CNN, Oracle team for personalized online news. (Cable News Network offers new service with Oracle's Web Application Server)

Broadcasting & Cable, June, 1997 by Tedesco, Richard

Custom News will draw from huge print, broadcast database

Moving further into the realm of new-media news delivery, Time Warner's CNN launched a personalized online news service in cooperation with Oracle Corp. last week.

CNN Custom News (cnn. com/customnews) permits PC users to customize news content accessed from a menu of subject areas, including U.S. and world news, business, sports, lifestyle, show business, science and technology. Users can specify areas of interest from a list of more than 300 categories.

A CNN News Stream feature can be programed to provide breaking news on a range of topics in a scrolling ticker across the PC screen. Another feature, On-Target, permits users to follow predefined topics or go beyond those...

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