The Times of India Group has launched apps for smartphones. Earlier, The Times of India launched apps for iPad. This has been developed in order to provide regular news updates from The Times Network to it’s readers.
The Times Group’s iPad app was one of the most downloaded app on iTunes’ app store for India post it’s launch. The Times Of India Group has also launched apps for iPad, iPhone, Android and Blackberry platforms earlier.
The apps developed by the newspaper group will offer it’s readers with the latest updates, videos, photo on various topics ranging from sports to entertainment. Another feature that the apps is having is of live cricket scorecard where the scorecard would be moving with accordance with the live scorecard from the cricket stadium in which the match is being played. It also includes a special feature called “Speed News” through which users can know news updates from across 80 cities which would be updated each and every minute.
HT Media (Hindustan Times) already have mobile apps for iPhone and Mint (which is one of its business daily) have already launched iPad application in January. So, it would be interesting to see the reaction of general public to see which side of the story do they like more, The Hindustan Times or The Times of India.