Tagged: Ireland & News
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All-island renewable energy event zeros in on insurance and investing News
18.04.2013 Finance and investment in the renewable energy sector, as well as planning and project development and insurance, are some of the topics up for discussion at an all-island... -
Scientists converge in Cork to discuss space and maritime sectors News
18.04.2013 The European Space Agency’s (ESA) director of earth observation programmes Dr Volker Liebig is one of the key speakers at a two-day conference that kicked off in Cork this...Categories: Software Development, Software, Science, Investments, Government, Engineering, Energy, Economy -
Getting over the language barrier: how Irish job seekers can improve their career options News
12.04.2013 Ireland has become a base for a number of global tech companies, including major multinationals like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and PayPal. This booming technology... -
Watch out for the International Space Station over Dublin sky tonight News
10.04.2013 Stargazers are set to be in for a treat tonight as the International Space Station (ISS) will be passing over Dublin at around 9.49pm. And provided that the skies are clear,... -
Ireland’s connection to reported porn downloads inside Vatican City News
10.04.2013 If findings from US website Torrent Freak are to be believed, pornographic sites featuring bondage, transsexuals and sadomasochism have been downloaded in Vatican City. The... -
Dublin and Belfast star in new Twitter photos from space News
10.04.2013 Cmdr Chris Hadfield took advantage of the International Space Station’s position above Ireland last night to take and tweet photos of Belfast and the Irish capital as they... -
Astronaut Chris Hadfield tweets photo of Cork coast from space News
09.04.2013 Cmdr Chris Hadfield has provided his Twitter followers with another International Space Station view of Ireland. This time the astronaut has snapped and tweeted a photo of the... -
Irish Exporters Association signs MoU with Turkish Exporters Assembly News
09.04.2013 Bilateral trade between Turkey and Ireland is projected to grow by more than 300pc in the next decade, the Irish Exporters Association said as it signed a memorandum of... -
New guide gives helicopter view of Ireland’s tech start-up scene News
08.04.2013 For anyone wishing to get more insight into Ireland’s technology start-up ecosystem, Dublin-based venture capital (VC) firm Frontline Ventures has come up with a new guide that...Categories: Web, Software Development, Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Online Business, Networking, Mobile, Media, Marketing, Leadership & Management, Investments, Internet, Engineering, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business, Apps, Application Design and Development -
Tablets toppling PC sales in Ireland – GfK research News
04.04.2013 Research firm GfK has taken a close look at sales of computing products in Ireland last year, revealing a tablet-focused market that seems set to continue on into 2013.Tags: Ireland, Market Research, Sales, Tablet, Tablet Computers, PC, Desktop, Laptops, Notebook, Computers -
Ireland’s unemployment rate sixth-highest in EU News
03.04.2013 According to the latest figures from Eurostat, the statistics office of the European Union, unemployment across the EU rose slightly in February 2013, while year-on-year...Categories: Careers and Employment -
A walk ‘inside’ the cloud - Microsoft’s Dublin data centre News
02.04.2013 In 1985, long before ownership of personal computers was commonplace, a young American software company called Microsoft set up a manufacturing operation in Dublin, where... -
Viral videos of the week – 31/03/2013 News
31.03.2013 We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week features a bumbling burglar, some eighties nostalgia, short ways to describe Ireland, Ron... -
Ireland achieves record wind energy output to power 1m homes News
28.03.2013 Ireland reached a record level of wind power output of 1,540 megawatts (MW) on the evening of 21 March – that’s the equivalent of powering more than 1m homes with renewable... -
Most people in Ireland support wind power for the country - poll News
27.03.2013 Eighty per cent of people in Ireland support wind power on the island, an Ipsos MRBI poll conducted on behalf of the Irish Wind Energy Association (IWEA) suggests. -
SMI encourages Irish innovators to access Washington dollars News
26.03.2013 Amongst all the Irish-American meetings and engagements in Washington, DC, recently, consulting firm Strategic Marketing Innovations Inc (SMI) officially announced it would open... -
Major landmarks to go dark for seventh Earth Hour tomorrow (video) News
22.03.2013 Thousands of people around the world are expected to join landmarks and go dark for Earth Hour tomorrow, to raise awareness about the need to take action on climate change. -
Astronaut Chris Hadfield tweets photographs of Ireland from space on St Patrick’s Day News
19.03.2013 Cmdr Chris Hadfield, the Canadian astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS), has given Ireland special attention on St Patrick’s Day, tweeting out a greeting as... -
E-government returns to vogue to banish the austerity blues News
19.03.2013 Anyone with a pulse would know that Ireland’s expensive and unwieldy public sector needs reform. But since the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin, TD,... -
Green IFSC US roadshow to attract eco-conscious investors to Ireland News
19.03.2013 President of Ireland’s International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) John Bruton has announced a series of events across the US, targeting asset managers, private equity and...