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California Senate approves bill for self-driving cars News
22.05.2012 California has become the second US state to pass a bill to allow autonomous vehicles, such as Google’s self-driving cars, to be tested on its roads and highways. -
Springboard offers 6,000 new education opportunities News
22.05.2012 The Irish Government has announced 6,000 new part-time higher education places for job seekers via the Springboard programme, focused on areas with skills shortages.Tags: Pharmaceutical, Green Economy, Medical Devices, ICT, Government, Jobs, Skills, Education, Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland, IDA, -
Silicon Labs to buy Boston-based Ember for US$72m News
21.05.2012 US semiconductor company Silicon Laboratories is to acquire the Boston-based Ember Corporation for $72m. The acquisition of Ember is part of Silicon Lab’s move to enable... -
Computer reuse charity calls on companies to donate old PCs News
18.05.2012 Camara Education, the Irish charity that refurbishes computers and loads them with educational software for schools in Ireland, Africa and Jamaica, has issued a call for...Categories: Sustainability, Software, Recycling Services, R&D, Green Tech, Green Computing, Green, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Apple’s Cupertino HQ targeted by Greenpeace activists News
15.05.2012 Two Greenpeace activists today barricaded themselves in a giant Greenpeace version of an iPod outside of Apple’s Cupertino HQ in California. Why exactly? Well the tirade from...Tags: iPod, Apple, iCloud, Data centres, Cloud, Clean Energy, Yahoo!, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Cloud Computing -
Honda tests ‘smart home’ in Japan that runs on off-grid energy News
11.05.2012 Honda has been pioneering a new type of smart home in Japan to test out its Honda Smart Home System (HSHM) technologies to control and monitor energy usage using solar power,... -
Tesla’s shares rise as Model S electric sedan to arrive in June News
10.05.2012 Tesla Motors may have just reported first quarter losses of US$89.9m, but the electric car maker also saw its shares jump yesterday after it said that it expects to start...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Mobility, Investments, Intellectual Property, Green Tech, Engineering, Energy -
Irish electricity provider deploys Citrix technology to empower its workforce News
10.05.2012 Dublin Bay Power Plant (DBPP) has rolled out a Citrix cloud services environment to help support its growing IT infrastructure – ultimately allowing staff to work more... -
Green handset shipments may reach 392m by 2017 News
09.05.2012 Are we about to witness a massive splurge in green handsets hitting the marketplace? Juniper Research appears to think so, as its latest analysis is predicting that green...Categories: Engineering, Green, Green Tech, Intellectual Property, Mobile, Recycling Services, Sustainability -
Clean tech sector in Ireland could generate 80,000 jobs by 2020 News
07.05.2012 At least 20,000 and as many as 80,000 new jobs and a boost of €3.9bn to Ireland’s GDP by 2020 are possible if Ireland focuses on clean tech. This would require a national clean... -
Energia’s new €14m wind farm to power more than 9,000 homes News
08.05.2012 Energia is finishing the build of its latest wind farm, Caherdowney, located near Ireland's Cork-Kerry border. -
Siemens reveals 'eHighway of the Future' concept in US News
08.05.2012 Siemens has revealed its plans to clean up US highways that have heavy amounts of truck traffic via its eHighway of the Future solution. -
Firms that invest in energy management avoiding €150m in costs News
04.05.2012 Irish-based businesses engaged in advanced energy management are avoiding €150m in energy costs and are setting world-class standards, the Sustainable energy Authority of... -
Nike interactive ‘green’ app lets users design eco-trainers News
04.05.2012 Sports shoe maker Nike is about to launch a new app that allows customers to design trainers made out of greener materials. -
Energy summit achieves global clean-tech commitments News
27.04.2012 Energy ministers from 23 governments and the UN Secretary-General’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative were in London this week for the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM)....Categories: R&D, Green Tech, Green Computing, Green, Government, Energy, Education, Economy, Consumer Tech, Computers, Renewable Energy, Science, Sustainability -
World Intellectual Property Day: celebrating Irish innovators News
26.04.2012 Today is World Intellectual Property Day, a day that’s always celebrated on 26 April. Here we look at some of the scientific breakthroughs Irish pioneers have brought to the world.Categories: Sustainability, Science, Research, R&D, Life Sciences, Intellectual Property, Green Tech, Green, Engineering, Engineer, Energy -
Energia in €32m electricity contract with local authorities and state bodies News
26.04.2012 Fifty two Irish local authorities have moved to Energia, with the energy provider expecting to supply over 180 gigawatt hours of electricity to power the local authorities’... -
‘Finland's R&D effort is a model for Ireland to copy’ – innovation minister News
26.04.2012 Ireland’s Minister for Research and Innovation, Sean Sherlock, TD, has been checking out Finland’s R&D focus and its education system during a two-day visit to Helsinki. He said...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Research, R&D, Life Sciences, Investments, Green Tech, Green, Government, Funding, Engineering, Engineer, Energy -
Nanoscience institute CRANN gets three new board members News
26.04.2012 CRANN, the Science Foundation Ireland-funded nanoscience institute based at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), has added three new members to its board, as the institute ramps up its...Categories: Research, Science, Sustainability, R&D, Investments, Intellectual Property, Green Tech, Graduate, Government, Funding, Energy, EconomyTags: TCD, exporting, R&D, Technology Transfer, Ireland, Nanoscience, SFI, Nanotechnology, CRANN, Government -
NUIG researcher wins EU award for road safety tech News
26.04.2012 New technology to improve pedestrian safety that’s being developed by Anthony Winterlich, a researcher at NUI Galway, has won a gold medal in the European Commission’s Young...