It has just emerged that telecoms and networking equipment giant Nortel filed for bankruptcy yesterday. The Canadian technology company employs over 300 people in Galway and has had an operation there since 1973.
It is understood the company never fully recovered from the major economic downturn of 2001 and 2002, made worse by the dot.com downturn. [...]

Microsoft announced that Windows 7 is going into public beta yesterday evening. The first beta version of the successor to Windows Vista is immediately available as a downloadable disk image to MSDN, TechBeta, and TechNet subscribers, while the general public will get to test-drive the new operating system starting Friday.
Windows 7 is expected to hit [...]

Dell will cut almost 2,000 jobs in Limerick in a cost-cutting measure.
The company plans to move all manufacturing from the Raheen facility to Poland over the next 12 months following a global review of its operations.
The measures at the 18-year-old Dell plant, which became a symbol of the Celtic Tiger boom years, dealt another blow [...]

Dell, is to axe at least 400 temporary workers this weekend. The computer giant last night confirmed  that “several hundred temporary employees” are to be let go from their Limerick base.
Fears are now growing for the 3,000 full-time Dell employees at the Raheen manufacturing facility in Limerick and the 1,400 workers in the Dublin facility.
However, [...]

Following the end of digital terrestrial television (DTT) trials by the Irish Government today, Minister for Communications, Eamon Ryan said national rollout will begin in a little over a year – August 2009.
What this means is that the traditional analogue television will be slowly phased out over the course of the next four years as [...]

The Government has unveiled a next-generation network (NGN) plan that will see €435m pumped into a nationwide fibre-optic network, with state-owned fibre technology being utilised and broadband made universal by 2010.
The plan, unveiled today by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan TD (pictured), will make use of significant dark fibre networks [...]

Dublin-based Delphi Technologies has been acquired by US firm SunGard for an undisclosed sum.
Under the deal, Delphi, which provides consulting and managed professional services to the telecoms and financial services sectors, will become part of SunGard’s European consulting business. Financial details were not revealed but reports suggest the Irish firm is worth around EUR20 million.
Delphi [...]