The Wall Street Journal Western Edition 1995 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
3Com to buy Chipcom for $775 million; stock deal is part of trend toward consolidation in hot network market. | Business, general | G. Christian Hill, William M. Bulkelet |
A '90s espionage tale stars software rivals, E-mail spy. (Performix Inc sues Mercury Interactive Corp for copyright infringement) (Industry Legal Issue) | Business, general | Glenn R. Simpson |
A chip comes in from the cold: tales of high-tech spying; did French moles steal secrets from Texas Instruments, or is the story just Bull? (French computer firm Cie. des Machines Bull and TI settle chip patent suit) | Business, general | William M. Carley |
Adobe gets lift in bid to set standard for sending documents over Internet. | Business, general | Lindley H. Clark |
A newspaperman surfs the Internet. (William Burleigh's views on technology, president of E.W. Scrips) | Business, general | Tim W. Ferguson |
Anonymity on-line? It depends who's asking. (America Online hands over subscriber information in civil suit) (Industry Legal Issue) | Business, general | Constance Johnson |
An open letter to Gates and Manzi. (letter from Borland's Phillippe Kahn to Microsoft's Bill Gates and Lotus' Jim Manzi)(Letter to the Editor) | Business, general | Philippe Kahn |
Apple Computer targets Asia to increase brand recognition, localize products. | Business, general | Jeremy Mark |
Arafat's operators; unlikely Paris duo advises Palestinians on development deals; mixed-up Gaza phone plans stir anger and confusion over outsiders' power; AT&T gets busy signals. (Palestinian National Authority awards International Technologies Inc with contract) | Business, general | Robert S. Greenberger, Amy Dockser Marcus |
A tale of two chips: Amdahl decides it's better to be cool. (slower, less expensive cool chip technology) | Business, general | Thomas Petzinger Jr. |
AT&T accuses Ameritech of charging unfair prices to resell local services. (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Thomas E. Weber |
AT & T begins slicing computer unit, plans $1.2 billion third-quarter charge; as many as 10,000 workers, over 20% of GIS staff, are facing dismissal. (AT and T restructures its Global Information Solutions unit) | Business, general | John Keller |
AT&T, Bombay company plan to bid jointly to provide services in India. (Aditya V. Birla Group) | Business, general | Suman Dubey |
AT&T officials hang up on some stock. (executives exercise stock options) (Company Financial Information) | Business, general | Bridget O'Brian |
AT&T, Sprint holding talks with Kodak: phone firms studying use of technology to send images via phone lines. | Business, general | Wendy Bounds, John J. Keller |
AT&T weighs investment in Time Warner cable unit: infusion of up to $4 billion would help cut debt, improve current system. (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | John J. Keller, Eben Shapiro |
Bad data you can't blame on Intel. | Business, general | Leonard M. Fuld |
Battle looms for PC buyers in Asian homes; companies slash prices, offer special features as standard equipment. (competition in Asian home PC market) | Business, general | Fara Warner |
Brokerage firms are moving into cyberspace. (online trading via PC) | Business, general | Vanessa R. O'Connell |
Carnegie Mellon, Visa plan to offer payment system for data from Internet. (Carnegie Mellon University and Visa International to offer NetBill Internet service) | Business, general | Wendy Bounds, Jared Sandberg |
Catching up: computer sales sizzle as developing nations try to shrink PC gap; wine makers in Chile, banks in Brazil find technology is key to their survival; the benefits of starting late. | Business, general | Scott McCartney, Jonathan Friedland |
CD-ROM industry in Europe struggles with niche market; U.S. rivals have designed for mass audiences, lead in global product sales. | Business, general | Mark M. Nelson |
Centers spring up to help firms profit from Internet; new services offer classes, hook up users and even design Web pages. | Business, general | Stephanie N. Mehta |
Chip executives are cashing in as shares soar. (semiconductors) | Business, general | Michael Gonzalez |
Cirrus Logic's poor outlook sends stock tumbling, clouds industry. (3rd fiscal qtr results) (Company Financial Information) | Business, general | Quentin Hardy |
Clients second-guess legal fees on-line. (law firms offer on-line access to billing systems) | Business, general | Amy Stevens |
Computer firms likely to report 4th-period gains. | Business, general | Steve Stecklow |
Computer makers defend 'vaporware'. | Business, general | Stephen Kreider Yoder |
Computer-networking firms expected to post strong fourth-quarter results. | Business, general | Mark Boslet |
Computers keep tabs on dirty money; Chinese puzzle uncovered by Australian team's software. | Business, general | John J. Fialka |
Computer titans focus on design as small firms do actual output. (SCI Systems leads electronic manufacturing service industry) | Business, general | Eduardo Lachica |
Did IBM unit bribe officials in Argentina to land a contract? Scandal claims top members of Menem government, 3 Big Blue executives; millions for a rugby coach. (IBM Argentina, Banco de la Nacion Argentina under investigation) (Industry Legal Issue) | Business, general | Jonathon Friedland |
