This column first appeared in Business & Finance magazine in November 2007.
Richard Delevan
In Ireland we - or at least the 70% of us who use a private car to get to work - are worried that Brian Cowen will look to balance the budget on the back of drivers by raising taxes on petrol and [...]

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This column was filed on 2 November and first appeared in November 2007 in Business & Finance magazine.

Richard Delevan
Journalism as we knew it died at about 11.15 pm Dublin time on November 1st, historians may record.
It was the moment on the conference call, staged by Google, in which it unveiled how far it had [...]

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This column first appeared in Business & Finance magazine in October 2007.
Richard DelevanThis December the hippest gadget gift under Western Christmas trees may be a bright green laptop costing less than $200 but built for Third World children. A digerati version of the Make Poverty History wristband or a yellow “bracelet” sported by Lance Armstrong [...]

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This column first appeared in Business & Finance in October 2007.
THE SPUTNIK EFFECTRichard Delevan
Earlier this year I spoke at length with a senior official in the business of promoting Ireland as an international centre for research and technology. We were discussing what particular industry areas and research fields the country could and should invest its [...]

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This column first appeared in Business & Finance in September 2007.Richard Delevan
Shoppers at the flagship Apple Store on Regent Street in the West End of London were not amused last week when they found their path blocked by burly-looking men in black and the shop’s windows dressed in similarly opaque attire. But the high security [...]

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This column first appeared in Business and Finance magazine 27 July 2007.
Richard Delevan
What is it that Steve Jobs understands that most people in business don’t?
He is, by all accounts, tough to be around – and he isn’t known for his modesty. Imagine him next to Bill Gates, and he makes Gates seem humble by [...]

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This column originally appeared in Business & Finance magazine on 16 May 2007.
RICHARD DELEVANLast January the techno-vangelists of Ireland got a bit giddy when Dublin City Council confirmed it was looking into offering public access to wireless broadband across the city using WiFi, a technology that increasingly comes as a standard add-on [...]

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This column first appeared in Business & Finance magazine in April 2007.
DR STRANGELAW: Or how I stopped worrying and learned to love IPRED2Richard Delevan
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has a lot to answer for. Earlier this year he called on the music industry to stop insisting on the use of copy-protection software, so-called Digital Rights Management [...]

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This column first appeared in Business & Fianance magazine in April 2007.
Richard Delevan
You’ve got to feel a bit sorry for chief information officers (CIOs). For a few heady months at the height of the dotcom party, CIOs were the belles of the ball. They would drive real value creation in big organisations, restructuring business processes [...]

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This column first appeared in Business & Finance magazine, 23 February 2007.
TO 3G OR NOT TO 3G, THAT IS THE QUESTIONRichard Delevan
During the week of Valentine’s Day, thousands of technophiles converged on Barcelona for 3GSM, the mobile technology trade show, to seek their true heart’s desire - a way to make money from our seemingly [...]

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