Apple recently reached a deal to acquire mobile “assistant” provider Siri. This move has been widely regarded as Apple’s next big move in the war against rival internet giants Google. Google have long dominated all forms of search so this recent move demonstrates Apple’s desire to not only compete but dominate on all levels.

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Apple recently announced the creation of iAds, a form of mobile advertising for it’s (also newly announced) iPhone operating system 4.0. The iAds are designed to target mobile phone users where they spend most of their time – on the downloadable apps. There are, however, some limitations to this as the 4.0 operating system (due for release this summer) will not support early iPhone and iPod touch models. Instead the OS 4.0 will only support the iPhone 3G and 3GS, the iPod Touch 2nd and 3rd generations and also the newly released iPad.

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Friday has arrived and it has brought with it a brand new ‘Top 30 Irish Hotels on twitter’. As per usual the hotels have been jostling for position all week creating a few changes mid-table and we have another new entrant scraping in at number 29.

Has your hotel made the list this week?

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It’s time for our weekly top 30 Irish hotels on twitter. There have been a few changes and also a newbie has nudged their way into the top 30!

Has your hotel made the list this week?

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Social networking has finally become something valuable for brick-and-mortar businesses. Smartphones and location-based social networks allow users to interact, share, meet up, and recommend places based on their physical coordinates. This real-world connection to social media can mean more foot traffic and profits for business owners…

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Last week we published our first ever ‘Top 30 Hotels on Twitter’ list. Let’s see what’s changed in a week in the twitterverse…

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Facebook has announced that it plans to roll-out location features to it’s service next month. This is no big surprise considering Facebook’s “anything you can do” philosophy. Twitter started to activate their location based features only a matter of days ago.
This news confirms many people’s suspicions of a huge ‘location based’ trend in 2010.

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The popular social media management tool Hootsuite has announced that it is making steps towards adding MySpace and Foursquare integration to it’s service.

While the MySpace integration was kind of inevitable, the Foursquare addition is a welcomed surprise.

Mashable investigates…

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Due to the great feedback we’ve received from our ‘Top 30 Irish Hotel Pages on Facebook’ list, we’ve decided to acknowledge all the Irish hotels on twitter and have created a top 30 list for this platform…

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