For the record 23 February

23-02-2007

by Deirdre McArdle

Dot-mobi to auction 15 'premium' domains | Digiweb secures mobile wideband licence in Norway

It looks like the security breach against retailing giant TJX's credit card transaction processing system is more serious than was first believed, The Register reports. The retailer now suspects that the attacks date back to July 2005 and involve transactions up to June 2004 -- previously TJX thought the breaches were confined to 2003. TJX is the parent company of the retailer TK Maxx, which has operations in the UK and Ireland. It's now beginning to look more likely that some of TK Maxx' customers may have been put at risk. TJX's investigators have discovered evidence of an intrusion to the section of its computer system that processes TK Maxx customer transactions.

John McDonagh has been appointed as Technical Software Product Specialist with HP Software in Ireland. In this role McDonagh will be responsible for the technical product pre-sales function within HP's software business in Ireland and will support HP's focus on Business Technology Optimisation (BTO) across the Irish market. The appointment comes as part of the ongoing expansion of HP's software business in Ireland following the acquisition of Mercury Interactive in 2006. Prior to joining HP McDonagh held a number of senior positions within the Irish software industry including Reuters, BMC and CA.

In more news of appointments CommProve, a provider of Radio Access Network Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring for 2G, 2.5G and 3G, has announced the appointment of David Wilkinson as CEO. CommProve's headquarters are located in Dublin, and the firm has offices in the UK, the US, Italy, Brazil and Spain. Prior to joining CommProve, Wilkinson worked for Actix, where he held key executive roles as COO and CEO.

Dot-mobi said it plans to auction 15 of what it calls "premium domains" at the TRAFFIC WEST 2007 event in Las Vegas on 7 March. The dot-mobi names scheduled for auction include: airfare, areacodes, casinos, directions, newmusic, pics, pizza and singles. There have been 400,000 dot-mobi (mobile web) domains registered since general registration started on 11 October 2006. Dot-mobi is the informal name of mTLD Top Level Domain, a joint venture company based in Dublin with offices in Washington and Beijing.

Digiweb has announced it has secured a mobile wideband licence in Norway. The licence and spectrum is the same as that which Digiweb has already secured in Ireland and will enable the broadband provider to roll out a high speed mobile voice and data network in Norway in 2008. Digiweb said it will unveil details of the technology being used and its capabilities as soon as the first phase of the network is launched in Ireland in the second quarter of this year. "Digiweb will bring services to Ireland and Norway that simply have not been seen before and in Ireland, when used in conjunction with our Metro and WiMax (in trial) networks will offer customers a unique portfolio of products," said Charl Tintinger, head of wireless networks at Digiweb.