Invest Northern Ireland has offered £12.7million support towards the total cost of the investments, which are expected to increase R&D related jobs there by 85 and to create a further 10 related research posts at Queen’s University, Belfast.

Tonight saw the much anticipated launch of Apple's new tablet computer - officially named the iPad ... more on the name in a bit.

I wasn't able to make the local gathering @CoreBelfast so first tuned into the mainstream evening TV news hoping for some coverage.

Movidius, an award winning mobile technology company from Dublin, has set up a £2.7 million R&D centre in Belfast with support from Invest Northern Ireland.

The investment, announced today by Alastair Hamilton, Invest NI Chief Executive and Sean Mitchell, Movidius’ Chief Executive Officer, is applying revolutionary technology to enable manufacturers of mobile phones and other hand-held devices to offer customers the ability to capture, view and edit high resolution video, directly on their handset, for sharing with family, friends and others on social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and You Tube.

APTX, the Belfast based audio coding solutions company, has won a major technology award at the Consumer Electronics Show (International CES 2010) in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The company was announced outright WINNER of the Bluetooth SIG "Best of CES" award at an ceremony held in Las Vegas, beating other contenders such as Microsoft and Nokia. CES is the largest consumer technology tradeshow in the world and attracts over 2700 exhibitors every year.

An innovative energy saving device invented by a local teacher has been brought to market with the support of Invest Northern Ireland.

The standbyOFF is a remote control energy saving socket for use with TVs and audio devices in the home and is now being sold in Maplin stores across the UK and via another major UK retailer.

The standbyOFF is a brand name owned by theoneswitch.

APTX, the audio coding solutions company and developer of the apt-X suite of audio codec technology, today announces that Digigram, the French manufacturer of high-performance IP audio codec equipment for professional broadcast applications, has licensed the Enhanced apt-X audio codec.  

Digigram will offer the Enhanced apt-X codec in both the IQOYA line of IP audio devices as well as within Visiblu®, the company's network audio operating system (management of distributed audio processing resources and IP audio transport) for both Windows™ and Linux platforms. Drawing on the core features of Enhanced apt-X i.

The apt-X enabled Creative INSPIRE S2 Wireless 2.1 speaker system has just been selected as one of the ten finalists in the 5th annual Bluetooth SIG "Best of CES" awards program. Other contenders include Bluetooth enabled products and from Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia and Samsung.

Six leading broadcast equipment manufacturers introduce new-generation IP audio codec solutions replete with low-latency Enhanced apt-X as standard for future-proofed STL

127th AES Convention, New York [October 9, 2009] – APTX, the Northern Ireland based developer of high-performance audio coding solutions for broadcast, gaming, consumer and pro audio, today reveals that, in the year to date, six or more tier-one broadcast OEMs have either launched or announced new-generation, own-brand IP Audio Codec products featuring Enhanced apt-X as standard. This move by independent and competing OEMs to acquire under license the industry's de facto standard low-latency audio codec for deployment in equipment for world broadcast markets demonstrates that Enhanced apt-X coding for audio transport over IP has penetrated nearly every new hardware/software platform for implementing studio-to-transmitter links.

Commenting on this consolidation, Jonny McClintock, Sales President of APTX, said: "It’s no accident that today and going forward, Enhanced apt-X is the must-have codec for low-latency audio over IP and synchronous networks.