Tag: TRIPADVISOR

Facebook users planning their next vacations can now easily consult their friends' opinions, thanks to a comprehensive new recommendation service from TripAdvisor. The feature uses Facebook's Instant Personalization platform to generate travel recommendations based on the cities your friends have visited, their most popular destinations, and their personal reviews of each place. All this ...

The holidays are expensive enough. Why spend extra cash on tricking out your iPhone with sweet new apps? Besides, there are zillions of selections on the market; how can you even figure out which ones you really need -- or better yet, which ones won't chew through your battery and destroy your phone? Wouldn't it be great if there were a list of iPhone apps that were not only cheap, but essential, ...

Searching for a hotel for a business trip or vacation online is hardly our idea of a good time. Although the outburst of user opinion associated with Web 2.0 has been great for discovering great places to stay, it's still difficult to trust many online reviews. The AP reports that TripAdvisor, one of the Web's biggest travel review sites, is warning travelers that some unscrupulous hotels are ...