Rock of the Irish: Bell X1 ventures stateside
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When the members of Irish rock  troupe Bell X1 run out of time to chat with press, fans and  industry folks during their short American visits, they just  invite everyone to join them for a pint at a local Irish pub.  There, the band is truly in its element -- at a bar that spins  Bell X1 tracks on the jukebox.
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Irish holidaymakers travelling to the US will be fingerprinted and photographed starting tomorrow.
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Apple is expected to sell iPhone through O2 in the UK, Orange in France, and Deutsche Telekom in much of Europe.
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(InfoWorld) - Cisco Systems Inc. will open a research center in Ireland to develop unified communications products. The office, announced on Tuesday and to be located in the western city of Galway, will initially employ 50 researchers but is expected to grow to 200 positions in the next three years. The researchers will build new unified communications applications and services, which allow workers to have a single point of access where they can be contacted via a variety of methods such as e-mail, voice mail, VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol), instant messaging and video. Cisco also plans to consider opportunities for collaborative research with industry and academic organizations in Ireland. Cisco currently employs 66 people in local sales and support in Ireland. The networking giant said it is expanding its investment in development around the world in order to be responsive to customer needs. Ireland's available talent pool and positive business climate attracted the company. Ireland's corporate tax rate, the lowest in Europe and among the lowest in the world, began attracting significant numbers of overseas companies about 20 years ago. Since then, other costs, such as energy and salaries, have risen dramatically in Ireland. As a result, the government has begun pursuing research and development investments, like Cisco's, which tend to be less reliant on extremely low operational costs and more focused on available talent than other types of operations, such as manufacturing. Ireland's Industrial Development Agency (IDA), a government body tasked with recruiting overseas companies to Ireland, said it has been courting Cisco for some time. The IDA often offers multimillion euro incentives to companies that choose to open up operations in the country. The agency said it supported the opening of the new center but it did not reveal how much it may have offered Cisco as incentive. The trend toward unified communications is growing as an increasing number of networks support IP. Earlier this year, Cisco began bundling a variety of its products related to voice, e-mail, text, videoconferencing and collaboration under a new Unified Communications System brand. Cisco also recently bought Metreos Corp. and Audium Corp. to make it easier for enterprise developers to integrate applications in the Unified Communications System. Cisco has competition in the space. Microsoft Corp. and Nortel Networks Corp. recently formed an alliance to develop unified communications technologies to enterprise customers.
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I had a great Skype talk with Paolo yesterday. He was driving his car, in Italy near his home in Trieste. The connection was great, it was like living in the future.  One of the things we talked about was the iPhone. At first I talked about it as if Paolo had had one from the outset. He feels that close, and he's the kind of person who would get the latest Mac toy on Day 1, just like me. Later, when he said he just got his iPod Touch, I realized of course, this is one of those things we got here in the U.S. that they haven't gotten yet in Europe. Don't worry, they have some something we don't, a strong currency. :-( So here's his first writeup of the iPod Touch.
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Construction magnate to the rescue Millionaire entrepreneur Brendan Murtagh has offered to buy Smart Telecom for the grand sum of â¬1, as well as a 10 per cent stake in BidCo, the company formed to make the offer.â¦
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News stories, videos, and blogs produced in the first 24 hours of the iPhone launch
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The bond insurer is raising $1 billion in an effort to stay afloat.
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A feasibility study is under way for a plan to create the first geopark to span both sides of the Irish border.
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The Motley Fool - The Olympic Games are now history, but not AT&amp;T's (NYSE: T - News) &#36;25 million ad campaign to redefine its image. After years of getting clobbered by the regional Bell companies such as BellSouth (NYSE: BLS - News), Verizon (NYSE: VZ - News), Sprint (NYSE: FON - News), and MCI (Nasdaq: MCIP - News), the company has turned its business focus from traditional phone service to networking.
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Goes West with Best Buy Carphone Warehouse is set to try its luck in the US with the help of local chain Best Buy.â¦
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Notre Dame's Plan 'A' appears to be heading to Florida.
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Apple expands its virtual song shop to Ireland, offering more than 700,000 songs at 99 Euro cents each.
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Major handset vendors have much more  to gain than to lose from the buzz Apple Inc's  coveted  iPhone will create when it arrives in European stores for the  key shopping season ahead of Christmas.
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By Patrick Winn, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 14--CARRBORO -- Brenda Hutchinson wants you to ring her bell.   Seriously. Her big, brassy, eardrum-quivering bell.   Hutchinson, her two-door Honda Civic and the bell are on an unusual coast-to-coast road trip.
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FTP, VPNs and Outlook should now be working Just as 3 launches its Â£10 tariff in the UK, its service in Ireland has been suffering incompatibilities, slow speeds, and complaints, forcing the company to waive a month's subs as it struggles to get the service usable.â¦
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Operators slash costs ahead of EU legislation Minister for Communications Noel Dempsey has praised Irish mobile operators for introducing new tariffs designed at reducing roaming costs in Ireland and the UK.â¦