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  215,000 new jobs by 2020 if Ireland becomes a Global Innovation Hub

  11.03.2010 Nationwide 1Gbps broadband, the creation of a ‘European Accelerator' to attract the world’s most innovative start-ups and a sea change in structures and attitudes to start-ups were among the recommendations of the Innovation Taskforce revealed today. more...

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  EU moves to eradicate mobile broadband ‘bill shock’

  01.03.2010 From today, new legislation from the European Commission will oblige mobile phone operators to offer mobile broadband customers a cut-off facility to protect them from "bill shock" after roaming within EU countries. more...

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  Fibre tax likely to be opposed in the UK

  01.03.2010 The majority of people living in the UK do not support the Labour Government’s plan to introduce a 50pc + VAT tax on all fixed lines to fund the rollout of super fast, next generation broadband. more...

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  EU opens anti-trust investigation into Google

  24.02.2010 The European Commission is to mount a preliminary anti-trust investigation into Google’s alleged dominant position in the online browsing and digital advertising business following complaints by three competing websites. more...

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  NPPR excels at eGovernment Awards 2010

  19.02.2010 The eighth annual eGovernment Awards, held in Dublin today in association with Eircom, saw the Local Government Management Agency’s website for the Non Principal Private Residence Online Payments Service taking the award for Overall Ireland eGovernment Award. more...

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  Europe’s €700bn ICT industry calls on govts to get digital

  18.02.2010 Broadband-based innovation has the potential to create up to 1 million new jobs and generate additional economic activity worth €849 billion, groups representing Europe’s six million-strong ICT industry have told European governments. more...

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  Almost half of post-primary maths teachers not qualified for job

  17.02.2010 Forty-eight per cent of post-primary teachers of mathematics in Irish schools “did not have a mathematics teaching qualification”, a survey carried out by the University of Limerick looking into the decline in mathematics in secondary schools has revealed. more...

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  IT spending in Western Europe to reach US$68.6 billion

  08.02.2010 Pressure to right-size governments will contribute to a significant increase in hardware, software and IT services in 2013, IDC has forecast. more...

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  Countries should look at digital healthcare for economic stimulus

  03.02.2010 Countries should look at the modernisation and reform of their crumbling health sectors as an opportunity to generate economic stimulus in regions and cities, group CEO of Accenture’s Health & Public Services operating group Stephen Rohleder told Siliconrepublic.com. more...

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  Cost of running Government websites vary considerably

  01.02.2010 Figures released by the Government reveal that the costs of running Irish Government websites can range from €60 to a whopping €523,000 per annum in the case of the www.motortax.ie website. more...

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