Maynooth Students Represent Ireland at Microsoft Imagine Cup in Seattle
Microsoft today wished Ireland’s Imagine Cup world finalists, students Matthew McCann, KC Grant and Jack Gallagher of NUI Maynooth, good luck as they prepare to depart to compete in the Microsoft Imagine Cup world final taking place in Seattle on August 1st. The students, who are national winners in the World Citizenship category of the […]
Uber Launches Business Service
Uber launched in Ireland earlier this year and the company has been in the news quite a bit over the last few months as it has been embattled with regulators and incumbents in several markets. Earlier today the company launched a new service geared towards business users. It’s very similar to the offering that Hailo […]
Turn Any Surface into a Touchscreen with the TouchPico Pocket Projector
This looks like a simple idea at first and it is. Then you realise it has a million* unique applications! Touchpico is a pocket-sized Android device without a screen. Instead it has a built in projector which throws up an 80-inch image on a surface such as a wall. But it also comes with an infrared stylus – are you getting […]
Google Streetview’s Off-Road Trekker Could Boost Tourism
Google maps continues to develop, and Streetview is parking the car and going off-road with a backpack. The New York Times accompanied a Google team recently on their tour of New York’s Liberty Island. The results should be online within months, and will also include Ellis Island. Meanwhile, Google is offering to lend the backpack kit, called the Trekker, to […]
VR Version of Joyce’s Ulysses Hits Crowdfunding Target
James Joyce wrote a novel which broke established conventions and broke new ground for literature – or so I’ve heard. But if Joyce had had today’s range of multimedia to choose from, would he have been content with prose alone? The question is moot, but with the expiry of Joyce’s copyright in 2012, the way has been opened […]
Windows Phone Ad pits Cortana vs Siri
Cortana is Windows Phone’s natural language virtual assistant – the counterpart to Apple’s Siri and Google Now. Microsoft have just released an ad demonstrating Cortana on a Nokia Lumia 635 in action against Siri on an iPhone 5S. http://youtu.be/w0pjD4qpIpg Of course, any ad will select the scenario which best showcases its product, but Microsoft’s message is clear: they’re […]
Bruton Makes No Apology for Ireland’s Corporate Tax Policy
The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, has issued a strong defence of Ireland’s corporate taxation regime, amid recent controversy about so-called ‘tax inversions’ by multinational companies. A tax inversion occurs when a company moves its head domicile to a jurisdiction with a lower tax rate. There has been controversy about the practice in […]
Medieval Galway Comes to Life [Video]
Galway company RealSim Games have released the first trailer for their 3D model of Medieval Galway, circa 1651, based on the famous Pictorial Map of Galway. Commissioned by Galway City Museum, it’s an exciting view of a beautiful city whose medieval character remains evident to this day. Maith sibh! Posted by RealSim Games. HT: James Larkin Related articles […]
Radar Device For Cyclists is like Eyes in the Back of Your Head [Podcast]
Being hit from behind is the single biggest cause of cycling deaths in the US. It’s a global problem, as the founders of Backtracker discovered when they met a man in their native Stellenbosch, South Africa, who chose to cycle in the face of oncoming traffic, rather than take the risk of being hit unawares from behind. The solution they came up […]
Want Unfiltered Internet in the UK? You Dirty Thing!
According to the Open Rights Group, a non-profit group in the UK, 20% of the internet is blocked by the “porn filters” operated by ISPs there. They’ve just released a humorous video which suggests the gauntlet users must run if they want access to the remaining 20% – or “The Dirty Internet“. Mobile ISPs in the […]