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Ho ho ho app
Here’s a fun little app created by digital ad agency Refresh in time for the Christmas gift-giving season. The Secret Santa app allows the person tasked with arranging the Secret Santa or Kris Kindle – either for family or work – to manage the entire process electronically. “Normally with Secret Santa – or Kris Kindle...
That’s smart Noddy
Okay, I had to write about this. Noddy was one of my all time favourite children’s characters and now he’s been re-imagined for the smartphone age. Noddy is now making his mobile debut in Noddy in Toyland, available for iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets. The move from toy box to smartphone features a...
EpiSensor secures €850k in VC funding
EpiSensor, a Limerick based company that develops wireless sensor technology that aims to reduce energy costs has secured €850,000 in VC funding. EpiSensor’s wireless technology platform (SiCA) reduces energy costs by providing data from wireless energy sensors that show where energy savings can be made. “The global potential for wireless energy monitoring systems is enormous,”...
Button Factory gigs to be live streamed on Aertv
Good news for live music fans, particularly fans of O Emperor and Logikparty. Following on from its live streaming of Hard Working Class Heroes in October, Aertv.ie will live stream a list of gigs from Irish bands on December 16th and 17th. Those who can’t get tickets for the Button Factory gigs will be able...
Independent.ie tops Nokia app chart
Independent.ie is the top Irish content app on the Nokia store. In the news category Independent.ie tops the charts and has received a four star rating. The Nokia app also allows users to read full articles across a range of categories including breaking news, world, sport, business and lifestyle. (Independent.ie also has apps built for...
ISPCC’s new website seeks to drive donations
The website for the Irish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC) has been upgraded in a bid to attract new supporters and drive donations. Cyclical, large-format campaign landing pages now greet visitors, highlighting the ISPCC’s fund-raising and encouraging greater levels of participation. “We are particularly happy with how easy to use and accessible...
Flipboard for iPhone – review
Flipboard, the first and most successful social/personal digital magazine for the iPad, is now available for the iPhone. But is it any good? The short answer is yes. It’s good, but it’s not a carbon copy of the iPad app, it’s a re-imagining of the iPad app for the smaller iPhone screen. Flipboard works by...
Will an early 2012 launch of iPad 3 affect iPad 2 sales this Christmas?
One of the top selling digital tools for Christmas 2011 will be the iPad 2. Thousands of people all over Ireland will join millions of people across the globe on Christmas morning in a flurry of Apple-induced excitement as they unwrap the world’s best selling tablet computer and begin downloading apps by the sleigh load....
Top topics on Facebook in 2011 (UK stats)
It’s that time of the year again when we receive lots of research around the top things that happened in 2011. A look back in anger, joy and wonderment so to speak. Last year Facebook’s top ten list for the UK was all about X Factor and the World Cup. This year it’s all about...
A happy Christmas by Coke
Coca-Cola Philippines recently struck the right chord with a small digital ad campaign. A short film for the brand, showing how it helped three ex-pat Filipinos fly home for Christmas, went viral after it was shared across Facebook more than 240,000 times. The film was created by McCann Erickson Philippines. You can read more about...
‘New Twitter’ aims to spread tweets across the web
Twitter must make money if it is to survive and with 200 million registered accounts and perhaps tens of millions of active users (the debate on how many engage with Twitter is ongoing), the only way it can make money is through advertising – and to make serious money it needs millions more active users....
Adjuno wins €50,000 lift off fund
Canadian start-up Adjuno has won the latest NDRC LaunchPad ‘Lift Off’ competition with an investment prize worth €50,000 from SOS Ventures and the NDRC. Adjuno is a social commerce platform. Second prize went to Newswhip, and third prize went to iCabbi, while the Irish Internet Association (IIA) awarded a special prize to Redeem&Get giving it...
