The advent of CNN's Custom News holds the promise of minimizing the clutter and making information relevant for the busy executive. This service is available free on the Web. The concept is to take the fast reporting of CNN and combine it with the powerful database search engine that Oracle provides. The result is getting fast-breaking and detailed news that is searchable and customizable to your particular needs. In essence, you get the best of live TV coupled with an in-depth search facility.
Users establish an account with a user name and a password.
Once this is done, you set up a profile of what types of news you would like to read. The choices for your profile can be as varied as your individual tastes in news and information. You can customize a profile or use one of several that are made available. For instance, you can select a certain percentage of news mixed with sports, lifestyle news, show business news, weather, world news, U.S. news and technology. Setting up a profile can take as little as a few minutes, and you can change your profile at any time.