The technology is worth seeing, and you can't beat the price. Allows you to somewhat personalize and filter news, and get up to the minutes stories. Easy save feature allows articles to be saved as files. SmartScreen screensaver is a very eye catching, very forward looking technology. While areas of interest can be narrowed, there is not true customization.
Updates can be slow in the middle of the day.
Relatively hefty RAM requirement. PointCast functions as a personalized news service - you tell it what you want, and the program goes and gets the information for you, then presents it to you in a number of different ways. The heart of the PointCast Network is the viewer. The viewer is a very complete, very obtrusive, interface. If you were to stumble across a particularly interesting article, the viewer will allow you to directly save that file.