Technology

Ireland may not get the full benefit of an €8m expansion by one the country’s most celebrated technology success stories because of retrograde income tax decisions and the lack of a proper, long-term national education strategy. Emmy Award-winning Havok is one of the world’s best-known games technology companies. Its physics middleware powers many of the top 10 global retail games, as well as special effects in top blockbuster Hollywood movies. The company, which grew from humble origins as a Trinity College Dublin campus spinout, was bought by Intel in recent years for over US$100m. Havok is planning to embark on the next phase of its growth and will invest €8m…

Multi-touch attribution is a crucial component of modern marketing, providing valuable insights into the customer journey and allowing businesses to allocate resources accurately and optimize their marketing efforts.

In the tech-heavy pit of the Dallas Ft. Worth area of Texas is an up-and-coming IT Wizard solving IT problems deemed “impossible” by other IT solution provider firms.

The Telecommunication Software & Systems Group (TSSG) at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) has announced the spin-off of FeedHenry, an award-winning software firm. Using a ‘cloud-computing’ model, FeedHenry is an ‘on-demand’ enterprise mobility solution that can be accessed over the internet. The software enables applications (apps) to be developed once and then used across all mobile platforms (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Nokia and so on). “FeedHenry provides an efficient and cost-effective way to create new products. Using this technology, companies no longer have to develop multiple versions of apps for each device. They create one version and with a few clicks can use it across a range of platforms. It also works…

AIM ends its long run, and believe it or not, there was a time when it was the most popular chat service. Sure, most of the users were bots, and the Spam was insane at times. My only question is, “What took so long?” In March 2012, AOL declared it was killing AIM and canning the 40 employees that worked on the project. So…it’s just been limping along with no updates for the last five years? Those 40 employees must be proud because no one noticed the zero updates. Facebook Messenger ultimately killed off any real reason to keep using AIM. Will there be anything that will be missed? Maybe…

At what first looked like a cyber attack on hospitals located in the UK, but it is now apparent that this malicious “ransomware software” has far spread all over the world. Even Russia and the United States have been hit hard. Experts are referring to this as cyber-crime, and some are going as far as cyber-terrorism. How ransomware works are rather simple. It will arrive in an email that seems harmless enough containing either a link or an attachment. If you click the link or open the attachment, the malicious software is downloaded onto your computer, locking all of your files and then it spreads to your network, locking other…