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From Business ETC HP Ireland

HP Ireland: job losses will impact ‘every business and region’

12 hours ago 1,894 Views 12 Comments

But there is no specific details for the 4,000 people currently employed at HP Ireland.

# technology - Yesterday’s News

From Business ETC HP

HP to cut 27,000 jobs from global workforce by late 2014

22 hours ago 3,610 Views 3 Comments

Company spokesperson told the BBC that it’s too early to say where exactly cuts will be made.

# technology - Friday 18 May, 2012

From Business ETC Better Fast Stronger This post contains videos

Google introduces Knowledge Graph – a ‘more human’ search function

Fri, 12:51 PM 2,917 Views 1 Comment

Google says ‘Knowledge Graph’ will help users to discover new information quickly and easily because it will understand the context involved in a search request.

From Business ETC Elevation

Bono’s wealth set to double in Facebook’s first day on markets

Fri, 8:46 AM 6,176 Views 80 Comments

Paul Hewson’s investment vehicle owns 1.5 per cent of the company – and will make a tidy packet in the IPO today.

# technology - Thursday 17 May, 2012

From Business ETC Facebook

Facebook to raise $16billion with $38 share price

Thu, 9:37 PM 3,563 Views 25 Comments

The move means the social media giant will break all records for a tech firm when it goes public tomorrow.

# technology - Monday 14 May, 2012

From Business ETC Happy Birthday This post contains images

Mark Zuckerberg turns 28 today: Here are 8 things you may not know about him

14/05/12 14,185 Views 14 Comments

Some life titbits about the man at the helm of Facebook.

# technology - Thursday 10 May, 2012

From The Daily Edge NO SPONGERS

Protect your Wi-Fi network with…wallpaper?

10/05/12 8,031 Views 33 Comments

Protect your web connection with wallpaper that will block out your neighbours.

No Limits

A robot, a song and a royal visit: big plans for Joanne O’Riordan

10/05/12 2,820 Views 5 Comments

The Cork teen also plans to visit the Philippines, fundraise for college and liaise with Apple and MIT researchers on new technologies.

# technology - Tuesday 8 May, 2012

From The Score Technology This post contains videos

VIDEO: Ghost goal wraps up Hibs’ win in relegation clash

08/05/12 706 Views No Comments

There was controversy at Easter Road as Hibernian guaranteed their top-flight survival with a 4-0 win against Dunfermline.

# technology - Monday 7 May, 2012

Daily Fix This post contains videos

The Daily Fix: Monday

07/05/12 5,326 Views 7 Comments

Our round-up of the day’s main stories – as well as the bits and pieces you may have missed.

From Business ETC Feathered Friends

Angry Birds generates over €80 million for creators Rovio

07/05/12 2,776 Views 1 Comment

Apps from the Angry Birds game series were downloaded 648 million times by the end of last year.

From The Daily Edge Spamtastic This post contains images

Meet the only man in Ireland who loves getting scam emails

07/05/12 8,334 Views 14 Comments

Illustrator Alan Dunne asks his friends to send him on their funniest spam scam emails – so that he can make wry and funny works of art from their stories.

# technology - Saturday 5 May, 2012

From Business ETC Opinion

Column: Why does a tech startup succeed? Here’s the recipe…

05/05/12 5,000 Views 16 Comments

Did you know the most promising startup founders in the US are from Limerick? John Gleeson looks at what we can learn from them.

# technology - Thursday 3 May, 2012

From Business ETC Samsung

Samsung reveals new flagship Galaxy smartphone

03/05/12 10,092 Views 64 Comments

Samsung’s much-anticipated Galaxy S III – the biggest competitor to Apple’s iPhone – will go on sale in Europe on May 29.

From Business ETC Cyberattack

DDoS attack forces UK serious crime agency offline

03/05/12 1,047 Views 1 Comment

SOCA says attack poses no risk to its data.

# technology - Friday 27 April, 2012

From The Score 21st Century This post contains a poll

About time: FIFA to test goal-line technology

27/04/12 344 Views 1 Comment

The powers that be will test out a GoalRef system in the Danish league and Hawkeye in Hampshire this summer.

Technology

‘Build me a robot’: Irish teen’s challenge to tech community

27/04/12 3,637 Views 22 Comments

Joanne O’Riordan, who has no limbs, told UN conference that “technology is the limb I never had”.

# technology - Tuesday 24 April, 2012

Space Mines

High-tech project aims to mine asteroids in space

24/04/12 2,272 Views 17 Comments

The plan’s investors and advisers include Google’s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt and explorer and filmmaker James Cameron.

# technology - Sunday 22 April, 2012

From The Daily Edge Attacks

Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads

22/04/12 6,749 Views 2 Comments

The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.

From Business ETC Inventive

Irish inventions helping those with sight loss

22/04/12 2,255 Views No Comments

National Council for the Blind (NCBI) promoting digital inclusion with competition to encourage creative technologies like these…

# technology - Friday 20 April, 2012

From Business ETC Pinterest

“Pinterest is a phenomenon that’s extraordinary,” says Google M&A chief

20/04/12 3,916 Views No Comments

David Lawee, Google’s mergers and acquisitions chief, is clearly impressed with the pinboard site.

From Business ETC Josbwatch

Apple to create 500 jobs at Cork operation

20/04/12 5,493 Views 52 Comments

The jobs will be added in the next year and a half.

# technology - Wednesday 18 April, 2012

From Business ETC Instagram

Instagram sought $2 billion for Facebook deal

18/04/12 3,552 Views 3 Comments

Mark Zuckerberg surprised Facebook directors with news of the deal last week, according to reports of their negotiations.

