20.08.2008 Auction website eBay has revealed it plans to reduce the fees it charges sellers to list fixed-price items from September. more...
20.08.2008 NASDAQ-listed financial software and payments company Trintech this morning reported a net loss of close to US$1m in its fiscal second quarter, despite delivering revenues of US$10.5m for the quarter. more...
20.08.2008 Ireland has landed in the top 10 countries worldwide for attracting investment in renewable energy. more...
20.08.2008 Search giant Google’s philanthropic arm has revealed it is investing US$10.25m in a breakthrough new energy technology it has suggested could be the ‘killer app’ of the energy world. more...
19.08.2008 Think of all the competing signals flying overhead at this very moment with your wireless device in the unlicensed spectrum or ‘white space’ as it is commonly known – Bluetooth headsets, Wi-Fi enabled laptops, walkie talkies, automatic syncing, even baby monitors. more...
18.08.2008 The poor uptake in science, technology, engineering and maths in this morning’s first-round CAO offerings is causing concern in the ICT and engineering sectors. more...
15.08.2008 Although thousands of students didn’t get the grades they wanted in maths in this year’s Leaving Certificate, this mustn’t be seen as an end to an ICT career for them, the Irish Computer Society (ICS) said today. more...
14.08.2008 Technological innovations are at forefront of the careful commercialisation of third-level research. more...
13.08.2008 The Institutes of Technology have hit out at Education Minister Batt O’Keefe’s debate about third-level fees and labelled it a “distraction” from the fact that a pay budget cut has meant no new posts have been sanctioned at the institutes for many years. more...
13.08.2008 Ireland’s ICT sector risks being seriously undermined by continuing maths failure rates at second level and the industry has called on the Government to come up with a more creative way to boost the quality of maths teaching in the nation’s schools. more...
12.08.2008 US telecoms giant Sprint – which has over 53 million customers – has deployed technology developed by UCD campus company ChangingWorlds to boost personalisation and content search across more than 40 different mobile handsets. more...
07.08.2008 A Korean company has developed the world’s first high-retardancy, non-toxic cables for electronic devices using nanotechnology and is introducing the innovation into Europe. more...