Thoughts from the Range

We’re pleased to announce a partnership today with ContentNext to mobilize their great sites - mocoNews and paidContent. If you are in the mobile or publishing industry, you’ll want to get these for your phone. MocoNews can be downloaded from your phone’s browser from http://moco.mwap.at and paidContent is be downloaded from http://paid.mwap.at

The press release announcing our partnership is below and the announcement on mocoNews site is here

Date: 2/28/08
Portland, OR - FreeRange Communications, a mobile technology solutions and services company, has been chosen by ContentNext to design and deliver mobile versions of their popular paidContent and mocoNews websites. Using the FreeRange Mobile Publishing Platform, readers of ContentNext sites can now have all the latest news, updates and commentary delivered automatically to their mobile devices in a direct channel format.
“The FreeRange platform gives our readers the latest breaking news with an attractive interface and quick load time,” said Ted Rupp, Director of Business Development at ContentNext. “FreeRange app’s vastly improve the mobile web experience, and provide an excellent outlet for sponsors as well.”
Using the FreeRange Mobile Publishing Platform, ContentNext is now offering downloadable mobile channels for mocoNews and paidContent. Subscribers can download these applications to their Blackberry, Windows Mobile or other mobile devices with a data connection. By clicking on the mocoNews or paidContent icon on their phone, subscribers get all the latest news and updates immediately available. The applications update themselves in the background while running on the phone, ensuring that all the latest news is immediately available to subscribers, even when the subscriber is outside of mobile coverage. In addition to the website content, the application delivers targeted advertising and sponsorships within the branded mobile channels.

“paidContent and mocoNews are daily ‘must reads’ for me and anyone else in the mobile world or new media technology M&A business, and we’re excited to provide a way to extend this valuable content to the mobile marketplace,” said Jon Maroney, CEO of FreeRange Communications.
From a mobile phone browser, download paidContent from http://paid.mwap.at or mocoNews from http://moco.mwap.at
Or visit either site from the internet from http://www.contentnext.com
About FreeRange Communications
FreeRange Communications enables media companies and consumer brands to deliver their content and advertising to mobile phones in a way that is fast and easy to read. The FreeRange Mobile Publishing Platform allows publishers to have mobile widgets that work on nearly all mobile phones, extending their business models and content to mobile phone screens around the world. The FreeRange Platform powers a wide variety of mobile widgets, including those delivered by Portland TrailBlazers, VersionTracker, Travelocity Business, NewsGator Go!, and MobHappy. Mobilize your publication today by contacting Brad McMahon at +1 503 445-4010 or emailing bizdev@freerangeinc.com .

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