Tagged: Open Source & News
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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 -
Foursquare moving from Google Maps to OpenStreetMap News
01.03.2012 Location check-in service Foursquare has moved from using the Google Maps API to the crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap, with start-up MapBox providing the visuals for the data. -
Italian software start-up relocates to Dublin, jobs on way News
29.02.2012 Entando, a Sardinia, Italy-based software start-up, is relocating its operations to Dublin, where it will be taking on 10 new hires this year, the company has announced. -
DERI teams up with Belgium’s UCB on open-source software News
24.02.2012 The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at NUI Galway is starting a collaboration with the Belgian pharmaceutical company UCB to ramp up its D2RQ open-source software... -
CrisisCamp shows how open source tech can respond to disasters News
10.02.2012 Ireland’s first CrisisCamp on 26 February at NUI Galway will show how open source software and hardware can be used to build and use technology tools to help respond to... -
RedMonk’s London developer day welcomes Irish contingent News
13.01.2012 ‘The Irish are coming’ screams the blog for the Red Monk Brew: The Monki Gras in London on 1 February. The organisers say there’s a steady stream of talented Irish software... -
HAXLR8R offers start-ups chance to ‘build’ next big thing News
09.12.2011 Hardware start-ups are being offered a unique chance to join the 111-day HAXLR8R accelerator programme starting in March in Shenzhen, China, where they will be mentored by... -
Freedom of the web News
17.11.2011 Laura O’Brien talks to the president of Mozilla Europe Tristan Nitot about how users need to have more control over their digital lives on the web and on their smartphones.