Tagged: Open Source
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PyCon Ireland 2013 Sprints Events
14.10.2013 Sprints is a chance for people to contribute to Python-based open-source projects. Both days are free for anyone to participate. We have four sprints planned: Plone, Django,... -
Women nerd heroes (infographic) News
22.01.2013 Women have always contributed to technological innovation and as a new year gets under way, an infographic looks back at six ladies who have altered tech history with their... -
Big data firm Cloudera raises US$65m and plans to open European HQ in London News
07.12.2012 Cloudera, the Palo Alto, California, company that distributes Hadoop-based software to help companies analyse big data, has raised US$65m in a new funding round, while the... -
Kainos plans Health Hack NI coding challenge to boost healthcare software News
27.11.2012 Belfast and Dublin-based software company Kainos, which is in the midst of creating 110 new jobs, says its Health Hack coding challenge has already been over-subscribed in the... -
Cork City Council to increase open source use in IT projects News
26.10.2012 Cork City Council is to expand its use of open source software, focusing initially on projects for CRM and content management. -
iQ Content launches Dublin Event Guide app, developed using open-source platform News
24.10.2012 Dublin-based user experience design consultancy iQ Content has launched an open-source mobile event listing platform for event organisers and developers, and used this to create... -
Cloud, mobile and open source to transform US$9bn app industry in 2012 News
24.08.2012 The global app development market will be worth US$9bn in 2012 and major shifts in the direction of mobile, agility, cloud computing and open source projects will transform the... -
Ouya’s crowdfunding campaign ends with final tally surpassing US$8m News
09.08.2012 The production of the (quite literally) game-changing Ouya console is now well under way, having racked up more than US$8m in Kickstarter donations and secured key partnerships... -
The five minute CIO: Martin McCormack News
03.08.2012 This week Martin McCormack, director of ICT at Beaumont Hospital, shares his thoughts on technology trends and strategy.Categories: Careers and Employment, CIO, Investments, IT Management, Leadership & Management, Management, Networks, Virtualisation -
GitHub raises US$100m in Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz News
10.07.2012 Social coding player GitHub has raised US$100m in Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz, the Silicon Valley venture capital player which has also invested in Facebook,... -
Netflix establishes its own content delivery network News
05.06.2012 Web-streaming service Netflix has decided to cut out the middle man and create its own content delivery network (CDN), following YouTube’s example. -
Mozilla’s HTML5 mobile OS Boot to Gecko arriving in Brazil first News
20.04.2012 Mozilla will release its open source HTML5-based mobile OS, Boot to Gecko, in Brazil first through the Telefónica network by the end of 2012 or by early 2013. -
Scientists pioneer new encryption technology for Google Docs (video) News
04.04.2012 Researchers at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) have come up with a new encryption technology called CipherDocs to secure documents that are sent and stored in the cloud via Google... -
Opportunity for Irish coders to join Google Summer of Code News
27.03.2012 Irish coders have an opportunity to apply to join Google’s Summer of Code project and spend the summer of 2012 earning money writing code for open-source projects, the company...Categories: Software Development, Software & Web Development, Software, Open Source, Mobile, Engineering, Development, Design, Computers, Architecture, Apps