Community: November 2004 Archives
Oracle has announced that it is establishing a Consulting Centre at East Point Business Park in Dublin as well as its first Northern Ireland (NI) office. Between them the new facilities will lead to the creation of 70 new jobs – 50 in the Consulting Centre and 20 in the new Belfast office.
Nicky Sheridan, vice-president and managing director, Oracle Ireland, said the consulting centre would focus on “high-end, high-value-add business consulting to design, develop and implement projects that deliver a high return on investment for customers”.Roles being hired include functional consultants, project managers, technical architects, solution architects and developers.
Wired recently brought to my attention the growing number of travel aggregators that are competing to offer the general public cheap air fares.
The new kid on the block is Mobissimo which is the brain child of Stanford University graduates (former graduates of Stanford have created companies such as yahoo and google).
Mobissimo takes a visitor's query and scours about 80 other travel sites and search engines, typically returning a wider array of prices, airlines, and options. The fledgling company already handles about 500,000 travel searches a month.
The site has received favourable reviews from Wired, CNN and Business Week.
I decided to test the site by pricing flights from Dublin to Barcelona in January, the search took about 20 seconds and produced a large number of results, ranging from 143 return to 1807 Euro.
The only issue I have with these aggregators is they cannot pick up on all the deals that the airline offer, some times you just have to visit the individual airlines to check e.g aerlingus and Ryan Air
Congratulations to the Upperchurch Ladies Football team who are the Tipperary Junior B Champions.
On Sunday the 15th of November, the Upperchurch hillwalk was officialy launched by Michael Smith T.D.
The walk takes in the scenic hill of Knockalough, the route crosses the hill and provides a variety of terrain from forestry to open fields. It takes approximately 3 hours to complete the walk.
A good crowd turned out on Sunday and the pipe band piped the walkers off on the start of their journey.
This site was recommended by a post on userfriendly.org.
www.electoral-vote.com takes into accounts all the various polls etc and provides a non partizan view of the stats.
At the moment they are predicting Kerry to win with 283 and Bush with 246.
Hopefully this will be the result ...
