Al Jazeera to Come Pre-Installed on Some Sony Phones

January 6, 2009 at 12:00 am PT

The Al Jazeera Network has announced a partnership with Sony Ericsson, where RSS feeds of its news content will be preinstalled on four models of its mobile devices in both the Middle East and North Africa.

The new initiative is part of the news organization’s development Labs in an effort to reach out to more readers through new media.

In addition to services like podcasts, a YouTube channel, Facebook account, an iPhone application and multiple Twitter news feeds, Al Jazeera recently launched a Twitter account and an interactive map of citizen-submitted reports to follow the developments in Gaza.

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Tagged with: Al Jazeera Network, Chris Snyder, Gaza, RSS feeds, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Wired.com

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