22.05.2013 We caught up with the chief innovation officer of The Irish Times, Dr Johnny Ryan, at the Open Innovation 2.0 conference in Dublin. Ryan revealed a multi-million euro investment in newsroom technology is on the way, as well as a strategic bet on the future of advertising that will best place the 154-year-old newspaper to triumph in the digital age.
22.05.2013 Intel researcher Chris Woods believes we are at an interesting time in the cloud revolution and predicts the onset of proxy devices in homes and cars that provide cloud consumers with backed-up versions of the internet.
22.05.2013 Four new solutions that are based largely on existing technology could drastically improve the safety and efficiency of travel and transportation by 2025 – that’s according to a new report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) out today.
22.05.2013 Three-quarters of commuters who use public transportation say they believe electronic ticketing would make travel easier, and 92pc would welcome paperless travel, a new global survey by Accenture suggests.
21.05.2013 We talk to Peter van Manen of McLaren Electronics about how technology innovation developed by the McClaren Formula 1 team has been translated into powerful solutions in transport, communications and healthcare.
21.05.2013 Intel’s chief technology officer Justin Rattner has predicted that the arrival of the next generation of PC devices that will run energy frugal processors like Intel’s forthcoming Haswell chip will lead to a rebound in demand for PC devices, like ultrabooks and hybrids.
20.05.2013 Mikko Huuskonen from the Finnish government talks about the importance of innovation and how small countries can use innovation to overcome economic adversity.
20.05.2013 Dublin City Council’s Peter Finnegan says the forthcoming Digital Dublin roadmap will position the city as a world leader in smart city technologies and could make the capital the innovation engine for the rest of the country.
20.05.2013 FCS Global, the Irish-owned worldwide provider of communications solutions, is implementing a new ShoreTel unified communications (UC) system for suicide prevention and support charity Console.
16.05.2013 Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert cartoon which appears in more than 2,000 newspapers worldwide in 70 countries and 25 languages, wants someone to build him a mobile video game. And he doesn’t care if you are a 12-year-old Irish coder or a seasoned developer, he just wants it to be good and he’s willing to offer the opportunity of a lifetime to make it happen.
