IRCONA, the Irish-owned design and development company, has entered into an agreement with Lucent Technologies Bell Labs to licence and develop advanced mobile technology created by Bell Labs that will improve the coverage of cellular networks inside buildings and in other areas that have poor reception.

David Bowie, blues pioneer Robert Johnson and the late comedian Richard Pryor are among recording artists who will receive lifetime achievement honours during next month’s Grammy Awards.

Business chiefs and academics must work side by side to ensure Ireland creates a reservoir of talent to support its growing knowledge-based economy, it was claimed today.

Government spending on science and research programmes is to reach almost €230m this year, it was announced today.

The European Commission has approved the Government’s support for Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs R&D investment for Dublin, which was announced in June.

THE Enterprise Strategy Group report due out tomorrow will stress the need to develop the economy’s strengths.

THE economy received another boost yesterday with signs that retail sales are picking up and unemployment is falling.

THE American telecommunications company Bell Labs plans to develop two state-of-the-art research centres in Ireland at a total cost of €69 million.

One of the world’s leading research and development firms has announced plans to create 120 jobs at two new research centres in Dublin.