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THE RIGHT DIRECTION

Knowing where you want to go is an important factor in any business – but former naval navigator Greg Delaney made it the central part of his. Delaney launched a new compact digital address system last week that maps out every location in the country with a code.

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IT ALLIANCE

Philip Maguire is quite content to acknowledge his company will probably never be a household name but the entrepreneur behind IT Alliance is laughing all the way to the bank and provides the main interview in The Sunday Business Post.

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FACEBOOK

In one of the those ironic twists that permeate the new technology industry, Mark Zuckerberg comes across as one of the most anti-social individuals anyone would likely have encountered while in college.

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CALYX

In what probably constitutes the longest headline in the Sundays considering the size of the deal involved, The Sunday Tribune details a €5m deal for software firm Calyx with the department of education in Queensland, Australia.

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NEW SOFTWARE SECTOR

The arrival of the Apple iPhone has created an entire new software development sector, practically overnight, with a host of new companies creating apps for the device to be sold on Apple’s online store.

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ANGLO TO PREDICT LOAN DEFAULT

Anglo Irish Bank is looking for a new computer system to predict the probability of customers defaulting on their debts, The Sunday Business Post reports in an article that may lead many people to believe this is a leftover piece from its April 1 edition.

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iPAD

In its monthly Computers in Business supplement in The Sunday Business Post columnist Adrian Weckler is less than enthused about the iPad’s applicability to the corporate world.

“Will the iPad … make any difference to the computer habits of Irish business executives? In a word, no”.

“The iPhone is a phone. A phone is an essential business tool. The iPad has no essential business-related function,” Weckler opines.

WE NEED A GAMES AMBASSADOR

Playing games is a serious business. Video games that is – and in Ireland it is getting ever more serious. According to the IDA, the sector employs 1,500 people and that doesn’t include two jobs announcements for a total of 300 people last week.

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CORK FIRM SIGNS BIG DEAL

Lighting up the peas in a supermarket freezer is a more complicated – and more lucrative – business than you might think. Cork technology company, Nualight has signed a deal worth €5 million over two years with Tesco to provide energy-efficient lighting for all the refrigeration systems in the supermarket chain’s global operations.

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