# technology - Thursday 12 April, 2012

Good News

Irish company to produce medical device invented at UL

12/04/12 3,482 Views 6 Comments

The device will help improve success rates in angioplasty procedures.

# technology - Thursday 5 April, 2012

From Business ETC Technology This post contains images

Photo-sharing site Instagram launches Android app

05/04/12 2,805 Views 20 Comments

Android smartphone users- the wait is over…

# technology - Wednesday 4 April, 2012

From Business ETC Nerdgasm This post contains a poll This post contains videos

These are Google’s new augmented reality glasses – but what can they do?

04/04/12 15,271 Views 57 Comments

The internet giant has unveiled one of its most radical technologies yet: wearable computing.

# technology - Tuesday 3 April, 2012

From The Daily Edge This Is Love This post contains videos

VIDEO: So floppy disk drives ARE not obsolete after all

03/04/12 3,414 Views 16 Comments

They can reproduce a cheesy 1990s dance hit. That’s alright then.

# technology - Friday 30 March, 2012

From Business ETC Your Say This post contains a poll

Poll: Would low-paid workers report put you off buying Apple products?

30/03/12 5,917 Views 96 Comments

Independent investigation found “significant issues” with work conditions and pay at Apple supplier factories. Would it make you think twice about buying Apple goods?

# technology - Tuesday 27 March, 2012

From Business ETC Gadgets

Well, it turns out that whole ‘iPad gets too hot’ thing was a bunch of crap

27/03/12 7,843 Views 34 Comments

PCWorld tests show it’s no worse than Android tablets, and possibly not as hot as some laptops.

# technology - Tuesday 20 March, 2012

From Business ETC Apple

New iPad: Three million sold in first weekend

20/03/12 3,722 Views 40 Comments

The company has called the release of the new device last Friday Apple’s “strongest iPad launch yet”.

# technology - Friday 16 March, 2012

From The Daily Edge Google Doodle

Irish teenager’s doodle takes over Google homepage

16/03/12 5,231 Views 12 Comments

Sixth-year student Patrick Horan’s design represents the mechanisms of a clock.

# technology - Friday 9 March, 2012

Jobswatch

50 jobs created in Dublin by jobs search engine company

09/03/12 2,254 Views 5 Comments

Indeed has opened its European headquarters in Dublin and says the jobs will be in sales and customer support functions.

One Year In

TheJournal.ie’s progress report for the Government: Communications, technology

09/03/12 547 Views 3 Comments

How has Pat Rabbitte gotten on in implementing the promises of the Programme for Government? We’ve had a look.

# technology - Wednesday 7 March, 2012

From Business ETC Ipad 3

Here’s your iPad 3 rumour round-up ahead of Apple’s expected unveiling

07/03/12 3,702 Views 8 Comments

Will this evening’s Apple event reveal the next iPad?

From Business ETC Technology

Dramatic surge in number of smartphones and tablets in Ireland

07/03/12 4,611 Views 33 Comments

New research carried out by Red C found that 49 per cent of Irish people own a smartphone while 16 per cent own a tablet.

# technology - Tuesday 6 March, 2012

From The Daily Edge Bad Robots This post contains videos

Pole-dancing, kissing, bicycling automatons: 6 strange robots

06/03/12 1,904 Views 5 Comments

A pair of pole-dancing robots have been doing the rounds at tech conferences, the latest in a series of ‘what were they thinking?’ inventions…

# technology - Thursday 1 March, 2012

New Earth Army

Mind-control warfare could soon become ‘a reality’

01/03/12 3,155 Views 14 Comments

A “Star Wars future” may soon be a reality, with significant advances being made on technologies that allow weapons to be controlled by the mind.

From Business ETC Raspberry Pi

Credit card-sized computer launched

01/03/12 4,911 Views 34 Comments

The Raspberry Pi, which costs less than €30, went on sale yesterday – and the demand for it crashed the supplier’s website.

# technology - Tuesday 28 February, 2012

From Business ETC Ipad 3

Apple expected to unveil iPad 3 at event next week

28/02/12 8,643 Views 57 Comments

Invitations were sent to the news media today with it widely anticipated that the latest version of Apple’s hugely successful tablet will be unveiled.

# technology - Sunday 26 February, 2012

Syria

Minister to investigate whether Irish technology being used in Syrian repression

26/02/12 3,260 Views 15 Comments

Richard Bruton is to examine suggestions that technology supplied by two Irish companies has been linked to the blocking and filtering of text messages in the troubled country.

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Poll: Are you satisfied with your quality of life?

Poll: Are you satisfied with your quality of life?

A NEW REPORT from the OECD has suggested people living in Ireland have some of the best lives in the world, with Ireland among the top countries in its Better Life Index.

The index finds that life expectancy, low pollution, positive experiences and a healthy work-life balance are among the factors that contribute to happy lives in Ireland.

It did note, however, that the gap between the rich and poor is wider in Ireland than elsewhere, while the gender gap in educational performance is also larger than average.

Today we’re simply wondering whether (assuming you live in Ireland) you’re satisfied with your quality of life.


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Phil Hogan is planning to introduce new regulations which are meant to make for better buildings. He’s making a major mistake, writes Mike Morris.

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Column: Who are the winners and losers in the referendum campaign right now?
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With nine days to go before referendum day, Dr Jane Suiter of UCC analyses the parties and the latest polls to see how the campaign is playing out.

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Column: Job creation is too important for party politics. Let’s work together.
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Writing for TheJournal.ie, Micheál Martin explains why Fianna Fáil’s new plan to tackle youth unemployment should be seriously considered.

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Column: National pride or bald-faced bigotry? Maybe neither, or both.
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Being proud to be Irish is sometime looked on as a social gaffe, writes Lisa McInerney, but that’s not always fair… and it’s not always the best way to figure out who really is racist…

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