Three things that were different about the start-ups of SXSW 2013
Sara Morgan, the founder of Eleven Eleven Public Relations, tells us why start-ups at 2013’s South by Southwest were very different from those presenting last year. Sure, in a lot of ways, South by...
View Article2013: the year Google positions Chromebooks as proper Windows rivals
Chrome OS, Google’s ugly duckling of an operating system, might still be an interesting obscurity but today it’s come closer to turning into something more beautiful with the announcement that...
View ArticleGoogle Keep turns your Google Drive into an Evernote beater
Google has just released Google Keep, the search company’s competitor to the popular note-taking application Evernote. Describing it as “a new way to save what’s on your mind” Google Keep differs from...
View ArticleGoogle Street View documents Fukushima’s abandoned cities
“We will never give up taking back our hometown.” Those are the words of Tamotsu Baba, the Mayor of the Japanese city of Namie-machi. It’s been over two years since the city was struck by the March 11...
View ArticleThings I realized when using a Google Chromebook for the first time
When Steve Jobs launched the iPad in 2010 he described it as a different kind of device – neither a laptop nor a smartphone. This was a completely new species, and we were to use it differently and...
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Review: Canon takes on Instagram with the PowerShot N
I have a problem with Instagram. It’s not the whole hipster craze, or that it ditched Twitter as soon as it was bought out by Facebook, or that I now know exactly what my friends are eating at any...
View ArticleUK government to lead international “fight back” against cyber espionage
The British government is to fund the “fight back” against international cyber espionage, with the foundation of the world’s first centre for national cyber security. Like a 21 century Station X, “The...
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Google Ventures launches major seed capital fund for entrepreneurs working on...
Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers have formed the “Glass Collective”, an organisation which they say will support entrepreneurs who are developing...
View ArticlePrevent your start-up or small businesses from becoming a target for hackers
Hackers are coming after you. No longer are big businesses and international organisations the only targets for hackers, spammers, and scammers, now it’s all of us. Yesterday, one of the world’s...
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OK Glass, show us the future of the smartphone #throughglass
This week, many people have finally gotten to test run the much anticipated Google Glass for the first time (even in the shower), as Google begins to woo developers into designing new and innovative...
View ArticleYour next smart TV will be bendy, for some reason
It was about ten years ago when they started going flat, and getting larger. No long after they went super crisp, and they got smarter. Then, about this time last year, they gained another dimension....
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Sure, Google Glass emits radiation but it’s too early to start worrying
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? Even before the devices have gone on sale, and when only a dozen people are actually using them, we’re already seeing scare stories about the dangers of radiation...
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How to easily find any location’s coordinates with the Google Maps’ app
Here’s a challenge. If I gave you two minutes and access to the Google Maps Android or iOS app could you find the precise latitude and longitude of the Eiffel Tower? I wager that you won’t be able to....
View ArticleStarbucks and McDonalds, not Google or Nokia, will decide the future of...
Many of the day-to-day technologies we now take for granted have been brought about by corporate sponsorship, i.e. a single company or conglomerate throwing its weight behind one idea or another. The...
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Google Maps’ new satellite imagery captures a changing Dublin
The big G has released some nice updates to its maps of Ireland’s capital, so we can now view dear ol’ dirty Dublin in extra fine detail. With this update street markings are now clearer and generally...
View ArticleCould Microsoft be the next Apple?
It’s perhaps the most famous split in computing history, when Apple and Microsoft went their separate ways for good, but has everything come full circle? Quite some time ago, Apple and Microsoft had a...
View ArticleApple – US and EU authorities want to access your iCloud data
U.S. authorities asked Apple to hand over data belonging to nearly 3,000 users, during the first six months of 2013, the company announced today. The normally secretive Apple released the data as part...
View ArticleThe best tablets to buy this Christmas for kids (both big & small)
Christmas presents are the best and worst aspect of the festive season. The look on a relative, or friend’s face when you get it right can make it all worth while, the challenge of finding something...
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From 2015 cars in the EU will automatically call emergency services after...
When I think of smart technology I’ll admit to doing what many of us do, and look squarely at companies like Google and Apple; and not towards governments or other industries. But by focusing on...
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What your Leap Card knows about you
Public transport in Ireland is a mess. The country’s capital has two main rail lines, which aren’t connected; two tram-lines, which also aren’t connected (yet); it has more taxi drivers than it needs;...
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