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Automattictodayreleased WordPress for iOS 2.7for the iPhone and iPad through the App Store. This latest release has been in development for three months and includes an improved user interface and more than 100 bug fixes. Reliability received a big focus in the release, with data management moved over to Core Data and improved XML-RPC communication. These changes should go some way to addressing the issues the app has had with usability and reliability since it first came out....

According to adev blog,WordPressfor iOS 2.7.1 has just been submitted to the App Store and is awaiting approval. The app’s latest major introduction is support for video and photo uploading on the iPad 2. Users should be able to shoot video, edit using iMovie and upload clips to WordPress without leaving the iPad 2, making it a serious mobile publishing device. When the iPad 2 was announced, much of the focus around the device’s cameras centered on FaceTime, but developers such as the WordPress for iOS team are making it clear that the possibilities go well beyond video chat....

WordPress has todaytorn the wrappingoff a brand newofficial appfor HP’s WebOS platform. Currently supporting just the HP TouchPad, the company is billing it as the first official, full-featured WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) blog editor app for the blogging platform. While mobile blogging apps tend to be a little under-powered and unreliable, this one really looks the part. It has a full visual editor for formatting text and inserting images or embedding media....

WordPress has todayreleaseda new version of its iOS app for iPhones and iPads, bringing along a bunch of improvements to the interface. While WordPress has had an app for the iOS platform for some time, it has long been a ‘last resort’ option because its text editing interface was a bit anemic. This latest version fixes that with extensive upgrades to the text editor, including direct formatting buttons for links, lists and more....

Update at foot of post: According toa tweetfrom WordPress.com, the hosted blogging service is currently suffering a “non-trivial” Distributed Denial of Service attack, causing “Sporadic slowness”. The downtime is “Multiple Gigabits per second and tens of millions of packets per second” according toan emailsent out to WordPress’ VIP customers. The email says that the company is working to resolve the issues and that VIP customers will be top priority. Although it is causing slowness rather than downtime, WordPress being under attack is a big deal....