Yet again something only available in the US. Are you even aware there's another 5billion people out there that DON'T live in the US?

plug into 4info.net's sms engine so you can also deliver to mobile phones....

this sounds pretty cool. I already use a service called rudder.com to deliver my finances to my email and now you guys can send me the news - super!

Kristi

Yea, it's so annoying when people develop applications and restrict them to those living in the US alone. Live does not exists in the US alone. A lot of streaming videos for instance are just restricted to America alone, and now even MSDN resources.

Why not Windows Live Alerts? What happened to it? Nobody seems to be using it.

WLA is great for giving quick alerts, instead of clogging my inbox. Do I really need Facebook notifications, News Alerts, and whatnot in my inbox? Or could they instead go to something like WLA where a lot of people might be online, 24/7?

1. In the first instance, please don't try and promote this as some brand new exciting idea that Live is coming out with. It's not. It's so standard now as to be entirely unremarkable, and other search engines have been doing this for a long while.

2. I love the point "Now you can have your news delivered to your inbox". Actually, NO, I CAN'T. And why might that be? Because this scrappy little catch up service is not supported in my neighbourhood.

3. Truly, this is pathetic - and that's the kindest thing that I can possibly say about it. How can you consider yourself to be a global service or resource when you can't actually produce products that most of your users can't use? Not only that, but you don't even have the courtesy to tell us that we can't use them.

4. Another brilliant example of Live shooting itself in the foot.

5. I advise everyone to use the Google news alert option instead of this excuse of a service. It's been around for a long while, it's stable and surprise surprise - it works outside the US!

That is a great news..Will definitely share it with my blog readers

What about Windows Live Alerts. I thought that having mail and mail and more mail is so yesterday. "Please subscribe to this or to that or to the other thing by entering you e-mail address ..." No! I get too much e-mail anyway. Why don't you use WL Alerts? So, much less inoptrussive. And why haven't you improved or innovated on WL Alerts in all these years. What are you paid for honestly. I can think of many new ideas on how to improved Alerts, integrating them with RSS and more. Why can't you? Where are the new ideas? Why do you always copy Google and think that you are clever? You are not.