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MINDS Establishes Network

MINDS Establishes Network With Publishers and Mobile Operators, September 17th, 2004

The MINDS project aims at increasing the availability of mobile news content and improving opportunities for the localisation of mobile news content which is customised to highly specialised interests of target groups such as communities, business persons of certain branches, or other individuals in Europe. These enhanced personalised mobile news services will combine up-to-the-minute news with comprehensive background information that is stored already in the archives of news agencies and publishers. In the process of implementing these news offerings, the project team will adjust and optimise all steps along the value chain in order to design, produce, package, deliver and maintain mobile news content according to the current and forthcoming needs of mobile service users.

MINDS is supported by an increasing number of mobile network operators and media houses in Europe. Only eight months after the project launch MINDS has realized the preconditions to enhance the development and the commercial success of new mobile media offerings. This includes the simplification of technical processes between newsrooms and mobile networks and feasible business models and contracts. The group has identified 12 innovative mobile services, tailored for the new 3G mobile technology. Within the next months they will be developed further under concrete market conditions in terms of content and technology. This will be done in collaboration with media partners in order to generate concrete applications for mobile devices to be tested in the UMTS field trial.

Among these service propositions are special mobile offerings for regional newspapers, which want to provide readers with local breaking news, sports live tickers or information about interesting classified ads. In the focus are also tailor-made products for younger target groups such as local logos for mobile handsets or mobile event and party information.

Source: www.content-village.org