31.01.2008 Aisling Foley, Aisling Foley Marketing
Aisling Foley, former Dubai-based head of marketing for Dublin software company CR2, has launched a marketing consulting business, Aisling Foley Marketing. Foley has 20 years international IT marketing experience, the last 13 of which have been specifically in software. In CR2, Foley increased unique visitors to the company’s website by 400%, grew press coverage by 250% and re-launched the customer newsletter, increasing its circulation by 50%. Prior to CR2, Foley worked as marketing manager with Sabre in Dublin where she was responsible for the international marketing of its internet booking engine. Before Sabre, Foley was based in Belgium and the UK and spent 6 years in supply chain management software working for US companies, i2 and AspenTech. Aisling Foley Marketing is an independent marketing consultancy that provides small and medium software companies with the extra resource and expertise required to extend current marketing activities. …

31.01.2008 Training more important than pay to Irish IT workers
Irish IT workers are more interested in training opportunities than pay rises, a new survey has found. …

31.01.2008 O2 asks customers: Are You Experienced?
With the majority of Irish mobile users on prepaid price plans, existing and potential O2 customers will be happy to hear the mobile operator has a new price plan that offers free texts for life to any mobile network at any time. …

31.01.2008 Eircom launches 12Mbps broadband
Eircom today introduced 10Mbps and 12Mbps broadband products and said that customers currently availing of 2Mbps, 3Mbps, 4Mbps and 6Mbps products will see speeds double to 3Mbps, 7.6Mbps, 10Mbps and 12Mbps respectively. …