Tagged: Android
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Sky claims more than 2m downloads of its apps in Ireland News
13.06.2013 Satellite TV and broadband player Sky Ireland has claimed an 80pc year-on-year growth in downloads of its dedicated apps, such as Sky Go, Sky News, Sky Sports, Sky+ and Sky...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Apps -
Majority of Americans now own a smartphone News
06.06.2013 More than half of American adults are now smartphone owners, according figures from the Pew Research Centre’s Internet & American Life Project, as these devices increasingly... -
Cult digital music brand Napster returns to Europe News
04.06.2013 Napster, the original peer-to-peer network that signaled a seismic shift in the music industry landscape, has returned to Europe as a legitimate music streaming service in 13...Categories: Consumer Tech, Digital Marketing, Digital Media, Games/Entertainment, Internet, Mobile, Mobility, Multimedia, Phones, Social Media -
Vine arrives on Android, gets Rickrolled News
04.06.2013 Twitter’s six-second video app Vine has come to Android users five months after its release on iOS, and a teenage web developer has already used a classic internet meme to... -
Gadgets of the month: the smartphone battleground and what to expect from E3, WWDC and Build News
31.05.2013 We take a look back at some of the biggest gadget news this month and look ahead at what’s to come as both Microsoft and Apple will host their developer conferences in June and... -
Google SVP confirms HTC One with stock Android News
31.05.2013 Google’s Sundar Pichai has revealed that the HTC One is also going to get the stock Android treatment, with a new edition of the smartphone to be made available alongside the... -
Next Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 to have Intel chip News
31.05.2013 Samsung is believed to be planning to switch from an ARM-based design for its next 10-inch Galaxy tablet to include an Intel processor instead.Categories: Wireless Communications, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Review: Microsoft Surface Pro personal computer/tablet News
28.05.2013 Powered by an Intel Core i5 processor, the new Surface Pro tablet computer from Microsoft is perhaps the best indicator yet for where personal computing is heading. Pay...Tags: Operating Systems, Android, iPad, Intel, Apple, Smartphones, Ultrabooks, Tablet Computers, Surface, Microsoft -
LG announces white Nexus 4, but it looks like Google is going elsewhere for a Nexus 5 News
28.05.2013 LG Electronics has today announced a new edition for the Nexus 4 line-up, the Nexus 4 White. But the colour-based update is less exciting than news that Google will apparently... -
The week in gadgets: Jolla, HTC, Samsung, Kinect for Windows and the forecast for 4K TV News
27.05.2013 A look at gadget happenings, as Microsoft teases a new Kinect for Windows, analysts make predictions for the growth of 4K TV, Logitech’s Ultimate Ears has a new social music...Tags: Accessories, Logitech, Microsoft, Kinect, Android, Samsung, HTC, Operating Systems, Smartphones, Nokia, -
Tech start-up of the week: ParkYa News
26.05.2013 Our start-up of the week is ParkYa, a new smartphone app a Dublin-based start-up is developing to make it easier for people to find car parking spaces in real-time and pay for... -
Irish wearable tech player Zband ships gadgets to 30 countries News
24.05.2013 An Irish start-up called Zband which makes Android and Windows Phone compatible wristband devices that serve as a silent alarm has exported the gadget to 30 countries within the...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Development, Design, Apps -
AVG moves into social media security with PrivacyChoice acquisition News
23.05.2013 Not content with just securing your computers and mobile devices, security software player AVG has branched into protecting users on social networks with the acquisition of... -
Personal camerman device gets US$500k injection from Grishin Robotics News
22.05.2013 California start-up Swivl, the maker of a robotic video device that mimics a personal cameraman, has raised US$500,000 from the investment company Grishin Robotics to focus on... -
#OI2Dublin – Intel’s Martin Curley: we will need two Earths to support human life (video) News
20.05.2013 Intel vice-president and director of Intel Labs Europe Martin Curley warned that at the present rate of consumption we will soon need two Earths to sustain human life. For this... -
Dilbert creator Scott Adams offers coders the opportunity of a lifetime News
16.05.2013 Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert cartoon which appears in more than 2,000 newspapers worldwide in 70 countries and 25 languages, wants someone to build him a mobile video...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Games/Entertainment, Development, Design, Apps -
#io13: Google to offer TouchWiz-free Galaxy S4 from 26 June News
16.05.2013 Samsung’s Galaxy S4 will undergo a UI makeover from Google that will see the device sold on Google Play with stock Android from 26 June. -
#io2013 – Google gets its game on – 900m Android activations and 48bn app installs News
15.05.2013 At its sixth annual I/O shindig, Google revealed that there are now 900m Android activations, up from 400m a year ago. The internet giant, in a very games-oriented keynote,...