29.06.2007 Broadband providers could win net neutrality debateRegulation around the thorny issue of net neutrality is more likely to be decided in favour of broadband providers than proponents of neutrality like Google, analyst IDC predicts While the debate rages in the US, its outcome could shape the future internet experience for the rest of the […]

[29.06.2007 first posted on silicon republic]A global demographic tsunami is being faced as elderly citizens look set to reach two billion in the next few decades, warned Eric Dishman, general manager of Intel’s health research and innovation at Intel’s Innovation Centre in Leixslip yesterday.
Already EU healthcare costs 30pc of the average GDP and […]

[29.06.2007 first posted on silicon republic]This week’s interviewee is Brendan O’Sullivan , CEO of Irish e-learning firm ThirdForce, whose shareholders last week voted in favour of the company’s US$18m acquisition of US player MindLeaders.
Your acquisition of MindLeaders grants you access to the largest e-learning market in the world, the US. Was this […]

[29.06.2007 first posted on silicon republic]The buzz surrounding today’s US launch of Apple’s iPhone has captured the imagination of everyone from leading charities to Hugh Heffner, who will launch Playboy products for the phone, to an ardent blogger who is third in line to receive the device but will auction his coveted device for charity. […]

28.06.2007 Mobile content market to top US$44bn by 2011The market for premium mobile content will exceed US$44bn in 2011, research firm iSuppli Corp has predicted, more than double the US$20bn it is expected to generate this year. …

[28.06.2007 first posted on silicon republic]The market for premium mobile content will exceed US$44bn in 2011, research firm iSuppli Corp has predicted, more than double the US$20bn it is expected to generate this year.
Mobile video will drive this market, according to iSuppli Corp.
At present, the mobile video market remains highly fragmented with uncertain […]

[28.06.2007 first posted on silicon republic]Analyst firm Gartner has predicted that Apple will need to release a cheaper version of the iPhone within nine months for the product line to remain competitive.
The iPhone, which combines iPod, mobile phone and internet access functions and runs a version of OS X, is released in the […]

[28.06.2007 first posted on silicon republic]Businesses fear the collapse of their IT systems more than they do terrorism, natural disasters, financial risk or regulatory constraints but still fail to manAge IT risk effectively, a new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit reveals.
The study of 145 senior executives worldwide, sponsored by German software giant […]

28.06.2007 IT collapse more scary than terrorism for execsBusinesses fear the collapse of their IT systems more than they do terrorism, natural disasters, financial risk or regulatory constraints but still fail to manAge IT risk effectively, a new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit reveals. …
28.06.2007 Second, cheaper iPhone needed within nine monthsAnalyst firm Gartner […]

[28.06.2007 first posted on silicon republic]Contract electronics manufacturer Sanmina-SCI this morning revealed that it is to invest €30m in a new manufacturing and design centre in Fermoy, Co Cork, and will create up to 50 highly skilled engineering jobs in the process.
Sanmina-SCI is the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturing provider to the medical […]