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Archive of posts filed under the Technology category.

Cloud Computing – Security Implications

I’ve been working for a while on a policy and associated procedures for Trinity College Dublin to enable us to leverage various cloud technologies and services for the benefit of the college. What has struck me is the complexity of dealing with the topic in a large-scale environment. As consumers, many of us use cloud [...]

Inspiring Talk by Venky Narayanamurti at Science Gallery

I went along this evening to a pretty full lecture theatre in Trinity College’s Science Gallery to listen to Venky Narayanamurti of the Harvard Kennedy School speaking on the subject of science, technology and society. He is a man clearly passionate about his topic and spoke with conviction, vigour, animation and not a little humour. [...]

Society’s Grand Challenges: What Is The Role of Science and Technology?

Professor Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Harvard Kennedy School Director of Science, Technology and Public Policy will speak on “The Role of Science and Technology in Meeting Societal Grand Challenges” in the Science Gallery’s Culture of Science lecture series at Trinity College Dublin.

OpenDNS Does The Business For Irish Web Users

Thanks to a numbed of Tweeters, I was referred to OpenDNS, which is a provider of free security and infrastructure services that make the Internet safer through integrated Web content filtering, anti-phishing and DNS. I had to sign up for a free account, which was very easy to do and took just a few minutes. Once this was done, I changed the DNS entries in my broadband router and I was up and running on the web again.

Evernote Keeps Me Organised On The Move

Evernote enables users with an Evernote account to store snippets of information, thoughts, pictures, documents, etc on the web. I regularly write notes and post-its to myself but often lose, mislay or simply forget about them. With Evernote, all those notes can now be stored simply and conveniently in one place on the Web for later processing.