Google has announced that it will be discontinuing its free SMS alert service for Google Calendar from June 27th. The company cites the growth in smartphone usage and improvements in technology as reasons for killing off the service: Starting on 27 June 2015, SMS notifications from Google Calendar will no longer be sent. SMS notifications […]
Here’s a preview of a new App launching in a couple of weeks which turns your tablet into an expressive musical instrument. [youtube]http://youtu.be/IE4qdOk2les[/youtube] Intunative is the first product from Surface Tension, a spin out from NUI Maynooth, founded by Music Technology graduates Simon Kenny and Patrick McGlynn. They used the prize money from the University’s annual Student […]
Remember payphones? They used to be everywhere, distinctive green and yellow in Ireland, red in Britain. These days you might find one in a retro pub, a nod to the ‘good old days’. Nowadays we don’t just all have phones in our pockets: we’ve got media hubs, portable WiFi hotspots, TVs – and TV stations! So we […]
One of the issues that Facebook has been grappling with is two fold. On the one hand their mobile traffic has been growing, in line with many popular sites. But while the traffic on mobile devices and overall mobile usage might be on the increase the social network has been having issues turning that usage […]
