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New mobile service to help parents learn sign language News
22.03.2013 One of the latest mobile resources to come out of the Digital Skills Academy’s WebElevate programme is a new service aimed at helping thousands of parents of young deaf and hard...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Education, Digital Media, Development, Design, Apps -
Google: ‘We’re focused on enabling the next 1bn computer users’ News
20.03.2013 The democratising effect of technology that is seeing billions of people around the world join the internet revolution as they switch on their first mobile phones and computers...Tags: Operating Systems, Android, Smartphones, Mac, Windows, Personal Computers, Acer, Samsung, Chrome, Google -
Review: Dyson Hot+Cool Air Multiplier (AM05) News
19.03.2013 They say that necessity is the mother of all invention. And while the technology industry outdoes itself in its quest to come up with the shiniest, smartest and most...Categories: Wireless Communications, R&D, Intellectual Property, Hardware, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Development, Design, Consumer Tech -
Lero wins global smart buildings R&D contract with United Technologies News
19.03.2013 The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre Lero has won an international R&D contract with United Technologies Research Centre (UTRC) Ireland to assist it in the design of...Categories: Sustainability, Security, Research, R&D, Investments, Engineering, Energy, Development, Design, Deals Done -
Interview with James Dyson: ‘Children need a route for invention’ News
14.03.2013 The UK and Irish school curricula need to be revamped to be made modern and relevant and enthuse a love of invention, science and design if we are to field the engineers of the... -
40 new digital media jobs for Belfast through Jam Media expansion News
12.03.2013 Dublin digital media firm Jam Media, which specialises in kids’ animations, entertainment and mobile games, is to create 40 new jobs with the establishment of a world-class... -
Pinterest rolls out new web analytics tool for website owners News
12.03.2013 Social media player Pinterest has revealed a new analytics tool called Pinterest Web Analytics that gives users and businesses access to data on what people are pinning the most.Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Development, Design, Apps, Analysis -
Collison Brothers’ Stripe acquires Kickoff app News
11.03.2013 Limerick brothers Patrick and John Collison’s Silicon Valley start-up Stripe has made its first acquisition: collaboration and team task management app Kickoff.Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Internet, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business, Development, Design, Apps -
Facebook’s ‘personalised newspaper’ news feed built on mobile-first principles News
07.03.2013 Facebook has just revealed its new-look news feed, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg described as “the best personalised newspaper that we can create.” The new news feed will be...Categories: Web, Social Media, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media, Development, Design, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps -
Eircom reveals winners of 2013 Junior Spider Awards News
05.03.2013 Students from schools across Ireland have today been awarded for their online innovation in the 2013 Eircom Junior Spider Awards. The digital innovators who hail from primary...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Multimedia, Internet, Education, Digital Business, Design, Apps -
Titanic II to ban social media, email News
04.03.2013 There will be no emailing, Facebooking or tweeting about the voyage aboard the Titanic II in order help replicate how passengers may have experienced life aboard the original... -
Rumours of the rise of the Apple iWatch won’t go away News
04.03.2013 In some quarters, reports of Apple launching a watch-based product have been dismissed as a smokescreen aimed at putting a spanner in Samsung’s spokes as the launch of its new...Categories: Wireless Communications, Software & Web Development, Software, R&D, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Energy, Digital Media, Development, Design, Consumer Tech -
Rails Girls rolls into Dublin to teach women to code News
08.02.2013 The NDRC in Dublin will tonight host ‘Rails Girls’, a workshop aimed at teaching women how to code using the Ruby on Rails web-based programming language.Categories: Upskilling, Training, Software Development, Software & Web Development, Education, Development, Design, Apps -
European Commission to invest €50m in paving the way for 5G News
28.02.2013 Just as 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile services are beginning to deploy in Europe, the European Commission’s vice-president Neelie Kroes has decided that she wants to see... -
Tech start-up of the week: Primovisto News
24.02.2013 Our start-up of the week is Primovisto, a new venture based in Listowel, Co Kerry, that is creating limited-edition accessories for iPhones and iPads.Categories: Web, Private Irish Business, Phones, Online Business, Mobile, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Design, Consumer Tech -
Darrell Mann: 98pc of innovation projects fail, how to be the 2pc that don’t News
23.02.2013 Former Rolls-Royce chief engineer Darrell Mann has spent much of his working life trying to understand why 98pc of R&D projects end in failure and has come up with an approach... -
Dyson invests stg£50m in new manufacturing facility in Singapore News
22.02.2013 UK inventor James Dyson’s company has invested stg£50m in a new digital motor manufacturing facility in Singapore. The new facility will employ 210 people and will produce 4m... -
How cities can draw upon technology to become smarter and more sustainable News
21.02.2013 Up to 600 delegates from all over the world are convening in Dublin this week for the eighth forum of the World Alliance of Cities Against Poverty (WACAP) to explore how cities...Categories: Sustainability, Software, Science, R&D, Investments, Green Tech, Green, Engineer, Energy, Education, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Design -
Shipyard and entrepreneur near deal to build Titanic II News
20.02.2013 A shipyard in China and an entrepreneur in Australia are poised to sign a deal to construct a full-size working replica of the legendary doomed ship Titanic. However, this time... -
Weekend news round-up: Facebook shuns server OEMs, Apple’s podcasting disaster News
18.02.2013 In our round-up of the weekend’s tech news and analysis, OEMs who failed to embrace Facebook’s Open Compute Project are out in the cold with the social network opting to make...