The huge strengths of Ireland’s exporting base — which helped the country get through its worst ever economic crisis — were highlighted yesterday in the annual publication of the list of the top exporters on the island.

Conor Power couldn’t wait to start using the much vaunted Windows 10. But nearing the end of the upgrade, his screen went dark and his laptop hasn’t worked since.

Microsoft is to splash the cash on a multimillion-euro base in south Dublin for its 1,200 employees here.

The Government has filed a formal briefing to a United States Court of Appeal outlining its position with regard to the ongoing legal dispute between the US and Microsoft over access to an email account held in the company’s Dublin data centre.

There are already 22,000 people employed across Dublin’s Sandyford Business District — where a collection of four existing business parks has scope for 17,500 more employees, as well as further commercial and residential development.

The shortlist has been announced this morning for the IMAGE Businesswoman of the Year Awards.

Foreign multinationals in the information and communications technology sector continue to dominate as the country’s largest exporters.

Microsoft, which employs almost 2,000 people in Ireland, could announce at least 5,800 job losses worldwide within a matter of days, it has emerged.

Representatives of some of the world’s biggest corporations and institutions are among Ireland’s most powerful women, according to an awards ceremony organised by the Women’s Executive Network.

Kids are building their technology skills as schools sign up in their hundreds to a digital teaching programme.

Microsoft is to create up to 400 construction jobs with a major new investment in Leopardstown in Dublin.

224 jobs have been announced by a number of companies across the country today.

One of the world’s biggest companies is hosting a careers event in Dublin this month that will highlight Ireland’s skills shortages.

When 27 finance ministers and central bank governors from the EU member states meet in Dublin on Friday, it will be their first paperless deliberation, thanks to Dell and Microsoft.

Successful Dragons Den contestant Sarah Nic Lochlainn of Aruna Sauces is among the nominees for this year’s Women Mean Business awards.

Ireland could become a world leader in cloud computing thanks to a new €1.2m research programme.

Ireland could become a world leader in cloud computing thanks to a new €1.2m research programme, it was claimed today.

Delegations from regional governments in Canada and Australia are in Dublin today as part of a drive to attract thousands of Irish workers.

Microsoft is joining forces with one of the country's leading publishers in a plan which aims to cut the cost to parents of school books.

Dublin-based catering services company Kylemore Services Group (KSG) has returned to profitability, generating pre-tax profits of €731,628 in its last financial year, after showing a €1.85 million loss in the previous 12 months.

Far from a meaningless buzzword, cloud computing heralds a huge development in the way in which businesses will exploit information technology into the future, writes Cliona Ward

Some 59% of small and medium business owners in Ireland expect the trading environment here to improve over the next year and a half, according to research published today.

A NUMBER of company directors in Ireland are being investigated in connection with an alleged lucrative phone scam.

A prosecution is likely in a "cold call" phone scam that has been operating here.

THE cloud computing industry has the ability to revolutionise the economy over the next decade in the same manner as the IFSC did over the past 20 years — with nearly 20,000 new jobs a possibility — according to a new study.

Consumers were today warned of a scam where cyber criminals call consumers, claiming to be from Microsoft or other legitimate technology companies to tell them they have a virus on their computer.

A DUBLIN software company will create jobs after securing funding of €1.8 million.

GRADUATES of the 2010 Enable Ireland assistive technology training course showcased their innovations in Dublin yesterday.

PRIMARY pupils are to be taught about the danger of talking to strangers on the internet in the same classes that tell them not to talk to someone who approaches them on the street.

SCHOOLS are to get the classroom laptop computers and digital projects promised by the Government under a €22 million investment in the new year.

Paul Rellis, managing director of Microsoft Ireland, has welcomed the appointment of Ms Máire Geoghegan-Quinn as EU Commissioner for Research and Innovation.

A €150 MILLION investment over three years in a laptop computer for every classroom in the country has been likened to supplying cars without roads because of inadequate internet access in schools.

Microsoft has today announced the availability of its new Windows 7 operating system.

IRELAND may have to wait another three years before seeing any economic recovery, delegates at the Small Firms Association (SFA) annual conference in Dublin Castle, heard yesterday.

Fianna Fáil TDs are due to be briefed today about the details of the Government's planned NAMA legislation and the level of debt in the Irish property sector.

IRELAND’S rejection of the Lisbon treaty has created uncertainty among multinational companies here, according to the head of one of the country’s largest employers.

ALL students and teachers need access to the latest technology in class if young people are to meet the challenges of the 21st century, the head of software giant Microsoft Ireland has warned.

A GROUP of students are using flower power to impress the judges in an international technology competition by driving to the contest in Paris in a car fuelled by sunflower oil.

I BELIEVE the recent call by the American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland for a ‘yes’ vote in the EU Reform Treaty referendum is the most significant development to date in the context of this campaign.

Microsoft have announced that Ireland has been selected as the location for its new European data centre.