Tech Trends: Time-Management Apps

 time-travel2-photo-courtesy-of-junussyndicate-on-deviantART

Is it in your hand to control your time?  Time.is passing so quickly, life is busy and at the end of the day you come up with lots of to-do lists.  Lift, a free iPhone app with Web and Android versions due out this year, lets you set daily goals and track your progress. Lift was a big help. But I worried that manually checking off my activities would grow tiresome. That’s where Chronos comes in. The free iPhone app uses your phone’s accelerometer, GPS, and other location services to track your activities for you

 

 

MWC 2013: Mobile Internet Can Be Another Industrial Revolution – Nokia CEO

nokia-mwc-1

 

Nokia has just realised that Mobile Internet can be another industrial revolution.

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has claimed that increased adoption of the mobile Internet in the developing world has the power to affect more people than the Industrial Revolution did in Europe during the 18th century.

Speaking at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Elop set out Nokia’s desire to get the next billion people to the Internet, and said the company is “proud of what we’re doing” in taking its smartphone innovations and incorporating them into cheaper products.

New Lenova Tablets Arrived in GSMA, Barcelona

 

Lenovo-A1000

Lenova A1000

During Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo announced three new tablets in its IdeaPad range.

The newcomers will be “competitively priced”, and aimed at different segments of the market: the seven-inch A1000 and A3000 will appeal to users on a budget, while the premium 10-inch S6000 was designed to offer maximum performance in a thin and light package.

Lenovo-S6000

All three devices will go on sale in the second quarter of 2013.

Instagram Reaches 100 million Users!One Year Later, Instagram Triples To 100 Million Users

th21%20800%20instagram%20100m_0

 

This is incredible and fast, is it because of Facebook acqusition or behind of the Ins

 

Well, that was fast. Almost a year after announcing that it had 27 million users, Instagram has surpassed the 100-million-user miletsone, according to the company’s blog. Over the last year, Instagram has continued to refine its already polished app, adding new filters and a Web feed for viewing photos in a browser rather than on a mobile device. 

 

 

 

Does Samsung Scare Smartphone Producers?

sg3_800

Yes, it does. Samsung is doing so well to excite mobile competition among Android producers such as Motorola, HTC and LG.

According to a report in the the Wall Street Journal, Google is concerned about Samsung’s dominance among Android smartphone manufacturers. Samsung’s power position could enable it to negotiate more favorable terms from Google for mobile advertising revenue, allow it to install more of its own custom-built apps on its smartphones and tablets (in turn, marginalizing Google’s own apps) or completely fork Android (like Amazon did with the Kindle Fire) to cut Google out of the picture entirely.

Digital Media & Marketing Summit 2013

DigitaISummitBanner_103728

 

It is the conference, I would like to join and be part of this amazing event. I follow Digital marketing institute of Ireland since 2010. They run quite impressive training programmes, part- time, full-time master degrees, Digital Marketing education or career.

Now, they are announcing that they are proud to be sponsoring the Sunday Business Post’s Digital Media & Marketing Summit, which is taking place in Croke Park on March 7th.

Their Managing Director Anthony Quigley will MC the event, while Ian Dodson, our CEO, will be speaking.

To find out more , visit digitalsummit.ie

Facebook partners with 18 global operators to offer free/discounted mobile data usage

fcss

 

Facebook has continued to push its Messenger apps for mobile after it announced a deal to bring free and discounted data access for the apps to customers of 18 operators across 14 countries. The deal is an aggressive but industry-backed one to offer an alternative to SMS and promote mobile data services for carriers. Continue reading: