ANACOM makes it easier to access updated information on its website

ANACOM - Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações is going to start making a news feed available on its website, allowing users to keep up with updates made to the site without having to manually consult the section of interest on the same site. The latest headlines published on a site are locally stored on the equipment being used.

The feeds are technically referred to as RSS feeds, which is an abbreviation of Really Simple Syndication.

The syndication process makes the experience of the user more efficient both by allowing the optimisation of time taken to search for updated information on websites of interest; and because it allows greater comfort in the reception of information selected by the user.

The software regularly and autonomously visits the sites with feeds and compiles the news required by the user for later reading. To gain access to this data, the user must have an RSS reader to read the news (RSS reader or news reader), a condition that is satisfied simply by connecting a web browser, selecting the required folder and consulting the list of new available headlines. To obtain further information on the selected headline, it is always necessary to activate the hyperlink that the RSS displays and which leads to the detail of the web page.

There are various versions of feeds, some web browsers allow the integration of the RSS reader, while the latest versions of browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera or Netscape, for example, already include this functionality. As an alternative, other independent applications can be downloaded from the internet which can be installed on any computer, PDA or Smartphone.

While the news readers of browsers provide the list of subscribed to news; the applications which can be downloaded from the web allow the compiled information to be saved on the computer.