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News, via SMS, claimed to reach 60,000 subscribers in eastern India

July 7, 2008 | fredericknoronha
file under:
india, news, odisha.com, orissa, oriya, sms

A journlalist I know, Jatindra Dash from the eastern Indian state of Orissa, started this rather interesting SMS-based news-service in the Oriya language which is spoken by some 31 million people.

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News Headlines Via SMS

May 31, 2008 | CorinneRamey
file under:
citizen media, datadyne, joel selanikio, knight news challenge, news, sms

Dr. Joel Selanikio believes in the value of the news. "It's one of my core beliefs that the more people know, the better decisions people are going to make," he said. Selanikio, the director of DataDyne.org, was recently awarded a Knight News Challenge grant for a project that distributes news on mobile phones.

Selanikio sat down with MobileActive for a discussion about his project. Selanikio isn't new to mobile phones.

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BBC wap use flourishing in Africa

August 17, 2006 | kiwanja
file under:
bbc, mobile, mobileactive, news, wap

According to the BBC this week, Africa (and in particular Nigeria) is dominating international mobile phone access to its website. In July the West African giant was responsible for a whopping 61% of international users. A further 19% were from South Africa.

Interestingly the large take up of BBC news via mobiles in Nigeria contrasts starkly with the relatively small number of users accessing the internet via PCs - hampered by slow and unreliable landlines.

Mobile content provision via WAP has huge potential and benefit, and was the foundation of my recent application to the Reuters Digital Vision Programme at Stanford. As more and more WAP-enabled handsets circumvent the globe, SMS may finally find itself with a serious challenger..!

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Citizen journalism in the news

August 17, 2006 | kiwanja
file under:
citizen journalism, citizen media, mobile, mobile active, mobileactive, news, photo, reporting, sms, video

Citizen journalism has been hitting the news lately, accelerated by the use of mobiles and blogging during the latest events in the Middle East. Something which has been around for some time is starting to become more and more mainstream by the day. Sadly, most seems to be centred around world trouble spots, but therein lies it's strength.

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