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Taptu, the company behind the popular news reader we’ve already covered for few times in the past, updated its mobile app for Android. Version 1.5 brings several improvements, including supercharged search, related stories and the customizable UI that allows users to change the look and feel of the app on any Android device.
The updated search function scans both for the topic of a stream and for keywords within streams to provide even more news. As an example, Taptu says that searching for “LeBron James” will also display streams that include Taptu’s curated Basketball and Miami Heat streams as well as The Miami Herald’s Miami Heat blog and the Bleacher Report, since they both provide wide coverage of news related to James.
In addition, Taptu 1.5 also allows stream resizing and other customization such as the ability to color code them to get organized, hide photos or display different sized images. Moreover, article pages got a layout makeover, now containing full-sized photos and bigger headlines.
Taptu remains a free app and you can grab it from a link below.
Taptu (FREE) [Android Market link]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
