 20 people in Belfast and plans to create 10 new jobs in Dublin. Tulin Pledger is director of marketing, EMEA.
Publication date: 2008-06-12 more

Tourism sector needs to go site seeing

Ireland’s hospitality sector spends just 1pc of its marketing budget online and is now falling behind global standards.
Publication date: 2008-06-12 more

Product Review: TomTom GPS navigator

As someone who spends too much time in his car due to Ireland’s notoriously clogged-up road networks, a device that helps navigate around traffic jams ought to be a godsend.
Publication date: 2008-06-12 more

Internet ads account for just 2-3pc of total ad spend

After petering out during the last dotcom bust, as well as struggling to get accurate figures on online ad spend in 2003, the Irish branch of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has re-emerged and has already received the support of 60 media bodies and ad agencies in Ireland.
Publication date: 2008-06-12 more

Does the new iPhone satisfy expectations?

Even if you're an Apple devotee, you still might not know that the new iPhone - announced a couple of days ago - will have a minuscule power adapter, will come in white as well as black, and its headphone jack will no longer be slightly recessed.
Publication date: 2008-06-12 more

Apple's jobs may unveil faster iPhone to lure business users

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs may unveil an iPhone that works with faster wireless networks in a bid to lure business users from the BlackBerry and reach more international customers.
Publication date: 2008-06-07 more

Are you all stuffed up?

It's that time of the year again. Aaaaacccchhhhoooo!
Publication date: 2008-06-05 more

Yahoo lines up a date in August for showdown with Carl Icahn

Yahoo! has set August 1 as the date for its shareholder meeting, starting the countdown to an epic battle with billionaire investor Carl Icahn.
Publication date: 2008-06-05 more

A registrar who reigns as king of his domain

In recent weeks, the IE Domain Registry (IEDR) passed the 100,000 mark in the number of .ie domains registered. David Curtin is chief executive of the IEDR.
Publication date: 2008-06-05 more

Irritated consumers could turn the air blue

Ads via Bluetooth herald a new era in mobile marketing. But will consumers be up in arms over its intrusive nature?
Publication date: 2008-06-05 more

Product Review: Touch-sensitive mobile phone

It’s all about touch these days, isn’t it? The very stylish Samsung Soul mobile phone makes a good compromise with two screens: a large upper screen and a smaller, touch-sensitive one called the ‘Magic Touch’.
Publication date: 2008-06-05 more

Silicon Valley Insider

Growing up in Silicon Valley, Robert Scoble has circuitry in his veins and the credentials to carry on the legacy.
Publication date: 2008-06-05 more

Meet mobile’s maker

From a fledgling start-up in 1996, Oliver Coughlan transformed O2 from a voice and text network to a full broadband provider
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Product Review: Nintendo Wii Fit

Pros: Gives a surprisingly solid workout Cons: Set-up is really time-consuming Price: €80 from PC World
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Setting the security trend

Dave Rand, chief technology officer for Trend Micro, talks about the scale of security threats and what can be done to stop them.
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Perception gap fuels skills shortage

Ireland’s IT sector has many well-paid job opportunities for skilled graduates – so why are they going unfilled?
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

Blog Digest

The FaithArts Blog: THERE are a few things one must not bring up at a dinner party: the dinner itself, politics and religion. Assuming you have managed to keep the dinner down, I find discussing taboo topics to be an effective if somewhat fiery digestive.
Publication date: 2008-05-30 more

My new dream

Chad Hurley has been called the world's greatest cyber-nerd — but that's an underestimation of the man.
Publication date: 2008-05-26 more

Capcom is in talks with studios on movie investments

Capcom Co., publisher of the ``Resident Evil'' video-game series, is in talks with Hollywood studios to jointly produce movies based on its software, President Haruhiro Tsujimoto said.
Publication date: 2008-05-23 more

Orange to pilot world's first e-newspaper next week

The world's first entirely electronic newspapers will go on trial in France next week, offering not only morning headlines but automatic updates every hour throughout the day.
Publication date: 2008-05-22 more

Picture is rosy for Andor as profits soar

Pre-tax profits at Belfast- based digital camera firm Andor Technology climbed 22pc to £800,000 for the six months to the end of March.
Publication date: 2008-05-22 more

