Compiled by JOHN COLLINS
Ireland on Facebook
FRIEND: Tourism Ireland has confirmed that Ireland is now the fifth most popular nation on Facebook.
The Discover Ireland page on Facebook now has 250,000 fans placing it behind Croatia (260,000), Spain (280,000), New Zealand (310,000) and, top of the heap, Australia (1.4 million).
The Irish presence on the social network is adding about 2,500 fans a day, according to the tourist promotion body. It says social networking is like a digital form of “word of mouth” and so one of the most effective forms of tourist promotion.
facebook.com/DiscoverIreland
Find my iPhone
INSTALL: Until late last year Apple charged for one of the best services available through MobileMe – the ability to find a lost iPhone or iPad. But in November the Find my iPhone was quietly released as a free app. It will run on fourth-generation iPhones and iPods, as well as the iPad, and allows you to log on to the MobileMe website locate your device on a map, lock it, display a message on screen, play a sound, or remotely wipe all its data. Given how much sensitive data, such as credit card numbers, that are stored in apps on iPhones, this is an essential one to install.
mobileme.com
Steve Jobs's reality distortion takes its toll on truth
READ:While we are as excited about the iPad 2 as the next gadget geek, we have to admit Steve Jobs is a professional at creating his patented "reality distortion field" in which competitors to Apple are laid waste. In this post on Fortune's Google 24/7 blog Seth Weintraub goes through some of the claims made by Jobs at the iPad 2 launch and shows them to be untrue. The first dual core tablet to ship in volume? No. Samsung's Galaxy Tab sales are quite small? No. The iPad has 90 per cent market share? Perhaps of tablets that start with the letter "I", says Weintraub.
