Microsoft Ireland’s campus in Sandyford played host to a graduation ceremony for Enable Ireland’s Assistive Technology training programme. The Foundations in Assistive Technology programme, which is accredited by Dublin Institute of Technology, is designed to meet the needs of adults with disabilities as well as their families and carers. It also targets employers, educators, Enable […]
TV and radio producer Pat O’Mahony has a reputation as someone who is as comfortable with new media as with old. That’s partly due to a series of Christmas programmes he made for RTE in 2009, 2010 and 2011 called Now That’s What You Called News. Based on Google’s Zeitgeist Report on popular searches, the show […]
On Friday, December 12, 2014 the highly anticipated Netflix series Marco Polo will make its global debut. In a world of greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, Marco Polo, starring newcomer Lorenzo Richelmy, is based on the famed explorer’s adventures in Kublai Khan’s court in 13th century China. The first trailer has just been released: [youtube]http://youtu.be/B_BTC6AyN58[/youtube] […]
PCH, the company that designs custom manufacturing solutions for startups and Fortune 500 companies, has confirmed that experts from some of the world’s leading companies will join Ireland’s first Design and Hardware Hackathon, which it is co-hosting with DCU on November 1-3 at the DCU Innovation Campus in Glasnevin. The event is being run in […]
Growth Hackers Dublin have announced a third speaker for their sixth and final event, sponsored by Blacknight and held on Monday November 3 at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Jules Coleman is co-founder of Hassle.com, listed by The Times as one of the top ten disruptive digital startups. Previously, Jules spent 7 years in management consulting […]
Fine Gael MEP for Dublin, Brian Hayes has called for the introduction of contactless payment on public transport services across Dublin. A similar system has recently been introduced in London allowing commuters to use their contactless debit card to pay for buses, the underground and light rail. Contactless Debit Cards are normal debit cards which […]
Europe’s first Server Scrappage Scheme was officially launched last week at the Tech Trade show in Leopardstown, by CloudStrong in conjunction with Microsoft Ireland. Cloudstrong provides cloud-based services to businesses, replacing traditional in-house infrastructure with cloud-hosted virtual servers and even desktops. They estimate that 27,000 servers in Ireland will be affected by the End of Support for Windows Server […]
Here’s a voice that may sound eerily familiar. Susan Bennett is a voiceover artist who did a series of recordings in 2005 for Apple. Later, she was surprised to hear her voice used for Siri, iPhone’s ‘intelligent assistant’. She told CNN that it took a month of daily four-hour sessions to capture all the possible vocalisations required […]
Popular photo sharing service Twitpic was meant to be shutting down definitively today and taking with it all its content. The shutdown came as a result of a dispute between Twitpic and Twitter over trademarks and API access. However earlier this evening Twitpic announced via their blog that they’d reached an agreement with Twitter. While […]
“If you want to find out if your arse looks big in something, ask an autistic person”, says Lisa Maree Domican, explaining that autistic people have a lot to offer in a society which is open to diversity. “We build ramps and we widen parking spaces and doors to allow people who are physically disabled to be included […]
