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February 20, 2012 |  |
 We partnered with Weavers Court business park to design, build and manage the first ever 10G business park. This was a ground-breaking 50:50 venture agreed in July 2011, delivered in November and officially launched by the US Consol Kevin Roland this month, February 2012.
Weavers Court is a campus-style business park situated in the heart of Belfast. |
 Intellectual Property (IP) is the name given to all creative ideas and expressions that have commercial value. Most nations have recognised the value to their economic success of attaching legal rights to IP including patents, know-how, copyrights and trademarks. Each has a distinct application, business value and set of protocols but for the purpose of this week’s column I am going to touch specifically on patents – their creation, exploitation and role in open innovation. |
February 13, 2012 |  |
 Belfast-based Internet marketing and social media consultancy, Octave Online Communications, has launched a new guide for businesses and organisations on social media policy. The guide is designed to help senior managers and directors in corporate, public sector and government organisations understand more about social media risks and how they can develop a social media policy for their organisation. Social media policies define what is acceptable and unacceptable from employees representing an organisation through social media channels or their own personal profiles and from members of the public who post comments to an organisation’s social media profiles. |
February 08, 2012 |  |
 There’s a famous saying, “Perfection is a journey, not a destination”.
With that in mind, Spiral Hosting has just reached a very significant milestone on their journey – their ‘Liberty’ server has had a 100% uptime for in excess of 1 year.
Managing Director Peter Armstrong said, “We’re very pleased with the server’s speed and performance, particularly throughout the last year. |
February 06, 2012 |  |
 Imagine that you provide catering equipment to the Education sector.
An unexpected sales opportunity turns up in your Google Analytics. It shows that Castlereagh Collage has spent 8 minutes 41 seconds on your website and viewed nearly four times more web pages than the average visitor. |
January 18, 2012 |  |
It has just been announced that i3, formerly Biznet IIS, has been shortlisted in three categories in the Kentico Site of the Year Awards 2011.
The Kentico "Site of the Year" contest seeks out the best Kentico CMS web site implementations and we are honoured to be shortlisted as finalists in three categories:
MyUs.com - Best E-commerce Site (view case study)
Titanic Stories - Best Travel site (view case study)
What's on Derry/londonderry - Best Mobile site (view case study)
It's up to the public to decide who wins the award and it only take a few minutes to vote, so please vote at:
http://bit. |
Those whose New Year resolution is to take the step into setting up their own business will welcome the launch of a new section on Invest Northern Ireland’s nibusinessinfo.co.uk website. |
January 11, 2012 |  |
 Harvard Medical School team uses Andor Revolution DSD confocal for simultaneous measurement of intracellular pH and ATP in live cells
The importance that intracellular pH plays in cell biology is highlighted in a new paper published by the American Chemical Society. Written by a group of researchers from Harvard Medical School led by Professor Gary Yellen, it reports the engineering of the first ratiometric, single-protein red fluorescent sensor of pH, called pHRed, and its use to image intracellular pH in live neuronal cells.
Using Andor’s Revolution DSD spinning disk confocal technology, the team also established the unique capability of pHRed to be used in simultaneous measurements of intracellular ATP and pH because of its spectral compatibility with a second ratiometric ATP sensor, GFP-based Perceval. |
January 11, 2012 | |
 Sure, you don’t like your current website design but what does the customer think? Here are a few other questions Management should debate before commissioning yet another website redesign:
What does our customer look at when they are on our website?
What sections are most important to them? |
 Queen’s University Management School (QUMS) academics have launched a new Directory to help increase innovation and enterprise within the 19 countries of Southern and Eastern Africa.
Led by Dr Diane Holt and Dr David Littlewood of QUMS, the Trickle Out Africa Directory considers the role and potential contribution of social and environmental enterprises to sustainable development and poverty alleviation within the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and East African Community (EAC) regions.
Funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council, the TOA Directory is the first searchable guide of these types of organisations and will be used to guide future initiatives including training, trade links and enterprise development schemes. |
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Each year, the MSPmentor 250 identifies the world’s top managed services experts, entrepreneurs and executives — including professionals who have mastered business leadership, marketing, sales, technology, coaching and other areas within the managed services market.
Fermanagh born, Colm McGoldrick, founder of the Belfast-based Email Security Company, Maildistiller, was listed among the world’s best for his own contribution to the Managed Services industry in 2011.
The prestigious MSP mentor list, remarks how Colm, as CEO of Maildistiller, ‘has built on the leading SaaS providers in the UK’, to become one of the top vendors of Cloud Email security to MSPs and Resellers Worldwide. |
January 05, 2012 | |
 Do you run a services business? I mean, do you supply professional services to your clients mainly in the region you’re located in? If the answer is yes, then I bet your website focuses on promoting the long list of services you hope new customers will buy. |
January 04, 2012 | |
 It’s fair to say that most of the marketing buzz written about social media tends to be about the proactive brand opportunities available. However more businesses and organisations are starting to realise the effect that social media has on their customer service and that sometimes they are ill-prepared to manage the range of comments and enquiries that the channels can attract.
