For Macintosh Aladdin Systems Inc.'s IntelliNews 2.0 for Macintosh delivers news headlines, weather, sports and stock information in one place on the user's desktop. The program's InfoCenter provides a toolbar interface outside of a Web browser to access Web information. IntelliNews refreshes headlines every 15 minutes. If users want more information on a story, IntelliNews will launch a browser and connect to the news source's page. Users can choose how often they want IntelliNews to update stock market quotes, sports and weather, ranging from every 15 to every 1,200 seconds.
Sports fans can float the scores for ongoing games above other running applications.