Only smart thinking will turn Brand Ireland into a digital economy leader

IN March, while the nation continued to digest more bad economic news and feel helpless as the rate of unemployment continued to accelerate, there was a break in the clouds.
Publication date: 2009-06-04

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San Francisco uses Twitter for 311 services

The Mayor of San Francisco has announced a new way to access city services: citizens will now be able to access the city’s 311 Call Center through Twitter. San Francisco has become the first city to roll out such an application on Twitter. Using the new service, citizens of San Francisco will be able to report [...]
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AMD demos world

Today at Computex 2009, AMD demonstrated the world’s first DirectX 11 graphics processor on new 40nm silicon. The series of demonstrations showed off some of the features in the upcoming DirectX 11 API, along with its functional application in silicon. DirectX 11 (and OpenGL 3.0) provide access not only to enhanced support in hardware for common [...]
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Wistron N900z: ARM-powered smartbook running Ubuntu

Over at Laptop Mag’s blog there is a very cool video covering the Wistron N900z, a smartbook (think netbook) running an ARM processor. So what happens when you drop Intel and x86 and throw on Ubuntu? How does 10 hours of life from a 3-cell battery sound? The system even plays some light video–it doesn’t have [...]
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