Technology
- Surfers pay 'little attention' to Google ads
COMPANIES RELYING on Google AdWords to sell their products or services online may need to rethink their strategies after new research on how people read webpages found that many rarely pay attention to the advertisements. - Clouds gathering in world of IT services At a briefing organised by Accenture in Dublin earlier this week, representatives from Amazon, Google, Salesforce.com and Microsoft offered a realistic appraisal of the technology industry’s latest buzzword, writes
GORDON SMITH
- Imagine Cup's vision for training device FIVE STUDENTS from Trinity College Dublin flew to Egypt yesterday to compete in an international technology competition with a medical training device that was the brainchild of a Dublin-based eye surgeon.
- Are we witnessing the 'death of software'? CLOUD COMPUTING fundamentally changes the relationship between a business and its software provider, according to Dr Steve Garnett, head of Salesforce. com in Europe.
- When the tools of the trade take over NET RESULTS: I LOVE the onward roll of technological innovation - the new machinery, gadgets, applications, capabilities, possibilities. But that progress often also means loss - of crafts, skills, traditions, whole other worlds of activity, writes
KARLIN LILLINGTON
- Innovators offered chance to build own start-ups POTENTIAL ENTREPRENEURS are being given the chance to develop their own high-quality start-ups with the support of a new intitiative.
- Creating a safe harbour for online surfing WIRED: European search engine start-ups face a quandary: is linking to infringingmaterial in itself illegal?
- A Treasure Trove For Hackers NUMEROUS LAPTOP thefts have highlighted poor corporate security practices and privacy protection in recent months. Companies however may be overlooking a source of potentially serious data leaks: employees who work at home, writes
KARLIN LILLINGTON
- The times they are a-changin' INBOX: WELL, THIS is my last column for
The Irish Times. Inbox is going to the great column graveyard in the sky. So before I go I'd like to impart a few thoughts, not about what gadget to buy, but about how to think about technology in a way that may help you with your future decisions, writes
MIKE BUTCHER
Ford's focus on performance results in a RS that's in a class of its own