Verve Wireless is expected to announce tomorrow that it is providing the technology for the AP’s recently announced Mobile News Network that will be the first product released by AP’s Digital Cooperative, an initiative designed to find new digital outlets for the news and information produced by its members. AP announced the creation of the Mobile News Network at its annual meeting last week. As demonstrated in a short clip on YouTube, the Mobile News Network allows a user to choose multiple area codes to get local news, as well as, national and international news. Users will have access to articles and multimedia features such as photos and videos. When the network debuts later this quarter, it will support Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) Safari browser and will be available via WAP on other smartphones.

Encinitas, Calif.-based Verve is headed by Art Howe, who received a Pulitzer prize while at the Philadelphia Inquirer and was also the former president of Village Voice Media. Besides the AP, Verve is helping build about 4,000 mobile sites and working with more than 60 media companies, including San Diego Tribune and the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

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