20.06.2013 Microsoft has just demonstrated the kind of flexibility and empathy with its customers that seemed up until now impossible for tech giants of its stature: it has reversed a controversial digital rights policy that would have made it impossible for users to share a game for its forthcoming Xbox One console more than once.
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.
18.06.2013 Video games and software entrepreneur Dylan Collins’ next big venture Box of Awesome has begun shipping to Ireland. Box of Awesome, which offers the digital and 21st-century equivalent of the lucky bag, has already grown into a community of 100,000 boys and girls ages 8-14 in the UK.
18.06.2013 Venerable university Trinity College Dublin is to offer free Open Online courses worldwide as part of a new global partnership with Futurelearn, which was founded by the Open University.
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 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 Eight digital clusters from around Europe, including Dublin’s Digital Hub, are to gather in the Digital Depot this Tuesday. The gathering precedes the European Digital Agenda Assembly at Dublin Castle on Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 June as part of Ireland’s EU Presidency.
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?
17.06.2013 A look at gadget happenings, as two curious tech fiends delve inside Google Glass, Sony claims it has a big surprise coming, Nokia’s EOS appears on the horizon, the new Xbox One accessories arrive, images of a new Samsung Galaxy camera are leaked online and the brand’s mobile range grows even wider.
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.
