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NOTE: This post is part of our “The 10 Best iPad Applications for News” series. Do check back and view the latest reviews.

Pulse is the anti-newspaper; a news aggregation creation of two youngster graduates. You could go to the loo, fire up the content grids, which are like prettier, pictorial RSS feeds and within seconds your fingers have swiped 20 or so grids of news from multiple sources and maybe delved into a few. Content bursts at a pulse-like speed with the user in complete control of navigation as you flick in and out of what interests.

NOTE: This post is part of our “The 10 Best iPad Applications for News” series. Do check back and view the latest reviews.

Digital Post

The Digital Post straddles authentic, newspaper design and modern innovation. Its ability to aggregate multiple sources attracts the ‘nomadic’ reader concerned with varied and mass content at speed over brand loyalty. It exploits the inability of print to provide user-chosen content and lets the reader pioneer the search from neatly divided categories. This is the major superiority of digital, malleable content over newspapers. 

NOTE: This post is part of our “The 10 Best iPad Applications for News” series. Do check back and view the latest reviews.

Who needs Inception? We’ve formed our own world here in these pixels; a society formed brick by brick, tag by tag and like by like. And now our society has its own ‘glossy’.

Flipboard is the natural extension of the consumer-driven, news delivery ecosystem that is the iPad. The content here is not just chosen by us, it is us; our lives and our tweets.  Flipboard is highly relevant in our current social targeting phenomenon, where corporations are hungry to know our friends and our tastes; where behavioural tracking drives advertising. So why shouldn’t our local magazine be tailored exactly to our tastes? We don’t need editors to spoon-feed us news – let’s have an editorial anarchy!

NOTE: This post is part of our “The 10 Best iPad Applications for News” series. Do check back and view the latest reviews.

Press Reader iPad App

This application is free to download, and offers a huge range of news titles (some of which are free and some are paid). There are over 1,500 full content newspapers and magazines on offer, presented as exact digital replicas, which are zoomable and flippable. It is easily to navigate publications using thumbnails or a table of contents.

NOTE: This post is part of our “The 10 Best iPad Applications for News” series. Do check back and view the latest reviews.

Reuters News

After developing a successful app for the iPhone, Reuters released the Reuters News Pro app and Reuteries Galleries app for the iPad, with a deliberate focus on video graphics and interactivity, such as interactive charting and financial data manipulation. Users can experience horizontal scrolling and split-screen reading, (which might not be a preference for many who like the fact that the iPad platform boasts a wide surface for visuals), and a caching mechanism that enables offline reading.