Tagged: GPS & News
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Restaurant app Temptster secures €100k Dragons’ Den investment News
08.04.2013 Dublin tech entrepreneur Ollie Fegan secured a €100,000 investment on the TV series Dragons’ Den last night after he pitched his new app Temptster that allows restaurants and...Categories: Mobile, Marketing, Management, Investments, Internet, Consumer Tech, Apps, Application Design and Development -
Apple acquires indoor-GPS service company WifiSLAM News
25.03.2013 Consumer tech giant Apple has acquired WifiSLAM, an indoor-GPS company, for a reported US$20m. -
Irish app firm listed as one of three finalists in SAP Innovation Challenge News
04.03.2013 SMART Visibility, a new manufacturing mobile software developed by an Irish start-up that aims to enable the factories of the future using augmented reality and GPS, is one of... -
Getting ‘shimmered up’ for med tech News
25.02.2013 Dublin-based Shimmer Research is going from strength to strength, providing sensing platforms for research and enterprise. Claire O’Connell talks to Shimmer CEO Kieran Daly... -
Toyota reveals future autonomous car tech at CES News
08.01.2013 Having given tantalising glimpses of the autonomous vehicle technology it has been pioneering in recent times, yesterday Toyota announced details of the technology that could... -
Review: Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone (video) News
29.05.2012 After months of hype, speculation and teasing, the Samsung Galaxy S III is finally here, and we’re all dying to find out if it will live up to the reputation that precedes it. -
Tech start-up of the week: iGeotec News
04.11.2012 Our tech start-up of the week is iGeotec, a geospatial technology spin-out from NUI Maynooth that has developed a geoinformatics platform based in the cloud that handles GPS,...Categories: Software Development, Software & Web Development, Software, R&D, Mobile, Investments, Education, Digital Media, Apps -
New water safety programme in Limerick uses GPS technology News
15.10.2012 Limerick County Council has teamed up with Irish Water Safety and Cork company Loc8 Code to pilot a new programme using GPS technology to help improve emergency responses...Tags: GPS, Smartphone, -
Dublin firm Fleetmatics to IPO on New York Stock Exchange News
05.10.2012 Dublin-headquartered fleet management technology firm Fleetmatics is to make its initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange, offering 7.8m shares at US$17 per... -
The week in gadgets: Google Glass at NYFW and HP’s new Windows 8 PCs News
10.09.2012 A look at gadget happenings, as Google Glass takes to the catwalk, HP introduces four new Windows 8 desktop PCs, and TomTom teams up with BMW for an integrated in-car navigation...Tags: TomTom, BMW, GPS, HP, Computers, Desktop Computers, Windows 8, Google, Google Glass, Wearable Computing -
Google reveals new Google Maps mobile biking app with turn-by-turn navigation News
30.08.2012 Keen bikers in 12 countries are about to get a welcome surprise in the form of a new biking app for mobile devices from Google which includes turn-by-turn navigation and...Categories: Apps, Internet, Mobile, Mobility, Multimedia, Operating Systems, Phones, Wireless Communications -
European Commission-backed internet service boosts reliability of GPS News
26.07.2012 The European Commission’s new European Data Access Service (EDAS) internet service claims to make it possible to obtain more accurate GPS data via the internet in addition to...Categories: Wireless Communications, Networking & Telecoms, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media, Communications -
More than 6bn of Earth’s population carries a mobile device – that’s 75pc of the world News
18.07.2012 Some 6bn people on planet Earth have a mobile subscription, which includes 5bn people in developing countries, according to The World Bank. That means 75pc of people on the...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Government, Global CIO, eCommerce, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Apps Zone, Apps -
You wait forever for a taxi app, and then four come along at once News
12.07.2012 Within the space of a few weeks, Ireland has seen the launch of no less than four apps to improve taxi services, as start-ups, entrepreneurs and established businesses seek to... -
TomTom’s Congestion Index ranks Dublin as sixth most congested city in Europe News
10.07.2012 TomTom’s quarterly Congestion Index sees Dublin landing just shy of the top 5 most congested cities in Europe, with Warsaw, Poland, taking the top spot.Categories: Research, Consumer Tech -
Facebook abandons ‘Find Friends Nearby’ app News
26.06.2012 Just as the world was coming to grips with the idea they could find and be found via a geosocial app that found friends nearby, Facebook has decided to abandon the ‘Find Friends...Categories: Social Media, Security, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Legal, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Facebook’s ‘Find Friends Nearby’ – is it opening a new can of worms around privacy? News
25.06.2012 Facebook has introduced a clever geosocial mobile and web service called ‘Find Friends Nearby’ that lets users discover existing or new friends that are nearby. -
American Lung Association launches State of the Air app to detect air quality News
22.06.2012 The American Lung Association has unleashed a free smartphone app for people with lung diseases or asthma to check out the air quality in their local areas.Categories: Sustainability, Science, Mobile, Consumer Tech, Apps, Application Design and Development -
TomTom Places navigation-based search engine comes to Ireland News
19.06.2012 TomTom’s unique search engine, TomTom Places, has recently been introduced in Sweden, Austria, Norway and Spain, and now it’s coming to Ireland. -
The week in gadgets News
11.06.2012 A look at gadget happenings, as Pong unveils the world’s most-advanced iPad case, the Dark Knight gets his own app, and ovens get SIM cards.