‘Only EU can take a stand on privacy’A recent ruling has ended data retention, says Jan Philipp Albrecht, but digital privacy remains an issueThu Apr 24 2014 - 01:05
Silicon Valley’s time to be satirised has truly arrivedMike Judge’s new sitcom has ruffled feathers in California’s tech communityThu Apr 24 2014 - 01:01
Online fraud – why Heartbleed isn’t the only cyber threatIt isn’t so much what’s being done, as how it’s being doneThu Apr 17 2014 - 01:00
Back to square one on data retentionBut data retention is likely to return - in a carefully revised formThu Apr 10 2014 - 01:00
European Court of Justice strikes blow for data rightsAnalysis: Irish court challenge central to ECJ decision on EU data retention directiveWed Apr 09 2014 - 01:00
Analysis: ECJ ruling is a true David versus Goliath victoryDecision to invalidate the Directive could not come at a more relevant moment hereTue Apr 08 2014 - 10:52
2013 dubbed year of mega data breaches as attacks soarNew study shows a 62 per cent increase in data breaches last yearTue Apr 08 2014 - 10:32
Civil liberties at risk in the digital ageGarda taping scandal defies quaint old logicThu Apr 03 2014 - 01:01
Armoured malware the latest threat to defencesA more sophisticated form of hacking uses an extra sheath of code to get at your digital informationThu Apr 03 2014 - 01:00
Yahoo’s Dublin move gets it away from UK’s spying eyesCompany has been at the centre of two major Snowden surveillance storiesThu Mar 27 2014 - 01:10
TED’s been keeping it short and sweet for 30 yearsTED began in 1984 and has expanded into two annual conferences, as well as smaller, locally organised talk events in over 150 countriesThu Mar 20 2014 - 01:00
‘Just because it is legal doesn’t mean we should do it’US intelligence figures say Europe is acting ‘mock surprised’ at leaks on NSAThu Mar 06 2014 - 01:10
EU privacy rights derided in land of the free accessNet Results: to many Americans, data protection is a roadblock to enterprise and innovationThu Mar 06 2014 - 01:00
Security experts point to ease of access for bitcoin thievesRSA conference hears bitcoin exchanges are easily compromised by malwareFri Feb 28 2014 - 09:37
US firms increasingly wary of EU action over online privacyInternational Association of Privacy Professionals says issue has ‘exploded’ since Edward Snowden revelationsFri Feb 28 2014 - 01:00
New FBI director defends need for surveillance‘More information sharing needed’ to improve terrorist defences, Comey tells conferenceThu Feb 27 2014 - 08:07
Companies forced to clarify NSA links after Snowden leak claimsFocus on ties to US National Security Agency dominates conference keynotesThu Feb 27 2014 - 01:08
Everyone is after personal data, not just the NSASecurity conference hears of need to build better safeguards into the systems themselvesThu Feb 27 2014 - 01:00
Colleges fail to teach design of secure codeRSA conference hears top computer science programmes in the US deliver minimal content on securityWed Feb 26 2014 - 20:49
RSA chairman defends company’s links with the NSAArt Coviello says security company’s relationship is strictly above board as he calls for the breakup of the NSA into separate organisationsTue Feb 25 2014 - 18:11
Who can recall the fallen greats of the dog-eat-dog tech world?The history of digital technology is littered with the corpses of companies that didn’t make the cutThu Feb 20 2014 - 01:15
Emphasising the beauty and joy of computing for girlsThe way computer study is presented can draw more female interestThu Feb 20 2014 - 01:00
Keep the smartphone out of the bedroom for a good day’s workStudy shows using smart- phones for work-related activities in the evening leaves you tired the next dayThu Feb 13 2014 - 01:10
Silicon Valley elite in the cross hairs of inequality debatePerkins interview added more evidence to argument that Silicon Valley is out of touchThu Feb 13 2014 - 01:00
Sowing the seeds for a high-tech farming futureAdvanced technology expertise could help make Irish agribusiness more productive and sustainableThu Feb 06 2014 - 01:10
