Ralph holds a degree in Communications, gained in 1990. He was a journalist & editor for a number of magazine titles over four years while in Edinburgh, lecturing part-time on media and PR. He moved into New Media in 1995 with Europe Online, based in London.

In 1996 he was hired by Yahoo Inc to launch their UK & Ireland portal, where he initially built up localised content and third-party partnerships, before focusing on business development full time from 1998. He left Yahoo in late 2000 and moved to Ireland in 2001. Ralph joined ENN in November that year.

Today Ralph oversees business development on both ENN's website and the growing corporate services operation. Where time permits he contributes to the ENN website and blog.

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28-04-2010

Spotify aims to prove that a sprinkle of social dust equals music sales » more

People make 140 letters priceless

21-04-2010

Recent travel chaos confirms the power of social media in real world situations. » more

Will Twitter ride the mobile wave?

14-04-2010

Report says mobile web will outstrip desktop by 2015 » more

Hope in the fight against censorship

07-04-2010

Wikileaks and Haystack are helping to protect our ability to know what's really going on. » more

Smartphones: the tipping point's coming

31-03-2010

Smartphones are slated to be at 50pc of the market by the third quarter of 2011 » more

A malignant threat from our mobiles

24-03-2010

Could our universal communicator we can't live without be a threat to our lives? » more

Social takes the fight to search

17-03-2010

Facebook's growth puts social in the spotlight and search on notice. » more

Make room for the message

10-03-2010

Before you bear the barrage of online messages, make sure you know what yours is first. » more

Apple's new court based tactics

03-03-2010

Resorting to patents to squash competitive threats could backfire on Apple. » more

Welcome back King Content

25-02-2010

We're about to see a big shift towards the mobile web. » more

Mobile alliance wants to turn back time

17-02-2010

Open Mobile Alliance wants to push the genie back in the bottle. » more

More Buzz about Google

10-02-2010

Google aims to turn the tables on the social media upstarts. » more

ENN Reader Survey 2010

10-02-2010

Take part in our short survey and you could win a mobile phone from Three. » more

Is Social Media The Real Thing?

03-02-2010

When two global FMCG brands take to the social web you know it must be the real thing. » more

Apple's amazing secrecy

27-01-2010

The most astonishing aspect of Apple's product launch is how it managed to keep it under wraps. » more

DNA database changes privacy

20-01-2010

There's nothing wrong with the science of DNA profiling but its storage must be a concern for privacy. » more

Google tries not being 'evil'

13-01-2010

Google's new stance on censorship suggests it won't kowtow to China's dictats any more. » more

Google's phone that really isn't

06-01-2010

Google's ambition isn't to sell phones, it's to make others do it better. » more

2010: The year smartphones get smart

01-01-2010

This year will be crowded, with players vying to be in the smartphone game. » more

Google in your pocket

16-12-2009

Google could be your constant companion with the rumoured launch of a branded handset. » more

Is the tiger moving north?

09-12-2009

Infrastructure investment in the north highlights the shortfall in strategic vision down south. » more

Fry roasts Plaxo in Twitter hissy fit

02-12-2009

Stephen Fry is livid his personal details were made public; but he put them online in the first place. » more

New blood at the IIA

25-11-2009

The new CEO of the IIA inherits a good operation from her predecessor and new challenges too. » more

Paywall papers versus open access

18-11-2009

Some papers will start charging for online news but the press are divided. » more

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11-11-2009

Google's acquisition of AdMob shows that it intends to dominate the mobile internet. » more

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04-11-2009

It seems we have a lot to say about the very simple Twitter. » more

The rise of the open source OS

28-10-2009

Microsoft's unassailable grip on the PC desktop will face fresh threats from open OS's. » more

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21-10-2009

Microsoft's latest OS may be the last that matters to PC users moving to online apps. » more

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14-10-2009

Gagging laws can't stifle an internet generation that wants the freedom to know the facts. » more

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08-10-2009

Anyone can be Eircom's competitor in an IP world, and more are putting it into practice. » more