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Pop-up shops for bloggers
Here at DT we really like this innovation from Swedish interior design retailer Lagerhaus (nothing to do with beer). Meet the world’s first pop-up shops for blogs. Rather than creating a pop-up shop on its Facebook page, Lagerhaus created a pop-up shop widget for blogs and then gave it to some influential interior design bloggers....
Pull a cracker, beat a world record and help the Simon Community
Carphone Warehouse and the Simon Community will attempt to break the world record for the highest number of simultaneous Christmas cracker pulls, this December 2nd on Hanover Quay, Grand Canal, Dublin 2. The event will take place at 12.30pm and is open to everyone to join in. The record currently stands at 1,478, and they...
Buffy the Facebook phone
Rumours have been swirling for sometime that Facebook would launch its own smartphone. Earlier this year two HTC ‘Facebook phones’ were launched but were simply smartphones with a Facebook app button on the front. Now, however, a fresh rumour started by All Things Digital suggests Facebook is building a phone and it will be called...
New cloud telephony service for big firms
Telefónica Ireland, owners of the O2 brand, has launched a new service which will allow Irish private and public sector organisations outsource their telecoms infrastructure to the cloud. Called O2 Unified Communications, and launched in collaboration with Cisco, the service allows businesses to combine their fixed and mobile telephone, voice mail, instant messaging and video...
Financial software firm to open R&D centre in Dublin
Software development firm Misys will establish a new R&D team in Dublin, creating 35 new jobs. Misys is a developer of software solutions for the financial services industry. The company already employs over 100 people in Dublin at its two software development centres; Misys International Banking Systems Limited and Sophis Technology (Ireland) Limited. A dedicated...
Digital Hub to be merged with either Enterprise Ireland or the IDA
As part of this government’s public sector reform, the Digital Hub Development Agency will be merged with either Enterprise Ireland or the IDA in 2012. The Digital Hub Development Agency says the merger will involve a transition of the management of the Digital Hub but this, it said, “will not impact on the tenancy arrangements...
Retail price intelligence firm Profitero raises €750,000
Profitero, a start-up company that provides pricing intelligence to retailers, has secured a €750,000 investment from the Bank of Ireland Start-up and Emerging Sectors Equity Fund, managed by Delta Partners. Profitero, established in 2010, offers an online service to retailers for monitoring their competitors’ prices, stock availability and shipping charges. “Profitero is an example of...
Arthur Guinness Fund open to social entrepreneurs
The Arthur Guinness Fund is now open for applications. The fund is aimed at “social entrepreneurial initiatives that are committed to making a positive and sustainable impact on communities all over Ireland”. To date €1.65 million has been awarded to a wide range of organisations. Successful projects are eligible to receive between €50,000 and €100,000...
€26 million waiting for tech start-ups
The Northern Ireland based intelligent crowd funding site Seedups says it has a €26,000,000 investment pool available for tech startups. Seedups was founded by Michael Faulkner in 2010 as a means of connecting tech-startups with tech-savvy investors. Seedups uses a “wisdom of crowd” matching engine to give a fair valuation of a startup’s worth. Investors...
RendezVu releases examspeak.com
The e-learning company RendezVu has announced the release of ExamSpeak (www.examspeak.com) a new online language learning platform. ExamSpeak prepares English language learners for their speaking exams by replicating the exam in real time. How it works Students can introduce themselves to the virtual examiners, answer typical exam questions, talk to other test takers and then...
Social games are soaring
Social gaming is fast becoming the biggest thing to happen to the web since social networks themselves. A new study of gamers in the UK and the US finds that 118.5 million people now play social games at least once a week. This is an increase of a massive 71% compared with the same study...
Outside all the walled gardens is the mobile web
Is the the app store model just a fad, a blip in the progress of the open, mobile web? Ruadhan O’Donoghue of dotMobi examines the issue. Everyone with an iPhone knows what an app is. They know what the app store is, and they know how to get new apps onto their phone. The app...
