He's showing off the realtime Facebook feed, realtime AP news ticker (that's kind of cool).
Above the square, an electronic news ticker announced that the Boston Marathon suspects' next target might have been Times Square.
In those days, the Dow Jones news ticker--a stand alone, upright machine--spilled out reams of broad tape financial news comparable with what comes across computer consoles today.
Announced Tuesday, the new version of the software incorporates a customizable news and stock ticker, tighter integration with AOL chat rooms, and a more secure registration process.
Schober remembers a ticker dubbed "Network News, " a kind of virtual community newsletter that would let people know when certain chat rooms had a special guest or were discussing certain topics.
With the announcements of the news feed splitting into three elements, the Ticker (everything happening with your friends right now), the Relevant Posts timeline (what Facebook thinks will be important to you), and the Historical timeline, which is going to have the biggest visual impact on the users.
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The ticker, set up in 2006, streamed news and political messages to the Cuban people from the fifth floor of the US Interest Section in Havana.
It requires the information ticker to be active (found in lock screen settings) so news bites and such are displayed on the screen you encounter when waking the device.
The new service allows companies to maintain a verified ticker-based page on StockTwits, where the company can display customized news, information and links.
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Exactly how that breadth is suggested by the new name is unclear, however: The former Inhale (nasdaq: INHL - news - people ) will now be known as Nektar and trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol NKTR.
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