Like other sources of news such as CNN or the BBC, Comtech Phones sends out news feeds to alert everyone that some new News Item has been issued. News feeds are not web pages so they cannot be viewed in a normal web browser. However more and more people are finding this is an effective way of staying on top of the News. This short article will explain how news feeds can work for you.

A news feed aggregator is a free program that automatically checks usually once an hour whether any of the news feeds you have subscribed to has been updated. It will give you a text summary of that News Item. Bloglines is one of the most popular news feed aggregators. Once you set up your free account, Bloglines will automatically look for news items on any of your subscribed News sources. If you need to know the news fast, then this is an excellent way to improve your effectiveness.

If you would like to understand more about News Feeds, then Feed 101 by Feedburner gives a good introduction to this topic.

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