Tagged: US Government
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SMI encourages Irish innovators to access Washington dollars News
26.03.2013 Amongst all the Irish-American meetings and engagements in Washington, DC, recently, consulting firm Strategic Marketing Innovations Inc (SMI) officially announced it would open... -
SMI investment will see Irish R&D access multi-billion dollar US federal funds News
19.03.2013 Washington, DC, technology consulting firm SMI – which has secured more than US$1bn for clients in the last eight years – is to establish its European headquarters in Dublin, it... -
#Budget13 – Corporation tax to remain unchanged at 12.5pc News
05.12.2012 Finance Minister Michael Noonan TD confirmed today in his Budget for 2013 that corporation tax will remain at 12.5pc. -
Cyber Cold War begins: US lawmakers strive to block Chinese comms firms Huawei and ZTE News
09.10.2012 US lawmakers are striving to prevent US telecoms companies doing business with Chinese telecoms equipment makers like Huawei and ZTE. The US House of Representatives’...Categories: Wireless Communications, Software, Social Media, Security, Networking & Telecoms, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Government, Communications -
US government deploys open data standards created in Ireland News
26.04.2012 The open data movement is in full swing and tools and standards created in Ireland are to prove pivotal to open data employed by the US government. It emerged today that...Categories: Data Management, Database, Deals Done, Digital Media, Government, Internet, R&D, Research, Social Media, Software & Web Development, Web, Web 2.0 -
WPP chairman Philip Lader to launch Dublin Web Summit News
16.04.2012 Philip Lader, chairman of communications services group WPP, will launch the Dublin Web Summit tomorrow at 6pm in Trinity College. -
SOPA and PROTECT IP will censor web, warn top tech CEOs News
15.12.2011 Google’s Sergey Brin, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman, the Huffington Post’s Arriana Huffington and many others have signed a letter warning that the Stop Online... -
The top 10 most read stories of 2011 News
31.12.2011 We look back on 2011 and guide you through the ten most read stories on Silicon Republic. -
BlackBerry PlayBook first tablet certified for US government News
24.07.2011 Research In Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry PlayBook has received FIPS 140-2 certification, which means it is the first tablet computer certified for use within US federal government... -
US Senate the latest victim in spree of cyber attacks News
14.06.2011 The US Senate has become the latest high-profile casualty of a cyber attack. Just days after Citigroup and the IMF confirmed they had been attacked, hacker group LulzSec has... -
Weekend news roundup News
13.06.2011 A trawl through some of the weekend newspapers’ tech coverage, including the US planning a "shadow" internet that will help citizens in oppressed countries speak freely, how the...Categories: Wireless Communications, Networking & Telecoms, Investments, Internet, Government, eCommerce -
Death of bin Laden spreads like wildfire on Twitter, Facebook, Google News
02.05.2011 News of the killing by US forces of Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the devastating 9/11 terrorist attacks a decade ago, has become something of a new media phenomenon. -
US government to show terrorist alerts on Facebook, Twitter News
08.04.2011 The US government’s new terror alerts, which will replace its previous colour-coded warnings, may be displayed on Facebook and Twitter “when appropriate.” -
Clinton vows to prevent internet going dark – slams WikiLeaks News
16.02.2011 The US government will provide US$25m to help digital activists and political dissidents in autocratic countries work their way around censorship. US Secretary of State Hilary...Categories: Software & Web Development, Security, Networking & Telecoms, Internet, Government, Communications, Apps -
WikiLeaks now accessible through hundreds of mirrors News
06.12.2010 In spite of efforts to bring WikiLeaks offline, the whistle-blowing website is now available on hundreds of mirrored websites and is accepting more. -
DNS provider withdraws services from WikiLeaks News
03.12.2010 WikiLeaks' website has been removed by EveryDNS.net, the company which provided its domain name service (DNS). This followed Amazon ceasing hosting the whistle-blowing site. -
US says ‘cloud first’ for government IT from 2012 News
29.11.2010 In a move that looks likely to boost support for cloud computing, the US federal government has said all IT projects from 2012 onwards will have a "cloud-first" policy. -
US Govt seizes BitTorrent search engine domains News
27.11.2010 In a major crackdown, the US Government’s ICE Homeland Security Investigations unit has seized the domain of a major BitTorrent meta-search engine, along with other domains that... -
US govt uses social networking to track citizenship applicants News
14.10.2010 The US government has been using social networks to track people in many ways, including monitoring people who apply for US citizenship. -
US security services plan to take on the internet ‘dark zone’ News
27.09.2010 US national security officials incensed at the ability of suspects to ‘go dark’ because they are using the internet more than ordinary telephones are planning to get new...Categories: Security, Networking & Telecoms, Mobile, Internet, Hosting Services, Hardware, Government, Communications