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Dublin GameCraft II - bigger, longer, craftier News
19.11.2012 Thirty-three teams of games developers from all over Ireland and the UK descended on Engine Yard over the weekend with one aim - to build a fully functioning game in 12 hours...Categories: Software Development, Multimedia, Games/Entertainment, Development, Design, Competitions -
Interview: Gene Murphy on Redeem & Get’s Spark of Genius (video) News
17.10.2012 Redeem & Get is well-known in the Dublin Web Summit circle, having walked away with the Electric Ireland Spark of Genius prize last year. One year on, we caught up with the...Tags: Start-ups, Dublin Web Summit -
Dark-fibre player PiPiper strikes deal with Apollo to bring transatlantic cable ashore in Ireland News
14.09.2012 PiPiper, an emerging dark-fibre provider that has the potential to generate hundreds of jobs and boost the Irish economy by deploying dark fibre around Ireland, has forged an... -
Four Irish students in Slovenia to battle it out in Linguistics Olympiad News
03.08.2012 Veering away from London 2012 for just a moment, this week Ljubljana, Slovenia, has been an Olympic setting with a difference, as the International Linguistics Olympiad games... -
BT has €75K in financial aid for students entering Young Scientist contest News
20.07.2012 Teams and individual students entering the next BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, and who are based more than 70km away from the RDS in Dublin, can now apply for... -
#io12 - US$199 Nexus 7 tablet revealed, Google Play at heart of new content experience News
27.06.2012 Google has revealed its branded Nexus 7 tablet computer it has been working on with Asus and which will pack an astonishing 12-core GPU for hi-def gaming experiences. -
Stay alive, win a prize, at Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon challenge News
24.05.2012 Gamers are invited to join a Ghost Recon: Future Soldier tournament in Dublin this weekend to test their skills against the computer and win a prize if they stay alive. -
New competition for start-ups to win €50,000 package News
14.05.2012 Business mobile service Blueface is teaming up with Carphone Warehouse to launch a new competition for start-ups and those with business plans to pitch their ideas. Seven... -
IEDR launches €100K fund for SMEs to optimise websites News
24.04.2012 The IE Domain Registry (IEDR) is extending its €100,000 e-commerce website development fund for a second year. Ten SMEs and will get €10,000 worth of services to help ramp up... -
Clinic for screening moles wins Eircom’s Start Up contest News
16.04.2012 The Mole Screening Clinic, a new venture set up in 2010 by Mike Malone, has become the first winner of the new Start Up monthly initiative run by Eircom. -
Irish start-up in finals of US health-tech competition News
11.04.2012 Irish health-tech start-up Cara Health, which we featured in February as a tech start-up of the week, has made it to the final three start-ups in a US healthcare competition. -
Android app for election canvassing wins student contest News
04.04.2012 Brendan Finucane, a final-year student in business information systems at University College Cork (UCC), has taken first prize in a Dragons’ Den-style competition for his app,...Tags: Academia, Innovation, University College Cork, App, Entrepreneurship, Start-ups, UCC, Google Maps, Android, -
Google names Ireland’s top doodler News
12.03.2012 A doodle about turning back time has scooped the top prize in the 2012 Doodle 4 Google competition. The creator, Patrick Horan, a sixth-year student at St Munchin’s College in... -
Eircom launches Start Up initiative for new ventures News
05.03.2012 Eircom has set up a new initiative called Start Up to reach out to innovative start-ups that are less than two years old. The Small Firms Association and First-Step Microfinance...Categories: Digital Media, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Competitions, Business Software, Economy, Education, Enterprise, Funding, Internet, Investments, Media, R&D, Social Media -
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin talks science education (video) News
06.02.2012 Today TV personality and science teacher Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin awarded post-primary school students for winning the all-island story writing competition, Tell The Future,...Categories: Education, Sustainability, Science, Renewable Energy, Recycling Services, R&D, Life Sciences, Graduate, Government, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Economy, CompetitionsTags: Clean Tech, Biomass, Science Foundation Ireland, SFI, Innovation, Science, Ireland, EU, Dublin -
Termin8tors win Irish FIRST LEGO League Challenge 2012 News
23.01.2012 A group of brothers and pals, aged from 9 to 14, have scooped the overall prize at the Irish FIRST LEGO League Challenge. Calling themselves Termin8tors, the team have won for...Categories: Application Design and Development, Apps, Apps Zone, Competitions, Computers, Education, Engineering, R&D, Science -
Irish school kids to compete in LEGO robotics league News
19.01.2012 This Saturday, up to 300 school kids between the ages of 9 and 16 will descend upon Galway for the Irish finals of the First LEGO League. The robotics competition itself has... -
NDRC LaunchPad programme seeks 15 digital start-ups News
01.11.2011 The LaunchPad start-up accelerator at the National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) in Dublin is now open for applications from digital start-ups to take part in the next... -
Daughters of Charity rolls out virtualised IT to 300 workers News
08.07.2011 The Daughters of Charity Service has completed the rollout of a Citrix desktop, server and application virtualisation solution. This is providing applications and desktops to...Categories: CIO, Competitions, Data Management, Deals Done, Digital Business, Investments, Unified Communications, Virtualisation -
Free stock market mentoring at NASDAQ HQ in Big Apple News
05.12.2011 Feeling bullish? Irish-born live stock-market game TeamTraders.com has today revealed how it’s teaming up with NASDAQ to give one third-level student a week’s free mentoring in...