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Opening Irish minds to innovative thinking
Intellectual property expert and author Professor James Boyle of Duke University, USA was at the Science Gallery, Trinity College, to launch a new series designed to support the development of Ireland as a global centre for science, technology and innovation (STI). The series was conceived as a platform where Irish and international experts can tackle...
All Ireland Marketing award winners 2011
The winners of the All Ireland Marketing awards for 2011 have been announced. Denis O’Brien was at the gala event in the Burlington Hotel, Dublin to receive the All Ireland Marketing Champion award. He discussed Ireland’s economic melt down with honesty and frankness and praised Justice Honohan for his comments on debt pressures leading to...
Mazda uses augmented reality in latest print camapign
Mazda’s latest print campaign in the Metro Herald utilises augmented reality (AR). Readers must download a dedicated app on their smart phones, called Junaio, to enter a competition to win a new Mazda2. Using the app, readers can hold their smartphone over the ads that appear in a Mazda takeover edition of the newspaper, to...
Oddsfutures to hire 10 more staff
Oddsfutures.com (www.oddsfutures.com), the Irish-owned sports odds trading exchange, has announced plans to create 10 new jobs in Ireland this year. Launched two months ago, the exchange allows people to profit from movements in horseracing markets without actually betting on the race. It has gained over 500 customers globally who have surpassed the €150,000 mark in...
A Jim’ll fix it for the digital age
Corona Extra and MTV have launched a new Facebook contest at European level. The premise is simple, a kind of ‘Jim’ll fix it’ for the digital age. The winner will be given the opportunity to make a dream come true. An “extraordinary experience” will become reality, and that experience will be recorded and broadcasted on...
Online comparison market to become more competitive
A UK utility comparison behemoth is entering the Irish market. uSwitch, a telephony and online switching service for consumer bills, has been in business for ten years in the UK and now hopes to capitalise on the relatively underdeveloped Irish market. The Irish office will be headed up by Eoin Clarke and he had this...
No excuse not to have a web business
Getting Irish business online (www.gettingbusinessonline.ie) is an initiative that offers free business websites for Irish SMEs and sole traders. The initiative is backed by Google, Blacknight Internet Solutions, An Post and the County & City Enterprise Boards and is targeting the 40% of businesses that don’t have websites. Despite the fact that 75% of Irish...
New look Zoo site
Dublin Zoo has launched a new online ticket purchasing facility as well as a new-look website. The new site now has an ‘Elephant Cam’ overlooking the Kaziranga Forest Trail. Similar to the popular penguin cam, users can catch a glimpse of the group of five Asian elephants, Bernhardine, her sister Yasmin, youngsters Asha, Anak and...
Irish firm invests €500,000 in cloud-based treasury management
Salmon Software, a company that specialises in in foreign exchange and treasury management software, has invested €500,000 in a new cloud-based treasury management product. The service will be sold and marketed by TGold Software, a new company set up by Salmon. The company is targeting a market estimated to be worth in excess of €100m...
DoneDeal hits 2m visitors a month
Everyone likes a good deal, especially in these hardened times. One company that is doing well as people bargain hunt is DoneDeal.ie which just celebrated reaching two million unique visitors a month. There are almost 150,000 adverts now active on the site at any one time. 75,000 new items are advertised on the site each...
Rapid changes in TV viewing habits
While TV is not going to ‘die’ anytime soon, the way people consume TV is changing faster than many predicted. According to new research carried out by Magnet Networks, 71% of Irish people now watch TV programmes on their laptops and PCs, with one in five doing so regularly. This figure rises dramatically to 89%...
UPC will offer 25Mb for entry level broadband customers
UPC’s results for the first quarter of 2011 show an 11% growth in total service subscriptions, compared with the same period last year. It currently has 811,700 service subscriptions. “Broadband and Voice growth continues to be particularly strong at 34% and 58% up respectively year on year. We are also pleased to see cable video...
