Pulse is already one of the most popular news readers out there. Like that’s not enough they keep adding new features and news sources to make their app/service even more appealing, even to folks who prefer to get their news fix on their computers. Their latest category, Local, is made to provide users with a “simple and effective way” to discover what’s happening around them. Not only will you be able to get the latest local news and local sport team information, but also deals you actually care about. To make this happen, Pulse has teamed-up with a number of companies, including: All in all, it seems Pulse is revamping itself from a (great) news reader to a full blown personalized magazine a la Flipboard, offering content that goes beyond news… Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" Read More

Flipboard is rolling out the first major update to its social magazine tonight since its December launch on the iPhone. The new release brings the iPhone app’s most popular feature, “Cover Stories,” to the iPad’s bigger screen. Now, iPad users will see a large, double-tiled pane on the first page of their Flipboard app. There, you’ll find a mix of stories popular among your friends, those that are popular across Flipboard’s network, as well as those that are uniquely relevant to you. Also new in tonight’s release are a number of design tweaks, meant to give Flipboard a print magazine-like appeal, as well as a much-requested third page in Flipboard’s Table of Contents. And for international users, there’s even more big news: Flipboard just launched its first standalone European edition with the arrival of Flipboard in France, and is promising more localized editions to come. The company already has a localized version in Read More

Flipboard is rolling out the first major update to its social magazine tonight since its December launch on the iPhone. The new release brings the iPhone app’s most popular feature, “Cover Stories,” to the iPad’s bigger screen. Now, iPad users will see a large, double-tiled pane on the first page of their Flipboard app. There, you’ll find a mix of stories popular among your friends, those that are popular across Flipboard’s network, as well as those that are uniquely relevant to you. Also new in tonight’s release are a number of design tweaks, meant to give Flipboard a print magazine-like appeal, as well as a much-requested third page in Flipboard’s Table of Contents. And for international users, there’s even more big news: Flipboard just launched its first standalone European edition with the arrival of Flipboard in France, and is promising more localized editions to come. The company already has a localized version in Read More

Biggs is the editor of TechCrunch Gadgets. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at john@techcrunch.com. → Learn More Created by a young man named Jonathan Bouman, Scrolldit is a thing that scrolls Reddit for you, thereby allowing you to avoid the hard, hard job of scrolling Reddit. Why, you ask, is this news? Because we like Reddit and it’s really cool. The site essentially takes Reddit feeds (including NSFW ones, hurr hurr hurr) and places them in little boxes that march across the screen. Because most people don’t read too good, there are lots of pictures and the occasional video, available for easy and quick consumption. Read More

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Sep 30, 2011 | Have an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch and curious which are the best, most must-have RSS feed reading apps you need to check out? We’ve already covered readers in general, from eBooks to comics, but this time we really wanted to focus on RSS news. So if you want to keep your syndication really simple, and yourself up to date with the latest new, read on for TiPb’s top 5 most recommended RSS feed readings apps for iOS. NetNewsWire is the granddaddy of iOS RSS readers and is still a favorite for many. It syncs with Google Reader, and while in version past that was a laborious process, improvements to both the app and iOS have made it much smoother these days. It’s now been given a whole new codebase and has been picked up by a new team of dedicated developers so Read More

Realtime semantic startup Evri is debuting its brand-new iPad application today, where it joins the crowded “iPad news magazine” space filled with the likes of Flipboard, The Daily, Zite, Pulse, NewsMix, AOL Editions, News360 and others. To differentiate itself from the pack, Evri’s app employs a combination of social news and topical streams, allowing readers to follow their interests as opposed to just following sources. The new app relies heavily on Evri’s semantic underpinnings to turn unstructured data into topic-based channels. The company’s content discovery engine analyzes feeds from 15,000 news sources, runs the data through its natural language processing (NLP) parser and extracts entities which are put into Evri’s semantic index. In addition, the engine also determines what news is trending based on things like how many times a topic was covered, the velocity of coverage, how often its being shared on Twitter or Facebook and more. And unlike apps like Read More

Popular news reading app/service Pulse just got better by integrating some of the Instapaper features. The all new Pulse bookmarklet lets you save some story for the later reading when you will be able to access it either from your computer, smartphone or tablet. What’s more, if you use Google Chrome, there’s a dedicated Chrome extension that does the same job and we’re pretty confident similar add-ons are in works for other popular browsers. While I personally don’t use Pulse — I prefer the old school RSS instead — I’m hearing it’s getting more popular with the day. At the moment, the service is used by more than 5 million people and that number will most likely keep growing. Alternatively, if you’re using Google Chrome as your primary web browser and also have an Android device (but don’t want to run Pulse), you may want to try out the Chrome to Read More

