2009년 12월 11일 금요일

IPhone Maeil Business News Service Best among S. Korean Contents

With KT iPhone taking the smart-phone market by storm at an early stage amid soaring subscribers that have already outnumbered 70,000, the newly released “Maeil Business News” service by Maeil Business Newspaper is gaining steady popularity on the App Store content market. According to Dream Wiz (Touch Connect), a developer of Maeil Business Newspaper App Store, on December 1, Maeil Business News is recording over 30,000 downloads per day, maintaining third place in the news application area. Maeil Business Newspaper earlier became the first local media to register a free new content service on the Apple App Store in October last year before iPhone was launched. In the past, readers were able to access the Maeil Business Newspaper App Store only via iPod. However, with iPhone sales began on the market from December 1, a more number of users are expected to download the Maeil Business News program via iPhone. The market is highly evaluating Maeil Business Newspaper’s sole technology which enables users to return to a previous article by clicking an upper side of an article as well as read the next article by clicking a lower side of an article. Also, users are able to send individually chosen articles to acquaintances through book mark and e-mail functions. As safety as well as marketability of Mail Business News service via the Apple iPhone, the Maeil Business Group seeks to offer other news contents including news-only channel MBN and Maekyung Economy through iPhone. The media group also plans to upgrade iPhone news application by developing a technology allowing users to check news on social network services such as Twitter and Facebook and sending breaking news.

http://news.mk.co.kr/outside/view.php?year=2009&no=620286

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