A round-up of other tech stories in brief.
Thomas Crosbie gets Cork award
Thomas Crosbie Holdings and Cubic Telecom were among the winners at last night's it@cork leaders awards, aimed at recognising leaders in technology innovation.
About 180 people attended the event at the Vertigo Lounge in County Hall, which also marked 10 years of it@cork, a network designed to promote Cork as a centre of excellence for information technology ventures.
There were more than 60 entries across four categories, with Cubic Telecom topping the emerging category; Thomas Crosbie winning the IT department award; TreeMetrics/Cork Constraint Computation Centre heading the research and development category; and Abtran being named as winner of the high potential section.
New personal .ie domains
The IE Domain Registry launched personal .ie domains this week which means that anyone in Ireland can now register their name as an Irish internet address e.g. www.johnsmith.ie. The IEDR said personal .ie domain names have been introduced due to the increasing popularity of social networking sites such as Bebo and Facebook, the rise of personal blogging sites and the increase in broadband take-up.
A list of accredited .ie resellers is available at www.iedr.ie/resellers.
Iona, Microsoft to attend event
Up to 500 software developers are expected to attend the inaugural Irish Java Technology Conference which will run at the Cineworld complex in Dublin for three days next week. The event, which is being organised by IrishDev.com and Dublin Java User Group, is being jointly sponsored by Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. Recruitment firm CPL and internet company AOL are also providing support.
More than 18 guest speakers from Iona Technologies, Sun, Apache, Red Hat, Interface21 and Microsoft, will speak at the event which starts on November 7th.
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SoftCo releases new platform
SoftCo, the Irish provider of business process automation software, has released its new platform, SoftCo R8. The firm has signed up a range of partners to sell the R8 globally including international players such as Avnet and SAP and local resellers in Brazil and South Africa.
"R8 represents the next generation of open, independent, rapid deployment solutions which ensure that customers can take control over their own business processes and direction. No more crazy implementation costs or vendor lock-in for life", said Susan Spence, group director at SoftCo.
Telco seminar in Limerick
Shannon Development is holding a telecommunications seminar on Wednesday, November 7th, at the South Court Hotel Limerick. The half-day seminar in association with Shannon Broadband aims to stimulate debate on future broadband developments and how these will impact on regional economies.
AIB, Mimesis win BT awards
Belfast Health & Social Care Trust has won Project of the Year at the BT Inspired IT Awards. The system allows 22,000 staff to roam seamlessly from site to site and gain secure access to their voice and data services.
AIB was named IT Team of the Year for "innovative development" on both their personal and business banking solutions.
Mimesis scooped SME IT Project of the Year for its e-xamit project, a simple, one-stop site linked directly to a selection of Junior and Leaving Certificate EDCO exam papers.
