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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:26:51 +0000 30 http://www.businessandleadership.com/img/b-and-l-footer-logo.gif http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/section/3/technology 276 37 Dublin software company Openet is to invest €3.65m in a major R&D development programme which will result in the creation of 35 new high-value jobs over the next year. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20842/technology/openets-randd-investment-creates-35-new-jobs http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20842/technology/openets-randd-investment-creates-35-new-jobs Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:07:00 +0000 Technology Following the public release of exploit code that attacks Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Microsoft has advised that all users upgrade to the latest version of the web browser, which remains unaffected by the exploit that can result in remote takeover of the user's computer. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20840/technology/microsoft-urges-users-to-upgrade-to-ie-8 http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20840/technology/microsoft-urges-users-to-upgrade-to-ie-8 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:25:00 +0000 Technology Social-networking site Facebook is to open its second office outside the US. In addition to the Dublin, Ireland, office, there will soon be a new operations centre in the city of Hyderabad in southern India. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20839/technology/facebook-to-open-office-in-india http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20839/technology/facebook-to-open-office-in-india Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:22:00 +0000 Technology Problems with its Nexus One handset may mean that Google will be unable to deliver the product to mass European markets, like the UK, until the middle of next month. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20834/technology/nexus-ones-arrival-in-europe-delayed http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20834/technology/nexus-ones-arrival-in-europe-delayed Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:51:00 +0000 Technology The first four on-street charging points for electric cars will be up and running in Dublin next week. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20827/technology/first-four-electric-car-charging-points-to-go-live http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20827/technology/first-four-electric-car-charging-points-to-go-live Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:27:00 +0000 Technology Regulators in the US are set to roll out an ambitious broadband policy plan that will see the average American experience increases in speeds up to 25-times. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20826/technology/major-us-broadband-policy-plan-to-be-revealed http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20826/technology/major-us-broadband-policy-plan-to-be-revealed Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:22:00 +0000 Technology Mobile phone giant Nokia has revised its forecasts for 2010 and said it expects industry mobile device volumes to be up 10pc in 2010 compared with the previous year. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20825/technology/nokia-predicts-10pc-rise-in-2010-mobile-volumes http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20825/technology/nokia-predicts-10pc-rise-in-2010-mobile-volumes Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:07:00 +0000 Technology As it emerges Apple has begun taking early orders for its eponymous iPad, estimates are figuring orders at the rate of 20,000 per hour are being sustained. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20818/technology/apple-takes-early-ipad-orders http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20818/technology/apple-takes-early-ipad-orders Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:11:00 +0000 Technology Research and development (R&D) isn't an end in itself, unless the product or service meets a market need, then the time a start-up spends on this is wasted, says Dr Aidan O'Boyle, chairman of the Small Firms Association, joint managing director of Aalto Bio Reagents Ltd, and Bizstartup.ie mentor. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20822/owner-manager/randd-pitfalls-for-start-ups http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20822/owner-manager/randd-pitfalls-for-start-ups Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:08:00 +0000 Owner Manager A new scheme aimed at energy upgrading virtually every building in Ireland over the next decade has the potential to create thousands of jobs and save businesses and households across Ireland money, its creator has said. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20817/technology/businesses-can-save-under-energy-upgrade-scheme http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20817/technology/businesses-can-save-under-energy-upgrade-scheme Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:38:00 +0000 Technology California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is to be the keynote speaker at the Irish Technology Leaders Group (ITLG) Awards at Stanford University on Monday night, Siliconrepublic.com has learned. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20815/technology/schwarzenegger-to-award-innovative-irish-tech-firms http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20815/technology/schwarzenegger-to-award-innovative-irish-tech-firms Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:59:00 +0000 Technology This Sunday, Taoiseach Brian Cowen TD will formally open a new innovation centre in San Jose, California, at the heart of Silicon Valley, which is the brainchild of the Irish Technology Leaders' Group (ITLG) and described as a "concrete" outcome of the Global Irish Economic Forum at Farmleigh. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20814/technology/irish-start-ups-to-get-silicon-valley-innovation-centre http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20814/technology/irish-start-ups-to-get-silicon-valley-innovation-centre Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:50:00 +0000 Technology Dublin-based cloud computing and data centre services company Hosting 365 has been acquired by US software and IT services giant SunGard for an undisclosed sum. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20798/technology/hosting-365-acquired-by-it-services-giant-sungard http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20798/technology/hosting-365-acquired-by-it-services-giant-sungard Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:58:00 +0000 Technology Twenty-five-year-old Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is to receive the Media Person of the Year Award at the 57th Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20796/marketing/facebook-founder-to-receive-cannes-lions-award http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20796/marketing/facebook-founder-to-receive-cannes-lions-award Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:10:00 +0000 Marketing Independent licensed telecoms providers in Ireland have added their voice to the call to prioritise the introduction of postcodes, which will be vital to future GPS and location-based e-commerce services. