Microsoft is testing Chat Client, its Instant Messenger service, in Netherlands. The services include getting news through IM. Dutch Newspaper Volkskrant is the first to launch its own IM service.


Microsoft is testing Chat Client, its Instant Messenger service, in Netherlands. The services include getting news through IM. Dutch Newspaper Volkskrant is the first to launch its own IM service.

De Volkskrant has launched Nieuwskraker, the new IM service.
” Once you add Nieuwskraker to your buddy list, you automatically get a single news update when you log in, and then get automatic breaking news alerts in the chat environment.

Additionally, you can ask for news at any moment by typing in some set queries, and Nieuwskraker also will do archive searches on any word you type in.” [source]

The service currently offers four different news queries: headlines, archive, and “remarkable news” and “miscellaneous” which has video clips.

The chat client has a number of other services including, account information from Postbank and SNSBank
Virtual Baby care, ECCKY.

To check out the news service through IM, Nieuwskraker, click here.

 

 

 

 

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