Innovation

A day at the dojo – inside the CoderDojo revolution (video)

22.02.2012 Silicon Republic editor John Kennedy spent a Saturday afternoon at a CoderDojo in Dublin. This remarkable movement is just months old, has led to hundreds of kids writing software code and is about to be replicated globally. More »
EU Court of Justice to decide if ACTA breaches fundamental rights

22.02.2012 The European Court of Justice is to review whether the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is incompatible with the EU’s fundamental rights and freedoms, the European Commission said today. More »
NASA’s Hubble detects new ‘waterworld’ planet type

22.02.2012 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has released captivating images of a new class of ‘waterworld’ extrasolar planet 40 light years from Earth that astronomers are calling GJ1214b. More »
Google Doodle applauds physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

22.02.2012 An animated Google Doodle is cutting a colourful dash on Google's homepage today to celebrate what would have been the 155th birthday of Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, the physicist who clarified and expanded the electromagnetic theory of light, paving the way for the invention of the telegraph, radio, and, latterly, television. More »
100 Irish firms to attend largest Irish Silicon Valley event yet

21.02.2012 The ITLG/Irish Times Innovation Awards and Summit that will take place 12-13 March looks set to be the biggest Irish business event yet to take place in Silicon Valley with over 100 Irish companies from North and South mingling with some of the top technology companies, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. More »
NASA’s SDO satellite captures lunar transit today

21.02.2012 NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) satellite has just captured the moon coming in between the SDO satellite and the sun. Such a lunar transit happens only a couple of times a year. Scientists observed the lunar transit for one hour and 41 minutes today. More »
Space agencies' Tweetup to highlight mission

21.02.2012 Sixty Twitter followers of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the French Space Agency, CNES, can be in Toulouse, France, next month, for the docking of the automated transfer vehicle (ATV) Edoardo Amaldi at the International Space Station. More »
Most Irish firms not investing in R&D long term - survey

21.02.2012 More than half (58pc) of companies across Ireland have failed to make a long-term investment in the research and development of new ideas, services and products, a survey by IT consultancy Choose Portal suggests. More »
Boston University and Intune Networks to create BURST network

20.02.2012 Boston University and Irish firm Intune Networks are partnering to create the Boston University Research Switch and Transport (BURST) network, which will be based upon Intune Networks' optical packet switch and transport (OPST) technology. More »
IT Sligo signs licence agreement with Adobe

20.02.2012 Institute of Technology (IT) Sligo has just signed a licence agreement with computer software giant Adobe to give students at the institute 24/7 access to its design software. More »