| The Wall Street Journal Western Edition 1990 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
|---|
| A creaky computer system. (the Insurance Regulatory Information System of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners) | Business, general | |
| Air-fare deadline causes reservation-system gridlock. | Business, general | Jonathan Dahl |
| Ameritech, Bell Atlantic will operate under little restraint in New Zealand. (acquisition of Telecom Corp.) | Business, general | Mary Lu Carnevale, David B. Hilder |
| Apple's profit spurted by 134% in 2nd quarter; revenue advanced by 8%; computer concern cites improved margins, sales. (Apple Computer Inc.) | Business, general | Ken Wells |
| Apple to dish up saucy new campaign. (Apple Computer Inc.) (Advertising) | Business, general | Thomas R. King |
| Argentina kicks off privatization drive; U.S. firms among bidders for Entel phone system. (Empresa Nacional de Telecommunicaciones) (International Pages) | Business, general | Thomas Kamm |
| As AT&T credit card charges ahead, banks fight back. (Marketing) | Business, general | John J. Keller, Robert Guenther |
| As electronic mail loosens inhibitions, impetuous senders feel anything goes. | Business, general | Jolie Solomon |
| As sampling revolutionizes recording, debate grows over aesthetics, copyrights. | Business, general | Robert Tomsho |
| AST courts a market in Tokyo and a break from Washington. (computer manufacturer AST Research Inc.)(Business World) (column) | Business, general | Tim W. Ferguson |
| AT&T makes unsolicited $6.03 billion bid for NCR after merger discussions stall; offer equals $90 a share; move aims to advance business in computers. (NCR Corp.) | Business, general | |
| AT&T outlines how it will trim 6,000 jobs at unit. | Business, general | John J. Keller, Christopher Winans |
| AT&T, unions reach accord on retirement. | Business, general | Christopher Winans |
| Australia calls for competitors in phone service. | Business, general | Tony Patrick |
| BCE, Nynex join in bid for Mexico's phone company. (Telefonos de Mexico) | Business, general | G. Pierre Goad |
| BCE's Bell Canada unit plans to launch electronic data and transaction service. | Business, general | John Urquhart |
| Bell Canada to cut long-distance rates for big users to match U.S. levels by '96. | Business, general | Suzanne McGee |
| Big phone contract presents Indonesia with tough choice. | Business, general | Richard Borsuk |
| Brokerage firms spend lavishly to beef up high-tech trading. | Business, general | Craig Torres |
| Businesses map plans for use of Tiger geographical files: Census Bureau data, now on disk, offer opportunities and headaches. (computerized maps) | Business, general | Eugene Carlson |
| Businessland directors take a loss and transform it into a big gain. (Inside Track) | Business, general | Alexandra Peers |
| Cable & Wireless unit spearheads plan for Asian regional fiber-optic network. | Business, general | Stephen F. Stine |
| Cashless society may be inching toward reality. (includes other law-related articles) (column) | Business, general | Michael Allen, Amy Dockser Marcus |
| Centex Telemanagement seen as vulnerable to phone rate restructuring in California. (Heard on the Street) | Business, general | Roger Lowenstein |
| Citicorp skips computer in new home-banking plan. (Technology) (product announcement) | Business, general | Robert Guenther |
| Close to you: companies are breaking up employee centers and setting up offices near areas where workers live. (telework centers) (Workplace of the Future supplement) | Business, general | Cathy Trost |
| Companies must wait until end of '92 to cash in on EC telecommunications. (European Community) | Business, general | Peter Greiff |
| Compulink tries to convert skeptics to paperless office; to get technology accepted, firm lowers actual and perceived risks. | Business, general | David J. Jefferson |
| Computer-hungry Soviets are hesitant to pick up the tab in hard currency. | Business, general | Gregory L. White |
| Computer makers fear proposal from Europe could cut U.S. sales. | Business, general | Zachary G. Pascal |
| Corning boosts fiber output capacity and designs tougher fiberoptic cable. (company profile) | Business, general | Kerry Pechter |
| Cost of French market's Relit system for back offices draws some critics. (automation of French stock exchange) | Business, general | Charles Fleming |
| Cross-border alliances become favorite way to crack new markets; global reach. (Mitsubishi and Daimler are just the latest to see gain in swapping know-how; Olivetti's unhappy marriage) | Business, general | |
| Dataproducts agrees to be acquired by Hitachi venture for $160 million. | Business, general | Rhonda L. Rundle |
| Dell Computer net fell in its 4th period but topped forecasts. | Business, general | |
| DuPont and N.V. Philips are dissolving joint venture to produce optical disks. | Business, general | Bob Hagerty, Richard Koening |
