Tagged: Northern Ireland
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Queen’s University Belfast pact to open China college News
13.04.2012 A new partnership between Queen's University Belfast and the China Medical University in Shenyang, China, will see some 1,000 Chinese students studying for Queen’s University... -
University of Ulster email gaffe sent acceptances by mistake News
17.08.2012 An email telling applicants they have been accepted to the University of Ulster’s faculty of computing and engineering is believed to have been accidentally sent to all... -
Wind energy developer Simple Power signs 15-year agreement with Power NI News
08.08.2012 Northern Irish wind-energy company Simple Power has signed a 15-year agreement with the electricity retailer Power NI. The contract means the energy supplier will purchase power...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Investments, Government, Engineering, Engineer, Energy -
CultureTECH digital festival in Derry to showcase Northern Ireland start-ups News
03.08.2012 Northern Ireland is following the lead of the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference held each year in Austin, Texas, as Derry will be the setting for CultureTECH at the end of... -
Eirgrid announces new chief executive: Fintan Slye News
27.07.2012 Energy infrastructure company Eirgrid has announced that Fintan Slye is to become its next chief executive, taking over from current chief Dermot Byrne, who is retiring at the... -
Gaelectric to purchase turbines from Enercon for Antrim wind farm News
16.07.2012 Irish energy tech company Gaelectric has entered into a turbine supply agreement with the German wind turbine manufacturer ENERCON for its Carn Hill wind farm project in Co... -
Nominations open for Innovation Founders Award in Northern Ireland News
04.07.2012 Nominations are now open for entrepreneurs to enter the Innovation Founders Award as part of Northern Ireland Science Park’s (NISP) Connect £25K Awards. -
Northern Ireland aims to create Europe’s first education cloud News
02.07.2012 Technologies from Cisco, EMC, VCE and VMware are set to provide the infrastructure for Education Network Northern Ireland, the new cloud-based network to centralise education...Categories: Software, R&D, IT Organisation, Green Computing, Graduate, Government, Global CIO, Education, Economy, Data Management, Data Centre, Computers -
Young innovators converge in Belfast to show off their STEM projects News
19.06.2012 Students from across Northern Ireland were at the Sentinus Young Innovators Exhibition in Belfast City’s Odyssey Arena today to showcase their projects that they have been... -
Fund acquires 75pc stake in Viridian Group’s wind farms News
18.06.2012 The Irish Infrastructure Fund has acquired a controlling stake in a portfolio of wind farms owned by Viridian Group in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. -
NI deploys Electronic Care Records for population of 1.8m News
29.05.2012 Northern Ireland has taken a worldwide lead in the deployment of Electronic Care Record (ECR) technology. ECR will enable communication and sharing of patient data across acute,...Categories: Data Management, Deals Done, Investments, IT Management, Life Sciences, Security, Servers -
Version 1 creates 26 new jobs at NI Oracle centre News
24.05.2012 Dublin-headquartered IT consultancy Version 1 is to create 26 new jobs at a new Oracle Competency Centre in Belfast.Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Servers, Outsourcing, Investments, Internet, Infrastructure Management, Economy, Digital Business, Database, CRM, CIO -
NI construction firm invests stg£100,000 in private cloud News
23.05.2012 Northern Ireland McAvoy Group has signed a new contract with Lisburn-based IT company Xperience, worth more than stg£100,000 as part of a four-year strategy to grow its share of... -
BT in stg£20m Northern Ireland healthcare transformation deal News
21.05.2012 BT has won a stg£20m contract to be the sole supplier of voice and data communications to Belfast Health and Social Care Trust in a five-year contract to transform healthcare... -
Northern Ireland Assembly opens up its data News
21.05.2012 The Northern Ireland Assembly is opening up its data, so app developers and those who specialise in web analytics can have access to the work of the assembly and its committees.Categories: Web, Software, Multimedia, Mobile, Government, Education, Apps, Application Design and Development -
SSE to acquire NI's Phoenix Supply in stg£19.1m deal News
16.05.2012 SSE is planning to acquire Northern Irish gas supplier Phoenix Supply in a deal worth stg£19.1m. The acquisition, if it goes ahead, will make Airtricity, SSE’s retail supply... -
BT all-Ireland revenues up 1pc to stg£757m News
11.05.2012 Telecoms and ICT provider BT this morning reported a 1pc increase in revenues for the year of stg£757m. It said its transformation process, ongoing inrastructure rollout north...Tags: O2, Northern Ireland, Investment, BT Business, BT, Telecoms, ICT, Vodafone, 3 Ireland, Fibre Infrastructure Investment, LLU -
IT solutions firm Kainos to create 60 Derry jobs News
10.05.2012 IT solutions company Kainos is following the creation of 82 jobs in Belfast in October with the creation of 60 jobs in Derry as part of a stg£10m investment supported by Invest... -
Tech start-up of the week: Astute Labs News
06.05.2012 Our tech start-up of the week is Astute Labs, a new Belfast-based venture that is creating app kits for schools to communicate with both parents and pupils.