Article: 'Kyodo News' Available for iPhone/iPod Touch Through 'Kijizo' News Distribution System Developed by EAST.

TOKYO, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- "Kyodo News" is now available for iPhone and iPod touch. Daily Japanese news is available not only in the Japanese language but also in English for the international market. The Japanese and English versions are both priced at US$2.99 for a 3-month subscription in iTunes App Store of Apple Inc.

The news is distributed to iPhone/iPod touch through "Kijizo" which is a solution for news reader (client) and news distribution (server) developed by EAST Co., Ltd. based in Tokyo, Japan. The Kijizo servers use the Amazon EC2 cloud computing environment. This is intended to keep pace with rapid user growth and also for speedy news ...

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