Categorised as: Software & Web Development & News
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SkillPages hits 2m users in just 10 months News
30.10.2011 Perlico founder Iain McDonald has revealed his new venture SkillPages has notched up 2m active users since January this year. SkillPages is a free service that brings together...Categories: Web 2.0, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Internet, Funding, Finding a Job, Digital Media, Digital Business, Apps -
Apple buys C3 – 3D mapping coming to iOS devices? News
30.10.2011 Apple is to bring mapping on iOS devices like iPhones and iPads to a whole new level after it emerged the company has acquired C3 Technologies. The move could be bad news for... -
Hollywood and Silicon Valley bosses en route to Belfast News
01.11.2011 Top Hollywood and Silicon Valley executives are en route to Northern Ireland, where the successful TV show Game of Thrones is being filmed, to help cement the region’s...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Media, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Design -
Cloud player Pinger to create 15 tech jobs in Dublin News
27.10.2011 Pinger, the cloud-based tech firm that develops free texting and phone call applications for use on the iPod touch, iPad, iPhone, Android phones and the web, is to create 15 new... -
Timeline apps more ‘mobile’ than ‘web’ – Facebook’s Ethan Beard News
27.10.2011 Due ‘any week now’, Facebook’s Timeline looks set to spark an apps revolution. But don’t be fooled, the apps that are likely to triumph on Timeline will be more mobile in...Categories: Apps, Apps Zone, Computers, Consumer Tech, Design, Digital Media, Internet, Mobile, Mobility, Phones, Social Media, Software & Web Development, Web 2.0, Web Design -
Cloud potential is key to Complete’s acquisition of Intellicom News
28.10.2011 Kevin Murphy’s Complete Telecom, which has notched up contracts valued at over €12m in the last year, has acquired a business telephony software house Intellicom for an... -
50,000 knowledge economy jobs predicted for Northern Ireland News
27.10.2011 If Northern Ireland can be transformed into the UK’s leading knowledge economy it would result in an extra 25,500 direct jobs across 6,000 new technology businesses and an... -
Silicon Valley software firm Engine Yard creates 30 jobs in Dublin News
27.10.2011 San Francisco software player Engine Yard, a leading platform-as-a-service (PaaS) player with expertise in PHP and Ruby on Rails, has revealed it is to create 30 new jobs in...Categories: Web 2.0, Software & Web Development, Jobs, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Business, Data Management, Apps -
Canadian tech firm Pivot brings 100 jobs to Galway News
27.10.2011 One of North America's largest value-added IT solutions providers, Pivot Acquisition Corp, has announced it will open a shared services centre in Galway. Pivot Shared Services...Categories: Software & Web Development, Jobs, IT Management, Investments, Digital Media, Digital Business, Data Management, CRM, CIO -
RIM being sued over BlackBerry outage News
27.10.2011 Research in Motion is being sued by consumers in the US and Canada for the major outage that shut its service down for a week in the Americas, Europe and Middle East. -
Massive cyber security breach hits Sweden News
26.10.2011 The login details of some 210,000 Swedes, including politicians and media figures, have been exposed in what is the biggest cyber security breach in the country’s history,... -
'Lean Start-up' expert to hold workshop in Dublin News
26.10.2011 Author of ‘Running Lean’ and founder of USERCycle.com Ash Maurya is running a two-day workshop focusing on how lean principles can be applied to Irish start-ups on 11 November. -
CrowdScanner comes a long way in five months News
26.10.2011 Five months after receiving the Competitive Start Fund (CSF) from Enterprise Ireland, Galway start-up CrowdScanner’s gaming software is being used in one of the largest... -
Blogging giant Populis in finance software deal with Sage News
26.10.2011 Global blogging network Populis, which is headquartered in Dublin, has signed a deal with financial software player Sage to upgrade from Sage 50 to Sage 200 to run the financial... -
Amazon on ‘Fire’ thanks to demand for Kindle – building millions News
26.10.2011 Amazon is increasing capacity and is building millions more Kindle e-readers than planned, CEO Jeff Bezos said as the company announced a 44pc increase in third-quarter sales,... -
Skype security flaw could expose users to stalking or fraud News
25.10.2011 A security flaw in Skype has been discovered, that experts claim can be used to track not only users’ locations but also their peer-to-peer file-sharing activities and could... -
3,843 students – mostly girls - vie for BT Young Scientist 2012 News
25.10.2011 More girls than boys are competing in the BT Young Scientist & Technology 2012 Exhibition, with 2,235 girls taking part compared with 1,608 boys, according to BT.Categories: Social Media, Science, Research, R&D, Multimedia, Mobility, Life Sciences, Internet, Intellectual Property, Bio Tech, Apps, Software, Software & Web Development -
Steve Jobs’ ‘one more thing’ – an Apple television – is on its way News
25.10.2011 The revelation in Walter Isaacson’s biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs that Jobs had finally ‘cracked it’ in relation to the much-anticipated Apple TV hardware has led to... -
Siliconrepublic.com wins ‘Best Technology Site’ at Web Awards 2011 News
23.10.2011 For the fourth year running, Siliconrepublic.com has been awarded Best Technology Website at the Realex Irish Web Awards 2011.Tags: Social Media, Education, Web apps, Government, E-commerce, News, Irish Blog Awards, Irish Web Awards, Entertainment, Mobile, Arts, Music, SME, Apps -
Financial blockade forces WikiLeaks to suspend publication News
24.10.2011 WikiLeaks’ editor-in-chief Julian Assange has blamed a financial blockade by big corporations for the site deciding to temporarily cease publication of classified files.