E-Mail among officials may be against the law. | Business, general | Louise Lee |
Employers sabotage office computer games. (many companies cracking down on employees' use of computer games) | Business, general | Alex Markels |
For Microsoft, nothing succeeds like excess. (Microsoft Corp's Windows 95 operating system first-day sales) | Business, general | |
From her lips to a thousand ears: a voice-mail tale. (circulating voice-mail meassages) | Business, general | Dennis Kneale |
Future shop: 'No Cash Accepted; Microchip-Card Purchases Only.' (Mondex's Mondex, an electronic cash card) | Business, general | Nicholas Bray |
Gates invests a byte of money for cache of Hollywood stars; Microsoft sees DreamWorks as ally providing access to family-fun products. (Microsoft CEO Bill Gates) | Business, general | Don Clark, Thomas R. King |
Hewlett-Packard posts 64% profit jump for first quarter on 29% revenue rise. | Business, general | Stephen Kreider Yoder |
How Citicorp system was raided and funds moved around the world; accounts were vulnerable to international plotters with passwords and more; is there a mole at Citibank? | Business, general | William M. Carley, Timothy L. O'Brien |
How to pick up job tips strewn along the Infobahn.(Managing Your Career)(Column) | Business, general | Hal Lancaster |
IBM to sell assets left over from its past. (corporate art collection for sale as bottom line is strengthened) | Business, general | Alexandra Peers |
IE is accused in ex-employee's suit, recently unsealed, of improprieties. (Intelligent Electronics Inc) | Business, general | Raju Narisetti |
In new space race, companies are seeking dollars from heaven; satellite transmission of data and images spark fight for piece of sky's pie; 'that's where the money is'. | Business, general | Jeff Cole |
Intel-Advanced Micro case stirs debate over arbitrators' powers. | Business, general | Margaret A. Jacobs |
Intel challenges Taiwan on its own turf; semiconductor leader takes on the motherboard market. (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Leslie Chang |
Intel introduces a faster Pentium chip that could help maintain firm's lead. (120MHz chip also 40% smaller)(Product Announcement) | Business, general | Ralph T. King Jr. |
Internet users spooked about spies' new role. (Network Solutions involvement with Science Applications International Corp) | Business, general | Glenn Simpson |
Is office voice mail private? Don't bet on it. | Business, general | Frances A. McMorris |
Japanese firm to buy Comdex computer show; Softbank's purchase price of $800 million includes 16 smaller exhibitions. | Business, general | William M. Bulkeley, Jim Carlton, Norihko Shirouzu |
Little-town blues; rural phone companies face a tough choice: spend a lot of money or get out of the business. | Business, general | Bill Richards |
MCA in pact with company planning new interactive entertainment service. (Enter Television Inc) | Business, general | Richard Turner |
McDonald's joins America Online to send information to PC users. (McFamily online site) (Advertising)(Column) | Business, general | Kevin Goldman |
MCI agrees to inject as much as $2 billion in News Corp. in data highway venture; investment over four years to create, distribute digital network products. | Business, general | Laura Landro, John J. Keller |
Members of Samsung's founding family said to plan investment in DreamWorks. (DreamWorks SKG entertainment/software start up) | Business, general | Thomas R. King |
Microsoft Corp. broadly attacks antitrust unit. (challenges Dept of Justice on Microsoft Network investigation) | Business, general | Don Clark, Viveka Novak |
Microsoft's appeal wanes until Windows 95 appears. (Heard on the Street) | Business, general | Don Clark, Susan Pulliam |
Microsoft savors major victory as pact on antitrust is reinstated by judges. (includes related article on prohibited practices) | Business, general | Don Clark, Vivica Novak |
Microsoft signs 50 major vendors for its on-line computer service; rivals including Borland and Lotus join service; Apple, IBM on sidelines. | Business, general | Ralph T. King Jr. |
'Mom, it's Mugsy;' phone firms wrestle for prisoners' business in hot growth market; big companies dangle cash, add antifraud devices, to entice jail officials; callers who hate to wait. | Business, general | Alix M. Freedman |
Mortal Kombat spins off army of tamer stuff. (popularity of WMS Industries Inc's Mortal Kombat video game causing toy and movie makers to market tie-in products) | Business, general | David J. Jefferson |
Net cruisers beware: I brake for all career services. (career services available on the Internet) | Business, general | Hal Lancaster |
Netscape, a hot developer of software tied to Internet, plans initial offering. (Netscape Communications Corp) | Business, general | Quentin Hardy |
New York judge rules Prodigy responsible for on-line content. (Legal Beat) | Business, general | Milo Geyelin |
Nibbling at the edges; hundreds of small companies now offer long-distance services - and they're taking some business away from the Big Three. (competition against MCI, Sprint and AT&T) | Business, general | Emory Thomas Jr. |
Nielson, I/Pro form joint venture to measure the Internet's activity. (Nielson Media Research, Internet Profiles) (Advertising)(Column) | Business, general | Kevin Goldman |
