The Irish Times reports that general manager Jim O'Hara was named the tech industry's person of the year at the ICT Excellence Awards in Dublin on Wednesday night. Other winners were Digiweb, for company of the year; Derek Monahan of DHL for professional of the year; and Perlico, for best employer. The awards were held as part of the Technology4Business exhibition at the RDS.

The same paper reports that text messaging should not be seen as a threat to the literacy of pupils, according to secondary school teachers. A report by the Department of Education's chief examiner in English said that text messaging "seems to pose a threat to traditional conventions in writing" because of its use of phonetic spelling and lack of punctuation. The (ASTI) described the report as balanced and fair but defended the use of texting, saying it fulfils its function if it conveys meaning in a clear and unambiguous fashion. The ASTI said that language is a living process and has to be flexible and subject to change and to development.

The paper also notes that Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has blamed the Opposition for the failure of . Ahern said opposition parties had objected to the system, adding that they should have taken a more mature attitude to a system which worked particularly well in the last two elections. "Any waste of money on the voting system lies at the Opposition's door," said Ahern in a Dail exchange.

The Financial Times says Korean memory chipmaker has posted a 45 percent jump in first-quarter profit, but its growth was curbed by lower chip prices. Hynix posted a KRW418 billion (USD450 million) net profit in the first three months of this year, compared with KRW289 billion a year ago. Although sales surged 60 percent, the results were weaker than the market had expected, mainly because of a 27 percent fall in the price of D-RAM chips used in personal computers, and a 44 percent drop in the price of flash memory chips, used in portable gadgets such as digital cameras and MP3 players.

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