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Version 1 creates 26 new jobs at NI Oracle centre News
24.05.2012 Dublin-headquartered IT consultancy Version 1 is to create 26 new jobs at a new Oracle Competency Centre in Belfast.Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Servers, Outsourcing, Investments, Internet, Infrastructure Management, Economy, Digital Business, Database, CRM, CIO -
Apple OS X Lion passwords exposed in security blunder News
07.05.2012 A security blunder in the most recent version of Mac OS X – 10.7.3 – apparently turns on a system-wide debut log file that contains the login passwords of every user who has...Categories: Software, Servers, Security, Operating Systems, Infrastructure Management, Enterprise, Database, Data Management, CIO -
US government deploys open data standards created in Ireland News
26.04.2012 The open data movement is in full swing and tools and standards created in Ireland are to prove pivotal to open data employed by the US government. It emerged today that...Categories: Data Management, Database, Deals Done, Digital Media, Government, Internet, R&D, Research, Social Media, Software & Web Development, Web, Web 2.0 -
Whogotfunded.com to track VC start-up deals News
25.04.2012 Whogotfunded.com is a new site that’s aiming to be the world’s most comprehensive online venture capital (VC) database for people to keep an eye on the latest high-tech...Categories: Investments, Internet, Intellectual Property, Funding, Financial, Deals Done, Database, Data Management, Web -
SAP moves into database space News
12.04.2012 Enterprise software player SAP has unveiled aggressive plans to grow its presence in the database software and mobile apps markets. -
Larry Page: Google has positioned itself strategically for the post-PC world News
06.04.2012 In a long letter to round off his first year as CEO of Google, Larry Page has made it clear why the company has refined its privacy policy, and the numbers speak for themselves...Tags: Google+, Google, Larry Page, Search Advertising, Search, YouTube, Chrome, PC, Tablet Computers, Smartphones, Android, Google Maps, Gmail -
Irish start-up creates cloud-based software for call centres News
05.04.2012 Sentient, a start-up based at the Guinness Enterprise Centre, has come up with a new cloud solution called Scorebuddy that’s targeting the call centre space so that team leaders... -
Friends Reunited returns with new design, new purpose News
27.03.2012 UK social networking site Friends Reunited has been relaunched as a memory engine – going beyond rediscovering old classmates to be a place for favourite memories and moments,...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Social Media, Servers, Multimedia, Internet, Digital Media, Database, Apps -
EFF warns of Big Brother biometrics time bomb News
09.03.2012 The passing of a new law in France paving the way for a biometric database and requiring all citizens to carry a biometric ID card is a time bomb for civil liberties, the... -
Health website achieves 150,000 registered members News
05.03.2012 Health website Irishhealth.com has recorded the signing on of the site’s 150,000th registered member – that’s the equivalent of 5pc of the entire adult population of Ireland. -
Datalogic to create 30 jobs at new European HQ in Dublin News
05.03.2012 A division of the Datalogic Group is to create 30 new jobs in Dublin with the establishment of a new EMEA HQ, shared service and customer management centre in Dublin. -
Polecat raises €850k to focus on decision analytics business News
24.02.2012 Polecat, a real-time analytics and decision intelligence company wooed by Enterprise Ireland to locate in Dublin has just raised €850,000. The company, declared by Oracle’s... -
84pc of IT employers would hire graduates from conversion courses News
23.02.2012 More than half (52pc) of employers in Ireland are struggling to hire IT staff and 84pc say they would be open to hiring a person with a non-IT background who has completed a... -
Google DNS – a phone book for the internet – logs 70bn requests daily News
14.02.2012 Google’s public DNS (domain name system) – the largest public DNS service in the world – is handling on average more than 70bn requests a day, the search giant revealed today.Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Servers, Search, Internet, Hosting Services, Database, Communications -
Irish Govt and EMC create new cloud innovation centre News
13.02.2012 If the vision comes to fruition, a little country like Ireland could emerge as the home of big data. The Government of Ireland and data storage giant EMC, along with Cisco, VCE,... -
Dublin telecoms tech firm wins deal in Sudan News
13.02.2012 Dublin-based telecoms technology company i-conX Solutions has been chosen to deploy its routing optimisation technology by Sudanese telecoms company Canar.Categories: Networking & Telecoms, Investments, Financial, Deals Done, Database, Communications, Business Intelligence -
Is Loc8 becoming the default post code for Ireland? News
17.01.2012 In the absence of an official system, Loc8 codes are becoming the default post code for Ireland, Loc8 founder and former naval officer Gary Delaney has claimed. Some 80,000 Loc8...Categories: Web, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, eCommerce, Digital Business, Database, Data Management, Consumer Tech, Apps -
RedMonk’s London developer day welcomes Irish contingent News
13.01.2012 ‘The Irish are coming’ screams the blog for the Red Monk Brew: The Monki Gras in London on 1 February. The organisers say there’s a steady stream of talented Irish software... -
Firms caught off-guard by boom in Big Data, Oracle says News
12.01.2012 Firms are underestimating the Big Data revolution, especially when it involves taking a lot of little bits of information from weblogs, smartphones and machine-to-machine (M2M)... -
Top Cloud Videos of 2011 News
30.12.2011 The inevitability of cloud computing in the technology world was made clear in 2011 in terms of the growth in the number of firms adopting cloud as well as the variety of...