Combining two findings of recent surveys on the Internet which
state that 1) “the Internet will soon surpass all other media as a main
source for national and international news†and 2) “the mobile device
will be the primary connection tool to the Internet in 2020†leads us
to the conclusion that smartphones will soon be the primary source
for news access. But if so, how will news come to the Internetconnected
cellphones? In accordance with the distinction, already
drawn in 1997, between push and pull technologies as two different
forms of how content is delivered to the end users, cellphones are
characterized as push devices (passive reception), in opposition to
computers, classified as pull devices (active reception). The news
items that fit cellphones are pushed news. And they will be pushed
as SMS, e-mails, tweets and through news aggregators.
