Dream team to map out tech futureMary O'Rourke showed a clear determination to transform Ireland's telecommunications infrastructure in June, when she announced…Fri Aug 07 1998 - 01:00
Internet flaw causes widespread concernThe Internet has been challenged again as a secure medium amid reports this week of a serious defect in several of the most popular…Fri Jul 31 1998 - 01:00
Nothing is as `vapoured' as the NetSometimes the "news" which comes from the Internet or is written about it seems more like a giant public relations exercise rather…Fri Jul 17 1998 - 01:00
EU and US at odds over privacyPrivacy the question of who has the right to obtain, retain, and perhaps even sell personal information in digital form is becoming…Fri Jul 17 1998 - 01:00
Black holes expose Web weaknessCold chills should have gone down the spine of any company with a Website after the announcement last week of a security hole…Fri Jul 10 1998 - 01:00
Security flaws revealed in Web server softwareSupposedly secure files on Irish semi-state agency and business sites remained easily accessible from the Web yesterday due to…Wed Jul 08 1998 - 01:00
Europe's tech crown still unclaimedLast week, two Irishwomen Minister for Public Enterprise, Ms O'Rourke and Ms Vivienne Jupp, head of the Information Society Commission…Fri Jul 03 1998 - 01:00
Japanese entrepreneur out to crack the EnglishAn interest in engineering, function and design runs deep in Japanese businessman Mr Tsukasa Takehara.Fri Jun 26 1998 - 01:00
Net post office is in for radical changeImagine what would happen if An Post decided to stop delivering letters, and hand the task over to a range of smaller, private…Fri Jun 26 1998 - 01:00
Jostling for position on e-commerceIt may seem rather obscure and esoteric and only runs to three pages, but the Government's framework document on cryptography…Fri Jun 26 1998 - 01:00
Government commits itself to e-commerceThree announcements by the Minister for Public Enterprise, Ms Mary O'Rourke, yesterday underlined the first clear commitment …Thu Jun 25 1998 - 01:00
Republic `among top contenders' for Internet businessDue to a number of key advantages, the Republic should consider itself one of the top contenders as an international centre for…Thu Jun 25 1998 - 01:00
Copyright in the digital era is complex and controversialIt's obvious that innovative digital technologies, from the Internet to multimedia, have created new markets and new creative…Fri Jun 19 1998 - 01:00
Irish law unsettled on digital trademarksIrish law does little to ensure that company trademarks and patents are protected in the digital realm, says Dublin patent and…Fri Jun 19 1998 - 01:00
Taking data off US Web is child's playImagine your child in a shop. Suddenly a man walks up with a clipboard and a formFri Jun 12 1998 - 01:00
Web marketing is music to artists' ears but piracy hits dangerous noteSeeing Mr Larry Rosen, one of those well-heeled US men whom middle age flatters, dressed in trendy black, with the small oval…Fri Jun 05 1998 - 01:00
Y2K bug prepare well or be ready to crash"Microsoft will just come up with something at the last minute that will take care of the problemFri Jun 05 1998 - 01:00
Confusion on new Net tax measuresThe "no Net taxes" movement achieved a significant victory two weeks ago, when 132 nations agreed at a World Trade Organisation…Fri Jun 05 1998 - 01:00
Government neglects tech-ageAs a narrowly focused debate continues over the Republic's broadband capabilities the telecommunications network's ability to…Fri May 29 1998 - 01:00
Telecom subject to unfair criticism on Microsoft links dealFor a prime example of how technology issues can be used to advance individual agendas to a blinded-by-science public, look no…Fri May 22 1998 - 01:00
Dell deal shows shift in services marketLast Monday's announcement that computer companies Wang and Unisys will provide customer service to a third computer company, …Fri May 15 1998 - 01:00
Ex-spam king out to end free lunchIn one of the strangest Net developments of the week, former spam king Sanford Wallace announced that he would henceforth do …Fri May 15 1998 - 01:00
Digerati and lawmakers in cautious courtshipUntil recently, the distance between Silicon Valley and Washington DC was not so much a matter of mileage as cultureFri May 15 1998 - 01:00
Microsoft's Cambridge lab still under the microscopeWhen Microsoft touched down in Cambridge last summer with the announcement that it intended to invest £50 million establishing…Fri May 08 1998 - 01:00
Time to get moving on encryptionSome misguided decisions taken by the British government last week regarding the hot issue of encryption the encoding of data…Fri May 08 1998 - 01:00
