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Be the tour guide – Tourism Ireland’s latest campaign
Following the Queen’s visit to Ireland, Tourism Ireland is keen to promote Ireland to potential British tourists. Its first campaign involves ‘Nick & Sam’ on a road trip around Ireland. Nick & Sam, two British ‘tourists’, will travel from Belfast to Cork with no fixed route and will be guided by suggestions sent in by...
A template for future for iPad magazines
The New York Public Library has created an iPad app that shows magazine and newspaper publishers how fantastic their products could [potentially] be on tablet devices. The Biblion app allows users (readers) to chart their own path of discovery. Unlike traditional magazine apps that are linear and follow a ‘stream’, the New York Public Library’s...
Countdown to enter Mobile Clicks for possible share of €225,000
The closing date for entries to the Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2011 competition is midnight on 12th June, 2011 CET. The winner, a start-up, will share the €225,000 prize fund. This is an international contest to identify and develop mobile web start-ups. As the brief goes: “Any new company with a mobile site, service or application...
Getting Irish businesses online
Blueface and Irish Domains have partnered to launch an initiative called www.gettingirishbusinessonline.ie. As it says on the tin, the aim of the project is to get more Irish businesses online and active in e-commerce. The starter pack will include a free ‘.ie’ registered domain name, free hosting, a free website builder, email addresses that work...
‘Appy Redwind lands Heineken USA
Irish firm Redwind Software has just landed a very nice contract – it will be looking after all the mobile and app business for Heineken USA. Redwind Software was established in 2008 by Conor Winders and David McMahon, and is a games and software development studio based in Dublin. At last year’s Appys the company...
Competition – WIN, WIN, WIN!
Our friends at GoSailing.ie have given us two sets of two tickets (that’s four tickets in total to you and me) to offer our readers in exchange for Facebook likes and Digital Times email subscribers. The competition ends COB Wednesday 25th of May, winners will be announced and then contacted by Aaron and his team...
Empire Avenue – the social network that trades in ‘social currency’
At its heart, Empire Avenue is a social network that employs game mechanics to keep users playing. From a business perspective it’s a useful tool for brands to find out what people think they [the brands] are worth and for brands to engage in targeted marketing based on some very detailed user profiles. Users of...
Interxion expands Dublin data centre
Data services company Interxion will invest a further €7.1 million in expanding its DUB 2 Data Centre in Dublin. This is the third expansion in the Dublin market in the past eighteen months and will require 70 construction workers to complete the expansion. The expansion will increase Interxion’s equipped space in Dublin by nearly 25%...
Independent News & Media invests in social buying
A new, Irish social buying site has been launched. GrabOne.ie is is a joint venture between Independent News & Media and GrabOne/APN, Australasia. GrabOne’s motto is ‘Buy together, Save together’ and, “through the power of collective buying, consumers can benefit from between 50-90% off the usual price,” says the company. Ruairi Doyle, general manager at...
Massive leap in online spending by the Irish
Irish adults spent an estimated €2.96 billion online in 2010, an increase of 39% on the 2009 figure. The figures are part of an annual survey* carried out by Visa Europe. Half the respondents said that they save between 11–30% by shopping online. Value is more important for 25-44 year olds, with 59% choosing it...
Microsoft and Nokia latest to challenge ‘app store’ trademark
Microsoft and Nokia are the latest companies to challenge Apple’s EU-wide trademarks for the terms ‘appstore’ and ‘app store’. Sony Ericson and HTC have also filed requests to invalidate Apple’s trademark rights with the EU trademark agency, in Spain. All four companies believe the trademarks should not have been granted because, as Microsoft has stated,...
Opportunities for Twitter developers still exist
At a recent Twitter developer event in San Francisco (#devnest), the company announced it receives an astonishing 13 billion API requests a day – yes, billion. There are 600,000 developers working on apps that use the Twitter API and a whopping 900,000 web applications that integrate with Twitter. While Twitter recently put a stop to...
