Meet your next Web-based time-saver: customized news feeds that give news quickly and easily, without you having to scour the Web for all the latest bulletins. This technology is based on a standard called RSS, or Really Simple Syndication,and it is a quick and easy way for you to stay up to date with your favorite news topics with a minimum of time and effort. This technology can get headlines from your favorite news sites or receive an aggregated news feed on a single topic, like Iraq or computer software, that includes articles from many Web sources.
Using the News Center, you first select a news topic. Choose the headline that interests you, and the original story is read.
Once you add the news topic to your "My newspaper" area found in the SA Mobile Network Home page, the news is periodically updated with new content. When you return to My Newspaper, you can read news in all of your topics of interest without having to manually jump from web site to web site, or from newspaper to newspaper. In Addition, any news feed that you create can be shown publicly. Just be sure to check the make public check box when you create your news feed. When you are browsing someone's public bookmarks, select the "news Interests" link to see their public news interests.
The easiest way to get started is to follow these steps.
At this time you can go back to the SA Mobile Network Home page, then intothe "My Newspapers" area.
Tapping the letter H will move you forward through your topics of interest. Shift+H will move you back through your topics of interest. When you get to the topic that you want, just move through the page until you get to a news article you want to read. When you tap enter, that story will be read to you.
If you wish to create a news feed not found in the news center's archives, you can choose "Create a custom section" from the My Newspaper area. Here you can create a category of news feeds of your choosing, as well as specify what keywords will define your search. The section name field is the title of your news feeds, the Key words field allows you to type in a set of keywords to be searched. You can choose to make the news feed public as before. You can also preview the custom news feed by activating the preview button. If you like the way your customized news feed looks, just activate the Create button. You can then access your customized news feed from the My Newspaper area.
Choosing the "Add a Third party news feed" will allow you to add an RSS feed which contain text, audio, or even video, from a Third party web site. FIRST, you must have a web site that broadcasts RSS feeds. When you locate the RSS feed you want, you must get the exact web address, otherwise known as a URL, to the RSS feed. The web site in question will provide you this address. Just copy this address by first selecting it, then copy it to the clipboard with Control+C Then navigate to the My Newspaper area, and select Add a Third party news feed. As before, enter the section name of the news category, then in the feed URL paste the URL of the RSS feed by pressing Control+V on the keyboard. Again you can make this news feed public by checking the appropriate check box. You can also preview the news feed by activating the preview button. When you have previewed, and entered all of the information for the news feed, Activate the Add button. Your news feed will then appear in the My Newspaper area.
Note that in some instances, you can press enter on an rss feed link, and you will then be brought into the third party rss news feed dialog box. The URL of the news feed will already be there, so you will only need to type in a description of the RSS feed.