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INSTALL: TV Guide Ireland  on your iPhone

MORE AND more of us are enhancing our TV watching by commenting on the shows on Twitter and Facebook, which helps explain why Entertainment.ie’s iPhone app has raced to the top of the iTunes charts. Features include seven-day listings for more than 60 channels, soap gossip and programme hashtags for Twitter and the all-important Now and Next view.

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READ: About Amazon's new Kindles

JOHN GRUBER'S popular Apple-focused blog, Daring Fireball, provides some of the best commentary on the Amazon Fire, which is lazily being dubbed an "iPad killer" on many blogs.

He rightly points out that Amazon’s tablet is a valid alternative to the iPad because of its price, ability to access lots of Amazon content and the bookseller’s track record with the Kindle.

“The e-ink Kindles are to the Kindle Fire what the music-playing iPods were to the iPhone, and what the iPhone was to the iPad – traction in the mass market based on trust and loyalty.”

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READ: What happens on the net every 60 seconds  

DID YOU know that more than 650,000 status updates are posted every minute on Facebook? Or that, in the same 60 seconds, 600-plus videos are uploaded to YouTube consisting of more than 25 hours of footage? Or that 13,000 iPhone apps are downloaded from iTunes in the same amount of time? All this and more is included in a fascinating infographic about 60 seconds on the internet, which you can find at the Advertising v3.0 blog.

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INSTALL: Talk2Group for conferencing on the go 

RECENTLY VOTED best new app at the mobile industry meet-up Mobile Monday, Talk2Group, from Dublin-based Ammeon, allows you to set up four-way conference calls from an iPhone or Android-based smartphone. Although you need the app to create a conference, it uses SMS and mobile voice, which means any type of phone can be used to participate. A pro-version, which costs €10 a month, supports up to 10 users.

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