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Ask and Quora’s app delivers
Quora has finally launched an iPhone app. The social question-and-answer service, founded by Facebook engineers Adam D’Angelo and Charlie Cheever, is used by many prominent people from a host of information-rich industries and sectors and is quickly becoming the must-go-to site for authoritative answers to difficult questions. The Quora app, as you’d expect, is pretty...
Book tickets for The Appys with The Carphone Warehouse
The Appys with The Carphone Warehouse is the only dedicated awards programme in Ireland for app development and app design. Entries are closed for this year’s awards and were open to anyone who developed [or paid for the development of] a mobile app, a tablet app (e.g. an iPad app) or a Facebook app. All...
Klip – ‘the Instagram for video clips’
There are cool apps and then there are really cool apps. We think Klip falls into the later category. Klip “aims to be for video what Instagram is for photos and Twitter is for text”. Put simply, this app is a really slick video-sharing service for your iPhone that allows you to show your videos...
Smart devices, apps and mobile sites changing way people shop
New research by HP shows that the rate of technological change, driven by smartphones and tablet devices, is dramatically altering the way people in Europe shop. Over half of the top 50 European retailers use more than three channels to sell direct to consumers. However, shoppers’ ever increasing expectations for “seamless cross-channel shopping experiences” means...
HeyStaks releases tablet apps
HeyStaks (www.heystaks.com), the Irish social search start-up with offices in NovaUCD and San Francisco, has launched apps for the iPad and Android tablets. The apps will “help users quickly and easily get more relevant and personalised search results”. The apps are also featured as one of the fifteen best of the web apps on the...
Blueface and Three launch Ireland’s first telephone app
Irish Internet telephony firm Blueface has partnered with mobile network Three to launch a telephone app in Ireland. The app will allow business customers, on the Three mobile network, to get a landline number on their iPhone. “The Three landline app not only provides business customers with an innovative way of accessing a fixed landline...
The first MoMo Showcase Ireland
Mobile Monday (MoMo) Dublin and MoMo Belfast came together on September 19th at the Gibson Hotel, Dublin for the first MoMo Showcase Ireland. The event was an opportunity for professionals from across the mobile and mobile developer sectors to come together, share ideas and connect. Norbert Sagnard, one of the event organisers, said Showcase Ireland...
Foursquare reaches one billion check-ins
A Week of Check-ins on the Path to One Billion from foursquare on Vimeo. Foursquare passed one billion check-ins last week on its service. Not bad for a company launched in 2009. The location-based social network recently integrated five new languages which opened up the platform to over 1.5 billion people. To celebrate its one...
Irish app translation firm launches in US
Tethras, an Irish mobile app localisation firm, has announced the launch of its offering in the U.S. market and the opening of an office in Mountain View, California. The company started in Nova UCD. Tethras provides mobile app developers with a way to translate apps into over forty languages. By using Tethras, mobile developers can...
44 rugby apps in one
Following Ireland’s historic victory against Australia in the #rwc11, the appetite for all things rugby in Ireland is set to grow even further. The Rugby 2011 NZ World Cup Live app is achieving success less than a month after launch, attaining the number one spot in the sports stores in Ireland, United Kingdom, Australia, Botswana...
Snap and tweet with Dublin Contemporary app
The Dublin Contemporary 2011 app is now available for free download for both Apple and Android smartphones. It offers a definitive guide to Dublin Contemporary 2011 by providing full details of the 114 artists exhibiting, the venues and locations, along with an interactive artist guide to use while browsing the exhibition. The app will also...
Integrating Nokia apps into your car
Nokia’s new Car Mode app means Nokia smartphone users will be able to access and use Nokia Drive (voice-guided car navigation with Nokia Maps), traffic updates, music and voice calls while driving. The app uses the MirrorLink platform*. The app will be available for download from the Ovi Store in Q4 2011 for Nokia smartphones...
