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SUN MICROSYSTEMS TOPS IN DEVELOPER.COM AWARDS
Sun Microsystems, the creator of Java technology, has announced that several key Sun development products and technologies have garnered awards in Developer.com’s annual Product of the Year Awards. Products and technologies taking top honours from among hundreds of nominations were Sun Java Studio, the NetBeans platform, the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) http://java.sun.com/j2ee/; Sun’s Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) Wireless Toolkit 2.1 http://java.sun.com/products/j2mewtoolkit/index.html and Java Card technology http://java.sun.com/products/javacard/.
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ROBOT TANKS BATTLE IN THURLES
The National RoboCode Final was held in Tipperary Institute’s Thurles campus on March 11th. During the past three months, college and university students have made perfect “battle bots” with on-board intelligence to manoeuvre and fire on screen. WIT programmers went on to win the battle with Deep7, a bot programmed by Bill Malone, Leigh Griffin and Patrick Ffrench. Their Java-powered electronic robot beat entrants from nine other colleges and universities during a day-long event. The winners walked away with a laptop, mobile phones, dogtags and a large trophy for their dominant performance.RoboCode is a game where teams use Java to program one or more robot tanks to battle in an arena against each other. The little graphical tanks need to be programmed to avoid being hit. They need to be smart enough to move around an arena without any kind of manual control. All of their intelligence is part of a single Java file. Details of upocoming competitions are at www.robocode.ie or pbourke@tippinst.ie or web: www.tippinst.ie.
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SMS BROADCAST FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES & LGCSB SERVICES
Vodafone has signed an exclusive agreement with the Local Government Computer Services Board (LGCSB), which will allow LGCSB and local authorities to communicate more freely with the public by enabling their agents to send and receive SMS messages from their desktops. This service was developed for LGCSB by Mobile Business Application specialists Saadian Technologies (www.saadian.com) using their Secure Business2Mobile. Saadian Technologies, a corporate solutions provider to Vodafone, will route all traffic through the Vodafone network. The agreement between Vodafone and the LGCSB will allow Local Authorities throughout the country to improve both internal and external communications through the use of desktop SMS messaging solutions. The solution will also allow recipients to respond to these SMS messages and have these responses routed to the originator. www.vodafone.ie/aboutus/company/press/2004/release040204.jsp
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LARGE CONTRACT FOR 3COM AND DIGITAL WIRING
3Com and Digital Wiring have signed a stg£125,000 (EUR186,095 euros) contract with Belfast City Council for a major Local Area Networking (LAN) upgrade. The implementation, designed by Digital Wiring using 3Com® equipment, is the largest local authority network in Northern Ireland and will benefit 1,000 users across 30 sites. Belfast City Council is the primary local authority in Northern Ireland. The reasons behind choosing 3Com’s networking products were primarily for resilience and scalability. www.3com.com
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VISUAL STUDIO.NET FREE WITH NETCETERA HOSTING PACKAGES
Netcetera are pleased to announce that in partnership with Microsoft they are offering free ASP.NET development tools with selected hosting packages. Visual Basic .NET 2003 provides the easiest, most productive language and tool for rapidly building applications for Microsoft Windows® and the Web. Ideal for existing Visual Basic developers as well as new developers in the Microsoft. For more information, just contact sales@inetc.net.
