Tech
# tech - Sunday 12 May, 2013
Weird Wide Web: Pizza, glass tweets, and a text pest
All of your essential tech and social media news for the week in one byte-sized portion.
# tech - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
Microsoft to update Windows 8 in bid to address complaints and confusion
The changes, part of a software package given the codename “Blue”, won’t be released to consumers and businesses until later this year
# tech - Sunday 5 May, 2013
Weird Wide Web: Atoms, bad dancing and a very odd shower scene
All of your essential tech and social media news for the week in one byte-sized portion.
Siri and Google Now on the meaning of life
(And other questions the Associated Press threw at them).
# tech - Sunday 28 April, 2013
The 13-year-old who will make you feel like an underachiever
A junior version of Dragon’s Den will hear from Jordan Casey who has his own gaming company and started coding at age 9.
# tech - Friday 26 April, 2013
Creation of 100 new tech jobs announced
More than 100 technology-related vacancies across three companies have been announced this morning.
# tech - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
Tech firms should be trying to please women – Microsoft researcher
Men design for other men, he argues – like the vibrate setting on a phone.
# tech - Saturday 13 April, 2013
Check out the desks of 13 successful tech people
Some like their own space, some sit with employees, some stand – and some don’t have a desk at all…
# tech - Sunday 7 April, 2013
The Irish start-up that went on a 3,000km road trip to success*
Meet the Soundwave guys whose photo travelogue shows how sometimes you have to take the road less travelled – literally – to get stuff done. *(fingers crossed)
# tech - Tuesday 2 April, 2013
Apple apologises to Chinese consumers after ‘double standards’ criticism
State media in China has criticised the company over customer service and returns policies.
# tech - Friday 29 March, 2013
9 ways Samsung’s Galaxy S4 is better than the iPhone 5
Them’s fighting words.
# tech - Sunday 17 March, 2013
Headphones read your brainwaves and pick music to suit your mood
Prototype shown at tech conference determine your mood – and play songs to match.
# tech - Friday 8 March, 2013
VIDEO: How Google’s offices looked back in 1999
Through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy.
# tech - Monday 4 March, 2013
How modern technology is destroying your posture at work
Recognise any of these nine bad positions?
# tech - Saturday 2 March, 2013
Now there’s an app that analyses your pee
It’s on the way – and it won’t involve you urinating on your phone…
# tech - Tuesday 26 February, 2013
Inventions wanted: Digital Irish dancing shoes, ‘keepy uppy’ counter
Some of Ireland’s brightest technical, design and artistic minds are coming together in Dublin to brainstorm solutions for unusual requests.
# tech - Sunday 17 February, 2013
Mark Zuckerberg: A life in quotes
Presenting the 15 quotes that define the CEO’s life in tech.
# tech - Sunday 10 February, 2013
Indoor trees and a slide: the perfect office?
Google offices never fail to impress but the ‘wild design’ is a new one on us…
# tech - Sunday 3 February, 2013
9 people who love tech brands so much they got tattoos of them
Cisco Systems on your bicep? Really?
# tech - Saturday 26 January, 2013
First numbers on Google’s bid to take on Amazon’s shopping business
The new “product listing ads” appeared to have taken off at the end of the final quarter of 2012.
# tech - Thursday 24 January, 2013
Twitter unveils new 6-second video app called Vine
The new feature allows users to take short looping videos which can be shared on social media.
Dublin to be studied in its capacity as a ‘smart city’
€2.3m grant will fund five years of research into how technology influences life in the capital.
# tech - Tuesday 22 January, 2013
Google’s revenue hits $50 billion for the first time
It’s good news for Google: the internet titan has reported rising profits and its highest revenue ever for 2012.
Microsoft in negotiations to buy struggling Dell – reports
Microsoft is considering investing billions in joining a takeover bid for Dell.
# tech - Sunday 20 January, 2013
Weird Wide Web: the week in online oddities
The internet’s best offerings in social media, tech and science news.
# tech - Saturday 12 January, 2013
PICS: Bendable phones, the ‘iPotty’… the latest in tech gadgets
Which one is your favourite?
# tech - Sunday 6 January, 2013
Weird Wide Web: the week in online oddities
The internet’s best offerings in social media, tech and science news.
# tech - Sunday 30 December, 2012
Weird Wide Web: the week in online oddities
The internet’s best offerings in social media, tech and science news.
# tech - Thursday 27 December, 2012
15 tips and tricks for your new Android phone
Get the most out of it.
15 tips and tricks for your new iPhone
Get the most out of it.
# tech - Sunday 23 December, 2012
How 20,000 pounds of potatoes brought wi-fi to airplanes
Spuds, glorious spuds, stood in for people in on-board tests.
Weird Wide Web: the week in online oddities
The internet’s best offerings in social media, tech and science news.
# tech - Sunday 16 December, 2012
Weird Wide Web: the week in online oddities
The internet’s best offerings in social media, tech, science and weird news.
# tech - Sunday 9 December, 2012
Weird Wide Web: the week in online oddities
The internet’s best offerings in social media, tech, science and weird news.
# tech - Sunday 2 December, 2012
Weird Wide Web: the week in online oddities
The internet’s best offerings in social media, tech, science and weird news.
# tech - Tuesday 27 November, 2012
Microsoft sold 750,000 XBox 360s over US holiday week
Blame Black Friday…
# tech - Sunday 25 November, 2012
Weird Wide Web: the week in online oddities
The internet’s best offerings in social media, tech, science and weird news.
# tech - Sunday 18 November, 2012
Weird Wide Web: the week in online oddities
The internet’s best offerings in social media, tech, science and weird news.
# tech - Sunday 11 November, 2012
Weird Wide Web: the week in online oddities
The internet’s best offerings in social media, tech, science and weird news.
# tech - Sunday 4 November, 2012
3D printing: this is what happens next
One US start-up finds that the potential to make any design come to life as a physical object is huge.





















































