Newspaper Bits: Daily Mail SMS, Trinity’s Welsh Site
—Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) SMS: The Daily Mail is giving new users of its MailTXT service 50 SMS messages that can be sent to any mobile network worldwide. The service, which launched in the spring, has become an important promotional, informational and advertising tool, the paper said. MailTXT aims to give wireless customers a less expensive alternative when it comes to SMS, but also give customers access to the paper’s headlines and weekly polls.
—Daily Post Cymraeg: Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) has launched a Welsh-language online edition of its north Wales newspaper Daily Post, a new launch. Daily Post Cymraeg site includes articles, videos, blogs and forums in Welsh. Daily Post already had an English site. Trinity also bid for public funds to start a national Welsh-language site. Via HTFP.
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