Eurpopean Media Players Form 3G News Association

In a slightly vaporware move, five European news agencies have founded a consortium to create information and new services for 3G-based mobile communications. The project MINDS (Mobile Information and News Data Services for 3G) is funded by the European Commision through its eContent programme.

The consortium consists of the coordinator Deutsche Presse-Agentur
(dpa) through its information service subsidiary dpa-infocom
(Hamburg), and the news agencies of Austria (APA), the Netherlands
(ANP), Switzerland (sda-ats) and Hungary (MTI). Other partners are the German software company CoreMedia AG, the world publishing association Ifra, the German IT service company arvato systems and the Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute.

The MINDS partners are planning to develop at least a dozen mobile information offers for European consumers, enterprises or public authorities.

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