Premium Adrian Weckler Opinion With grey hair come graphics – when emojis betray your age Do you liven up your texts with a crying-laughing emoji?
The Big Tech Show: What Buffalo can teach Dublin “10 years ago, we were sitting around drinking coffee and talking about Facebook and Twitter. Then we just decided to start doing things. Last month, one of our local startups IPO’d at $4bn.”
Gallery Ask Adrian: Can you recommend a digital camera that is not too complex for a beginner? Question I would like to invest in a digital camera. A friend mentioned that you are the go-to in terms of advice on cameras. He purchased a Canon EOS 750D for €450 a few years ago. Could you possibly recommend a model of camera for a similar budget? I am tired of taking photos with my phone. I need a camera that is not too complex for a beginner but one where I can become creative over time. I would like it for taking pictures of landscapes, animals and people.
Gallery Dublin startup Tines raises €22m in VC funding DUBLIN-based software company Tines has raised $26m (€22m) from venture capital investors in a move that values the company at $300m.
Premium Adrian Weckler Opinion Facebook’s response to latest data leak has been inadequate but it still won’t see a user exodus “It's not our problem.”
Premium Watch your back, fitness brands – Coros is showing athletes what wearables should be Coros is not a fitness watch marque that too many here will have come across before. But it recently launched into the Irish and UK market with a couple of interesting wearables focused squarely on those who take sports and fitness seriously.
Premium The light fantastic: Dyson Morph lamp will brighten up your room and your Zoom Of course, €550 is a lot to spend on a desk lamp. But if you plump for Dyson’s latest Lightcycle Morph, you get more than just looks.
Premium Ausounds buds offer a clear and delicate sound Yes, it’s yet another pair of wireless earbuds professing to have active noise cancellation.
Facebook denies blame over leaked list of 1.3m Irish mobile phone numbers The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has criticised Facebook for a lack of communication over how and when at least 1.3 million Irish mobile phone numbers came to be publicly leaked and shared.
How to check whether your mobile number is in the Facebook data leak Irish Facebook users caught up in the leak of over a million mobile numbers can now check whether their number is affected.
Facebook’s data leak of 1.5m Irish mobile numbers is a stalker’s paradise Thanks to Facebook’s leak of 1.5m Irish account details, it took me about 30 minutes to find the mobile numbers of almost everyone I know.
Premium Adrian Weckler Opinion E-bikes to earbuds and smart sunglasses too: seven gadgets to help you as lockdown eases This month will see us free from 5km boundaries and able to meet friends out and about. The brighter, warmer weather also means more outdoors or garden time with our work laptops.
Gallery Irish artist has netted €1m from digital token boom AN Irish conceptual artist who once sold a picture of a potato for €1m has made a similar amount of money from the sale of digital artworks over the past month.
The Big Tech Show: The WWE’s Irish tech media king This week, Adrian talks to Markham Nolan, the WWE’s VP of Media Operations.
Irish digital artist makes over €1m from NFT sales this year Kevin Abosch, an Irish artist, photographer and technology entrepreneur, has made over €1m in sales of non-fungible token (NFT) digital art in the last month.
Premium Samsung’s Galaxy A52 won’t set the world alight, but it won’t burn a hole in your pocket either On paper, Samsung’s new Galaxy A52 appears to be something close to the perfect compromise between flagship-like features and affordability.
Gallery Premium Make the right call when choosing the best Android for you Which top Android phone is worth your attention? Which one should you give a miss? Here’s a guide to the ones to target for your next upgrade and the ones not to bother with.
Welltel in €4m deal to boost its services Dublin-based IT communications firm Welltel is to pay the Portuguese call centre technology firm, Talkdesk, €4m to offer Talkdesk’s services in the Irish market.
Facebook will let you limit comments on posts to stop trolls Facebook is introducing a new feature that lets users control who is allowed to comment on their posts.
Impact of streaming services revealed as 40pc now watch less traditional television Around 40pc of Irish people now watch less traditional programming or have given up watching it entirely.
Gallery Premium Ask Adrian: Credit disappearing on phones, HDMI port issues, smartphones for the elderly and iPad advice Question
Gallery Regulator says 40pc of us are watching less traditional TV as Netflix grabs more viewers Ireland’s telecoms regulator says that 40pc of Irish people watch less traditional television programming or have given it up altogether.
Amazon’s anti-union fight heats up as Twitter suspends fake employee accounts Twitter has begun suspending fake accounts purporting to be owned by Amazon employees who claim to be against unionisation.
Apple’s Irish staff donated €2m to charity in 2020 Apple’s Irish employees donated €2m to charities in 2020, giving up 115,000 hours to support different causes.
Gallery Microsoft says Ireland should have 'a bigger voice’ on EU regulation Microsoft would like Ireland to have “a bigger voice” in influencing European regulation on technology issues, according to the company’s senior European policy director.
Gallery Investment in tech surges as Irish firms raise €1.2bn Irish tech funding reached a record €1.2bn in 2020, as the pandemic turned investors’ attention toward software, health and financial technology.
Premium Adrian Weckler Opinion How much am I bid for this tweet? Digital art makes a token effort For sale: this sentence. Only used once. Comes with blockchain certificate. A bargain at €1m.
The Big Tech Show: Lights, camera, action... for your Zoom calls and home working setup This week, Adrian looks at the best webcams, cameras, lights and microphones for video-conferencing and Zoom calls from home.
Gallery Premium Ask Adrian: Slipping sim cards, printers that have lost connection and upgrading from a Huawei smartphone Question
Imagine draws down more cash to keep its rural expansion going Imagine has drawn down a further €4m of the €120m in cash investment agreed with Canadian investor Brookfield Asset Management as it continues its rural broadband expansion.
