September 11, 2003
MMS news services and snippets thanks to push technology
Peggy Anne Salz for the TheFeature.com, looks into push technology for picture phones and how this is both an perfect medium for delivering information to users about local events as well as an interesting revenue model.
- Together with its content partners Vodafone has launched some 10 MMS breaking-news services
-- This week Vodafone Germany added a new service that delivers news from the IAA, Frankfurt's automobile trade show.
-- Holland, the country who brought to television the first "Big Brother" reality show in 1999, is now innovating with the first picture soap opera sent to cell phones, using WAP-push technology. cf Jong-Zuid: First MMS soap opera .
-- And the Feature.com has launched SCREAM, "its own MMS news and views service that invites the industry's movers and shakers - as well as members of The Feature's own cutting-edge community - to voice opinions on hot industry issues."
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