19.06.2013 Citing the First Amendment, Google has petitioned the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court to allow it to publish aggregate numbers of national US security requests. In the fallout over the Edward Snowden/PRISM affair, the internet giant is fighting to maintain the most vital component in its relationship with users: trust.
19.06.2013 Transaction management software developer Openet has acquired University College Dublin (UCD) spin-out Forkstream for an undisclosed sum.
17.06.2013 Killarney, Co Kerry, is about to become the first town in Ireland to roll out complementary Wi-Fi to passers-by and tourists after signing a deal with Bitbuzz. The move follows the launch of Bitbuzz Freedom on Grafton Street in Dublin last year.
17.06.2013 In the fallout over revelations of the PRISM programme, technology giant Apple has said it does not provide any government agency direct access to its servers and revealed it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests for data from US law-enforcement agencies.
17.06.2013 The fallout over Edward Snowden’s leakage of sensitive information about US intelligence surveillance of the internet continues and tech giants are taking it upon themselves to disclose legal orders they have received. The question is this: is Snowden a hero or villain in light of new information that he may be working with China?
13.06.2013 Broadband subscriptions, both fixed and mobile, increased just 0.1pc on the previous quarter and stood at 1.6m at the end of March, ComReg reported in its latest market report.
13.06.2013 Thousands of new jobs may be on the cards in the construction of vital infrastructure in the areas of broadband, transport, energy and essential services after the Government of Ireland revealed that €6.4bn out of the National Pension Reserve Fund will be allocated to a new Strategic Investment Fund.
12.06.2013 Viviane Reding, the EU’s Justice Commissioner, has added her voice to the chorus of questions directed towards the US Attorney General over revelations surrounding PRISM, the US intelligence agencies’ data surveillance system. She will be raising the issue at a meeting with the US Attorney General Eric Holder in Dublin this week.
12.06.2013 In the latest development in a long-running battle between major music labels and Irish internet service providers (ISPs), the High Court of Ireland has ordered six ISPs – including Vodafone, UPC, Imagine, Digiweb, Hutchison Whampoa (3 Ireland) and Telefónica (O2 Ireland) – to block controversial torrent sharing site The Pirate Bay within the next 30 days.
12.06.2013 In a letter to the US Attorney General and the FBI, Google’s chief legal officer David Drummond has asked the US government to publicly reveal the full scale and volume of apparently secret court orders with which it is alleged to have opened up information to the National Security Agency via PRISM. “Google has nothing to hide,” Drummond said.
