Вчера утром известный новостной агрегатор Flipboard заявил о намерениях приобрести приложение Zite [App Store Link] от CNN. Несмотря на то, что сумма сделки официально не разглашается, в прессе появилась информация о том, что цена вопроса составит $60 млн. долларов....
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....
INQ, the U.K.-based, Hutchison Whampoa backed company that used to build social phones, has extended its social magazine app Material to iOS, and updated the Android app to add an offline view feature and the ability to edit topics. The latter has had more than 50,000 downloads since its beta launch in February.
Like music? Like making it? Discovering new artists? Figuring out who the heck is singing that song on the TV commercial? We’ve got you covered in this week’s roundup of new and updated iOS apps....
Как известно, любимый многими Google Reader «скоропостижно скончался»и будет окончательно закрыт с 1 июля. Печальная новость, которая заставит многих задуматься о поисках альтернативной программы.
Heartbroken over the news of Google Reader’s demise? RSS isn’t the only way to keep up with the news. Here are five news reader apps for iOS that we like.
Zite, the CNN-owned iPhone and and iPad app offering aggregated content that’s personalized to your interests, launched a big revamp back in December. In some ways, Zite 2.0 was a success — for one thing, article views per user per day went up 11 percent. On the other hand, co-founder/CTO Mike Klaas and Senior Software Architect Emuye Reynolds told me that there was definitely some pushback from…
Congratulations on unwrapping your brand-new iPhone! Undoubtedly, you’ve already fired up the device and are eagerly exploring what the phone has to offer. Now that you’ve learned your way around a bit, it’s time to load your iPhone up with apps, both fun and functional....
You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll commit untold violence! This week’s roundup of iOS apps offers users the full range of human emotions....
Zite has upgraded magazine app for iOS from personalized to “intelligent” with version 2.0, giving it Facebook integration, a new Explore page for finding content, and 40,000 categories to choose from. Previously, Zite had 2,500 categories available, so it’s a big jump up in terms of content....
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...
Apple has launched a countdown to its 25 billionth app downloaded from the App Store, but more is at stake than the glory of a historic download. The company is giving...
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…
Hot on the heels of Flipboard for iPhone and Google Currents, social news reader Zite released an iPhone version of its app Friday. Zite, which laun…
Apple released the list of its best and most popular apps on Thursday. The App Store Rewind features 20 categories from Travel to Games, and names the top five apps of...
Chances are, if there’s an iPad in your family, you share it among the different members. In fact, that lack of portability between people is part of what drove me…
This week’s selection of must-have iOS apps features a brand new social news experience called News.me. Created by Bit.ly, with backing from The New York Times, this app shows you not just what your friends are sharing, but also what they’re reading. Sony’s new Crackle application offers a library of over 100 great movies and TV shows, such as The Da Vinci Code, Ghostbusters, Seinfield and Spider-Man – all of which are completely free to watch. RockMelt also makes this week’s must-haves – a web browser ...
The iPad 2 came out this month! Which means a lot of apps have joined our list of the best iPad apps. Who are the big winners in March? Who gets the boot? CNN: There's so much going on the world right now that I keep my eyes glued and fingers pressed to the CNN app on the iPad. There's breaking news, top stories and the clincher, at least for me, great videos of everything CNN covers. Free. Friendly: Friendly is the best unofficial Facebook app on the iPad because it does everything you'd want the non-...
You've seen the commercials; Apps are what makes an iPad come to life. Here are the very best ones for work, play, creation, consumption and everything in between. Twitter: The official Twitter app for iPad packs in the features, giving you a full Tweet-and-browse experience. It can be a little bit overwhelming at first, but powerful things often are. Free. Flipboard: A true testament to the iPad's transformative powers, Flipboard scrapes your Twitter and Facebook feeds for links and arranges them in a...
