The Daily is a daily news publication that’s only available in digital form. And I don’t mean a website. When Rupert Murdoch launched The Daily launched last year, it was billed as the first major tablet-only news source. It was billed as the (or at least one possible) future of news. Instead of simply taking images and text from a printed paper or magazine and… Read more »

The Associated Press has overhauled its mobile news app for iOS. Version 5.0 has a new design for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad and a prominent new “Big Stories” section which provides quick access to stories about hot topics including the 2012 presidential race and upcoming summer Olympics. The AP also shows photos and videos on each category page, allows you to customize the app… Read more »

FLUD is a mobile news app that grabs the headlines and images from your favorite websites and presents it in a magazine-like format. The company has offered iPhone and iPad for a while, and this week FLUD launched its first Android app. When you first load the app it will pull in news from a handful of popular websites, but you can add to the… Read more »

If your newly-launched tablet is struggling to compete against the likes of the iPad, it’s probably a good idea to make sure that any first-party apps you release really show off its potential. RIM feels differently — at least that’s the impression I’m left with after playing around with the company’s new BlackBerry News app for the PlayBook. News comes pre-loaded with several popular RSS… Read more »

News360 has launched a new app optimized for Android tablets. The company has been offering news apps for iOS, Android, and other platforms for a while, but the new app for tablets running Android 3.x Honeycomb may just be one of the best tablet news apps I’ve seen so far. The home screen is divided into a navigation bar on the left and headlines and… Read more »

Google has added a new feature to the mobile version of Google News, allowing you to select “News near you” to find the latest stories rom whatever area you happen to be in. Google News already lets users select local news from cities manually, but this feature makes the process automatic — and since it relies on Google’s location-based services, your news will move when… Read more »

24 hour news channel Al Jazeera has launched a new mobile app for Android and BlackBerry devices. The news network had already offered a simple Android app which provided live streaming video from Al Jazeera’s English and Arabic news channels, but the new app is a full-featured news utilties that provides photos, written articles, video clips, and live streams, among other things. The Al Jazeera English app… Read more »

CNN introduces its first app for Android in January. Unfortunately it was only available for tablets running Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb initially, which meant that you couldn’t really use the app until the Motorola XOOM hit the streets more than a month later. Now CNN has finally gotten around to launching a full-featured news, video, and radio app for Android. You can use the CNN… Read more »

Three out of four imaginary doctors recommend a daily dose of news, reviews, and videos from Mobiputing every day. And you wouldn’t want to disappoint three doctors I just made up, now would you? Fortunately it’s easier than ever to keep up with the latest from Mobiputing, thanks to the new Mobiputing Android app. You can grab the free ad-supported Mobiputing app from the Android… Read more »

It must be reddit week in the Android developers cabal. Hot on the heels of the launch of BaconReader for Android phones, a developer has released Reddita, a reddit app for Honeycomb tablets. Reddit is a social news web site which allows users to submit links to news items, pictures, or just about anything. Visitors vote on stories so that only the best make it… Read more »