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News tickers and screen saversThe
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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