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Google makes so many apps for iOS, we thought maybe we could live the Android life on our iPhones. Joel Mathis tried it for a week. Here's what you need to know.

Google Currents, Google’s magazine-like news reading iOS app and a competitor to Flipboard, is rolling out a redesign and a handful of new features, including a way to subscribe to topics you’re interested in, instead of only subscribing to publishers, blogs and RSS feeds. The company is also ditching the name “Currents,” and renaming the app “Google Play…

Google has consolidated its Currents and Magazines apps for Android into a single place. Today, Google Magazines will transform into a new app called Google Play Newsstand, which combines subscriptions to newspapers and magazines with content from blogs, RSS feeds, and other sources. Newsstand is the first app in which you can subscribe to newspapers through Google Play, years after Apple and Amazon signed similar deals. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Los Angeles Times...

Keeping up with the news used to be pretty simple. You picked up your favorite tabloid or broadsheet newspaper on the way to work, or tuned into a scheduled news bulletin at some point on the radio or TV....

Google Maps is the most frequently used mobile app in the world, according to GlobalWebIndex data on global smartphone users in Q2 of 2013. The top three apps after Google's popular mapping tool are Facebook (44% of smartphone users), YouTube (35% of users) and Google+ (30% of users). See also: Use These 10 Apps During Downtime Statista's chart below tracks the 10 most frequently used smartphone apps in the world, based on percentage of smartphone users that have used the app in the past month.

Google today updated its Google Currents app for iOS with a slew of new features. You can download the new app now directly from Apple’s App Store....

Google Currents 2.0, the latest edition of Google’s magazine-like news reader, has today arrived on iOS — just over a month after it launched on Android. The update brings a whole host of new features and improvements, including the edition sidebar, fast scan, and breaking stories ranked by Google News.

Just when you thought you had settled on your preferred news magazine for the iPad (be it Flipboard, Zite, Currents, or something else entirely), another new contender enters the ring. Today, the NewzSocial app is launching its own version of a social news magazine for iPad, but is offering a different take in order to stand out from the rest. In other magazines, you subscribe to read news from various sources (blogs, newspapers, online magazines, Twitter, Facebook, etc.) or you can pick from an...

Google Currents, the free news-reading app for iPhone and iPad, is elegant and useful. But the app from Google suffers from a perplexing failure to integrate more fully with Google’s RSS-reading service.

An iPad app released Wednesday makes it easy to combine a drawing on the tablet with an audio memory -- such as your child's description of his or her artwork. The app,...

Everyone knows the iPhone isn't just for making and taking calls -- it's a slim supercomputer at your fingertips, with the potential to improve your daily efficiency. But...

When Zite‘s smart iPad newspaper launched in March, we were all down in Austin waiting in line for the iPad 2. It was the perfect storm of Twitter adoption, news curation and…

Google is launching a new mobile app called Google Currents, the company just announced on its Mobile blog. Available in the US on iPhones, iPads and Android devices, the app…

If you need a reminder that Google can still make cool stuff, check out their latest app for iOS and Android: Google Currents. It's pretty much a Flipboard clone in that the app turns web content (news sources, rss feeds, etc.) into a slick digital magazine with awesome visuals. Google Currents takes content that's available on websites you already go to (like us and many others!) and then reformats the content into a more digestible and easy on the eyes format. Basically, it's what you already read...

Google is getting into the personalized news delivery app game with Google Currents, a new product available Thursday for Android and iOS devices. Currents is in the same wheelhouse as Flipboard, which launched its impressive iPhone app earlier this week, and an early look reveals promise. …