You can hear a pin drop in this latest video from TED, as an audience listens to Monica Lewinsky share her unique insight on global public humiliation. For almost 20 years, Monica Lewinsky has suffered the consequences of a mistake she made as a 22-year-old intern. But those consequences were amplified and made much worse, […]
World Wide Web Inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has spoken out about the Internet culture of misogyny which has seen abuse, shaming, doxing and threats to the physical safety of women involved in online discourse. Sir Tim was taking part in a Reddit Ask-Me-Anything chat yesterday to launch maketechhuman, a new joint initiative from WIRED and Nokia, created to […]
As International Women’s Day is celebrated this week, a new report compiled by the Clinton Foundation together with the Gates Foundation, claims that access to the Internet is a key factor when it comes to improving women’s participation in educational, economic and societal opportunities. The Full Participation Report is driven by a ‘big data’ approach to over 850,000 data points, collected […]
BT has expanded its range of broadband and Wi-Fi extender products with the launch of the new Mini WiFi 500 Home Hotspot kit and the 11ac Dual-Band Wi-Fi Extender 1200. With more than 90 million Wi-Fi devices sold in the UK last year, tablets and Wi-Fi devices are becoming more commonplace in homes. Customers want […]
Nitro, the Australian founded, San Francisco headquartered, document management company are having a week-long recruitment drive for their EMEA HQ in Dublin, culminating in a talk by their Director of Engineering, Brendan Dillon at Career Zoo tomorrow at 2:30pm. They’ve been busy promoting their ‘work hard – play hard’ corporate culture, which they’ve nicknamed ‘The Wombat Republic‘, in a a […]
Child sexual abuse is a distressing subject to think about, but it’s important not to let that get in the way of playing our part in the fight against it. For this reason, INHOPE, the global network of Internet hotlines, which includes Hotline.ie, has produced a video explaining its work, and the important role played by members […]
Today’s podcast was recorded in the office of CEO Michele Neylon at Blacknight HQ. He’s just returned from two weeks in Las Vegas where he attended CES, followed by Namescon. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 23:31; 13MB; MP3. CES was simply huge, says Michele. One thing that caught […]
A Deloitte report released today analyses Facebook’s impact on the global economy. Some headline takeaways: Facebook enabled $227bn of economic impact Enabled 4.5m jobs globally in 2014. The full report, which was commissioned by Facebook, goes into more detail about how Facebook’s impact was felt in various regions of the world, but the graphic below […]
In 25 years working in radio, there’s one piece of advice I heard early and often: if you see a microphone, you should always assume it is ‘live’. The same should probably go for webcams. The news today that a Russian website has been discovered which aggregates the feeds from over 4500 cameras worldwide has […]
Remember payphones? They used to be everywhere, distinctive green and yellow in Ireland, red in Britain. These days you might find one in a retro pub, a nod to the ‘good old days’. Nowadays we don’t just all have phones in our pockets: we’ve got media hubs, portable WiFi hotspots, TVs – and TV stations! So we […]