The iPad is a fantastic way to consume news, read articles and catch up on shared links from a social network or a webpage-saving service.  But what if you’re a newcomer to the iPad or have only recently become interested in online news services, where should you start? We’re here to help you out with ten of the very best apps to help you make the most of your iPad when it comes to finding and reading the latest news.  You’ll find many offer similar features, but all take different approaches and have different interfaces, so give as many as you can a try to find the one which suits you the best. My personal favorite news aggregator, especially now pulse.me has been introduced, where stories can be saved to other services and synced across the iPhone and iPad.  The attractive, easy to use format makes RSS reading an engrossing experience.  Read More

MG Siegler is a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch, where he has been writing since 2009. His focus is on Apple. Prior to TechCrunch, MG covered various technology beats for VentureBeat. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He’s previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in... → Learn More In many ways, tablet-focused readers like Pulse, Flipboard, and now Editions, are the next phase of RSS readers. But they’re RSS readers that the masses will actually use because they’re actually user-friendly and oriented around experience and visuals. But because they’re so tailored for user experience, they often need partnerships beyond a simple RSS feed to bring in the necessary information to populate the apps. Today, Pulse has landed a massive fish in that regard: ESPN. The sports category has always been a bit under-represented in the Read More

A friend just picked up a shiny new iPad and asked me for my app recommendations.   Obviously, we get similar questions often, so I drew up a list of the apps that I use often that most any iPad user might consider. Wundermap: Appshopper: Find new, free, and price-reduced apps.    Pulse:  Innovative news/RSS reader.     Flipboard:  An alternative to Pulse.       Wikibot:  Wikipedia reader with read-ahead, etc.        Noteability:  Take notes with optional linked audio recording.       Simplenote:  Simple text note-taker with sync to other devices and the Web.       Goodreader:  Sync and view documents and other media.       eFax:  Send/receive faxes.       neu.Annotate:  Annotate/sign PDFs.           ABC Player:  Watch full episodes of ABC shows.       IMDB:  Access the Internet Movie Database.      iMyAddress:  Use GPS to find the nearest street address.   Got any other suggestions?  Leave them in the comments below. Read More

This week for our weekly installment of Picks of the Week we are changing things up a little bit.  It’s hard to believe that we have been running the POTW post for 30 weeks now!  So far our writers at iSource have highlighted almost 150 separate iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac and Apple TV related items.  In the spirit of fun, and to give our hard-working writers a bye week, I thought it would be nice to take some of my favorite posts and create a “Best of” Picks of the Week post this week instead.  Sorry for the one day delay, but it was harder than I thought to sort through nearly 150 posts form ten different contributors.  Hope you like my selections.  Feel free to leave a comment below and let me know some of your favorites you have seen on former POTW posts, or would like to see on Read More

Sunday June 19th is Father’s Day, and if your dad has an iPad – or is lucky enough to be getting one on the day – why not get him a bundle of new apps to go with it.  We’ve gathered together ten apps which every father should have on his Apple tablet to give you some ideas! OK, so it’s an obvious choice, but not every new iPad owner will have heard of it!  Without a doubt one of the very best mobile games ever made, and one which can be enjoyed by everyone.  $4.99/£2.99. A massive selection of eBooks available for the iPad and iPhone, with free samples and syncing between devices.  You can always download Apple’s own iBooks too.  Free. An excellent casual golf arcade game along the same lines as Cat Physics and other physics-based titles.  It’s a universal app for the iPhone and iPad (with Retina Read More

Pulse News app for the iPhone and iPad received a nice update today allowing selected stories to be saved and automatically synced to other Pulse News apps you have or retrieved via the web. Sign-up for the service is free and can be done from within the Pulse News app. All that's required is a user-name and a password. When you see a story you want to save, click on the star symbol. If, for example, you did that on your iPhone, you can pick up your iPad and the saved story will be there too, assuming you have a web connection. The story is also accessible from the Pulse.me website. Saved stories can also be sent to Instapaper, Evernote or Read It Later. If you import newsfeeds from Google Reader, marked stories will also mark them in Google Reader. After some difficulty with iTunes this morning, I was able to Read More

