Voices » RSS feeds http://voices.allthingsd.com from other Web sites Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:30:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 Al Jazeera to Come Pre-Installed on Some Sony Phones http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090106/al-jazeera-to-come-pre-installed-on-some-sony-phones/ http://voices.allthingsd.com/20090106/al-jazeera-to-come-pre-installed-on-some-sony-phones/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:00:37 +0000 Chris Snyder http://voices.allthingsd.com/?p=7350 By Chris Snyder

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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The question is not whether the nation is overwhelmed with checking email and RSS feeds, answering calls, exchanging instant messages, surfing the Web, watching YouTube and playing that one game where you try to organize the falling blocks.

The question is how much money all of this costs.

Basex, a research firm, estimates in data published on Monday that information overload costs the economy $900 billion a year in lost productivity. And a new online calculator created by Basex professes to provide a rough estimate of the cost to individual companies.

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