ICM Books iPhone App
One of my favourite Northern Irish tech companies has just scored a world first. Those web and mobile application wizards at Lisburn based GCD Technologies have only went and helped ICM Books Direct become the first Christian bookstore worldwide to launch an iPhone app! Continue reading
Tagged apple, athene, books, christian, gcd technologies, ICM Books Direct, iphone, jprni, mobile, project athene, tech
A degree of common sense?
As financial pressures continue to bite, and with many more students and graduates chasing after work experience, employers have found themselves in a strong position with regards to offering unpaid work placements. Many degree courses expect their students to have completed some element of industrial placement enable them to proceed to final year. In the current environment demand for placements outstrip supply. Are the universities missing a trick? Continue reading
Tagged diploma, entrepreneurship, funding, industrial, placement, startups, student, tech
Today I had the pleasure of spending my lunch break chatting with Crafty Devil‘s Rich Dale about the upcoming demo of their Planzai web app at Showcase. I was aware that they had been working on a tool aimed at helping up and coming bands and musicians get off the ground, what I actually saw simply blew me away. Continue reading
An off the cuff response to Mark Nagurski following a comment he had made on my recent post “Invented here syndrome; Demand attention” led me to waking up one morning at 5 am with a crazy plan. I have spent the last number of days formulating and developing that plan further. So here goes.
Tagged bbc, business, buzz, funding, geeks, gods, media, northern ireland, project athene, projectathene, showcase, syncni, tech, traction, utv
I have just returned from a great night at Code4Pizza were I had the pleasure of meeting some really switched on people wanting to do stuff just to help people. That’s a pretty good reason in my book. We need more of it in this country. I guess its what people did before David Cameron invented the “big society“. Continue reading
Tagged Android, app, big society, call to action, code4pizza, mencap, mobile, rnli, skunkworks, tech, translink