Tagged: Open Source & News
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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. -
Diaspora co-founder Zhitomirskiy dies at 22 News
14.11.2011 Just as a new batch of invites to the much-anticipated open source social networking platform Diaspora were issued, the sad news emerged that one of the platform’s co-founder’s,...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Open Source, Digital Media, Development, Design, Apps -
Quest Computing in Malaysia Multimedia University deal News
03.10.2011 Dublin technology company Quest Computing has won a major contract with a prestigious Malaysian university that will use its software to manage grant allocations. -
eBay completes Magento acquisition News
17.08.2011 Online auction giant eBay has completed it acquisition of Magento, Inc., the creators of Magento, an open-source e-commerce platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. -
IBM, CloudBroker and ETH Zurich battle bacteria via the cloud News
12.07.2011 IBM, cloud computing company CloudBroker and researchers from science and technology university ETH Zurich have joined forces to research and develop new antibiotics to fight... -
Irish Government called on to open up its data to citizens News
29.04.2011 The Irish Government is being called upon to open up all data to citizens and enterprising software developers in a move that could drive a raft of new services to citizens,...Categories: Software & Web Development, Open Source, Mobility, IT Management, Government, Data Management, Cloud, CIO, Apps -
Facebook open sources its data centre secrets News
08.04.2011 Facebook has revealed the secrets behind its data centre strategy that reduces energy consumption by up to 38pc and costs by 24pc.Categories: Software, Servers, Infrastructure Management, Enterprise Applications, Energy, Data Management, Data Centre -
Google VP: Android will remain ‘an open platform’ News
07.04.2011 Google’s vice-president of engineering Andy Rubin has hit back at claims the company is becoming more restrictive with the Android platform.Tags: Android 3.0, Engineering, Google, Samsung, Toshiba, LG, Facebook, Acer, Dell, Smartphones, Android, Open Source -
Google enables permanent opt-outs from ad-tracking cookies News
25.01.2011 Google has made permanent opt-outs from ad-tracking cookies available via an extension for download in its Chrome browser. The move is an early response to increasing regulatory...Categories: Web 2.0, Operating Systems, Open Source, Media, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Unified comms market to be worth US$16.6bn by 2014 News
14.01.2011 The EMEA unified communications (UC) market was worth just over US$8bn last year but will grow to US$16.6bn by 2014, according to IDC.Categories: Unified Communications, Open Source, Networking & Telecoms, Multimedia, Mobility, Communications, CIO -
Apple and Oracle reveal OpenJDK project for Mac OS X News
12.11.2010 Oracle and Apple today revealed the OpenJDK project for Mac OS X. OpenJDK will make Apple’s Java technology available to open source developers so they can access and contribute...