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Google versus Oracle tech dominance battle heads to US Supreme Court
- Technology
- October 6, 2020, 13:34
When a decade-long legal battle between Google and Oracle finally reaches the US Supreme Court this week, many in the tech industry will be following (...)

Noisy London, pricey Dublin and the Silicon Valley mansion with a ‘pizza room’
- Economy
- June 28, 2018, 16:45
In numbers 5,000 Number of people who had left reviews – mostly positive – of the Red Hen, in Lexington, Virginia, before the restaurant hit the n(...)

Google’s Eric Schmidt to step down as executive chairman
- Technology
- December 22, 2017, 06:57
Alphabet said on Thursday its executive chairman Eric Schmidt will step down in January, ending a 17-year-run in which he played a central role in bui(...)

Experience counts for little in tech’s young dream
- Work
- August 4, 2017, 07:04
Bob Crum finally bailed out of the tech industry last year, after four decades working for Silicon Valley companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Sun Micro(...)

Chris Horn: Irish startups have always had their eye on the great game
- Business
- November 24, 2016, 06:35
The Man from the IDA said: “Listen lads, you’re not playing in Croker.” We were three academic cofounders of a tech startup and, all told, we had har(...)

Post-PC era to give way to post-website era
- Business
- November 29, 2015, 07:00
‘A PC is a ridiculous device.” So Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison raged 20 years ago in September 1995, in a warm-up speech at an analyst confere(...)

The battle between surveillance, security and the right to privacy
- Technology
- June 18, 2015, 01:55
A decade ago, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties cautioned that the mobile phone was in essence, the equivalent of a personal tracking device, reco(...)

Open-source ethos moves from code to wider world
- Technology
- April 2, 2015, 01:00
Facebook showed plans last week for drone aircraft that can beam lasers conveying high-speed data to remote parts of the world. As powerful as that so(...)

Successful entrepreneur and brilliant mentor for Iona
- People
- July 5, 2014, 01:00
Kevin Melia, who has died in his adopted home of Massachusetts aged 67, was a phenomenally successful Irish entrepreneur who used his experience in th(...)

Remembering Kevin Melia, a brilliant mentor for Iona
- Business
- June 30, 2014, 01:05
I hadn’t “seen the movie before”. None of us had. I was a rookie chief executive, straight out of academia with our spin-out company Iona. My co-found(...)