News Tracking/Push Technology

News By E-Mail -- One-Stop Subscribing

NETSCAPE INBOX -- http://www.netscape.com
The In Box lets you subscribe to a variety of news services willing to e-mail news to your Netscape Mail in-box. (NOTE: This requires a POP e-mail address.) The news services include the Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, Elle, USA Today, Excite and numerous international publications, and much more. Some samples:
New York Times Direct . It lets you select sections from the Web edition of the New York Times. You can also create custom profiles that will search the current day's news and provide headlines linked to the most relevant articles. Free in U.S.
USA Today . Each morning, USA TODAY will brief you on the top news stories of the day from its front page. The e-mail is hot-linked to USA Today. Free.
ClariAlert delivers headlines once or twice daily. It also provides you with a link to the ClariNet Web site where you can subscribe to extensive services for a fee.
MercuryMail . Lets you subscribe to a segment of Mercury Mail that delivers your area weather forecast and provides links to other forecasts. It also will provide a link to the MercuryMail Web site, where you can subscribe to additional services.
Excite . An html page of news will be e-mailed to you daily with links to let you personalize your page by selecting the topics of interest to you.

News By E-Mail -- Site by Site Subscribing

CLARINET -- www.clari.net
ClariNet is a newswire feed sorted into 400 topics or newsgroups. Choose articles you want by scrolling through headlines and then double click to get full text. Sources include UPI, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Newsbytes News Network, BizWire, Techwire and Commerce Business Daily. No bylines are provided. It's one of the oldest e-mail news services and boasts more than 1 million subscribers.
ClariNet sells site licenses to corporations, institutions and Internet access providers for $60 per month plus $1 per user. The Internet access providers and corporations generally provide it to their customers or employees at no charge. Some of the providers are national, such as Netcom. Note: You can subscribe to an abbreviated service called ClariAlert for free through the Netscape In Box. (See above).


DOWJONES NEWS RETRIEVAL -- http://bis.dowjones.com/online-lib/whowhere.html
You can tap into the DowJones news wires, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Financial Times.
DowJones offers access to extensive company and industry reports and in-depth market data.
It costs $2.95 each time you access the search engine and another $2.95 per article you choose to view or download. For $19.95 a month you can have headlines on topics you choose delivered by e-mail. NOTE: Search software not available for Macs.

ELECTRIC LIBRARY -- www.elibrary.com
The Electric Library offers full-text archives of more than 150 newspapers, 900 magazines, maps, broadcast transcripts and more. Newspapers and wire services include: Gannett News Service, the Los Angeles Times, Reuters, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and USA Today, but most top-tier newspapers are missing. Magazines include Time, U.S. News & World Report, Sports Illustrated, People, Fortune, professional journals and Vital Speeches. Broadcast media include NPR and the Dorfman Report (CNNB). Publications include Collier's Encyclopedia, the World Almanac, Book of Facts. Search option lets you limit searches to dates, sources, authors. It costs $9.95 per month but offers one month free. At the end of the month, the billing begins automatically unless you take action to cancel it.

EXCITE -- http://www.excite.com/
Excite offers one of the best e-mail services, delivering a personalized html page to your Netscape In-Box daily. You can select the kind of news you want, enter your stock portfolio information, designate favorite links, enter keywords to search every day and tell it what you want to search: Web, newsgroups or on-line news. You can subscribe through Netscape In Box, but that's a two-step process, so it's easier to do it directly at the Excite Web site. Free. (See "Internet Data Bases" for more details on Excite.)

MERCURY MAIL -- http://www.merc.com
This service will deliver weather, news, stocks, sports, entertainment and even personal reminders to your Netscape e-mail account. Free.

NANDO NEWS NETWORK -- www2.nando.net/welcome.html
Nando's data base includes items from Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, AP, Reuters, Copley News and the Christian Science Monitor plus some magazines. It provides no attribution to the source, writer or date of its magazine stories. Costs $12 a year.

NETSCAPE NETCASTER -- http://www.netscape.com
Netscape has incorporated push technology into Netscape Communicator, the latest version of its browser. Users download the browser software, which will let you automatically or manually search the Internet for preselected news topics and weather.

NEWSALERT -- www.newsalert.com
It offers real-time news plus corporate information and stock quotes. NewsAlert will search automatically for media and wire mentions of topics you select and then deliver headlines or summaries to your e-mail box. Stories are continually updated by A.M. Best, Business Wire, Futures World News, PR Newswire, Reuters, The Sports Network, and US Newswire. Costs vary with service. Search and e-mail delivery is free for two topics. NewsAlert offers a free trial for premium services, which include UPI and unlimited topics, and cost $7.95/month.

NEWSHOUND -- http://www.sjmercury.com/hound/ or http://www.hound.com
NewsHound delivers news articles or summaries to your e-mail box and also provides them at its Web site. The search options let you select topics or keywords about which you want information and lets you screen out stories you do not want. It searches the Associated Press, Reuters, San Jose Mercury News, Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service, Scripps-Howard, Business Wire, Kyodo News Service and PR Newswire. You can subscribe through Netscape In Box, but that's a two-step process, so it's easier to do it directly at the NewsHound Web site. Costs $7.95 a month. Free trial offered.

NEWSPAGE -- http://www.newspage.com
This is a business-oriented news tracking service. You can preselect categories of information you want or ask for custom searches on any keyword. You can find the output of these searches daily at the NewsPage Web site or you can have the news delivered by e-mail. Either way, you also can do an additional search by keyword for topics you did not preselect. The news available has been published within the last week.
Whether at the Web site or by e-mail delivery, NewsPage provides summaries with links to full text. That's where the cost comes in. Basic news (PR Newswire and Business Wire, for example) are free but full text of premium news costs $3.95 a month. Then there is a pay-per-view set of sources with varying rates. E-mail delivery costs an additional $3 a month. A two-week free trial is offered.

PATHFINDER -- http://pathfinder.com
Lets you search free for news and information from Times Warner media, including Fortune, People, Money, Sports Illustrated, Time, CNN and Life. Or you can preselect your news from various categories of news published in Times Warner publications as well as wire services and have it delivered to your e-mail account for $4.95 a month or $29.95 a year (half-price).

POINTCAST: http://www.pointcast.com/
PointCast is an example of what is called "push" technology. You download software to your hard drive that will let you automatically or manually search the Internet for news and weather. It lets you preselect your new channels and topics. You also can choose to have PointCast operate as a screensaver, bringing updated information on your monitor when it's not otherwise in use. PointCast is offering its software free to universities, which can then customize it for their Intranets.

Finding On-Line Media

NEWSLINK -- http://www.newslink.org/ or http://www.ajr.org
A product of American Journalism Review, NewsLink provides extensive links to on-line media worldwide.

NEWS CENTRAL -- http://www.all-links.com/newscentral/
News Central provides links to more than 2,700 on-line newspapers.

EDITOR & PUBLISHER -- http://www.mediainfo.com/
Comprehensive data base of on-line newspapers.

TOTALNEWS WEB SITE -- http://www.totalnews.com
It provides links to all major on-line news organizations.