Pulse was one of the first apps I downloaded while setting up my iPad 2. This app and with its dual vertical and horizontal scrolling literally made my jaw drop when I first saw the videos last year. After all, thumbnails of articles are much cooler than just seeing plain text headlines scroll by you…right? You can use Pulse to read all sorts of websites in a cool horizontal stream of posts. The app provides its own list of suggested sources, but also allows you to add your Google Reader subscriptions. I opted to go for the latter and organized my Reader subs into a set of five tabs (Apple, Apple devs, etc.) but then quickly ran into a very sad problem: although Pulse can import from and even sync read counts with Google Reader, it can’t star any items. Pulse can send articles to Instapaper, but oh my stars, there are no Read More

Welcome to our weekly installment of Picks of the Week at iSource where we provide our expanded coverage of Apple accessories and applications  Here we will promote our favorite iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac and Apple TV related items, as well as bring you occasional tips and tricks.  Hopefully many of our favorite items will also be of interest to you. Please feel free to comment on our selections, and suggest picks of your own.  Check out this week’s picks after the break Picked by: Jay This week, I am selecting RDM+ Remote Desktop as my Pick. First as an iPhone version (reviewed here) and later an iPad version – also a previous pick (here) – RDM+ has recently undergone an update resulting in a faster refresh rate. As a frequently traveler, RDM+ has saved me more than once by allowing me to access desktops at either work (including my colleague’s workstation) Read More

News apps on the iPad are getting more and more interesting. With a lot of news going behind paywalls, we're seeing a trend toward more and more free news apps that are increasingly creative and functional. Pulse is already a popular news reader, and Zite has entered the game with an excellent app that checks half a million sites for news that will be of interest to you. Now you can add Hitpad to the list. This free app has an interesting take on getting you the news. Using some proprietary algorithms, it determines what people are interested in on the Web across various media, like Twitter and video. It then displays them according to topic, so if you tap on a listed subject (like Charlie Sheen for example), you get a screen full of headlines about Sheen, videos and tweets. When you click on the headers, you get transported to Read More

Visual news app for the iPhone and Android, Pulse News, has been recently updated with new features and other tweaks that make the app faster. Without further ado, here’s what version 2.0 brings: Pulse News remains the free application and you can grab it from the links below… Pulse News for Android (FREE) [Android Market link] Pulse News for iPhone (FREE) [iTunes link] Pulse News for iPad (FREE) [iTunes link] Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your Read More

by The Content Exploration Series is presented by Mashable Explore, a new way to discover resources and information on your favorite Mashable topics. Mashable Explore is brought to you by the all-new, 100% reinvented 2011 Ford Explorer. Drive One. Need new ways to find stuff to read and watch in those stolen minutes you get with your smartphone? Want more articles, webpages and video, and your Facebook friends aren’t coming up with enough interesting stuff? Before you start entering random Google searches for fun, download these free apps that help you discover the best of what the online world has to offer, and serve it up on the small screen. The granddaddy of discovering random cool stuff online, StumbleUpon will celebrate its 10th anniversary later this year — but its mobile app is less than a year old. On the web, its 8 million users have spent the past decade recommending Read More

(image source: Apple, Inc) With the release of the iPad 2, there has been a lot of commentary on the overall usefulness of the iPad. Even amongst the iSource staff, there is some debate as to whether or not the iPad is a truly useful device, or merely an expensive toy. Here’s my take. When the iPad was announced a year ago, I had no plans at all to buy it. Like many others, I concluded that it was little more than a large iPod Touch; and I simply didn’t see a need for one, especially considering that I had a perfectly usable iPhone. When my friend Mike got one, I played around with it a bit; but ultimately, I came to the same conclusion – a big iPod. Much later, when I started traveling for work again, I finally realized how useful the iPad could be and decided to take Read More

Posted 02/04/2011 at 11:00am | by Florence Ion If you're not too smitten with the idea of paying annually for The Daily's [iTunes link] subscription price, we've got three apps that fully endorses the Freedom of Information Act. Actually, they're merely aggregators and RSS readers, but they work for those of you who'd rather troll Reddit and sift through Gawker headlines rather than subscribe to hard news. This app is a staple in my dock. Fluid creates a separate application from any URL you choose, so instead of opening it in a specific browser it opens it as its own separate process. The upside to this is, if Firefox or Safari crashes, you won't lose your spot on your blog. Who needs fancy white backgrounds and serif font when you can read the headlines from your favorite blogs on a hip, cool, dark background. Pulse is the ultimate go-to app for Read More

Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More This year’s fourth annual Crunchies Awards have just concluded, and we’re happy to say that it was an overwhelming success. For those who weren’t at the event or watching our livestream, we’ve included the list of nominees and winners below. Our most sincere congratulations to the winners and to all of the nominees as well. It was an incredibly tight race for many of the categories, and it’s safe to say that everyone on this list is at the top of their field. We’d like to take a moment Read More

The latest social magazine iPad app to hit the market is NewsMix, a $2.99 app that does much the same thing as the increasingly popular Flipboard. So how much chance does NewsMix have to usurp Flipboard? It's the same chance that online RSS Readers had of usurping Bloglines back in 2004-05, when Bloglines was first to market with a new type of news reading product. Virtually nil. Just as Bloglines was the first browser-based RSS Reader to gain traction, Flipboard was the first magazine-style iPad reader to gain a following in 2010. Bloglines became the dominant RSS Reader in 2004-05, mostly because it was first to market with a decent product and it scaled well. OK, Bloglines eventually lost the plot when it got acquired by Ask.com and allowed Google Reader to usurp it. The same fate may occur to Flipboard, if/when it gets acquired. But one thing's for sure, it Read More

posted by Jonathan Kizer on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 at 1:44 pm.   Originally submitted by Appman Looking for some iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad apps? Forum members Appman and ChrisL have you covered. This AOTW is dedicated to the best of 2010, as we prepare to welcome in the new year. According to Appman and ChrisL, the best apps of the year are: Plus 10 more honorable mentions. Want to know how they are ranked and reviewed? Click here. Here’s to hoping that 2011 brings as many amazing apps as 2010 did! Read More

Yesterday we suggested twenty apps to download for your new iPhone, but what if you received an iPad for Christmas?  You’ll be needing this list, than!  Here are twenty recommended iPad apps and although there are some repeat apps from the iPhone list, there are plenty of new suggestions too. As before, the first ten should be considered ‘must-haves’, while the second ten depend more on what you want to do with your iPad.  Here we go: For All Users: A Little More Specific: That’s it!  We hope these inspire you to explore what your new iPad can do, as there are so many great apps available.  Don’t forget, there are many alternatives to the ones we’ve mentioned, so don’t be afraid to search the App Store. Also, if you existing iPad owners have a favorite app that you’d recommend for new owners, tell us about it in the comments! Read More

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Publishers’ offices at print newspapers and magazines are tension-filled places these days, as executives watch readers and advertisers flock to the Web and cellphone screens. Contrast that to the atmosphere at a sunny office on a residential street here, where, amid start-up accoutrements like a bouncy ball chair and a stuffed moose, a few engineers are working on Pulse News Reader, a mobile app that allows users to build a personal newsfeed with the newspapers, magazines and blogs of their choice. Spirits are high here because the app has been one of the top-selling news iPhone and iPad apps since its debut in May. And its breakout popularity suggests that the people behind Pulse may have begun to answer a question that nags publishers everywhere — how to deliver news and make money in a post-print world. Pulse’s success is underscored by two announcements expected on Monday Read More

The top-rated, beloved-by-all Pulse News Reader is now available for free. I'll admit it: the App Store is home to so many nifty and inventive news readers (Blogshelf, Early Edition, and TheScore, to name just a few), I never got around to Pulse News Reader. My mistake. It's not just the coolest blog/feed reader for the iPhone and iPad alike, it's also one of the coolest iOS apps, period. And where it once cost $1.99, Pulse News is now free. (Same goes for the Android version.) I spent some time fiddling with Pulse News for iPad. (If you're interested in Pulse News Mini for iPhone, which, true to its name, is just a smaller version of the app, check out Jason Parker's write-up.) Like Blogshelf and Early Edition, it serves up popular blogs in a slick, easily digestible format. Right out of the box, Pulse News Reader gives you everything from Read More

Pulse es uno de los lectores rss más conseguidos de los que podemos ver en la App Store, no sólo por su funcionamiento sino tambien porque visualmente gana a cualquier rival. Ya hace tiempo os hablamos de él, pero hoy con más motivo y es que se acaba de actualizar para incluir algunas mejoras además de empezar a ser gratuito para todos los usuarios. Algunas de sus características son: Además entre las mejoras de esta versión encontramos la posibilidad de manejar y organizar tus fuentes de una manera más cómoda y mejoras en el rendimiento haciendo Pulse aún más rápida. La tenemos disponible para iPhone e iPad y desde esferaiphone os la recomendamos sin duda alguna. iPad Precio: Gratis iPhone Precio: Gratis Read More

