[27.04.2007 first posted on silicon republic]Irish-based company Orkit Intelligent Homes is unveiling a state-of-the-art ’smart’ show house in Wicklow next month.
The house, part of a luxury housing development located in Burkeen, will feature advanced technology to control and manage lighting and heating, as well as built-in energy management.
Orkit, which has been in business […]

27.04.2007 Wicklow housing gets green and smartIrish-based company Orkit Intelligent Homes is unveiling a state-of-the-art ’smart’ show house in Wicklow next month. …
27.04.2007 Stunning Vista drives 72pc EPS for MicrosoftMicrosoft last night reported record profits for its third quarter of US$4.9bn and an operating income of US$6.5bn, driven by demand for Vista and Office. …
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[27.04.2007 first posted on silicon republic]Today Sony will launch a video-sharing service called EyeVio to compete with Google’s YouTube.
Initially, EyeVio will only be available in Japan, but Sony plans to roll out this service worldwide according to its homeland success.
EyeVio will divide videos into two distinct categories: private, which only friends can view; […]

27.04.2007 The Friday Interview: Jerry Kennelly, ex-Stockbyte CEOThis week’s interviewee is Jerry Kennelly , founder and CEO of image library Stockbyte, which was sold last year to Getty Images for €135m …
27.04.2007 How to free your businessThe city of Munich runs on it and it’s also powering organisations as far afield as Australia, Brazil, Turkey […]

[27.04.2007 first posted on silicon republic]Ireland has dropped from its position of No 16 to No 21 in e-readiness, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2007 report, released yesterday.
Out of the 69 countries, Denmark came out on top of the e-readiness ranking as No 1 with a rating of 9, while the US […]

[27.04.2007 first posted on silicon republic]This week’s interviewee is Jerry Kennelly , founder and CEO of image library Stockbyte, which was sold last year to Getty Images for €135m
How and why did you go into business and create Stockbyte?
I was a photojournalist working for a freelance agency in Tralee covering Ireland for international […]

[27.04.2007 first posted on silicon republic]The city of Munich runs on it and it’s also powering organisations as far afield as Australia, Brazil, Turkey and the UK. It is free software and it means what the name suggests and more.
Strictly speaking there are two types of free software – programs that […]

[27.04.2007 first posted on silicon republic]The ICT industry worldwide accounts for 2pc of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions – equal to that of the aviation industry – which analyst firm Gartner warns in unsustainable.
The 2pc of CO2 emissions that the ICT industry is responsible for includes the in-use phase of PCs, servers, cooling, […]

[27.04.2007 first posted on silicon republic]Students from NUI Maynooth were announced yesterday as the finalists in the Microsoft Imagine Cup, which will be held in Seoul, South Korea this August.
InGest (Interactive Gesture) were chosen from over 200 students in colleges and universities who entered the competition from both the North and South of […]

[26.04.2007 first posted on silicon republic]Online gambling to date has netted 40 million users worldwide and looks set to quadruple by 2020, according to Irish research company iReach.
“The proliferation of new technologies has certainly helped shape a once embryonic marketplace with access to online gambling and gaming sites now aided through broadband internet, […]