Inside View

My Top Items of Technology for 2008

MOTIVATED BY JAMES CLAY on Jaiku, I'm also listing the top 10 technologies that served me well throughout 2008. Here are my most useful items of technology, in reverse order.

2008 Most Valuable Technology

MY NOKIA E90 is the most valuable item of technology in my life for the year 2008. I consider this ultraportable computer to be well-capable as my main office connection during the day and as the primary connection to my extended family ...

Consumer Technology Successes 2008

EACH JANUARY, I WISH I had a generous expense account so I could plunge into the new offers revealed during CES. I have a wishlist that would make home entertainment more enjoyable, create closer links to my extended family, and reduce p...

Sunday Tech News from Ireland

ON A DAY WITHOUT wifi broadband and using a Nokia E90 that appears to have a smudged lens, I've recorded a short Qik video (in two segments because my memory was saturated) gleaned from reading the Sunday newspapers in Ireland. The first...

They Could Teach Us

ON THE FLOOR of the 2007 BT Young Scientist Exhibition in Dublin, I was drawn to several exhibitions that showed a keen awareness of technology. Most of those exhibits were nothing new to tech bloggers but they showed a willingness by te...

Karlin Spots Five

IN THE FINANCE section of the Irish Times, Karlin Lillington (below, left) fingers "the next five big things" and I think she's pulling some material from the rough notes of a few board meetings I've heard discussed in the Horseshoe Bar ...

DAVE with my mobile phone

SEAGATE rolled out public demonstrations of its DAVE storage platform, a technology that allows me to store and share my mobile media on one device for easy access. With DAVE, I can combine the audio and video files that I download onto ...

Ireland's Digital Learning Framework (DLF)

AS 2018 OPENS, I'm keen to see if the innovative use of digital technologies I've used with Ireland's Youth Media Team can be channeled to support part of the proposed Digital Learning Framework.

Technology in a deaf world

KILKENNY -- Tomorrow morning, anyone walking past Langton's pub in Kilkenny will have to make way for the double-wide stack of kegs stacked three high after the All-Ireland celebrations. I took that walk last year and met Michael Brown a...

Excellence in Information Technology

CLONMEL HOTSPOT -- When searching for “information technology excellence” using using Google, only one page shows up from Ireland. And that concerns a 1999 Eircom award for Ennis.Excellence Ireland and Tipperary Institute intend to chang...