Miles 33 is to launch a suite of mobile apps, starting with native iOS and Android versions, based on its GNPortal acquisition product.

A browser version for Blackberry and other smart phones will follow.

GNPortal ME – for mobile edition – is a version of the company’s web-based content acquisition (ingestion), normalisation and transformation solution designed to handle the increasing amount of content received from users, staff, stringers, contributors and delivery sources such as wire feeds. It manages and automates the process, routing, transforming to desired formats, notifying users of its arrival and supplying required metadata.

The mobile edition streamlines this for mobile users, enabling them to communicate with the system and enjoy deeper interaction.

Features include password protection, a story wizard to help create stories and associated metadata, and facilities for uploading text, pictures, audio and video conten

“Effectively it extends the newsroom out to the world of roaming mobile users without sacrificing their ability to access the system or interact with other users,” says chief executive Michael Moore.

“We see these apps as a natural extension of the GN4 content management system, which more and more customers are choosing to deploy in a cloud.”

Using multi platform rich internet application development tools from Adobe, GNPortal ME can be deployed as a native iOS or Android app thus covering iPhones 3GS or later, iPads, Android phones and tablets and can take advantage of each platform’s specific features and functionality.