A news-ticker-style newsfeed. It debuted in late 1986 as a low-cost, publicly available newswire service that used personal computers to read and process the real-time data.

Includes versions 2.40 & version 3 

For Apple IIe & IIc with minimum 128K RAM. ProDOS based.

X*PRESS Information Services, Ltd. was a partnership between McGraw-Hill and cable TV giant Tele-Communications, Inc. 

Data included delayed stock ticker quotes and news headlines from the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, McGraw-Hill, Standard & Poor's, Reuters, and UPI. News from outside the U.S. was contributed by Kyodo, ITAR-TASS and Xinhua.

The X*Press service was transmitted by way of satellite. Specifically, the system's data stream was carried on C-Band satellite onboard CNN's (later WGN's) transponder using General Instrument InfoCipher 1500P satmodem technology. The InfoCipher modem was an add-on to VideoCipher II+/RS TVRO receivers and received the data at 9600 bits per second.

Participating cable companies could also send the data signal over their distribution systems to cable subscribers, who used a cable TV version of the InfoCipher modem and software on a home computer to decode and display the information stream. The software, called X*Press X*Change and X*Press Executive, was available for the Amiga, Apple Macintosh, Apple II, Atari ST, and MS-DOS. In the 1990s, the X*Press X*Change service was renamed InGenius, and faded into obscurity shortly afterward with the rise of the modern Internet, as well as improved cable TV on-screen graphics technology. The service was discontinued in 1997.

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