17.06.2013 Internet giant Google is to step up its efforts to eradicate child abuse imagery online and is investing US$5m as well as supporting organisations in the frontline fighting this horrific crime. It is also establishing a US$2m Child Protection Technology fund to develop more effective tools to locate children and prosecute perpetrators.
17.06.2013 It is gatherings galore in Dublin this week. As well as a meeting of Europe’s digital clusters in the Irish capital tomorrow, representatives from the IT, environmental and community space are descending upon Dublin today to start a three-day workshop about how to go about pursuing a low-carbon, digital economy.
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?
16.06.2013 Google has unleashed another fantastic interactive doodle especially to mark Father’s Day. The interactive doodle on the Google homepage works by hitting the second ‘o’ in Google and it spins to depict fathers as we know them best: working, enjoying sports, gardening, doing DIY and barbequing.
14.06.2013 Cork-based software company Documatics has beaten off local and international competition to secure a tender to provide the legal department at Ireland’s taxation authority, the Revenue Commissioners, with case-management software.
13.06.2013 Despite having a user base of more than 1.1bn people who comment and share on every aspect of life as we know it, the world's biggest social network didn't have a hashtag function. Until now. Facebook revealed yesterday it has finally launched hashtags to help people organise, amplify, discover and discuss issues.
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.
11.06.2013 Internet firms Mozilla, Reddit and 4chan have joined their voices with 86 other organisations, including Access and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, urging US lawmakers to immediately halt its PRISM web snooping programme.
10.06.2013 Cherished children’s writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak would have been 85 today and, to celebrate, Google has turned its homepage into an animated doodle based on some of his best-known books.
05.06.2013 Bill Gates along with Tenaya Capital have invested US$35m in a C funding round in open science era network ResearchGate. The network aims to remove archaic silos of science and intelligently connect scientists with data and resources.
