You can’t simply “recreate” Silicon Valley in a place like Croatia, says Ivan Burazin. “We’re on the Mediterranean here”, he says, “most people are a little bit easygoing”. Instead Ivan is working to build a bridge, combining the best of both Eastern European and Silicon Valley culture. That bridge is called Shift, the conference which will be held next week […]
There has been an increase in Child Sexual Abuse Material traced to servers in Ireland according to the annual report of the Hotline.ie service, which was launched this morning by the Internet Service Providers Association of Ireland (Hotline.ie). The report covers the period from January to December 2013, during which 7 cases of Child Sexual Abuse […]
It certainly puts an end to arguments about who’s driving. Nobody is driving: the car is. Google’s self-driving car technology has been making headlines for years. Now they’ve taken to the next level by unveiling their very own driverless car. True to its core concept: it has no steering wheel! In a post on the Google blog, project director […]
There’s quite a few mixes out there that people have created using ringtones. This one is pretty damn good:
An Irish company has a unique new take on wearable computing which could revolutionise how we work out and relax. Lumafit is the brainchild of Darran Hughes and Steven Hughes who realised that the wrist is the wrong place to monitor exercise: there’s just too much going on there. Instead, the Lumafit is worn behind the ear, tracking the movement […]
It’s 2014. My mobile phone is more powerful by several multiples than the first desktop computer I bought. These days we interact with computers quickly and relatively easily and it’s getting easier and more intuitive all the time. For those of us who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s we’ve lived through the evolution […]
Update: Podcast from Today FM with Conn talking to Conall Ó Móráin on the Sunday Business Show. Google has bought Divide, makers of an app which divides your phone into separate areas for work and personal life. BYOD, “Bring Your Own Device”, is a trend in business, with many advantages, allowing employees to use the […]
In case you’re getting bored with talk of elections here’s Morgan Freeman on helium: http://youtu.be/DCpsusTta4w
“Net Neutrality” is a hot topic in the US at the moment, but it’s also something that the rest of us are keeping a very close eye on. But what exactly is it? This rather amusing rap video featuring “Tim Berners-Lee” helps to explain it (sort of):
In case you forgot that today was polling day in both the local and EU elections, Google’s got your back: Today’s Google doodle is a gentle reminder that the EU elections are on, with polling having opened over the last couple of days depending on which country you are in. All the media outlets will […]
