Archive for the 'Technology' 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 […]
Review: LG U990 / Viewty
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008The LG Viewty was probably one of the first off the block in response to the original iPhone and there’s no doubt that it was designed as a competitor to Apple’s device.
When comparing the spec-sheet of the Viewty against the iPhone you see a number of trade-offs - The Viewty has a microSD expansion […]
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‘ […]
New RTÉ channel will focus on free-to-air system (SBP - 22nd June 2008)
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008An article of mine on FTA satellite in Ireland is in today’s Sunday Business Post - you can find it here. The article is very much an overview of the state of FTA satellite in Ireland and the potential it now has considering the changes in content and availability.
The article has a brief look at […]
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 […]
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 Herald goes online
Thursday, June 5th, 2008As of yesterday Ireland’s Evening Herald newspaper has an online presence - over ten years after its sister ‘paper The Irish Independent went online and around thirteen years since The Irish Times did so.
The Evening Herald holds the somewhat surprising honour of being the first Irish national tabloid newspaper to be fully available online - […]
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