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Windows Messenger To Deliver News

by Cathy on March 2nd, 2007

Anthony Dhanendran at Computeract!ve reports that Windows Messenger will deliver news. Here’s what he says:

Users of Microsoft’s instant messenger can now get news alerts from Reuters.

Windows Live Messenger now includes the ability to display the latest news headlines to users, if they sign up for the service. Users can sign up at the MSN site.

The RSS feeds include world news, entertainment, business, sports and a category of strange news from around the world. The program can be customised so it only delivers news when required by the user, who can set ‘quiet times’ when they don’t want to be disturbed.

The info is here at MSN. It’s Reuters UK so far but worldwide can’t be far behind. The cool thing about this is that you can set ‘quiet times’ so you won’t be disturbed. That’s important if it’s on Messenger since with a normal feed reader you can check it at your convenience. IM’s appear when they want to appear unless you can control them!

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