News
Aetopia moves to new offices - January 2007
Aetopia has moved to new offices in ECIT (the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology). It is a new €60 million world-class centre specialising in key areas of advanced digital technology. ECIT facilities the collaboration of research specialists from Queen's University with industrial partners and innovative start-ups like Aetopia
Aetopia wins Belfast heat of Seedcorn competition - November 2006
Aetopia has won the Belfast regional heat of the InterTradeIreland Seedcorn competition, collecting a prize of €20k. The competition is for the best new businesses on the island of Ireland. Aetopia is one of two Northern Ireland companies through to the all-island final. Press release...
Aetopia wins major contract to implement Phototopia throughout Holland - August 2006
Belfast software provider, Aetopia has been awarded a contract with leading Dutch media group, Wegener, to provide its Photo Sales image archiving and eCommerce solution to the group's online regional newspapers. Press release...
Freeflow images now online - July 2006
Freeflow magazine, a new magazine dedicated to the pursuit of Extreme sports in Ireland, has just launched its online gallery. Readers can now search the magazine's huge image archive to purchase images. Freeflow takes hundreds of action packed images at extreme sports events all over the country. These unique images are now available for purchase.
Phototopia launched at Photo Fest Ireland - June 2006
Aetopia's flagship Image archiving and eCommerce system Phototopia was launched at the inaugural Photo Fest Ireland trade show at the Clarion Hotel Dublin on 18th June 2006. Over 600 delegates attended the show representing all sectors of the Photographic industry in Ireland.
Aetopia win "Highly Commended" award at the Annual Golden Eye IT "oscars" - May 2006
At a glittering Oscars style ceremony at the Culloden Hotel organised by Business Eye Magazine and sponsored by BT, Aetopia won a "Highly Commended" award for the implementation of their Photosales system at Wegener Multimedia.
MediaBase to underpin PRONI initiative - Mar 2006
Aetopia's Digital Asset Management product - MediaBase, has been chosen to underpin the archiving and online digitisation of the Victorian Street Directories of Belfast. These valuable fragile directories were very heavily used in PRONI and were at risk of serious damage. They are now safely available to genealogy researchers and historians throughout the world thanks to the powerful search capabilities of MediaBase.