| Fare game: airlines may be using a price-data network to lessen competition: coding of tariffs can tell rivals of one's intentions; U.S. begins investigation: signaling an attack on a hub. (the Justice Department is investigation possible antitrust violations in the airline industry) | Business, general | Asra Q. Nomani |
| First Fidelity and EDS set software accord; GM unit will consolidate bank's system in pact valued at $450 million. (First Fidelity Corp.; Electronic Data Systems Corp.) | Business, general | Kathryn Graven |
| For video games, now it's a battle of bits. (16-bit video game machines) (Marketing) | Business, general | Joseph Pereira |
| French push to develop videophones in latest high-tech race with Japanese. | Business, general | E.S. Browning |
| Fujitsu bids for U.K. computer giant in effort to enter European market. (International Computers Ltd.) | Business, general | Tony Horwitz |
| Future shock; people got hooked, but then abandoned, telephone 'gateways'; Southwestern Bell's effort to provide data, games over phone proves costly; Eakers fight their addiction. | Business, general | Randolph B. Smith |
| GE is fined $10 million in criminal case. | Business, general | Milo Geyelin, Beatrice E. Garcia |
| GTE unit sets pact for cellular phones in Hertz rental cars. (GTE Mobile Communications) | Business, general | |
| Hand-held computers help field staff cut paper work and harvest more data. (Workplace) | Business, general | Gilbert Fuchsberg |
| Hewlett-Packard's other board. (independent management process) (Manager's Journal) | Business, general | Christine Ferguson |
| High-tech training; companies turn to technology to try to bring their employees up to speed. (Education supplement) | Business, general | Ellen Graham |
| Hitachi to talk with Motorola on ending suit. (Technology & Health) | Business, general | Marilyn Chase |
| Home. (Workplace of the Future supplement) | Business, general | Cynthia Crossen |
| Honeywell to make avionics systems for new Boeing jet. (Honeywell Inc. and Boeing Co.) | Business, general | Judith Valente |
| Hughes Aircraft gets copyright on program. (a program that operates in 'neural networks') | Business, general | Wayne E. Green |
| IBM agrees to sell computers to Soviets for use in schools. | Business, general | |
| IBM bolsters lines of minicomputers, its AS/400 and 9370. (product announcement) | Business, general | |
| IBM expects to cut work force in Europe further during 1991. | Business, general | |
| IBM is expected to unveil PCs in October that compete with Compaq file servers. (Technology) | Business, general | Lawrence Hooper |
| IBM moves to cap mental health costs. (Health) | Business, general | Ron Winslow |
| IBM sets patent pact with Sun Microsystems. (Technology) | Business, general | Marilyn Chase |
| Indonesia is expected soon to award big contract to improve phone network. | Business, general | Richard Borsuk |
| 'Interactive TV' test is watched to see who's more than remotely interested. | Business, general | Suzanne Alexander |
| Japanese giants in electronics post gains in net. | Business, general | |
| Japanese systematically invest in Europe prior to 1992 changes. | Business, general | Philip Revzin |
| Japan's NTT taps Motorola for phone gear. (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.) | Business, general | Robert (English judge) Johnson |
| Japan's plan to sell more NTT shares in privatization put off for second year. (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.) | Business, general | Clay Chandler |
| Japan to unveil economic reform plan; telecommunications market will open. | Business, general | Jacob M. Schlesinger, Peter Truell |
| Kodak hopes electronic imaging clicks, as company faces fuzzy photo future. | Business, general | James S. Hirsch |
| Kodak to unveil photo compact disks that show images on television screens. (Eastman Kodak Co.) (Technology & Medicine) | Business, general | James S. Hirsch |
| Letter bomb: Postal Service again asks for rate increase as automation lags; uncontrollable labor costs, longer delivery times add to agency's problems. | Business, general | Albert R. Karr |
| Lilly's new supercomputer spurs a race for hardware to quicken drug research. (Eli Lilly & Co.) (Science) | Business, general | Sue Shellenbarger |
| Limits placed on software duplication. (Legal Beat; includes other law related articles) (column) | Business, general | Laurence Hooper, Vindu P. Goel |
| LIN Broadcasting shares are jolted in heavy trading. | Business, general | Robin Goldwyn Blumenthal |
| Line of Recognition Equipment marks shift in strategy. (image processing) | Business, general | Hal Lancaster |
| LM Ericsson expects to boost 1990 profit by more than 25%. | Business, general | |
| Lotus and Novell extend discussions on planned merger. | Business, general | Gary Putka |
