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For the record 1 May
Thursday, May 01 2008
by Sheila M. Averbuch


Firstsource Solutions to create 800 jobs in Northern Ireland
| PutPlace flies in Under the Radar

Firstsource Solutions, an Indian-headquartered global
business process outsourcing firm, has announced it is to
create up to 800 jobs in Northern Ireland. The company
already employs over 900 people at facilities in Belfast and
Derry. With this latest investment, which has been offered
STG6.7 million of support from Invest NI, Firstsource
Solutions plans to expand its Derry operation by creating
over 300 jobs there. The company also plans to set up a third
European Centre of Excellence in Northern Ireland to create a
further 500 new jobs. It is currently considering a number of
potential locations for this third site.



Irish firm PutPlace, a provider of automated,
real-time back-up, publishing and sharing services for
digital data, has announced it has been selected as a "player
of the future" in the social media and entertainment space
by start-up spotter Under the Radar. Previous selections in
this category include Flickr, PhotoBucket and Blinkx.
PutPlace will present at the Under the Radar Conference on 3
June, 2008 at the Microsoft Campus, Mountain View,
California. Under the Radar is a conference series and a blog
profiling early-stage innovation, showcasing emerging
start-ups and identifying trends.



Channel 4 has launched a new online catch-up service
that allows viewers to view shows from the past seven days.
The new service, available at channel4.com, is separate to
the existing 4oD that already offers a selection of free and
paid-for content. The service currently only supports Windows
PCs using Internet Explorer 6 or 7 due to rights
restrictions. However, a plug-in for Firefox users is
available.



The Telecommunications and Internet Federation's (TIF)
Cable and Broadcasting Industry group has said the EU's new
Audiovisual Media Services Directive will pose significant
challenges and also present new opportunities to Irish
broadcasters. A number of players in the broadcasting sector
in Ireland have been discussing the new directive, its
implications and how they are planning on implementing it.
Among the provisions in the directive are the introduction of
new definitions, which extend the reach of the directive to
cover any provider offering audiovisual content to the
general public, and the need to ensure viewers are informed
of what is advertisement material. The directive was
finalised in December 2007 and each EU Member State has two
years to implement it.



Spam accounted for 95 percent of all e-mails heading
for Irish inboxes this week, according to the latest figures
from IT Force. This marks a 2 percent rise on last
week's figures, the company said. IT Force analysed over
493,653 e-mails received by IT Force and its clients over the
past week and revealed that 467,916 were unsolicited.



Tax Computer Systems has announced that professional
services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has become the latest
accountancy firm to adopt its Alphatax corporate tax software
suite. Tax Computer Systems introduced its tax computational
software product, Alphatax, in Ireland in 2004 and can
currently count 8 of the top 10 Irish accountancy firms as
customers.



Gulliver Ireland has announced the winners of its
Tourism Accommodation Awards 2007, with the Temple Bar
Hotel in Dublin securing the overall award. The awards,
now in their fourth year, identify and honour online
marketing excellence achieved by hotel, guesthouse, B&B and
self-catering properties throughout the country through their
partnership with Gulliver Ireland. Among the reasons cited by
the judges for the Temple Bar Hotel's win was: "consistent
online availability of various types of rooms through
Gulliver's system, GullNet".