Resco Releases Innovative News Reader for the Palm OS Platform

Resco released an attractive news reader with strong search capabilities that is intended for ordinary mobile users with little to no technical skills.

Bratislava, Slovakia — February 24, 2007 — Resco, a leading provider of end-user mobile applications, released Resco Neeews! for Palm OS — a user-friendly newsreader built specifically for mobile users.

Resco Neeews! is an innovative news reader that helps the user to find and regularly receive relevant information from various web sources. It goes as far as to provide one-tap access to the news customized to user preferences.

Resco Neeews! can access information flowing from CNN, BBC, NY Times, Google News, Flickr and hundreds of predefined high quality feeds and millions of blogs and feeds of user choice.

Resco Neeews! builds on familiar newspaper analogy. People can use a number of ways to create their newspapers - ranging from a simple selection up to the web searches or queries to the premium services. Resulting newspaper can be set up to update regularly and added to the Palm Launcher.

Unlike typical RSS readers the product requires minimum technical skills and demonstrates how easy can the relevant information land on mobile devices.

"It's hard to understand why such a powerful concept — RSS — is popularized in a way that distracts ordinary users", said Jan Slodicka, director of Resco Palm Division.
"We knew that a successful reader must offer an easy access to relevant information, and it must do it nicely, without requiring any technical skills. Looks like Resco Neeews! might have these characteristics."

Highlights

News Sources:

• 350 of high quality predefined feeds
• Premium services: Google News, Live Windows, Technorati, Flickr etc.
• Searching for feeds by a phrase
• Extraction of feeds from a web site

Other Features:

• Export of popular newspapers to the Palm Launcher
• Automatic updates with notifications on incoming news
• Podcasting, incl. audio streaming
• Feed sharing (OPML)

Examples

It's not only journalists, researchers and other professionals who needs the information:

• Doctors may want regular news about say "Dermatology"
• Sports fans could do a search for "NBA NHL"
• Climate feeds provide discussions on e.g. global warming
• There are feeds with regular updates about California weather
• Wonderful image feeds on almost any topic are provided by Flickr
• Plus, of course, direct access to renowned periodicals such as Washington Post, Time etc. or influential blogs such as Daily Kos or Michelle Malkin etc. etc.

Pricing and Availability

The latest version costs USD 19.95 and can be found at: http://www.resco.net/palm/neeews/default.asp.

Application is provided in English language with planned localization to German.

About Resco s.r.o.

Founded in 1999, Resco, s.r.o. (www.resco.net) is the leading developer of a wide range of mobile software products for multiple handheld software platforms. Besides the best selling end-user mobile applications, Resco also offers developer tools as well as enterprise mobile solutions. Today the company has a lot more than 100,000 satisfied customers worldwide.
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