| The Wall Street Journal Western Edition 1997 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| 2000 bug: group seeks damages cap. (Year 2000) (Government Activity) | Business, general | Mitchel Benson |
| Another world. (online interactive storytelling game prototype, Willisville, to undergo test soon)(The Wall Street Journal Reports: Entertainment + Technology) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information) | Business, general | Lisa Bannon |
| AOL, CompuServe and Prodigy settle charges about trial offers. (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Bruce Ingersoll |
| Apple gets help from rival Microsoft as chief says turnaround lies ahead. (Microsoft to write application software for Macintosh)(Apple CEO Gilbert Amelio details new OS) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Lee Gomes, Don Clark, Steve Stecklow |
| Ascend Communications to buy Cascade for stock valued at about $3.7 billion; deal is latest development in consolidation frenzy for networking gear. (Cascade Communications) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Charles McCoy |
| A tech firm falters just a bit, and investors mete out punishment; Oracle's earnings letdown prompts stock plunge on record daily volume; Ellison's loss: $2.16 billion. (Company stock declines 29%) (CEO Lawrence Ellison) (Swift and Sure) (Company Financial Information) | Business, general | Don Clark, Greg Ip |
| AT&T presence in Europe is questioned; talks with SBC signal U.S. phone market is priority. (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Gautam Naik, Jennifer L. Schenker |
| Bell Atlantic-Nynex deal moves forward; Justice Department nod on pact may presage more industry mergers. (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Leslie Cauley, John Wilke |
| Bid spotlights cutthroat disk-drive supply business; Applied Magnetics is after Read-Rite's next-generation technology. (Industry Trend or Event) | Business, general | |
| Chip analyst turns heads with flip-flops. (Merrill Lynch's prediction for Micron Technology) (Company Financial Information) | Business, general | Susan Pullman |
| Chip makers in Taiwan feel slump. (semiconductor devices) (Industry Trend or Event) | Business, general | Leslie Chang |
| Chrysler's Intranet: Promise vs. Reality. (Company Operations) | Business, general | Joseph B. White |
| Cisco's staff conquers separation anxieties after losing desks. (Cisco Systems) (Company Operations) | Business, general | Thomas Petzinger Jr. |
| Citicorp to purchase AT&T's card unit: business expected to fetch $3 billion to $4 billion, reflecting hot bidding. (Universal Card) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Steven Lipin, Stephen E. Frank |
| Class wars; are computers the saviors of education? It depends on whom you ask. (computers in the class room) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information) | Business, general | |
| Compaq explored takeover of DEC in '95 and '96, but talks are dead now. (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Jon Auerbach |
| Compaq loses ground in Japanese computer market; share slips despite overall surge in PC sales as Fujitsu and others gain. (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | David P. Hamilton |
| Computer-chip firms aren't likely to post many big earnings surprises. (Industry Trend or Event) | Business, general | Carmen Fleetwood |
| Comverse to buy rival in stock swap. (Comverse Technology, Boston Technology) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Thomas Weber |
| Creating a community: a virtual world in Phoenix has allowed inner-city students to cope better in the real world.(Technology: What We've Learned: A Joint Report With The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information) | Business, general | Lisa Bannon |
| C-Tec Corp. plans to split into 3 firms. (CTCo, C-Tec Cable Systems of Michigan Inc, RCN Telecom Services Inc) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | David D. Kirkpatrick |
| Cyberdegrees; who needs a college campus? Just log in and start studying. (Internet/Web/Online Service Information) | Business, general | Paul Cox |
| Dash to the degree; a graduate education is biology moves a lot faster these days. (DNA code) (Technology Information) | Business, general | Ralph King |
| Dell Computer profit soars, tops forecasts. (Company Financial Information) | Business, general | Louise Lee |
| Dell fights PC wars by emphasizing customer service; focus wins big clients and gives IBM and Compaq a run for their money. (Dell Computer) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Ewan Ramstad |
| Dewey wins! If the 'new' teaching methods pushed by high-tech gurus sound familiar, it isn't surprising. (Technology Information) | Business, general | Robert Cwiklik |
| Dirty work: Web screeners block smut. (Microsystems Software's Cyber-Patrol Internet access) (Product Information) | Business, general | Alex Markels |
| Dole is helping efforts to curb Microsoft plans. (former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole) (Industry Trend or Event) | Business, general | Michael Schroeder, Bryan Gruley |
| Europe's phone giants skirt deregulation; new entrants to market complain of high fees. (Industry Trend or Event) | Business, general | Gautam Naik, Sheila Ascarelli |
| Excel expects Telco to fuel more growth. (Execl Communications to acquire Telco Communications Group) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Alegandro Bodipo-Memba |
| FCC auction designed to favor little guys threatens to sink some; payment terms for licenses were easy, so firms bid billions they didn't have; looking for the cheap 'pops'. (wireless services) (Government Activity) | Business, general | Quentin Hardy, Bryan Gurley |
| For AT&T, building local service is tough job. (breaking into the local phone monopoly) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | John Keller |
| For those who scoff at Internet commerce, here's a hot market; raking in millions, sex sites use old-fashioned porn and cutting-edge tech; lessons for the mainstream. (Internet/Web/Online Service Information) | Business, general | Thomas Weber |
| For your listen and viewing pleasure, stick to the TV set. (real time audio and video on the Web) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information) | Business, general | Rich Jaroslovsky |
| Gateway 2000, Seagate warn of slow sales. (Seagate Technology second qtr 1997, low revenue) (Company Financial Information) | Business, general | Lee Gomes, Neal Templin |
| Global PC sales growth slowed to 11% in 4th quarter as U.S. rate fell to 15%. (4th qtr 1996) (Industry Trend or Event) | Business, general | Christian G. Hill |
| 'Gunning for growth,' AOL's Steve Case shot himself in the foot. (Internet/Web/Online Service Information) | Business, general | Thomas Jr. Petzinger |
| Haggling in cyberspace transforms car sales. (online auto retailing) (Industry Trend or Event) | Business, general | Rebecca Blumenstein |
| Hard lessons: after a decade of having computers in the school, we've learned a lot about what does -- and doesn't -- work.(Technology: What We've Learned: A Joint Report With The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition) (Technology Information) | Business, general | William M. Bulkeley |
| Hello? Still there? Videophone enthusiasts insist the time has finally come. Really. (Product Information) | Business, general | Lisa Brownlee |
| High-tech companies battle over the value of donated software; Microsoft gives 'millions' to charity, but critics question the true cost; 'junk bonds of philanthropy.' (IBM challenges Microsoft) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Monica Langley |
| How new technology was Oxford's nemesis. (Oxford Health Plans) (Management) (Company Operations) | Business, general | George Anders, Ron Winslow |
| How Omar Green, 27, became the point man and protege for a CEO; he's a black MIT alumnus; his boss is staid, British and eager for big change; the 'funky-style dresser'. (Xionics Document Technologies' Robert Gilkes) (Company Operations) | Business, general | Jonathan Kaufman |
| How the Net became land of opportunity for legal profession; freewheeling days are over as lawsuits, fine print bedevil entrepreneurs: one company's close call. (Interactive Imaginations) (Tangled Web) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information) | Business, general | Ann Davis |
| H&R Block still shopping on-line unit. (CompuServe) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Jard Sandberg |
| IBM plans $3.5 billion share repurchase. (Company Financial Information) | Business, general | George Anders, Raju Narisetti |
| Intergraph sues Intel in dispute over patents. (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Evan Ramstad, Kara Swisher |
| Interpublic sets move into ads on the Web. (Interpublic Group acquires stake in Nicholson New York) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Sally Goll Beatty |
| Japanese 'big bang' is leading to big boon for U.S. high-tech; financial deregulation spurs huge computer outlays; local firms left behind; why sun rises in the east. (Emerging Market) (Industry Trend or Event) | Business, general | Bill Spindle |
| Java is finding niches but isn't living up to its early promises. (Internet/Web/Online Service Information) | Business, general | Lee Gomes, Dom Clark |
| Knock! Knock! Who's there? Noisy new Internet ads. | Business, general | Sally Goll Beatty |
| Likely pick for FCC could help consumers. (William Kennard) (Government Activity) | Business, general | |
| Lucent says profit for latest quarter will more than double projections. ( Lucent Technologies' 2nd qtr 1997 results) (Company Financial Information) | Business, general | David D. Kirkpatrick |
| MCI brass sets out to rally dispirited troops. (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | John Helyar |
| MCI offers managers hefty bonuses to retain them prior to its merger. (MCI-WorldCom merger) (Company Operations) | Business, general | Joann S. Lublin |
| MCI posts $182 million loss on charges of $515 million amid takeover bids. (third qtr 1997) (Company Financial Information) | Business, general | Stephanie Mehta |
| Microsoft and its two constituencies. (Intrinsic Value) (Company Operations)(Column) | Business, general | Roger Lowenstein |
| Microsoft loses appeal in worker-benefits case. (contract employees) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | David Bank, Charles McCoy |
| Microsoft returns fire at the U.S., rivals. (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | David Bank, John Simons |
| Microsoft to give Lernout $45 million for development of speech technologies. (Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Martin DuBois |
| Mitel bets on an old strength and a new technology; chip division buoys sales as it builds communications-network business. (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | John Urquhart |
| Motorola profit advances 29%; revenue, 13%: excluding special charge, results meet consensus of analysts' estimates. (third qtr 1997 earnings of $266 million) (Company Financial Information) | Business, general | Ralph T. King Jr. |
| Motorola sees profit missing forecasts; stock price drops 11% in late trading. (3rd qtr 1997) (Company Financial Information) | Business, general | Dean Takahashi, G. Christian Hill |
| Motorola to sell VocalTec software for calls via Internet. (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | William Bulkeley |
| NASD maps war on claims on Internet; agency is developing way to search for phrases it considers suspicious. (National Association of Securities Dealers) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information) | Business, general | Rebecca Buckman |
| NEC seeks to settle supercomputer case; chairman offers to share technology with Cray; a threat to bypass US. (Cray Research) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Michael (British actor) Williams |
| New modems are fast, cheap, and incompatible. (Technology Information) | Business, general | Evan Ramstad, Frederick Rose |
| New phone firms in Europe connect with U.S. investors. | Business, general | Douglas Lavin |
| Olivetti, nearly free of its PC division, now must turn around core business. (Olivetti SpA's systems and services division) (Company Operations) | Business, general | Maria Sturani |
| Olivetti obtains pact to shed PC unit; Centenary, led by American, creates firm to acquire loss-ridden operations. (Olivetti SpA and Centenary Corp reach preliminary agreement to form Piedmont International SA) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Maureen Kline, Maria Sturani |
| On the hot seat; Time Warner hasn't yet found the right formula for its Pathfinder site. Now it's Dan Okrent's turn to try.(The Wall Street Journal Reports: Entertainment + Technology) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Interview) | Business, general | Patrick M. Reilly |
| Parametric targets auto design software; fast-growing firm seeks bigger slice of key segment. (Parametric Technology) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Jon G. Auebrach |
| Pay-phone operators ring in deregulated era today: with local-call tariffs unfettered, service providers may see windfalls. (Industry Trend or Event) | Business, general | Barbara Martinez |
| PC makers target businesses in Europe; market perks up after two years in doldrums. (Industry Trend or Event) | Business, general | Silvia Ascarelli, Richard L. Hudson |
| Phone earnings likely to be off for 1st quarter; as long-distance firms bet on new services, cost are advancing. (Industry Trend or Event) | Business, general | Shawn Young |
| Prodigy to launch Internet service in China. (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Craig S. Smith, Jared Sandberg |
| Program of pain; this german software is complex, expensive- and wildly popular; SAP's R/3 helps coordinate all aspects of business; installing is a nightmare; why consultants are happy. (Product Information) | Business, general | Don Clark, Joseph B. White, Silvia Ascarelli |
| Protect Internet privacy - privately. (FTC hearings on protecting consumers privacy on the Internet) (Government Activity) | Business, general | Esther Dyson |
| Regulatory surprises in Ukraine lead Motorola to pull investment. (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Matthew Brzezinski |
| Remember homework? Well, it isn't the same. Students have so much more good information -- and so much more junk.(Technology: What We've Learned: A Joint Report With The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information) | Business, general | Terzah Ewing |
| Rockwell International plans to appeal steep award in Celeritas cellular case. (Celeritas Technologies) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Frederick Rose |
| Some shopping tips for families buying a back-to-school PC.(Buyers Guide) | Business, general | Mossberg S. Walter |
| Sound on; Thomas Dolby Robertson has a complaint about the Web: it's too quiet.(The Wall Street Journal Reports: Entertainment + Technology) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information) | Business, general | Bruce Orwall |
