Start-up fund attracts interest in the ValleyENTERPRISE IRELAND’S Silicon Valley office is receiving eight times more calls from people in the region interested in establishing…Fri Jan 06 2012 - 00:00
Looking back, facing forwardAs a new year begins, we asked the founders and chief executives of six indigenous technology companies about how business went…Fri Jan 06 2012 - 00:00
Facebook faces up to the data commissionerThe Irish regulator’s prompt report called for improvements, but wasn’t overly criticalFri Jan 06 2012 - 00:00
The year of living dangerously onlineNET RESULTS: EVERY YEAR in the technology sector, certain stories and trends stand outFri Dec 30 2011 - 00:00
Patent lawsuits back in fashionLITIGATION IS nothing new as a business tool – even the ancient Greeks had laws protecting trademarks.Fri Dec 30 2011 - 00:00
I fought technology and technology won. Yet againNET RESULTS : Once more I am defeated by a pile of unread technology books, a crammed inbox and un-updated appsFri Dec 23 2011 - 00:00
Great gift ideas in books for technology enthusiastsNET RESULTS: IF YOU are thinking about books for someone in your life who enjoys technology, or are looking for a good read …Fri Dec 16 2011 - 00:00
Your Country, Your Call: 'It would have been easy but wrong to give up'WHATEVER HAPPENED TO Your Country, Your Call? The competition developed by Martin McAleese, promising a €100,000 prize and up…Sat Dec 10 2011 - 00:00
Limerick brothers have earned their StripeTwo young Irishmen are building a ground-breaking business which allows prompt addition of a payments system to a websiteFri Dec 09 2011 - 00:00
Recalling backwater that tech firms love to call homeNET RESULTS: When small I lived in a quiet town with a funny name. Palo Alto later grew into a tech nirvanaFri Dec 09 2011 - 00:00
Multinationals' tax filings may be about to get a big shake-upThe search for ways to repatriate more profit to the US could well cause dismay in IrelandFri Dec 02 2011 - 00:00
East coast cool, West coast cooler?START-UPS US: Silicon Valley in California and Wall Street in New York are polar opposites, one a centre of money and banking…Fri Nov 25 2011 - 00:00
Memory Lane changes as time passes - even for digital archivesNET RESULTS: We tend to think the internet will store its own content forever. We are very wrongFri Nov 25 2011 - 00:00
Be warned - there's no such thing as a free appNET RESULTS: Depending on what app you download, your smartphone might send off your Facebook ID, e-mail or phone numberFri Nov 18 2011 - 00:00
Wired in to developing needsAs NetHope celebrates 10 years, CEO Dr William Brindley explains how the organisation tackles issues of the developing worldFri Nov 18 2011 - 00:00
Laying down my book to discover a virtual collectionNET RESULTS: While the notion of using an e-reader never appealed, I decided one day to take the plungeFri Nov 11 2011 - 00:00
Copy this: looser copyright laws make better business senseNET RESULTS: Less confusing and constrictive legislation would encourage homegrown start-ups and foreign investmentFri Nov 04 2011 - 00:00
Web reveals its real magic as time travel becomes a breezeGenerosity of one woman in Wisconsin helped me trace generations of family historyFri Oct 28 2011 - 01:00
Anchoring theory to a Smarter productA US researcher is looking at better ways of analysing huge streams of data at IBM’s new ‘collaboratory’ in DublinFri Oct 28 2011 - 01:00
Oracle head scores own-goal in exiling rival from forumNET RESULTS: The ridiculous spat ended up being one of the more talked about sideshows of the eventFri Oct 21 2011 - 01:00
Using new methods to tell Irish science storiesMary Mulvihill is using the internet and apps to bring science stories to a new audienceFri Oct 21 2011 - 01:00
Tiny college capitalising on No1 rankingNET RESULTS: A little institution with a large reputation is enjoying its lead over well-known university rivalsFri Oct 14 2011 - 01:00
The serious side to having internet firms based hereNET RESULTS : Expect the Irish data protection office to have to carry out more audits like its current one on privacy on Facebook…Fri Oct 07 2011 - 01:00
A prickly and utterly compelling manTRIBUTE: THE FIRST time I saw a Macintosh, it barely seemed possible it could really be a computer.Fri Oct 07 2011 - 01:00
Making a virtue of social media strategyBusinesses are advised to convert trading opportunities into ongoing relationshipsFri Oct 07 2011 - 01:00
