When it comes to getting the latest news and finding the right one that we are interested in, that would not be the consistent case. With so much to report about what is going on in the world today, you are bound to get some news clippings that you may not even be interested at all.

However, the Smiling App news aims to put some order to this area. The new app is a powerful and fully functional news reader and can act as a go-to source of standard news. It is available on the Apple App Store for $0.99.

Features:

• Four different positivity levels (from neutral to high)
• Easy-to-use one-tap emoticon interface
• 16 popular news sources, sorted by category, including: Yahoo! News, Google News, AP, New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, CBS, ABC, USA Today, NPR, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek
• An expansive and informative positive news category from the Smile News Mix
• View one OR multiple news sources at the same time
• Assign specific news sources to specific news categories
• The ability to enter feeds of your choice (via RSS)
• Landscape mode for easy reading - just tilt your device and double-tap on the article text

Smile News Network is a software company founded by young veterans of the tech world who seek to apply technology for the social good.

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Since it’s the middle of May already we can simply assume that the Pre is about a month away. Recent rumors say that Palm is going to launch the Pre in the first week of June. Is Palm interested in dropping the Pre before Apple’s WWDC? According to the New York Times the Pre is coming before June 8. On the other hand we’ve heard that the iPhone might not be even presented at the WWDC and that a new iPhone-dedicated event will be held by Steve Jobs later this summer. Or is it just an interesting out of the box strategy meant to fool the guys at Palm?

via nytimes

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There is a new way to help iPhone and iPod Touch owners through the Kindle store. Amazon today launched a Kindle Store optimized for the Safari Web browser on iPhone. Now when users of the Kindle for iPhone app click on “Get Books,” the new Kindle Store tailored for the size and shape of the iPhone and iPod touch screens automatically opens in Safari.

This optimized Kindle store offers iPhone and iPod touch app users quick and easy access to the Kindle Store’s 280,000 books, including 106 of 112 New York Times Best Sellers and most New Releases that are available for $9.99 or less.

The Kindle for iPhone application was released on March 4 and within days became the most popular books app in the iPhone App Store. iPhone users can shop Kindle’s massive selection of books on the iPhone and iPod touch using Apple’s Multi-Touch user interface.

Amazon’s Whispersync technology saves and synchronizes Kindle customers’ bookmarks across Kindle, iPhone and iPod touch, so you always have your reading with you and never lose your place. Kindle customers can read a few pages on their iPhone or iPod touch and pick up right where they left off on their Kindle.

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The new Amazon Kindle is going to be revealed soon but since you hate waiting for all those specs we have some cool leaked information for you. The Kindle DX (yes, that’s the new name) will have a 9.7-inch display, a built-in PDF reader, the ability of adding annotations, notes and highlights, an optional $9.95/month New York Times subscription and optional textbooks for chemistry, computer schience and a freshman seminar. Those textbooks will be included this fall for students attending the courses of the Case Western Reserve University and other five schools are also interested in giving this new Kindle a test run. If you’re going to be a student at Pace, Princeton, Reed, Arizona State or the Darden School at the Univeristy of Virginia then you might just be issued one new Kindle this year.

We’ll be back with more details when Amazon will make its official announcement.

via Engadget

Tags: Amazon, Kindle, Kindle DX, Mobile News, New York Times, Portable Devices

Amazon is going to host a special press event this Wednesday. If you’re interested in their Kindle then you should definitely find some time to at least virtually attend. Scheduled for May 6 at 10:30AM ET the whole event should be Kindle-related. The press conference will be held at Pace University which is the historical location of the New York Times. Are we going to see a bigger Kindle made especially for magazine’s and newspapers? We’ll find out more in less than two days!

via allthingsd

Tags: Amazon, Kindle 2, Mobile News, New York Times, Portable Devices, Press Event