Tagged: Apps & News
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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 -
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... -
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.... -
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 -
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 -
Tech start-up of the week: Element Software News
17.03.2013 This week’s featured start-up is Element Software, a Galway-based software development and consulting company specialising in mobile apps for businesses in the media, sports,... -
App blacklisting becoming more common in enterprise mobility – Citrix report News
20.03.2013 Citrix’s latest Enterprise Mobility Cloud Report from Q4 2012 shows how organisations are dealing with an increasingly mobile workforce, and which apps organisations don’t want... -
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 -
Is social media bad for your phone? (infographic) News
18.03.2013 Social media is really worse for your wallet and mental health than it is for your phone, judging from a new infographic.Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, Security, Phones, Mobile, Financial, Consumer Tech -
Facebook is once again updating your timeline, focusing on About section News
14.03.2013 Facebook’s new timeline design is an improved, cleaner layout, but most of the changes are happening in the section that tells other users all about you. -
Twitter introduces Windows 8 app, line breaks, allegedly working on music app News
14.03.2013 Busy bird Twitter is getting up to all sorts this week, releasing its app for Windows 8, introducing line breaks to tweets, and apparently working on a standalone music... -
Deezer announces developer reward scheme alongside API upgrade News
13.03.2013 Deezer has announced a number of changes and upgrades to its service aimed at encouraging more developers to create apps incorporating its music streaming platform and, overall,... -
Angry Birds hits 1.7bn downloads – cartoon coming to TV, smartphones and tablets News
11.03.2013 Angry Birds creator Rovio is to bring its weekly animated series Angry Birds Toons to tablets, smartphones and TV stations this weekend. CEO Michael Hed also revealed the games... -
Irish app certified by CE as a medical device News
06.03.2013 An app developed specifically for oncologists by an Irish software company has just received CE certification – the third app in the world to do so.Categories: Wireless Communications, Science, Mobility, Mobile, Life Sciences, Internet, Intellectual Property, Digital Media, Data Management, Apps -
TweetDeck to shut down mobile apps, cut off Facebook integration News
06.03.2013 TweetDeck announced last night that it will soon retire its mobile apps for iOS and Android, as well as its AIR desktop client, turning its focus instead to developing its... -
Eircom reveals winners of 2013 Junior Spider Awards News
05.03.2013 Students from schools across Ireland have today been awarded for their online innovation in the 2013 Eircom Junior Spider Awards. The digital innovators who hail from primary...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Multimedia, Internet, Education, Digital Business, Design, Apps -
Irish app firm listed as one of three finalists in SAP Innovation Challenge News
04.03.2013 SMART Visibility, a new manufacturing mobile software developed by an Irish start-up that aims to enable the factories of the future using augmented reality and GPS, is one of... -
Apple confirms 1bn downloads from iTunes U News
28.02.2013 Apple has revealed that iTunes U content downloads have topped 1bn. The platform boasts the world’s largest online catalogue of free educational content from libaries, museums...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Intellectual Property, Education, Digital Media, Computers, Apps -
Instagram passes the 100m user milestone News
27.02.2013 Instagram, the photo-sharing app company bought last year by Facebook ahead of its IPO for an estimated US$1bn, now has 100m active users worldwide.