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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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