iPad news apps

Flipboard Gets a Major Update – Adds Google Reader, Flickr, Better Twitter and Facebook Support, More

by Patrick Jordan December 16, 2010

I love the screencap above. I think it nicely shows off how cool Flickr looks within Flipboard, the excellent social / news / magazine app for the iPad. Flipboard has recently been named by Apple as their iPad App of the Year for 2010. It’s a deserving winner, and that’s before getting a major, and [...]

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CNN Launches iPad App

by Patrick Jordan December 14, 2010

CNN App for iPad is, as you might well guess, the brand new iPad app from one of the leading US news organizations. They’ve had an iPhone app for some time now, but this one is built specifically for the iPad. The app’s description is a pretty standard sounding one, that really doesn’t provide much [...]

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Pulse News Reader for iPad Now Free

by Patrick Jordan November 16, 2010

Pulse News Reader – the popular app that has a new take on news reading on the iPad – has become a free app. The developers have got venture capital funding, so this should be a permanent move to free, though it may be ad-supported in future. The app is well-known and well-liked for its [...]

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Pulse News Reader App for iPad Updated & Looking Good

by Patrick Jordan October 5, 2010

The Pulse News Reader app for the iPad has recently been update, to Version 2.0. Pulse is one of the leading examples of a sort of new breed of news and RSS feed apps for iOS; ones where there is a much more magazine-like feel to the apps. Here’s a little slice of its App [...]

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Flipboard on the iPad– World’s First Social Magazine

by Patrick Jordan July 21, 2010

Flipboard is described as ‘the world’s first social magazine’ – and it’s an iPad only app (for the moment) with a very interesting concept … Flipboard brings the timeless layout of print media to social media. No more scrolling through long lists of posts and links. No more jumping back and forth between websites. Your [...]

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Ad Space in iPad News Apps Costs 5 Times as Much as Online Ads

by Patrick Jordan June 5, 2010

Advertising on print publications repurposed for Apple’s iPad draws a fee up to five times more than buying placement on the same content provider’s website. That’s an excerpt from a recent report at Apple Insider, covering how much higher ad rates for ad spaces in iPad editions of leading print publications than they are for [...]

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Newsweek for iPad – How NOT To Do a Digital Magazine

by Patrick Jordan June 3, 2010

Newsweek is one of the latest well-know, mainstream magazines to hit the iPad, with its Newsweek for iPad app.  If you’d like the very short version of this review, it would be something along the lines of … It’s crap – don’t waste your time. If you’d like a little detail on why I say [...]

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AP Planning AP Mobile Like App for the iPad

by Patrick Jordan February 26, 2010

The Associated Press has announced that it’s planning to bring a news app to the iPad.  Much like the AP Mobile news product, the iPad app will show custom packages of headlines, stories, photos and video from the AP and from newspapers and broadcasters that choose to contribute their content and share the revenue. AP [...]

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