Microsoft is continuing to flesh out the services it is offering via its SPOT (Smart Personal Object Technology) “smart” watches.
On Monday, Microsoft released a minor update to its MSN Direct service that delivers personalized content to watches over FM-radio frequencies. The new services add NFL and college football to the list of sports users can track in the sports channel. At the same time, Microsoft added a service allowing users to select up to two watch faces from a regularly changing library.
The Monday update also added Google to the list of stocks that can be tracked via the MSN Direct stock channel.
Next on the docket for MSN Direct and SPOT will be a movie channel designed to display movie times for theatres selected by the user, according to sources.
And after unveiling movies, Microsoft is planning to add traffic-monitoring and dining information channels some time within the next few months, sources added.
In May, Microsoft introduced several new MSN Direct services, including daily diversions, lottery, and horoscopes. Microsoft began offering sports information via MSN Direct in March.
A Microsoft spokeswoman last week denied that Microsofts next planned channel would be movies. On Tuesday, a SPOT spokesman declined to comment on the timetable or content for the next MSN Direct services.
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