"Wireless firm says news must go mobile" by Claire Cain Miller, New York Times News Service | July 28, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO - The thud of the morning newspaper landing on the front porch may one day be replaced with the beep of download onto a cellphone.
No more papers?
:-)
Verve Wireless believes it can save the dying local newspaper by making it mobile.
Not by telling the truth instead?
It offers publishers the technology to create websites for cellphones. The company, in Encinitas, Calif., already provides mobile versions of 4,000 newspapers from 140 publishers, including Freedom Communications, the McClatchy Co., and The New York Times Co.'s Regional Media Group.
The Associated Press, its biggest customer, is betting Verve has the solution to the nagging problem of dwindling print readership. It led a $3 million round of financing in Verve, a rare investment for the news organization.
Maybe it is the CONTENT, not the VEHICLE, ever think of that?
Also see: AP: Bush's Whore
People are increasingly using their phones to surf the Web. Of the 95 million mobile Internet subscribers in the United States, 40 million actively use their phones to go online, twice the number of two years ago, according to Nielsen Mobile. After portal sites and e-mail services, newspaper content - weather, news, politics, city guides, sports and entertainment - is most popular among mobile users.
Verve's chief executive, Art Howe, says he is convinced people will always want local news and information - just not in the format of a print newspaper. But to be useful, mobile versions of websites "cannot just be Internet lite," Howe warned. The AP recently released a popular iPhone application developed by Verve that lets users scan the day's headlines, send articles to friends, and save articles to read later.
I can QUOTE THEM then, right?
I mean, I paid my 75-cents for this shit rag in front of me.
Newspapers cannot afford to be late to cellphones, said Greg Sterling, who studies the mobile Internet for Opus Research, a consulting firm. "It's important and smart for newspapers to get out in front on the mobile phenomenon and not make the mistake they made in waiting too long to embrace the Internet."
Yeah, and they LOST THAT ONE BIG TIME!!!!
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"The media which has printed these lies and presented the horrors of the day according to the angle desired by those who operate it have become their own worst enemy. They are daily providing the evidence that they lie. Truth tellers on the internet are turning over every rock they tried to bury the truth beneath."
Case closed, readers.
You ain't cellphone searching news, and you ain't gonna be!!!
