Tag Archives: iPhone news apps

Delete the NYT Icon, The Onion for iPhone Is Here

by on April 2nd, 2010 at 9:11 am

This is the official iPhone/iPod Touch application of The Onion, America’s Finest News Source. Enough said.  Who needs RSS feeds or New York Times / USA Today / BBC apps anymore?  The Onion has come to the iPhone.  Where else can you get a headline like the one shown above? …

Quick Look: New Digg App for iPhone

by on March 26th, 2010 at 10:48 am

The new Digg app for the iPhone has got a fair amount of attention this week, not least because the folks behind it are running a promotion to celebrate its launch, giving away a customized Digg-branded iPad every day for two weeks. I have to admit, it’s been a while …

Engadget Launches an iPhone App

by on January 3rd, 2010 at 2:54 pm

Engadget “ one of the best and best-known tech web sites “ has launched an iPhone app this week.  The app is called simply Engadget, and provides all the features you ‘d likely expect from this type of app, including: ¢ A non-stop, daily stream of all the news on …

Newsy.com brings bite-size nuggets of news from multiple sources to the iPhone

by on November 3rd, 2009 at 6:52 am

There are plenty of iPhone apps available for catching up with the news, especially from individual newspapers and news broadcasters. But what if you want to gain a broad and unbiased as possible overview of the latest events and issues in just a few minutes each day? This is where …

BNO News App for iPhone Updated – Adds Customizable Notification Sounds

by on November 1st, 2009 at 11:58 am

BNO News “ the fastest iPhone news app I ‘ve seen in terms of generating alerts for breaking news “ has just had an update, to Version 1.11. It ‘s far from a major update, and really only adds one noteworthy feature “ the ability to customize some of its …

BNO News iPhone App Updated – Adds Category & Keyword Options to Push Notificati...

by on October 2nd, 2009 at 8:48 am

BNO News “ the iPhone app that prides itself on bringing breaking news to you faster than any other news service, via push notifications “ has just had an update that continues to extend the range of push preferences available. One of the biggest features of this latest update is …

Time Mobile iPhone App Gets Updated

by on September 29th, 2009 at 10:14 am

Time Magazine ‘s official iPhone app hit the App Store a few weeks back, and I was quite impressed with it when I reviewed it earlier this month. Last night I spotted an update for it, to Version 1.1.3.0.  The update includes a short list of fairly minor enhancements, including: …

Wall Street Journal Will Soon Start Charging iPhone Users

by on September 17th, 2009 at 1:50 pm

Say farewell to the free Wall Street Journal on the iPhone. According to Paid Content, News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch announced that readers of the WSJ on the Blackberry and iPhone will be charged $2 per week for the privilege of reading news through the respective apps. Online and print subscribers …

Quick Look: Time.com Mobile for iPhone

by on September 3rd, 2009 at 11:10 am

Time Magazine now has a full native app in the iPhone App Store. It ‘s called Time.com Mobile and features a good range of content from one of the top news magazines in the US. I have to admit I don ‘t read Time as often as I ‘d like …

BNO News Launches iPhone App – With Time-Adjustable Push Notifications

by on August 4th, 2009 at 10:07 am

BNO News “ the increasingly popular internet based news service “ now has an iPhone app.  BNO News, in conjunction with BitMethod, today announced the release of an iPhone push application that will provide users the latest "breaking" news stories from the United States and around the world. The move …

The Financial Times Now Has An iPhone App – Very Limited for Free Users Though

by on July 14th, 2009 at 9:24 am

FT Mobile is a new iPhone app from The Financial Times of London “ one of the world ‘s leading sources of financial and world news.  Unfortunately, unless you ‘re already an FT subscriber (standard subscription starts at around $3.50/week) the app will offer very little. Unregistered users can have …