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WorldNews

by KipCast Corp.

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9 reviews

Yippidu WorldNews is an application for BlackBerry® devices that covers news in English for the following countries: the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia/New Zealand, Germany, France, India, China and Spain.

Yippidu WorldNews aggregates news stories from the top leading online news providers for each country. For each story, Yippidu WorldNews provides title, author s , publication, a short snippet of text  less than 200 chars  from the original article. Links to the original information and attribution to the original publication are provided for each article.

For each country, Yippidu WorldNews automatically creates the  hot topics  category of news. Based on semantic clustering techniques, Yippidu WorldNews automatically identifies the leading topics of the day and presents a list of the most recent articles that belong to that subject. Also, related articles and named entities  tags  are automatically extracted from the original text.

Starting from release 1.0.0.40, native Twitter support is also available. Now, you can post article snippets directly to Twitter without using the mobile browser. To do so enter your credentials (saved only on your device) using WorldNews Options menu item.

For more information also check KipCast corporate blog at: kipcast.wordpress.com

Latest Reviews

efficient
March 20 2010

No login + setup- just straight to the news- nice!

great
February 25 2010

It is easy to use and does what it says! :)

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Version:	1.0.1.1
Release:	31.12.2009
File Size:	440 KB
Support :	support@kipcast.com

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Supported Devices
BlackBerry 8100
BlackBerry 8110
BlackBerry 8120
BlackBerry 8130
BlackBerry 8230
BlackBerry 8300
BlackBerry 8310
BlackBerry 8320
BlackBerry 8330
BlackBerry 8530
BlackBerry 8800
BlackBerry 8820
BlackBerry 8830
BlackBerry 8900
BlackBerry 9000
BlackBerry 9500
BlackBerry 9530
BlackBerry 9700

Supported Countries
All Countries

Supported Carriers
All carriers