– AP Mobile 55M Year: The mobile site for Associated Press is now one year old, and in that time 55 million local stories have been read on mobiles, and the site has more than 1,000 partners. There’s some statistics supplied: 63 percent of AP Mobile users are in the 18-34 age bracket; 53 percent of AP Mobile users earn more than $75,000 per year; and males represent 78 percent of the traffic. In terms of usage, AP Mobile users spend and average of 17 minutes per month interacting with AP mobile applications and apnews.com, iPhone and BlackBerry users both average 7 page views per visit to AP Mobile. The number of Americans accessing news and information from a mobile device has grown 58 percent over the past year according to AP. (release)
— Harlequin Comics In China: Harlequin Comics, mobile comic adaptations based on the publisher’s romance novels, are downloaded almost one million times a month in Japan. They’re now translated into simplified Chinese characters and made available in Celsys’s ComicSurfing format for mobile digital distribution on a Wireless China mobile site. (release)
— Nth Korea Mobile Internet: North Korea has begun a limited Internet service for mobile phone users, which will let people access news from the official Korean Central News Agency as well as some other content — most likely also supplied by the government. (AFP)
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