Categorised as: Strategy & News
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At least it’s not Brussels… News
31.07.2003 Jointly organised by the Italian Presidency and the European Commission, this year’s European E-government Conference was held in the picturesque village of Cernobbio on Lake...Categories: GovernmentTags: E-government -
Is business technology just a commodity? News
31.07.2003 Most of us know at least one person who gets great pleasure from winding up friends and colleagues by making a statement or professing an opinion primed with shock value and...Categories: CIOTags: IT -
Version 1 wins race for Sports Council IT project News
31.07.2003 Dublin tech firm Version 1 has beaten off competition from 50 other companies to deploy an e-government initiative with the Irish Sports Council.Categories: Business, GovernmentTags: E-government -
Tech recovery, what tech recovery? News
31.07.2003 Sometimes the press gets accused of being too negative about prospects for the technology sector. However, if the press were to be supportive it would be quickly dismissed as...Categories: CIOTags: IT sector, -
Ahern publishes draft data protection regulations News
30.07.2003 Communications Minister Dermot Ahern TD has initiated a public consultation on draft regulations to enhance the privacy protection afforded to internet and email users, as...Categories: CIO, Government -
New website details Irish migration to UK News
30.07.2003 The migration to Britain by Irish people over the past 200 years will form part of a major National Archives interactive website looking at migration to Britain using more than...Categories: CIOTags: website -
Domain owners to beware bogus renewal notices News
29.07.2003 Irish domain name registration firm Register.ie has warned members of the public that own website domain names to treat with caution letters or emails from third parties about...Categories: CIOTags: domain names -
Esat BT signs up 3,500 early birds News
28.07.2003 Esat BT has said that some 3,500 people have subscribed to its IOL Anytime flat rate internet access service launched a month ago. -
Labour slams EU comms laws News
28.07.2003 New EU electronic and communications networks and services regulations “will do little to end the great mobile phone rip-off in Ireland”, the Labour Party spokesperson on...Categories: Comms, GovernmentTags: EU, Legislation -
Courting computerisation News
28.07.2003 A new computerised system for managing funds awarded to wards of court has totally transformed with the way the Courts Service operates. The new system not only standardises the...Categories: GovernmentTags: E-government, IT, -
EU comms directives passed into law News
24.07.2003 Four EU directives that will shape the Irish electronic communications network and services sector were signed into law this afternoon by the Minister for Communications, Marine...Categories: Comms, Government -
Ex-Iona men take the plunge News
24.07.2003 For someone who has just founded a technology company in the midst of the worst downturn the sector has known, Malcolm Sparks ( pictured ) seems remarkably laid back. But then...Categories: CIOTags: Software, Iona technologies -
Government board eyes single view of citizens News
22.07.2003 UK infrastructure specialist VisionWare has won the tender for a pilot project to help the Local Government Computer Services Board (LGCSB) develop a data interoperability...Categories: GovernmentTags: LGCSB -
Software developer game for VPN option News
21.07.2003 What do you do if your business has offices in Ireland and the US and you want to network them without shelling out on a dedicated leased line? This was the dilemma facing...Tags: VPN -
Vivendi to shut down MP3.com Europe News
21.07.2003 Struggling media titan Vivendi’s Universal Net division is understood to have taken the decision to close down MP3.com Europe.Categories: CIOTags: Music -
Ahern defers decision on schools broadband funding News
17.07.2003 The Minister for Communications, Dermot Ahern, TD, yesterday launched a major initiative to bring broadband to all primary and secondary schools. In a surprise move, however, he...Categories: Comms, Government -
Selling the power of convenience News
17.07.2003 Where supermarkets are concerned, the internet is often seen as a threat as much as an opportunity, but Geraldine Penney ( pictured ) strongly disagrees.Categories: CIOTags: Online, E-commerce -
Baltimore wins mail order with online post office News
16.07.2003 Irish e-security specialist Baltimore Technologies has signed a deal with Ceska Posta, the Czech postal service, to secure the new trust services that will be deployed...Categories: CIO -
Telecoms outages eat into Irish business News
15.07.2003 More than 73pc of Irish companies suffered IT outages due to the country’s unreliable telecoms infrastructure, a new survey by Ernst & Young has revealed. -
Yahoo! acquires Overture News
15.07.2003 Dublin looks set to be at the eye of the next dotcom storm, playing host to two of the world’s biggest players – Yahoo! and Google – following Yahoo!’s acquisition yesterday of...Categories: CIOTags: Online Advertising, Yahoo!