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UCD offers more Java courses

UCD's courses in the Java programming language, which it was offering to unemployed IT professionals, are booked out.

The courses were available at a discount price of €45 each.

UCD said it would offer a new set of two courses at the same price and is accepting 100 people per course. They will run from June 25th to July 1st and from July 9th to July 15th.

BT wins Starbucks wireless internet deal

BT has won the contract to provide wireless internet access in 650 Starbucks coffee shops in Ireland and Britain, replacing the incumbent supplier, T-Mobile.

The deal means BT now has 150,000 Openzone hotspots in Ireland and Britain.

Starbucks has 28 cafes in the Republic.

Pirate Bay lawyer demands retrial

A defence lawyer for one of the four men sentenced to jail in the Pirate Bay case has demanded a retrial, saying the judge’s membership in several copyright protection groups means he might have been biased.

Stockholm district court judge Tomas Norstrom is a member of two groups for the protection of immaterial rights. A representative of the film and music industry who participated in the trial is a board member of one of the groups.

The judge said he did not believe his memberships had made him ineligible to preside over the trial. – (Reuters)