Microsoft/Hearst News Reader

buckweaver · Mar 7, 2007

Microsoft Corp. and Hearst Corp. unveiled a software service Thursday that allows newspaper readers to download stories and read them even when not connected to the Internet.

The News Reader, which is now available to readers of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, enables readers to automatically transfer a sampling of stories from the newspaper’s website onto their computers by clicking on a desktop icon. Another company, NewsStand Inc., offers digital media content from a number of newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

With the Seattle paper’s News Reader service, readers who remain online can get updated content every hour. Only select stories will be made available through the service, which is free. To get access to all the newspaper’s stories, readers must go to the publication’s website, subscribe to the paper’s electronic edition or buy a copy of the newspaper.

The News Reader software will work only with computers using Microsoft Windows XP or Vista operating systems.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/02/23/BUG7PO9PF11.DTL&type=business

philly fanatic · Mar 7, 2007

Thanks for posting that. Very interesting.

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