Categorised as: Competitions
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ITU Telecom World seeks young entrepreneurs with solutions to global challenges News
04.06.2013 The third Young Innovators’ Competition organised by ITU Telecom World asks young people aged 18 to 26 if they have a technological solution to global development challenges –... -
Dublin GameCraft II - bigger, longer, craftier News
19.11.2012 Thirty-three teams of games developers from all over Ireland and the UK descended on Engine Yard over the weekend with one aim - to build a fully functioning game in 12 hours...Categories: Software Development, Multimedia, Games/Entertainment, Development, Design, Competitions -
Interview: Gene Murphy on Redeem & Get’s Spark of Genius (video) News
17.10.2012 Redeem & Get is well-known in the Dublin Web Summit circle, having walked away with the Electric Ireland Spark of Genius prize last year. One year on, we caught up with the...Tags: Start-ups, Dublin Web Summit -
Dark-fibre player PiPiper strikes deal with Apollo to bring transatlantic cable ashore in Ireland News
14.09.2012 PiPiper, an emerging dark-fibre provider that has the potential to generate hundreds of jobs and boost the Irish economy by deploying dark fibre around Ireland, has forged an... -
Four Irish students in Slovenia to battle it out in Linguistics Olympiad News
03.08.2012 Veering away from London 2012 for just a moment, this week Ljubljana, Slovenia, has been an Olympic setting with a difference, as the International Linguistics Olympiad games... -
BT has €75K in financial aid for students entering Young Scientist contest News
20.07.2012 Teams and individual students entering the next BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, and who are based more than 70km away from the RDS in Dublin, can now apply for... -
#io12 - US$199 Nexus 7 tablet revealed, Google Play at heart of new content experience News
27.06.2012 Google has revealed its branded Nexus 7 tablet computer it has been working on with Asus and which will pack an astonishing 12-core GPU for hi-def gaming experiences. -
Stay alive, win a prize, at Ubisoft’s Ghost Recon challenge News
24.05.2012 Gamers are invited to join a Ghost Recon: Future Soldier tournament in Dublin this weekend to test their skills against the computer and win a prize if they stay alive. -
New competition for start-ups to win €50,000 package News
14.05.2012 Business mobile service Blueface is teaming up with Carphone Warehouse to launch a new competition for start-ups and those with business plans to pitch their ideas. Seven... -
IEDR launches €100K fund for SMEs to optimise websites News
24.04.2012 The IE Domain Registry (IEDR) is extending its €100,000 e-commerce website development fund for a second year. Ten SMEs and will get €10,000 worth of services to help ramp up... -
Clinic for screening moles wins Eircom’s Start Up contest News
16.04.2012 The Mole Screening Clinic, a new venture set up in 2010 by Mike Malone, has become the first winner of the new Start Up monthly initiative run by Eircom. -
Irish start-up in finals of US health-tech competition News
11.04.2012 Irish health-tech start-up Cara Health, which we featured in February as a tech start-up of the week, has made it to the final three start-ups in a US healthcare competition. -
Android app for election canvassing wins student contest News
04.04.2012 Brendan Finucane, a final-year student in business information systems at University College Cork (UCC), has taken first prize in a Dragons’ Den-style competition for his app,...Tags: Academia, Innovation, University College Cork, App, Entrepreneurship, Start-ups, UCC, Google Maps, Android, -
Google names Ireland’s top doodler News
12.03.2012 A doodle about turning back time has scooped the top prize in the 2012 Doodle 4 Google competition. The creator, Patrick Horan, a sixth-year student at St Munchin’s College in... -
Eircom launches Start Up initiative for new ventures News
05.03.2012 Eircom has set up a new initiative called Start Up to reach out to innovative start-ups that are less than two years old. The Small Firms Association and First-Step Microfinance...Categories: Digital Media, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Competitions, Business Software, Economy, Education, Enterprise, Funding, Internet, Investments, Media, R&D, Social Media -
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin talks science education (video) News
06.02.2012 Today TV personality and science teacher Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin awarded post-primary school students for winning the all-island story writing competition, Tell The Future,...Categories: Education, Sustainability, Science, Renewable Energy, Recycling Services, R&D, Life Sciences, Graduate, Government, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Economy, CompetitionsTags: Clean Tech, Biomass, Science Foundation Ireland, SFI, Innovation, Science, Ireland, EU, Dublin -
Termin8tors win Irish FIRST LEGO League Challenge 2012 News
23.01.2012 A group of brothers and pals, aged from 9 to 14, have scooped the overall prize at the Irish FIRST LEGO League Challenge. Calling themselves Termin8tors, the team have won for...Categories: Application Design and Development, Apps, Apps Zone, Competitions, Computers, Education, Engineering, R&D, Science -
Irish school kids to compete in LEGO robotics league News
19.01.2012 This Saturday, up to 300 school kids between the ages of 9 and 16 will descend upon Galway for the Irish finals of the First LEGO League. The robotics competition itself has... -
NDRC LaunchPad programme seeks 15 digital start-ups News
01.11.2011 The LaunchPad start-up accelerator at the National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) in Dublin is now open for applications from digital start-ups to take part in the next... -
Daughters of Charity rolls out virtualised IT to 300 workers News
08.07.2011 The Daughters of Charity Service has completed the rollout of a Citrix desktop, server and application virtualisation solution. This is providing applications and desktops to...Categories: CIO, Competitions, Data Management, Deals Done, Digital Business, Investments, Unified Communications, Virtualisation