NEWS IN BRIEF
Daily Digest 28 April
28-04-2010
by Sylvia Leatham
SFI allocates EUR25m in research funds | Google is 'most reputable' firm in Ireland
EMC has launched online backup services for consumers and SMEs in Ireland and the UK -- MozyHome and MozyPro. See Mozy.ie for details of the cloud-based services.
Minister Batt O'Keeffe has announced EUR25 million in funding for 27 'high potential' research projects being carried out by 139 researchers. The minister said the funds will be awarded over the next five years to researchers who are based in higher education institutions, carrying out "cutting-edge work that will generate new jobs in the 'smart' economy". The funds are being awarded under Science Foundation Ireland's Principal Investigator Programme, which supports strategic work in the life science, ICT and sustainable energy sectors.
Google is the 'most reputable' firm in Ireland, according to the 'Ireland RepTrak 2010' study by Corporate Reputations. For more see CorporateReputations.ie.
Over 88 percent of virtualisation re-sellers in Ireland and the UK foresee an increase in demand in the next six months, according to a Citrix study. In the next three years, 47 percent of survey respondents said desktop virtualisation would be the leader for sales, closely followed by opportunities where virtualisation is part of a broader cloud computing initiative (46 percent).
NovaUCD has welcomed 16 new high-tech ventures into its 2010 entrepreneurship programme. Read the press release on UCD.ie.
Minister Billy Kelleher has presented David Nestor of DNFS with ISO 28000 certification (in Braille) for security in supply chain management. DNFS is the first Irish firm to hold this certificate.
A TIF seminar has called for the government to make more spectrum available for use by telcos. “The total volume of services that depend on radio spectrum availability is estimated to be worth at least EUR200 billion annually in Europe, with mobile broadband’s contribution rapidly increasing," said TIF director Tommy McCabe. "High Speed Packet Access modems, USB dongles and 3G phones are now in everyday use, so it is critical that more spectrum, especially that arising from the analogue-digital switch-off, is allocated for these services.”
Sony plans to have its 3D TVs and Blu-ray players available in Irish stores in June. 3D PS3 games are also on the way.
Caped Koala Studios has built a virtual world for kids, combining education and social networking 