Will this new FREE Yahoo service described below called "Yahoo
Ticker" possibly be able to be fed into Amibroker?
Ron D
Yahoo has reintroduced downloadable software to stream news and information
to people's desktops. Called the Yahoo Ticker, the free application takes the features
of My Yahoo--personalized stock quotes, weather data and syndicated feeds of
news headlines--and transports them, in the form of a streaming ticker, to the
desktop. In a move to compete with Google's search Deskbar, Yahoo also has added
a Web search box to the software.
The concept, called "push" technology, was popularized during the dot-com
heyday as a way to make over the computer as a personalized portal of news and
information, rather than forcing people to surf the Web for the same. But the
concept fell out the window with the dot-com crash. In recent years, as the tech
economy has rebounded, companies including Sony Pictures Digital and
Entertainment Tonight have promoted similar push applications.