Jul. 30 |

About Fred411

Fred411 is the mobile news and information service for the Fredericksburg, Virginia area. It allows you to get news on your Web-capable mobile phone with the click of a button.

This is a brand new service, and it's on the cutting edge of technology. We warn you there might be a few bugs, but we promise not to make your phone explode or make random calls to Third World nations.The service is part of a six month project run by the Newspaper Association of America to see how people access news and information on wireless devices. That means we want to hear from you if you decide to use the service.

Tell us what you'd like to see on your mobile device.

All you need to visit our site is a Web-capable digital phone. They're available from many cellular phone providers in the area.

You can get to the site by typing http://www.fred411.com into your wireless phone's browser. That's a lot of buttons to press, though, and it's a lot easier to bookmark the site on your phone through the personalized services offered by the phone companies. You can set the phone up once on your regular Web browser at home or work, and you won't have to do a lot of typing on the road.