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Alerts can be setup in Internet Explorer 8 which can play a sound when there is an update for a monitored webslice from a website or when a website is found for a webpage.

Webslices in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is a new feature similar to RSS which allows you to monitor and subscribe to a part of a website that supports the feature. I just wrote here with an example on eBay IE8 website