Mobile news providers proliferating

Limewire http://www.limelife.com/ is a women-focused social network and news site for web, PDA, and mobile. It will target 18-34 year old women.

Webwag Mobile 2.0 http://www.webwag.com/mobile/ According to its site, it is “Webwag Mobile is a free simple, speedy and useful application to easily access all your internet services. You will find widgets for all your interests and will be able to sync them with our start page.” This means that it is a channel of weather and news and things, that is widgetized so it displays well on mobile phones.

And in case you don’t think this is going to be “monetized,” the Tribune Media Services is going to start working with Vibes to license its content holdings for all kinds of mobile producers “Wireless subscribers will have access to the best name-brand editorial and information content through their mobile phones the same week and in some cases the same day that it is published in print and online.”
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