Tagged: Semantic Web & News
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Bloomberg buys Irish tech firm PolarLake, rolls out new data service News
22.05.2012 Global financial news service Bloomberg has acquired Dublin-based semantic web software company PolarLake for an undisclosed sum. As a result, Bloomberg is launching a new...Tags: Big Data, Semantic Web, -
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 -
Google may revamp search results News
15.03.2012 Google is reportedly planning to revamp its search engine, aiming to give more facts and direct answers in their search results rather than just links. -
Obama administration chooses Irish technology News
23.05.2011 US President Barack Obama’s administration chose internet technology developed in Ireland in its economic stimulus package website Recovery.gov. -
Cisco invests €500k in social tools for tomorrow's workplace News
22.02.2011 Cisco has signed a deal worth an estimated €500,000 with Irish university NUI Galway’s Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) to create the next wave of enterprise social...Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, R&D, Mobility, Enterprise Applications, Communications, Cloud -
NUI web researcher shapes the future of semantic search News
13.10.2010 A researcher based at NUI Galway’s Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) picked up the ‘Best Paper’ award at the influential Web Rules and Reasoning Conference in...Categories: Web Development, Web 2.0, Search Engines, Search, Science, R&D, Intellectual Property, Database -
IBM Dublin Lab working on semantic web project for BBC News
20.09.2010 A semantic web project for the BBC was among a number of key projects explored at IBM’s European Extreme Blue Expo in Dublin last week, when 100 of Europe’s top students...Categories: Wireless Communications, Science, R&D, Multimedia, Life Sciences, Internet, Intellectual Property, Education, Economy, Development -
Music recommendation system wins AI Mashup Challenge award News
03.09.2010 A researcher at NUI Galway’s Digital Enterprise Research Insitiute (DERI) has won first prize at the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Mashup Challenge, which looks for technologies... -
UK PM joins with Berners-Lee to create ‘radical’ digital future News
23.03.2010 UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has unveiled plans for a "digital future of Britain" that will result in 250,000 new jobs and has recruited the creator of the worldwide web Tim...Categories: -
Weedle secures US$4m funding for US growth News
15.03.2010 An Irish-based internet company today announced it has received funding of US$4m to expand its social-media platform in the US and other global regions. -
Berners-Lee weaves semantic web for UK government News
22.01.2010 Government around the world holds vast quantities of data, and while they should be holding on to the confidential stuff what is being done with all the non-personal data that...Categories: R&DTags: Semantic Web, Tim Berners-Lee, -
Cisco invests in a workplace future that will make email prehistoric News
14.01.2010 Global networking player Cisco is to invest €400,000 to back Irish PhD researchers who will endeavour to create the internet-centric future workplace where social media, unified... -
Legal issues could impede the march of the Semantic Web News
25.11.2009 Legal challenges around the area of data protection and defamation are likely to raise their head with the arrival of the Semantic Web, the next version of the World Wide Web,... -
Yahoo! and DERI develop Common Tag for semantic web News
26.06.2009 A new way to enhance web content for the semantic web – called Common Tag – has been developed at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) in NUI Galway in collaboration... -
Galway’s DERI scoops second place in Global Elsevier Grand Challenge News
01.05.2009 The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), based at NUI Galway, has won second place in the prestigious Elsevier Grand Challenge.Categories: R&D -
Obama administration chooses NUI Galway technology News
02.04.2009 Obama’s presidency has been called a digital presidency, the White House 2.0 – an online, social media-savvy administration that heavily incorporates technology and the web into... -
Indo reveals web growth strategy News
01.12.2008 The Irish Independent web portal has embarked on a new web strategy that embraces search engine optimisation (SEO) disciplines, greater use of RSS news feeds and an investment...Categories: New MediaTags: SEO, Semantic Web, -
Storm delivers semantic web business opportunity for Nortel News
14.11.2008 A collaboration between technology firm Storm and the National University of Ireland Galway Digital Enterprise Research Institute has resulted in a semantic web system...Categories: R&D -
Indo to tag all content in digital asset deal News
06.11.2008 Independent News and Media has struck a deal with Canadian technology firm Nstein to semantically tag and organise its entire library of media assets.Categories: New MediaTags: Semantic Web, -
A Google-killer in the shape of a semantic Web 3.0 search engine? News
08.09.2008 A firm that had its origins in Microsoft’s spell check software in the Eighties is the secret sauce behind a new Web 3.0 semantic search engine that could out-search Google in...Categories: Comms