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20792/technology/telcos-warn-postcodes-central-to-future-of-e-commerce http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20792/technology/telcos-warn-postcodes-central-to-future-of-e-commerce Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:20:00 +0000 Technology Technology industry and academic leaders have welcomed the recommendations of the Innovation Taskforce and are urging Taoiseach Brian Cowen TD to implement them as a matter of urgency for the economy. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20791/technology/taoiseach-urged-to-implement-innovation-taskforce-report http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20791/technology/taoiseach-urged-to-implement-innovation-taskforce-report Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:12:00 +0000 Technology The Taoiseach Brian Cowen TD has today unveiled an ambitious new report by the Government's Innovation Taskforce which says that some 117,000 jobs could be created in Ireland by 2020 if the country can turn itself into an innovation nation. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20779/leadership/ireland-can-create-117-000-jobs-by-2020-says-report http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20779/leadership/ireland-can-create-117-000-jobs-by-2020-says-report Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:26:00 +0000 Leadership With two million businesses now adopting Google Apps, the internet giant has opened a new Apps Marketplace chock-full of third-party cloud apps such as payroll and productivity software. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20776/technology/google-opens-new-apps-store-for-businesses http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20776/technology/google-opens-new-apps-store-for-businesses Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:45:00 +0000 Technology ICT solutions provider Datapac has just announced the creation of 10 new jobs in its Dublin and Wexford bases, shortly after recruiting 14 new employees in the past three months. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20769/technology/datapac-announces-10-new-jobs http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20769/technology/datapac-announces-10-new-jobs Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:57:00 +0000 Technology Ireland cannot have a smart economy unless it has courageous entrepreneurs who operate in a culture where risk is accepted and failure tolerated. Without risk, there can be no rewards. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20758/technology/entrepreneurship-will-fuel-fire-of-economic-regrowth http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20758/technology/entrepreneurship-will-fuel-fire-of-economic-regrowth Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:49:00 +0000 Technology As many as 8,000 jobs and potentially more could be created in Ireland by online casino companies if crucial legislation regulating online gaming is passed at the end of March. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20747/technology/ireland-could-reap-8-000-job-online-casino-windfall http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20747/technology/ireland-could-reap-8-000-job-online-casino-windfall Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:41:00 +0000 Technology Irish IT company Origina has picked up the "Best SMB Solutions Provider" gong at the 2010 European IT Excellence Awards for the virtualisation project that it deployed with Lakeland Dairies. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20744/technology/irish-tech-company-wins-european-it-award http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20744/technology/irish-tech-company-wins-european-it-award Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:14:00 +0000 Technology Ten new spin-out firms have emerged out of research commercialised at Trinity College in the areas of ICT, bioscience and physical science. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20746/technology/ten-new-spinouts-emerge-from-trinity-college http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20746/technology/ten-new-spinouts-emerge-from-trinity-college Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:02:00 +0000 Technology Along with a name change from Sustainable Energy Ireland to the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) the state body has revealed today an ambitious five year plan that promises €6bn in savings as well as the creation of between 5,000 and 10,000 jobs every year. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20742/leadership/new-green-plan-could-save-6bn-create-10-000-jobs http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20742/leadership/new-green-plan-could-save-6bn-create-10-000-jobs Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:18:00 +0000 Leadership UPC has unveiled a new range of broadband speeds for SMEs ranging from 10Mbps right up to 30Mbps in a move that will add impetus to the fibre-powered broadband market in Ireland. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20729/technology/upc-unveils-new-broadband-speeds-for-smes http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20729/technology/upc-unveils-new-broadband-speeds-for-smes Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:14:00 +0000 Technology Ireland's next-generation network (NGN) rollout has started subtly with the creation of a €2.5m NGN Test Centre at Waterford Institute of Technology, involving Enterprise Ireland, Eircom, Meteor and Ericsson. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20726/technology/rollout-of-irish-next-generation-network-begins http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20726/technology/rollout-of-irish-next-generation-network-begins Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:20:00 +0000 Technology Is this the beginning of the long-awaited stimulus plan from Government? Tanaiste and Enterprise Minister Mary Coughlan TD has announced the investment of €56m in 180 companies and nine transformational competence centres to bring about the promised smart economy. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20725/leadership/tanaiste-announces-56m-investment-in-180-companies http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20725/leadership/tanaiste-announces-56m-investment-in-180-companies Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:23:00 +0000 Leadership Dublin-headquartered chip firm S3 Group has signed a deal to deliver the integrated circuit (IC) technology to power global satellite mobile firm Iridium Corporation's next-generation services. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20720/technology/irish-chip-firm-inks-iridium-satellite-deal http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20720/technology/irish-chip-firm-inks-iridium-satellite-deal Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:28:00 +0000 Technology If Ireland revamps itself into a centre of innovation, the result can be some 120,000 new jobs, says a report from the Government's Innovation Taskforce to be published tomorrow. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20719/technology/innovation-can-spark-120-000-jobs-report-says http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20719/technology/innovation-can-spark-120-000-jobs-report-says Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:05:00 +0000 Technology A new study from comScore reveals that 30.8pc of smartphone users accessed social networking sites via mobile browser in January 2010, up 8.3 points from 22.5pc a year ago. http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20717/marketing/smartphones-driving-mobile-social-networking http://www.businessandleadership.com/news/article/20717/marketing/smartphones-driving-mobile-social-networking Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:59:00 +0000 Marketing