'Fake' reviews on TripAdvisor a real problem for hoteliersNET RESULTS: Many in the hotel industry hate the website, but the public seems happy with its ‘crowdsourced’ review model…Fri Sept 23 2011 - 01:00
Start-up financing secured for online gaming developmentSERIAL GAMES entrepreneurs Hugh Reynolds and Dr Steven Collins have successfully completed a €2Fri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
Space not so remote as Trekkies turn techiesNET RESULTS: It is no coincidence that many gadgets today look suspiciously like things from ‘Star Trek’Fri Sept 16 2011 - 01:00
On the track of those missing e-mails from an old domainNET RESULTS: I have a ridiculous emotional attachment to an e-mail address I have used since we first got ISPs in the 1990sFri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
Doctor Who lands at IntelIntel has assembled a team to figure out what technologies will be like 20 years from nowFri Sept 09 2011 - 01:00
Rethinking our search for spin-off successARE WE looking in the wrong places to support the growth of spin-off companies? New Irish research on the biotechnology sector…Fri Sept 02 2011 - 01:00
Savvy ferry firms wake up to net benefits of free WiFiThe modest cost of providing free internet can be easily recouped in customFri Sept 02 2011 - 01:00
Visionary at Apple's core leaves void in his wakeANALYSIS: Steve Jobs built great technology into our lives. He made devices that were cool and sexyFri Aug 26 2011 - 01:00
How Apple's uncompromising frontman held us all in his thrallCOMMENT: FOR YEARS after Steve Jobs’s return to Apple in the late 1990s, people would camp out overnight on the pavement in …Fri Aug 26 2011 - 01:00
HP presses all wrong buttons over TouchPadNET RESULTS: The company has seemed confused and unsure of its identity – even more so now after jettisoning its tabletFri Aug 26 2011 - 01:00
How QR is raising the barcode in marketingIreland is 10th biggest user of the electronic communication code scanned by mobilesFri Aug 26 2011 - 01:00
Taking a trip way down technology memory laneNET RESULTS: FOR CHEAP entertainment, you can't beat cleaning up your home office - although I am afraid that going on my experience…Fri Aug 19 2011 - 01:00
Keeping medical records in-houseWHEN REPORTS surfaced recently that medical record transcriptions for Irish patients from Tallaght hospital had fallen into third…Fri Aug 19 2011 - 01:00
Star-gazing and science for all the familyA range of events across the country offers activities both for children and adultsFri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
Don't blame tools of social media for how people use themNET RESULTS: Technologies are neither good nor bad. They don’t have political opinions, they don’t take sidesFri Aug 12 2011 - 01:00
Ireland crazy about social networking, surveys showWith so many people divulging personal information, safe use of social venues should be a priority in this countryFri Jul 22 2011 - 01:00
A driving ambition to winWhat do student competitions like Microsoft’s Imagine Cup mean for the winners?Fri Jul 22 2011 - 01:00
Sligo students display their imagination in the Big AppleNET RESULTS: A road safety project drove Team Hermes from IT Sligo to a memorable Microsoft Imagine Cup finalFri Jul 15 2011 - 01:00
Unlocking an answer you won't find on GoogleTrying to clone Silicon Valley, Google’s home, is easier said than doneFri Jul 08 2011 - 01:00
Technology has its perks, especially in Silicon ValleyNET RESULTS: The venture folks are feeling flush with the prospect of a string of initial public offerings this yearFri Jul 01 2011 - 01:00
Ushering in era of opennessThe installation of an open source guru has signalled an unexpected U-turn for MicrosoftFri Jul 01 2011 - 01:00
Silicon Valley chiefs in pay gains we can only gag overNET RESULTS: With Ireland steeped in financial woes, chief executives in top US technology firms are raking it inFri Jun 24 2011 - 01:00
Securing data in a shifting landscapeAs computing delves deeper into territories such as the cloud and sophisticated mobile devices, Symantec tries to ensure its …Fri Jun 24 2011 - 01:00
German evidence shows no justification for data retentionData retention beyond six months delivers no safety or security gains. It is just a gross imposition on privacyFri Jun 17 2011 - 01:00
