http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toayxh8zUpo

Great to be working with you Bena!

Love GoMoNews - http://www.gomonews.com/

GoMobileSEO is signing up key partners right now - contact Bena for more info - the public launch will be at CTIA in San Francisco on September 10 - can't wait.

This is an awesome company!

MUZU has just gone live to the public in the UK and Ireland.

I've been using MUZU for a week now and it's incredible.

It really advances the state of the art in the delivery of music over the Web.

Well done to Colm and all the guys here in Carriganore for really pushing the boundaries on this
and to Mark, Ciaran, Sarah and all the guys in Dublin. MUZU is truly a triumph.

Try it out for yourself at http://www.muzu.tv

I'm delighted to wite that one of our spin-offs, ZolkC, won the 'Use of Technology' category at the Museums and Heritage Awards for Excellence, which took place in London last night. The award was presented to ZolkC and the National Trust for Scotland (sponsors) for the Culloden service which went live recently.

Well done Paul and your team! Well deserved!

Micheal and Eamonn were able to join Paul for the awards show last night.

Nice one guys!

Irish firm at spearhead of Oracle's Web 2.0 plans

Waterford-based FeedHenry Ltd is at the forefront of Oracle's spearhead into the telecoms end of the burgeoning Web 2.0 marketplace.

Read the full story http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single%2010888.

So the background to this is that Silicon Republic picked up on a press release that was issued by Oracle last week in San Francisco. A number of similar releases were issued over the past two months to coincide with Oracle events that we attended in Brussels, Mexico and London. None of which were picked up in Ireland and we did not promote them locally. In fact, despite doing these events with Oracle we have been running in stealth mode for the past few months waiting for our launch with Munster at the end of this month and with a key Telecoms Operator shortly after. The Munster launch will demonstrate of how we can plug into a publisher or new media company and: enable them to rapidly widgetize their content; enable consumer personalisation; and enable massive cross channel distribution of micro content - in effect enabling the publisher and reader to stay in continuous contact, regardless of whether the reader is hanging out on FaceBook, iGoogle et al, is mobile, or is not even on the Web. Once Munster is live we will be able to offer this as a light-touch, plug-and-play solution that can be live in a matter of days. So we have been saving our publicity for the Irish company launch with the Munster later this month, then the UK launch shortly after, and then the San Francisco launch and office on June 10 (all going to plan :-) ).

Nice write up though by Silicon Republic and of course the Oracle relationship is key to us.

Check out Nubiq's new mobile services at http://www.zinadoo.com

For more information on the ICT Excellence Awards see http://www.ictexcellenceawards.ie/default.aspx

More information to follow.

The STG 9 million centre has already been short listed in this year's Royal Institute of British Architects awards.

Now, it has been announced that the electronic, hand-held battlefield guides which have been introduced at the centre are nominated in the 'Use of Technology' category at the Museums and Heritage Awards for Excellence which take place in London on 8 May.

Using satellite technology, the device automatically provides information on what happened during the battle at strategic points, though a combination of video and audio clips and fact-file data.

Developed by Zolk C, specialist providers of technological learning solutions, the battlefield guide is the most innovative of its kind currently in existence, due to the combination of PDA function with satellite technology and multi media content aimed at the tourism sector.
The Trust's Culloden project co-ordinator and Countryside and Islands Group Manager for the North East and Highlands, Alexander Bennett said:
"Technology is central to the whole concept of our new visitor centre and revamped battlefield at Culloden. We knew that using the latest technology well could really help us achieve our aim to bring the battle to life for our visitors. It is great to receive recognition for these efforts."

Zolk C Director, Bronwen Robinson, said:

"By designing, building, and deploying the new technology, we have created something that has not been done anywhere else in the world. It is truly ground-breaking.

"At the Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre, our work has already enhanced the route to gaining insight into real Scottish history and the possibilities for application in other tourist, heritage sites and attractions are endless.

"This development definitely has the potential to revolutionise the sightseers' experience. Our award nomination recognises this fact and we are extremely proud of our achievement."

For information about Zolk C, please contact Paul Savage.

IMS-Stream and FeedHenry will be demonstrating converged IMS and Web 2.0 applications on two stands at the event and Nubiq will be there to meet key partners and customers.

We are all looking forward to wall-to-wall meetings with customers, partners and the other companies at the event. We are also attending the Enterprise Ireland networking reception at the Nine Fine Irishmen on Wed and the Wireless Advisory Board Dinner at the Mandalay Bay on Thursday.

Overall this is an "easier" event than 3GSM - simply because Las Vegas is better set-up to deal with the thousands attending the event, than Barcelona. But also there is a real buzz in the US re IMS / Web 2.0 / mobile 2.0; so we are really looking forward to getting maximum results from this event.

Congratulations to Chris Chedgey and his team at Headway Software http://www.headwaysoftware.com for winning the JOLT (http://www.joltawards.com/jolts) Productivity Award for their Structure101 product. Some of the research that resulted in Structure101 was done in partnership with the TSSG http://www.tssg.org and we’re extremely proud of our contribution to this award.

Many more successes to you and your team Chris.

On the evening, the ITLG will present honors to Intel Chairman Craig Barrett and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Micheál Martin TD http://www.michealmartin.ie for their contributions to the growth of Ireland's technology sector. The ITLG will also present the Irish Times' Innovation Award to a single Irish company that has achieved technical or business milestones and has demonstrated a capacity for international growth.

