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Thursday, June 9, 2011

150 new jobs at SouthWestern. Focus on BPO

SouthWestern to invest €3.5m in R& D with Enterprise Ireland Support (links).

SouthWestern has bases in Ireland and Poland. HQ is located at the West Cork Business & Technology Park, Clonakilty, Co. Cork. Service offerings surround Customer Relationship Management, Finance & HR, Public Sector and Financial Services. (more info)

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

A study of Apple and Google mobile phone application developers

Following on from a recent CITO seminar at UCD presented by Prof. Debra Howcroft, based on a study by Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn (event notice link).

http://media.falf.se/2011/05/Bergvall-m-fl.pdf

An important study into a nascent industry sector. Of particular interest is the pull towards casualisation of the work of software production, driven in part no doubt from the lower economic rewards (drive down in software price) of mobile apps. The growth of apps as an industry sector is notionally built on the idea that apps may become components of a service, a service that someone will pay for, either the customer for the good or another say for marketing/ad-ware etc that seeks to access the producer's customers. The economics is of course one aspect; the personal and social impact is another important facet and is ultimately the main the focus of this paper.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Outsourcing expansion from Ireland

I.T. Alliance invests €750,000 in cloud infrastructure: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/strategy/item/21765-i-t-alliance-invests-750/


Major growth in IT outsourcing predicted (Joe Peppard produced report...)
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/item/22042-major-growth-in-it-outsourc

Gilt Groupe Establishes International HQ in Ireland... will locate its International HQ and Software Development Centre in Dublin. Its Customer Support Centre will be operational in Limerick by September.
http://www.gilt.com/careers/tech/category/ireland/about-ireland/