21.05.2013 A hearing will take place in the US Senate today to examine the strategies employed by multinational corporations to shift profits offshore in order to avoid taxes. Specifically, Apple and its Irish subsidiaries will be in the hot seat, as a report claims the tech giant is using Ireland as a “tax haven”.
22.02.2013 Connecting more than 1bn people in the world and enabling them to share their information and views is a lofty goal that is going to come with its share of problems. But the recent suicides of Irish teenagers due to online bullying has hardened public opinion on social networks in a country where Facebook has centred much of its global operations.
05.11.2012 LegalPanda.ie is a new Irish website that’s aiming to be an online hub for Ireland’s legal profession. The site features a legal directory of qualified solicitors across Ireland, while it also has a community-based Q&A section.
13.07.2012 Last night things came full circle at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), as one of the world’s leading scientists in the field of genomic research, Dr J Craig Venter, gave a lecture entitled ‘What is life? – a 21st century perspective’. Venter was taking on the mantle from a lecture that was given in February 1953 at TCD by physicist Erwin Schrödinger entitled ‘What is Life?’. That 1953 lecture is now deemed by scientists to have been pivotal in having helped to inspire the discovery of the structure of DNA.
25.03.2012 Our tech start-up of the week is Cernam, a new spin-in based at NovaUCD that is pioneering technologies to change the face of digital evidence and forensics in the web space.
08.02.2012 Dublin is gearing up to be the sixth city in the world to host an international Science Hack Day after London, San Francisco, Mexico City, Cincinnati and Cape Town. Running from 3–4 March, Science Hack Day Dublin will be a free, 36-hour event to give scientists, engineers, programmers and designers the opportunity to brainstorm and find solutions for scientific issues.
20.01.2012 The lead sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) legislation, Republican Senator Lamar Smith, has revealed he will be postponing a SOPA markup hearing on the bill after taking into account people’s concerns about the controversial act.
19.01.2012 Just days after the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was shelved in the US Congress, an equally controversial piece of legislation, Protect IP Act (PIPA), that also contained draconian measures that would foul up the internet has been opposed by 13 senators in the US Senate.
30.11.2011 Samsung Electronics has gleaned a significant victory over Apple today in the tablet battle between the two tech giants, as a court of judges in Australia has today lifted a temporary ban on sales of Samsung tablet devices Down Under.
27.09.2011 Korean electronics giant Samsung has retaliated against Apple getting its Galaxy S smartphone banned in certain EU markets by asking a Dutch court to also ban Apple iPhone and iPad devices.
