Categorised as: Data Management & News
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#OI2Dublin – How CERN is working with the ICT industry to find solutions for the Large Hadron Collider News
21.05.2013 We talk to Bob Jones, who heads up CERN’s openlab project, a partnership between CERN and ICT companies to drive forward data-intensive solutions for the needs of the scientific... -
#OI2Dublin - McClaren’s Peter van Manen: 'The future of Formula 1 is data driven' (video) News
21.05.2013 We talk to Peter van Manen of McClaren Electronics about how technology innovation developed by the McClaren Formula 1 team has been translated into powerful solutions in... -
Facebook Ireland complying with Data Protection Commissioner on recommendations - report News
21.05.2013 Facebook Ireland has been implementing recommendations from Ireland’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner to its satisfaction, the agency’s follow-up review of an audit... -
More complaints, data breach notifications in 2012 - Data Protection Commissioner report News
20.05.2013 Ireland’s Office of the Data Protection Commissioner opened more complaints for investigation last year than the year before, saw an increase in the number of data breach... -
Colleges need to produce more big data graduates to fill future jobs, EMC says News
16.05.2013 Multinational IT firm EMC, which recently partnered with University College Cork (UCC) on two data-focused business courses, believes that more interdisciplinary big data... -
TCD Lero team in €2.5m study into how ecology can help make better software News
15.05.2013 A Trinity College Dublin-based Lero team is to take part in a €2.5m European Commission-funded research programme to find out how the principles of ecology can be adopted to... -
Big data could mean big health cost savings and better outcomes News
14.05.2013 Picture a scenario where, by collecting the right data and using today’s sophisticated analytics, our health system could predict when a patient with chronic conditions might... -
Twitter buys data analysis start-up Lucky Sort News
14.05.2013 Twitter has snapped up Lucky Sort, a data analysis company that may help the microblogging site monetise tweets. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.Categories: Social Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Deals Done, Data Management, Business Intelligence -
McAfee to acquire firewall protection player Stonesoft News
08.05.2013 Software security firm McAfee is jostling for leadership position in network security with its bid to acquire Stonesoft Oyj, a provider of next-generation network firewall... -
IIA and Enterprise Ireland to hit the road with series of Cloud Adoption events News
07.05.2013 The Irish Internet Associaion (IIA) has teamed up with Enterprise Ireland on a Cloud Adoption Event Series – a cloud roadshow sponsored by Microsoft Ireland that intends to... -
Microsoft sets National Cloud Week afloat with €600,000 software donation to Barnardos News
07.05.2013 National Cloud Week is the second annual series of events organised by Microsoft in Ireland to raise awareness of the benefits of cloud among businesses in all sectors. This... -
#DIF13 – Open governments can make their nations more entrepreneurial (video) News
19.04.2013 By embracing open data and providing citizens with fair and equitable access to knowledge, nations can empower a new generation of entrepreneurs, Emer Coleman told this...Categories: Software & Web Development, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Government, Database, Data Management, Apps -
Telefónica Ireland’s Tony Hanway: 4G will be a catalyst for bridging the digital divide (video) News
17.04.2013 Telefónica Ireland CEO Tony Hanway said that when 4G arrives in the coming months it will help to bridge Ireland’s digital divide by bringing with it vast improvements in the... -
Semantic web breakthrough could make sense of big data faster News
17.04.2013 The first fruits of a research collaboration between the ICT giant Fujitsu and the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at NUI Galway could be about to pave the way for...Categories: Web, Software Development, Software & Web Development, Science, Internet, Data Management -
New e-discovery guide to help IT pros in gathering electronic evidence News
17.04.2013 IT and legal professionals faced with trawling through masses of digital information as part of the legal discovery process or for internal HR disputes can now refer to a new... -
Maurice Mortell interview: data centres are the heart of the digital economy (video) News
15.04.2013 TelecityGroup Ireland managing director Maurice Mortell says data centres have become the heart of the digital ecosystem, with vital interconnects between various telcos, cloud... -
Major brute force attack against WordPress under way News
12.04.2013 A large distributed brute force attack against WordPress sites is understood to be occurring. A large botnet with more than 90,000 servers is attempting to log in by cycling... -
Digital death: Google’s new tool helps you decide what happens to your data when you’re gone News
12.04.2013 Like taxes, death is inevitable. But the question of what happens to a person’s data after they die has been answered by Google, which has developed a new tool to give people...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Security, Mobility, Mobile, Legal, Internet, Digital Media, Data Management, Consumer Tech -
Comsys forms pan-European partnership with Axxana News
11.04.2013 Dublin-based IT infrastructure support company Comsys has become a pan-European business partner of data protection firm Axxana in a deal valued at €1m over the next two years. -
RTÉ to employ semantic web and big data to preserve Ireland’s memories News
09.04.2013 Ireland’s State broadcaster RTÉ, as part of its strategy to preserve the memories of a nation in digital form, is to collaborate with SFI’s recently announced mega CSET the...