Irish tech pioneer Raomal Perera's company, Network365, has picked up €10m in third round venture funding, according to an announcement today. Last week, the company announced that NTT DoCoMo would be using its mobile payments software to provide mobile and banking services for its Japanese network. I've always found this company interesting and it is clearly one to watch.
1:30:00 PM  #   your two cents []

 Some more from Helsinki. Dick O'Brien from NewsConnected and Matthew Magee from the Sunday Tribune discuss -- well, who knows what, maybe their first round of cool green mojitos sitting on the table! Here's Dick (who has a new weblog) looking happy at the Nokia evening event (both taken with the camera phone):

Nokia's main headquarters building (there are a lot of Nokia buildings around Helsinki...) is really beautiful; very cool and Scandinavian in design. I was there two years ago when they were still varnishing floors. Here are two interior views (taken with my Sony Cybershot camera):

 

8:54:50 AM  #   your two cents []

E-mail's up--is the boss watching?. U.S. workers spend almost a quarter of their workday dealing with e-mail, according to a survey. But respondents are bucking conventional wisdom in their attitude toward this daily task. [CNET News.com]
8:37:10 AM  #   your two cents []

Senator OK with zapping pirates' PCs. Sen. Orrin Hatch retreats a bit from his suggestion that copyright holders should be able to remotely destroy the PCs of music pirates, but he says the proposal is still alive. [CNET News.com]
8:35:20 AM  #   your two cents []

Oscar Wilde. "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written." [Quotes of the Day]
8:34:19 AM  #   your two cents []

iTunes -- the "i" doesn't stand for innovation. As songs are increasingly sold one by one online, the musical creativity and risk-taking associated with the album format will decline. [Salon.com]
8:32:25 AM  #   your two cents []

You ain't seen nothing yet. Sars wasn't 'the big one' after all. How will we cope when a pandemic really does kick off?  [Guardian Unlimited]
8:31:27 AM  #   your two cents []

A Blogger's Big-Fish Fantasy. What writers of Weblogs do to build an audience. [New York Times: Technology]
8:29:46 AM  #   your two cents []

Astronomers take 3-D images of solar surface. Astronomers have taken the first three-dimensional photos of the photosphere, or solar surface. [spacetoday.net]
8:26:32 AM  #   your two cents []

Today's curious news: SCO has announced it is to open its European headquarters in Dublin. CEO Darl McBride was supposed to be over here yesterday -- at the same time as the GUADEC conference of GNOME developers! -- but at the last minute, sent others instead. Yesterday at GUADEC, I talked to Alan Cox about the implications for Linux and the reasoning (as he saw it) behind the SCO lawsuits and sabre-rattling (speaking in a personal capacity as a kernel developer and not as a Red Hat guy, of course). I'll post the resulting story here tomorrow.
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