Pulse News Reader is one of the iPad apps I use on a daily basis and it was worth every penny of its original price.  Disillusioned with Flipboard and not a Google Reader user, I wanted something that brought together feeds from sites I read regularly in an attractive and simple way.  Pulse turned out to do the job very well. Since then the app has been upgraded to version 2.0, where more feeds can be added, 60 in total, and split into five different sections.  Performance is even better and there is also a set of improved recommendations for sites that suit Pulse’s display format. If you haven’t already enjoyed this app, then today is your lucky day, as Pulse has become a free app for the iPhone and the iPad, so now everyone can enjoy its greatness for absolutely nothing! Read More

In June 2010, Apple released the latest revision of Safari. Included in the release was a fancy little feature called "Reader" which gives users the ability to view Web content separately from the collective clutter of banner advertising, top lists and social bookmarking widgets. The release marked the first time a browser with real market share shipped with native functionality that provided users with the ability to free themselves of that clutter. What's important is not who is credited with capitalizing on the idea that clean content is easier to read first, but that more and more people are looking for, and finding ways, to get away from the clutter that adorns the margins of so many sites. Dan Neumann is a Sr. platforms strategist in Organic's New York office. He specializes in leveraging emerging digital platforms to advance the business interests of Organic's clients. Dan has formulated award winning strategies Read More

Alphonso Labs reported today that their Pulse News Reader for iPad (currently US $1.99) has been updated to version 2.0. The new version of the app addresses one of the major complaints about the original by allowing up to 60 news feeds to be added, with up to 12 feeds on each of five pages. Organization of sources is much easier in the new version. Each one of the five pages has a tab that can be renamed, so users can define each page by type -- for example, "Apple," "Food," "News," and more. The feeds are listed under each tab and can be dragged around to be placed in the order you would like to see them. It's also easier to find sources; when you go to add a source, there are tabs for "featured" and "categories," both featuring sources that look good in Pulse. Alphonso Labs calls this the Read More

As news consumption shifts to the personalized social news stream, the platforms we use to consume the news are also changing. With its media-friendly design, the iPad is the first mobile device to create an environment perfect for real-time news consumption that maintains the sophistication and style of traditional print magazines and newspapers. Pulse News, Flipboard and FLUD are three apps paving the way for rich, personalized news experiences on the iPad. Each reinvents what it means to read the news by creating a more dynamic, social and visually stimulating way to consume information. Flipboard and Pulse News are particularly interesting because they both leave it to the user to define the term “news” on their own. They also compel the reader to include their social network friends in the process. Below, we break down all three for a look at how the iPad changes the way we get our news. Read More

Over the course of this summer, we have witnessed the launch of a number of visually stunning applications for the iPad, including Pulse, Flipboard, Fotopedia Heritage and Discover. Now, one of the best and most popular photojournalism blogs, Boston.com's , is joining the fray with the launch of its own iPad app. About three times per week, the Big Picture features a new set of photos around a specific topic or news event. Thanks to the iPad's great screen and the editorial team's skill in choosing the best images, scrolling through these collections makes for a great visual experience. Most of these sets include somewhere between 35 and 50 captioned images from a wide variety of sources. This is, of course, not the first iPad app that highlights great photojournalism. The Guardian, for example, was among the first news organizations to launch an iPad app that focused solely on displaying interesting Read More

“Your paper has arrived” schreibt sich Dustin MacDonald von Acrylic Software mit der iPad-Umsetzung von ‘Times‘ auf die Werbefahne. Der RSS-Client für den Mac, der dieser App-Store-Anwendung als Vorlage diente, hat sich bei mir nie besonders wohl gefühlt. Das mag unter anderem daran liegen, dass ich am Rechner im RSS-Reader mehr ‘gearbeitet’ als entspannt mit hochgelegten Füßen gelesen habe. Mit dem iPad änderte sich das. ‘Times‘ verschlingt jedoch nicht automatisiert ganze Feed-Kataloge sondern schießt sich auf einige ausgewählte News-Quellen ein. Diese sind manuell hinzuzufügen. Eine Synchronisation – beispielsweise über Google Reader – wird bislang nicht geboten. Diese Beschränkung kann jedoch durchaus ihren Reiz besitzen, um sich ungestört – ohne soziale Störquellen wie Facebook oder Twitter, die Flipboard mehr ins Visier nimmt – zu konzentrieren. Das Zeitungsbrett, auf welchem sich einzelne Textseiten vermerken lassen, ist als temporäre Ablage gut gemeint – eine Instapaper-Anbindung wäre mir lieber. Insgesamt erinnert ‘Times’ an die Editors’ Read More

