In this continuing series here on ReadWriteWeb, we round up some of our favorite new applications for smartphones each month, specifically for iPhone and Android devices. This spring edition includes some major new launches on Android, like Netflix and Google Music, as well as some incredible technology leaps on iPhone, like the app which identifies trees by their leaves! As a bonus for this month, we've added a section with notable app updates and another featuring new tablet apps. New Apps for iPhone LeafSnap: Possibly the most ground-breaking app released in recent days, LeafSnap lets you identify trees by taking a picture of their leaves. Created by researchers at Columbia University, University of Maryland and the Smithsonian Institute, the app is like something you would see on TV, roll your eyes at and scoff, "as if that exists!" Well, technology moves fast - it exists! And, according to the app's description, Read More

...out Newsy for iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/newsy-for-ipad-multisource/id367718944?mt=8... Read More

Posted 04/04/2011 at 11:00am | by Seamus Bellamy While we've been busy cranking out Wi-Fi hotspots, sending music and video to our Apple TVs and generally living it up wirelessly with our iOS devices, developers have been busy coding their fingers down to the bone to bring AirPlay compatibility to their applications. What's that you say? You've been too busy to check in with the iTunes App Store lately? Don't worry: Like always, Mac|Life has your back. To make sure that AirPlay becomes a part of your glorious Mac lifestyle, we've put together a selection of seven of our favorite AirPlay compatible applications for you to use, peruse and enjoy. Having iMovie on your iPad is awesome. Sending iMovie content from your iPad to your Apple TV is, well, more awesome. Thanks to AirPlay, anyone can thrill their friends with their video masterpieces/monstrosities on any Apple TV-connected widescreen television. We found Read More

...@Newsydotcom: Despite the launch of lots of new news apps, Newsy iPad app is ranked in the top 20 for #news in App Store http://bit.ly/cRKGDY... Read More

...for iPad app featured in Top 20 of news apps and in the 'What's Hot' section - and it's free! #ipad #apps http://bit.ly/cRKGDY... Read More

...iPad app featured in 'What's Hot' for news in the App Store - and it's free to download! http://bit.ly/cRKGDY #ipad... Read More

Jim Spencer spent the end of the 1990's as an executive at NBC, AOL and Ask Jeeves when those were all viable media companies, before the dot-com crash. Now he's taking on the iPad-media-era from an office across the street at his alma mater, the University of Missouri-Columbia. That's home to what was the world's first school of journalism, founded more than 100 years ago. Spencer's new startup Newsy.com has combined an innovative journalistic model, a low-cost Midwest business strategy and a beautiful touchscreen design to rocket to the top 10 of news apps for the iPad in iTunes. Remember how the iPad was supposed to change journalism? Newsy could be an example of how it's actually working; the resulting app is one you should be sure to check out if you have an iPad. (Links: iPad, iPhone) Last week Newsy announced that it has raised $2 million to extend its Read More

...@jimflink: Newsy has the #14 iPad app and rising today, check it out! No iPad? check out the iPhone app. http://bit.ly/ckyaKC... Read More

...@thetonybrown: RT @jimflink: Newsy has the #14 iPad app and rising today, check it out! No iPad? check out the iPhone app. http://bit.ly/ckyaKC... Read More