A good app reinforces those things we believe to be right and true – Skitster excels at it

Decade since launch of ‘The Irish Times’ Innovation magazine has brought tremendous change

There is a thin line between ambition and misrepresentation

Innovation Awards 2017: Public engagement, whether in art, science or business, is always a matter of confidence and performance

Targeted campaigns are proving effective in selling products – and political messages

Identity technology makes us feel more secure at airports. But more watched in private

Google’s R&D arm is testing electricity-generating kites. Ireland should seize the opportunity to create an industry

UCD and Queen’s have submitted cubesat ideas to the European Space Agency

Tech world worried about curbs on work visas and discord with mineral-rich China

From TV’s golden age all the way to today’s e-sports, advertisers have followed the money

Web algorithms favour power of repeated lies when it comes to generating revenue

‘Ireland’s density of multinationals in a relatively small geographic area is unique’

Following Uber ruling, there is an opportunity for unions to design apps for public

Autonomous minicopters avoid road problems faced by driverless cars

Relationship between professional entrepreneur and start-up can have a difficult start

Microfinance Ireland scheme has potential but needs to raise its profile

Networking site allows Microsoft to offer a connected service to business

Big data, data science and prediction have yet to be successfully applied to tech industry

Protecting the key intellectual ingredients of a product may be the most effective way to prevent a well-funded competitor reinven(...)

Whichever company dominates the provision of an automated concierge may well be the next Google

By building simulations of the real world, and letting Google’s DeepMind experiment, it can learn new skills

Extreme pride of engineers in something being well designed made me reflect on our approach to educating student engineers and inn(...)

Technology investment has increased from about €25m in 2011 to €1.14bn in 2013

The Government parties want to be judged by IrelandStat, yet oddly it is not up to date

Innovation Talk: How significant has the past 12 months been for computer industry?

Rise of apps represents a potentially fundamental change for internet

Coalition’s aspirations and actual policies on innovation are contradictory

iPhone made things simple but the plethora of apps has made them complicated again

What level of responsibility should Airbnb and Uber take for customer behaviour?

Given the poor profits in the smartphone market, there will be market turmoil

A challenge faced by firms offering wearable products is consumer boredom

Marketing is moving away from the campaigns the ‘Mad Men’ ad men would have commanded

The technology research necessary for self-driving cars is leading to spin-off subsystems for automation, driver monitoring and gu(...)

UAVs have taken off and landed on aircraft carriers; refuelled in-flight; and conducted stealth low-altitude missions

Meerkat enables you to broadcast a live video stream from a smart phone or tablet camera

Engineering, finance, distribution and sales must mesh with innovation

With the ECB putting on a drive to stimulate the economy, Ireland’s tech sector may benefit from more US companies locating here

Opinion: substantial investment awaits the right ventures, regardless of location

Bengaluru is the centre of the Indian IT industry, a major biotechnology centre, and the focus of the national aerospace industry

The 2014 Web Summit is an extraordinary validation of the perseverance, vision and courage of one Irish entrepreneur

Perhaps Ma’s biggest coup so far has been to get global investors to buy his shares

Most terrifying of all, sometimes a company will attempt to change its engine in mid-flight, as it fundamentally modifies its prod(...)

The scenario played out in the Oscar-winning film ‘Her’ is becoming a distinct possibility as digital virtual assistant programs s(...)

Without his wise understanding, Iona would never have been the success it became

I long for the day when a robotic weeder would gently untangle bindweed from my raspberry canes, remove creeping buttercup and scu(...)

It would appear that everyone thought somebody else had checked the source code. Since almost everyone else was using it, everyone(...)

The encouraging conclusion from the finalists was the breadth of entrepreneurship and innovation across different business sectors

Smiley would have raised an eyebrow had he learned that the Post Office opened every single letter he sent, whether business or pe(...)

The digital era falls in behind the old economy in Budget 2014

The business model of the TV industry is ripe for disruption. Hi-tech companies such as Google, Apple, Intel and Microsoft, are al(...)

Irish taxpayers have spent a considerable sum on publicly-funded research since the creation of Science Foundation Ireland

Content producers – such as RTÉ and TG4 – may need to provide unbundled access to both live and archived content with a pragmatic (...)

If the multinational sector were to materially shrink its presence in Ireland, the economic consequences would be quite profound

The recent drop in activity in the sector illustrates that for successful venture capital activity, the key factor is not the quan(...)

And not one of them speaking about recession!