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App of the day – BATTERY HD+
Platform: iOS – iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch (Android soon) Price: Free Download it from the AppStore. What does it do? In short it’s a sophisticated battery monitor for those who are regularly frustrated with diminishing battery power. It’s a really simple app that tells you with great accuracy the minutes of battery power left, depending...
Why Google is poised to dominate the Planet of the Apps
Most people associate apps with Apple. Apple apps. The Appstore. Apple invented the app with the launch of the iPhone … etc. etc. However, Apple’s operating system for the iPhone and iPad may not be the most interesting when it comes to apps. Apple apps (iOS apps) are notoriously difficult to get launched on the...
App of the day – Splashtop Remote Desktop
· Platforms: iPhone and iPad. · Price: €0.99 · Available on the Appstore. New portable devices, such as iPhone or iPad, are great tools and well-designed pieces of technology, but in fairness, at the moment there are certain things you can opnly do using a computer or a laptop. However, with Splashtop Remote Desktop, the...
Best Baby Monitor
• Available for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. • Download it from the Appstore. • Price: €2.39. The Best Baby Monitor app is very handy. It’s an iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad app (iOS) especially useful for parents and babysitters. Using the call alert mode, the app can call any phone number you want when...
Has Google damaged Google search?
This week Google, the world’s most-used search engine, deeply integrated its new social network Google+ into its search results. The idea is to deliver more ‘personalised results’ but these results are pulled mainly from Google services like Google+, YouTube and Blogger. So exactly how ‘personalised’ are the results and is the bias towards Google+ compromising...
iPad app allows kids to publish books
This is cute, a new free iPad app that allows kids to create and physically publish their own books. Scribble Press is a chain of three stores in the US (California) that wants to go global with its product. Using the iPad app, kids can choose various templates before they advance to designing their own...
Is this Google’s weapon to challenge Facebook?
When Google launched its latest social network Google+, it received a mixed response – some thought it was okay, some hated it. Indeed, many ‘seasoned’ social media professionals were quick to dismiss it straight away and say it was too little, too late and Facebook owned the social networking world. Period. However, after many Facebook...
New Google Maps game
Here’s a nice idea from Google, a game based on Google Maps. The game is based on WebGL and will be available from Google+Games from February. The game is designed to get more people interacting with Google+ as well as showing off the new ‘indoors view’ feature on Google Maps. Pretty cool stuff.
€1 million investment and 12 new jobs for Blueface
Irish cloud telephony company Blueface, has announced a €1m investment in research & development to enhance its next generation IP telephony and services platform and drive export activity. The investment, which will create 12 new jobs, is being part-funded by Enterprise Ireland’s R&D Fund. Enterprise Ireland classifies Blueface as a “scaling client” meaning it is...
Visa certifies wave and pay phones from Samsung, LG and Blackberry
Visa Europe has certified certain smartphones made by Samsung, LG and Blackberry to use its mobile app for payments – Visa payWave. The Samsung Galaxy SII, LG Optimus NET NFC, BlackBerry® Bold™ 9900, BlackBerry Bold 9790, BlackBerry® Curve™ 9360 and BlackBerry Curve 9380 have been added to Visa’s list of “compliant payment products” i.e. wave...
Can Timberlake really resurrect MySpace?
MySpace, remember that? Back in the olden days it was a hot web property. It was founded in 2003 and was bought by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation in 2005 for $580 million. Why would Murdoch pay so much for a web property? Well, *logs onto Wikipedia*, “from 2005 until early 2008, MySpace was the most...
An app that builds apps – and it’s free
A new iOS (Apple) app allows users to create their own iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch apps within minutes. Appatista works by just transforming any RSS feed into an app. Once the app is created from the RSS feed it is available for the user to share via email, Twitter, Facebook or any other social...
