Tagged: Software & News
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Intel buys API player Mashery for an estimated US$180m News
18.04.2013 Tech giant Intel has acquired Mashery, a provider of API technology that helps major brands, including the Guardian, USA Today, Klout and Rovi, use APIs to build new revenue... -
Trilogy Technologies in IT services deal with Aura gym chain News
12.04.2013 Trilogy Technologies has deployed IT equipment and software across the fitness chain Aura’s eight sites around Ireland following a competitive tender. -
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... -
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... -
HP to build 87,000 sq-foot cloud R&D operation in Galway for 700 workers News
08.04.2013 HP has applied for planning permission to build a new 87,000 sq-foot R&D and cloud facility in Galway that will house up to 700 workers. -
Tech start-up of the week: The Analytics Store News
07.04.2013 Our tech start-up of the week is The Analytics Store, a boutique consultancy and training company set up by computer scientist Aoife D’Arcy to help companies and organisations... -
Microsoft VP hints that ‘Windows Blue’ will be unveiled at Build and TechEd in June News
27.03.2013 Trickles of information on a new suite of products and services from Microsoft began surfacing this month under the name ‘Windows Blue’, and the tech giant’s corporate... -
Microsoft boosts its tablet capabilities across Mail, Calendar, People and Music News
26.03.2013 Microsoft has promised richer features for Windows 8 tablet users and has begun by introducing new updates to its Windows 8 Mail, Calendar and People applications. The software... -
Eight start-ups to emerge successfully from SELR8R global sales programme News
22.03.2013 Eight promising young technology companies are due to complete the intensive 50-day SELR8R sales accelerator programme in Cork next week equipped with the skills to sell to the... -
Tech start-up of the week: Element Software News
17.03.2013 This week’s featured start-up is Element Software, a Galway-based software development and consulting company specialising in mobile apps for businesses in the media, sports,... -
Google to kill more perfectly good products, Reader to retire on 1 July News
14.03.2013 In what it describes as a process of spring cleaning, Google is to retire a number of core internet and cloud products, including its popular RSS service Google Reader.Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Search, Internet, Digital Media, Apps -
HP says UK Serious Fraud Office is investigating Autonomy case News
12.03.2013 HP has disclosed in a financial filing that the UK’s Serious Fraud Office has opened an investigation into the allegations surrounding HP’s US$11bn acquisition of Mike Lynch’s... -
Ulster Bank sorry for new technical problem, says services back to normal News
07.03.2013 Ulster Bank has apologised to its customers for a technical problem – the second one in nine months – that left customers unable to withdraw cash from ATMs or access their... -
Up to 150 new jobs for Cork as FireEye establishes tech support in the city News
05.03.2013 Potentially up to 150 new jobs will be created in Cork by web and email security player FireEye, which is establishing its EMEA technical support centre in the city.Categories: Software, Security, Internet, Economy, Digital Business, Careers and Employment, Software & Web Development, Web -
Irish app firm listed as one of three finalists in SAP Innovation Challenge News
04.03.2013 SMART Visibility, a new manufacturing mobile software developed by an Irish start-up that aims to enable the factories of the future using augmented reality and GPS, is one of... -
Denmark pursues Microsoft for US$1bn in back taxes News
04.03.2013 Software giant Microsoft is being pursued for US$1bn in back taxes by Danish tax authorities. The tax penalty relates to Microsoft’s US$1.88bn acquisition of Danish software... -
Speculation that Belfast tech firm Aepona has been bought for US$120m News
01.03.2013 Intel has refused to comment on speculation that it has acquired Belfast mobile technology company Aepona for an estimated US$120m. -
Slane Castle the venue for next CoderDojo mentor conference: Rock ‘n’ Code News
01.03.2013 Usually the venue for rock concerts, Slane Castle will be the venue for the next DojoCon on 12 April. Now in its second year, the conference aims to help mentors share know-how... -
Hosted private cloud services business to surpass US$24bn by 2016 News
01.03.2013 Global spending on hosted private cloud services will be more than US$24bn by 2016, IDC has predicted. The sector will grow at a compound annual rate of 50pc a year over the...Categories: Storage, Servers, Infrastructure Management, Hosting Services, Global CIO, Digital Media, CIO -
Rails Girls rolls into Dublin to teach women to code News
08.02.2013 The NDRC in Dublin will tonight host ‘Rails Girls’, a workshop aimed at teaching women how to code using the Ruby on Rails web-based programming language.Categories: Upskilling, Training, Software Development, Software & Web Development, Education, Development, Design, Apps