DX TIPS DW-WORLD.DE Goes Mobile: (16 February' 05) On the subway, in the hotel or at home on the sofa, you can stay up to date with DW-WORLD.DE's free mobile content on you PDA, Pocket PC or other handheld device.
The new mobile content is another way DW-WORLD.DE users' can keep up with current events wherever they are. Users can always stay up-to-date by receiving reliable online content on their mobile devices in their choice of English, German, Spanish, Portuguese for Brazil, Arabic, Russian and Chinese. "This new way of spreading information is going to keep our users even better informed," said Guido Baumhauer, DW-WORLD.DE Editor-in-Chief. "We want to get more people excited about the chance to receive DW-WORLD.DE content when they're on the go." A media moving forward Receiving information via handheld devices is a growing phenomenon. About 80 percent of the 293 million cellular network users in Western Europe owned a device that let them access the Internet while away from a computer in 2004, according to a study conducted by the Forrester market research group. There are about 38 million people who used handheld devices for Internet access at least once a month and the trend is growing, the survey reported. "Handheld devices are establishing themselves in emerging and developing countries as an important alternative to landline connections," said Holger Hank, editorial director for DW-WORLD.DE. "By going mobile we can reach people in places that, for the foreseeable future, have a lack of telephone service and who would have otherwise been unable to get DW-WORLD.DE information." Two ways to receive news DW-WORLD.DE currently offer two different ways of getting mobile news and information. Users with browser-enable devices can go directly to the site http://mobile.dw-world.de/english and see a version of DW-WORLD.DE Web pages optimized for handheld use. Any handheld device, with or without browsing capabilities, can take advantage of a service from AvantGo, a DW partner, that synchronizes users' PDA or Pocket PC with DW-WORLD.DE via a computer connected to the Internet. The content can then be accessed at no cost wherever and whenever readers choose. Stored news is updated each time the mobile devices are synchronized. "Our goal is to keep people as well informed as possible -- no matter where they are," Baumhauer said. "This is our first step in the mobile world, and there will definitely be more to come. We're proud of the mobile content that we provide and especially of the variety of languages we offer." (Jochen Spangenberg (sms) via DW Website) Best Regards, MD. AZIZUL ALAM AL-AMIN RAJSHAHI-6100, BANGLADESH ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
