Privacy and security will be the big tech stories of 2018Hacks, trolls, election manipulation, leaks – security is the evergreen tech concernThu Jan 04 2018 - 05:15
Reports of net neutrality’s death in US greatly exaggeratedNet Results: Move by FCC to abolish internet traffic equality faces formidable oppositionThu Dec 21 2017 - 07:00
Ireland must be a firm data protection advocate or risk losing global trustAs one of the top locations for the tech sector, we need a clearer stance on data obligationsThu Dec 14 2017 - 06:00
Ireland risks shooting itself in the foot in crucial Microsoft email caseAnalysis: Government wavering in case that threatens structure of global businessesSun Dec 10 2017 - 19:48
Who needs fancy-schmancy hacking when MPs share their passwords?Net Results: Do any TDs want to confess to sharing passwords around the office?Thu Dec 07 2017 - 06:30
Net neutrality faces the axe in the United StatesSilicon Valley leads opposition to US Federal Communications Commission proposalThu Nov 30 2017 - 06:00
Did Paris Hilton invent the selfie? And what does it all mean?Net Results: The yearning to self-immortalise must run deep in the human psycheThu Nov 23 2017 - 06:25
TruTrade cashless platform helps African farmers grow businessesSoftware developed by Self Help Africa assists farmers in securing fair pricesThu Nov 23 2017 - 06:25
Net Results: People must not be forced to operate onlineSome of us, for age or other reasons, choose quite reasonably to operate by analogueThu Nov 16 2017 - 06:00
Sneaky tax avoidance by super-wealthy elite is not victimlessTax avoidance as revealed in Paradise Papers results in funding losses for state servicesThu Nov 09 2017 - 06:00
Microsoft Ireland faces a data privacy battle in US supreme courtLegal row centres on whether the US can force US firms to hand over data held abroadThu Nov 02 2017 - 05:55
The modern-day Martin Luther challenging the Church of TechnopolyAn academic has illuminated the world-shaping and often invisible issues with techThu Nov 02 2017 - 05:35
US attempt to win right to grab Irish-held emails in Microsoft case is dangerousWhy is US chasing a line of legal thought that could easily in future be turned against it?Thu Oct 19 2017 - 01:00
Steps finally being taken to change shameful data retention lawIndiscriminate surveillance trampled on privacy rights of ordinary citizens for yearsThu Oct 12 2017 - 06:55
‘Buy Twitter’ campaign gaining attention but can it succeed?Social activists want to take the corporate out of Twitter by making it a public co-opThu Sept 28 2017 - 06:42
Public Services Card reveals State ignorance of data privacy issuesNet Results: Government must be aware of citizen rights when drafting database plansThu Sept 21 2017 - 06:10
Re:publica Dublin keeps focus on technology and societySpin-off of annual Berlin festival stays eclectic as it lands in Light House cinemaThu Sept 14 2017 - 06:10
New $1,000 iPhone X - a bargain of historic proportions?Before you complain, stop and think about how expensive and rubbish mobiles used to beWed Sept 13 2017 - 21:15
Education v entrepreneurship: How universities can strike a balanceRe:publica digital conference hears universities should not just focus on the bottom lineFri Sept 08 2017 - 17:38
Tech giants contributed to Dublin housing crisis, activists say‘Digital society’ event Re:publica hears call for sector to join push for affordable homesThu Sept 07 2017 - 19:28
Privacy Shield is already coming apart at the seamsThe US-EU data-transfer agreement is up for review, but its flaws are all too obviousThu Sept 07 2017 - 06:00
Relax the .ie domain rules and squatters could see an openingNet Results: Ireland’s domain registry wants to hear your views. You’ll have to hurryThu Aug 31 2017 - 06:31
Tech firms must start to invest in Dublin infrastructure for allGentrification caused by multinationals can be offset by transport and housing provisionThu Aug 24 2017 - 06:31
Corporate America must step up response to nauseating TrumpNet Results: More brave CEOs must resign from White House advisory panelsThu Aug 17 2017 - 05:35
Slow broadband speeds are Ireland’s national disgraceUrban and rural industry and citizens need faster internet. But should State keep out?Thu Aug 10 2017 - 05:58
