Smaato Inc. is announcing today the availability of it’s free RSS news reader software Smaato News for Symbian S60 smartphones. Smaato News is the first Symbian application using the new SOMA mobile advertising platform, which allows developers to show advertising within their applications. The existing versions for Palm OS and Windows Mobile have been updated. All versions can be downloaded for free at http://www.smaato.com/now

Smaato News is an easy to use mobile RSS newsreader for smartphones. Mobile users can subscribe to their favorite news feeds or blogs directly on their phones and read them “off-line”. Featured feeds include: CNN News, BBC News, digg technology, Engadget and SymbianOne. The newly released Symbian version supports popular Symbian S60 2^nd Edition smartphones, including Nokia N70, N90 and the Nokia 66xx phones.

Handelsblatt Blogger Axel Postinett picked this up here, thanks!

Smaato has been chosen by AlwaysOn Media as one of the Top 100 Private Company award winners as it was announced today here. The AO Media 100 is a power list of the top private digital media companies. Smaato was handpicked by the AO Media editorial team based on a set of five criteria – innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation.

Smaato and the AO Media 100 will be honored at the AO Media executive summit January 29-31 at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City. The summit will focus on the forces that are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the digital era, showcasing top innovative private companies that are revolutionizing the way media is created, distributed and consumed.

The AO Media 100 was selected from over a 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts. The AO Media 100 consists of private companies at all stages of development. Smaato was choosen as a disruptor of media and advertising for SOMA the Smaato Open Mobile Advertising platform and is presenting at the CEO showcase - meet us there!