PAT QUIRKE, from PFQ.ie, spent 20 minutes tonight in front of 24 people, explaining the evolution of his business from a brochure site to a blog and onto Twitter. His audience was attending a Clonmel Chamber of Commerce event in Tippperary Institute,...

EVERY TIME I watch a Qik clip from Barry Meehan and every blog post I read from his cycling shop, I feel guilty for idling my panniers. In an earlier life, I dropped more than a thousand of today's euros into cycling during a time when I rode 14 mile...

ALONG WITH 23 OTHERS, I spent part of the evening learning about how people who are addicted to selling fit an internet presence into their working lives. These are not idle tweeple (people with time to tweet more than 40 times a day) nor have they the...

BUFFERING POWER--the one thing that has kept me away from ultraportable laptops. I'm always in search of ways to improve local buffering when I've done all I can to the bitstream itself. Sometimes Chrome gives me better buffering than Firefox. Killing...

IRELAND SECURED AN important portfolio in the European Commission when Maire Geoghegan-Quinn was allocated the research and innovation portfolio in Brussels. The EUR 53bn budget she will oversee is central to providing high quality jobs and prosperity...