Great news from Austin, Texas this morning as Irish startup Trustev took the top award in the Enterprise and Big Data category of the SXSW Accelerator contest. The timing couldn’t be better for the Cork based company as it prepares to open its new US office in New York. CEO Pat Phelan has recently moved […]
A couple of months ago Twitter finally made their “self-serve” advertising platform available to Irish and UK small businesses. We (Blacknight) have been using it a bit over the last couple of months and while we’re still very much in the “experiment” phase it’s been interesting to watch how it works. Of course advertising revenue […]
As expected, Newsweek’s claim to have identified the founder of Bitcoin, turned into a media frenzy yesterday, with an OJ-style paparazzi car chase and a storm of online criticism of the actions of the professional media, in particular Newsweek, and the story’s author Leah McGrath Goodman. Bitcoin Foundation Chief Scientist Gavin Andresen posted an open comment […]
Update: Since this was published, Dorian S Nakamoto has given an interview denying his involvement in Bitcoin, and it appears that the real founder of Bitcoin has posted on a a long-dormant account to say: “I am not Dorian Nakamoto“. Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin, has reportedly been discovered living in California by an […]
In the latest video in our series recorded at Microsoft’s International Women’s Day event, Cathriona Hallahan, MD of Microsoft Ireland explains that diversity isn’t just a “nice to have” for companies like hers: it’s a business imperative. This is one of a series of videos recorded at Microsoft’s Chic2BGeek event, which Technology.ie is publishing this week in the […]
Yahoo! has acquired Vizify. The announcement was made earlier today. Vizify, if you aren’t familiar with it, offered a simple visual tool to create a virtual bio or CV based on content you shared with social networks. Here’s a screenshot of how mine looks (or looked): The service allowed you to connect social networks such […]
You still can’t officially get Google’s Chromecast shipped to Ireland, but maybe we don’t care so much about that now, if the new Roku Streaming Stick lives up to its (very exciting) promise. Announced today, the new Roku® Streaming Stick™ (HDMI® version) is a tiny version of the Roku player that plugs directly into a HDMI port. […]
Don’t hate Neil deGrasse Tyson for pointing out where multiple Oscar winning film Gravity departs from the physics. The American astronomer argues that he’s a fan of the film and that its special effects got most things spectacularly right. One of the most poetic moments in the film sees a weightless teardrop floating in mid-air, […]
Bringing technology and multimedia specifically to the food and beverage business isn’t new. Companies have been doing it for years. What is new, however, is Pizza Hut’s particular “take” on it. Using a combination of touch screen technology and multimedia they’ve come up with this pretty slick interactive table which allows you to customise your […]
We mentioned Collision Conf back in January. At the time we didn’t have a lot of information about the event, though we knew who was behind it. Over the past few weeks Paddy Cosgrave and his team have announced speakers and other details. They were also running a “2 for 1” deal on tickets, with […]
