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ANP and TNO launch mobile multimedia journalist application

Monday February 13th 2006, 9:22 am
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Netherlands national news agency ANP and Dutch innovation centre TNO Information and Communication Technology on Thursday announced a three month pilot of the Farcast Reporter mobile application, enabling journalists to publish multimedia news from their mobile device to the news desk at the push of a button. During the pilot 15 of ANP’s reporters will use smart phones equipped with Farcast Reporter software from TNO. The smart phone enables reporters to create multimedia news items consisting of text, images, audio and video. Once the story materials are ready, the journalist simply presses ’send’ and the news items appear at the newsdesk ready for editing/release. Because all news items are location tagged they can also be presented at the newsdesk via a geographical interface. Farcast Reporter is one of a number of innovative content distribution applications that run on the Farcast platform, a next generation content repurposing platform for mobile. Other applications include Farcast NewsFacts, an application distributing regular bulletins with the latest news in text, images and audio files to mobile phones and Farcast Podcaster, an application that allows podcasters to create and edit material on their mobile devices. The Farcast platform will be officially launched at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona (13-16 February 2006). (PR Newswire, February 13, 2006)

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