NTT doesn't see speedup in sale of Japanese government's share. (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) | Business, general | |
Olivetti to lay off 5,000 and increase capital. (PC division) | Business, general | Maureen Kline |
On-line banking has bankers fretting PCs may replace branches; although danger is far off, Microsoft and Intuit are still an aggressive threat; insecure about the Internet. (Industry Trend or Event) | Business, general | Timothy L. O'Brien |
On-line new year's resolutions. (guidelines for on-line information service investors) | Business, general | Deborah Lohse |
On-line services try to define their identities. | Business, general | Fara Warner |
Packard Bell's woes reflect a bad bet, not a marketwide drop in PC demand. (Company Financial Information) | Business, general | Ralph T. Jr. King |
Phone companies find an ear at FTC; proposed merger of Turner and Time Warner echo fears raised by agency. (Federal Trade Commission) (Government Activity) | Business, general | Bryan Gruley |
Picture perfect: book explores Vietnam through camera's eye. (Passage to Vietnam electronic book) (Personal Technology)(Column) | Business, general | Walter Mossberg |
Rent-a-techs: hiring outside firms to run computers isn't always a bargain; rail cars didn't connect after Southern Pacific turned to IBM for help; breaking up is hard to do. | Business, general | Louise Lee |
SCI moves from computer war's backstage to center; assembling machines with familiar names, firm increasingly prospers. (SCI Systems Inc) | Business, general | Glenn Ruffenach |
SEC and exchanges are investigating trading ahead of IBM's bid for Lotus. | Business, general | Anita Raghavan |
Semiconductor makers are expected to post strong results for the quarter.(Intel, Texas Instruments, AMD) | Business, general | Carmen Fleetwood |
Silicon duel: Koreans move to grab memory-chip market from Japanese; their strategy should sound familiar to Asian rival: out-invest, hire the best; next target: laptop screens. | Business, general | David P. Hamilton, Steve Glain |
SoftKey sweetens bid for Learning Co.; step could be fatal to Broderbund pact. (SoftKey International Inc) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | William M. Bulkeley, Laura Johannes |
Software companies, entertainment firms welcome agreement; U.S. concerns see the accord as step that opens route to huge, new audience. (copyright piracy agreement between China and US) | Business, general | G. Pascal Zachary, Patrick M. Reilly, Frederick Rose, Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg |
Software may dry up money laundering. (use of artificial intelligence software to combat money laundering) | Business, general | Margaret A. Jacobs |
Stock prices end mostly higher, despite rout in technology issues. (Abreast of the Market) | Business, general | Michael Gonzalez |
Strong book-to-bill figures bode well for semiconductor issues in 1st quarter. | Business, general | Robert O'Brien, Warren Getler |
Taking on Telmex; foreign companies are poised to enter the Mexican market. First, they want to know the rules. | Business, general | Paul B. Carroll |
Taking the grand tour of world art on CD-ROM. (Uffizi Gallery CD-ROM, Microsoft Art Gallery CD-ROM, London National Gallery's Great Artists and Luna Imaging Inc's Frank Lloyd Wright Archive) | Business, general | Lee Rosenbaum |
Technology IPO feeding frenzy sends prices of new issues soaring. (technology stocks) | Business, general | Molly Baker |
Technology's hot streak rekindles debate over the sector's pattern of boom and bust. (Stocks) | Business, general | Susan Pulliam |
Telecommunications firms battle for a stake in the cabling of Italy. | Business, general | Maureen Kline |
Telekom workers to reap stock windfall. (Company Financial Information) | Business, general | Michael R. Sesit, Greg Steinmetz |
The movie was a hit, the CD-ROM a dud; software bites Disney; 'Lion King' glitches show just how far Hollywood is from Silicon Valley; crestfallen on Christmas day. | Business, general | Frederick Rose, Richard Turner |
Universal service: the fairy tale continues. (Congress plans to deregulate telecommunications) | Business, general | Adam D. Thierer |
U.S. and SEC charge 17 in AT&T tip-trading case; gains totalling $2.6 million said to be made on plans of company takeovers. | Business, general | John J. Keller, Jeffrey Taylor |
U.S. to propose data-highway agency. (information superhighway) (Legal Beat) | Business, general | Joseph Pereira, John J. Fialka |
Vigilant copyright holders patrol the Internet. (Industry Legal Issue) | Business, general | Ross Kerber |
Wavelet theory spiffs up video in computers. (Houston Advanced Research Center's HARC-C video compression software) | Business, general | Scott Ritter |
What would Murdoch buy with MCI's cash? (News Corp's owner Rupert Murdoch) | Business, general | Laura Landro, Elizabeth Jensen |
Will regulators and rivals hinder Microsoft. | Business, general | Don nClark |
Windows 95 is easy to use, 450 books say. | Business, general | Alessandra Galloni |
Wired? (Editorial) | Business, general | |
Your home computer will soon be your banker and broker. (Intuit's announced online banking plans)(Editorial) | Business, general | James R. Barth, R. Dan Brumbaugh Jr. |
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