A roundup of today's other technology stories in brief:
Vodafone offers mobile TV service
Vodafone and Sky First have announced they will launch a mobile television service for Vodafone Ireland 3G handset users.
More than 237,000 users of Vodafone Ireland's 3G service will have access to three packages offering 18 channels, including Sky One and Discovery, for free until the beginning of September.
After that, subscribers will be charged €1.99 a week per package or €4.99 a week for unlimited access.
North's broadband uptake soars
Consumers in Northern Ireland are adopting broadband at some of the fastest rates across the UK, according to a study by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment.
There are 230,000 broadband accounts in the North, a number that has risen from 60,000 in less than two years.
According to the study, 59 per cent of households access the internet and 57 per cent of those have broadband.
Unlike in the Republic, where broadband access is in many cases restricted to built-up areas, broadband has been available across the whole of Northern Ireland since January.
Damovo awarded telephony contract
Damovo, a provider of business communications solutions and services, has won a £260,000 contract (€378,726) from Enterprise Northern Ireland to provide an integrated IP telephony and data solution for the 32 members that make up its local enterprise agencies.
The contract will provide an enhanced telephony system to Enterprise NI members and allow immediate access to client information throughout all of its sites across Northern Ireland.
Microsoft launches sales competition
Microsoft Ireland has launched a competition to find the country's best reseller of its Small Business Server (SBS). The purpose of the award is to recognise the important role that IT partners have played in encouraging small business to use Microsoft's SBS.
"We've been blown away by the success of the Small Business Server in Ireland," said Mary Ashe-Winton, small business manager at Microsoft. "It appears that Irish companies have quickly realised that SBS offers smaller companies an easy way to deliver advanced IT services such as mobile e-mail and remote collaboration that were traditionally only available in large companies."
The competition is open to all registered Microsoft partners who operate in the small business space. The deadline is July 7th.
Bray firm lands DID Electrical deal
Softworks Computing, a Bray-based software company, has won a contract from DID Electrical to install its workforce optimisation solution at the chain's 12 Irish stores.
The system, known as Clockwise, allows companies to manage shift and rostering requirements in conjunction with HR and payroll systems. It will be rolled out in July to coincide with the opening of DID Electrical's 13th retail facility in Bray.
Irish software used in 'Poseidon' film
Software developed by Irish group Havok has been used in the remake of the 1972 disaster movie Poseidon.
Havok Physics, the technology developed by the Dublin-based firm, enabled the film's creators, Moving Picture Company, to insert hundreds of interactive objects, from bodies to tables and poker chips, to create the necessary atmosphere.
The same technology was also used in X-Men: The Last Stand, Troy and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and will be seen in Cars, an animated Pixar film due to be released this summer.
