Youngest Mac developer!

12 year-old from Cork becomes youngest  Mac OSX App developer in the world

 

Harry Moran is 12 year old Cork boy in question. He is a lot different to most 12 year olds though, he has designed and built a best-selling Mac app. How many 12 year olds can even turn on their computers?

His app goes by the name of ‘Pizzabot’. Pizzabot is an App which for the lovers of Pizza may truly love. His app combines the thrills of pizza with those of the iPhone. His app has surpassed big names in the app industry such as Call of Duty and Angry Birds to become the top paid App in the Mac Application store.

For most the development of an app would be enough, but not for Harry, he’s writing a technical blog; His blog is HM Computing, which offers assistance with both software and hardware. He is also a member of ‘CoderDojo’ a non-profit computer coding club launched by James Whelton , the man who was first to hack the Ipod nano.

In terms of innovation and status in the digital world, Harry has made an amazing achievement personally and nationally. He also owns the top paid app on the Mac App store, what an achievement.

Is he the new Steve Jobs?

(special thanks to irishpressrelease.ie and siliconrepublic.ie)

Co-creator of term cloud computing Irish

 

The Irish based entrepreneur Sean O'Sullivan has been credited  as co-creator of the term ‘cloud computing’ and as being an early proponent of the development of cloud computing.

O'Sullivan had a company by the name of NetCentric and developed software for within the internet. His company correctly predicted the evolution of LAN services and  in-computer services to the cloud, and although he didn't manage to capture much of the business for himself, cloud computing has had huge impact on technology with approximately half the planet affected.
O'Sullivan has gone on to create and manage other major computing and non-computing initiatives, such as Avego Ltd, a worldwide provider of  revolutionary mobility software. He also runs SOSventures, a highly successful venture investment fund with investments in Europe, China and the United States.
O’Sullivan’s previous investments include Harmonix, a company which created Guitar Hero.
Mr O'Sullivan Said:“My first company, MapInfo, became a US$200m company that pioneered street mapping on computers. NetCentric helped invent the cloud-computing industry,” said O'Sullivan. He hopes that Avergo the company he currently owns will provide another technological revolution for billions of people.


Information courtesy of Siliconrepublic.com
Picture courtesy of eship.rpi.edu

Irish Tech Firm scores an economic victory

A Dublin-based software development company Ideal Binary has raised €750k in revenue to develop their business and products. This success has come through the success of their PopIris engine.


 Had a look at their products myself, they really do look quite amazing.


 Read more below
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/item/24470-fairy-tale-comes-true-as/

In other news

A competitor to facebook, diaspora has lost one of its co-founders at the age of 21.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57323852-92/diaspora-co-founder-dies-at-21-report-says/?part=rss&subj=latest-news&tag=title

11.11.11 Another conspiracy that didnt deliver

Like Y2K, nothing actually happened besides the fact that some people panicked over a possible technological metldown.
So what exactly was meant to happen on 11.11.11?

View the site for a full list of possible events and ideas relating to this day

http://paradigmsearch.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Interpret-111111-Friday-November-11-2011-And-a-Metaphysics-Experiment-111111

There was even a facebook page/group created for the day
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-111111-Gathering/149951135057191


Pyramids closed due to 11.11.11 threat
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/8883173/Pyramids-closed-by-11.11.11-threat.html

Yet another Security Breach

As facebook is the holder, of one of the largest databases of  people and peoples information in the world you would believe that their privacy settings should provide you with a sense security. Despite the security/privacy settings facebook has in place, it has been proven once more that their security is not impenetrable.

As per SiliconRepublic.com:
" Over the course of an eight-week investigation, the researchers deployed 102 socialbots onto the social network and each bot was able to assume a name and profile picture of a fictitious person and friend requests were sent to more than 5,000 random accounts.

The researchers claimed a 19pc success rate in the first two weeks and a 59pc success rate in the following six weeks."

 This indicates the huge vulnerabilities within the facebook system as their excuse for this breach is that it came from an academic institution. Really? are there no hackers that try to get into databases and systems from academic institutions? What cloud are you living on Mark Zuckerburg?

 While I am a user of facebook, I personally will be modifying the information available on my facebook and may even consider shutting it down.

With the likes of duqu surfacing on a daily basis do you feel secure?

Read more on Duqu here: 

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/strategy/item/24114-security-alert-meet-duqu/

 Essentially, like the war on drugs, I believe the world is losing its fight with cyber attacks and hackers. Is there any viable widely available solution? Not yet

"Senior security executives from some of the world’s largest corporations have warned that becoming victim to cyber attacks and corporate espionage is a matter of when, not if".-The Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC)