MaximumSoft today announced the release of its latest product - NewsCopier for Windows Mobile Pocket PC. NewsCopier is a free RSS newsreader puts the latest headlines, weather, sports, business, and entertainment news right in your hands. It keeps you up-to-date on blogs, bargains, stocks and other news.

NewsCopier Free RSS Reader for Windows Mobile Pocket PC released You have instant access to the news you are interested in. The program can use your wireless connection, or update headlines when your Device is connected to the Internet. NewsCopier can either automatically refresh its information on a regular basis, or let you do the refresh manually.

The program works with variety of different feeds formats: RSS 1.0 (including RSS 0.9, 0.91, 0.92), RSS 2.0 and Atom.

This NewsCopier edition is distributed as a freeware program and is currently available for Pocket PC PDAs. Smartphones edition will be available later this year.

NewsCopier Features:

* NewsCopier is a RSS newsreader puts the latest headlines, weather, sports, business, and entertainment news right in your hands.
* It keeps you up-to-date on blogs, bargains, stocks and other news.
* NewsCopier can be installed in Main memory or on Storage card.
* It keeps downloaded files (feeds, images) either in Main memory or on a Storage card.
* The program works with variety of different feeds formats: RSS 1.0 (including RSS 0.9, 0.91, 0.92), RSS 2.0 and Atom.
* You have instant access to the news you are interested in.
* NewsCopier can either automatically refresh feeds (channels) on a regular basis, or let you do the refresh manually.
* The program can use your wireless connection, or update headlines when your Device is connected to the Internet via ActiveSync.
* NewsCopier is not just a newsreader. You can use the program to access different types of information (blogs, bargains, stocks, etc.) provided in RSS or Atom format.
* This NewsCopier edition is distributed as a freeware program.

How To Use It

* Creating New Channels.

To create a new channel, tap the New button on the menu bar to start the Add Channel Wizard. Choose one of the three options:

+ Select from a list of known Channels
Choose this option to pick channels from a provided list of popular channels.
+ Enter the Channel's URL.
Choose this option to enter the URL for the channel. This URL should be a link to a feed in a syndication format such as RSS or ATOM.
+ Import from OPML file.
Choose this option to import channels from a .opml file that resides on your Pocket PC.

* Channel List.

The Channel List list shows all the channels you have added. In addition to the channel name, each line of the list shows the channel icon on the left and the count of headlines for the channel. Tap on a channel in the list to see the Headlines for that channel.

* Headline List.

When you tap on a channel in the Channel List, the Headline List for that channel is displayed. Each item in the list displays the headline text and the headline's status. To see a summary of a headline, tap on the headline in the list and the headline summary will be displayed in News Summary.

* News Summary.

When you tap on a headline in the Headline List, the summary for that headline is displayed. The Summary View shows the channel's title, the headline icon, the headline text and the item summary text, if any. The Summary View will usually contain a link to the complete story, labeled "Read More Online...", and you can tap this link to go to the complete story on the channel's web site in Pocket Internet Explorer.

NewsCopier is available for Free download at Freeware Pocket PC site.