Check Your iPod For FinancialNews

August 03, 2005, 1:00 a.m. EDT 1 Min Read

SAN FRANCISCO - (08/03/05) -- FinancialContent Inc., a provider offinancial news for in-branch displays and other media, said it isbeta-testing a service that will allow users of the iPod musicplayers to subscribe to financial news over their iPods. Theservice, to be known as StreetIQ.com, will offer financial'podcasts' that draw financial news form many of the Internet's topsources. StreetIQ.com will also offer free software to downloadthousands of programs automatically.

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