30.11.2006 Not just for the children
Businessman Simon Pepper is LinkedIn. No, he’s not a crazy gansta rapper in his spare time. What Pepper is, apart from being a marketing director of Dublin software company PrimeCarrier, is a member of an online social network that he uses to maintain a link with more than 629 business contacts from around the world, mostly overseas. …

30.11.2006 Consumer uptake of Vista will surpass enterprise
Deployments of Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows Vista operating system are projected to reach 90m units in 2007, IDC predicts. However, it says uptake will be strongest in the consumer market in the first year. …

30.11.2006 Wi-Fi blossoms as teens desert TV for web
Despite Ireland’s ongoing broadband woes, the country surprisingly has the largest number of Wi-Fi hotspots per head of population (18.3 per 100,000 people) followed by the UK (at 17.6), according to a global study by UK telecoms regulator Ofcom. …