Software - News & Stock Tickers
After Dark Online
"This is a version of the well known After Dark screen savers designed to work on the internet. Includes a regular screen saver plus several news fetching modules that connect to news sites like USA Today, ZDNet, DBC Financial News, Sports Illustrated Online and in the future Wall Street Journal. The whole thing is fully customizable."
"HeadLiner automatically delivers and organizes your choice of news and information from the Web. Structured, filtered, organized, updated and presented just for you. Now you can manage the Web like it's never been managed before! It can be configured in many ways, ticker tape, scrolling in each application title bar, screen saver or a Windows Explorer like stand alone applet. You get to choose from a wide variety of news topics and sources."
"...live headlines scroll by...with up-to-the-minute news as you work...and it's absolutely free!" IBM NEWSTICKER 2.0 delivers Reuters News, c|net News, CMP Media Inc., Nando Times, and others along with exciting new information sources throughout the coming months. IBM NewsTicker bring you the news as it happens and lets you get the story behind the story. No advertising.
MSNBC News Alert runs quietly in the background, alongside the clock featured in the Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 Task Bar. It provides notification of news alerts by either flashing the Alert icon or popping the actual news headline in the preview window. Direct Internet connection required.
ProStream is a powerful Internet Broadcast service that delivers stock quotes, sports scores, and other timely information directly to your workstation. Viewers access broadcasts for free, completely paid for by advertisers.
ProStream can be characterized as a world-wide commercial cable system. But unlike current cable broadcasting, ProStream viewers can dynamically configure each information channel to meet their specific needs.Eventually, ProStream will deliver full motion video and sound programming, all configurable by the viewer.
WebSprite specializes in gathering specific data automatically from the Web. Information that is highly defined, such as current prices of your stocks, your current horoscope, or the scores of your favorite football teams. WebSprite automatically goes out to the Internet and fetches this information from a variety of web sites.
WorldFlash News Ticker gets up-to-the-minute headlines from over two dozen news sources. You choose from Reuters News via Yahoo! (7 feeds), CNN (3 feeds), The Nando Times (2 feeds), C|Net News, USA Today, CMP TechWeb, San Francisco Examiner, Boston Globe, Chicago Sun-Times, MSNBC News, Philadelphia Daily, Washington Post (Metro section), Seattle Times, and Miami Herald (Florida section) and more.
This one works great - from YAHOO! The WIN95 version fits snugly on the Task Bar. Click the YAHOO! button to go to YAHOO!
Click the blue button and you get the YAHOO! search engine.
The PointCast Network delivers personalized news and information direct to your desktop without subscription fees. FREE download and no subscription fees! Excellent market, company and industry news.
