Tagged: Google Play & News
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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 -
New app launches for GAA fans to interact with their teams News
14.05.2013 A new smartphone app called iGAAFan is aiming to enable GAA fans to interact with their teams at both county and club level. The Tyrone and Derry County Boards are currently... -
Tech start-up of the week: Fishbowl Software Development News
05.05.2013 This week’s featured start-up is Fishbowl Software Development, a new Dublin-based venture that has launched its first free smartphone app to enable those who attend meetings or... -
Instagram boosts tagging capability with ‘Photos of You’ News
03.05.2013 Photo-sharing network Instagram has just launched a new tagging feature called Photos of You that makes it easier to add people and things to photos.Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Phones, Media, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Apps -
Facebook Home tops 500,000 downloads in 10 days, review ratings stay low News
22.04.2013 Facebook’s new Android feature set has entered the 500,000-1m downloads bracket on Google Play just 10 days after its release, but reviews from first users suggest Facebook Home... -
Apple close to signing iRadio deals with major labels Universal and Warner News
12.04.2013 Apple’s rumoured rival to Pandora – dubbed iRadio – is taking a step closer to becoming a reality if reports are to be believed about a deal that is close to being signed with...Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Apps -
Google Play Music goes live in Ireland, Europe, NZ and Oz News
10.04.2013 Google will today introduce music to its Google Play mobile and cloud store in Ireland and other European countries, as well as Australia and New Zealand. The new service makes...Categories: Wireless Communications, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Games/Entertainment, eCommerce, Digital Media, Apps -
UK songwriters now earning more from digital music services than radio News
04.04.2013 An end-of-year report from UK royalties body PRS for Music shows that revenues from digital music services have now overtaken those earned from radio broadcasts as more online...Categories: Media, Digital Media -
Is Facebook a wolf stalking mobile operators – could a Facebook SIM be next? News
03.04.2013 Tomorrow, Facebook is expected to launch a new smartphone in collaboration with HTC, as well as a new home screen app for Android users. Analysts reckon this is the start of a... -
Specs for HTC Myst ‘Facebook phone’ leaked online News
02.04.2013 The upcoming smartphone collaboration between Facebook and HTC has been revealed as a budget consumer smartphone device codenamed ‘Myst’, it has been claimed. -
11-year-old Irish kid claims to be Europe’s youngest published app developer News
15.03.2013 Eleven-year-old Caolan Fleming from Killenard near Portarlington, Co Laois, is believed to be currently Europe’s youngest published app developer with his game Rampage now live... -
Samsung releases dedicated training app for Run Dublin @ Night entrants News
19.03.2013 For the second annual Run Dublin @ Night event, Samsung IT and Mobile Ireland have created an app especially for the race entrants to help them train and prepare for the 10km...Categories: Apps -
Bango and Telefónica to bring app buying power to mobile bills News
26.02.2013 Bango, the mobile payments provider that provides mobile payment capabilities to social network Facebook and Google’s Play store, has struck a major deal with Telefónica to...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, eCommerce, Deals Done, Consumer Tech, Apps -
Google said to be planning launch of music streaming service in Q3 News
26.02.2013 It seems Google isn’t happy with just selling digital music to users via Google Play and is rumoured to be planning to launch a subscription-based music streaming service later... -
Google at #MWC13: Google Play is growing faster than Android News
25.02.2013 Senior Google executives who are guiding Google’s Android strategy said today that consumer spending on apps on Google Play is growing at a rate faster than Android activations.... -
UCC student creates graduate careers smartphone app News
07.02.2013 A final-year business information systems student at UCC has developed a smartphone app called Graduate Jobs Ireland aimed at keeping graduates and undergraduates up to date on... -
Google Play growing fast but still some distance to go to catch up on Apple News
20.12.2012 Google’s Android app store Google Play is growing at a rate of 43pc in the 20 largest countries, compared with a rate of 21pc for the Apple App Store. However, daily revenues in...Categories: Apps, Computers, Consumer Tech, Digital Media, Phones, Software, Software & Web Development, Wireless Communications -
Bango brings mobile payments to Android via Google Play deal News
10.12.2012 Mobile payments and analytics player Bango has sealed a deal with Google to integrate its system with the internet giant’s Play apps store. The first mobile telecoms operator to...Categories: Apps, Consumer Tech, Digital Media, eCommerce, Mobile, Mobility, Multimedia, Phones, Wireless Communications -
Top 25 US developers took 50pc of app revenue in November – Canalys News
05.12.2012 Independent analyst firm Canalys measured the performance of apps from the App Store (iPhone only) and Google Play during November and discovered that half of the revenue from... -
Irish-language music video app TG Lurgan launches News
03.12.2012 Move over MTV and Vevo … a new Irish-language video app called TG Lurgan has launched to present music videos as Gaeilge. The app has been developed by the makers of the...