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ODPC must use Facebook breach to set standards
Back in August I wrote that Google’s unauthorised gathering of user data would be a defining moment for GDPR. What a difference a few months make. Last Friday’s admission by Facebook that almost 50...
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All about the numbers
Three statistics-based stories came across my desk this that warrant a passing mention. First, here some notable dates for your shopping calendar: Black Friday is 23 November, Cyber Monday is 26...
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Gen Z untroubled by prospect of AI
There’s nothing like a bit of demography to make you feel old. As if we haven’t heard enough about millennials a new report from Dell is looking at the inner lives of Generation Z – those born around...
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A view askew of the new year
It’s been fun watching the last 12 months of emerging technology yet I have to wonder if so much has emerged that the the IT industry won’t be able to keep up with demand – or convince the right people...
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Brexit Ireland: A prologue
One of the big stories in today’s business pages is the establishement of a £100 million fund by Draper Espirit to support digital businesses based in Europe. The plan is a continuation of a...
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There’s a metric for that
A report on Axios this week raised a debate that should resonate with anyone with a yen for analytics: how can we measure happiness/wellbeing? Opinions vary from the prosaic ‘all you need is love’ to...
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The golden age of distraction
Unlike most of my friends, colleagues, well-wishers, not-so-wellwishers, etc I was not watching the opening episode of Game of Thrones last weekend. I have nothing against the show. I’m sure it’s...
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When the numbers stack up against you
All things being equal, I should be in Australia. If you are a professional educated to masters or PhD level looking for a new job then you should consider it, too. However, if you’re an entrepreneur...
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Proposed NBP alternative nothing but hot eir
In Granahan McCourt we have a preferred bidder for the National Broadband Plan but we have yet to see any winners in business or consumer spaces. In fact, we have yet to see anything at all. Here is...
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Tuned in to reality
Chord cutters all over the country gave a cry of anguish this morning with the news that the TV licence was being replaced with an all-purpose “device independent broadcasting charge”. From 2024 it...
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Eir puts a figure on fair use
There is a theme to how the Irish broadband market has grown for as long as I’ve been covering it: underachievement. I’m drawn back to a time in the mid-00s when eir’s (then eircom) entry level package...
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Huawei seeks app store alternative
The Trump administration’s ban on US companies doing business in China took another turn this week. At an event in Munich, electronics giant Huawei showed off the latest range of its flagship Mate...
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Consumed with old ideas
November marks the departure of Dion Weisler as chief executive officer of HP citing “family health reasons”. Two things were not exciting about the end of Weisler’s tenure: first that he was stepping...
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Taking it to the edge
In the beginning there was cloud computing and the discussion was a simple one: do we keep our data on-site in our own hardware and manage it locally or do we entrust it to a service provider on their...
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Cloud and the logic of short-term gains
The decline in IT infrastructure revenue fell for the second consecutive quarter during the three months ending September 2019 should be an indication of a depressed services market but the very...
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Eir needs to send a message about Covid-19
Last month eir announced that is was beginning the wind down of the eircom.net webmail service. Actually, it wasn’t that obvious, it was a notification that from 31 March 2019 the free e-mail service...
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UK exam results debacle reveals a higher level problem for Ireland
Criticism of the Department of Education for the late release of Leaving Certificate results should be muted after the proposed model of teacher assessment and algorithmic validation failed so badly in...
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Lockdown a teachable moment for everyone
So, what did YOU do during the Great War, Daddy? was a successful recruitment poster for the British during World War I. The confrontational slogan married to the image of a smiling child hounding her...
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DHDA closure more than a bad business call
It was with great sadness yesterday that I read of the coming closure of the Digital Hub Development Agency. Since 2003 the Agency has overseen the development of the tech sector in Ireland, previously...
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Science Gallery closure another blow to Ireland’s STEM ambitions
Earlier this year I posted a hot take to this blog about the dissolution of the Digital Hub Development Agency (DHDA) and its impact on the commercial and cultural life of the Liberties in Dublin....
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