Google Currents is no longer a U.S.-only app and now everyone who has access to the Apple AppStore or Google Play can get it and enjoy news and magazines in a whole new way. Alongside this international rollout, Google also made sure there are local partners on board, including such publications as The Guardian in the UK, LaStampa in Italy, Financial Times Deutschland in Germany, ABC News in Australia, Neue Zürcher Zeitung in Switzerland and Hindustan Times in India. Moreover, all of the content can be easily translated to other languages by tapping the globe icon – Google Translate will start, allowing you to select one of 38 supported languages. But that’s not all. Thanks to the new “dynamic sync” feature, new content is “dynamically” delivered, using a minimum of your phone or tablet’s battery, bandwidth and storage. This is especially handy for those who travel on planes and trains as Read More

Seguramente tenéis algún gestor de feeds instalado en vuestro dispositivo para seguir vuestros blogs y noticias. El más conocido es, sin duda, Flipboard, pero Google también apuesta por este tipo de apps, y ha publicado Google Currents en la AppStore española. Google Currents ya estaba disponible en EEUU, pero desde ahora lo podemos disfrutar a nivel mundial. Al usar Google Reader para gestionar vuestros feeds, deciros que la rapidez en la sincronización de Google Currents es, como es lógico, mucho más rápida que en otras aplicaciones de este tipo. Por su interfaz y funcionalidades, se perfila como un competidor directo de Flipboard. Además, es una app universal. ¿Vosotros con cuál os quedáis? Contenido relacionado (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch): Read More

2011 was a great year for apps. Both the Android Market and the Apple App Store grew exponentially and users now have so many choices that it is hard to sort all of them out. December was an especially big months for apps as publishers revved up for consumers to unwrap new devices during the holiday season. Christmas is the biggest app-downloading day of the year for many publishers. From empirical observations, publishers started ramping up a few days before the holiday with Dec. 22 one of the biggest days of the year fo the App Store, with literally thousands of apps published. What was new and exciting in the last month of 2011? Check out our selections below. After several months of putting app updates in the column, we have noticed a trend: about a third of your apps will be issued updates on any given month. See the popular Read More

Editor’s note: Contributor Brad Spirrison is the managing editor of mobile app discovery services Appolicious, AndroidApps.com and AppVee. With this post, he continues an annual tradition of picking the best iOS apps of the year. It’s telling that Apple chose an app that debuted more than 14 months ago, Instagram, as its “iPhone App of the Year” for 2011. This should not imply that there was a shortage of quality and groundbreaking apps released this year. Far from it. From social magazines to music discovery apps to console-quality games that players can hold in the palms of their hands, there are hundreds of new titles in the iTunes App Store that will inform, organize, and entertain virtually anyone who owns an iOS device. As more choices become available to different kinds of consumers, however, it’s difficult to identify the undisputed champions of the app world. We picked 20 of the best Read More

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Google has a new service to help you out with reading articles from your favorite websites and RSS feeds. Google Currents is an iPhone application that takes news feeds from selected websites and presents them in an interactive magazine format. There’s also a section for trending topics, which pulls multiple articles for a single topic into it’s own list for your reading pleasure. The best part: the app is free of charge, so there’s no reason not to download this iPhone app and give it a try. Google Currents is similar to other news aggregation iOS apps including Flipboard and Zite. Once you open Google Currents for the first time, you’ll need to sync it to your Google account. If you don’t have one, it’s easy to make one on the fly. Afterwards all you have to do is search for you favorite sites, add them to your in-app library and Read More

We had an explosion of news apps this week. Zite added an iPhone version of its app, so did Flipboard. Now Google has joined the party with Google Currents, a free app that creates a magazine for you based on sites that you like, as well as content from particular bloggers and commentators. The app is universal for iOS devices. When you open Currents for the first time you're taken to a setup page. You can select from 'Publisher editions', which include sources like Forbes, Popular Science, Fast Company and many more. Those magazines may include video, animations, maps and social streams. Then Currents provides what it calls 'trending editions', using Google algorithms to find the top stories in categories like sports, science and entertainment. You can also incorporate blogs or feeds, and Google provides a helpful list, or you can select your own favorites. Currents can be used to read Read More

Looking for a new app this weekend?  Here are ten great new apps for the iPhone and iPad that you may want to check out! The latest magazine-style news aggregator comes from Google and collates publisher’s material, Google trends and your own social feeds into one stream.  Free, US-Only. Square Enix’s latest RPG game to hit iOS is Chrono Trigger, complete with two areas taken from the Nintendo DS version.  $9.99/£6.99. Codemasters bring one of their early and most-loved characters to the iPad, Dizzy Egg, in this puzzle-packed platform game.  $3.99/£1.49. An app to help you discover art galleries and exhibitions based on your location.  The social sharing aspect makes it perfect for travelers.  Free. Race remote control cars around colorful tracks.  The game has a Wi-Fi multi-player mode, Game Center support, AirPlay and enhanced graphics for the iPhone 4S.  $1.99/£1.49. A new photo app that provides fish-eye effect filters for Read More

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