Feature: BETT 2010
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010Villa81 headed over to BETT, the top dog in educational technology trade shows. Samsung, Ricoh, and O2 were among the exhibitors at the event.
BETT concludes on the 16th of January.
The Blitz - Submit your questions for UPC’s Ronan Gallagher
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009Villa81 proudly announced the launch of a new interview segment through our Twitter page last week. The Blitz is a new rapid fire interview segment where we will ask questions submitted by our viewers to leading figures in business and IT.
The first subject facing the camera will be Ronan Gallagher who is the Strategy & [...]
Feature: Triple Play Lab
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Villa81 visited the Triple Play Lab in Munich. The operation, focusing on developing technology in the triple play field, focusing on data, voice and video content. We had a look at the work going on at the facility where 16 companies are collaborating.
For more information on the Triple Play Lab, check out the alliance’s website.
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Feature: Citrix iForum 2009
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Citrix held their annual iForum event in Edinburgh this week. The infrastructure software firm told Villa81 that it believes smartphones will take dominant positions in the mobile phone and laptop markets within the year.
The iForum is moving from Edinburgh next year to a new venue in Berlin.
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Feature: iQ Prize finalists announced
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009The finalists for the €10,000 iQ Prize were announced in Dublin on Wednesday. The contest is being run by web development firm iQ Content with the aim of encouraging Irish people to create business ideas for the web.
The winners will be announced on 8 July.
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Feature: Imagine Cup Dragons Den
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009With Trinity Sight set to be Ireland’s sole representatives at the Imagine Cup in Cairo next month, Villa81 looked at how last year’s Irish representatives fared in a Dragons Den event.
Parkit from Sligo IT and AcidRain from NUI Maynooth competed against students from across the globe at the World Finals in Paris last year but [...]
Feature: UCD and Siemens develop a robot boat
Thursday, June 4th, 2009In the week of a new Terminator film being launched, Villa81 got a look at a boat that could be a pre-cursor to a real life Skynet. The Siemens Autonomous Sailboat is thankfully being designed for purposes much more beneficial than the destruction of humanity.
UCD and Siemens hope to hold the first test of the [...]
Feature: Imagine Cup Irish final
Friday, May 1st, 2009Students from across Ireland gathered at the Science Gallery in Trinity on Thursday to battle it out to become Irish champions of the Imagine Cup. After the morning session the final three were selected and our cameras were on hand to capture all the action.
Trinity Sight will represent Ireland at the finals of the Imagine [...]
Feature: New mobile back-up service launched
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009Central Data Bank has launched a new online back up service for mobile phone data. The service, which uses software developed by Funambol, was launched in the Conrad Hotel yesterday and our cameras were there to get the low-down on the offering.
The service is available from the 29th of April onwards.
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Feature: IIA Business Blogging Breakfast
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009Villa81 arrived in the Burlington Hotel at the rather unpleasant hour of 7.45am to catch the highlights of the Irish Internet Association’s (IIA) Business Blogging Breakfast.
For more information on this and similar events check out the IIA’s website.
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