CNN Custom News can deliver custom tailored news to your desktop, create a custom user profile and get only the news that is important to you. They also offer Quickstart profiles to help get you started.

Infobeat allows you to select "Beats" you want to keep track of, such as Finance, Sports, News, Weather and more. They also send you e-mail on the topics you choose.

Headliner is a news and information service which can slow your computer with a lot of graphics, however they are not as intrusive as some of the other push channels.

Dow Jones Interactive Publishing Provides " timely, online news and information to business professionals." There is a fee for this service but you can browse millions of documents and pay only for those you wish to view. Join their CustomClips service and they will scan over 4,000 publications to and send you the news important to you, fee varies depending on the service provided.

Marimba Castanet allows you to create your own push channel fairly easily. The channels you choose can then be updated automatically, or you can have the information updated each time you log on to the Internet if you don't have a direct connection. They also offer a Castanet Tuner you can download to your computer, which allows you to choose any channel you want from the transmitter.