If you pay for the BBC License Fee, you'll want to get the optimum from the hundreds of pounds that (seemingly) get thrown down the drain with poor programming on a yearly basis, and one of the ways the majority of people will benefit from innovation is with mobile applications.

The BBC announced a brace of them at Mobile World Congress, one dealing with news on the go, and the other on sport in time for the World Cup later this year. Now, however, a trade body responsible for a bunch of national newspapers is calling for the BBC Trust to investigate the apps that will (supposedly) "strangle an important new market for news and information".

Can we please ask the Newspaper Publishers Association to pipe down? Mobile applications aren't out of the reach of any news organisation, and if they can't make their content useful or distinctive enough to differentiate it, then that's their look-out, don't try and call-foul on a concept that will only benefit users.

[BBC News] (via Pocket-Lint)