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250 jobs to go at Dell
Workers at Dell’s Cherrywood operation in Dublin this lunchtime received the unwelcome news that 250 permanent jobs are to be axed over the next nine months. The compulsory redundancies will primarily affect Dell’s Cherrywood operations. However, it is understood that approximately a quarter of the jobs to be cut will be at Dell’s Limerick [...]
Ad Fraud - Google Sued
Google has been hit with a class action suit in California over its AdSense system.
Private detective David Almeida accuses the search giant of confusing users of its ad system. The online registration process for AdWords (adverts placed on Google’s search engine) also registers advertisers for AdSense (adverts on third party sites), even if the relevant [...]
Five critical patches for Microsoft Users
Microsoftissued eight security fixes for its software in its regular Patch Tuesday update. Five of the eight patches, which fixed 10 security vulnerabilities, were rated as critical, Microsoft’s most severe rating. The affected software ranged from the Windows operating system to Microsoft Office. Meanwhile, the remaining three patches were rated as important, fixing flaws in [...]
Novara bought by Digiweb
Digiweb has purchased web hosting provider Novara and now claims to be the second largest hosting provider in Ireland as a result of the deal.
While the impact of the deal on the hosting market is unclear, the acquisition, which had long been rumoured on discussion forums, will definitely result in new jobs being created. The [...]
Firefox 3 beta 5 released
Mozilla released its fifth beta version of Firefox 3 for Windows and the Mac on Wednesday, bringing a handful of improvements in ease of use to the open-source Web browser.
Overall, Firefox 3 beta 5 includes 750 changes from the previous beta, focusing on enhanced stability, Web site compatibility, and platform and user-interface improvements.
In [...]
Nokia opens Irish Online Music Store
Nokia is challenging Apple in the digital music market with a new online music store aimed at Irish customers. Tracks from the Nokia Music Store http://www.music.nokia.ie are compatible with any device that plays Windows Media Audio files (wma), which are embedded with Microsoft’s digital rights management technology. However, iPods and iPhones do not support the [...]