| Southeast tries to attract chip makers; despite risks, states fund research, offer incentives. (US Southeastern states) (Industry Trend or Event) | Business, general | Greg Jaffe |
| Speaking of Wireless; Craig McCaw trumpets his own strategy - and dismisses those of many others. (Technology Information)(Interview) | Business, general | Quentin Hardy, Christian G. Hill |
| Still one way: two-way paging was going to be the industry's next big thing. What happened? (Technology Information) | Business, general | Oscar Suris |
| Stop, thief! AT&T's Roseanna DeMaria leads the effort to combat cellular-phone fraud.(Telecommunications: The Wireless World) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | William M. Bulkeley |
| TCI may get investment by Microsoft. (Microsoft is discussing possible investment of between $600 million and $1 billion in Tele-Communications) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Eben Shaprio |
| TCI, Texas' Bass agree to form cable venture. (TCI Communications, Texas investor Robert M. Bass) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Eben Shapiro |
| Technology stocks are strong; Microsoft registers 52-week high. (Company Financial Information) | Business, general | Robert O'Brien |
| Tech Stocks fall after gloomy reports; share are hammered hard as Cabletron, Seagate add to investor worries. (Company Financial Information) | Business, general | Dean Takahashi, Jim Carlton, Joseph Tereira |
| Telecom accord opens up lines for U.S. firms. (Industry Trend or Event) | Business, general | Gautam Naik, Robert S. Greenberger |
| The answer man. (customer service operations at America Online)(The Internet: Behind the Scenes) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information) | Business, general | Jason Fry |
| The chips are down: California loses out on semiconductor plants. (14 plants to open by 2000, none are located in CA) (Industry Trend or Event) | Business, general | Mitchel Benson |
| The college connection; at Northern University, almost all the students are on-line. What a difference it can make. (Company Operations) | Business, general | Alexia Vargas |
| The developer. (Web site developer Agency.Com) (The Internet: Getting Personal) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Robin Frost |
| The doctor. (more physicians are using the Internet) (The Internet: Getting Personal) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information) | Business, general | Ron Winslow |
| The fast track; for many researchers, the Internet is too crowded and to slow. One answer: vBNS. (very-high-speed-backbone network service) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information) | Business, general | Jason Fry |
| The gatekeeper. (Andy Gems of Yahoo! Inc)(The Internet: Getting Personal) (Company Operations)(Interview) | Business, general | Kara Swisher |
| The holy grail; CellularVision's grasp may exceed its reach, but it's a quest worth watching. (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Barbara Martinez |
| The Internet: fun while it lasted. (government regulation of the Internet) (Government Activity)(Editorial) | Business, general | James Freeman |
| The missing link; Nextel is determined to succeed by standing apart from the crowd. Its strategy: Direct Connect. (Nextel Communications) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Robert Berner |
| The model: a New Jersey school district gets a technology makeover, and the results are astounding. (Internet/Web/Online Service Information) | Business, general | Robin Frost |
| The moderator. (UseNet management)(The Internet: Behind the Scenes) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information) | Business, general | Timothy Hanrahan |
| This company saw the writing on the wall and it was Java. (Pierian Spring Software) (Company Business and Marketing) | Business, general | Thomas Jr Petzinger |
| Those who can't .... If technology is going to transform our schools, the place to start is with the teachers.(Technology: What We've Learned: A Joint Report With The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition) (Technology Information) | Business, general | Robert Cwiklik |
| Unisys bets on Weinbach, top manager, names him as chief to turn it around. (Lawrence A. Weinbach named chmn and CEO) (Company Operations) | Business, general | Joann S. Lublin, Raju Narisetti, Elizabeth Macdonald |
| U.S. investigates Silicon Graphics's sales of computers to Russian weapons lab. (Government Activity) | Business, general | John J. Fialka |
| U.S. PC makers lose ground in Japan: only IBM bucks trend in world's second-biggest market. (Industry Trend or Event) | Business, general | David P. Hamilton |
| What Detroit can teach Silicon Valley. (comparison between American auto and computer industries' customer service standards) (Industry Trend or Event) | Business, general | Patrick L. Anderson |
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