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Dell deal with Microsoft will make PC giant the OEM’s OEM News
12.04.2013 Dell has struck a major agreement with Microsoft to become a global distributor, outsource manufacturer and integrator for Windows Embedded products. The vice-president of... -
Firms urged to look at alternatives for a post-XP world News
12.04.2013 With Microsoft announcing the withdrawal of support for Windows XP from April next year, many organisations face a decision about upgrading their PCs still running it: one... -
Seven Irish companies make the Red Herring 100 list of European tech firms News
11.04.2013 Seven Irish companies have made this year’s Red Herring 100 list of up-and-coming private European tech firms. This achievement shows that a small country like Ireland is... -
PC sales fall off a cliff – steepest quarterly decline on record reported News
11.04.2013 The full extent of the decline of the PC industry has been made clear in the latest quarterly analysis from IDC, which revealed a near 14pc drop in the number of PCs sold in the...Categories: Software, Phones, Operating Systems, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers -
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... -
Solar financing platform Clean Power Finance raises US$37m News
09.04.2013 US solar software and financing company Clean Power Finance, which provides an online platform to connect the residential solar industry with the capital markets, has raised...Tags: Venture Capital, Solar Energy -
Irish IT executives behind international curve on big data News
08.04.2013 Only 56pc of Irish business executives believe big data will be a priority in the next five years compared with the EU average of 76pc, a Vanson Bourne study on behalf of data... -
Task Me Now wins Startup Weekend in Cork for crowdsourcing app News
08.04.2013 Cork’s first ever Startup Weekend ended last night, with the top prize going to Task Me Now for its BrainCredit app to help companies crowdsource for expertise for specific... -
EU EcoFin meeting in Dublin this week will take place in the cloud News
08.04.2013 EcoFin meeting of EU finance ministers due to take place later this week at Dublin Castle will be a totally paperless – or cloud-based – affair, with ministers being equipped... -
New guide gives helicopter view of Ireland’s tech start-up scene News
08.04.2013 For anyone wishing to get more insight into Ireland’s technology start-up ecosystem, Dublin-based venture capital (VC) firm Frontline Ventures has come up with a new guide that...Categories: Web, Software Development, Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Online Business, Networking, Mobile, Media, Marketing, Leadership & Management, Investments, Internet, Engineering, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business, Apps, Application Design and Development -
Confirmed: Facebook is testing a priority paid messaging system News
08.04.2013 Social network Facebook has confirmed that it is indeed testing a priority messaging system that will see users pay fees for sending messages to public figures. -
Microsoft to kill Live Messenger today, countdown to end Microsoft XP and Office 2003 begins News
08.04.2013 Microsoft will today close down its popular Windows Live Messenger, also known as MSN Messenger, and is urging users to start using Skype with their Microsoft login details. The... -
Friday is the worst day of the week for phishing attacks, apparently News
05.04.2013 Friday appears to be the top choice for phishers to send targeted emails to office workers in an effort to get them to divulge secure information and potentially cash and is...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Security, Internet, Digital Business -
Facebook reveals ‘Home’ – it’s not a phone but could transform all smartphones News
04.04.2013 Facebook didn’t reveal a brand new phone today per se, but an Android-based feature set called ‘Home’, which it expects to sit on the home screen of all smartphones and will...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Networking & Telecoms, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps -
Alcatel-Lucent to remove cloud bottlenecks with software-defined networks News
04.04.2013 Communications technology giant Alcatel-Lucent has plotted a future direction for the cloud specifically in terms of software-defined networking to ensure that the networks keep... -
Dublin health-tech start-up secures €650k investment News
04.04.2013 Zinc Software, a Dublin-based company that is developing next-generation heart sensors, has secured €650,000 in an investment round to bring its first product to market. The...Tags: AIB, Kernel Capital, Bank of Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, Dublin BIC, iOS, Android, App, SDKs, Health, MedTech -
Google unveils Blink: a new WebKit-based rendering engine for Chrome and Chrome OS News
04.04.2013 Google has revealed that it will no longer use WebKit as the rendering engine for Chrome and Chrome OS and will instead use a forked version called Blink.Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Operating Systems, Open Source, Internet, Development, Design -
Dublin start-up Converser raises US$1.2m in seed funding News
03.04.2013 Converser, a Dublin-based start-up that has developed a CRM and cloud communications platform which can be embedded within mobile apps, has just closed a US$1.2m seed funding... -
PixAlert chosen to help secure Middle East and North African TV network OSN News
03.04.2013 Dublin-headquartered security software provider PixAlert has been chosen by the leading pay TV network in the Middle East and North African OSN to help protect its network. -
Dubstarts jobs fair to link up start-ups with job-seekers News
02.04.2013 An innovative jobs fair will be taking place in Dublin later this month, with the aim of pooling together students, recent graduates and those aiming to break into the tech...