Five months after introducing its digital assistant, Google is sharing the feature with Android partners, hoping the service can boost its odds to win customers from Apple’s iPhone.

Apple is piling onto lawsuits that attack the way Qualcomm licenses technology for mobile phones in a widespread effort to rake back profits in a slowing market.

Two years ago, two small firms Oppo and Vivo couldn’t crack the top five in China’s smartphone market. Now they outrank everyone after elbowing Apple aside, thanks to people like Cheng Xiaoning.

Six months after its debut the Apple Watch is set to finally arrive on our shores at the end of the week, with the most expensive models costing more than €18,000.

More than 100 jobs were yesterday announced for Dublin and Kildare by two companies.

Apple said yesterday that advance orders of its new iPhones were on pace to beat the 10m units the previous versions logged in their first weekend last year, a feat that analysts attributed to the inclusion of sales from China.

Just 33 out of 187 Magdalene women listed on the headstone for High Park laundry in Glasnevin Cemetery are actually buried at that location, a study claims.

The addition of a mobile payments service to Apple’s next iPhone could help to boost sales of the larger-screen phones and claw back market share lost to mobiles running on Google’s Android platform.

Apple is set to unveil the latest generation of iPhone.

VMware is boosting its push into the $440bn (€333bn) data centre market long dominated by the likes of Microsoft, Cisco Systems, and IBM. 

Ad companies are already devising ways to sell their wares on the latest new-fangled, sci-fi consumer must-have — wearable technology. Brian Womack reports.

New research has cast "serious doubt" on one of the key findings of the McAleese report concerning the length of time women spent in Magdalene laundries.

Microsoft has posted earnings and revenue that beat Wall Street expectations in Satya Nadella’s first quarterly earnings release as chief executive, offering new justification for his focus on cloud computing.

STEPHEN Bernasconi walked into his local shopping centre on Nov 25 intending to buy a laptop. His three-year-old Dell Inspiron had broken down and he wanted something to keep up with gaming.

Lenovo Group, the world’s biggest personal computer maker, has said its latest quarterly profit rose 36% as sales of smartphones and tablet computers more than doubled.

Apple, the maker of the iPhone and iPad, reported third-quarter profit and sales that beat analyst estimates, spurring optimism that the company is weathering an attack from low-end smartphone competition.

The world’s largest semiconductor maker Intel has forecast third-quarter sales that may fall short of some analysts’ estimates as a slump in the personal computer market erodes its largest business.

Worldwide mobile phone sales fell last year as economic turmoil hit shopper appetite, research firm Gartner said.

The launch of the iPhone 5 and the declining popularity of non-smartphones made Apple the biggest seller of phones in the US over the holiday season – for the first time, according to research firm Strategy Analytics.

Apple continues to dominate in tablet computers although its market share is shrinking because of growing competition, according to a research group.

Samsung has sold more than 30 million flagship Galaxy S III smartphones in about five months, making it one of the fastest selling smartphones in the world.

Strong sales of Galaxy phones propelled Samsung's quarterly profit to a record high, but its shares dropped today on the prospect its growth would slow in an increasingly crowded smartphone market.

Amazon.com, the world’s largest internet retailer, missed analysts’ second-quarter revenue and profit estimates as sales slipped for Kindle Fire devices and the company increased spending on new warehouses.

A federal jury in San Francisco has found beleaguered BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd liable for US$147.2m (€120.14m) in damages for infringing on patents held by Mformation Technologies.

Samsung Electronics has won a legal ruling after a British judge said its Galaxy tablets aren’t “cool” enough to be confused with Apple’s iPad.

Apple has paid $60m (€47.6m) to Proview Technology (Shenzhen) to end a dispute over the iPad trademark in China that saw the world’s most valuable technology company engaged in a protracted legal tussle with a near-bankrupt Chinese firm.

The dentist convicted of sexually assaulting a dental nurse during an examination at his surgery in Cork is still registered to practise here.

Amazon.com, the world’s largest internet retailer, beat analysts’ first-quarter revenue estimates, led by demand for Kindle devices and a jump in sales for outside vendors through its website.

Samsung, Apple’s biggest competitor in the market for iPad-sized tablet computers, is updating its line to include a feature that lets a tablet act as a universal remote control for an entertainment centre.

MICROSOFT views Ireland as a hotbed of mobile app development, according to the IT giant’s in-house “architect evangelist” Josh Holmes.

GOOGLE, owner of the world’s largest internet search engine, reported sales and profit that topped analysts’ estimates, a sign the company is benefiting from an effort to expand into mobile and display advertising.

A CORK dentist who was convicted of sexually assaulting a trainee nurse last November is still free to practise and may never be struck off.

The 57-year-old Cork dentist, who was convicted in the district court 10 days ago of sexually assaulting a trainee nurse, is free to practice without restrictions.

THE first tranche of layoffs at the Dell plant kick in this week.

Microsoft's quarterly revenue fell from the previous year for the first time in its 23-year history as a public company, while its profit dived 32%, it said today.

ICT Ireland, the IBEC group that represents high-tech employers, today said that the shortage of graduates capable of filling positions in the sector remains a worry for the industry.

Divers were today resuming attempts to raise the Pere Charles trawler after bad weather suspended operations overnight.

Up to 450 jobs may be lost in Ireland as computer giant Dell plans to cut up to 10% of its global workforce in the next 12 months.

US computer maker Dell said today it planned to lay off more than 8,000 employees over the next year as part of an ongoing restructuring.

THE world’s largest personal computer maker, Hewlett-Packard, yesterday said first-quarter profit rose 26% after the company won consumer sales away from Dell Inc.

Apple’s much-hyped iPhone was unveiled this week after 30 months and millions of dollars in top-secret development.

MORE than one third of all packaged software installed on PCs in Ireland in 2005 was illegal, according to an annual global software piracy study.