Product Review: Canon digital camera

When I was a child, I would crawl around my parents’ garden in search of insects, spiders, ladybirds and any interesting plants and weeds that caught my attention, examining them intently for hours and pretending they were a part of my imaginary zoo.
Publication date: 2008-05-22 more

Turn on, tune in, brownout

Chief technology officer for Nortel EMEA, Dave Quane (pictured), talks about the increase in high-definition video on the web and whether this demand will kill the network.
Publication date: 2008-05-22 more

Ireland sits on a wireless gold mine

As it’s an island nation, has low population density and is not a military power, in comparison to its European neighbours, Ireland is sitting on an abundance of wireless spectrum that could be worth a fortune to the economy in the years ahead.
Publication date: 2008-05-22 more

Irish gamers go pro

For many people, shooting aliens, playing virtual golf or driving cars on their PC is strictly recreation, but for a select few, computer gaming offers rewards of a more tangible kind.
Publication date: 2008-05-22 more

Microsoft's gaze turns to Yahoo! partnership

Microsoft, the software maker which scrapped a $47.5bn bid for Yahoo! this month, may forge a partnership with the internet company on search advertising to challenge Google.
Publication date: 2008-05-20 more

Microsoft revives talks with Yahoo and proposes new deal

Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software maker, revived the possibility of a deal with Yahoo! Inc. to challenge Google Inc. after failing to agree on a merger.
Publication date: 2008-05-20 more

Tullow executives strike it rich

While most Irish stocks have been taking a long and cold bath, Aidan Heavey's Tullow Oil has been soaring up towards the sun. For a company that once upon a time couldn't find its way out of a paper bag, Tullow now seems to be hitting gushers with every drill bit.
Publication date: 2008-05-18 more

Don't be caught in Aer Lingus tale spin

ON the surface Aer Lingus has enjoyed a better week. It eyeballed Siptu. And Siptu blinked. So it's back to work as normal. Well, as normal as it gets at Aer Lingus.
Publication date: 2008-05-18 more

Taxman's on-trust expenses

WITH businesses across the country having to account for every last cent ahead of spiralling numbers of Revenue audits, it has emerged that Revenue Commissioners staff are entitled to expenses without having to show receipts.
Publication date: 2008-05-18 more

Icahn pressures Yahoo! over talks

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn threatened to seek control of the Yahoo! board if the internet company doesn't revive takeover talks with Microsoft over its failed $47.5bn bid.
Publication date: 2008-05-16 more

Microsoft to put Windows on non-profit group's laptops

Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software maker, agreed to make its Windows operating system available on computers bound for poor children in developing countries, part of a test with the One Laptop per Child group.
Publication date: 2008-05-16 more

Powering consumer electronics

Intel wants to do to home entertainment what the Pentium processor did to the PC business over the past 30 years
Publication date: 2008-05-15 more

Framing the future of digital cameras

General manager of Canon Consumer Imaging Ireland, Philip Brady, discusses how the mobile phone and picture sharing sites like Flickr have impacted on the digital camera market
Publication date: 2008-05-15 more

Game Review: Grand Theft Auto IV

There aren’t many games that let you steal cars, get involved in a cop chase and punch passing pedestrians, all in between picking out a spiffy new shirt and bringing your date to the local bowling alley.
Publication date: 2008-05-15 more

Avoiding business blogging blunders

Establishing a successful business presence on the web can be tricky but if you fake it, the online community is unforgiving
Publication date: 2008-05-15 more

Jobs screams, sows terror to make Apple magic

Steve Jobs is a narcissistic perfectionist with a volcanic temper who considers most people to be ``bozos.'' Apple Inc.'s chief executive officer is also among the greatest business leaders of all time.
Publication date: 2008-05-14 more

Accused spammers ordered to pay MySpace $236.8 million judgment

Sanford Wallace, known as the King of Spam in the 1990s, and another man accused of sending unsolicited e-mails to MySpace users must pay News Corp.'s social-networking Web site $236.8 million in damages.
Publication date: 2008-05-14 more

IBM uses PlayStation 3 chips to build business supercomputers

International Business Machines Corp., the largest computer-services provider, is making lower-cost supercomputers for Wall Street firms and movie studios using chips designed for video-game consoles.
Publication date: 2008-05-13 more

