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An Irish Market in the digital age
The recent reports of a surge in Irish exports is one of the good news stories of an otherwise difficult past year for Irish business. Now that the Irish have woken from the inflated property illusion, it is heartening to see the emergence of a real market culture – a market defined by people selling...
Creative shortcuts – an 8mm film app
It’s the New Year and resolutions have been made. ‘Be more creative’ tops many people’s list. Make that short film, write that novel, learn that guitar … promises, promises. However, there are some good shortcuts to ‘creativity’. Take the 8mm Vintage Camera app for the iPhone created by Nexvio Inc. we came across recently. It...
The Commuter – phoned in
I went along to the Irish “Première” of The Commuter, a lovely short film shot entirely in HD using the Nokia N8 on Tuesday evening. The event was held in Denzille Lane, Dublin 2 in a fantastic for hire private cinema and hosted by Nokia Ireland. The film is a seven minute short about a young man’s nightmare...
Irish SMEs still slow to develop e-commerce sites
Irish SMEs are still lagging behind when it comes to making money from the web. Only 66% of Irish businesses had any kind of website in 2009, compared with 40% in 2000. Of those 66%, only 21% had e-commerce functionality on their site, a level that has grown by a marginal 3% since 2000. The...
New satellite will bring broadband to rural Ireland
A multi-million pound satellite fired into space today by the Avanti Communications Group will give hundreds of thousands of rural residents and businesses in Ireland access to broadband for the first time, claims the company. The satellite – called HYLAS 1 – is the first of its kind to be launched outside the United States...
Silicon Valley goes into the West
The Irish Technology Leadership Group, with partners NUI Galway, University of Limerick and Shannon Development, has brought a high profile delegation of senior Silicon Valley executives to Ireland, including former Chairman of Intel Craig Barrett (above), for a three day event. The three day tour includes the ‘Innovation in Education’ conference in NUI Galway on...
Calling new digital media companies – ‘Innovation Cubed’ competition announced
Media Cube has announced the second Innovation Cubed competition designed to assist new digital media and creative companies. The competition is called Innovation Cubed (http://www.innovationcubed.ie) and is designed to foster, develop and promote business opportunities. Media Cube promotes start-up businesses since opening in 2007 and is one of only two campus based incubation centres in...
Dream up an app and win an ecar for a month
Ever wanted to talk to your car? What if your car could talk back? Science Gallery and ESB ecars have launched the ‘Electric Dreams’ competition as part of the ‘Green Machines’ exhibition at Science Gallery. The competition invites people to dream up their idea for the next generation mobile app to allow seamless communication between the...
Taking a live service satnav for test drive
Got my first satnav device for the old jammer today. Tom Tom called in to allow me to take one for a test drive. Have to say, being a typical man, I wouldn’t ask for directions [usually] and believe I know my way around the back of my hand. Mind you, took two wrong turns...
RTÉ TV moves further towards tapeless environment
As part of its migration to a new generation digital infrastructure, RTÉ will invest in a range of new broadcast and media equipment. The broadcaster will adopt Sony’s XDCAM HD422 file-based format equipment as part of a station-wide migration to a digital, standard, and high definition, tapeless environment. Some of the specific equipment ordered from...
Irish Independent launches iPad app
The Irish Independent has become the first newspaper in Ireland to launch an iPad app. The app allows subscribers to download and read the ePaper edition. The app is free to download but you have to subscribe to the ePaper to read the content. Various subscription packs are available to buy from one day to...
Google shows off its TV apps
‘The web is now a channel’ says Google as it gives us a glimpse of what TV viewing is evolving into. Google TV Apps have arrived and Google TV lets users search all of the content on their TVs, the web, and apps – then access it with a single click. People can also switch...
