[29.02.2008 first posted on silicon republic]UK firm Capita Group has won a contract worth approximately €25m over five years to provide contact handling and directory enquiry services to Eircom.
Capita staff will base themselves in Eircom’s Cork call centre. Eircom’s directory enquiry operation handles over 40 million calls each year.
“This deal puts in place […]

[29.02.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Microsoft has decided to change its price-point strategy by reducing the sale price of its Vista operating system saying that stand-alone packages, at 10pc, currently do not account for much of overall sales, something the Redmond-based firm wants to change.
Since its release in 2007, most Vista sales have […]

29.02.2008 Microsoft cuts Vista prices to boost salesMicrosoft has decided to change its price-point strategy by reducing the sale price of its Vista operating system saying that stand-alone packages, at 10pc, currently do not account for much of overall sales, something the Redmond-based firm wants to change. …
29.02.2008 Eircom awards €25m contract to CapitaUK firm […]

[29.02.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Some two Tyndall Institute spin-out companies have recently set world scientific records, it has emerged.
Photonic Systems Group and SensL were today acknowledged for their technological breakthroughs by Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Micheál Martin TD, as he laid the foundation stone of a new laboratory building at […]

[29.02.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Cork-based interactive voice messaging company VoiceSage has secured more than €3m in private funding.
VoiceSage will use the money to further penetrate the UK market where it launched 18 months ago with a London sales office.
VoiceSage’s technology enables voice messages to be sent out to customers at appropriate times […]

[29.02.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Irish users of social networking sites are leaving behind a trail of identity clues that could make them vulnerable to identity theft, according to a new report.
A survey of 300 Irish users of social networking sites by internet consultancy Amas in its State of the Net report for […]

[29.02.2008 first posted on silicon republic]In the past year, Dell has employed an energetic strategy to strengthen its position in the consumer market in both Europe and the US with its brightly coloured laptops for sale in retail chains such as Dixons and Tesco.
This kind of strategy involves much financial investment and appears […]

[29.02.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Ireland’s broadband and internet doldrums are not in keeping with the general outlook for the Irish economy, as according to an internet ‘weather map’ of Europe, Ireland is one of the coldest zones where less than 60pc of adults have used the internet in the past three months.
The […]

29.02.2008 Broadband woes force Ireland into nuclear winterIreland’s broadband and internet doldrums are not in keeping with the general outlook for the Irish economy, as according to an internet ‘weather map’ of Europe, Ireland is one of the coldest zones where less than 60pc of adults have used the internet in the past three months. […]

[29.02.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Just months following the resignation of the head of the UK’s Inland Revenue in response to the revelation that two CDs containing information on 25 million child welfare recipients had gone missing, a new data scandal has arisen with the discovery of a confidential Home Office CD hidden in a […]