[26.10.2006 first posted on silicon republic]National University of Ireland (NUI) Maynooth and chip giant Intel, which employs over 5,000 people in nearby Leixlip, have entered into a joint venture to create a research operation that will develop ways for IT and business executives to get better value out of IT investments.
The research centre, […]

[26.10.2006 first posted on silicon republic]Dublin software firm Norkom has won a major deal to help one of Austria’s largest retail banks fight financial fraud and detect terrorist financing.
Bawag PSK, which has more than 1.3 million private customers and over 60,000 business customers, will deploy Norkom’s financial crime and compliance software across its […]

[26.10.2006 first posted on silicon republic]A Dublin-based high-potential software company has scored a major deal with software company Microsoft to train thousands of developers around the world on its flagship .NET technology.
Under the terms of the deal, InnerWorkings will offer its entire catalogue of Microsoft .NET framework coding challenges and performance support services […]

[26.10.2006 first posted on silicon republic]Most types of card fraud have decreased since the introduction of Chip and PIN authentication with a few glaring exceptions, the most noticeable being card-not-present (CNP) fraud.
Merchants who process transactions online or over the telephone are leaving themselves open to chargebacks being made against them by […]

[26.10.2006 first posted on silicon republic]Smart mobile device shipments rose by 11.7pc in the third quarter of the year, according to new data from the UK research firm Canalys.
The market growth was slightly higher than the previous quarter’s, which was 10.6pc, but well below the 100pc-plus growth rates seen last year, the […]

[26.10.2006 first posted on silicon republic]The first wave of hype around the first public sector web sites has long since subsided and the impact of PPARS is still being felt, so it’s no surprise that talk about e-government is more measured than it used to be.
“Some of the bigger projects haven’t materialised in […]

[26.10.2006 first posted on silicon republic]Comhairle, the national agency tasked with supporting the provision of information, advice and advocacy on social services, recently unveiled a substantially upgraded version of its information website.
The new site, renamed www.citizensinformation.ie, takes the place the existing e-government initiative known as Oasis and Comhairle’s online Citizens Information Database […]

[26.10.2006 first posted on silicon republic]Since it was founded back in 1999 the Reach agency has been a central plank of the Republic’s e-government mission.
The remit of the 10-person agency, whose main stakeholders are the Department of Social and Family Affairs (which funds the agency), the Department of the Taoiseach and the […]

[26.10.2006 first posted on silicon republic]Half a million members of the Irish workforce will need to be upskilled if Ireland is going to compete in the global knowledge economy in 2020, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Micheal Martin TD warned today.
The Government claims that based on the available demographic and economic […]

[26.10.2006 first posted on silicon republic]Fittingly a few days before Halloween, it has been announced that Eamon Dunphy is to resurrect his television career. He will present his own made-for-mobile TV show on the 3 network.
The broadcaster, whose television chat show flopped and who recently retired from radio, has signed a groundbreaking […]