Thriving CBT keeps up training as sector becomes more competitiveFor years, they've been quietly successful, but things are beginning to get a little more lively for the chief executive of Irish…Fri May 01 1998 - 01:00
Glowing earnings give grumbling Sun man cause to beam a littleThe man with the most famous pearly whites in the technology industry Sun Microsystems chief executive, Mr Scott McNealy, whose…Fri May 01 1998 - 01:00
Dr Cerf - Father of the InternetDr Vinton Cerf is identified more frequently as The Father of the Internet, than by his working title, which is senior vice-president…Fri Apr 24 1998 - 01:00
Web awards map way to best sitesFor the past three years, the self-styled Academy Awards of the Internet the weighty-sounding Global Information Infrastructure…Fri Apr 24 1998 - 01:00
Microsoft spins punters its Windows 98 webAt this point, flogging Windows 98, Microsoft's overhaul and upgrade of its Windows 95 operating system which is due out on June…Fri Apr 24 1998 - 01:00
The `father of the Internet' cut off at Smurfit seminarAlas, advanced telecommunications technologies showed no respect for one of the founders of the digital age yesterday as "Father…Tue Apr 21 1998 - 01:00
Weaving a clear Website designSo you're thinking about hiring a new media company to design a Web presence for your organisation or perhaps you're considering…Fri Apr 17 1998 - 01:00
Software minnow able to swim with the sharksSilicon Valley is full of bright young technology company start-ups that blaze one day and are gone the next, usually when their…Fri Apr 17 1998 - 01:00
Intel hiccups cause ripples in industrySuch is microprocessor giant Intel's overwhelming importance to the technology industry that if the chipmaker sneezes, the rest…Fri Apr 17 1998 - 01:00
Dublin shows signs of Valley problemsConstant hype is the norm in Silicon Valley, where every company is the next Netscape (although these days, that isn't necessarily…Fri Feb 13 1998 - 00:00
Hard-nosed trading replaces glitter at Cannes multimedia exhibitionJust two years ago it was still one of the world's trendiest high-tech events, but MILIA, the huge annual multimedia developers…Fri Feb 06 1998 - 00:00
Gates gets better service with `model' Digital dealIt's been quite a week for Digital Equipment CorporationFri Jan 30 1998 - 00:00
Consumers queue up to buy WebTV setsMost Net devotees seem to think that the cross between the Internet and a television set is an unlikely pairing despite some …Fri Jan 23 1998 - 00:00
Angry employees pose greatest threat to a company's computersActor Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible: despite the popularity of technical espionage films like Mission Impossible, in which…Fri Jan 23 1998 - 00:00
Focus turns to spreading Web to TVLots of people who use the Web all the time think its integration with television - an idea being pushed by companies like WebTV…Fri Jan 16 1998 - 00:00
Brussels will not rule on encryption, says officialA European Union official claimed this week that Brussels has no intention of regulating digital encryption.Fri Jan 16 1998 - 00:00
High-tech image company enjoys exposure at Mac showpieceVisitors to last week's annual MacWorld Expo show in San Francisco couldn't possibly have overlooked the bright yellow oasis …Fri Jan 16 1998 - 00:00
Apple edges out of the doldrums with a little help from its old enemy"Think profit." The giant letters on the wall-sized screen behind Mr Steve Jobs, Apple Computer's acting chief executive officer…Fri Jan 09 1998 - 00:00
Internet means business with global trading set to doubleThe coming year should be a fascinating one for the technology industryFri Jan 02 1998 - 00:00
Industry not shocked by Seagate closeThe only real surprise arising from the loss of 1,400 jobs in Seagate's Clonmel plant is that anyone in authority could have …Fri Dec 19 1997 - 00:00
Agents scout for talent in tight marketInformally, high-technology employment agencies are rather unpleasantly termed headhuntersFri Dec 12 1997 - 00:00
SET aims to reassure Net shoppersAccording to an Irish Internet Association survey, 39 per cent of Irish Internet users have bought something onlineFri Dec 05 1997 - 00:00
Microsoft gets foot in door of bigger playersThere's nothing Microsoft seems to relish more than a new field of battle, especially when the winner's spoils are vast and lucrative…Fri Dec 05 1997 - 00:00
Microsoft teams up with Unisys on NTAnother concerted - and co-ordinated - attempt to move Windows NT forward as a "enterprise-class" operating system was made yesterday…Fri Dec 05 1997 - 00:00
Surfing with confidence takes timeBusiness users of the Web seem to fall into two camps: either you can't live without it, or you can't figure out what everyone…Fri Nov 28 1997 - 00:00
