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Pipes: a simple mobile news reader for tracking individual topics

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by on March 27, 2014 at 1:47 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches, Product Reviews

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News apps really aren’t in short supply at the moment, and with Flipboard’s visually-led design sitting as the poster boy for wannabe contenders, it’s unsurprising to see a few similar-feeling apps hit the market. One of the newest entrants is Pipes for Android and iOS, a news aggregator that allows users to search for individual topics, people, items or anything else, and then create a channel of news specific to that. But with Flipboard (and others) already offering this sort of filtering, what else has Pipes got to offer? Getting started! Getting started is easy. And free. All you need to…

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Music streaming app Bloom.fm hits 1M registered users in the UK, will launch a Web player next month

Mar27
by on March 27, 2014 at 12:57 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, UK

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Bloom.fm now has one million people registered for its music streaming service in the UK. After launching on iOS in January 2013, followed by Android last September, the company has doubled its user base in the last four months. While Bloom.fm is only available in the UK at the moment, it offers a fresh take on the highly competitive music streaming space. A Pandora-style radio service is free of charge, while on-demand streaming similar to Spotify, Rdio and Beats Music is priced at 13.99 per month (£10 if you sign up on the Web). In between are two separate tiers,…

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Runtastic overhauls its GPS fitness-tracking app, and now tells you how much water to drink

Mar27
by on March 27, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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App developer Runtastic has carved a sizable ‘niche’ for itself in the digital fitness realm in recent years, notching up north of seventy million downloads since its foundation in 2009. This figure includes all platforms and its myriad of apps – which covers ones for homebodies and others specifically for those wishing to get a six-pack. But the app with which Runtastic is perhaps best known for is the one called – funnily enough – Runtastic, a GPS fitness tracker that lets you monitor, analyze and record your every movement on the tracks or on the roads. Today, Runtastic for…

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Instagram now has more mobile users in the US than Twitter, according to a new report

Mar27
by on March 27, 2014 at 9:11 am
Posted In: Around the Web

In a new report that will make painful reading for those at Twitter, E-Marketer claims that Instagram, the Facebook-owned photo app, now has more smartphone-based users in the US than Twitter. According to the figures — reported by the Financial Times — Instagram has 35 million US mobile users, while Twitter has 30.8 million. More generally, Twitter claims 240 million active users worldwide each month — across both desktop and mobile devices — which keeps it ahead of Instagram, which counts 200 million, for now at least. The research comes at an interesting time for Twitter. The company is pushing…

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ClassDojo’s mobile app now lets parents and teachers message each other to keep kids in line

Mar27
by on March 27, 2014 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

ClassDojo, the behavior management platform for teachers, is rolling out a new messaging feature designed to give parents and teachers an easier way to converse. Launching out of beta way back in 2012, ClassDojo lets teachers add pupils’ names and customize the behaviors they want to encourage. During class, positive behavior is reinforced by dishing out feedback points, using any computer, tablet or smartphone; these feedback points are displayed in real-time in the classroom with audio-visual cues. It also compiles this data into reports, letting teachers monitor progress, trends and share information with parents. Two million teachers have signed up…

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