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Jason Williams
photo illustration courtesy of boston.com
Boston.com's
mobile phone Web site, shown on an iPhone in this photo illustration.
Inset image shows the mobile phone Web site of Cape Cod Times of Hyannis, Mass. (image courtesy of the Times).
In N.E. and elsewhere, devotion to
news via mobile phones is on move
By
Michael Napolitano and Erin Klopfenstein
Bulletin Staff
With the Internet
age in full swing, newspapers across the nation and in New England have
increasingly launched Web sites as more readers go online. For a while,
the challenge was simply to develop an easy-to-read site and figure
out how to make it profitable. And while most of the news industry is
still wrestling with that, many newspapers have recently gone beyond
the world of office desktops and laptops to offer the news in a new
realm – via mobile phones.
ComScore Inc.,
headquartered in Reston, Va., and a leader in measuring the digital world,
reported earlier this year that the number of people who use their mobile
devices to get their news and information more than doubled from January
2008 to January 2009, jumping to 63.2 million from 36.9 million people.
Newspaper
companies have taken notice.
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