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Dublin makes shortlist for World Design Capital 2014 News
22.06.2011 Dublin has been shortlisted to become World Design Capital 2014, now competing with only two other cities - Bilbao and Cape Town - for the designation. -
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 -
Irish Green Building Council to support sustainable construction News
24.05.2011 Set up in Dublin today, the Irish Green Building Council anticipates €2bn in annual contract opportunities for Irish firms that look to ‘green’ Ireland’s built environment, with...Tags: Green Economy, -
Amazon Web Services builds easy cloud templates for firms News
25.02.2011 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new CloudFormation product that makes it easier for developers and businesses to create collections of AWS resources and provision them... -
Angry Birds launched for Windows PCs on Intel apps store News
05.01.2011 LAS VEGAS – The popular mobile app game Angry Birds has been launched for Windows 7 and XP devices on Intel’s AppUp centre for netbook computers.Categories: Operating Systems, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Development, Computers, Architecture, Apps Zone, Apps -
Windows 8 to run on Intel and ARM platforms, Microsoft says News
06.01.2011 LAS VEGAS – The head of Windows Live Steve Sinofsky has revealed that the next version of Windows will run on PC and tablet devices that will sport system-on-chip architectures...Categories: Phones, Operating Systems, Multimedia, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Enterprise, Development, Consumer Tech, Computers, Architecture -
Is Microsoft swapping Silverlight with HTML5? News
01.11.2010 After years of pushing Silverlight, there is a school of thought rapidly emerging that makes it seem Microsoft is switching its allegiance in the direction of HTML5.Categories: Web Development, Web Design, Web 2.0, Software & Web Development, Internet, Development, Architecture -
Microsoft faces backlash after Silverlight comments News
02.11.2010 Microsoft is attempting to reduce the backlash from programmers after it downplayed Silverlight at a developers conference and said it would focus on HTML5.Categories: Web Development, Web 2.0, Web, Software Development, Internet, Development, Architecture -
Green buildings and climate change News
23.09.2010 Buildings consume between 30-40pc of global energy, according to the United Nations Environment Programme, so how can the move to green buildings address climate change and meet... -
Launch of awards scheme for energy efficient buildings News
19.07.2010 A €10,000 prize is on offer for the Irish winner of the Isover Energy Efficiency Awards. -
AOL creates 50 new software jobs in Dublin News
08.06.2010 Internet giant AOL said this morning it is to create 50 new software engineering jobs at its Dublin Development Centre over the next two years. The aim is to become a leading... -
Big changes coming at Twitter News
03.06.2010 Micro-blogging site Twitter is implementing important new changes – the ability to see who else is following whom else and a new annotations capability to add metadata.Tags: Twitter, Social Networking -
Chip giants in pact to ensure digital revolution is open source News
03.06.2010 Chip manufacturers IBM, Samsung and Texas Instruments have established a new software engineering foundation aimed at improving Linux distribution such as Android, Ubuntu and... -
Microsoft begins global rollout of SQL Server 2008 R2 News
22.04.2010 Microsoft last night began the release to manufacturing of SQL Server 2008 R2 which will be available to enterprise customers in early May through the software giant’s ecosystem.Categories: CIO, Architecture, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Data Centre, IT Management, IT Organisation, Operating Systems, Virtualisation -
Google, YouTube, Yahoo countersue Xerox over patents News
16.04.2010 Google and its subsidiary YouTube, along with Yahoo, have countersued Xerox, accusing the firm of infringing patents on internet searches. -
Corporate desktops no longer physical but virtual - HP News
14.04.2010 The end of the corporate desktop as a physical entity is nigh, warns the world’s largest computing company HP, pointing to desktop virtualisation as a trend encouraging it to...Categories: Architecture, Data Management, Global CIO, Hardware, Virtualisation, Networking, Computers -
Intel profits up 288pc as tech economy beats on News
13.04.2010 Sharply higher margins amid strong demand for microprocessors for laptops and servers led to a 44pc increase in Q1 revenues of US$10.3bn at chip giant Intel. Profits quadrupled... -
How to get IT spend moving again - Gartner News
12.04.2010 Although the recession hit IT budgets in Ireland, many organisations have maintained their level of spending on technology, according to the industry research firm Gartner.Categories: CIO, Architecture, Enterprise Applications, Funding, Global CIO, IT Management, IT Organisation