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Ireland ‘s first open data 18 hour challenge
Here’s another good initiative open to developers and social entrepreneurs. Ireland’s first ever Open Data 18-hr Challenge, will be held at NDRC, Dublin 8 on the 4th and 5th July. Working with data provided by Dublin City (DUBlinked.ie) and Fingal County Council (data.fingal.ie) the challenge for participants will be to practically demonstrate how Open Data...
Wimbledon finals in 3D
Magnet Networks will carry BBC’s first 3D broadcast, the Wimbledon finals. BBC One HD has been added to Magnet’s fibre-based TV service, so customers will be able to watch the men’s and women’s Wimbledon finals in 3D on July 2nd and 3rd. A 3D TV and glasses are needed. For those who do not have...
An English plan by Paul Groarke
Elearning company RendezVu, based in NovaUCD, Dublin, has launched ExamSpeak.com in beta. ExamSpeak.com is for people who want to practice English speaking exams such as the Cambridge KET (Key English Test), the Cambridge PET (Preliminary English Test) and the IELTS (International English Language Testing System). ExamSpeak.com replicates the speaking test environment in real time with...
Search giants collaborate to change the web
The way people are searching online has changed so dramatically, in such a short space of time, that even the search giants have been slow to realise the ground is moving beneath them. However, now the three largest search engines have announced a new collaboration, called schema.org, that will show website owners and web developers...
Want to develop apps for Windows Phone 7?
Microsoft is hosting a free, web & devices conference (MIX) at the RDS in Ballsbridge on Thursday, June 9th. Microsoft’s new tools and technologies will be demonstrated. There will also be sessions for developers on creating mobile apps for the Windows Phone 7 and a session on the new Windows Phone 7.5: codenamed Mango. As...
€40K for a spark of genius
The Dublin Web Summit (DWS) and ESB Electric Ireland have announced the return of the Spark of Genius competition. The competition is to find the country’s most high potential tech startups. The winning company will win a support package valued at over €40k in cash and services. “We need to reward entrepreneurship in this country...
Beam it down Scotty – the Internet that is
A broadband service that ‘comes from space’ has been launched in Ireland. The ‘new-generation Tooway™’ broadband services are now available across Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. The company that owns Tooway is Eutelsat Communications which also owns the KA-SAT high throughput satellite – all the way up there in space. Combining satellite and on-ground infrastructure,...
The APP-cademy with Nokia Ireland
The organisers of The Appys announce The APP-cademy with Nokia Ireland to be held in the Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin on June 15th at 5.30pm. The APP-cademy is a chance for students and young programmers who have a great idea for an app, to get the app developed. Entrants will also have the opportunity...
McCartney in the Cloud with diamonds
HP has announced the launch of Paul McCartney’s private cloud-based digital library. McCartney’s collection currently includes more than one million items, including photographs; video footage from live concerts; rolls of film, videotapes and reels; music recordings; original works of art; as well as memorabilia. HP says McCartney’s personal assets are now digitised. “It’s really exciting...
Opportunities for Twitter developers still exist
At a recent Twitter developer event in San Francisco (#devnest), the company announced it receives an astonishing 13 billion API requests a day – yes, billion. There are 600,000 developers working on apps that use the Twitter API and a whopping 900,000 web applications that integrate with Twitter. While Twitter recently put a stop to...
DigiMo claims to have struck gold with mobile ‘wave & pay’ solution
One of the biggest gold rushes in recent years has been around the area of mobile ‘wave & pay’ solutions and creating a ‘social currency’ that can be used across social media platforms. Mobile payment system provider, DigiMo, has announced what it calls “a new platform providing the first true mobile payment solution”. The company...
b-sm@rk gets lift off
b-sm@rk, an Italian startup, has won the third NDRC “LiftOff” competition for tech start-ups. b-sm@rk is an online tool for emotionally tagging and reviewing web content, offering brands and retailers enhanced market intelligence. The team behind the product was among nine start-ups from NDRC’s LaunchPad accelerator programme competing for an investment prize fund to the...
