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A company made up of former Nokia employees has shown off Jolla, a new smartphone with a custom operating system known as Sailfish. The software has been built from the remnants of MeeGo, a project abandoned by Nokia in 2011 in favour of adopting Windows Phone for its handsets. The Jolla phone - pronounced Yol-la - is due to be released by the end of the year, and will only be sold online. It will enter a market...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22599877#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Wikpedia's Jimmy Wales gives his reaction to Yahoo's deal with Tumblr Yahoo has agreed a deal to buy New York-based blogging service Tumblr for $1.1bn (£723m; 857m euros) in cash. Yahoo's chief executive Marissa Mayer said that as part of its promise "not to screw it up", Tumblr would operate independently. David Karp, will continue as chief executive officer of Tumblr. The deal is the largest made by Ms Mayer since she took the helm at Yahoo last...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22591026#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Telco first to market with multichannel service offering TechTrade | 17 May 2013 :  BT Ireland is to be the first IT services and communications provider to deliver Genesys’ latest contact centre management solution, Genesys One, to the Irish market. Shay Walsh, managing director of Business, BT Ireland said: “Customers now demand to interact with organisations via the channel that suits them and at a time of their choosing. They want this access via phone, Web, smartphone and all social channels and they expect the organisations that they contact to...http://www.techcentral.ie/article.aspx?id=21580

Mansion House welcomes demonstrations from Intel, Trinity College TechLife | 20 May 2013 :  A two-day 'digital showcase' entitled Your Future City is taking place is underway at the Round Room in Dublin's Mansion House. Hosted by Dublin City Council, Intel Labs Europe and Trinity College Dublin, the event will demonstrate 20 technological advances and developments to the public, demonstrating how these will have a positive impact on life in Dublin city. The showcase will be broken into zones covering home, work, school, city, environment, and garden, each...http://www.techcentral.ie/article.aspx?id=21592

Suicide prevention and support charity gets unified comms solution TechTrade | 17 May 2013 :  As part of its corporate responsibility initiative, FCS Global is implementing a new ShoreTel unified communications system for suicide prevention and support charity, Console. Console offers suicide bereavement and prevention services and resources around Ireland and the UK. All of its free services are delivered by fully qualified and accredited counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists, to those who have been affected by suicide. New offices can be...http://www.techcentral.ie/article.aspx?id=21579

Computers and smartphones have become a "digital dummy" used by parents to pacify their children, says a head teachers' leader. National Association of Head Teachers' president Bernadette Hunter said children were left unmonitored in their rooms at night playing on electronic devices. She said it was interrupting their sleep, leaving them too tired to learn. Primary school children needed at least 12 hours' sleep, she...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22571888#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Yahoo is desperate to be cool again. And, like that kid at school who always got the newest gadgets and video games to impress his "friends", there's seemingly no shortage of money available to get what it wants. Now, just two months after splashing out millions on a UK teenager's app Summly, Yahoo is set to buy one of the hottest properties in social media: ...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22598148#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Scientists say they have found a way to provide faster and more accurate early warning systems for tsunamis. A German team says GPS satellite-based positioning could offer detailed information about the events within minutes of an earthquake occurring. They believe the technology could have improved alerts issued when the devastating tsunami hit Japan in 2011. The study is published in Natural Hazards and Earth Systems Sciences ...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22572096#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Over 1,700 researchers availed of Europe-wide scheme since 2007 TechLife | 17 May 2013 :  Ireland’s reputation as an innovation hub has been given a boost by the introduction of a fast-track scientific visa, a new survey of internationally mobile researchers reveals. Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science launched the findings of the survey at the Irish Presidency conference on Researcher Careers and Mobility held in Dublin Castle. Over the last six years, 1,720 researchers from 78 different countries have come to Ireland using the fast track...http://www.techcentral.ie/article.aspx?id=21577

Galway company to handle two-stage software rollout TechTrade | 20 May 2013 :  Motorola Solutions has taken on Galway-based Channel Mechanics to deploy its channel solutions across over 3,000 resellers and 40 distributors in the EMEA region. Channel Mechanics will be rolling out two different capabilities within its channelIT solution to support demos and promotions for Motorola Solutions EMEA. The two modules Channel Mechanics will deploy are demoIT, designed to help companies get the most from their demonstration programmes, and promoIT which will give Motorola Solutions EMEA the opportunity to control...http://www.techcentral.ie/article.aspx?id=21590

Services vary from 24Mb/s to 70Mb/s TechLife | 17 May 2013 :  Following eircom's announcement of the launch of its 70Mb/s eFibre fast broadband service, telcos Vodafone and Magnet have announced new deals for its customers. Vodafone's Simply Broadband package promises 70Mb/s with a data cap of 20Gb for €30. Its upper-tier Simply Broadband Max is priced at €35 for 70Mb/s and unlimited usage. Magnet has begun offering 24Mb/s for €35 under its Fatpipe 24 offering. Its Fatpipe 70 service promises 70Mb/s for €45. Both options do not require...http://www.techcentral.ie/article.aspx?id=21578

Young children should hear about the dangers of pornography as soon as they have access to the internet, leading head teachers say. The ready availability of explicit material online has prompted serious concerns from the National Association of Head Teachers. General secretary Russell Hobby said "the conversation should start" when children started going online. But he stressed this was not about showing pornography in...http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22585414#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Fresh off the acquisition of a company that specialises in helping customers manage resources across multiple public clouds, Dell said it is "refining" its own plans to build a public cloud based on OpenStack. Dell has said for the last year or so that it plans to build a public cloud based on the open source cloud platform OpenStack, a project the company is an official member of. But, recent moves by the company could be part of a broader shakeup of the company's cloud plans, including for its OpenStack-powered public cloud. Just this month, Dell bought Enstratius, a company...http://www.techcentral.ie/article.aspx?id=21571

In the grand surrounds of Cork City Hall, the it@cork European Tech Cluster held its European Technology Summit, where Big Data as a source of intelligence for all aspects of business and security was identified as a key trend that will underpin all enterprise in the near future. This, combined with a growing maturity and utilisation of social media, both internally and externally, will allow a greater understanding of the fast changing commercial landscape. The event was opened and praised by Minister of State for the Department of Enterprise Sean Sherlock TD, who reaffirmed the Government's commitment to the technology...http://www.techcentral.ie/article.aspx?id=21581

CTO says more work needed on patch to allow cookies from sites visited TechLife | 17 May 2013 :  ozilla has postponed blocking third party cookies by default in Firefox 22, "to collect and analyse data on the effect of blocking some third party cookies." The nonprofit organization is, however, not softening its stand on protecting privacy and putting users first, Brendan Eich, Mozilla CTO and senior vice president of engineering, wrote in a blog post Thursday. Mozilla has been testing a patch from Jonathan Mayer, a graduate student at...http://www.techcentral.ie/article.aspx?id=21576