| Forget Google Reader, Digg Reader available now for Android Aug 29th 2013, 22:14, by Cory Gunther One of the biggest names to come forth and plan a replacement for Google Reader was Digg, and today their official Android app is finally available. Just like Digg.com on the web you’ll get up to the minute news from their homepage, as well as the Digg Reader full of RSS feeds all optimized for our Android devices. Excited, or have you moved on to Feedly or other options? 
Their new app is one of many aiming to replace Google Reader, and our initial impressions are quite favorable so far. It’s extremely clean, pretty, and simple. Not to mention blazing fast yet follows the Android UI guidelines. We have swipe gestures, slide-out menus and all. The works, as you’d call it. With a simple white or black color theme, it’s extremely clean and easy to read. There’s nothing cluttering it up and you can just enjoy the content with ease. For an initial launch this is pretty good. Watch out Feedly. We knew this was coming, and randomly out of nowhere it hit the Play Store today. Here’s what to expect 
- Quickly swipe back and forth through Digg's Top Stories, as well as through any feed or folder in Digg Reader. Choose from either the web view or the parsed text view.
– Digg or save any story; send it to Instapaper, Pocket or Readability (automatically upon save, if you choose); and share to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Tumblr, WordPress, Buffer, Dropbox, Google Drive, email, text or any other sharable app on your device.
– Search Digg Top Stories.
– Sort your Digg Reader items by popularity to quickly see which of your items are the most talked-about on the social web.
– Log in to Digg Reader with your Google, Facebook or Twitter account.
– Search for and add new feeds. Create, organize and delete folders.
– If you so choose, post your diggs automatically to your Facebook timeline.
Not bad right? Pretty awesome selection of features for their initial launch on Android. Most importantly, just as they promised, it’s extremely fast and simple. Surely we can expect to see plenty of updates and fixes over the coming weeks, but give it a try below and let us know what you think. VIA: Play Store SOURCE: Digg |  | Vodafone and O2 join the 4G LTE family, launch in limited markets Aug 29th 2013, 21:11, by Cory Gunther Today a few major players in the mobile world have joined the 4G LTE family. Joining the likes of Verizon, AT&T, and others that are outside of the US, we can now welcome Vodafone and O2 to the team of blazing fast data and network speeds. O2 promised a 29th launch, and as expected, they flipped the power switch this afternoon on 4G. 
However, over in the UK many will be happy to learn that O2 isn’t the only ones getting faster speeds. The major player Vodafone also lit up 4G LTE today. Both companies are confirming that limited connectivity and markets are available for now, and as expected will be updating and launching additional markets very rapidly. It looks like O2 has 4G LTE across different parts of the UK in London, Leeds, as well as Bradford. This is right on the heels of EE doubling their rollout as of late, and having the widest network around. For now it also looks like Vodafone is reaching all those areas as well as a few others. We’re hearing neither carrier will offer unlimited 4G LTE data pans, which was expected, and currently the highest tier looks to be 8GB monthly. Which you can certainly fly through if you stream tons of content. It looks like both carriers are aiming to offer 4G LTE in over 10 different cities by the end of the year, with Vodafone aiming to be the frontrunner on connectivity. Enjoy those faster speeds folks! VIA: SlashGear | |
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