14.03.2012 The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has subpoenaed Apple, seeking information on how it integrates Google Mobile Search on the iPad and the iPhone, according to a report on Bloomberg this morning.
13.03.2012 The technology and service market around the big data trend is expected to grow at seven times the rate of the overall ICT market, according to a forecast from market watcher IDC.
12.03.2012 Games programming festival Game Fleadh 2012 will take place at LIT Tipperary this week, which will host a range of events to showcase the talent of Ireland’s young developers for the games industry. There will also be an award ceremony with a number of games companies located in Ireland shortlisted.
12.03.2012 Epic photo-sharing app and a social network in its own right, Instagram has revealed at #SWSW12 that it is in testing mode for the long-awaited Android version of its service and that it has notched up an impressive 27m registered users.
12.03.2012 The Galway Education Centre has signed a contract with Google to distribute 3D modelling application Google Sketchup Pro for free to all interested Irish primary and secondary schools.
12.03.2012 In our trawl through some of the tech coverage in the weekend papers, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg laments the lack of progress for women in government and executive roles; the growing split between Apple and Google is evident in the new iPad; and kids use apps, not salespeople, for help when shopping.
12.03.2012 A look at gadget happenings, as Gowalla shuts down after Facebook acquisition, Apple is set to close iWork.com and 56pc of US households own at least one current-generation games console.
09.03.2012 We take a look at the latest jobs in the video-games industry on our Jobs Board. A Forfás report has predicted that the number of people employed in the sector will more than double to more than 5,000 by 2016.
09.03.2012 Students in Ireland appear to be catching on to the future career opportunities in science and technology. The CAO has released its latest figures, showing a 64pc surge in the number of students expressing a first preference for science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) courses between 2008 and 2012.
08.03.2012 ICT services company Ergo will create 30 jobs in Dublin this year and aims to hire another 50 people by 2015. The job creation is fuelled by the demand for infrastructure and software solutions, as well as managed service propositions, including cloud computing.
