Into Webcasters Web content will soon be arriving automatically on your desktop. Even though the World Wide Web offers better content every day, its rich resources will go to waste if you can't devote the time to get the information you want and need. We're seeing a new crop of Internet products that will make this possible. Although the current implementations focus largely on news and information delivery, this new technology will alter the way we get everything from financial data to timely software updates.
Any content provider can find a reason to offer automatic information delivery.
The software client on your desktop can display the information it receives in a variety of formats. You can customize the content you receive, and most is hyperlinked to further information at the provider's Web site. News, sports, weather, and the ups and downs of the stock market are chronicled by wire services and then uplinked to a satellite. Other information is created by content providers and uploaded to a Web server. Content providers downlink the satellite information and produce content to place on their Web servers.