Archive for the 'Business' Category
Incredible shrinking laptop (Business & Finance, 1st August 2008)
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008My tech article in the latest issue of Business & Finance is about mini-notebooks or ‘netbooks’ as they’re also known.
Most people following the laptop industry will know about the very successful and minute EeePC and this piece looks at the explosion of interest that has stemmed from its release as well as the ever-increasing variety […]
On The Last Word at half 6 to talk about smartphones
Thursday, July 24th, 2008I’ll be on The Last Word on Today FM this evening to talk about smartphones and iPhone rivals - something I recently had an article in Business & Finance magazine about (but ashamedly neglected to mention here).
You can tune in online, on your radio (100-102 FM in Ireland or on DAB) or via your digital […]
A positive Dell experience
Saturday, July 5th, 2008Having read Cian Ginty’s negative interaction with Dell tech support and having had my own trouble with their courier of choice, UPS, I braced myself for the worst when the power adaptor on my [10 month old] Vostro 1000 kicked the bucket last week.
So on Thursday I rang Dell up, expecting to be without any […]
Homework - Teleworking combats the daily commute (B&F - 19th June 2008)
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008The latest issue of Business & Finance (with a front cover story on corporate governance) has an article by yours truly on the problems stemming from “teleworking” or the mobile office.
The magazine is available in most shops or online if you’re a subscriber - I’ll put up the text of the article in the ‘Portfolio‘ […]
Sunday Tribune’s website get a facelift
Monday, June 16th, 2008The Sunday Tribune’s website has gotten a much-needed overhaul having had one of the worst web-presences in Ireland for some time now.
The new site features RSS feeds, comments, an archive dating back to 2000 and a breaking news service (not sure if this is in-house or taken from an existing news/wire service) - all of […]
Sure yer only fired, indeed and ye are
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008TV3 are looking for applicants to their version of The Apprentice, which will be headed up by none other than Dr. Bill Cullen, indeed and it will.
There doesn’t seem to be any details on what the winner will get (in terms of salary, contract, position etc.) but the programme’s mini-site (including application form) is here, […]
RTÉ to launch 24-hour online, mobile-accessible news channel (SBP - 8th June 2008)
Sunday, June 8th, 2008Below is an article of mine from today’s Sunday Business Post. The piece is about RTÉ’s plan to launch a 24-hour news channel online this coming week, which will stream the broadcaster’s news and current affairs programming as well as repeat it throughout the day.
For the moment there’s only limited scope for unique content on […]
O2’s iPhone conundrum
Thursday, June 5th, 2008While we won’t know for certain until Steve Jobs takes the stage in San Francisco next Monday (at 6pm Irish time), it is all but certain that the centre-piece of his keynote to the WWDC will be the 3G iPhone.
Precise specifications and details are sketchy but various reports suggest the new model will feature GPS, […]
The integrated newsroom
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008The Press Gazette yesterday published an interesting although somewhat vague article on The Guardian’s moves to the ‘integrated newsroom’, a term that is sure to become the buzz-word of the mainstream media in the coming months and years.
The Guardian’s mission, headed up by editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger, is to merge the editorial operations of The Guardian […]
After the goldrush
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008Excuse me for using an Neil Young song title for a post about the Tom Waits gig but as Fergal points out, there has been a touch of Waits-Fever online today as people finally got a chance to splash out on his upcoming Dublin gigs.
Having called in a few favours, dissolved a few assets and […]
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