Wake Up News
Shareware that automatically loads the newspapers of your choice every morning at the time you specify and notifies you with an optional alarm.
http://www.wakeupnews.com/

NewsDart Sports News
Free downloadable software that allows sports fans to receive breaking sports on their favorite teams and players to their desktops.
http://www.newsdart.com/index.php3

Desktop News
A free Windows application that delivers custom content to the desktop in a customizable, low bandwidth, compact news ticker.
http://www.desktopnews.com/

BotBox
Monitor blogs, RSS feeds, and web forums.
http://www.botbox.com

EasyByte News Ticker
A free news ticker that scrolls the latest breaking headlines from a variety selectable subject areas.
http://www.easybyte.com/products/ticker.html

Google Desktop Sidebar
The sidebar in Google Desktop includes a news widget that learns from the articles you read and a feed reader widget that learns from the websites you visit.
http://desktop.google.com/

eNewsBar
Free scrolling news ticker bar. Continuously updated. View by category or keyword.
http://www.enewsbar.com/

BBC Newsline Ticker
Headline ticker will automatically update throughout the day with the latest news, sport, travel, finance and weather from the BBC. Available for multiple OS platforms.
http://www.bbc.co.uk