There are numerous news reading applications now available for the phones, so that you are aware of the day to day, random happenings around the world as well as your local surroundings. Now you don’t have to go looking around for a newspaper stand or an internet cafe to surf for various topics. The service is available right in your hands, in your handset. These applications bring the latest news from the trusted sources in your reach.

The list here is compiled, keeping in mind some of the most popular and quality news aggregators for your mobile phones. These Free news reading applications are loaded with different features which may suit your needs and reading style. The best part is that all these applications are available for free and can be used at any time and anyplace. Now you don’t have to worry about paying any more for your daily dose of news, gossips or entertainment.

News360

News360 is not just another news reading application. It is an innovative news aggregator which is supported on Android 3.0 Honeycomb. It is a news reader with a true international approach. As the name suggests, News360 presents the news to you in a whole new dimension. The huge demand of platform based applications has resulted in News360 ousting similar applications in a stiff competition. News360 brings news to you from 10,000 news sources and more so that your news reading experience is not compromised. It is built up with semantic analysis technology that allows you to get the background details and dossiers about the companies and people who create the news.

News360 is totally free and available for download. The purpose of this application is bringing the news to you as if it is waiting for you to read it. You can select from a broad variety of topics the moment you start the application. Today people’s concern is demanding speed and consistency, both of which are satisfied by News360. It also provides a wider scope of collecting information by presenting alternative sources of a story. It is just like watching same news on different channels. News360 adheres to the fact that the authenticity of the news cannot be compromised. So it does not pick news feeds on blogs or unreliable sources. Another use of this application is that it reaches the third world masses by translating the news in English, the global language.

The most delightful side of News360 is that it has a vast arsenal of features. It yields almost all the features you desire. For example, News360 has one of the most polished interfaces with OOMPH! Factor. It pays attention to the smooth transitioning of RSS feeds to the news articles with such precision that you won’t even notice that you are jumping to another site. The USP of this application is the 360 degree view which arranges news stories based on the images of their headlines. The images are high quality and allow you to lay your eyes on the topics that you may normally ignore. You can also enjoy live English-speaking news streams from every corner of the world. When you want to dwell into local world, just trigger your phone’s GPS, specify your location and press the Local Tab to get all the required information of your surroundings. You can even create an account on News360 which picks up information from your Facebook or Twitter accounts and then personalize your news accordingly. This feature is called “My Stories” where you can customize news topics according to your interests. All you have to do is feed the topics that are of your interest and add them to the list of the main news. Rest of the work is performed by News360 by bringing the news on those topics in your hands.

There is also the provision of saving stories for reading them later in offline mode. The icing on the cake here is the personal widget of News360 for Android 3.0 Honeycomb. The widget is fairly large and displays the contents portrait style. You cannot ask for more. With such caliber and magnitude of admiration, you cannot miss out in this application. A must have for all ardent news readers.

Pulse

Pulse is a clean and sensational news reading application which displays your news feeds in a colorful mosaic pattern. Pulse redefines your browsing of different news and social networking sites in a fun manner. The application brings you a friendly graphical user interface, so you can stay up to date with the RSS feeds. The whole content is nicely laid out for you. Just select an article with a small tap of finger and you are viewing your favorite story with an elegant view. You can publish your stories through Facebook, Twitter or email by tapping twice on your device.

Pulse news reader allows you to read full articles as if they are being presented to you for a web site. If you are interested only in the daily contents, then there is a simple read “text only” option available for you.  In the text-only option the visuals are removed, and you are presented with a remarkably clean view of the feeds. Pulse features a highly attractive design. Pulse is one of those aggregators that are not only visually attractive but also a clean news renderer. Comes with prepackaged news feed and predefined news sources making it easy to find the news you want!

• Immensely feature rich and easy to use!
• Allows holding multiple pages of contents!
• Pulse comes integrated with Facebook and Twitter!
• Allows content pulling from popular Social Feeds like PicPlz, YouTube, and Digg.com

Pulse contains different animations and the textures of these animations are extremely smooth and visually appealing. For easy navigation, the full text reader can be opened in a landscape mode where all the matter stays on the right, and the unread feeds stay on the left of the screen. The application is preloaded with a list of generic sites. According to your preference, these sites can be rearranged and recreated into further groups very easily.

