Need ideas for an auto scrolling SLideshow type thing

[Kelemvor]

We have a computer at work that has some retarded program on it called Scala. This program is basically a Slide SHow (like powerpoint) that cycles through some slides with informatino on our building. Some of the pages it shows it goes out to our server and reads some text files in to populate that pages that change on a daily basis.

Problem is it crashes a lot and some of the little applets don't load right and other things.

So I'm looking for a way to duplicate the same look (like an auto-repeating slideshow) and still have the ability to pull in data from an outside source.

One page shows the current company stock price
One page shows the weather conditions
One page shows who has gotten a delivery and someone manually updates a text fiel with this info...

I thought I culd do the stock stuff and weather stuff with a link out to a standard weater websitea dnc ould download a stock ticker thing for the stock info. I could possibly do this with powerpoint but I'm not sure if/how pwoerpoint can pull in data from a website or even just show a website. Or I could just make some web pages with things that would automatically redirect to the next one in line after a few seconds.

Anyone think of any other ways to do this or know if PowerPoint or web pages might work better in the long run?

Thanks.