We have the Technology, We need Ethics to Match – Prof Barry Smyth, CEO Insight [Video]
Fujitsu brought their 2014 World Tour to the Convention Centre in Dublin last week. Professor Barry Smyth, CEO of the Insight Research Centre for Data Analytics, gave a talk entitled From Small Sensors to Big Data: The
If Google was a Guy – Part 2
You may have seen the original comedy video which imagined Google as an extremely patient, long suffering man. Well College Humor have made a sequel, featuring NSA spying, Google Doodles, Google Glass and a guy who wants to buy
Google & Bing Block Child Abuse Images
Eric Schmidt (Photo credit: Wikipedia) We talk a lot about freedom of speech and net neutrality on technology websites such as this. Information should be free; search engines should not censor; and people should
Facebook “Law” Explained
Over the last few days you'll probably have seen lots of your friends posting a completely pointless and quite inane update to their Facebook wall to "protect" themselves. The guys over at College Humor have broken
The Full Reveal [Podcast #46]
This week's podcast was recorded on Thursday night last as Michele prepared to depart for ICANN in Toronto. It should have been posted on Friday, but I screwed up! Once again we struggled with hotel WiFi
Yahoo! And Bing To Launch Google Adsense Competitor
In the world of "contextual advertising" ie. where ads are displayed based on a web page's content, Google's Adsense has dominated the market for the last decade. While there have been several attempts by other companies
