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
Trump’s populist visa restrictions will hit tech industry hardKarlin Lillington: Double whammy for Irish techs as Australia and US change visa rulesThu Apr 20 2017 - 05:55
Unicorns a dying breed in the technology worldNet Results: Venture-backed firms with valuations in excess of $1 billion in declineThu Apr 13 2017 - 06:45
Cripple encryption and you weaken global and national securityNet Results: Evidence does not support EU plan for encryption backdoors for social appsThu Apr 06 2017 - 06:00
US data vote reveals Congress’s approach to privacyNet Results: Private data now a cash cow owned by internet service providersThu Mar 30 2017 - 06:00
Sales of ebooks slide as readers prefer a book in the handNet Results: But 10 years after Amazon launched the Kindle measuring ebook readership is trickyThu Mar 23 2017 - 06:00
No, the illegal Irish in US should not be a ‘special’ caseNet Results: Ireland needs to start properly acknowledging our own immigrant communitiesThu Mar 16 2017 - 07:00
Hysteria around CIA hacking of private technology unfoundedYes, you should be worried about the Vault 7 leaks, but not for the reasons you thinkThu Mar 09 2017 - 07:00
How a Dublin teenager is helping you bring your secrets to the graveShane Curran’s winning qCrypt project offers solution for private data storageThu Feb 16 2017 - 07:08
Why the Irish Data Protection Commissioner’s case against Facebook mattersChaos would ensue if data transfers worth over $250bn annually are haltedThu Feb 09 2017 - 06:15
Tech giants will have to show teeth in face of Trump assaultNet Results: Industry needs to flex muscle or it will be mown down by ‘Carmageddon’ presidencyThu Feb 02 2017 - 06:00
Citizens must watch the watchmen to protect right to privacyNet Results: Debate renews as corporations and governments grow ever more noseyThu Jan 26 2017 - 11:29
We must beware Julian Assange’s opportunismThe WikiLeaks founder misrepresents facts amid plans for Chelsea Manning’s releaseThu Jan 19 2017 - 10:40
iPhone at 10 – Design genius that brought us under Steve Jobs’s spellApple’s mysterious blank slate was technology at its best – indistinguishable from magicThu Jan 12 2017 - 05:00
What happens in Vegas . . . now goes to lots of other placesCritical data privacy and security issues surround Echo and always-on mic devicesThu Jan 05 2017 - 06:24
Huge implications of technology-sector issues in coming yearThe past year threw up plenty of tech challenges that are not going away in 2017Wed Dec 28 2016 - 19:15
Why technological privacy is an economic matterPublic now more aware of how online data can be misused, says Alessandro AcquistiThu Dec 22 2016 - 05:57
Meath council ‘cyberattack’ was just old-fashioned fraudTagging €4.3m scam with the word ‘cyber’ and calling it ‘sophisticated’ is plain wrongThu Dec 22 2016 - 05:00
Dear technology sector: please download a spineThe big tech firms need to stand up and refuse to facilitate government surveillanceThu Dec 15 2016 - 07:28
Jill Stein is doing US some service with vote recount bidGreen Party leader’s legal case highlights authorities’ failure to audit national electionsThu Dec 08 2016 - 06:00
UK Investigatory Powers Act sparks major privacy fearsNet Results: Data surveillance provisions spell more post-Brexit bad news for Irish businessesThu Dec 01 2016 - 05:00
For the Garda, Gmail’s free service comes at a high priceThe force needs a policy on forwarding official emails to private web services: don’tThu Nov 24 2016 - 10:56
Donald Trump’s team reveals surprising lack of global business knowledgeDo not expect to see tax-driven rush of technology multinationals out of IrelandThu Nov 17 2016 - 05:00
Election exemplified web’s slide into sleaze and belligerenceSocial media can be tools of democracy. In the US campaign they were avenues of bileThu Nov 10 2016 - 05:00
Court challenge to Privacy Shield will have wide reverberationsDigital Rights Ireland’s case against EU-US data transfer deal could spark trade chaosThu Nov 03 2016 - 05:00
Inventions still lag ‘Star Trek’ futuristic technologiesThe promised tech future is never quite what it was supposed to be. DarnThu Oct 27 2016 - 05:00
Acceptance of ‘locker-room talk’ pervades tech industryA third of US men with a degree support Donald Trump despite sexist statementsThu Oct 20 2016 - 05:00
Berlin’s digital culture event re:publica comes to DublinDublin is the first time organisers have taken the 10-year-old festival to another countryWed Oct 19 2016 - 17:56
Tax is not only reason tech firms come to IrelandNet Results: Budget should be about more than tax rates to retain likes of Google, Facebook and IntelThu Oct 13 2016 - 05:30
Net results: Life is getting shorter for tech giantsAs Blackberry found out, it can be hard to shift direction when technology changesThu Oct 06 2016 - 05:40
Microsoft’s Brad Smith talks privacy, Snowden and international law‘People have important privacy rights in their personal information,’ says SmithTue Oct 04 2016 - 18:29
Silicon Valley puts its money on Hillary ClintonNet Results: No California tech firm appears on Trump’s top-25 table of employee contributionsThu Sept 29 2016 - 06:00
Net Results: Flying in the face of technologyUS immigration clearance system at Dublin Airport more of a problem than a solutionThu Sept 22 2016 - 05:00
Apple’s €13bn Irish tax bill does not contain seeds of changeOpinion: If EU and US politicians wanted to change the corporate tax system they wouldThu Sept 01 2016 - 06:00
Blockchain revolution: dawning of a new era onlineThe technology behind bitcoins may fundamentally change how we use the internetThu Aug 25 2016 - 06:00
Karlin Lillington: After 25 years, Linux’s world domination is coming along nicelyBack in the 1990s, it was a major surprise when Intel and Netscape invested in the OSThu Aug 25 2016 - 05:05
Data centre growth comes at price for Irish infrastructureNew centres offer relatively few jobs given the demands they make on Ireland’s power gridThu Aug 18 2016 - 06:35
Net results: What do venture capital units offer the start-up?More and more big companies are creating their own venture investment armsThu Aug 11 2016 - 17:24
Sad realities of our domestic puppy-farming industryRSPCA estimates 30,000-40,000 Irish puppies supplied to UK each yearFri Aug 05 2016 - 01:00
Karlin Lillington: Pokémon monsters in my house? Please goThe game has highlighted the issue of who owns the virtual space around your propertyThu Aug 04 2016 - 09:11
Watchdog takes bizarre legal route in data privacy caseAnalysis: Data commissioner takes needlessly costly route in Schrems caseThu Jul 28 2016 - 06:37
Lackadaisical approach to data privacy cannot lastEuropean Court of Justice insistent that citizens are entitled to privacy protectionsThu Jul 21 2016 - 05:00