| Lotus takes hard line on software. (Lotus Development Corp. sues Borland International Inc. and Santa Cruz Operation Inc.) (Technology) | Business, general | Ron Suskind |
| Makers of low-cost computer products attract managers as the economy slows. (OTC Focus) (column) | Business, general | Anne Newman |
| McCaw's '80s-style debt is a drag in '90s. (McCaw Cellular Communications)(Heard on the Street) (company profile) | Business, general | Linda Sandler |
| MCI drops Wells Rich for small agency. (MCI Communications Inc.; Wells, Rich, Greene Inc.) | Business, general | Thomas R. King |
| MCI shares are being shed by big institutions, which fret over heated battle with AT&T. (Heard on the Street) (MCI Communications Inc.)(Heard on the Street) | Business, general | John R. Dorfman |
| MCI to acquire Telecom USA for $1.25 billion; acquisition would speed consolidation among long-distance firms. (MCI Communications Corp.) | Business, general | Mary Lu Carnevale, Rick Christie |
| MCI to buy 25% stake in Infonet for $27.5 million. (MCI Communications Corp., Infonet Services Corp. ) | Business, general | Anne Nichols |
| Mead to report net fell sharply in first quarter; firm blames weaker prices for some of its paper, expenses of expansions. | Business, general | Ralph E. Winter |
| Men vs. machines in Bund-trading duel. (futures contract trading) | Business, general | Neil Behrmann, Stanley W. Angrist |
| Mexico to privatize its telephone system: sale of 54% could bring as much as $6 billion. | Business, general | Matt Moffett |
| Microsoft starts effort to catch Novell in market for PC networking software. | Business, general | G. Pascal Zachery |
| Milacron, last big heavy robots maker in U.S., to sell line to Asea Brown unit. (Cincinnati Milacron Inc.) | Business, general | Ralph E. Winter, Gregory Stricharchuk |
| Murdoch's Sky, British Satellite agree to merge. (British Satellite Broadcasting Ltd., Sky Television) | Business, general | Craig Forman |
| Mystery voices; when you call an 800 number, you might be surprised to find out who's on the other end of the line. (Technology) | Business, general | Suein L. Hwang |
| Net at Software Toolworks surged during 4th period. | Business, general | Frederick Rose |
| New ATMs cash checks on the spot. (product announcement) | Business, general | Pamela Podger |
| New gurus build firms by assembling computer parts; Bruce Johnson substitutes technology for family to look out for elderly. | Business, general | Virginia Daut |
| New Zealand picks Baby Bells to buy Telecom: Ameritech and Bell Atlantic will pay $2.46 billion for nation's phone firm. | Business, general | Mary Lu Carnevale, David B. Hilder |
| Nintendo looks to MIT for brain-teasing video games. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | Business, general | Joseph Pereira |
| No miracle; recession haunts city that believed it was saved by high-tech; Lowell, Mass., computer ills trigger slumps in fields from real estate to bars; an Wang abandons Grotto's. | Business, general | Lawrence Ingrassia |
| No place to hide; the dark side of the communications revolution: you're never out of touch. (Technology) | Business, general | Michael J. McCarthy |
| Novellus estimates fourth-quarter net soared 68% to 79%. (Novellus Systems Inc.) | Business, general | |
| Perplexing pricing; cellular-phone users find that talk isn't cheap, and they're not sure why. (Technology) | Business, general | David D. Medina |
| Phony power; technology leads to new absurdities in a Hollywood obsessed with the telephone. (Technology) | Business, general | Kathleen A. Hughes |
| Plugged in: putting your portfolio on disk has its advantages. | Business, general | Neil Ulman |
| Profit of Computer Associates rises on lower revenue. (Computer Associates International Inc.) | Business, general | Robin Goldwyn Blumenthal |
| Profit of Digital Equipment fell 83% in quarter. | Business, general | Suzanne Alexander |
| Profits increased at Bell Atlantic, US West, Nynex; first-period earnings fell at Pacific Telesis, SNET due to higher expenses. (Southern New England Telecommunications) | Business, general | |
| Pros put chips on extended run-up in semiconductors. (bull market for semiconductor company stocks) (Heard on the Street) (column) | Business, general | John R. Dorfman |
| Pullout by Philips, ICL's purchase hits Europe's memory-chip study. (ICL's purchase by Fujitsu Ltd., the Jessi program) | Business, general | Martin Du Bois |
| Reporter's notebook: even cabbies get drawn into computer-show act. (Comdex/Fall 1990) | Business, general | |
| Rocket to reality; the hopes of the commercial launch business plummet back to earth. (Technology ) | Business, general | David J. Jefferson |
| ROMing your corporate library for job leads. (CD-ROM technology) | Business, general | Ronald F. Dow |
| Scrolling through libraries of the future. (Technology) | Business, general | Kenneth H. Bacon |