The Pulse News Reader is one of the better RSS reader apps for the iPad, plus there is the equally great News Mini available for the iPhone. The Pulse application had a difficult start to life inside the App Store, after it was yanked out due to it including New York Times content as standard, something the newspaper objected too. After the app was updated to not include the newspapers RSS feed, Pulse returned to the App Store and subsequently became a part of Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at this year’s developer conference.  Since then the app has gone on to include the ability to share your favorite news stories via a Posterous blog, simply by clicking a heart icon next to the story in the app. Its only limitation is that the app can only store 20 feeds at once, so if you’re an avid online news reader, you may Read More

MG Siegler is a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch, where he has been writing since 2009. His focus is on Apple. Prior to TechCrunch, MG covered various technology beats for VentureBeat. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He’s previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in... → Learn More Alphonso Labs‘ Pulse app for the iPad provides a beautiful way to read your favorite feeds. Unfortunately, compared to the newer entry Flipboard, it’s not very socially personalized. An update tonight hopes to change that. Pulse is teaming up with Posterous to create a simple way for users to create their own “Pulses.” What this means is that they can with one tap add any article to their own Pulse — thus making any user an aggregator of news. Posterous comes in because each of these Pulse Read More

by Pulse, an innovative mobile news app, just got a lot more social, thanks to a new personalization feature that allows Pulse users to save and publish their own feeds. The new feature, known as My Pulse, is powered by Posterous, which means you can auto-share your news finds and curated posts across your social graph. Pulse created quite a stir when it was first released for the iPad this June. At its heart, Pulse is pretty simple; it’s a stylized RSS reader but with a lot less overhead. What makes the app so great (especially on the iPad) is that flipping through stories and feeds takes very little time. Pulse is now available for Android and iPhone, too, and we really love the app’s take on the mobile news-reading experience. With My Pulse, the app is much more social. You can create you own My Pulse account from inside the Read More

Für großes Aufsehen sorgte in der letzten Woche die iPad-Anwendung ‘Flipboard‘. Perfekt abgestimmt, spülten die vorbereiteten Artikel einiger Internet-Mammuts, angeführt von All Things Digital und Robert Scoble die Lesergemeinde wie eine Viehherde zum App-Store-Trog. Nicht verwunderlich, dass die kostenfreie Medientankstelle innerhalb der ersten Stunden komplett austrocknete. Die Einwahl über das eigene Facebook- und Twitter-Profil verzögerte sich und ließ nach einem schnell durchgewunkenen Update erst peu à peu die Nutzer ins Netzwerk. Mein Zugang zur “revolutionary social app” folgte am gestrigen Mittwoch. Wie angekündigt, hier meine ersten Impressionen und Aussichten für Flipboard (kostenlos; App Store-Link). Als das “individuelle, digitale Magazin” propagiert sich die Anwendung des Startups aus San Francisco. Einen seiner Mitgründer Evan Doll, der zuvor mehrere Jahre als Objective-C-Entwickler im Apple-Hauptquartier arbeitete, habe ich letztes Jahr auf den ‘Making Apps Developer Days‘ getroffen. Was damals noch unter hoher Geheimhaltung stand, wurde in den ersten Tagen mit der abgedroschenen Phrase “killer app” Read More

...World ! Je ne fais que passer... Test de Pulse, récemment portée sur l' #iPhone, app RSS à l'interface très sympa http://bit.ly/aEeXEF... Read More

The Pulse News Reader for iPad (US$3.99) gained some notoriety last month when the stylish app was released, then promptly yanked from the App Store by Apple at the behest of The New York Times. The Times did not want their RSS feed featured in Pulse; changes were made and the app has been back in the App Store since about June 8th. Now comes word from developer Alphonso Labs that a new version of the app -- Pulse News Mini ($2.99) -- is now available for iPhone and iPod touch. It's iOS 4.0 tested, and from a quick look at the app, it does an amazing job of putting the functionality of Pulse into a smaller form factor. As you can see from the video above, Pulse News Mini looks quite similar to the iPad app. Of course, the individual pieces of the Pulse "mosaic" are smaller, but the way Read More

