NEWS IN BRIEF
Daily Digest 30 March
30-03-2010
by Deirdre McArdle
Apple developing CDMA iPhone: report | Citrix creates 30 new Dublin jobs
Apple is reportedly in talks to develop a CDMA-compatible iPhone, according to the Wall Street Journal, which quoted people familiar with the company. CDMA is used by AT&T's main rival in the US Verizon, as well as Sprint Nextel. Industry commentators are suggesting this move could signal the end to AT&T's exclusive contract with Apple to sell the iPhone.
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider celebrated on Tuesday following the successful experiment in which they set a record for high-energy collisions by crashing two proton beams together at three and a half times more force than ever before. The collisions took place at a total collision energy of 7-tera electron volts (eV) and at a nano-fraction of a second slower than the speed of light. "Experiment have seen collisions!!!!!!!!!!!", CERN scientists tweeted.
Ordnance Survey Ireland has launched a business-to-business online mapping service called MapGenie. The service works across web browsers and operating systems, and can be used in conjunction with existing web-based applications built around Google Maps. According to OSI, the Road Safety Authority (RSA) and the Health Service Executive (HSE) have already used MapGenie to produce a web-based road safety application. Other applications include managing land parcels, or the insurance industry using geographic location techniques to improve pricing and risk assessment processes. Find out more here.
Newzbin, a private online forum, has been judged liable for its members' copyright infringement when they used the site to download movies and TV shows, by the British High Court, reports the Financial Times. The judge said the forum's "knowledge of the downloading" means it has to share the responsibility for the act. The case was taken by the Motion Picture Association, which represents Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal City Studios, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and Warner Bros. Entertainment.
NovaUCD-based biotech firm Enzolve Technologies has appointed Stuart Cranmer as its new CEO. Enzolve is currently working on expanding its NeoScreenPak range of tests. NeoScreenPak tests screen newborn babies for a variety of metabolic disorders.
Seventeen Irish firms in segments such as biotech & internet services have completed the Genesis Enterprise Programme, which is essentially an incubation scheme for start-ups. The completion of the scheme was marked by an awards ceremony in which IT and telecoms service provider dBm Technology was named the Genesis Emerging Business of the Year. Click here for a list of the companies who completed the scheme.
Citrix Systems Ireland announced that it is to create 30 new high-value jobs at its Dublin base. The company is currently recruiting for a number of roles including technical support and escalation engineers, technical relationship managers and technical trainers. The 30 new positions will bring to 150 the number of people Citrix now employs in Ireland.
Caped Koala Studios has built a virtual world for kids, combining education and social networking 