Hourly News has been updated with 3 new sources.

• Deutsche Welle Radio News 24/7 is a great news European news source. We resisted adding it previously because it is not an hourly updated feed, but it does update pretty regularly throughout European Business hours.
• Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) English News Bulletin is another daily updated news summary which provides excellent World and Asian news broadcast in English.
• Mule Radio Evening Edition is a daily updated end-of-day news summary that is getting off to a great start online.

Among other smaller bug fixes, the app now displays an entry on the sources page that indicated how frequently a source is updated. As Hourly News now allows feeds which are not strictly hourly updated, we can continue to add your favorite news sources to the app so please continue requesting!

You can download the Hourly News update for Mac and iOS on the iTunes App Store.

Hourly News has been getting a ton of great attention lately, and now we can add Apple to that list. Hourly News is currently being prominently featured on the Mac App Store front page!

Download: http://appstore.com/mac/hourlynews

When all the breaking news is on Twitter, it seems as if there’s no need for audio streams or radio stations any longer. NPR and BBC are still listened to by many, but how long will it be until they are no longer needed?

A new app called Hourly News wants to make sure radio reports stay around for a bit longer by putting them in your menu bar for a nice streaming experience. Shall we see what this app can do to keep us listening to radio news?

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We release just about 10 new sounds a week in Ambiance. Most of these sounds are excellent — a few of them are not — so we decided to find the best and make a top-5 list of the most downloaded sounds that we released into the app over 2012.

Yesterday, we discovered that Ambiance Desktop was being featured on the Mac App Store. Today, we find out that Ambiance for iPhone, iPod and iPad is also being featured in the iTunes App Store under the "New Year, New You" page. With over a million iOS apps in the App Store, being hand picked by Apple is quite an honor. Thanks Apple!

Ambiance Desktop is currently being featured by Apple on the Mac App Store under the "New Year, New You" section! Ambiance is used for many purposes including relaxing at home and focusing at work, so it is a perfect fit under the "Your Mind" section of the page. Check out Ambiance over on the Mac App Store.

Urban Apps has just finished a long-overdue design update to the website and blog. Check it out!

Rangelsutch asked: Do you have an Urban Apps Facebook page?

Yes, we have several Urban Apps related social media pages. The main Urban Apps Facebook and Urban Apps Twitter pages are used for almost all news updates.

There are also a few app-specific pages, such as the Ambiance Twitter and Ambiance Facebook accounts that are much more popular than the Urban Apps pages.

Hourly News also has a Hourly News Facebook page.

Urban Apps is proud to announce that our popular news app Hourly News is now available on the Mac App Store! Hourly News is the easiest way for you to listen to the top-of-the-hour updates from multiple news sources.

Urban Apps is having an Oktoberfest Sale!

We are big fans of beer over here at Urban Apps. In honor of the 16-day festival of beer, or perhaps because we are already drunk at 9 AM on October 1st, we are making one of our top Apps absolutely free for the duration of the festival!