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Govt invests €1.6m in providing digital skills to 30,000 people News
27.06.2011 Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte, TD, is making €1.6m available to provide basic internet-related skills training to 30,000 people across Ireland who otherwise may not have...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Multimedia, Internet, Government, Education, Economy, eCommerce, Digital 21 -
‘Data is the new oil’ News
23.06.2011 The Government’s new taskforce is focused on delivering 30Mbps broadband for all, and 100Mbps for half of Ireland’s citizens. But will it succeed?Categories: Telecommunications, Networks, Mobility, Investments, Internet, Infrastructure Management, Government, Economy, Digital 21, Communications -
Cable is fastest-growing broadband platform in Ireland News
21.06.2011 The latest quarterly figures from ComReg reveal cable broadband showed the largest growth in the broadband market. Cable broadband grew 33.4pc, followed by mobile broadband,...Categories: Telecommunications, Networking & Telecoms, Internet, Financial, Digital 21, Consumer Tech, Communications -
Historic wind energy-sharing deal between Ireland and UK News
21.06.2011 The Irish Wind Energy Association (IWEA) has welcomed the signing of an historic deal between Ireland and the UK government that will potentially pave the way for exploiting... -
The open data movement will be a people’s revolution News
13.05.2011 The emerging open data revolution could transform ordinary people’s lives and create jobs as governments and businesses see the merit of opening up their data vaults. Welcome to... -
Govt to devise education strategy to win tech jobs News
20.06.2011 Jobs Minister Richard Bruton and Education Minister Ruairi Quinn are planning an "ambitious" response to the jobs needs of the ICT sector, Bruton said at the end of a tour of...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Tax, Software & Web Development, Networking & Telecoms, Jobs, Investments, Internet, Education, Economy, Digital 21 -
Govt to set NGN broadband targets and deadlines News
18.06.2011 The Next Generational Broadband Taskforce has six months to “put flesh on the bones” of plans to move Ireland from basic broadband to ensure faster broadband everywhere,...Categories: Networking & Telecoms, Investments, Internet, Government, Economy, Digital Business, Digital 21, Development, Communications -
Cloud rewards idea in lead in HMH €250k education challenge News
17.06.2011 An Irish cloud concept that rewards students, parents and teachers is currently in the lead as part of the HMH Global Education Challenge, which has cash and prizes worth... -
Ireland is emerging as a formidable scientific force – minister News
16.06.2011 Investments such as the €44m ‘Principal Investigator’ (PI) programme that will support 300 new jobs over the next five years are playing a key role in Ireland’s emergence as a...Categories: Software & Web Development, Science, R&D, Life Sciences, Jobs, Graduate, Government, Digital 21 -
ICT industry creates Masters programme to close skills gap News
13.06.2011 ICT Ireland has launched a fully funded Masters in applied software technology from Dublin Institute of Technology which includes a guaranteed job in Ireland's high-tech sector... -
First trans-Atlantic call for lightRadio tech developed in Dublin News
09.06.2011 A new technology spearheaded by an Irish R&D group that will help bring the internet to every person on the planet and shrink the carbon footprint of cellular base stations has...Categories: Wireless Communications, Science, Research, R&D, Phones, Networking & Telecoms, Hardware, Green Computing, Green, Engineering, Digital 21, Development, Communications -
BT 'Connected Communities' to support Moyross enterprises News
07.06.2011 Moyross Community Enterprise Centre in Limerick is to be one of the beneficiaries of the BT ‘Connected Communities’ initiative, which aims to help communities across Ireland get... -
EXCLUSIVE: Interview with a 20-year-old Irish tech millionaire News
01.06.2011 Two years ago, the entire nation was stunned when the news emerged that two Limerick teenagers – John and Patrick Collison – had sold their first technology company for US$5m....Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Investments, Funding, Education, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Business, Digital 21, ComputersTags: Limerick, Twitter, MIT, Foursquare, Skype, Silicon Valley, Angel Investors, eBay, Google, Venture Capital, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Collison Brothers, -
Ireland far behind EU average on broadband speeds News
31.05.2011 Despite making considerable progress in recent years in getting broadband numbers up, Ireland is showing signs of falling behind on broadband speeds and quality. -
Education is the engine of future prosperity – Intel Ireland boss News
26.05.2011 The head of Intel Ireland, which employs 4,000 people in Ireland and which has invested €25m in boosting technology in Irish schools, said that while the nation’s education... -
75pc of Irish ICT employers have job vacancies News
26.05.2011 Three-quarters of Irish ICT employers say they have vacancies in their companies. More than 50pc of these have more than 20 jobs available in their firms, the chair of ICT...Categories: Software & Web Development, Science, R&D, Jobs, Hardware, Education, Economy, Digital 21 -
Enterprise Ireland launches €1m ‘Go Global’ fund News
26.05.2011 Companies that are already successfully trading in Ireland but believe they could trade overseas have been invited by Enterprise Ireland to apply for grants of up to €25,000... -
The internet is reaching its overload limit News
25.05.2011 The internet as we know it is approaching overload because it was never designed to handle the weight of people and processes it labours under. For this reason, governments are...Categories: Networking & Telecoms, Mobility, Mobile, Investments, Infrastructure Management, Government, Digital Media, Digital 21 -
Dublin in battle to be World Design Capital 2014 News
26.05.2011 Dublin is to battle it out against Beijing, Capetown and Bilbao to have the honour of being World Design Capital 2014. The city’s bid will involve the four local authorities...Categories: Multimedia, Jobs, Government, Economy, Digital Media, Digital 21, Development, Design, Architecture -
Data Electronics in €15m green data centre expansion News
25.05.2011 Data Electronics, a completely Irish-owned IT services and data centre provider, has completed a €15m expansion of its North Dublin data centre. This comes three years after the...Categories: Virtualisation, IT Management, Investments, Infrastructure Management, Green Computing, Energy, Digital 21, Data Management, Data Centre, Cloud, CIO