Tagged: Culture
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Google doesn’t want Swedes to use the word ‘ungoogleable’ for all search engines News
26.03.2013 The Swedish Language Council has been asked by Google to remove the word ‘ogooglebar’ (meaning ‘ungoogleable’) from its list of 40 new words commonly used by Swedes in 2012.Categories: Search Engines, Search -
Re-Play motion capture project seeks to preserve skills from Gaelic and Basque sports News
21.03.2013 Launched today in Croke Park, Dublin, a €2m European research project seeks to digitally capture the skills involved in playing Gaelic football and hurling and the traditional... -
DLDwomen13 Events
15.07.2013 DLD (Digital-Life-Design) is a global network on innovation, digitisation, science and culture which connects business, creative and social leaders, opinion-formers and... -
Climate change gathering to take place in the Burren this weekend News
14.02.2013 More than 60 participants, including Harvard professor Daniel Schrag, who is an adviser to US President Barack Obama, will be meeting in the west of Ireland this weekend to... -
Hailo offers JDIFF visitors a lift home with thousands of vouchers News
12.02.2013 The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, or JDIFF for short, hits Ireland's capital city this week and with it comes €100,000-worth of Hailo vouchers issued in... -
Samsung partners with National Gallery of Ireland, provides tablets for exhibitions News
12.02.2013 The National Gallery of Ireland has gained a technology partner in the form of Samsung IT & Mobile Ireland. The year-long partnership will see Samsung devices, such as the...Categories: Digital Media, Computers -
I can has exhibishun: LOLcat art goes on display in London (pictures) News
22.01.2013 Starting tomorrow, an exhibition in a London gallery will open up a world of feline-based artwork inspired by the cat-loving world that we call the internet. -
Nutcracker Ballet’s 120th anniversary honoured in Google Doodle News
18.12.2012 Today’s doodle marks 120 years since the two-act ballet, The Nutcracker, premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia. Though it was not an immediate success, the... -
Fast Forward Reports
19.12.2011 Strategies for success in tomorrow’s hot new markets.Tags: Culture, Entrepreneurs, Multinationals, Risk, Business growth, Markets, global , Ernst & Young, -
Entrepreneurs Speak Out: A Call to Action for G20 Governments Reports
19.12.2011 The Nice Côte d’Azur 2011 Entrepreneurship Barometer. -
Abbey Theatre and NUI Galway team up on theatre’s digital archive News
22.10.2012 Some 1.8m items belonging to the Abbey Theatre archive are headed for A Digital Journey Through Irish Theatre History, a digital multimedia archive partnership between the... -
Online petition to maintain botched fresco has over 20,000 supporters News
27.08.2012 Last week, an elderly woman’s ill-advised attempt to restore a 19th-century Spanish fresco hit the headlines and spawned a wave of humorous images across the web. Now, an online... -
Saudi Arabia objects to .gay internet address News
15.08.2012 Saudi Arabia’s Communications and Information Technology Commission has filed an official objection with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to the... -
Eyewitness accounts from Ireland’s struggle for independence to go online today News
07.08.2012 The Bureau of Military History was established in 1947 to gather information on Ireland’s fight for independence from 1913 to 1921. In March 2003, the statements, documents and... -
Google launches Endangered Languages Project News
21.06.2012 Today, Google has launched the Endangered Languages Project in an effort to support language preservations through technology and collaboration, and native speakers or scholars... -
Ireland showcased on Google World Wonders Project News
31.05.2012 Street View visits landmark buildings to capture some of the world’s most culturally significant sites, including two Irish places of worship.