MSN Direct

Devices that supported MSN Direct included wristwatches, desktop clocks, in-car GPS satellite navigation units, and even small appliances such as coffee makers.

Information available through paid "channels" included weather, horoscopes, stocks, news, sports results and calendar notifications.

Some Garmin GPS units, such as the nüvi 680, allowed traffic notifications, weather forecasts, movie schedules and local gas prices to be received through MSN Direct.

As a radio-based service, MSN Direct did not have universal coverage, but was available in populated parts of the United States and Canada.

[1] There were three versions of the MSN Direct software for Garmin nüvi GPS receivers: The service was shut down on January 1, 2012, as originally announced in October 2009.