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E-Com Interaction looks to hire 120 new workers by the end of next year | Parthus is one of Europe's 50 hottest tech firms, according to Time magazine
Business & Finance magazine reports that E-Com Interaction, a Clonakilty-based call centre operator, is planning to double its number of agents to 60 by the end of the year. The company has expansion plans that will eventually drive staff numbers up to 150 by the end of 2003, according to chief executive Karl Llewellyn. The company plans to raise up to EUR1 million through a combination of a business expansion scheme and venture capital funding to finance its growth plans.
Wilde Technologies, a spin-out from the Distributed Systems Group at TCD, has launched Wilde 1.0, an application assembly platform aimed at software professionals who want to deliver flexible XML,.NET or COM-based applications at a reduced cost. Wilde 1.0, the company's first product, is the culmination of two years' development work to commercialise the research of chief architect and cofounder Stephen Barrett, a former lecturer on component-based design at Trinity College Dublin.
Parthus Technologies, an Irish semiconductor designer, has been featured in the TIME magazine's list of "Europe's 50 Hottest Tech Firms" for the second year running. TIME concurred with technology consultancy Gartner Dataquest's view that Parthus' proposed merger with DSP Group "should catapult the company from No. 8 to No. 4 worldwide" in the semiconductor intellectual property sector.
StorageTek Ireland, a digitised data storage specialist, announced that it has appointed Xnet as its channel-to-market partner for Multi-Vendor Support Services in Ireland. The solution is based on a single source service proposal to support and manage part or all of a company's IT infrastructure. Managing Director Sean Jackman said that multi-vendor support services were developed in response to customer requests.
Check Point Software Technologies has announced the winners of its fifth annual Check Point Excellence Awards at the Check Point Experience conference in Dublin. The awards recognise customers and channel partners who have successfully and innovatively implemented Internet security solutions. This year's winners include Vodafone, Domino Printing Sciences, Metro MGI, Comverse and Regus.
UK authors and publishers have won a landmark copyright court case against the operator of a Web site that was allegedly distributing illegal copies of works by authors such as J K Rowling and Arthur C Clarke. The civil case appeared before a copyright tribunal in the Eastern European country of Moldova. Andrei Ciorici had made several authors' works available free of charge on his SYMPAD Web site without obtaining copyright permission. The tribunal issued a permanent injunction preventing Ciorici from infringement of the authors' copyright and awarding damages totalling 3,600 lei (200 times the minimum wage in Moldova) to each author.
Antelope Technologies is to manufacture hand-size PCs based on a computer design from IBM. The Denver-based start-up is to build computers that are roughly the same size and shape as Palm and Compaq's handheld devices. The design of the Mobile Computer Core is derived from the Meta Pad, a hand-size computer prototype demonstrated earlier this year by IBM. Antelope is licensing the Meta Pad design from IBM but will configure and adapt it for business markets and specific applications, according to an Antelope representative.
The US Army is giving away video games in an effort to drive recruitment numbers. The army unveiled two simulated combat games: Soldiers, a role-playing adventure, and an action game called Operations. Lieutenant Colonel Casey Wardynski, who came up with the promotional concept, said the project seeks both to inform prospective recruits about the various jobs in the army and to serve as a kind of screen test for potential candidates.
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