From 21st April, Google will update its search algorithms so that "mobile friendliness" affects the prominence of your website' s position in the search results. Other criteria will include the size of text and how well content fits on a mobile screen. Google says mobile friendliness is only one of many [...]
Belfast's Big Data Conference (part of the worldwide interactive Big Data Week event) will take place on the 23rd April. Speakers from HP, Sky, Amazon Web Services, Royal Mail and JustGiving will be there to advise Northern Ireland firms on opportunities within Big Data – the global market for which is [...]
Technology experts from global companies such as Google, Bitnet and Datasnap will be flying into Belfast from 29th April until 1st May to address digital enthusiasts at this year’s BelTech conference. The event, which is curated by Northern Ireland based digital solutions provider Kainos, will profile Belfast as a top European technological [...]
Finance Minister Simon Hamilton MLA today announced a digital partnership with the Estonian government. He made the announcement during a two day visit to Estonia as part of the Invest NI trade mission to the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. A concordat has been signed between the Estonian Information [...]
At MATRIX we recognise the strong relationship between science and the arts - indeed, we hold an annual poetry competition on a scientific theme. So we were delighted when Yahoo's technology editor Jason O. Gilbert published a witty poem made up entirely by the titles of various panels from this year's [...]
A major investment of up to £38 million is set to establish Queen’s University Belfast as a world-leading research and innovation hub for cyber security for Smart Cities and the Internet of Things. The funding, which has been awarded as part of a major expansion of the Centre for Secure [...]
The organisers of Dublin's Web Summit will hold two conferences in Belfast in June. The events, which will be held between 15 and 19 June at the T13 venue in the Titanic Quarter, are called EnterConf and MoneyConf. EnterConf will be focused on enterprise software, while MoneyConf will cover financial [...]
Kainos Software Ltd is creating 403 new jobs in Belfast and Londonderry. Kainos is a leading technology solutions company operating primarily in the UK, and with customers in the USA and in continental Europe. Their CTO Tom Gray is Vice Chairman of the MATRIX ICT/Digital Horizon Panel. Invest Northern Ireland [...]
MATRIX panellist and Former Chairman of the Institute of Directors NI, Dr Joanne Stuart OBE, has been appointed Director of Development at NISP CONNECT. Joanne Stuart, who has over 25 years’ experience working in the IT industry including nine years with the Oracle Corporation, will be responsible for the development [...]
The announcement that a Queen's University Belfast led collaboration with the University of Glasgow and industry has received £8.1m for a new centre to tackle some of the challenges created by the increasing quantities of data generated by society has been welcomed by MATRIX Chair, Dr Bryan Keating. Dr Keating [...]