Facebook and Twitter in particular are now used by customers to make complaints, give positive feedback and make enquiries about products and services. |
January 03, 2012 |  |
 Is your bank's reluctance to fund new equipment holding your business back from expanding?
Many small business owners don’t realise that funding is still available for equipment purchases, even if their banks are turning them down,” says Trevor Finlay, MD of Vision Asset Finance. "Here at VAF, we get deals done for our clients every day; which means they get the new equipment they need now, and their business starts to reap the benefits immediately. |
December 29, 2011 | |
‘Permission marketing’, the practice where we market to people who have given their express permission remains one of the most important marketing developments in recent years. Popularised by marketing guru Seth Godin, permission marketing remains the opposite of traditional advertising which aims to interrupt us to get our attention such as T.V and magazine adverts. |
December 23, 2011 | |
 Well folks, we’re nearing the end of 2011 and what a year it’s been for all things digital. Facebook and Twitter hit the headlines for bringing communities together; Kate and Wills top the Google charts, the Royal Wedding being the fastest rising search for 2011, the Samsung Galaxy S2 beat the infamous iPhone for Best Phone of the year and probably the most significant for the industry was the announcement that co-founder and technology pioneer Steve Jobs passed away. All of these you are probably well aware of therefore we thought we’d give you an insight into Tibus’s top stories of 2011. |
December 22, 2011 |  |
SQS Software Quality Systems, the largest independent software testing and quality management consultancy with focus on Europe, has announced that the company is currently embarking on a significant recruitment drive over the coming six months for its Irish operation. This latest expansion will see its workforce increase by almost 20 per cent to over 120 employees.
The firm, which has established offices in Dublin and Belfast, is now looking to fill positions for experienced software quality engineers, software testing managers, performance engineers and software test analysts. |
A Belfast candle company has been blown over with an incredible 1500% increase in site traffic as it cashes in on record online Christmas sales.
With almost 1,000 organic daily site visits, www.yankee. |
Prometric, a trusted provider of market-leading test development and delivery solutions, today announced the appointment of 32 positions and office occupancy that is set to occur in January for the company’s Test Development Solutions (TDS) operational headquarters in the Finnabair Industrial Estate in Dundalk.
Making significant investments in talent worth €1,346,000 in total salaries (based on an average salary of €42,000 per year per employee) and a construction build out of €800,000 are just the first steps the company has taken to put in place a specialised Irish-based work force that will enhance the company’s in-depth test development support services and underlying technologies it currently provides to many of the world’s leading test publishing brands.
“Last month we announced our decision to locate in Ireland, and now we look forward to opening our facility with a new team who will be instrumental to our growth strategies for innovation,” stated Prometric’s President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Brannick. |
 Over 50 representatives from industry and academia recently attended an Invest Northern Ireland briefing session on its business-led collaboration programme.
The programme aims to enable local companies to address global market opportunities across a range of sectors, through collaboration between companies and academia.
Speaking at the information event, Tracy Meharg, Invest NI’s Managing Director of Innovation and Capability Development, said: “This programme is designed to stimulate collaborative projects, inspired by the Northern Ireland science and technology base, which will exploit innovative processes, products and ideas that are yet to find applications in a recognised market or business sector. |
December 20, 2011 | |
It’s safe to say that all organisations and businesses are not at the same table when it comes to adopting and utilising digital media. Some businesses, particularly those with a global customer focus or younger target demographic tended to adopt online media and marketing earlier than others. The same can be said for marketing managers and senior directors. |
 Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has launched an Intellectual Property Starter Pack aimed at helping local companies understand the intellectual property they own.
Developed by Invest Northern Ireland as part of its wider Boosting Business initiative, it includes guides to the main types of intellectual property including patents, trademarks, copyright and design registration. Non Disclosure Agreements and licensing are also explained. |
A short action film made by a Belfast film-maker is among the 10 pieces short-listed for the 2012 Academy Awards. The Shore, written, directed and produced by Terry George, was one of 107 films which originally qualified for the category.
Academy Branch members will now select three to five nominees from among the 10 titles. |
December 16, 2011 | |
 Uprisings in middle-eastern states and various corporate crises reveal the often huge gap between an old guard using traditional media and the tech-savvy general public. This was certainly the case during the Egypt crisis earlier this year. In one corner stood an authoritarian government trying in vain to push 1970s style TV addresses claiming ‘revolution, what revolution? |
December 16, 2011 |  |
Kainos’s deep Microsoft development and application management skills relieve the IT team and boost information access for employees & volunteers
UK children’s charity, the NSPCC, has found itself relying increasingly on the application management services division of Kainos, as it strives to counteract the impact of economic pressures on public donations.
With 3,000 employees who rely on the timely access to accurate information to do their jobs effectively, and an army of 3,500 volunteers who use online resources to drive and support their fundraising activities, IT is critical to the charity’s performance.
Technology solutions company Kainos has played a key role in providing software development and support services to the organisation since 2009. |
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