A version of this article appeared on your Blackberry on August 20...
The New York Times reports (via the Associated Press) that the Wall Street Journal has begun offering its news stories free to Blackberry users. Almost makes me wish I didn't go with the iPhone, with its useless NY Times and Associated Press applications. However, don't expect this to be anything like a free PDF of the paper delivered to your Crackberry. According to the article,
Content will come from The Wall Street Journal Digital Network -- the newspaper's WSJ.com site along with MarketWatch.com, Barrons.com and AllThingsD.com. Users will have the option to pull content from other sources as well, including rival sites and blogs with Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, feeds.
In other words, it will be cluttered up with a bunch of useless crap that didn't actually appear in the print edition. Also:
The Journal, owned by News Corp.'s Dow Jones & Co. unit, plans to begin showing ads from an unnamed advertiser beginning next month. There are no plans to charge for the WSJ.com Mobile Reader, although the company will eventually make some content available only to paying subscribers of its newspaper or Web site.
In other news-news, the NY Times has finally caught up to the Washington Post and included page numbers on articles appearing on its website--albeit in an almost invisible font and at the bottom of the page. Nevertheless, I noticed, and so did The Laboratorium blog.
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