September 2015

Northern Ireland Science Park expansion will bring 500 tech jobs

2015-09-08T13:38:29+01:00September 8th, 2015|ICT & Digital, Life & Health Sciences|

The Northern Ireland Science Park is expanding in a £6.5m investment part-funded by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment. This could mean that Belfast Titanic Quarter development will be able to accommodate another 500 technology jobs. Around 2,600 people currently work at the science parks in Belfast and Londonderry. The latest development [...]

August 2015

Matrix website up for two Web Awards

2015-08-28T10:19:58+01:00August 28th, 2015|ICT & Digital|

The new Matrix website has been nominated for two categories in the Irish Web Awards 2015. The nominations are for Best Government Website and Best Science & Technology Website. Judging will take place over the next few weeks. Previous winners of Web Awards have included IrishTimes.com, Luas.ie, Broadsheet.ie, DoneDeal.ie, Siliconrepublic.com and thejournal.ie. [...]

July 2015

May 2015

Belfast joins ODI open data network

2015-05-28T09:45:23+01:00May 28th, 2015|ICT & Digital|

Belfast has joined the Open Data Institute's network, becoming the first open data node in Northern Ireland. Belfast joins the existing 18 nodes which bring together companies, universities, and NGOs who are committed to building openness into their operations, and ensuring open data is for everyone. Cairo joined at the [...]

Techies in Residence offers digital help to charities

2015-05-06T20:45:29+01:00May 6th, 2015|ICT & Digital|

A new initiative to help voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations develop and implement new digital social innovations in Northern Ireland has been launched. Digital technology holds huge potential to help the VCSE sector develop new solutions to social problems. The Techies in Residence programme will bring together the respective expertise [...]

April 2015

Paypal wants you to eat your password

2016-11-02T09:49:08+00:00April 20th, 2015|ICT & Digital|

A PayPal executive who works with engineers and developers to find and test new technologies says that embeddable, injectable, and ingestible devices are the next wave in identification for mobile payments. PayPal’s global head of developer evangelism, Jonathan Leblanc, argues that technology has taken a huge leap forward to “true [...]

BelTech conference launched today

2016-11-02T09:49:09+00:00April 1st, 2015|ICT & Digital|

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 [...]

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