System and method enabled devices enabled with syndicated data enhanced functionality

An improved data device assembly having a processor and a memory comprising:

• a memory for storing one or more predetermined syndicated data device specific syndicated data channel identifiers;
• an syndicated data service interface that is communicatively coupled via a data network to one or more vendor-specific syndicated data application platforms and having one or more installed vendor specific syndicated data applications, the device having the syndicated data interface adapted for receiving one or more of the point-to-multipoint non-addressed transport bearer channels of one or more different syndicated data channel transport networks, the receiving initially only including the monitoring of the syndicated data channels and not processing of the syndicated data channels to decode the syndicated data messages or syndicated data informational data contained therein, the interfaced further adapted for identifying from the received and monitored transport bearer channels a received syndicated data channel having an syndicated data channel identifier of the specific syndicated data device as stored in the memory, and where identified, reading the syndicated data messages within the received syndicated data channel and extracting the syndicated data supplier-independent informational data from the syndicated data message.