Category Archives: News Sites

Mobile Web News Site Tries a Paywall

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Bloomington, Indiana is a college town with a population of about 70,000.  The Bloomington Herald Times is local daily and its mobile web site,  htonl.mobi is unusual in that it’s one of the few mobile newspaper sites I’ve seen that has a paywall.  Like the Herald Times’ full site, the mobile one requires a $5.95/month subscription to view all the content.  There is some free content on the site including  the weather forecast, classifieds, events calendar, movie show times, wining … Continue reading →

Metro – User Generated Video Revenue Sharing

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Metro a free print newspaper distributed on public transit systems in the UK.  In the nine years since its launch, Metro has become the fourth largest paper in the country with over a million daily readers.  Metro is also on the web at metro.co.uk and on the mobile web at metro.mobi. The most interesting thing about Metro is its video section, MEviews. The video content costs 50p a clip to download and it’s all user generated. While this sounds like … Continue reading →

Ten African Mobile News Sites

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Last month I wrote a post, Explosion in African Mobile Browsing about the rapid adoption of the mobile web in many African countries.  Opera Mini Traffic from the continent is up 180% since the beginning of the year, Admob reported huge gains from several African nations and I’ve seen 88% growth in African traffic to wapreview.mobi in the last three months I took that as a cue to try and find some African mobile news sites to add to the … Continue reading →

nayaNews -The Latest News From Multiple Sites

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nayaNews.mobi – From the creators of the myToday personal mobile portal comes nayaNews.  It’s a news aggregator in the style of Google News but with an emphasis on Indian and Asian news.  nayaNews pulls the latest stories from the RSS feeds of a  variety of Indian and world news sources including Sify.com, ZeeNews.com, NDTV.com, the Times of India, DNA – India, the BBC, Asian Age and the Business Standard.  Stories are organized into sections: News, Business,  Tech, World and Sports. … Continue reading →

Boy Genius Report Mobile Edition

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The anonymous blogger known as the “Boy Genius” or BG is famous for publishing scoops about future gadgets and mobile products. A lot of  BG’s scoops involve leaked documents, photos and sometimes complete reviews of devices the BG has somehow managed to get his hands on months before there official release. Among the more notable BG scoops, he was the first to reveal the Blackberry Pearl with pictures and video before anyone had so much published a rumor about a … Continue reading →

SF Chronicle Launches Mobile Site

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Here in San Francisco, the local daily paper is the San Francisco Chronicle.  While it’s not a journalistic giant like The New York Times or Washington Post, it’s still a  pretty good read, with some of my favorite political columnists (Willie Brown, Matier and Ross) and the best local news, sports and business coverage in the San Francisco Bay Area. One thing about the Chronicle though is that it’s never been very easy to get it on a mobile device.  … Continue reading →

The Telegraph’s New Free Mobile Site

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The Daily Telegraph is the UK’s largest newspaper in terms of circulation,  The paper was also one of the first to adopt digital distribution, launching its first web site in 1994. They’ve had a mobile site for while too but I never really paid much attention to it as it’s a £5/month subscription deal.  The pay version still seems to be available but I guess not many people were willing to pay the equivalent of $10/month to read the news … Continue reading →

Christian Science Monitor – Text-Only Site

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The Christian Science Monitor is a US based, independent daily news paper which is owned by the Church of Christ, Scientist. I’m not a religious person and even if I was I don’t think I’d be a Christian Scientist. I mean, substituting prayer for doctors and medicine when you get sick – no thanks. But I can’t fault the Church for publishing the Monitor. It’s a well respected news source which avoids sensationalism and jingoism and has long championed civil … Continue reading →