Farewell
Farewell All things must pass and by extension all good things, such as New Tech Post, must come to an end as well. Due to other commitments and lack of sufficient funding, neither John Breslin or...
View ArticleMetricfire - A One-Stop Shop for Application Metrics
There are many ways to launch a startup, and none of them are particularly easy. There’s a huge element of risk involved for all concerned. However, as the importance of startups finally becomes...
View ArticleUS Government Joins the Dots with Irish ‘Linked Data’ Technologies
Agencies in the US Government have adopted a set of web tools and standards developed in Ireland by researchers at NUI Galway’s Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI). DERI’s technologies are...
View ArticleThe Value of IP
One of the ironies of our high tech age is that developers and designers seem to know very little about the value of software as a product. There are all kinds of encouragements and advice on how to...
View ArticleSpeeksy: Social Discovery Through Facebook
Social discovery is an online space that has been emerging over the last couple of years. It is a throwback to some of the original ideas that the first social networks were built around. Friendster...
View ArticlePropeller 2.0 Demo Day
Last year we covered the Propeller Accelerator Programme, Propeller Venture Accelerator Fund: Hands on Program for Startups and Early Stage Companies. Similarly, this year, The Propeller 2.0 Venture...
View ArticleRoleConnect: Cutting Out the Middleman in IT Contracting
Kieran Logan founded Cork-based RoleConnect as a result of personal experience. He had been working as an IT contractor for almost 10 years doing software development and systems design. He obtained...
View ArticleOpen Ireland: Opening the Doors to Talent
On March 23rd this year Sean O’ Sullivan an Irish/American entrepreneur, was asked to give a keynote speech at a technology leaders conference. He gave a talk entitled “Re-inventing Ireland: Making...
View ArticleNew Tech Post Has New iPad App
We are proud and pleased to announce the release of the New Tech Post iPad App which is available through the iTunes store. It is free to download and a breeze to get started with. The app is built...
View ArticleOnline Marketing in Galway: Initial Gathering
A number of individuals from different businesses around Galway who specialize in marketing both traditional and online will gather at The Harbour Hotel on Tuesday, April 24, at 7pm, for the first...
View ArticleVia.Me: Multiple Media Services in One Platform
At the beginning of last year we ran a number of articles highlighting some of the fundamental challenges that face a tech startup and some ideas on how to approach and handle them. Two of these posts...
View ArticleTime-based Google Searches Can Reveal Nation's Health
Click on images for larger view. The tendency to Google for forward-looking events or search the web for things that happened in the past is closely linked to the health of your nation’s economy...
View ArticlePerspective: Graham Royce & Irish Tech
True-colour image of Ireland on an extremely rare, cloudless day. Out of a population of 4.59 million there exists in Ireland a potential workforce of just over 2 million people. (Currently, the...
View Articletwitris: Social Media Analysis with Semantic Web Technology
The Kno.e.sis Center at Wright State University is host to one of the largest Semantic Web working groups in the United States. Its most important task, according to Amit Sheth, LexisNexis Ohio...
View ArticleVERYSchool: Managing Energy Consumption in Our Schools
No one is going to solve the issue of global warming overnight. It is going to take long-term thinking and planning based on real data — not hopeful stabs in the dark fueled by wishful thinking. Along...
View ArticleBetter Remotes
Last week we published an article about how simply doing things better is a more creative and interesting option than trying to be different for the sake of being different. The idea for the post came...
View Article‘CodeNinjas’ Unmasked in App Competition for Galway Student Developers
The winners of CodeNinja, the app development competition for NUI Galway and GMIT students have been announced. First prize in the individual category went to GMIT, with NUI Galway scooping first...
View ArticleScientist Replaces Chicken Brain with Arduino Microcomputer...
...using GIMP and Wikimedia Commons (1, 2, 3).
View ArticlePossibility, Opportunity and Being Better
Sir Jonathan Ive makes an incredibly important distinction between the words better and different in this interview in the London Evening Standard. By having done something better, in the sense that...
View ArticleLoc8 Code Takes Key Mainstream Role
In all of Ireland's local authority areas there are emergency plans available to be immediately implemented should disasters happen. These incidents can take place at airports, military...
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