Windows Phone 7 users rejoice! This week, the gorgeous news reader app Pulse [1] will finally make its way to Microsoft’s new mobile platform, the company announced in a blog post [2] today.
The free app will join Pulse’s family of iPhone, iPad and Android apps, bringing with it the same slick grid-based design for perusing news. The Windows Phone Pulse app will have a few features exclusive to the platform, including the ability to follow your favorite news source as a live tile on your phone’s home screen.
The company tells me that the app is expected to land in the Windows Phone Marketplace early this week.
The news reader has come a long way since its infamous debut in 2010, when the New York Times objected to the app because it felt Pulse was stealing its content. Now, publishers are eager to get on board with the app, co-founder Akshay Kothari told me during a recent trip to New York City.
That makes sense, since tablets are now a much bigger computing segment than a year ago. And for media companies, who sometimes have trouble adjusting to new technology, it’s also much clearer what tablets have to offer consumers now.
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