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Zite for iPad—born in Vancouver through research at UBC and now owned by CNN—is one of those “best of breed” apps that makes keeping up with the news nearly painless. Except if you have lots of people using your iPad. So while you might be interested in all things Mac your spouse might what to [...]
It was rumored last week during the GROW conference, but today it’s been confirmed. Vancouver-based Zite has been acquired by CNN (Techvibes and RWW) for a rumored $20–25 million. Beyond kudos to the developers (who came out of UBC), I think this affirms what I’ve thinking for sometime—apps like Zite, Summify, and Flipboard might very [...]
I got an email this morning from Zod. No, not the arch-nemesis of Superman, but Michael Kirlew of Toronto-based Zod Studios who want to tell me about their new newspaper-style app for the iPad called QuikView. Now, you folks know that I’m a sucker for news apps. I tried Flipboard straight away. I really liked Zite (but haven’t touched it in a while for some strange reason). Now QuikView offers similar functions as both these apps, but the real twist is in adjusting the layout of the pages you create.
From my post on the Future Shop Tech blog: A Lot More Than My Top 5 Awesome Apps for iOS – Future Shop Community Forums.
I’m a huge fan of the Vancouver Sun (Postmedia, really) iPad app, it is (as I said initially) part of my daily routine of reading the news. Now, I know that Postmedia doesn’t push all the articles from the Sun (or other papers) to the app, but that’s okay. Kobo came out with real subscriptions [...]
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