...The Pulse News Reader for iPad now supports Instapaper! Thanks for listening to my support request! http://bit.ly/b2RYQW... Read More

...@claytonmorris: Cool. The Pulse News Reader for iPad now supports Instapaper! Thanks for listening to my support request! http://bit.ly/b2RYQW... Read More

Mike Butcher is a journalist, broadcaster and commentator. He is firstly editor of TechCrunch Europe, but has also co-founded TechHub.com and Coadec.com in Europe as ventures to support the tech startup eco-system. A long time journalist, Mike has written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman.... → Learn More Read More

Pulse News Reader, a popular iPad app developed by two students at the Stanford Institute of Design that collects and presents articles from Web sites of news organizations like The New York Times was removed from the Apple store avec Apple received a letter from a Times Company lawyer. Bits reports. On Tuesday afternoon the app reappeared in the App Store. But it's not clear if this is a mistake or not. Read More

Im letzten Monat bin ich in unseren Kommentaren auf einen iPad-RSS-Reader hingewiesen worden, der auf den Namen ‘Pulse News Reader‘ im App Store hörte. Gestern erfuhr die News-Anwendung, die einzelne Feeds verarbeitet oder mit eurem Google Reader-Account spricht, einen populären Ritterschlag in der WWDC-Keynote von Steve Jobs. Heute fliegt die App ebenso populär wieder aus dem iTunes-Sortiment, weil Anwälte der ‘New York Times’ und dem ‘Boston Globe’ ihr Geschäftsmodell durch den Nachrichtenaggregator bedroht sehen. Apple leitet eine Mail der Anwälte an den App-Store-Verkäufer weiter. The Pulse News Reader app, makes commercial use of the NYTimes.com and Boston.com RSS feeds, in violation of their Terms of Use Es wird angeprangert, dass ‘Pulse’ ein Bezahl-Programm für $4 US-Dollar ist. Der von ‘New York Times’ und dem ‘Boston Globe’ kostenlos zur Verfügung gestellte (Feed-)Inhalt soll in den Nutzungsbedingungen eine kommerzielle Verwendung ausklammern. Thus, the use of our content is unlicensed. The app also frames Read More

Editor-in-Chief, iLounge Published: Friday, June 4, 2010 Category: iPod, iPhone, and iPad Gems: Apps, Games + More Apple has pitched the iPad as the future of reading—a device capable of transforming everything from web sites to newspapers and magazines into more engaging, “magical” experiences. This week’s edition of iPad Gems looks at four recent App Store releases that each provide hints as to the future of reading on this device, and are notable for that reason, though they all have significant caveats that preclude them from being end-all, be-all solutions. We diverge a bit from our usual format for this roundup, focusing on the promise, the good, and the bad of each app. Our top pick of the bunch is GoodReader, but two of the other applications also receive our general-level recommendation. Read on for all the details. A1 Perfect Web Browser The Promise: The name couldn’t be much cheesier, but Read More

A few days ago, I did a quick first look at Pulse News Reader for iPad. It's a very different RSS reader for the iPad platform, developed by two Stanford grad students. Since that post, I've had enough time to really give the app a try and I'm happy to say it's now my RSS reader of choice. The concept of Pulse (US$3.99) is different from most RSS readers. As you can see in the gallery at the bottom of this post page, Pulse provides a manageable grid of boxes on the iPad display instead of trying to cram as many post headlines into as little space as possible. Each row of boxes is a feed, with the most recent post in a box on the left and older posts streaming to the right. The app is fast. One of my major complaints about some of the other news readers is Read More

I've been looking for an iPad RSS news reader for a while, and was totally underwhelmed by what was out there. Fortunately, a reader pointed me to a video demonstrating Pulse News Reader (US$3.99), a new RSS reader from a couple of Stanford grad students. Ankit Gupta and Akshay Kothari have created an RSS reader that makes traditional readers look like, well, cluttered inboxes. If you're one of those folks who follows a few hundred RSS feeds, you may not like Pulse -- the current version has a limit of 20 feeds. The app makes it drop-dead simple to add feeds by searching keywords, and then picking feeds from the search results. The feeds show up as a series of tabbed rows of articles with the newest posts on the far left, oldest on the far right. Navigating posts is done by flicking left or right, and you can read the Read More