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The technology business week: two other offers for Dell, Yahoo! to buy Summly News
02.04.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
Tech start-up of the week: Portable Medical Technology News
31.03.2013 This week’s tech start-up of the week is Portable Medical Technology Ltd, a company that develops accredited and trusted apps for medical specialists to reduce medical errors,... -
Aspiring entrepreneurs to head to Cork for Startup Weekend News
29.03.2013 University College Cork will be the setting for Cork’s first ever Startup Weekend next week, as coders, self-starters, designers, marketers and business minds will be teaming up... -
DocMorris launches app to remind customers when to take their prescriptions News
28.03.2013 Pharmacy chain DocMorris has invested €200,000 in a new app that could improve medicine administration and cut down on the Irish State’s healthcare bills.Categories: Apps -
Facebook smartphone to become a reality – 'New Home on Android' with HTC News
29.03.2013 Facebook has invited press to a briefing at its Silicon Valley headquarters to reveal a new HTC device with an Android OS modified to reflect ‘Facebook Home’. True to its word,... -
Google releases offline language packages for Google Translate News
28.03.2013 Internet search giant Google has made communicating in a foreign country a little easier with its launch of offline language packages for Google Translate on Android, with... -
Social rewards app Popdeem will be ready for retailers next week News
28.03.2013 Fresh from successful showcases at the London Web Summit and the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Texas, Wayra-accelerated Irish start-up Popdeem is preparing for the... -
Flipboard 2.0 adds curation tools for users to create and share digital magazines News
27.03.2013 Creators of social magazine app Flipboard have today announced a major new version that introduces new features which add to the app’s magazine-like experience and let the... -
12 new software jobs for Galway as OnePageCRM secures €575k investment News
27.03.2013 Cloud-based sales management software company OnePageCRM has raised €575,000 from Enterprise Ireland and other investors. The funding round will enable the company to create 12...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Mobility, Mobile, Investments, Internet, Funding, Engineering, Digital Business, Data Management, CRM, Apps -
Meet Nick D’Aloisio, the 17-year-old entrepreneur Yahoo! just made a millionaire News
26.03.2013 British-Australian Nick D’Aloisio, born in 1995 and student at King’s College School in London, has just seen the company he founded snapped up by Yahoo! for a rumoured US$30m.... -
Walter the Wandering Wave creator to crowdfund global TV pilot News
26.03.2013 Storybook and mobile app cartoon character Walter the Wandering Wave, created by Irish entrepreneur Shane Janssens, is set to have his own TV programme around the world....Categories: Software & Web Development, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Investments, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Funding, Digital Media, Development, Design, Apps -
Microsoft boosts its tablet capabilities across Mail, Calendar, People and Music News
26.03.2013 Microsoft has promised richer features for Windows 8 tablet users and has begun by introducing new updates to its Windows 8 Mail, Calendar and People applications. The software... -
Yahoo! to acquire news summarising app Summly News
25.03.2013 Internet giant Yahoo! is to acquire mobile product company Summly for an undisclosed sum. -
Weekend news round-up: Bill Gates’ US$100k condom; no more power-downs on airplanes? News
25.03.2013 In our gathering of some of the best tech news from the weekend, we discover that in the US rules on turning off electronic devices during flights might finally be relaxed; Bill... -
Apple rolls out two-factor authentication, iForgot service is back up News
23.03.2013 Apple’s iForgot password reset page is back up and running after a security hole that allowed unauthorised resets was discovered. In recent days Apple launched two-factor...Categories: Apps, Digital Business, Internet, Mobile, Mobility, Security, Software, Software & Web Development, Wireless Communications -
Dublin Airport picks up a gong for its use of social media News
23.03.2013 Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) picked up the Communications Award at the 2013 Irish Logistics and Transport Awards this week. -
Tipperary app tycoon to reveal the tricks of her trade News
22.03.2013 Elaine Heney, the Tipperary-based app developer and entrepreneur who has so far seen 1.5m downloads of her apps from the iOS App Store, is to launch her own App Business...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, eCommerce, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Apps -
New mobile service to help parents learn sign language News
22.03.2013 One of the latest mobile resources to come out of the Digital Skills Academy’s WebElevate programme is a new service aimed at helping thousands of parents of young deaf and hard...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Education, Digital Media, Development, Design, Apps -
BlackBerry 10 surpasses 100,000 app milestone News
21.03.2013 Just two months after the release of the BlackBerry World app store, it now boasts 100,000 apps, including major apps from Rovio, eBay, MTV, CNN, Rdio and Skype, to name a few.Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Digital Media, Communications, Apps -
Collison Brothers’ Stripe partners with mobile app engine Parse News
21.03.2013 Adding to existing libraries it has in place from Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android ecosystems, Irish brothers John and Patrick Collison’s Silicon Valley mobile payments firm...Categories: Wireless Communications, Software & Web Development, Software, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, eCommerce, Digital Business, Apps