In collaboration of the News Corporation and Apple, an iPad app built for the 21st Century is launched this Wednesday to get you updated of the freshest and coolest news.
Built exclusively for iPad, the app called The Daily will cater you alarming headlines you need to know.
As most publications have been living for more than a century, a new technological approach is trying to restore awareness and sensitivity to the current events under various categories.
Before, getting information is worth more than an hour looking at printed broad sheets. Now, reading news is as easy as tapping or poking an iPad.
The Daily, being the fruit of the above mentioned companies, is now available for download to give you the hottest trivia you need to know.
The said app have been carefully followed by reporters as the media, together with the big technology owners launch this venture.
Even the News Corp executives commend its existence. The CEO of the News Corp named Rupert Murdoch have mentioned in an interview with Fox Business that this has been his number 1 most exciting project.
Taking the stage at Guggenheim Museum of New York, Murdoch, together with Apple’s vice president of internet services, Eddie Cue, gives their official announcement this Wednesday.
For only 99 cents, the plan of giving iPad owners the issue of acquiring The Daily app will be fulfilled. This is to hand in the latest issue to each user that will surely enjoy its quick access.
Based on the CNN’s observation during the unofficial sneak peak of The Daily, users were invited to watch a video during the first load of the said application. Where, a young woman was asked to stand and vocally read the top stories of the day.
It is followed by the appearance of the newspaper front page flashed on the main screen. By allowing users to flip pages by clicking the section names on top or dragging their figures along the top of the timeline, they will be able to navigate and see the details written in the pages.
To make it more enjoying, headlines were prepared with wit. In fact, there was one issue inside the sports section telling the details regarding the Minnesota Vikings quarter back, which was titled as “A Bridge Too Favre”.
A general coverage with various categories such as sports, entertainment and technology will be covered focusing to U.S.
The Daily will contain written reports, videos and photos with higher resolutions. BY simply swiping or tapping your fingers, you will be able to visit photo galleries related to each article and be able to see full screen versions of videos respectively.
News Corp has mastered its duty of operating multimedia with concentration on various outputs as magazines, newspapers, movie studios and television networks. Other iPad apps has tendency to cover such fields as well because such trend is common to all other iPad app.
When a person wanted to let others have a share of his news stories, he may be able to spread it through email as including the social networking sites that can display its full content by using the onscreen button.
In fact, they had created a Twitter page for The Daily to contribute on the app’s promotion.
To take a step forward, widgets have been made to embed image and videos t any Twitter conversations connected to certain topics.
Users will be entertained by playing soduko games and crossword puzzles. With the iPad’s GPS Function, the location of the user will automatically detected so that the latest weather report will be given at the same time.
There is at least 100 staff of The Daily that caters a test for small groups using the app’s trial edition.
According to the website owned by News Corp, an event last Tuesday night was held by Murdock to let a small crowd have a sneak peak for an early look of The Daily.