New brooms at Microsoft necessary for a company seeking relevanceThe announcement of Satya Nadella as the company’s new chief executive and John Thompson as chairman is intended to revitalise MicrosoftThu Feb 06 2014 - 01:00
How the Mac made computing possible for ‘the rest of us’Unveiled 30 years ago this month, the little, all-in-one Apple Mac succeeded in redefining home computingThu Jan 30 2014 - 01:10
It looks like 2014 will be a good year for data protectionTwo important initiatives to improve data protection and data privacy look set to be decided this yearThu Jan 30 2014 - 01:00
In technology circles, recruitment process in dire need of a redesignIt seems sometimes as if the sector is particularly cluelessThu Jan 23 2014 - 01:00
Squaring the circle of the Bletchley Park codebreakersThe writer of a fictional postwar crime drama hopes it will highlight the crucial role of women in the warThu Jan 23 2014 - 00:00
‘People make a fuss sometimes, but I don’t pay attention to that’The teenage prodigy who, at 15, developed the idea for a cheap, effective early test for cancer was at the BT Young Scientist awardsThu Jan 16 2014 - 01:10
US ruling could make the web a dangerously different placeNet Results: The torpedoing of the principle of ‘net neutrality’ shifts enormous power to broadband provider gatekeepersThu Jan 16 2014 - 01:00
Hollywood’s best friend at the box office just might be an algorithmEpagogix claims it can help film studios find out whether they have a hit or a miss on their hands before production startsThu Jan 09 2014 - 01:00
Net Results: Young Scientist competition touches all of society and the economyOut of such a challenge come people whose undiscovered talents are brought forthThu Jan 09 2014 - 01:00
EU to force big changes on the big-data landscapeThe EU is determined to overhaul the rules over who holds your personal dataThu Dec 19 2013 - 01:10
A victory in a David v Goliath challengeEuropean advocate general upholds key concerns put forward by Irish advocacy groupFri Dec 13 2013 - 08:31
Cinema boldly goes where no one has gone beforeCultural intersection between artistic visualisation and technology has started to look backwardsThu Dec 12 2013 - 01:00
2050 vision: Google and Apple among few tech giants to surviveAnalyse this: in the rapidly evolving world of internet technologies, how can you attempt to predict the future?Thu Dec 05 2013 - 01:02
Why San Francisco is wrong to turn against the ‘techies’Gentrification can be irritating and arrogant, but it also helps revive dying, crime-ridden neighbourhoodsThu Nov 28 2013 - 01:00
Critical infrastructure a key issue for US cybersecurity chiefIn Dublin last week, Obama’s special assistant, Michael Daniel, speaks about the White House’s commitment to cybersecurity plansThu Nov 21 2013 - 01:05
Addressing the lack of women in technology roles – againNothing will change without good people coming together to push for more inclusive ways of thinking, working and planningThu Nov 21 2013 - 01:03
Trying to prevent cyberattacks is not enoughExperts say it’s not a case of whether you will be attacked online but when. So get ready to fight backThu Nov 21 2013 - 01:02
The workplace culture that is holding women backWomen make up most of our graduates but remain poorly represented at senior levels in businessThu Nov 14 2013 - 15:11
Intel turned Leixlip into Ireland’s Silicon ValleyIntel was a step-change because of its scale, which would require massive buildings and infrastructureTue Nov 12 2013 - 00:30
Copyright has to change – the hard question is howHuge business issue is also social and cultural milestoneThu Nov 07 2013 - 01:01
Warrior charges towards internet of everythingCisco’s Padmasree Warrior is as good with people as she is with technologyThu Nov 07 2013 - 01:00
Eugene Kaspersky’s roadshow on cyber-nasty woes of modern lifeKaspersky Lab, one of the top four global security firms, warns about the threat of cyberwarfareThu Oct 31 2013 - 01:00
Oversight of spy activity is years behind the technologyAn inquiry will decide if US snooping laws are ‘fit for purpose’Thu Oct 31 2013 - 01:00
Directive to send strong signal on data protectionSince revelations by Edward Snowden, MEPs increased protection on access to dataThu Oct 24 2013 - 01:00