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VIRTUALISATION ABC launches mobile portal and iPhone and Android apps UPDATED
VIRTUALISATION ABC launches mobile portal and iPhone and Android apps UPDATED | ABC launches mobile portal and iPhone and Android apps UPDATED |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Monday, 16 March 2009 | |
  
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The site has launched with a text and image service to keep data charges low, but the ABC says that "users can look forward to ABC video and audio when more content is added to the site later this year." Content to be provided will include news, sport and entertainment stories; localised information including weather forecasts and radio schedules; movie reviews and session times; TV guides for ABC1 and ABC2; music news from the ABC's popular music radio station, triple j and more. The ABC has also launched a 'sophisticated' iPhone application and a news application for Android handsets. It says both applications are available online as free downloads. It also promises to soon have available a basic Java application for use on all other high end handsets. The Android application will be available free of charge from the Android Market However the HTC dream is presently the only Android phone available in Australia. Information about the site is available at http://abc.net.au/mobile. However it contains no mention of the iPhone application. The ABC's head of corporate communications, Sandy Culkoff, told iTWire that there had been an unexpected delay in making it available but said it would become available at Apple Australia's iPhone apps store in the Entertainment & News section under 'Australian Broadcasting Corporation'. It is now available here.
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