ITunes starts selling `Sopranos,' `Sex and the City'

Apple Inc.'s iTunes started selling ``The Sopranos'' and ``Sex and the City'' from Time Warner Inc.'s HBO, helping the pay-television network reach fans of the shows outside its subscriber base.
Publication date: 2008-05-13 more

Research in Motion unveils speedier BlackBerry, beating IPhone

Research In Motion Ltd. unveiled a BlackBerry phone with quicker Web browsing and more room for songs and videos, getting a jump on a faster iPhone that analysts expect next month.
Publication date: 2008-05-12 more

News: Keyboard nasties

UK researchers have discovered that computer keyboards can carry more harmful bacteria than the average toilet seat.
Publication date: 2008-05-10 more

Keyboard nasties

UK researchers have discovered that computer keyboards can carry more harmful bacteria than the average toilet seat.
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

Irishman spearheads invasion of Mars

Until recently, Limerick man Mike Hinchey was director of NASA’s software engineering lab. He has been appointed as professor of software engineering at University of Limerick (UL) and will co-direct the nationwide Lero project
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

Getting business out of social connections

Social networking can be used by companies to bring their relationships with consumers to the next level
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

Film studios awarded $110.9 million in piracy case against TorrentSpy

Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures and other studios were awarded $110.9 million by a U.S. judge in a case over pirated films distributed through the Dutch file- sharing Web site TorrentSpy.com.
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

McAfee says malicious code outbreak biggest in years

McAfee Inc., the world's second-biggest maker of security software, said it uncovered the most widespread infection in three years by ``Trojan horse'' programs that get into computers and steal personal information.
Publication date: 2008-05-08 more

Gates says Microsoft to pursue `independent strategy'

Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said the world's biggest software company will pursue an ``independent strategy'' after Yahoo! Inc. rejected its $47.5 billion takeover bid.
Publication date: 2008-05-07 more

Product Review: Nokia music phone

Pros: Looks great, sounds great Cons: Inscrutably short earphones Price: Available from Vodafone for €199
Publication date: 2008-05-06 more

Firms learn that nothing ventured, nothing gained

Tech start-ups are examining alternative routes to raising cash and are by-passing venture capital
Publication date: 2008-05-06 more

Sage advice on the shifting business landscape

From eight people in 1999, through a strategy of acquisition, Sage has grown to employ 300 people in Ireland with revenues of 433m per annum. Liam Mullaney (pictured) is managing director.
Publication date: 2008-05-06 more

Game, set and ? sell!

In-game advertising represents an exciting new frontier for the online advertising world. But is anyone ready?
Publication date: 2008-05-06 more

Yahoo! stock plunges after Microsoft about-turn

Yahoo! fell the most in almost two years on the Nasdaq yesterday after Microsoft abandoned its $44.6bn takeover of the internet search company because executives couldn't agree on a price.
Publication date: 2008-05-06 more

Apple sells online movies on same day as DVD release

Apple Inc., maker of the iPod media player, will sell movies through its iTunes online store the same day they are released on DVD, building on its success as a music retailer.
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

Musk makes rockets for stars as Tesla taunts Ferrari on Earth

Elon Musk, co-founder of payment giant PayPal Inc., was flying back empty handed from Moscow for a third time in November 2001, when the idea for his new company hit him.
Publication date: 2008-05-03 more

Microsoft may be running out of time on Yahoo deal

Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer may be running out of time to clinch his proposed purchase of Yahoo! Inc. as the Internet company forges tighter ties with Google Inc.
Publication date: 2008-05-02 more

Microsoft fails to reach decision on Yahoo takeover

Microsoft Corp. directors failed to decide on the next step in the pursuit of Yahoo! Inc. yesterday, leaving open the debate over whether to walk away from the $44.6 billion bid or fight to replace the Internet company's board.
Publication date: 2008-05-01 more

Wii: More than just a game

Believe it or not, a Wii handset can help with everything from making music to cleaning the house
Publication date: 2008-05-01 more

Take-Two's 'Grand Theft Auto' may break game records

``Grand Theft Auto IV,'' the latest version of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.'s top-selling video game, is forecast to break industry sales records after it arrives in U.S. stores today.
Publication date: 2008-04-29 more

