Categorised as: Database & News
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Volunteer Ireland launches database of volunteering opportunities online and in app form News
16.05.2013 This week is National Volunteering Week and, to help those willing to give up their time to help others, Volunteer Ireland has created a searchable online database of... -
Google Street View hits 50 countries – massive update adds 563,270 km of road News
25.04.2013 Google has launched the largest update of its Street View service yet, to mark the occasion of reaching 50 countries this week. The major new update sees the search giant add...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Search Engines, Search, Multimedia, Internet, Digital Media, Database, Consumer Tech -
#DIF13 – Open governments can make their nations more entrepreneurial (video) News
19.04.2013 By embracing open data and providing citizens with fair and equitable access to knowledge, nations can empower a new generation of entrepreneurs, Emer Coleman told this...Categories: Software & Web Development, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Government, Database, Data Management, Apps -
RTÉ to employ semantic web and big data to preserve Ireland’s memories News
09.04.2013 Ireland’s State broadcaster RTÉ, as part of its strategy to preserve the memories of a nation in digital form, is to collaborate with SFI’s recently announced mega CSET the... -
Irish IT executives behind international curve on big data News
08.04.2013 Only 56pc of Irish business executives believe big data will be a priority in the next five years compared with the EU average of 76pc, a Vanson Bourne study on behalf of data... -
BI player Jaspersoft’s Dublin office drives 50pc increase in software sales News
05.03.2013 Business intelligence player Jaspersoft says its European HQ in Dublin, which employs 20 people – 95pc of them multilingual – has been responsible for driving a 50pc increase in... -
IBM and RFU provide RBS 6 Nations fans with ‘Keys to the Game’ analysis News
08.02.2013 IBM’s TryTracker will use predictive analytics to provide play-by-play insights to fans during this Sunday’s pivotal RBS 6 Nations encounter between Ireland and England. -
Twitter eyes the total media prize – acquires social TV firm Bluefin Labs News
05.02.2013 Twitter’s claim to be a media company that has technology at its core is becoming clearer. Just one day after it saw over 24.1m tweets flutter during the Super Bowl it has... -
Big data bounce - organisations are bringing their data back in-house News
04.02.2013 In what must be a surprise to telcos, data centre and managed services providers, organisations are changing tack and are bringing their data back in-house, according to new... -
George Moore named Enterprise Ireland’s start-up ambassador to the US News
18.12.2012 Louth man George Moore, viewed by many as the founding father of the decision analytics industry – aka big data – has been named by Enterprise Ireland as its start-up ambassador...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Search Engines, Search, Investments, Internet, Funding, Digital Business, Database, Computers, Analysis -
Open data obstacle? OpenCorporates claims it is being blocked by Ireland’s CRO News
02.11.2012 Chris Taggart, a leading proponent of the open data movement and a gatherer of information on close to 50m businesses worldwide via his OpenCorporates.com site, has told... -
Google’s new voice search – has Google just attacked Siri on Apple’s own turf? News
31.10.2012 You get the sense that Google is content to wage its war with Apple by inflicting a death of a thousand tiny cuts; a tweak here, a new feature there. But the launch of a new...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Search, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Business, Database, Consumer Tech, Computers, Communications, Apps -
Private social app Brewster that makes sense of relationships goes live in Europe (video) News
23.10.2012 A social app aimed at individuals only that allows them to analyse all their social connections across the major social networks from Twitter to Facebook and LinkedIn is now...Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Database, Business Intelligence, Apps, Analysis -
Irish School of Motoring moves into the cloud – drives 25pc increase in online bookings News
02.10.2012 All of the Irish School of Motoring’s offices across Ireland have been connected to a new cloud computing system based on an integrated Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 platform. -
Kainos creates 110 new jobs on back of booming software business News
02.10.2012 Having hired 140 people last year, technology integration specialist Kainos is on track to create 110 new positions this year, the company said, adding that total recent orders... -
Weekend news roundup: Apple software glitches, Simon Cowell and Will.i.am seek start-ups with the X Factor News
01.10.2012 In our trawl through what's rocked the tech world over the weekend, it has emerged that Simon Cowell and Will.i.am are launching a new tech-focused TV show in the UK seeking hot... -
Department of Education recharges its website, includes a ‘Find a School’ database News
18.09.2012 Ireland's Department of Education and Skills has upgraded its website with technology from Irish company pTools that includes a countrywide ‘Find a School’ feature with details... -
Source of AntiSec’s UDID leak revealed – and it’s not the FBI News
11.09.2012 Last week, hacker group AntiSec published 1,000,001 Apple user device identifiers (UDIDs) claiming that the data came from an FBI laptop the organisation had breached in March.... -
FBI denies leaked UDIDs came from its organisation, AntiSec just getting started News
05.09.2012 The FBI has responded to AntiSec’s claim that it breached the laptop of a special agent and obtained a database of more than 12m Apple unique device identifiers (UDIDs) and... -
Apple to ban UDIDs following AntiSec data leak News
06.09.2012 Earlier this week, AntiSec hackers published 1,000,001 unique device identifiers (UDIDs) from Apple devices, which it claims came from a file on an FBI laptop. In response,...