| Semiconductor executives cash in some of their chips. (Inside Track) (column) | Business, general | Alexandra Peers |
| Short circuit: McGraw-Hill's push into electronic data fails to bolster profit; critics contend the publisher suffers from nepotism and weak acquisitions; the ruffling of the managers. | Business, general | Johnnie L. Roberts |
| Siemens, Nixdorf to join computer units; plan may spawn other combinations in Europe. (Nixdorf Computer AG) (International News) | Business, general | Timothy Aeppel, Richard L. Hudson |
| Smith Corona plans to market PCs in early '91; venture formed with Acer to sell home computer priced 'competitively.' | Business, general | Peter Pae |
| Software maker finds wheels of justice grind slowly when Justice Department is the accused. (Politics and Policy) | Business, general | Paul M. Barrett |
| Software Toolworks' recent purchase brings licensing pact with Nintendo. (Software Toolworks Inc. purchases Mindscape Inc.) | Business, general | Rick Wartzman |
| Software users are beginning to rebel against the steady stream of upgrades. | Business, general | William B. Bulkeley |
| STC of U.K. says it may be bought; buyer undisclosed. | Business, general | Tim Carrington |
| Sun Microsystems 1st-quarter net gain disappoints analysts. | Business, general | |
| Sun Microsystems reports a profit for its 4th quarter. | Business, general | Chip Johnson |
| Tandy expects 2nd-quarter profit to drop slightly. | Business, general | Karen Blumenthal |
| Technology issues are popular now, but may fade soon. (Over-the-Counter Markets) | Business, general | Anne Newman |
| Tetris game wins big for Nintendo but not for Soviet inventors: they're left out as software falls into Western hands and then into litigation; to Russia, a lesson in markets. (Nintendo Company Ltd.) | Business, general | Peter Gumbel |
| Texas Instruments net fell sharply in second quarter. | Business, general | Marj Charlier |
| Texas Instruments seeking big fees from Japan firms. (royalties on dynamic random access memory chip patent) | Business, general | Jacob M. Schlesinger, Masayoshi Kanabayashi |
| The Great Communicator. (a fictional account of a day spent using a laptop computer and various sorts of communication equipment) (Technology) | Business, general | Gil Schwartz |
| The workplace revolution; jobs have become far more demanding, and workers must think in different ways and adapt to unpredictable changes. (Education supplement) | Business, general | Alecia Swasy, Carol Hymowitz |
| Third-quarter loss is posted by National Semiconductor Corp. | Business, general | |
| Toshiba vying with Compaq in 'notebooks'. (notebook computers; T1000XE, T1200XE)(Technology) (product announcement) | Business, general | Ken Wells |
| Trinity Computers miscalculate and some investors pull the plug. (Trinity Investment Management Corp.) | Business, general | James A. White |
| United Telecommunications shares fall 24% on a 55% drop in 2nd-period net. | Business, general | John J. Keller, Robert Daniels |
| United Telecom to acquire GTE stake of 19.9% in US Sprint for $500 million | Business, general | Johnnie L. Roberts |
| Untangling the debate over cable television. (cable legislation) (includes related article about direct broadcast television, from satellites; another article outlines customers' complaints about cable industry products and services) | Business, general | Laura Landro, Mary Lu Carnevale, Dennis Kneale |
| U.S., allies ease technology curbs on Eastern sales. | Business, general | |
| U.S., allies to ease more curbs on high-tech sales to East Europe. (International News) | Business, general | Philip Revzin |
| US Sprint tries to reach out and thump AT&T over snafu. (AT&T's network failure) (Advertising) (column) | Business, general | Joanne Lipman |
| U.S. suspends negotiations with Japan over satellite trade, U.S. official says. | Business, general | Peter Truell |
| U.S. West to spend $35 million to develop 'self-healing' phone networks in 5 cities. | Business, general | Frank Allen |
| Wang Laboratories founder dies at 70; family will retain control of concern. (An Wang) | Business, general | William M. Bulkely |
| When laptop computers go on the road, the hassles can cancel out the benefits. | Business, general | Willaim M. Bulkeley |
| While computers may ease 1991 redistricting, politicos will still say where to draw the lines. (redrawing congressional districts) | Business, general | David Shribman |
| Winner of Mexico's phone firm signals new style of capitalism. (Telefonos de Mexico) | Business, general | Matt Moffett |
| Wyle Laboratories expects 43% jump in 3rd-quarter net. | Business, general | |
| Xerox to take pretax charge of $400 million; firm to write off funds in VMS Realty Partners; analysts praise the move. | Business, general | Andrew Patner, Laurence Hooper |
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