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O2's Wi-Fi plans: Ireland today, UK tomorrow?
News Simon Gordon, spokesman for O2, told ZDNet UK News that Ireland was a test bed for O2's commercial Wi-Fi plans. Mobile phone operator O2 is set to launch up to 20 Wi-Fi hot spots in Ireland next year, as a possible prelude to a rollout of...
[November 27, 2002, 15:22]
Avaya gets new boss for UK and Ireland
Blog The telecommunications company, Avaya, on Wednesday said it had appointed a new managing director for the UK and Ireland, Lee Shorten. The company said in a statement that Buddie Ceronie, current vice president, UK, Ireland and Southern Africa, is...
[April 15, 2009, 16:11]
Northern Ireland tipped to be top UK tech hub
News Northern Ireland is making a name for itself as an emerging UK technology hub. According to the latest figures from UK skills agency e-Skills, Northern Ireland has around 15,000 employees working in the techology sector.
[June 3, 2008, 8:27]
Union criticises Gateway closures
News Unions have offered to assist workers who are facing redundancy following Gateway's withdrawal from the UK and Ireland, amid concerns that laid-off employees could receive a meagre payoff. US computer manufacturer Gateway announced late on...
[August 9, 2001, 13:15]
After Hotmail "glitch" UK Excite accounts cracked
News Excite.co.uk and Ireland.com have fallen victim to an email hack it emerged Thursday, with tens of accounts accessed in the last 24 hours. Following the Hotmail debacle at the start of the week, one non-techie hack has gained access to the accounts...
[September 2, 1999, 16:15]
More UK and Irish firms showing significant growth
News The number of businesses from UK and Ireland that have made their way into a list of the top 500 fastest-growing technology companies in EMEA has increased by 50 percent since last year, according to a study.
[November 26, 2004, 15:55]
Computacenter Case Study: Bank of Ireland
White Papers Bank of Ireland UK provides a broad range of financial services that range from investment fund management and life assurance to financial advice and mortgages. When Bank of Ireland UK decided to roll out a new core lending application, it needed...
[August 10, 2006, 0:00]
Excite moves to halt password hack
News The hacker who broke into email accounts on Excite.co.uk and Ireland.com this week, thinks people would be "shocked" if they realised how poor security is on Web-based email services. Stephen Finnegan, managing editor of Irish Internet magazine Web...
[September 3, 1999, 12:19]
SAP rejects user concerns over price rises
News Last week, the SAP UK & Ireland User Group put out a statement saying it was concerned about the changes SAP had introduced in its support arrangements, particularly as they concerned SMEs. According to the SAP UK & Ireland User Group, the changes...
[July 29, 2008, 15:23]
News Burst: Excite moves to halt email breach
News Excite's decision to removed the service follows a simple hack Wednesday that potentially exposed tends of thousands of email accounts in both Excite.co.uk and Ireland.com. Excite has the largest free Web based email service in the UK and Ireland...
[September 3, 1999, 10:46]
More UK and Irish firms showing significant growth
Talkback UK and Irish - does this mean GB and Northern Ireland? A question about Ireland If it is UK and Eire then the statistics do not tell us much - it might as well be UK and France, UK and Germany or whatever.
[November 28, 2004, 0:54]
Urban Northern Ireland to get 10Mbps minimum
News The speeds will be far higher than the minimum 2Mbps that the rest of the UK, including rural Northern Ireland, is set to receive as a result of the government's Digital Britain plan. A spokesperson for DETI told ZDNet UK that the rollout would...
[December 4, 2009, 11:20]
Northern Ireland first to get 21CN completion
News Northern Ireland will be the first region in the UK where BT's next-generation broadband network will be completed, giving companies and residents access to a range of next-generation telecoms services.
[February 22, 2007, 11:42]
mmO2 to offer i-mode in Europe
News The operator will make i-mode available to its 22 million customers in the UK, Germany and Ireland using 2/2.5G and 3G handsets. Peter Erskine, mmO2's CEO, said the operator had taken into account the rise in ARPU that other licensees in Europe had...
[December 1, 2004, 13:30]
Yahoo and BT in Click! pact
News UK & Ireland site from the end on 30 November, is a combined Internet access and Web guide service, with no monthly subscription fee, no registration and no contract. UK & Ireland scores some 44 million page hits a month.
[November 5, 1998, 16:35]
A Year Ago: Trimble swipe at Amazon backfires
News Amazon.co.uk has withdrawn the controversial US-published book The Committee by Sean McPhilemy, from sale on its UK Web site following the initiation of legal action by Northern Ireland's first Minister David Trimble who alleges the book contains...
[June 16, 2000, 8:33]
Trimble swipe at Amazon backfires
News Amazon.co.uk has withdrawn the controversial US-published book 'The Committee' by Sean McPhilemy, from sale on its UK Web site following the initiation of legal action by Northern Ireland's first Minister David Trimble who alleges the book...
[June 16, 1999, 15:27]
BT launches 3G combo package
News It will allow business users to access the Internet, use email and download files over 3G or GRPS across the country, or over Wi-Fi at over 7,400 BT Openzone hotspots in the UK and Ireland. My main reservation is that with no 3G roaming coverage...
[October 3, 2005, 16:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Expect more of this, in Ireland and the UK. But for Ireland, it's a real horror show. For the watchers of signs and the scryers of portents in the UK, that's bad news -- even if Gateway has been doing much worse than its immediate competitors.
[August 10, 2001, 18:27]
SAP users win deal over support price hikes
News Chairman of the SAP UK and Ireland user group, Alan Bowling, told ZDNet UK's sister site, silicon.com: "Quite fundamentally, if [SAP] don't achieve the KPIs then they will be delaying price increases until such time as those KPIs are met.
[May 1, 2009, 8:25]
