[30.11.2007 first posted on silicon republic]3G functionality will definitely be coming to the iPhone next year, said CEO of US telecoms firm AT&T Randall Stephenson, which will give the Apple handset increased speed and bandwidth capabilities.
Stephenson was not able to confirm the price of the new handset but conceded that Apple would be […]

[30.11.2007 first posted on silicon republic]BT in recent weeks invested €1m in an IT training centre in Dublin that will produce 8,000 professionals a year. Chris Clark is chief executive of BT Ireland.
Do you think Ireland can achieve the production target of one million new workers by 2020? Unless major changes occur, […]

[30.11.2007 first posted on silicon republic]Reducing costs, growing productivity and encouraging innovation in business are the central planks of the National Competitiveness Council’s (NCC) annual report, released yesterday.
The report, Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge, identified the key challenges facing enterprise in the country and proposed policy actions to overcome these.
The report is underpinned by the […]

29.11.2007 Google trials user-voted searchGoogle is experimenting with a new style of search result that aims to improve accuracy of its search engine by letting the user vote on whether they like or dislike the list of search results for a given keyword. …
29.11.2007 EU gives DVB-H mobile TV standard thumbs upThe European Parliament today […]

[29.11.2007 first posted on silicon republic]The European Commission today presented to the European Council a new initiative to include marginalised citizens in the digital society. The initiative could generate benefits of €35-€85bn over five years, it has been claimed.
Despite technological progress and enhanced competition, more than one in three Europeans are still excluded […]

[29.11.2007 first posted on silicon republic]The European Parliament today endorsed the European Commission’s strategy for rapid deployment of mobile TV services across Europe.
The three pillars of its strategy are: putting in place a joint approach to the licensing of mobile TV in order to accelerate the rollout of services and to encourage innovative […]

[29.11.2007 first posted on silicon republic]Nationwide business organisation Chambers Ireland is one of the first Irish websites to provide for mobile surfers with the ‘..mobi’ domain name specific to mobile devices that can be accessed on any net-enabled phone and with any operator.
The organisation launched 23 separate .mobi sites yesterday for different business […]

[29.11.2007 first posted on silicon republic]The percentage of emails coming into Irish inboxes that are spam now stands at 86pc, according to IT Force’s weekly spam report.
This represents a rise of 2pc, signalling the ongoing increase in spam globally is as pertinent to Ireland as elsewhere.
IT Force’s research analysed 253,280 emails received by […]

[29.11.2007 first posted on silicon republic]Storage and digital products distributor CMS Peripherals will distribute LeftHand Networks’ products to its reseller channels throughout Ireland and the UK following the signing of a partnership agreement.
CMS Peripherals, which has offices in Kiltimagh, Co Mayo, and London, will distribute LeftHand Networks’ SAN/iQ offerings and the recently released […]

29.11.2007 CMS Peripherals catches LeftHand Networks dealStorage and digital products distributor CMS Peripherals will distribute LeftHand Networks’ products to its reseller channels throughout Ireland and the UK following the signing of a partnership agreement. …
29.11.2007 Spam rate hits 86pcThe percentage of emails coming into Irish inboxes that are spam now stands at 86pc, according to […]