Nokia readies its iPhone killer

THE N95 may have been touted as a clear competitor to Apple’s web-friendly, bigscreen iPhone but Nokia has this month confirmed it is working on a direct rival with similar functionality and design: the Nokia Tube.
Publication date: 2008-04-28 more

Microsoft's shares fall by 6pc as Windows sales slump

Microsoft Corp, whose Windows software dominates the personal-computer market, fell as much as 6.4pc in Nasdaq trading after sales slumped, casting doubt on whether PC demand can hold up in a slowing economy.
Publication date: 2008-04-26 more

It's time to face the music

The entertainment nirvana that is digital life in 2008 seemed impossible just a few years ago. Today, thanks to broadband entertainment, consumers can view trailers, cartoons and music videos on YouTube, play the latest blockbuster games on their Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 and buy and download entire albums and movies on sites like iTunes. Sounds perfect? Well, not quite.
Publication date: 2008-04-25 more

Irish firms to benefit as satellite project takes off

The EU has finally given the green light to the over-budget and behind-schedule Galileo satellite navigation project.
Publication date: 2008-04-24 more

Google bounce back to answer their critics

Last week Google announced financial results that, for the time being at least, have put critics back in their boxes.
Publication date: 2008-04-24 more

News to you: Dublin HQ to deliver worldwide

Google's European HQ in Dublin has begun a project to localise the search engine's popular online news service for a number of different countries as it seeks to expand it throughout the globe.
Publication date: 2008-04-24 more

Techsploitation

Cyber bullies and sex predators are not the only web worries as advertisers charm money away from children
Publication date: 2008-04-24 more

Product Review: Sony Blu-ray player

If anyone remembers the old battle between the video standards VHS and Betamax, they will recall that when the porn industry rowed in on the side of VHS, the prime backer of the Betamax standard, Sony, was vanquished.
Publication date: 2008-04-24 more

The number’s up for mobile market movers

Samsung has supplanted Motorola at the No 2 spot in the global mobile market and is making strides in the consumer electronics space. Gary Twohig is the new country manager at Samsung
Publication date: 2008-04-24 more

Technology to help public services perform better

Like business, Government should publish an annual report to show its stakeholders – ie citizens – the progress being made
Publication date: 2008-04-24 more

Nintendo forecasts profit will rise 26% this year

Nintendo Co., the world's biggest maker of handheld game players, forecast profit will rise 26 percent this year as its Wii console outsells rival machines.
Publication date: 2008-04-24 more

Microsoft tests product that lets different devices share files

Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software developer, will begin testing a program that lets users share computer files from different locations and devices using the Web.
Publication date: 2008-04-24 more

A matter of education

Education is the aim of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project but will infighting and competition muddy the waters?
Publication date: 2008-04-19 more

Product Review: Samsung laser printer

In the gadget family, printers are seen as the boring uncle who talks in a monotonous voice about how Tayto cost 2p when he was a lad. So it’s inevitable that buying a new one to meet your business needs can seem like an unsavoury task – but what if your office printer looked like it had been designed by Darth Vader from Star Wars?
Publication date: 2008-04-19 more

Living on the ledge delivers just rewards

BalconyTV.com, a daily internet music show broadcasting from a balcony high above Dublin’s Dame Street, has just been nominated for a Webby Award. Stephen O’Regan is one of its three founders
Publication date: 2008-04-19 more

Keep on workin’ in the free world

The net is the new workplace and tools can be downloaded in seconds. Is this the beginning or the end of software?
Publication date: 2008-04-19 more

Google soars after profit blows past estimates

Google Inc. surged as much as 18 percent in European trading after profit trounced analysts' estimates, spurred by overseas growth and a bigger-than-predicted jump in the number of users clicking on text advertisements.
Publication date: 2008-04-19 more

The 'Net Prophet

As you walk through MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, there is a yellow hazard sign erected by students at an intersection of walkways. 'Nerds x-ing' it warns, under a stick man with glasses, rucksack and satchel.
Publication date: 2008-04-19 more

Irish internet start-up touted as serious threat to Google

A start-up company founded by Louth man Tom Costello, which is being already being touted as a serious contender to Google, has received €25m in equity financing from an American private equity house.
Publication date: 2008-04-16 more

