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CES 2016: Looking forward
Before engaging in some wild speculation about what we can expect at CES in Las Vegas this week it’s worth looking back at how our grand hopes from January last year panned out. At the time we were...
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All about the numbers
The Irish Times‘ report on the high rate of drop-outs in computing courses throws a harsh light how well students are being prepared for taking up technology subjects at third level. The short and...
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Eircode and the geographical format war
Minister for Communications Alex White’s performance on RTE Radio One’s Today with Sean O’Rourke defending the Eircode system became a trending topic on Twitter as users vented their frustration at yet...
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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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End of Picasa another nail in the desktop’s coffin
So Google is shuttering Picasa’s Web Albums and the excellent desktop application. Given the migration of services away from the desktop client towards the browser and the cloud you can’t say the move...
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I like it, but do I €900 like it?
When I tried HTC’s Vive back in December I became a total VR convert. More than a headset like the Oculus Rift or Samsung Galaxy Gear VR (or Sony Morpheus, come to think of it) the Vive is a system....
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Apple resizes expectations with latest iPad, iPhone
As with TVs, albeit for slightly different reasons, the smartphone market has become fixated on size. Larger displays with greater pixel density, leaving more room on the screen for more attractive...
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DoJ claims victory, wins nothing
Congratulations to the US Dept of Justice on the successful conclusion to its campaign to unlock the secured iPhone 5c belonging to San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. After weeks of legal...
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Are bots the new apps?
At Build last week Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella laid out a vision for bots, putting them in the middle of interactions between humans and machines. Cortana will become more than a personal assistant for...
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Drones sometimes smarter than their operators
The news that a British Airways passenger jet collided with drone yesterday can’t be considered much of a surprise. I’d call it disgusting but inevitable. A boneheaded act of vandalism of the ‘laser...
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National Broadband Plan ditches own roadmap
A few months ago I was invited to contribute to a national radio talk show on the subject of broadband. In conversation with a producer I outlined my long-held view that the worst decision ever made by...
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Facebook finds news is more complicated than algorithms
Would you prefer your news to be personal or human? Strange question, but it’s one Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is going to have to field tomorrow when he meets a dozen of America’s conservative...
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