Apps
# apps - Sunday 12 May, 2013
# 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
Smartphones the future of internet – and 10 other predictions
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?
# apps - Thursday 6 September, 2012
New Ryanair app costs €3
Ryanair has created an easy way for you to manage your bookings, baggage and flight details all from your handheld device – but it’ll cost you.
# apps - Sunday 2 September, 2012
High tech homes: the smart technology that helps you run your home
Fridges that recommend recipes, robot vacuums and moving the walls at the touch of a button…
# apps - Monday 23 July, 2012
New app will rescue you from bad dates
The app schedules fake emergency calls from family members, neighbours and your boss giving you an excuse to cut your terrible date short.
# apps - Wednesday 11 July, 2012
App for taxi customers monitors route and average fare
Kevin Fagan has created an iPhone app for taxi customers who don’t want to be taken for a ride.
# apps - Wednesday 27 June, 2012
Unfortunate Ministerial Photo Prop of the Day
The journey planner has been launched online and as an Android app… but is not currently available on iPhone.
# apps - Sunday 3 June, 2012
Game on, Ger! Presenting TheScore.ie’s iPhone and iPad apps
Got an Apple device and love sport? We think we might have something you’ll like…
# apps - Friday 1 June, 2012
Over 75,000 disposable BBQs will be used in 2012
Repak wants consumers to think of the ‘forgotten recyclables’ from barbecue season over the June bank holiday.
# apps - Monday 7 May, 2012
Angry Birds generates over €80 million for creators Rovio
Apps from the Angry Birds game series were downloaded 648 million times by the end of last year.
# apps - Sunday 22 April, 2012
Irish inventions helping those with sight loss
National Council for the Blind (NCBI) promoting digital inclusion with competition to encourage creative technologies like these…
# apps - Monday 26 March, 2012
Carry an organ donor card… in your smartphone
As Organ Donor Awareness Week is launched, iPhone and Android users alerted to ECard option…
# apps - Sunday 8 January, 2012
Irish company nominated in Best App Ever Awards
A Tipperary company that develops equestrian apps has been shortlisted for the Best App Ever awards.
# apps - Thursday 29 December, 2011
iPrime Minister: David Cameron to get his own iPad app
What would you get the Prime Minister who has everything? Well his own app of course…
# apps - Wednesday 14 December, 2011
‘Angry Birds’ among apps removed from Google’s Android Market after scam
Google has said a number of fraudulent apps have been removed from its Android Market store.
# apps - Thursday 27 October, 2011
X Factor USA viewers can now vote using Twitter
They can also use Facebook – and are allowed to submit up to 50 votes from each account.
# apps - Monday 17 October, 2011
BlackBerry aims to placate angry customers after disruptions
The company’s customers will be offered free app downloads after outages left millions without services last week.
# apps - Monday 25 July, 2011
# apps - Wednesday 29 June, 2011
Take 5: Wednesday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
# apps - Tuesday 7 June, 2011
Poll: Do you love or loathe Apple?
Today we’re asking how you feel about the tech company which seems to inspire adoration or loathing in computer and smartphone users around the world.
# apps - Wednesday 11 May, 2011
Facebook security breach allowed advertisers access to user data
Hundreds of thousands of Facebook apps may have leaked ‘access tokens’ to Facebook users’ actions and profiles, according to security company Symantec.
# apps - Monday 11 April, 2011
Presenting: The Android app for TheJournal.ie
Happy days – Android device users can now join iPhone and iPad users and download their FREE TheJournal.ie app
# apps - Wednesday 2 February, 2011
Smart dating: New app helps you track down where all the ladies hang out
Geo-location technology helping San Franciscans find best spots for chatting up women.
# apps - Monday 24 January, 2011
Boost for new Irish music with Breaking Tunes app
Fresh Irish acts get iPhone platform – listeners can share their videos and music for free.
# apps - Thursday 20 January, 2011
Glenstal Appy: Monks launch new app for iPhone and Android
Religious community at Limerick’s Glenstal Abbey reach out with technology – but admit they don’t have iPhones of their own.
# apps - Wednesday 19 January, 2011
# apps - Wednesday 22 December, 2010
Five ways to give your kids an Appy Christmas
Here’s our selection of cute apps to get you and your little ones into the Santa Spirit. Not long now…
# apps - Friday 17 December, 2010
Shameless plug alert! Presenting TheJournal.ie’s iPhone and iPad apps
We’ve just launched our iPhone and iPad apps, giving you more ways to keep up with the news you need to know on the go.





















































