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Dublin-based Daft.ie has set up a WAP partnership with Meteor allowing moble customers to rent or buy property anywhere in Ireland, using their mobile phones. Daft Media is providing Meteor with a custom WAP version of the Daft Web site. Meteor mobile users can search for apartments or houses to rent or buy based on price, location and number of bedrooms. When a user sees a property they like they can ring or send a text message to the property owner to organise a viewing.
Computer giant Hewlett-Packard plans to cut 5,900 jobs in Europe, part of 15,000 job cuts worldwide that have already been announced, according to Reuters. A spokeswoman for the computer and printer marker in Germany declined to say which countries would be most affected and whether the jobs would go at the old H-P or Compaq, with which H-P recently merged. The company is likely to give more information on the subject next week, she added.
UK mobile phone giant Vodafone has dismissed market concerns that it wrongly stated its accounts. Bobby Leach, head of Vodafone financial media relations, said, "We are not aware of any accounting irregularity, these are rumours." Shares in Vodafone fell more than 5 percent to a four-year low on Wednesday amid dealer concerns about accounting in the telecom sector. However, analysts have come out in favour of Vodafone, saying that hedge fund speculation was responsible for driving its share price lower.
Research In Motion, the maker of BlackBerry devices, has reported a fiscal first-quarter loss amid tough competition in the handheld market. RIM posted a net loss of USD10.8 million, or USD0.14 a share, for the quarter ended 1 June. A year earlier it reported a profit of USD3.8 million, or USD0.05 a share. Revenue fell 7 percent to USD71.6 million, down from USD77 million. The results were better than expected, however: in April RIM forecast a per-share loss of USD0.18 to USD0.22 on revenue of USD70 million, blaming delays in BlackBerry launches by European carriers.
The Irish Honeynet has released results showing that the Irish Internet space has been targeted by attacks from around the world. The Irish Honeynet, set up by Deloitte & Touche, Espion and Data Electronics, mimics the Internet's infrastructure and designed to monitor attacks. A total of 334 attacks were recorded in the first month of operation. The majority of attacks came from countries including the USA, Korea, China, Germany and Italy. Many of the attacks on the Honeynet attempted to exploit vulnerabilities that have been publicised for months or even longer.
Blind or partially sighted students at Colaiste Ide College of Further Education Finglas can undertake courses leading to MOUS (Microsoft Office User Specialist) accreditation. The courses were developed in association with Colaiste Ide, the National Council for the Blind Ireland, the Visually Impaired Computer Society and the Irish Wheelchair Association Ireland. Mary McNally, course tutor at Colaiste Ide CDVEC, developed a course for blind students based on the integration of the screen reader JAWS (Job Access with Speech) with shortcuts keys from Microsoft Word. McNally also created a course for partially sighted students by combining a version of Zoomtext with Microsoft Word.
Dublin-based Simpson Financial & Technology PR has announced that it is now offering Eastern European PR services to Irish tech companies. Simpson FT PR has been appointed the Irish partner of Eurocom PR Network, a pan-European PR network specialising in the high-tech market, with 20 partner firms in Europe and the Middle East. Four new partners in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Romania and the Slovak Republic have also joined Eurocom.
Altamedius, a provider of next-generation payment intermediation technology, has joined forces with BEA Systems as a member of the BEA Star Partner Program. Under the agreement, Altamedius will offer BEA's WebLogic Server as a critical infrastructural component of iCon, Altamedius' flagship platform for secure payment intermediation.
SAS, a specialist in business intelligence and data warehousing, is leading the Information Access Tools (IAT) market with a 9.9 percent market share, according to a study by research company IDC. The study estimates that the worldwide IAT market totalled USD4.54 billion in 2001. The IAT category consists of business intelligence, statistical and data analysis and other tools. SAS leads the analytic tools market with the top market share in data mining (38.3 percent) and statistical and technical data analysis (25.5 percent).
The recently revamped Riverdance Web site has registered nearly 100,000 e-mail addresses since November 2001. The on-line presence of the popular Irish dance show, which has existed since 1996, was redesigned by Irish-based e-business development firm Webfactory.
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