This year's judging process has included the participation of the ITLG Board, Enterprise Ireland, Invest Northern Ireland, IDA Ireland and the Irish Times, each of which nominated highly innovative Irish companies seeking to grow their overseas presence. Unlike other awards, ITLG honorees are selected through an external nomination process.

The ITLG Board are: o John Hartnett, Senior VP at Palm Inc.
o Niall O'Connor, CIO of Apple Inc
o Rory McInerney, Vice President, Intel Corporation
o Barry O'Sullivan, Senior Vice President at Cisco Systems
o Tony Redmond, Chief Technology Officer at HP Services
o John Gilmore, COO, Sling Media Inc
o Conrad Burke, President & CEO, Innovalight Inc

The Irish Times and Irish America Magazine have also dedicated space in upcoming issues to profile ITLG finalists and ultimately the award winner. John Collins, one of Ireland's most prominent technology journalists, has already interviewed Helene and a preview of the awards ceremony ran in the Irish Times on Monday.

Established in October 2007 and based in Palo Alto, California, the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) is a group of Irish and Irish American senior executives based in Silicon Valley, active in the global technology industry, committed to ensuring that Ireland remains a strategic area of investment and opportunity for US technology companies, and who are keen to support the growth and development of Irish-based technology companies.

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So this is going to the first in a series of posts that will provide an overview of our work to date and the high-tech cluster we have created in the number one micro-city in Europe. So in the first post I am simply going to list the companies that we have created/are involved in. I'll drill into each company and our work, in subsequent posts over the next month building up to the major announcements in April/May. So here they are:

Waterford Technologies Ltd. (http://www.WaterfordTechnologies.com): Email Management
Aceno Mobile Services Ltd (http://www.Aceno.com): Telecoms and IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) Consultancy
HeadWay Software Ltd. (http://www.HeadwaySoftware.com): Software Engineering Tools (focused on architecture and structure)
Nubiq Technology Group Ltd (http://www.Nubiq.com): Mobile services and mobile directory services
Hash 6 Ltd. (Catch) (http://www.Catch.fm): B2B New Media Platform and Services for Radio stations
Zolk C Ltd. (http://www.Zolk.co.uk): Mobile Tourism Services
IMS-Stream (http://www.ims-stream.com): IMS Services for Telecoms Operators
Zimbie Ltd. (http://www.zimbie.com) - B2B Platform and services for Instant Messaging networks
FeedHenry (http://www.FeedHenry.com): B2B Web 2.0 (Widget) Platform and services for Publishers
Muzu (http://www.muzu.tv): B2B New Media Platform for labels and artists and B2C for consumers

Looking back over the past couple of years I am proud of our work and the impact we have had. It's going to be an exciting few months and I am going to enjoy posting on the legacy of our work to date, and looking forward to the future :-)

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Also in the report Waterford is ranked as no 19 city in Europe overall (London is no 1 - no disagreement there), whereas Dublin is no 21 and Cambridge is 32. Although I do think Zurich deserves better than 42nd place.

Also Waterford is the 15th most attractive location for FDI in Europe above such great cities as Copenhagen (17), Amsterdam (21) and Frankfurt (Oder) 25.

Looks like we have been found out, as the city to work, live and invest in :-)

Firstly, we are running Ireland's IMS Innovation booth at the Ireland stand - Hall 1 Stand 1F17. See here for more info from Enterprise Ireland http://www.mobileworldcongressireland.com/innovation.shtml

This booth will be powered by the FeedHenry platform http://www.FeedHenry.com and will show some of our latest Web 2.0 / Mobile 2.0 / IMS services in addition to some incredible new IMS services from the IMS ARCs team.

Secondly, Helene, Grace and the Nubiq http://www.nubiq.com guys have their own booth at the Ireland stand Hall 1 Stand IF17 - and will be showing all new video based Zinadoo http://www.zinadoo.com and also releasing MobiSeer to the public http://www.mobiseer.com. Mobiseer is a wonderful Web 2.0 service that I use for finding the best new mobile content and services and then personalising my mobile phone with these. I've been using the alpha version of MobiSeer for months now and it is very cool and very easy to use.

Thirdly, Paul and the IMS-Stream http://www.ims-stream.com team will be demoing at a dedicated pod on the Intel stand
Hall 8 stand 8B109 - Paul will be showing IMS-Stream's new middleware and service solutions built on BEA and Intel technology. Check out Paul's Pod for eye-popping NGN services :-)

We are of course at Mobile World Congress primarily for meetings / doing business and everyone's calendar is full during the day and in the evenings with customers / partners meetings. Most of the teams are heading over Saturday and of course Mobile World Congress is the worst week of the year to visit Barcelona (or get a hotel room - I am squatting again this year) but a great week for us and the Mobile Industry .

Finally I also wanted to highlight a couple of other things we are doing at Mobile World Congress this year:

I'm pitching and demoing FeedHenry http://www.FeedHenry.com at the Oracle Pavilion - AV44 just outside of Hall 8 on the main avenue starting Wednesday the 13th at 9:00 am.

Also Helene (or Grace) will be running a second Nubiq pod on the Dot Mobi stand Hall 7 stand 7HS17 for a couple of days during the event.

Should be a busy, productive and exhausting week :-)

Great overview of MobiSeer http://www.mobiseer.com and Zinadoo http://www.zinadoo.com