The ease of setting up combined with proper navigation make it a must have application for you as configuring Pulse is a piece of cake. Unlike other websites and applications that display all the feeds in one place, Pulse arranges all the news feeds separately. This means you can quickly view your social media without unnecessary confusion. It’s definitely worth downloading if you want to surf your favorite bookmarks in a rejuvenated way. Some of the top feeds included in the predefined list are BBC, The New York Times, Life Hacker, Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Android Central.  Pulse also brings a delightful feature for the iPad users called “Pulse.me”. It not only allows you to share stories but also save them to your personal profile created on your device. You can later review these stories you have saved on the web. The URL to the feature is http://pulse.me. Overall, the application is a smart one and achieves the ultimate goal of satisfying your hunger for your daily dose of entertainment.

Google News

 The world’s biggest search engine brings its trademark news reading feature into your palms. Google News is a mobile application, especially for androids which recreates your news reading experience from the web directly into your handsets. Now you can surf through different topics and news from any corner of the world. All you need to do is make a finger swipe gesture and you are minutes away from all the hottest happenings around the globe. Google News Reader brings to you the spice of entertainment, from gossips to the technology crunch, political material to academic information and much more.

Google News Application is  the product of the world’ biggest IT giant and has all the information that comes latest in the market. Obviously, the stakes are high and there is lot to offer. So this application doesn’t disappoint you when it comes to feeding your  desire of reading news, gossips etc. Google News Reader tries to provide speedy news by quickly streaming the RSS feeds. The best point about Google News  is its availability in both android and iOS, so you don’t need to worry about the compatibility of this software with your phone. If you own an android phone or any apple product, you can safely assume that you won’t miss out on any of the vital news from the outside world.

Google News has decent features which can easily guide a new android user to search for information. This reader supports all the areas which are covered in the Google News webpage. You can go local by providing the coordinates of your location and Google News will show you all the happenings around you. For example, if you are living in Sydney then you can add your city’s name in the customized topic  and you are already watching news from the local surroundings. Google News has a very clear user interface with large pictures and bold letter headlines so that you don’t have to strain your eyes. If you still find it difficult to decipher the words, you can switch to the landscape mode which further enhances the reading quality. The news provided is also reliable as it comes from the trusted sources and is updated  regularly and instantly. A feature which comes in handy is the customization of the Google News widget, where you can personalize the news by adding appropriate keywords. From sequencing of the news tabs to the arrangement of the various categories, all depend on your conscience. You can link yourselves to social networking sites and share your articles on social hubs like Twitter, Facebook, Google+ etc. In short, a simple power-packed application worth giving a try.

Loku

Loku is a groovy web service that allows you to explore the environment around you. A fantastic location discovery site which makes your local life easier by finding news, events, deals and hangout places, etc in a small area. Loku was created to serve the purpose for its founder Dan Street who felt that the people in the neighborhood should feel connected to each other. Loku acts as a vast database, containing information about every small happening and synthesizes them accordingly. Loku uses natural language search and provides most relevant articles to the finder.

Loku, also named “BIG DATA” is a boon for anyone living in 15 U.S. cities where it has data on. If you ever feel like hanging out with your friends in one of your nearby locality and can’t find one, then Loku is the perfect help you can hire and analyze different restaurant and venue reviews. It will give you the most pertinent details according to you as well as your neighborhood’s approach. There are numerous applications available on the web with a similar idea and working but only Loku matches the emerging standards of venue-finding services.

Loku includes few but immensely powerful features in its repository. It can hold all the information together and display it in a gorgeous, web-zine graphical format. Loku is like a creamy layer on top of the local internet. The results shown in Loku are also a visual delight to the person using it. The “Know Local” is a basic feature which creates portals containing topics like culture, sports, culinary etc. The solid “Go Local” function is the real gem of Loku which contains various mood sliders like “Swanky,” “Flirty” “Foodie” etc based on its sentiment analysis algorithm. “Go Local” matches your feelings and provides different views and suggestions on the topic of your choice. As of this moment Loku is a web-only service allowing the changes made to be a lot easy. The open source community also scrutinizes the ranking and presentation of data allowing the data to stay up to date. Loku, the mobile application is still in development and is expected to be out soon.

The Google Street View is a service that will let you see the whole city as it actually is and the service is also very useful for GPS navigation as well. Google had employed some specially designed cars for the purpose for taking videos and pictures of all the parts of this city and this might be something that irked the Indian government. They don’t want all the parts of the city to be photographed and to be put on the internet to be viewed by all. However, Google hasn’t breached any privacy policies because it had sought permission before this venture in India.

