ANP and TNO Launch Mobile Multimedia Journalist Application
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ANP and TNO Launch Mobile Multimedia Journalist Application
RIJSWIJK, The Netherlands, February 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Netherlands national news agency ANP and TNO Information and Communication Technology today 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.
TNO Information and Communication Technology has customized its Farcast Reporter software for this trial. 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 Reporter mobile application will enable our reporters to become real multimedia journalists," said Bert Kok, Manager Product Development of ANP. "The ability to publish multimedia items from anywhere, anytime allows us to get the news to our customers even faster giving us an additional competitive edge in the fast-paced news creation and delivery business. The possibility to send text, photo, audio and video through one device adds a whole new dimension to the reporter's job."
"As a leading Dutch content creator, ANP is the perfect partner to pilot applications developed on the Farcast platform," said Angelien Sanderman, Manager Business Unit Mobile at TNO Information and Communication Technology. "The Farcast platform has been designed to support applications which let users manage and share multimedia content regardless of its original format or type of device used."
Certainly looks very interesting these in general technologies been around for a while but it is a good to more traditional journalist outlets using them�
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=163663
http://www.farcast.nl/site/examples
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