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O2 LAUNCHES ‘OFF-THE-SHELF’ PAPERLESS SOLUTION
O2 has launched O2 Instant, a business solution that removes all paper from the sales order, delivery and service process, with a minimum up-front spend. It is the first ‘off-the-shelf’ paperless solution of its kind in Europe that allows businesses to significantly cut costs. O2 Instant will dramatically change the way businesses operate as sales and delivery representatives can now capture signatures and sales orders via their handheld device (e.g. O2 xda II) without the need for paper. The information is transferred back over the O2 network directly to the businesses back
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ESPION APPOINTS SALES & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Leading Security Specialist, Espion, has announced the appointment of Alison Murphy to the position of senior sales and business development manager. Murphy has responsibility for targeting and developing new business as well as promoting the full range of Espion IT Security Services, products and training. Previously, Murphy worked for Energis Ireland (formerly Nevada tele.com) as Corporate Accounts Sales Manager. Prior to that, she worked for Eircom UK as channel development manager, and as sales manager for ACC Telecom (a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T). www.espion.ie
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SALES DIRECTOR APPOINTED AT HORIZON OPEN SYSTEMS
Horizon Open Systems today announced the appointment of Ciaran Doherty as Sales Director. Ciaran joined Horizon Open Systems in 2000 having returned from the UK where he spent 9 years working in a number of senior sales positions with Siemens and Misys. Horizon Open Systems, which is an IT services company, is the country partner in Ireland for Sun Microsystems. www.hos.horizon.ie
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NTL IRELAND €100 MILLION INVESTMENT IN BROADBAND
ntl Ireland has announced a major investment in upgrading its cable network that will enable it to deliver broadband services to over 100,000 homes by the end of this year and to the rest of its network by the end of 2006. Overall, ntl will invest €100 million in upgrading its cable network. ntl is announcing a number of improvements to its existing broadband products. Customers who sign up from August will be able to choose between:
• A 300kbps broadband service for just €25 per month.
• A 750kbps broadband service for just €35 per month.
• A 1.5Mb broadband service for just €50 per month.
• Subscribers will also get free installation and free first three months subscription.
The 300kbps entry level service is the lowest cost broadband service available in Ireland. ntl’s higher speed broadband products are the fastest broadband consumer option available at extremely competitive prices. This investment confirms ntl as a long-term investor in communications infrastructure in Ireland and a key local loop competitor to eircom. Graham Sutherland, Managing Director of ntl Ireland said, “This is a very significant day for ntl, its customers, associates and shareholders. Today marks a major drive to deliver widespread availability of broadband to homes within our network reach and will provide real platform competition within these areas.” www.ntl.com/mediacentre/press/display.asp?id=719
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WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS AT KYLEMORE
The Kylemore Group has launched a new concept developed to cater for modern eating trends. Kylemore plans to invest over €10 million in redeveloping and re-branding its Café Kylemore restaurant locations around Ireland. Rebranded as Kylemore, the first floor restaurant in Stephens Green Shopping Centre offers a number of new food concepts including coffee cuisine, pure juice bars, WiFi service and more. A mezzanine area has been created, designed as an oasis for busy executives on the run who need to avail of complimentary wireless internet access, recharge their mobile phones or host a business meeting in comfortable discrete surroundings. Two widescreen TV screens adorn the walls broadcasting Sky News, use of laptops and mobile phones are positively embraced and a cash dispenser/ATM has also been installed for total convenience. Bitbuzz, Ireland’s largest independent WiFi operator, provides the wireless Internet (WiFi) Service in Kylemore. Bitbuzz provides WiFi access in hotels, café bars, restaurants, airports, shopping centres and service stations nationwide. www.kylemore.ie/
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NATIONAL REGISTER FOR NEXT GENERATION OF 3G PHONES
Dermot Ahern T.D., Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources has announced new measures aimed at protecting children when the next generation of mobile phones come on stream later this year. Working with the mobile phone sector, he is to introduce a national register of the next generation 3G phones. These new phones are capable of carrying video clips and will be the most technologically advanced available. The Minister said: “To protect Irish children I think we need to go beyond the present degree of protection – we need a national register of 3G phones. Handsets will not be available until the end of the year and we have an opportunity now to provide increased safety mechanisms. In proposing a national register of 3G handsets I want to be clear that I intend working closely with industry on the detail of the register.” www.dcmnr.gov.ie/modules/pressreleases.asp
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EMAIL PRODUCT BRINGS RELIEF TO USERS
A way to automatically read, sort and prioritise emails, bringing relief to users drowning in a daily deluge of emails, is the brainchild of XtraMind Technologies, a young start-up, involved in the IST programme. XtraMind Technologies GmbH was established in 2000 as a spin-out company of the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbrücken (DFKI). The company employs 55 people and provides communication management software based on 15 years of research in artificial intelligence. The software enables customers to automatically process electronic messages such as emails, facsimiles, letters and SMS by analysing, prioritising and sorting them. In certain cases, introduction of the software can result in efficiency improvements of up to 300 per cent. www.xtramind.com
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NEW WIRELESS NETWORK PROTOCOL FOR MULTI-HOP NETWORKS
A new kind of wireless network protocol that is based on IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) allows users to link to network no matter which platform. “What we`ve designed is a system that is platform independent,” says Tommi Saarinen of Oulu University, Finland, and 6HOP coordinator. “It can be used with the ordinary 802.11x wireless LAN cards you can buy in shops. The difference is that the 6HOP system was designed around IPv6 from the start, and also supports IPv4 legacy networks.” Today`s wireless LANs commonly uses the IPv4 network protocol. But IPv4 cannot accommodate the ever-expanding computer population much longer, and work-arounds have to be used. Its successor, IPv6, has been designed to handle the forecast computer populations, and has additional measures for improved security. www.cwc.oulu.fi/projects/6hop/
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NEW WEB PAGE FOR EU INFORMATION SOCIETY STATISTICS
A new ‘activity page’ has just been launched on the Information Society Portal profiling the statistics generated on the Information Society by Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office. The page serves as a ‘one stop shop’ to all Eurostat reports relevant to the Information Society. http://europa.eu.int/information_society/activities/statistics/index_en.htm
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BETTER WORKING ENVIRONMENTS THROUGH ICT
The European Commission has launched on 7 June Eight “living laboratories”, set up to assess how information and communication technologies can be used to redesign the way we work. This initiative, under the name of Ambient intelligence at work (AMI@work), is backed by businesses and ICT suppliers. It should encourage more innovation in the work place, according to the 300 delegates participating at its launch event in Brussels. The initiative is shaped around a family of brainstorming research communities. They are open to anyone, and are supported by the Community funding for information society technologies under the EU research budget. http://europa.eu.int/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemlongdetail.cfm?item_id=1149