Handmark will develop and support mobile applications for the newspaper and online media properties of Lee Enterprises. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch was the first to launch. Its Cardinals Baseball 2010 mobile application provides fast, convenient access to the latest Cardinals insight, gossip, breaking news and photos.

The Dow Jones Local Media Group has adopted Caspio Inc.'s enterprise solution for rapid data publishing and hyper-local community applications. Caspio's point-and-click application-creation platform eliminates the need for programming, allowing the Dow Jones group's newsrooms to quickly publish databases and dynamic Web apps.

Maps.com has appointed Sarah Sinclair as its new president and CEO and elected her as a director. The company's client services manager with the Classified Concepts division since 2007, Sinclair has a 20-year career in the newspaper industry, most recently as Santa Barbara News-Press advertising Director.

Newspaper companies drew unprecedented traffic to their Websites in the first quarter of 2010, on average attracting 74.4 million unique visitors per month -- more than one-third of all Internet users, according to a custom analysis provided by Nielsen Online for the Newspaper Association of America. Check out the monthly stats.

Journal Register launched SeeClickFix -- the portal that allows citizens to report on hyperlocal problems like litter, potholes and even speeding cars -- at the Websites of all its 18 daily newspapers Tuesday.

The New York Times has relaunched its business section online, giving it more of the homepage-feel than it had in the past.

The Financial Times has struck up a partnership with social media outfit Foursquare that allows specific users access to its content for free.

The Sacramento Bee has launched a network that connects users to other local media sites and blogs called Sacramento Connect.

The Wahoo (Neb.) Newspaper, a longtime community weekly owned by the Omaha World-Herald Co., has partnered with WikiCity Guides -- which offers a hyperlocal online community guide that anyone can edit.

The Telegraph in Nashua, N.H., announced it's rolling out an online metered pay system similar to that used by the Financial Times and soon to be used by The New York Times.

The Orange County Register in Santa Ana, Calif., on Monday announced the arrival of its new mobile news app for the iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Windows smartphones, and will be available on Palm webOS later this month.