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A few days ago we let you know that NewsGator was planning to shut down its once-popular web-based RSS reader. But it looks like the NewsGator web client isn't the only product on the chopping block. The company is also killing off NewsGator Go! and NewsGator Inbox. NewsGator Inbox is an application that works with Microsoft Outlook to let you read and manage your feeds from the email client. NewGator Go! is a mobile application for BlakBerry and Windows Mobile phones and PDAs, as well as other Java-enabled smartphones.
NewsGator will be launching a new iPhone app soon, but for Windows Mobile and BlackBerry users, the company has this bit of advice: Find a new application that syncs with Google Reader. The company's existing products like the FeedDemon and NetNewsWire desktop RSS readers will be able to synchronize your feeds and read/unread items with Google Reader. It looks like the company decided to retired Inbox and Go! rather than build the same functionality into those apps.
How do you get your news on the go? Do you use a mobile RSS reader for BlackBerry or Windows Mobile? Or do you just use the mobile web interface for Google Reader? Let us know in the comments.
[via The::Unwired]
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Subscribe to commentsAnthonyAug 10th 2009 11:38AM
This situation sucks. I could adjust my reading workflow to deal with the changes between systems on the desktop clients, but NewsGator Go! is eleventy bajillion times better than Google Reader Mobile on my BB Pearl.
TomAug 10th 2009 2:11PM
For any windows mobile readers looking for a new client you could check out:
http://emuneee.wordpress.com/eeenno/speeed-reader/
PeterAug 10th 2009 2:41PM
This sucks, there are just no other good RSS readers for BB's. I guess, it comes at around the same time I'll be switching carriers//phones, so it isn't that big of a deal, but this is pretty horrible.
mxxconAug 10th 2009 2:59PM
i wish i could find a good mobile rss that can sync with google reader and offers offline/cached support.
i take subway to work and more than half of my commute is underground. almost every reader i found work only "online".
for now i'm using rss reader that's built into Opera Mini.
it works offline.
it displays all articles inline, so i just keep pressing spacebar to go down(instead of expanding/collapsing articles like some readers do).
it's fast and opera's pre-formated pages load faster than the raw rss+images.
JamesAug 11th 2009 9:22AM
I've had decent experiences with BeyondPod (podcast focus, but does "other" RSS as well) and Pocket RSS Reader -- I actually "own" the latter, but only because I volunteered to help out, then the lead dev quit. It's got one or two annoying bugs, but otherwise works pretty good in general.
In case anybody's wondering: I have not been developing PRSSR because it's based on Embedded Visual C++ 4.0, which does not work on any OS newer than Windows XP, and my old XP box died in my move. One of these days I may get around to setting up an XP VM, but I'm more likely to just build something new with a similar design in .NET CF.