29.05.2008 Meet mobile’s maker
From a fledgling start-up in 1996, Oliver Coughlan has transformed mobile operator O2 from a voice and text network to a full broadband provider …

29.05.2008 Bubble 2.0: Are we about to witness another technology crash?
Eight years ago the Nasdaq reached its highest point in history due to the surge in valuations of dot.com companies with little to show for themselves other than a cool-sounding name. …

29.05.2008 The price for poor public awareness of technology
The rise in living standards in the western world has brought with it a decline in interest in the fields of technology, engineering and the ‘hard’ sciences which ironically are the driving force behind these rising standards, said the new president of Engineers Ireland. …

29.05.2008 Getting to know Dublin as a virtual explorer
A fully immersive, 3D, interactive, urban model for Dublin, named the Metropolis Project, will be introducing elements of assistive technology by developing games for people with disabilities to make full use of this Dublin city virtual environment. …

29.05.2008 ComScore acquires mobile measuring firm M:Metrics
Digital metrics firm ComScore has acquired M:Metrics, a specialist in measuring the mobile sector. …

29.05.2008 Earth calling developers
Google has brought its popular Google Earth feature to the browser. …

29.05.2008 BT signs €44m to boost 3’s mobile broadband network
Ireland’s second-largest telecoms operator BT has won a €44m contract to build and manage an expansion of 3 Ireland’s broadband network with backhaul that will support 7.2Mbps, rising to 14.4Mbps by 2009 and even beyond to 16Mbps. …