Avast Appoints McNamee as CPO

Avast Appoints McNamee as CPO

Oct. 14, 2020 – Avast, a global leader in digital security and privacy products, has announced the appointment of Shane McNamee as Chief Privacy Officer. McNamee will oversee Avast’s global privacy strategy and drive the company’s privacy-by-design...
Outline for Ireland Digital Future

Outline for Ireland Digital Future

16-year-old Ciara Judge and Eventbrite’s Renaud Visage deliver keynote addresses at Silicon Republic’s Digital Ireland Forum. In attendance at Silicon Republic’s sixth annual Digital Ireland Forum in The Convention Centre, Dublin, were: Alex White...

Consumers Online spend billions

An estimated 3.7bn euro was spent by Irish consumers online in 2012 however 73% of that was spent on overseas websites.  Google Breakfast Briefings Google today announced it will hold a series of breakfast briefings to show Irish businesses how they can take advantage...
Avoid Cybercriminals

Avoid Cybercriminals

You almost certainly use the Internet to access your financial accounts and statements associated with those accounts. That makes you vulnerable to cybercrime. Avoid Cybercriminals My friend and co-founder of the Money Club in Chiangmai, Thailand, has written this...
Lenovo to buy IBM server unit

Lenovo to buy IBM server unit

Chinese PC maker Lenovo Group Ltd has agreed to buy International Business Machine Corp’s low-end server business for $2.3 billion in what would be China’s biggest technology deal. The long-expected acquisition comes nearly a decade after Lenovo bought...

Programme unites business ideas

People with clever digital business start-up ideas and people interested in getting involved in developing these start-ups have a golden opportunity to do just that through NDRC’s unique Swequity Exchange programme NDRC’s Swequity Exchange will bring...
Infosecurity Welcomes Safer Internet Day

Infosecurity Welcomes Safer Internet Day

The organisers of the Infosecurity Europe Show – held each April in London – are fully supporting the laudable aims of Safer Internet Day, which takes place this year on February 5th, noting that effective education on how to use the Internet –...
Demand on Facebook passwords ban

Demand on Facebook passwords ban

Employers in California and Illinois will be prohibited from demanding access to workers’ password-protected social networking accounts and teachers in Oregon will be required to report suspected student bullies thanks to new laws taking effect in 2013. In all,...

High-Tech Start-Up Awards

9 new ventures to compete for a €35,000 prize fund University College Dublin (UCD) will showcase the latest high-tech and knowledge-intensive ventures emerging from UCD research programmes during the annual NovaUCD start-up awards evening next week. Among the 9...