Anyone visiting the BBC’s homepage today will be in for a bit of a shock, with the familiar interface being completely transformed, courtesy of a hefty, tablet-friendly makeover.
It’s long overdue, but the folks at the BBC have finally got around to spreading the love Android’s way with the release of their BBC News for Android app.
The visually sumptuous mobile RSS reader Pulse has enjoyed a fresh sprinkling of fairy dust and emerged a little bit shinier for Android and iPhone users.
The ‘save now, read later’ Instapaper app has long been a fave of ours, and the latest version has just been released, bringing with it a new social recommendation system and other fixes and updates.
This is an app that may be warmly welcomed by news junkies, commuters, students and folks who want a handy way of keeping webpages handy to read later, even without an internet connection.
As part of our job, we’re tasked with rummaging around finding interesting nuggets of information, hot news and exciting launches to share with you, but when an Apple product launch is due something rather strange happens.
Normally sensible sites and intelligent writers become gripped in a bizarre frenzy which compels them to post up a stream of wild guesses, source-free flights of fantasy, vague hunches and daft yarns based on the most speculative of claims, and shunt all this fiction into their ‘news’ sections.
With Christchurch still in turmoil after today’s devastating earthquake, Paul Nicholls of the University of Canterbury, N.Z. has created a fascinating – and rather disturbing – animated map plotting seismic activity in the area.
A Google Crisis Response page has been created in the wake of Christchurch’s deadly earthquake, which hit New Zealand’s south island with a magnitude of 6.3 at 1251 (2351 GMT) on 22 February, 2011.
The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) – publishers of the Tory-lovin’ UK newspaper, The Daily Telegraph – is reported to be readying a pay-to-view website model.
Slammed down on the table just 24 hours after Apple launched its controversial App Store subscription service, Google has announcing a similar service for its Android platform.
UK newspaper the Guardian continues its love affair with all things Apple, and has launched a shiny new version of its newspaper app for the iPhone and iPod Touch platforms, while ignoring the growing legions of Android users.
With fat dollar signs in their eyes, Apple head honcho Steve Jobs and union-crushing News Corporation supremo Rupert Murdoch are set to reveal an iPad newspaper called The Daily.
Every cloud has a silver lining say cloud salesmen, and one side effect of my recent illness has been the opportunity to upgrade the apps on my iPad.
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Google Reader – which has long been our #1 blog and RSS reader – has just got a whole load better. Oh yes, indeedy!
The search engine giant has announced that the browser-based reader will now be able to track changes and updates to websites that currently don’t provide news feeds – so you’ll now be able to track any site you’re interested in.
UK national newspapers the Telegraph, the Independent and the Express have signed up to Google’s Fast Flip experimental news application.
A total of 55 publications have recently been added to the service that lets users quickly flick through online news stories.
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