This Google Street View feature exists for all cities across the world but in India it doesn’t exist and Bengaluru was to be the first city from India to have this feature.

It is actually so less number of times that I can actually count it on my fingers. Well, the “I Am Feeling Lucky” button was introduced by Google to produce very good and superior results from the Google search engine but instead the “I Am Feeling Lucky” button took a beating because it wasn’t much popular with the internet community. Most have never ever given any importance to the “I Am Feeling Lucky” button. We prefer to do click the Google search button instead.

The “I Am Feeling Lucky” button is not removed simply because people don’t want it but because Google is working on some new ideas and is doing away with the older ones.

The problem occurred when thousands of users logged into their accounts and found out that all the personal details and information were erased. The funny thing about it is that many accounts were reset and were given the Google’s welcome message and tutorials.

One frustrated users writes-“I have lost ALL on my e-mails/folders etc from Gmail. Why would this happen? How can I restore everything?”. Another user writes- “All my account settings, e-mail, labels, contacts etc has just disappeared.”

Meanwhile, Google is trying hard to restore every single accounts which is merely used by 200 million people. “We’ve already fixed the problem for some individuals. Our engineers are working as quickly as possible and we hope to have everything back to normal soon. We are sorry for the inconvenience to our customers,” Google spokesperson told Huffington Post on Monday.

Hey if you are one of them we would suggest-“Just be patient”.

• Available at least through the end of the year.
• Tools will be there before the end of the year, for the users  to export their wave.

• Continue wave and extend wave technology in other Google products.
• Open sourcing more of(Google’s)code.

less than 10% share of PCs (lower worldwide)
~ 1% of global phones
~ 20%-30% share of US smart-phones (lower worldwide)
~ 70% share of US standalone music players (50% worldwide)
If the standalone music player market were still booming, Apple would be getting a lot more heat for its market position.  As Apple itself has admitted, however, standalone music players are dying.  Fortunately for Apple, iPods aren’t really “music players,” and the larger mobile platform market is very much alive.The iPhone and iPod touch are two gadgets based on a single mobile platform, one that now supports thousands of popular apps.  To get a true picture of Apple’s dominance of this platform, therefore, you need to look at the iPhone and iPod share together.  And then you need to consider the relative popularity of Apple’s mobile platform as a platform for apps versus the alternatives.In reality, “music” and “phone calls” are just apps–and as Apple has already illustrated, they are far from the only ones.  The real value in plaftorms is created by network effects: The more end users and developers that adopt a platform, the more valuable it becomes. Apple is already well on its way to owning the standard platform in mobile computing, just as Microsoft did on the desktop.If you view iPhones and iPod touches as “mobile platforms that support a wide variety of third-party apps,” Apple probably has 30%-40% of the US market (less worldwide).  If you consider platforms that already have huge, vibrant developer communities, thousands of apps, and all of the momentum, however, Apple’s share of this market (US) is probably more like 80%-90%.

Google had released the new version of Gmail for Apple’s iPhone and Android-powered devices in the month of April.With this new release the mobile users will also enjoy the features that the desktop users have been enjoying for years.According to a post at the Google mobile blog: “The number one improvement is faster address auto-completion. This means that as you start typing the first few letters of your friend or colleague’s name or email address, the Gmail for mobile will instantly display the possible contacts.”Google has always been known for adding features that enhances speed and accuracy ,and this is an example to it.To check out Gmail for mobile, visit gmail.com in your mobile browser. This version of Gmail for mobile supports the following: “iPhone/iPod Touch OS 2.2.1 or above,” as well as all Android-powered devices, and is available for US English only. To make it easy to access your Gmail account, try creating a home screen link.This feature is available only in the English version of Gmail.

Google has always been known for adding features that enhances speed and accuracy ,and this is an example to it.To check out Gmail for mobile, visit gmail.com in your mobile browser. This version of Gmail for mobile supports the following: “iPhone/iPod Touch OS 2.2.1 or above,” as well as all Android-powered devices, and is available for US English only. To make it easy to access your Gmail account, try creating a home screen link.

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Professional translators can also upload personal files to the translator toolkit, and use the toolkit provided by Google, which includes a glossary, and dictionary, among other features, Galvez said. The local file and the translation can be kept private. he added.

The editing can be done using a document layout that general users are familiar with.