- BBC Newsline Ticker - Headline ticker will automatically update throughout the day with the latest news, sport, travel, finance and weather from the BBC. Available for multiple OS platforms.
- BotBox - Monitor blogs, RSS feeds, and web forums.
- Desktop News - A free Windows application that delivers custom content to the desktop in a customizable, low bandwidth, compact news ticker.
- EasyByte News Ticker - A free news ticker that scrolls the latest breaking headlines from a variety selectable subject areas.
- eNewsBar - Free scrolling news ticker bar. Continuously updated. View by category or keyword.
- Google Desktop Sidebar - The sidebar in Google Desktop includes a news widget that learns from the articles you read and a feed reader widget that learns from the websites you visit.
- NewsDart Sports News - Free downloadable software that allows sports fans to receive breaking sports on their favorite teams and players to their desktops.
- Wake Up News - Shareware that automatically loads the newspapers of your choice every morning at the time you specify and notifies you with an optional alarm.
- Worldflash - WorldFlash is an Internet agent for Windows 95/98/NT4 that displays up-to-the-minute news headlines, stock quotes, weather forecasts, sports scores. Over 6,000 regions with weather reporting in real time.
