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October 17, 2006 – Spb Software House, the leading Pocket PC software developer, releases Spb Insight – a new Pocket PC News Reader which provides full-text articles with pictures for handy and fast offline reading.

Throughout the day we all have those many periods of time that are too short to be useful but too long to be wasted. Examples could be standing in line or waiting at the airport. A Pocket PC can be used to fill these intervals of time with reading books, or playing small games, etc. How about the news? Typical news web pages aren’t designed for small Pocket PC screens and can take minutes to download. RSS readers help in this situation, but usually provide only summaries and links to original articles, which bring us back to online browsing.

Spb Insight was designed to overcome these shortcomings. Besides being a powerful Pocket PC RSS reader, Spb Insight provides full article texts instead of typical RSS article summaries. Original article web pages are specifically optimized for Pocket PC screens using unique Spb Insight channel technology.

At this moment there are over 1000 popular news channels that are optimized for small screens and the number is growing rapidly, thanks to the open support community. All optimized channels are created by individuals and are not part of the program. These channels, as well as most popular RSS channels, are freely available through the Spb Insight Online Catalog. Available right on your device, with subcategories and sorted by popularity, the Online Catalog makes it easy to choose new interesting channels whenever you want. Spb Software House provides no preinstalled channels in this version.

Along with optimized channels, Spb Insight supports all versions of RSS and Atom news feeds, as well as importing feeds from local and online OPML files. Spb Insight provides channel and article thumbnails, as well as intuitive one hand navigation to make the user interface as easy to use as possible.

Spb Insight can work without a desktop computer, too – just use your wireless internet connection to add and update channels. To save traffic and time, you have control over what particular channels to update, in what order and whether to download pictures and full-text web pages or not. To save even more time, downloaded articles can be read right away, even while other articles and channels are being updated.

A short summary of Spb Insight features:

* Full-text website news using "optimized" channels
* Full RSS/Atom support (RSS 0.9x, 1.0, 2.0; Atom 0.3, 1.0)
* Offline reading with pictures
* Easy to use interface
* Simultaneous updating and reading
* One hand navigation
* Article thumbnails
* No desktop component needed
** Pricing and Availability **

Spb Insight is currently available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Danish, Czech, Polish, Dutch and Simplified Chinese languages. A free 15-day trial can be downloaded, or Spb Insight can be purchased for 19.95 USD, from www.spbsoftwarehouse.com.

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