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SIEMENS BUSINESS SERVICES HOUSES OF THE OIREACHTAS
Following a competitive tendering process, Siemens Business Services has signed a multi-year contract to supply IT Support Services to the Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas. Since January 2004, Siemens has provided IT support to all Members and their staff and to parliamentary party staff on the Houses’ payroll.The Houses of the Oireachtas will benefit from a fully managed IT Service including hardware maintenance, deskside software application support for end users, day to day server operation and Wide Area Data Network management. Further information available at www.sbs.ie/Oireachtas.htm
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AM-BEO NEW PRODUCT PORTFOLIO RELEASE
AM-BEO, a provider in rating, charging and revenue settlement software solutions, has announced the availability of nCharge(tm), the first of three planned product announcements to be made in the first-half of 2004. nCharge is an advanced solution for the identification, control, rating and charging of network services for both content providers and network operators. nCharge is designed to address the complexities of charging for next generation communication services and provides complex rating, real-time credit control and multiple balance management to enable the generation of additional revenue from new and innovative network services requiring reduced time to market and improved financial margin management. www.Am-Beo.com
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EVENTZNET POWERS EU PRESIDENCY CONFERENCE
The Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment is using innovative software from Dublin-based startup Eventznet to manage the attendance at a conference it is hosting during Ireland’s presidency of the EU
Called “Consumer Confidence in the Online Marketplace”, the conference will take place in mid March. Although the conference is not open to the public, it is expected that approximately 150 people will attend from the 25 EU member states. Many of those attending will not have English as their first language. The Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment needed to find a way to invite their colleagues to the event via e-mail, and to allow them to register on-line in their preferred language. The Department also needed a way to manage the registrations as they came in and to keep a track of the bookings details from a single, central place.
Eventznet’s software provides the solution. Eventznet allows users to set up a Web page with details of their event, customise invitations to prospective guests, automatically mail the invitations to an existing database of prospects, and retain and sort the information in a single environment. This can all be done by people with basic PC literacy. No specialist IT knowledge is necessary.
Using Eventznet’s easy-to-use software, the Department first created a simple interactive web site for the event in the English language. The text was then translated by translators into both French and German, and then quickly and easily placed into the Eventznet system to alternative-language versions of the site. Attendees can choose which language they wish to use for registration and to receive confirmations and other critical communications.
The Department can now receive all bookings in one central place and keep a track of how the registration is progressing. The system also lets them see at a glance how many interpreters for the various languages will be required, how many will attend the social events around the conference, and if there are any guests with special needs (such as dietary requirements). www.eventznet.ie
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SUCCESSFUL IT PROJECTS WANTED FOR MEDIA PROFILE
Your successes in putting IT to work for your company deserve recognition. Now they can get the profile they deserve, thanks to a new initiative from the Irish technology publisher ENN.
ENN, producer of Ireland`s only IT and telecoms newswire at www.electricnews.net, publishes a range of e-mail newsletters under the ENN brand and for government and corporate clients. At ENN we are looking for Irish organisations who have successfully implemented an e-business or e-commerce strategy or project. Success stories will be considered for profile in our publications, and will be developed sensitively in line with the company`s own priorities (i.e. confidential or competitive information will not be disclosed).
There is no fee for this service, which provides an excellent opportunity for Irish organisations to receive well-deserved recognition for their use of technology. Application is also open to non-commercial government and charitable organisations. Companies interested in this opportunity should supply the information below and submit it to Sheila M. Averbuch, Editor, at sheila@electricnews.net or by post to ENN, 7 Lower Fitzwilliam St, Dublin 2. . More information is available from tel. 01 676 9995.
1. Company name
2. Irish city where based
3. Approx employee numbers
4. Sector (manufacturing/ internationally traded services preferred)
5. Brief description of your business
6. Is your e-business strategy at an early/medium/advanced stage?
7. Brief description of recent e-business/e-commerce implementation (i.e. website launch/relaunch; use of email; development of Web-based tools for staff or clients; development of IT strategy)
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NEW €25 MILLION GROUP BROADBAND SCHEME
A new €25 million Group Broadband Scheme to deliver high-speed broadband into smaller communities over three years has been announced. The Scheme will be open to all smaller and rural communities of less then 1,500 people. It is modelled on the Group Water Scheme and will empower local communities to draw up and implement their own broadband plans in partnership with broadband service providers. The Government is to provide 55% capital funding – the maximum allowable under EU rules. The first call for proposals was made on 8th March. Additional calls will be made every six months. www.marine.gov.ie/display.asp/pg=1484