News tickers and
screen savers
The best:
- BBC NewsTicker
Excellent, free, easy
to install with direct links to BBC news
- CNN Newswatch The powerful
web site and news organization now offers one of best personalized
news services on the web called Newswatch. It's not free, but
you can try it out for one week -- and you'll be sold. It offers
ways for you to choose your headline topics, stock watches, and
tickers. It continuously monitors news from CNN.com, CNN/Money,
CNN/Sports Illustrated, major newswires, and over 2,000 regional,
national, and global news sources.
- WorldFlash
Ticker One of the first web sites to offer a news ticker as
long as five years ago, this company continues to offer a free
and vast array of international news and business that can scroll
across your desktop. World sources include New York Times, , BBC,
Sydney Herald from Australia, CP and CBC from Canada and other
media from France,Spain and Germany.
- NewsAnchor
"You have news" the announcer says on your desktop and
you can read the latest flashes from CNN, ABC, BBC Science, and
Reuters. It's a free download and you can choose the news
sources from their extensive,
if largely American, list
- Enewsbar Another of the
fast-growing number of news tickers, this free service incorporates
headlines from over 7500 sources in topics such as Business, Entertainment,
Sports, and Internet.
The rest:
- Excite
Assistant Listen to Internet
radio stations, receive alerts and summaries for your new mail
messages, plus personalized news, photos, and stock performance
straight to your desktop.
- Lycos
Personal Notifier
- NetSanity
- 7 am
Free ticker and Java news feed
- EntryPoint Formerly
Pointcast. Articles from New York Times, Wall Street
Journal, CNN and E! Online
- Yahoo NewsTicker
Free service
that runs as a news ticker providing content you can select from
Reuters, Business Wire and others. Plus weather for your selected
cities, the scores for your favourite teams
- MSNBC
Microsoft and
NBC offer you various (free) personal services -- including a
personalized front page, a news alert and an offline reader.
- Intellinews
- Desktop News
Free ticker includes
content from NBC, CNN, Business Week and lots of Internet magazines
- AirMedia
Not free -- but promises to deliver content to your desktop with
the latest technology and content.
- IBM NewsTicker
Best for those with a permanent Net connection but the ticker
takes up a lot of space. Free
- AlphaConnect StockVue
Track your investments, check out your stocks
... all for free.
- Newshound L.A.paper
offers news clipping service
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