Overview:

News Services are clients that deliver a variety of news related services. You can receive up-to-date information on entertainment, business, stocks, sports, weather, and much more. The information you receive is updated automatically, and you control intervals so that you are never out of touch with what's going on in the world.

Desktop News

• Version Number: 1.1b
• Revision Date: June 20, 1997
• File Name: dtn11b.exe
• Byte Size: 1,661,257
• License: Shareware
• HomePage: http://www.DesktopNews.com
• NT Compatible: Yes
• Description: Delivers a personally customized news feed direct to your desktop in a clever, compact headline "ticker". You establish your specific areas of interest and Desktop News continually seeks out and delivers your custom content utilizing sophisticated personal News Agent software.
  

Downtown

• Version Number: 1.0
• Revision Date: July 29, 1997
• File Name: dtown_10.exe
• Byte Size: 2,031,821
• License: Freeware
• Homepage: http://www.incommon.com/
• NT Compatible: Yes
• Description: Downtown automatically delivers information from your favorite web sites right to your screen. Select your favorite 'channels' for up-to-the minute information with the same convenience as a desktop toolbar. The toolbar can autohide, and work just like the win95 start menu. You can configure it for many news channels as well, from yahoo news to USA Today.
  

Intermind Communicator

• Version Number: 1.52
• Revision Date: May 11, 1997
• File Name: imc32.exe
• Byte Size: 1,524,357
• License: Shareware
• HomePage: http://www.intermind.com
• NT Compatible: Yes
• Description: A new browser-based communications system that makes it easy for you to anonymously receive personalized information from participating Web sites. You simply subscribe to "Hyperconnectors" on topics that interest you and dynamic content is delivered directly to your desktop with links to graphics, video, and audio.
  

WebSprite

• Version Number: 2.0 Beta
• Revision Date: August 4, 1997
• File Name: ws2_beta.exe
• Byte Size: 2,405,800
• License: Freeware
• Homepage: http://www.websprite.com
• NT Compatible: Yes
• Description: WebSprite for Windows 95 and NT 4.0 is a "smart" news-ticker that displays a wide variety of data in a handy user-definable ticker type window on your desktop. Info types include stocks, news headlines, forecasts, sports scores, Business Wire headlines, movie reviews and much more. Right click on a headline as it scrolls by and you'll see a handy summary with hot-links back to the full story. This makes WebSprite the perfect tool for getting real info out of the Internet without needing to download or surf megabytes data. WebSprite is perfect for dial-in users as well as corporate users. Besides English, WebSprite offers German language capabilities for German News and Sports. This version also allows you to track daily updates on TUCOWS!
  

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