Workers flout rules over internet usage

Three-quarters of employees with internet access flout company rules by surfing the web for personal use. A new survey reveals that workers are spending as much as an hour a day online at their jobs taking care of personal business.
Publication date: 2008-04-16 more

Million-song MP3 players on way

A NEW generation of MP3 players could provide music lovers with millions of songs at their fingertips.
Publication date: 2008-04-16 more

Eircom seeks 'sweetener' to fast-track broadband

Eircom has told the Government it can provide 50pc-55pc of the Irish population with broadband which is as fast or faster than what is available anywhere else in Europe.
Publication date: 2008-04-15 more

JNIR research

The JNIR (Joint National Internet Research) was published on 9th April. The objective of the JNIR survey is to provide reliable estimates of audiences to Ireland’s key Internet sites, search engines and email providers as a basis for the planning of advertising schedules.
Publication date: 2008-04-15 more

The Blog Digest

Welcome to the Blog Digest where we take a weekly look at the best of the blogosphere
Publication date: 2008-04-10 more

Knocking hot spots off mobile broadband

Alex French, author of Irish internet guide DOT ie and chief operating officer of Wi-Fi network provider BitBuzz, talks about the Irish, the iPhone and the internet.
Publication date: 2008-04-10 more

Product Review: Dell Laptop

These days technology is as much about lifestyle and self-expression as it is about functionality and nowhere is this more apparent than in Dell’s latest TV advertisement for its range of Inspiron Colours laptops.
Publication date: 2008-04-10 more

Getting Irish firms to the top of the pods

Podcasting is an easy way for Irish firms to broadcast online and as a result influence their market and drum up sales
Publication date: 2008-04-10 more

Yahoo, fighting Microsoft, agrees to test Google ads

Yahoo! Inc., seeking to scuttle Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6 billion acquisition bid, plans to run some Internet search advertisements from Google Inc. as a way to resuscitate revenue growth.
Publication date: 2008-04-10 more

Carbon trading can raise billions of dollars to save forests

Using carbon trading to help save trees could generate billions of dollars a year for tropical forest conservation, said Johannes Ebeling, a senior consultant with emissions-credit developer EcoSecurities Group Plc.
Publication date: 2008-04-08 more

888 net falls 54% after U.S. online-gaming crackdown

888 Holdings Plc, the second-largest U.K. online gambling company, said profit fell 54 percent in 2007 after a crackdown on Web gaming forced the company out of the U.S.
Publication date: 2008-04-08 more

Bridging the digital divide no easy task

THE prospect of a deepening digital divide isn't just a preoccupation in Ireland.
Publication date: 2008-04-05 more

Slowly getting up to speed

In a country that pitched itself as a European technology hub, Ireland's broadband infrastructure has been akin to the dotty family relative that shouldn't really be mentioned at the dinner table.
Publication date: 2008-04-05 more

Change is the only constant for Dell man

Computer giant Dell is transitioning from being a direct PC seller and is now including retail. Dermot O’Connell is the new country manager driving this change in Ireland
Publication date: 2008-04-05 more

Product Review: MP3 player

You know the score: you’re listening to a great song on your MP3 player, tapping your feet and bopping your head. Then, your friend or partner asks if they can listen in too, resulting in one pair of earphones stretched between two people and literal head-banging.
Publication date: 2008-04-05 more

Virtualisation means no more bare metal cheek

Employing 80 people in Dublin, Citrix’s $607m acquisition of XenSource is key to it becoming a $5bn-a-year IT giant. John Glendenning is European server virtualisation vice-president at Citrix.
Publication date: 2008-04-05 more

How Irish firms are winning the tech war

Military and peacekeeping forces alike have technology requirements and many Irish firms are filling this niche
Publication date: 2008-04-05 more

U.K. to pass e-mail addresses of paedophiles to Facebook, Bebo

The U.K. government plans to pass the e-mail addresses of people convicted of sex-related offenses to social-networking Web sites as a way of protecting children from paedophiles, Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker said.
Publication date: 2008-04-05 more

Apple tops Wal-Mart as leading music retailer in U.S.

Apple Inc., the maker of the iPod media player, said its iTunes online store has surpassed Wal- Mart Stores Inc. as the biggest music retailer in the U.S.
Publication date: 2008-04-05 more