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# apps - Tuesday 10 December, 2013
6 ways your phone can improve your commute
You know what they say – there’s an app for that.
# apps - Sunday 8 December, 2013
Meet Ireland's Lonely Beast who teaches children their 123s
The last app was featured on an Apple TV ad – and now the Lonely Beast is back.
# apps - Saturday 7 December, 2013
5 apps worth downloading this week
Featuring a new way to shop, a slick app that helps keep your life organised and one of the best photo editing apps out there.
# apps - Friday 6 December, 2013
Spotify to introduce free mobile music service next week
The music streaming company will let mobile users play a limited number of tracks on its app for free.
# apps - Monday 2 December, 2013
How can we make Ireland a global technology hub?
A new strategy aims to harness Ireland’s strengths when it comes to the technology sector.
# apps - Sunday 1 December, 2013
How to keep your social profiles safe and private
You could be revealing more information online than you would think.
# apps - Saturday 30 November, 2013
5 apps worth downloading this week
Featuring a zany platform runner, a way to stream all your music and videos to your smart devices and an app that allows you to turn off annoying notifications on Android.
# apps - Thursday 28 November, 2013
Twitter could be trying to predict the next viral tweet
The @magicstats account predicts which tweets will become popular by favouriting them.
# apps - Saturday 23 November, 2013
5 apps worth downloading this week
Featuring a messaging app based around selfies, 3D photography and a very clumsy ninja.
# apps - Saturday 16 November, 2013
10 messaging apps that are worth downloading
Because there is much more to messaging apps than Whatsapp and Viber.
# apps - Thursday 14 November, 2013
12 reasons Snapchat is worth way more than $3 billion
Back off Facebook!
# apps - Sunday 10 November, 2013
Here's why Bitstrips are the worst things ever and must be stopped
END this fresh cartoon hell.
# apps - Sunday 3 November, 2013
Irish app offers payment each time your phone rings
You must download ringtone from brands but creators hope phone users will be enticed by monetary rewards.
# apps - Thursday 31 October, 2013
WATCH: Life-enhancing cubes, Facebook for pets, and more Web Summit start-ups
We spoke to start-ups at the international conference to see what they had on offer.
# apps - Monday 28 October, 2013
The best astronomy apps for amateur stargazers
If you want to decipher the skies, these 11 apps are worth a look.
# apps - Wednesday 18 September, 2013
Charity asks for help in mapping Ireland’s defibrillators
A Galway-based charity is aiming to create an app that shows the location of life-saving equipment, but is asking for the public’s help.
# apps - Tuesday 10 September, 2013
Would you push the button on these impossible dilemmas?
Addictive new game poses the question.
# apps - Monday 9 September, 2013
# apps - Wednesday 4 September, 2013
After much speculation, Samsung finally unveils smartwatch
The phone can make calls, take photos, receive notifications – basically everything a smartphone can do. But there’s a few catches…
# apps - Thursday 22 August, 2013
Coast guard can track boat users in new water safety app
The release of ISA SafeTrx comes as the Irish Coast Guard (ICG) reports a considerable increase in the amount of emergency call-outs its has received so far this year.
# apps - Tuesday 30 July, 2013
6 ways social media can improve your road trip
Do you bring along your smartphone when you hit the road?
# apps - Monday 29 July, 2013
There is a Copper Face Jacks app. This is not a drill.
Going to Coppers? There’s an app for that.
# apps - Monday 15 July, 2013
How to never send a drunk text ever again
OR an email, OR tweet, OR Facebook message. Simply follow this step-by-step guide.
# apps - Saturday 6 July, 2013
We wish we'd never heard of these apps
Download if you dare.
# apps - Monday 10 June, 2013
iOS 7: Apple unveils a new operating system for iPhone and iPad
The operating system for over 400 million devices will be available to download later this year.
# apps - Friday 7 June, 2013
VIDEO: DCU students impress Ellen with Croagh Patrick video
Did you know that Ellen has a smartphone game now? She is slowly but surely taking over.
# apps - Wednesday 5 June, 2013
30 jobs for Cork as 'cash back' smartphone app expands
SnapCash are building an app to allow users take photographs of shopping receipts and then get some cash back.
# apps - Sunday 12 May, 2013
The 25 most popular free iPhone apps of all time
Sorry, Android users. You’re probably not going to want to read this article.
# apps - Monday 22 April, 2013
Appeal for Irish to take part in global food allergy study
Data is being compiled to shed light on how allergies develop from infancy and to track their occurence in a community.
# apps - Thursday 18 April, 2013
Two-week-old karaoke app has 70k users and Lindsay Lohan's a huge fan
What on earth is Just Sing It?
# apps - Thursday 11 April, 2013
11 weird apps we could probably do without
There’s an app for that, you know.
# apps - Monday 25 March, 2013
Yahoo! buys London teen's Summly app
Nick D’Aloisio, 17, will now join the Yahoo! team and the app will close.
# apps - Sunday 24 February, 2013
The awkward way people flirt on dating app Tinder
“I can’t help but stare.” Please don’t.
# apps - Thursday 24 January, 2013
Dublin to be studied in its capacity as a 'smart city'
€2.3m grant will fund five years of research into how technology influences life in the capital.
# apps - Wednesday 19 December, 2012
Instagram tells users: We don't want to sell your photographs
There had been an outcry on social media after the photo-sharing service appeared to say it would use user photographs in advertisements.
# apps - Sunday 4 November, 2012
The App all men have been waiting for (and could probably do with)
Ballina-based app developer launches Man App to remind you of the dates you tend to forget and the advice you tend to need.
# apps - Friday 2 November, 2012
TheJournal.ie and TheScore.ie scoop three awards
eircom Spiders call TheJournal.ie Best Mobile App 2012; Irish Web Awards make us their Best Web-Only Publication and TheScore.ie their Best Sports Site. Aw shucks.
# apps - Monday 29 October, 2012
Nick Leeson: Here's one thing to congratulate the Irish regulators for...
…Keeping out extortionate ‘payday’ lending. Looking at the horror cases in the UK, they should keep up the good work.
# apps - Wednesday 17 October, 2012
Smartphone explosion - and 10 other predictions your business should know
AOL’s Digital Prophet David Shing was speaking at the Dublin Web Summit today.
# apps - Friday 21 September, 2012
Sarcastic Tumblr of the Day: The Amazing iOS 6 Maps
And you thought Ireland had it bad?
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Poll: Who will win the US presidential election?
KAMALA HARRIS HAS been chosen as the running mate of Joe Biden, the former US Vice President who is facing Donald Trump in the US presidential election.
Harris’ addition to the ticket has refocused attention on the November election. Trump is looking for another four-year term, alongside his VP Mike Pence.
Biden is generally outperforming the president in opinion polls but, as the last election showed, polls don’t always get it right.
Let us know: Who do you think will win the US presidential election?
Poll Results:
Joe Biden (8860)
Donald Trump (4492)
I'm not sure (1788)
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What we can learn from the world's 'Blue Zones' - where people regularly live into their 90s and 100s
By Professor Ciaran O’Boyle
Opinion: 'An unjustified panic against all international travel has developed in Ireland'
By Robert Dagg
Money Diaries: A construction contracts manager on €67K with a young family in Galway
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