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Certified by LinkedIn
Forget the Apple Watch, the biggest story of the week is the acquisition by LinkedIn of training website Lynda.com for $1.5 billion in cash and stock. It’s the bargain of the century, or rather it will...
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Sky not liking Big Data for the small screen
Two years ago I wrote that the success of 3D broadcasting relied on three factors: convenience, cost and content. At the time I said 3D TV sets were expensive, added rather than solved problems for the...
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#hometovote is where the heart is
As I write this the Web app Reverb is reporting that about 100 tweets per minute are being posted using the hashtag #hometovote. How remarkable that a referendum in a small country could have such an...
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WWDC: Five things we expect to see
It’s Apple World Wide Developers Conference time again. Cupertino’s announcements generally break down as one product announcement in the first quarter, a second in the third quarter and, in June, a...
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WWDC: Our report card
On TechCentral yesterday we gave our top five predictions for Apple’s 2015 WWDC keynote. As expected, there wasn’t much you would call ‘innovative’ but there were a few surprises. So, in no particular...
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The next great rock n’ roll swindle
There are some wonderful contradictions at the heart of the Internet. I’m going to discuss two of them and how they dovetail given the arrival of Apple and Google’s new music streaming services. First...
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Why you should get over Windows 7
Are you an unhappy Windows 7 user? Of course not. I don’t think anyone is. Windows 7 is easy to use, responds well to any application you can throw at it, has lots of developer support, and gets out of...
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Screening for quality
What was the most important thing to you when buying your last TV set. I bet I can guess it in one. What will be the single biggest factor in deciding what your next TV purchase will be? I guarantee it...
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Amazon’s numbers don’t stack up
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ spirited defence of his company in the wake of a New York Times expose was forthright, clear and shows exactly where he thinks the faults in his company lie. Unfortunately the...
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Towards a new vision of robotics
Listeners to last week’s TechRadio will know about the current celebrations surrounding the 200th anniversary of George Boole. One of UCC’s impressive series of commemorative events saw Dr Ken Ford of...
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iPad Pro: Don’t call it a climbdown
One of the funnier moments on the Twittersphere during Apple’s big reveal on Wednesday was the number of people posting excerpts from Steve Jobs’ original iPhone and iPad demonstrations in 2007 and...
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Voicing action against cyberbullying
A survey of attitudes and experiences of cyberbullying amongst young people released by Vodafone as part of its #BeStrong campaign released today makes for disturbing reading if you’re a parent or...
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Don’t hate us because we’re popular
Net Neutrality is one of the founding principles of the Internet. Without open access infrastructure it’s possible to turn freedom of speech into ‘freedom’ of speech, limit the ability of people to...
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No more safe harbours
The European Court of Justice’s ruling invalidating the safe harbour principles that have governed the transfer of data from EU citizens to the US will be a cause for celebration among privacy...
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Shock, awe, shrug
It’s a strange reaction to have but my first response to the news that Dell was acquiring EMC for a record $67 billion wasn’t one of awe at its value or concern for the thousands of jobs it may affect...
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Dublin after the Web Summit
Does anyone come out well from the row over Web Summit’s relocation from Dublin to Lisbon? Yes, but it’s not who you think. Stick with me on this. It’s been almost a month since the Summit’s co-founder...
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The morning after the weekend before
We’re all familiar with the reasons why the Web Summit is leaving Dublin but there were two reminders sitting in my inbox this morning. The first was a rebuttal to an article that appeared in the...
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It was a terrible name, anyway
Sometimes you see a gadget come on the market and know already that its time has passed. What might have been a perfectly fine piece of kit six months ago gets eclipsed by changes in fashion, developer...
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Viva la Vive
Last week I had an experience that has convinced me Virtual Reality is the future of human computer interaction. At a demonstration of the HTC Vive at a secret location in the city earlier this month I...
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SFI report shows Ireland needs to fill talent gap
There is plenty of good news to pour over in Science Foundation Ireland annual plan for 2015, released this week. Over the past 12 months the funding body made 23 awards totalling €30 million through...
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