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# technology - Monday 17 June, 2013
Greek court overturns closure of state broadcaster‎
The top administrative court in Greece has “temporarily” cancelled the government’s shock decision to close state broadcaster ERT.
# technology - Saturday 15 June, 2013
Living in a remote part of the world? Google wants to get internet access to you with balloons
Google is launching balloons into near space to beam internet access to the world below.
# technology - Wednesday 12 June, 2013
Ireland has a better than average rate of high speed internet connections
A Eurostat study into the broadband market in Ireland found it has a relatively low take-up of fixed broadband but a better than average share of high speed connections.
# technology - Tuesday 11 June, 2013
Deals website Groupon announces 20 new jobs for Dublin
The new jobs are in the company’s software development centre. It already employs 12 people in Dublin.
# technology - Sunday 9 June, 2013
Singular facts about the dozen countries with most smartphones
Who likes them for their ‘furtive nature’? Who loves apps, but not social media? Whose smartphones go better with a beer?
# technology - Friday 31 May, 2013
Gilmore: Companies in Ireland pay close to the correct amount of tax
The Tánaiste was responding to reports that one US multinational company had an effective tax rate of 4 per cent in 2011.
# technology - Monday 27 May, 2013
Column: Small and mighty – why nanoscience is booming in Ireland
Ten years ago, the global market for nano-enabled materials was €420 million. In 2015, it will be $2.5 trillion. Nanoscience is the future and Ireland is very much part of it, writes John Boland.
# technology - Thursday 23 May, 2013
The technology sector is open for business, but there’s a shortage of suitable candidates
A survey of 38 major tech companies estimates there’s 4,500 job vacancies in the ICT sector, but there is a major skills shortage.
# technology - Monday 13 May, 2013
Samsung has tested wireless internet that could download a movie in one second
The South Korean technology firm has tested super-fast fifth generation or 5G wireless technology but it will be a while before its released to the general public.
# technology - Sunday 12 May, 2013
Weird Wide Web: Pizza, glass tweets, and a text pest
All of your essential tech and social media news for the week in one byte-sized portion.
Mars is the next challenge for astronauts – but landing is the biggest obstacle
The Curiosity rover is the size of a small car – but now researchers are looking at how to land something the size of a two-storey house on Mars.
# technology - Sunday 5 May, 2013
Siri and Google Now on the meaning of life
(And other questions the Associated Press threw at them).
# technology - Saturday 4 May, 2013
This amazing feat of engineering happened exactly 100 years ago
The key to the success of the Panama Canal – the 12km-long Culebra Cut – was completed this month in 1913. Its overseeing engineer died just months later.
# technology - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
World’s first ever web page to be brought back to life
CERN is recreating the website that launched the world wide web to mark the 20th anniversary of the Tim Berners-Lee invention.
# technology - Sunday 28 April, 2013
The 13-year-old who will make you feel like an underachiever
A junior version of Dragon’s Den will hear from Jordan Casey who has his own gaming company and started coding at age 9.
# technology - Saturday 27 April, 2013
Your European rugby experience will include Ref Cam this weekend
Expect replays to be extra shaky on Sky this weekend
# technology - Friday 26 April, 2013
Creation of 100 new tech jobs announced
More than 100 technology-related vacancies across three companies have been announced this morning.
# technology - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
Tech firms should be trying to please women – Microsoft researcher
Men design for other men, he argues – like the vibrate setting on a phone.
# technology - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
Irish people just can’t switch off from their gadgets
Respondents admitted to checking email constantly – even on holidays – and 19 per cent even said they had agreed to something without realising while using a digital device.
Poll: Do you take “technology breaks”?
A new eircom survey says that 1.3 million Irish people want to stay connected 24/7.
# technology - Monday 22 April, 2013
GAA Hawkeye technology to be sponsored by… Specsavers
Should have gone to, erm, never mind.
How to make your iPhone last for years
It’s expensive and chances are you have half your life on there. Careful now.
# technology - Saturday 20 April, 2013
Interview: Pirate Party founder on the collapse of ‘parasitic’ record labels
Rickard Falkvinge, who founded the world’s first Pirate Party in Sweden, speaks to TheJournal.ie about copyright laws, digital currencies and how to set up a new political party.
# technology - Friday 19 April, 2013
Vibrating knickers let you romp long distance
Fundawear is controlled by your partner’s smartphone.
# technology - Thursday 11 April, 2013
Column: The ‘Facebook phone’ is here – what does that mean for consumers?
The Facebook HTC First is a fresh move by the social network giant in its quest to become a ‘mobile first’ company, writes Eoin Lynch.
PC sales down 14 per cent, as Windows 8 ‘slows the market’
Figures from the International Data Corporation say the latest edition of Microsoft Windows is turning people off buying PCs.
# technology - Wednesday 10 April, 2013
’2,000 extra tech staff a year’ with education and visa reforms – ministers
Ruairi Quinn and Richard Bruton are to create extra education spaces and visa placements to provide more ICT staff.
# technology - Wednesday 3 April, 2013
Column: Forget the Mad Men stereotype – women are making their mark in modern-day advertising
Advertising has a record for recognising innovation, creativity and talent – irrespective of the sex of the candidate – and setting specific workplace objectives for women to aspire to board membership will further help gender diversity, writes Deirdre Waldron.
Irish to compete in €1 million satellite ideas competition
The top prize is €1 million and the prestigious title of ‘Galileo Master’.
# technology - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
Apple apologises to Chinese consumers after ‘double standards’ criticism
State media in China has criticised the company over customer service and returns policies.
# technology - Tuesday 19 March, 2013
Check out the new app for people with fat fingers*
*Does not involve a special dialling wand.
# technology - Sunday 17 March, 2013
US navy is working on a drone ship
Drones will no longer operate only in the skies – this one will be used to track submarines.
# technology - Sunday 10 March, 2013
8 things that genuinely seemed like they would change our lives
But probably didn’t.
# technology - Monday 4 March, 2013
How modern technology is destroying your posture at work
Recognise any of these nine bad positions?
# technology - Tuesday 26 February, 2013
Hawkeye set for June green light in Croke Park
If the score detection system gets approval by Congress, it will come into operation for this summer’s championship.
# technology - Sunday 24 February, 2013
The awkward way people flirt on dating app Tinder
“I can’t help but stare.” Please don’t.
# technology - Sunday 17 February, 2013
Mark Zuckerberg: A life in quotes
Presenting the 15 quotes that define the CEO’s life in tech.
# technology - Sunday 3 February, 2013
9 people who love tech brands so much they got tattoos of them
Cisco Systems on your bicep? Really?
# technology - Tuesday 29 January, 2013
Dubliners to get free WiFi from this week
Free wireless internet services will be begin rollout on Thursday, with busy shopping streets getting service next month.
# technology - Sunday 27 January, 2013
‘Hybrid wing’ plane uses half the fuel of a standard aeroplane
It could improve commercial aircraft efficiency within a decade.
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