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Where and when is up to you
When I entered the workforce in my early twenties I sat down with a recruitment consultant who gave me these sage words of advice: take my postgraduate degree off my CV. His logic went that appearing...
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Advertising works
In the end the debate over whether YouTube is a platform or publisher wasn’t settled by debate, it was through the power of advertising. Controversy over YouTube’s ad placement strategy has extended...
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Future imperfect
When a report promising some vision of the future arrives in my inbox it’s usually in the form of an economic analysis with an alarmist headline. Anything forecasting the death of rural business, the...
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Microsoft’s Surface laptop is not reassuringly expensive
Last week Microsoft revealed Windows 10 S, an operating system designed for low-cost PCs. It’s secure, light and perfect for the education sector, where it will square off against Chromebooks. It’s...
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A Surface-level analysis
In my last post I criticised Microsoft’s strategy for the Surface Laptop. For me it’s a case of decent hardware chained up by an operating system that nobody will care about by this time next year....
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Insurers ready blame game over self-driving cars
A recent blog post from Allianz chief customer officer Peter Kilcullen hinted at the impact self-driving cars will have on insurance premiums. The simple version says drivers stand to benefit from...
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Irish millennials shun ‘chocolate factory’ effect
As a journalist you get a bit frustrated visiting the offices of glamorous multinationals. Where the average hack is used to muted open plan spaces and home offices barely worthy of the name, the...
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Will VR send us further down the rabbit hole?
A tweet from Guardian journalist Charles Arthur comparing the slow uptake of VR with the dominance of social media caught my attention and deserves further exploration. According to Arthur, VR was...
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CAO points a mixed bag for STEM
The first round of CAO offers are a valuable inght into how young people see science, technology, engineering and mathematics as career options. The numbers sitting STEM subjects at higher level...
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Apple’s ‘haves’ and ‘have mores’
When Apple rolls out the new iPhone tomorrow I’ll be expecting a few things: shiny design, exceptional camera and some new implementations of technology already being done elsewhere come to mind. One...
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Siro quits National Broadband Plan, expect more to follow
Wholesale broadband provider Siro has quit the National Broadband Plan, citing a lack of a compelling business case to justify its participation in the tendering process. That leaves applications from...
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Netflix’s Star Trek effort a different kind of discovery
The decline of broadcast TV is continuing apace, according to a new survey released by Ericsson. The vendor’s eighth ConsumerLab TV report says almost 60% of viewers surveyed prefer VoD services to...
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Connectivity: The short version
Three released its first Connected Ireland report on the hopes, dreams and habits of smartphone users around the country this week. The survey – conducted by Amarach Research on 1,000 of the telco’s...
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When Siri comes for your job
A survey released by Cisco this week spells good news for AI proponents and bad news for low level office workers, researchers, or anyone looking to get a foot on the career ladder. The study of more...
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Searching for reason in 2017
There’s nothing like the Google end of year list of trending searches to gladden my heart and remind me I haven’t totally lost touch with the nation. If anything, I find myself on trend. Here’s the...
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Facebook’s game show antidote to fake news
Remember when McDonalds started offering salads? Of course you do. It was one of the great example of a multinational standing up and meeting the needs of a health-conscious consumer base. That was...
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Enet ‘wins’ at National Broadband, gets nothing
Last September I wrote about the withdrawal of Vodafone/ESB joint venture Siro’s withdrawal from the National Broadband Plan (NBP) tendering process. At the time I speculated that the move was...
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Location services find their place
Two things happened to me in the past few weeks that reminded me we have a national postcode system. Not that we need one, mind you, just that we’ve had one since 2015 and it’s not terribly popular....
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Proof of life
If you’re reading this the chances are the novelty of a snow day – or three of them in a row – has worn off. Let me guess, the euphoria of day one gave way to a more sober ‘down to business’ of day two...
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Zuckerberg admits regulation is the way forward
Distasteful, creepy, immoral, against our terms of service, but not illegal. That’s the official Facebook line set forth by company president and founder Mark Zuckerberg this week. After six days...
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