What's New
Optimized weather tab with faster processing and additional layers for a more robust interactive radar experience.
New weather layers:
- Satellite (including cloud cover)
- Temperature
- Topical Satellite
- Radar (precipitation)
- Wind Speed
- Transparency is adjustable to users preference
New home tab display for time sensitive breaking news including weather alerts, and other live, late breaking local happenings
New story layout with larger photos
The application has access to the following:
Network communication
full Internet access
Allows an application to create network sockets.
view network state
Allows an application to view the state of all networks.
Storage
modify/delete SD card contents
Allows an application to write to the SD card.
System tools
automatically start at boot
Allows an application to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the application to slow down overall performance of the phone by constantly running.
display system-level alerts
Allows an application to show system alert windows. Malicious applications can take over the entire screen of the phone.
Phone calls
read phone state and identity
Allows the application to access the phone features of the device. An application with this permission can determine the phone number and serial number of this phone, whether a call is active, the number that call is connected to, ect.
Hardware controls
control vibrator
Allows the application to control the vibrator.
Your location
fine (GPS) location
Access fine location sources such as the Global Positioning System on the phone, where available. Malicious applications can use this to determine where you are, and may consume additional battery power.
mock location sources for testing
Create mock location sources for testing. Malicious applications can use this to override the location and/or status returned by real location sources such as GPS or Network providers.
coarse (network-based) location
Access coarse location sources such as the cellular network database to determine an approximate phone location, where available. Malicious applications can use this to determine approximately where you are.
Other
android.permission.ACCESS_GPS
android.permission.ACCESS_LOCATION
Che'
May 5, 2012 4:59:50 AM
Alright Does pretty much what I expected...
Janise
Apr 25, 2012 5:04:41 AM
Not getting updates I have not been receiving any updates on news reports. My husband gets his updates but not I. I am really wanting to know what is wrong and how to fix the issue.
Amanda
Apr 23, 2012 2:41:54 PM
Force close Every time I try to look at national news I get an error and have to force close the app. Very aggravating!
David
Apr 22, 2012 11:36:57 PM
GREAT Love it
Brooks
Mar 29, 2012 5:32:46 PM
BR After update still slow. You can't see additional pics. The breaking news feature doesn't work. Oh yea editor's need to spell ck b4 they post stories.
Michael
Mar 24, 2012 2:21:21 AM
Wcsc Runs in the background and drains my battery. A little slow.
steven
Mar 19, 2012 8:19:55 PM
Oops None of the local news videos have sound to them.......Really....
Dustin
Mar 15, 2012 2:17:06 AM
Slow Stalls a lot.....
betty
Jan 23, 2012 2:36:01 AM
ALERTS...Turn Them OFF.... Alerts, often of little interest, are continuous, cannot be turned off, occupy my phone's header and invade my sound space. For quick updates on local news I would love to keep this app but this annoyance is too much.
Brent
Jan 19, 2012 5:31:46 AM
Ok app Overall its to nice to use for local news. However, links embedded in the articles never work and you can't enlarge pictures.