NewsEdge       TSR monitors electronic news, makes clipping file
NewsEdge Signals an End to Information Overload
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
If you lack the time to read all the news that's pertinent to
your interests, you could buy NewsEdge and have it sort through
electronic news services while you're in other applications.
 
NewsEdge is a TSR program that carrries up to five business news
wires simultaneously into your computer and beeps and flashes
whenever an article appears that's of interest to you. NewsEdge
software lets you create your own profile of what interests you;
it then tries to match key words and phrases with your profile to
get you the news you most want to see. Five news services are
available: McGraw-Hill News, PR Newswire, Dow Jones News Service,
Dow Jones Professional Investor Report, and Reuters Financial
News.
 
An FM receiver brings the "feeds" to your computer through a
serial port. Your computer needs about 640K bytes of RAM for the
program and at least a 10-megabyte hard disk drive for storing
the stories that interest you. Specifically, about 40K bytes is
used for receiving the news and for testing it against your user
profile. Another 80K bytes is used to index it on the hard disk
drive, also according to your personal profile. You purchase the
system on a one-year leasing basis. The base configuration
includes two of the five news services, including connect time.
 
Price: $7500.
 
Contact: Desktop Data, Inc., 1601 Trapelo Rd., Waltham, MA 02154,
(617) 890-0042.
 
                              --- Roger K. Adams
 
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