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USA Today for iPhone helps you keep up
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: Cool tools, iPhone, App Store, iPod touchI've spent most of my life in the news business, and like many people, I can't get enough of the latest political, sports, tech or business news. There are plenty of apps for the iPhone and iPod touch that help you keep on top of what is going on, but USA Today [app store link] has done a good job of translating the paper to the iPhone. Like many of the competing apps like the New York Times [app store link] or AP Mobile News [app store link], USA Today is free, although some unobtrusive ads do appear at the bottom of stories. When you install, you can ...
Hey Companies, Where Are Your iPhone Apps?
ReadWriteWeb —
... , and the New York Times (Disclosure: RWW is syndicated by NYT). But where are the smaller, local news organizations? This could be how they could save themselves. Who wouldn't want to read the local paper on their iPhone? Add in mobile coupons and ads from local businesses to the app and you could breathe new life into the industry. ...
40 Free Apps to Read Breaking News on Your iPhone
Mashable! —
With so many sources of information, sometimes it can be difficult to keep up with news on the go. Luckily the iPhone and iPod Touch have a wealth of free news apps that are customizable to your needs.
From general news to industry-specific, and more, here are 40 free applications to read news on your iPhone.
What apps do you use to read news on your iPhone or iPod Touch? Tell us why you prefer them in the comments. ...
iPhone Smackdown: Mobile Websites vs. Apps
Mac|Life all RSS Feed —
Remember back in January 2007 when Steve Jobs tried to use the RDF to persuade us that Web apps on the iPhone were just as good as real apps running on the phone's OS? Man, that seems like forever ago. Now, here we are, almost two years and 15,000 apps later. And, boy, do we have choices when it comes to doing cool stuff with our iPhones. To save you time and give you the 101st reason to be glad you own an iPhone, we tested nine different iPhone-optimized websites and their corresponding iPhone apps to see which is faster, better, and more full-featured. The nine we tested are Facebook, Amazon, eBay, The New York Times, Google, Flickr, Weather.com, Zagat, OpenTable, and ...
Weekly App Store Picks: March 7, 2009 [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network —
It’s the first Saturday of March, which means one thing: grab your iPhone, prime your mind, and focus your eyeballs because I’ve got another selection of fresh App Store picks for you.
Before we get to this week’s apps, there’s a stack of Apple happenings to run through. In App Store-related news, game development outfit ...
The Week in iPhone Apps: More Nazis to Kill [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo —
Who doesn't love killing digital Nazis? Wolfenstein 3D Classic: Running around 8-bit halls blasting Nazis just doesn't get old, does it? If you loved Wolfenstein on your Packard Bell in 1991, you'll love it even more on your iPhone. It's $5, from iD. New York Times 2.0: I've wanted to love the NYT app since it came out in the early days of the App Store, but now I actually kind of do. Version 2.0 greatly enhances download and processing speed, even over EDGE, and lets you easily save articles for ...
Our Favorite Go-To, Get-It-Done, Easy-To-Use iPhone Apps for Law
The Mac Lawyer —
What happens when four lawyers from diverse practices and backgrounds get together to discuss how each uses their iPhone to improve their productivity and reduce a few of life's frustrations? You get a great list of iPhone apps that are sure to help you too! Apple reports over 25,000 apps are now available via the iTunes store, making it a daunting task to sift through to find the best.
So here are some of the favorite picks from David Sparks of the MacSparky website, Ben Stevens of The Mac Lawyer website and Reid Trautz of Reid My Blog! (who are presenting on this topic at this year's ...
Wall Street Journal Content Now Free Via iPhone App
Today @ PC World —
[image] The Wall Street Journal has jumped on the mobile content bandwagon and released an application for the iPhone . The financial newspaper set the price point at free -- ironic, given that the Journal 's online content comes at a price of $103 per year, or $140 for the print edition. The application looks and feels a lot like The New York Times iPhone app , replete with screen-hogging advertisements; headlines; editor's picks; and browsing capabilities for the newspaper's various categories. The WSJ app also offers video and radio sections, adding multimedia the Times does not have. Blackberry received its free Wall Street Journal app last ...
1 Billion Apps Later - Here Are Some of Our Favorites
ReadWriteWeb —
Today, Apple announced that its customers have now downloaded a whopping one billion applications from its App Store. Here at ReadWriteWeb, quite a few of us have iPhones, so we thought that this would be a good time to feature some of our favorite apps. We download and test a lot of iPhone apps, but here are the ones that have stood the test of time for us. The App Store is now home to over 35,000 applications, so this is obviously only a small selection of applications, but these are the apps that we don't hesitate to recommend to our friends.
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AP Mobile updated but still falls short
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, App ReviewThe AP News [App Store] iPhone/iPod touch app that rolled out ugly earlier in the week has updated to version 2.01 and fixed that nasty problem that wouldn't let you run the app reliably if you had the previous AP Mobile app already on your phone. That has been fixed, but the app still suffers from more bugs than the centerfield lights at a night baseball game. When you update to the latest version you will likely lose all your preferences, and as we reported, setting preferences is no small task. The AP still insists on showing you a front page that ...
10 Father’s Day Apps for Your #1 Dad [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network —
With Father’s Day just around the corner (Sunday, to be exact), we here at TheAppleBlog thought what better gift to get that special father in your life than a thoughtful yet handy iPhone or iPod touch application.
Feeling the cash crunch around this particular time? Not to worry, most of the applications mentioned here are free or just a couple bucks. ...
Corporate Branding Races to iPhone Apps: Winners and Losers
iSmashPhone - Turn your Phone into your MyPhone —
iPhone apps, probably the most popular thing to be used since the color TV. We have seen companies of all sizes put together some really cool concepts for iPhone apps, but are they meeting the very high expectations from users? Regardless of the cost, even if it is free, we expect these applications to run fast and without a ...
Apple’s Choice - Best Free iPhone Apps?
iPhoneGizmo - iPhone Apps, Downloads, Hacks, Tips & Tricks —
The App store has turned one years old and to celebrate Apple has provided us with its list of the best 30 Apps - 15 Free Apps and 15 Apps with a range of price tags.
The 15 best free iPhone Apps are listed below.
Stanza With millions of downloads around the world, this electronic book reader App has been a very popular with over 40,000 people rating its various versions as three star and 64% of 9584 raters giving the current version the thumbs up (three stars or better).
Other information sourcing goodies included in this list of best free iphone Apps are Daily Finance, Dictionary.com , ...
Best Free iPhone 3G Applications
Free iPod Touch Apps | Free iPod Touch Games | AppleRepo.com —
Many Free iPhone 3G Applications are available in the iTunes Apps Store. According to the Apps popularity, The best free iPhone 3G applications are listed below:
Google Mobile App – This is similar to firefox 3’s.it not only searches the web but also
shows the contacts listed in your phone as soon as you type in few letters.
Evernote – Best iPhone application for taking, storing and reviewing notes. This application can also be used for taking notes either by taking photo or by recording your voice.
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Condé Nast Brings Titles to iPhone, Keeps Eyes On the iTablet
TheAppleBlog —
Newspapers and magazines — the entire news print industry to be honest — have been suffering a long and torturous decline for much of the last decade as more of us turn to the Internet and electronic devices to get (increasingly personalized) news and other content. While publishers have generally been slow to adapt to shifting delivery ...
