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  Flipboard To Add TV, Films, eBooks

  1351 readersThe personalized iPad magazine service Flipboard recently decided to get into the movie business. Reuters is reporting that Flipboard is working on deals with media companies with a goal of carrying movies and TV shows. Flipboard launched last year as a first of its kind iPad app. It gathers web content from a vast number of

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  New mobile apps from Flipboard, Evernote

  3361 readersThis past week, Google launched its new Flipboard-alike Currents app, but Flipboard hasn’t been standing still either. The company launched a scaled-down version of its iPad reader app for the iPhone. (Alas, it requires at least OS 4.0, so it won’t run on my first-generation iPod Touch—not that I’m really surprised.) The app proved to

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  Flipboard launches advertising program with Condé Nast

  2726 readersIn partnership with Condé Nast, e-magazine app Flipboard has started introducing advertising to some of its feeds, beginning with The New Yorker magazine. But Flipboard users need not fret that their app is going to go the way of the web, with intrusive advertisements that distract from the content. Flipboard CEO Mike McCue insists that

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  Touched by an iPod again

  2377 readersOne of the best surprises I got this Christmas was the gift of a used iPod Touch by my sister-in-law. She belongs to an iPhone family, and they’ve gotten so many iPhones over the course of the last few years that the Touch, originally bought for the kids to play with, was relegated to sitting

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  iOS 6 Now Available

  1280 readersBy Bill Stiteler | for Appletell iOS 6 is now available for download. The new operating system for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch can be downloaded over the air from the device, or via iTunes, and requires 2.4 GB of space. The update is compatible with the iPhone 3GS or better, the 4th generation iPod touch, and

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  500,000+ Magazines Created on Flipboard

  840 readers News aggregation app Flipboard added the ability to create magazines in an update two weeks ago, and creators have now produced more than 500,000 magazines on the site. The company created a sprawling infographic about the growth. Here’s more from Flipboard: It’s been two weeks since the new edition of Flipboard was released, allowing readers to collect and curate

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  New iPod Touch Coming This Fall?

  586 readersWe’ve reached the point that the coming new iPhone i pretty much an established fact, so now it’s time for the rumor mill to turn its attention to Apple’s other gadgets. MacRumors is reporting this morning that one of their usually reliable sources, a market analysis firm, is predicting that a new iPod Touch will debut

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  An Android-based iPod Touch substitute is hard to find

  4712 readersI’ve greatly enjoyed the two 1st-generation iPod Touch pocket-sized media/Internet devices I’ve had over the last few years, and have had my eyes on the 4th-generation iPod Touch for some little while. I’ve been thinking that, come the fall, I might upgrade to a 4th-gen model when the 5th-gen iPod Touch comes out and drives

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  Morning Brief: Flipboard issues major update to bring app to version 2.0; update allows users to share their own aggregated ‘magazines’

  348 readersLate yesterday afternoon Flipboard issued an update to its popular iOS app, bringing the app up top version 2.0. (The app in Google Play was recently updated bringing it up to version 1.9.27.) First, what's new in version 2.0: ★ You can now collect and save content into your own magazines, tap the new “+” button to

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  Whited00r backports later features to old iOS hardware

  1299 readersTechCrunch has an article looking at an iOS hacking project that has the potential to be rather interesting. Whited00r is a custom version of OS 3.1.3, hacked to include features such as app folders and multitasking from later versions of the OS. It’s meant for older-generation iPhones and iPod Touches. Of course, it’s a jailbreak,