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For the record 8 May
Thursday, May 08 2008
by Silicon.com


Tango Telecom unveils SMS ad platform | SFI remit widened to
include energy-efficient tech

Enterprise Europe Network Ireland, part of a European
business and technology partnering network for companies, has
been launched. The  Irish consortium, known as EEN Ireland,
will be responsible for delivering the services of the
Enterprise Europe Network in Ireland and it consists of
Enterprise Ireland and the Chambers in Cork, Dublin, Galway,
Sligo and Waterford. EEN Ireland  aims to increase its
combined client base of Irish companies ten-fold, thus
increasing the number of Irish  SMEs receiving business or
technology partnering support to 20,000 over the next three
years.



The Guinness Enterprise Centre has announced that its
18 graduate companies have between them created 400 tech
jobs. On average, the companies that started their lives in
the incubation centre in 2000 have 22 employees, with this
figure expected to double in the next three years. These same
graduates have, on average, recorded turnover of EUR4
million. This is predicted to jump to EUR10 million in three
years. Managed by the Dublin Business Innovation Centre, the
facility has been the starting hub for a number of tech firms
including Zamano, Prime Carrier, Capricorn Ventis and Open
Jaw Technologies.



Irish firm Tango Telecom has announced the launch of
iAX SMS Advertising, an SMS Advertising platform, at the
Global Messaging Congress 2008 in Cannes. The platform is
designed to deliver targeted SMS ads to mobile subscribers in
a number of ways such as via peer to peer messaging or
inserted in sponsored SMS delivery reports. It enables the
"slicing and dicing of subscriber data to ensure the right
message gets to the right person", said Richard Choi, VP of
Sales and Marketing at Tango Telecom.



Digicel Central America Holdings, through its
wholly-owned subsidiary, Digicel (Panama), has won a bid
process for a licence to operate a GSM mobile network in
Panama. Digicel bid USD86 million for the licence, which
marks the Denis O'Brien-owned firm's latest milestone in
Central America. Digicel currently operates in El Salvador
and has plans to launch in Honduras later this year.



Eamon Ryan, minister for Communications, Energy and Natural
Resources, has welcomed the signing into law of new
regulations by Minister Micheal Martin amending the remit of
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) to include
sustainable energy and energy-efficient technologies. "These
regulations fulfil the commitment in the Programme for
Government to include a third energy research pillar for SFI.
Sustainable energy and energy-efficient technologies will now
be regarded as strategic areas of scientific endeavour by
SFI, similar to its approach to the fields of ICT and
biotechnology," said Minister Ryan. The move builds on the
announcement at the Energy Forum on 6 March 2008 of an
allocation of EUR90 million to target a world-class research
capacity through SFI in the area of sustainable energy and
energy technologies over the period to 2013.



Belfast-based mobile software firm Aepona has
appointed a number of new executives in a bid to strengthen
the firm's global sales and marketing efforts as well as
building its presence in the US. The announcement comes just
weeks after the firm welcomed Al Snyder as its new CEO. The
new executives are: Dave Whalen, Executive Vice President of
Global Sales; Kevin Wagner, Senior Vice President of
Corporate Marketing and Business Development; and Mike
Mayfield, Senior Vice President of Global Services.



Spam accounted for 94 percent of all e-mails heading
for Irish inboxes this week, according to the latest figures
from IT Force. This marks a 1 percent drop on last week's
figures, the company said. IT Force analysed over 376,500 
e-mails received by IT Force and its clients over the past
week and revealed that 352,600 were unsolicited.