Online coverage of Diana’s death pointed way for news mediaNet Results: In a world without smartphones, websites began rolling coverage 20 years agoThu Aug 03 2017 - 06:00
Microsoft discovers that no one wants to watch Paint dieNet Results: Company underestimated depth of affection when announcing program’s endThu Jul 27 2017 - 06:16
Tech giants strangely silent on US internet snoopingReal issue for them is not protecting your data, but ensuring they can keep using itThu Jul 20 2017 - 01:00
A well-enforced welfare system for animals long overduePuppy farming – and animal welfare generally – are still among Ireland’s saddest secretsMon Jul 17 2017 - 05:29
Governments and states playing fast and loose with our dataThree different, State database-building projects threaten citizens’ rights in IrelandThu Jul 13 2017 - 06:15
The two kinds of people: pre-iPhone and post-iPhone peopleI would pay for an enforced break from my phone, but younger people would struggleThu Jul 06 2017 - 06:35
US action on Microsoft email case could devastate cloud computingJustice department seeks appeal in relation to emails held by Microsoft in IrelandThu Jun 29 2017 - 06:18
How Europe’s antitrust watchdog got its teeth into GoogleOutcome will focus minds in all big tech multinationals doing business in EUTue Jun 27 2017 - 15:49
US government appeals Microsoft case involving Dublin emailsFour-year battle escalates in law enforcement efforts to gain access to EU citizen’s dataSun Jun 25 2017 - 02:50
Data protection ministry lost in Pat Breen’s vast portfolioConcern for data privacy helps lure firms to Ireland and Leo Varadkar move is damagingThu Jun 22 2017 - 05:00
Privacy Shield is up for review, and it’s not looking goodThe EU’s WP 29 is sceptical that the Trump government can guarantee data protectionThu Jun 15 2017 - 06:21
Leaked report shows Russian attempts to hack US electionTargets were local government officials likely to have voting-related dutiesThu Jun 08 2017 - 07:00
May’s call for more control of internet misleading and misguidedKarlin Lillington: The UK already has the draconian Investigatory Powers Act, which hands sweeping powers of surveillance to government agenciesSun Jun 04 2017 - 18:56
Female wartime ‘computers’ would be aghast at pay gapSeventy years on from female programmers’ work for the Allies, too little has changedThu Jun 01 2017 - 07:00
Years of floundering Founderism lie aheadCompanies matter less than the fact they were Founded – look at Joanna Riley’s 1-PageThu May 25 2017 - 07:00
WannaCry exposes the chaos hacking tools can bringAmateurish code with poor payback did some service – it taught us a lessonThu May 18 2017 - 07:00
How fake news is destroying transparency on the internetSpread the propaganda and hashtag flooding have damaged utopian ideas about public benefit of webThu May 18 2017 - 06:32
Web Summit lost out when it lost its Irish soulWhat makes an event like Re:publica special is its ‘anything goes’ Berlin funkinessThu May 11 2017 - 06:30
Tech festival Re:publica will make Dublin return in SeptemberFestival of digital culture will be shaped at hall-style meeting on June 8thThu May 11 2017 - 06:05
Jihadists not radicalised online, Re:publica conference hears‘Jihadists use the internet the same way the rest of us do’ says Prof Peter NeumannTue May 09 2017 - 13:24
Virtual reality worlds are imminent, Re:publica audience told‘Star Wars’ special effects expert says new developments will redefine entertainmentTue May 09 2017 - 11:27
Kasparov urges fightback against online propagandaRussia now exporting news manipulation, former chess champion tells conferenceTue May 09 2017 - 07:49
Berlin’s Re:publica festival focuses on media trust and fake newsCo-founder says attendees should not to take freedoms such as those of speech and the press for grantedMon May 08 2017 - 16:10
Karlin Lillington: Blockchain is less hype, more a transformative technologyNet Results: Fraud-free trust and transaction infrastructure is potentially revolutionaryThu May 04 2017 - 06:54
Beware of web services whose real product is youNet Results: too often a handy app harvests your data details for sale to third partiesThu Apr 27 2017 - 05:58
