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Google pleads the First – wants removal of gagging order on data requests News
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... -
€500k search for world’s top start-up to begin in Dublin News
18.06.2013 Tech start-ups will have the chance to pitch in front of some of the world's top tech investors at PITCH, a new €500,000 search for the world’s top start-up at the Dublin Web... -
Irish universities forge R&D pact with Japanese drugs giant Shionogi News
14.06.2013 Ireland’s top universities have entered into a collaboration pact with Shionogi, one of the largest pharmaceutical players in Japan and maker of the cholesterol drug Crestor. -
Google invests US$7m in bid to eradicate child abuse imagery online News
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...Categories: Web, Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, Search Engines, Search, Legal, Investments, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Apple reveals US law agencies made up to 5,000 data requests News
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... -
Weekend news round-up: Snoopgate fallout continues; Saudi Arabia to ban Whatsapp News
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... -
Cork software company clinches deal with Irish Revenue Commissioners News
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...Categories: Tax, Software & Web Development, Software, Search, Legal, Government, Development, Design, Deals Done -
The technology business week: EU to give consumers powers to sue tech giants, digital products to generate most media income News
17.06.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week.Categories: Apps, Deals Done, Digital Media, Financial, Games/Entertainment, Internet, Legal, Mergers & Acquisitions, R&D -
Ireland’s High Court orders six ISPs to block access to The Pirate Bay News
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 –... -
EU Commissioner Reding to take US to task over PRISM in Dublin this week News
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... -
Google asks US govt to report full scale of NSA data requests News
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... -
Mozilla, Reddit and 4chan join call for US Congress to stop NSA surveillance News
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...Categories: Social Media, Servers, Security, Search Engines, Search, Legal, Internet, Government, Digital Media -
Rabbitte appoints two new commissioners to ComReg News
11.06.2013 Ireland’s Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte, TD, has appointed two new commissioners to telecoms regulator ComReg during what he describes as a “critical time” in the... -
EU to give consumers powers to sue tech giants in anti-trust cases News
11.06.2013 A new proposal published today by the European Commission aims to give consumers the power to pursue legal actions against tech giants and cartels found to be behaving in an... -
Crowdfunding campaign launched to raise legal funds for Edward Snowden News
10.06.2013 A Crowdtilt crowdfunding campaign has been launched to raise legal fees for the NSA whistleblower and former CIA contractor Edward Snowden, who is currently in exile in Hong Kong. -
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg denies knowledge of PRISM News
08.06.2013 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed claims that the social networking platform cooperated with US intelligence bodies like the National Security Agency (NSA) in allowing... -
US intelligence boss slams reports alleging internet surveillance of citizens News
07.06.2013 The director of National Intelligence for the US Government James R Clapper has dismissed as “containing numerous inaccuracies” newspaper reports claiming intelligence agencies... -
I am Bradley Manning project ‘leaks’ video in support of whistleblower News
06.06.2013 Former United States Army private first-class Bradley Manning is facing life in prison for charges that he aided the enemy when he leaked military cables to Julian Assange’s... -
EFF rage at alleged gathering of phone data of millions of US citizens News
06.06.2013 The Electronic Frontier Foundation has responded angrily to reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US is alleged to be gathering data on private US citizens. It... -
Europe’s a 4G laggard because of a lack of regulatory certainty News
05.06.2013 Despite Europe being the original leader in terms of GSM and 3G technologies, the region is considerably behind the US and Asia when it comes to 4G. An expert warns that...