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Nice guys finish last

Sunday February 07 2010

Sir -- I am writing in response to Niamh Horan's article about searching for 'Mr Right'. In it, she rightly pointed out that many men are simply too afraid to approach a group of good-looking women, of which thankfully our city is full. Men mostly need a load of alcohol to muster the courage to talk to such women, by which time they are in no fit state to make a positive impression anyway.

We must find a new form of capitalism to take on China

Thursday February 04 2010

THE most important statements are often those that are left unsaid. Among the millions of words spoken at last week's World Economic Forum in Davos, the comment that nobody quite dared to utter was clear. After the crisis of 2007-9, the global capitalist system is in a period of transition, comparable to the great transitions of the 1930s and 1970s.

Gates donates $10bn in race to create vaccines

Saturday January 30 2010

AMERICAN billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates has pledged $10bn (€7.2bn) to advance vaccination work worldwide. His decision was reached as he pored over a 329-page compendium of World Bank data on development and disease in the early 1990s.

Apple: tablet expected to be announced tomorrow. Photo: Bloomberg News

iLove: Meet the Apple addicts

Tuesday January 26 2010

Tomorrow, when Steve Jobs walks out on stage to announce his company's latest super-gadget, millions of technophiles will watch with excitement bordering on religious fervour. Simon Usborne talks to the Macolytes, for whom Apple truly is the only fruit

Bill Gates said maintaining his Facebook profile had been 'way too much trouble' after being deluged by friend requests. Photo: Getty Images

Bill Gates launches his own website

Monday January 25 2010

Bill Gates, the founder of Windows-maker Microsoft, has launched a personal website for the first time, and is billing it as "An inside look at global matters".

Futurologist gives her predictions for 2010

Monday January 04 2010

You have to hand it to Marian Salzman. For someone known internationally as a media futurist it takes some self-confidence to confess that you thought Facebook was just a pointless student fad, and that your initial reaction to Twitter was that it was "a ridiculous thing".

Glenda and Johnny's love boat sails over our troubled waters

Sunday December 20 2009

IT is that time of year again. Time to pull the chair closer to the fire as I look back in anguish. Well, it was a weird year. Take GlenRo -- Xpose presenter Glenda Gilson and property icon Johnny Ronan. Last May, Johnny had his PR agent issue a press release stating: "For the record, and to end speculation in the press, Johnny Ronan would like to make it clear that any romantic relationship between him and Glenda Gilson during the past three years has ended." But Johnny -- who knew? (Well, of course I did -- but as you know, I never break a confidence.)

Mark - king of Facebook

Saturday December 19 2009

Skinny, freckled and ginger, Mark Zuckerberg has a face made for being shoved down the toilet bowl by the classroom bully. But nowadays Zuckerberg is the one who gets accused of throwing his weight around -- the 25-year-old wunderkind creator of Facebook is one of the most controversial figures in the tech industry, with human rights advocates warning his site plays fast and loose with privacy rights.

Some well-known faces pick their favourites reads

Saturday December 19 2009

Wise, elegant and entertaining, James Downey's In My Own Time: Inside Irish Politics and Society (Gill & Macmillan, €24.99) is an insider's guide to the political wildlife in our ravaged little State over the past four or five decades. The tone of the book may sound of another time, but Downey's is exactly the kind of voice we need to start listening to again as the tiger's carcass is hauled off into the jungle to be buried.

The rise and rise of the laptop

Thursday December 10 2009

BILL Gates, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft, once said: "We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be." This dream is still being realised, and at the forefront is mobile computing in the form of the ever-evolving laptop.