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Irish School of Motoring sets up online driving school on Facebook News
16.11.2011 The Irish School of Motoring (ISM) has launched a Facebook e-Driving School, letting learner drivers go through modules which offer advice and videos on the rules of the road. -
Profitero and Radisens pitch at IBM SmartCamp finals News
16.11.2011 Dublin-based Profitero and Cork-based Radisens Diagnostics are two of the five start-ups from Ireland and the UK taking part in IBM SmartCamp in London. PageHub, RSM and Visible...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, R&D, Jobs, Green Computing, Green, Enterprise Applications, Enterprise, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Education -
New €25m R&D fund for Irish researchers News
16.11.2011 New jobs are on the way for Ireland in the medical-tech space. The CEO of Covidien José E Almeida said this morning that Ireland’s record of fostering successful innovation was...Categories: Science, Research, Recruitment, R&D, Life Sciences, Jobs, Investments, Intellectual Property, Energy, Education, Economy, Careers and Employment, Bio Tech -
Ireland and UK energy ministers talk energy security and exports News
16.11.2011 The UK and Irish energy ministers made history yesterday at the National Offshore Wind (NOW) Ireland conference as they both spoke about the two islands’ opporunity to build...Tags: Energy, EU, Pat Rabbitte, Venture Capital, Investment, Wind Farms, Offshore Wind, Wind Energy, Siemens -
Ireland’s €680m localisation sector to spur more jobs News
16.11.2011 Ireland’s localisation sector already employs 15,000 people in an industry that's worth about €680m to the economy annually. Take the SFI-funded CNGL that has been pioneering... -
New sports arena to result in 200 jobs News
15.11.2011 Minister for Public Expenditure & Reform Brendan Howlin turned the first sod at a ceremony today marking the construction of a new sports area at Waterford Institute of... -
Irish aeronautical engineer wins top Boeing award at age of 34 News
15.11.2011 Dr Pio Fitzgerald, a University of Limerick aeronautical engineering graduate, has won the highest engineering accolade from Boeing, having been named Boeing Commercial... -
Medicine Men Go Wild star to speak at Science Gallery News
14.11.2011 Dr Alex van Tulleken, the star of the Medicine Men Go Wild TV series, will give a lecture on drought, conflict and the manipulation of water access at the Science Gallery in... -
IBM SmartCamp finalists pitch for Silicon Valley trip News
14.11.2011 London will be the setting of the IBM SmartCamp this week, when five tech innovators from the UK will share their business plans around driving smarter, more sustainable cities....Categories: Green Tech, Computers, Economy, Education, Energy, Government, Green, Green Computing, R&D, Recycling Services, Renewable Energy, Science, Sustainability -
Weekend news roundup News
14.11.2011 Some of the top tech stories from the weekend newspapers, including Apple's courting of educators to unleash the next education revolution, Peter Thiel's interest in healthcare... -
Google+ seeks innovative photographers News
10.11.2011 Google+ might be relatively new, but already the photography community is starting to thrive on the platform, with more than 3.4bn photos uploaded in the first 100 days. That’s... -
IBM global report ranks Ireland top location in world to invest News
10.11.2011 IBM’s 2011 Global Location Trends Report has ranked Ireland as the top destination in the world by quality and value of investments. Ireland also ranks as one of the top... -
Fifteen new ventures vie for €35,000 start-up prize News
10.11.2011 NovaUCD is preparing to showcase 15 new high-tech and knowledge-intensive ventures that are emerging from University College Dublin (UCD) research programmes during its annual... -
Governments must invest in low-carbon technologies, IEA warns News
10.11.2011 The world is locking itself into an unsustainable energy future, as it heads for an insecure, inefficient and high-carbon energy system, the International Energy Agency (IEA)...Categories: Sustainability, Science, Renewable Energy, R&D, IT Organisation, Green Computing, Green, Government, Financial, Energy, Education, Economy, Green Tech -
Bio-tech start-up Biosensia secures €1.2m in funding News
09.11.2011 Biosensia, an Irish point-of-care diagnostics company based at NovaUCD in Dublin, has secured €1.2m in new funding as it plans to advance its regulatory and commercial strategy...Categories: Education, Bio Tech, Enterprise, Funding, Intellectual Property, Investments, Jobs, Life Sciences, R&D, Science -
Innovation boot camp in Dublin to help launch smart ideas News
09.11.2011 Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in Ireland has set up an initiative to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship using a boot camp concept. The company is tapping into DCU Ryan... -
UL secures €165,000 to develop next-gen LED lighting News
09.11.2011 University of Limerick (UL) has entered into an ‘Innovation Partnership’ with Irish clean-tech firm Ikon Semiconductor to develop a next-generation LED-based energy-efficient...Categories: Sustainability, Jobs, IT Organisation, Investments, Intellectual Property, Green, Graduate, Energy, Education, Green Tech -
Large asteroid gliding past Earth today News
08.11.2011 Asteroid 2005 YU55 will today fly past Earth slightly closer than the moon’s orbit, making its closest approach at 3.28pm PST (11.30pm GMT). The last time a space rock this... -
Ireland’s winning Microsoft Imagine Cup team in EU capital News
08.11.2011 The winning IT Sligo team Team Hermes, which competed against 350,000 students from 183 countries to win one of the world’s most prestigious student technology awards, is today...Categories: Software Development, Software & Web Development, Software, Research, R&D, Education, Economy, Development -
Smart tech of the future at NUI Galway, as IT projects excel News
07.11.2011 NUI Galway IT students have won awards for their innovative smart-tech projects covering everything from interactive policy simulators for urban dynamics, web visualisation of...