Steve Flinter’s blog

Silicon Republic report on the results of the recent SFI equipment call, which was announced at the SFI board meeting Monday of this week. SFI have made grants totalling in excess of €31m for the purchase of scientific equipment to support R&D efforts.
The money quote:

More good news for the science and technology research community [...]

There are a couple of interesting events being organised by Lero at the moment. The first is a Lero industry event discussing Global Software Development. This event is a follow-on from the Lero event of last November, and is scheduled to give people a bit more time to get themselves organised. It [...]

Following last year’s successful Strategic Research Clusters, SFI has just launched a second call of the SRC programme.
The time-line for the programme this year is pretty tight, with the first deadline for Expressions of Interest on February 29th, and the Pre-proposal submission following shortly on March 10th.
Would-be applicants are advised to prepare their various submissions [...]

Last week, January 24 to be exact, techludd 2.0 held its first event in the Odessa Club in Dublin. Despite some early bad-mouthing, since retracted, it looks like the event was a huge success.
Even TechCrunch UK have covered the aftermath of the event.
I had it down in the diary to attend, but unfortunately RealLife [...]

As reported on TechCrunch UK by way of the Irish Times

Conor O’Neill wrote a post before Christmas that I’ve been meaning to write for about six months. I have a Nokia N70 with Vodafone, and cannot get the package that I want: high-bandwidth internet access for both the handset and as a bluetooth modem to my laptop, with a decent download limit (~3-5 GB/month).
The [...]