MSN/Bing News. Notifications and an alternative?

[D0gsballs]

Hi all,

Is anyone finding that the MSN/Bing News app is no longer providing breaking news notifications? The live tile is working fine for me, but I can't remember the last time I received a breaking news notification. With the election results happening at the moment, I would have expected this would have been the perfect time for the app to deliver, but it doesn't. Everything is setup to allow notifications to happen, the only thing I haven't tried is a reinstall of the app. Anyone having this issue?

Does anyone also use any other news app that also provides notification updates?

Cheers.

 

[eusty]

Depends where you are, but Paperboy is a great app as it can pull news from the BBC website.

http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=9f384907-62df-4d4d-ae10-f69ccdbf1ddf

 

[D0gsballs]

Depends where you are, but Paperboy is a great app as it can pull news from the BBC website.

http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=9f384907-62df-4d4d-ae10-f69ccdbf1ddf

Thanks for the tip. Live tile and toast notification support?

 

[pmhgeneral]

Hi all,

Is anyone finding that the MSN/Bing News app is no longer providing breaking news notifications? The live tile is working fine for me, but I can't remember the last time I received a breaking news notification. With the election results happening at the moment, I would have expected this would have been the perfect time for the app to deliver, but it doesn't. Everything is setup to allow notifications to happen, the only thing I haven't tried is a reinstall of the app. Anyone having this issue?

Does anyone also use any other news app that also provides notification updates?
Cheers.

I also like ABC news also has a great live tile and notifications as good if not faster than MSN.

 

[eusty]

Live tile, yes. Toast, no

 

[HerronScott]

Still getting notifications from MSN News here.

Scott

 

[D0gsballs]

Still getting notifications from MSN News here.

Scott

When did you last receive a toast notification? Toasts are working for all my other apps that have been setup to provide notifications, and the live tile is still working fine for it. I even uninstalled and reinstalled it yesterday to see if that helped but with the Nepal earthquake that's just happened again I would have expected that to come through for example. Be interesting to know what notifications people are getting and when. Also are you on the latest version of the app?

 

[hotphil]

All the news sites I view have Twitter feeds. I've moved from the News app to Twitter for my news feed.