17 companies in electronic news venture
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Seventeen newspaper publishers are setting up a research consortium that will study innovative ways to deliver news via computers and telecommunications technology. The five-year project, expected to cost from $1.5- to $2 million annually, will be done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory. Among the participants in the consortium are Gannett, Knight-Ridder, Times Mirror, the Tribune Co, Hearst, IBM, Capital Cities/ABC and BellSouth. The newspaper publishers have gotten over their initial disappointments with videotex and other electronic news services, and are exploring possibilities such as the transmission of news through wireless computers or personalized papers printed in homes. The San Jose Mercury News starts using America Online to deliver electronic versions of its daily news on Monday, May 10, 1993.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1993
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Panel sees flaws in plan for encoding
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A Commerce Department advisory committee issues two draft resolutions urging the Clinton administration to hold extensive public hearings on its proposed Clipper chip technology, an encoding system that will allow authorities to tap telephone and computer communications. The resolutions further suggested that the technology be used only by the executive branch of the government while public hearings are taking place. The proposed security system is intended to establish a national standard for telephone and data encoding. Under the system, law enforcement authorities would create a numeric 'master key', the codes of which will be held by two separate government agencies as a security measure. Technology experts, privacy activists and industry officials say the plan is technically flawed and offers the potential for abuse.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1993
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