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A two-for-one stock information split: for the S.E.C.'s Edgar, dual cyber-homes

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The SEC's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System (Edgar) gets two homes. Edgar allows investors free access to the disclosure documents that public companies must file with SEC. Edgar began in Jan 1994 and currently has 8 million pages. Since its inception, users have ordered 3.7 million documents. By May 1996, Edgar is forecast to have 10 to 12 million pages annually with information on 15,000 public companies, mutual funds and other businesses. Government funding was to end Sep 1995, but has been extended, although Edgar will move to a new site. Disclosure Inc. also offers free access via a service starting in Oct 1995. Both the SEC and Disclosure want to upgrade Edgar to support better searching capabilities and graphics. The SEC sees Edgar as the basis for a new home page on the World Wide Web that would offer news, proposed agency rules and investor information. Disclosure hopes to migrate its customers to its fee-based services.

Author: Siwolop, Sana J.
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1995
Database Mgmt Software Pkgs, Financial services industry, Financial services, Services, Database management systems, DBMS software, Company service introduction, Service introduction, Disclosure (Securities law), United States. Securities and Exchange Commission, DBMS, Company Business And Marketing, Thomson Research Corp.

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Tapping cyberbrains for financial advice

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Three comprehensive financial-planning CD-ROMs are compared: Intuit's Quicken Financial Planner, which costs $39.95 if purchased separately from Quicken Suite; Microsoft's Lifetime Planner, which is part of Money Financial Suite 99, costing $64.95 after a $25 rebate; and Individual Software's $19.95 Plan Retirement Quick and Easy. The last is a no-frills program that works well but is relatively inflexible. Quicken's planner is powerful, especially if used in conjunction with Quicken's other software. It will not work with other companies' checkbook files. Microsoft's planner works well but suffers from inappropriate uses of multimedia and a 'movie' tour that can be skipped. A fourth program is also reviewed, which is T. Rowe Price's Retirement Planning Analyzer. It can be purchased for $19.95 on CD-ROM or downloaded from the company's Web site (www.troweprice.com) for $9.95.

Author: Furchgott, Roy
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
United States, Product standards, safety, & recalls, Software, Microsoft Corp., Personal finance, MSFT, Software multiproduct review, Personal finance software, Intuit Inc., INTU, Individual Software Inc., Quicken Financial Planner (Personal finance software), Microsoft Money 99 Financial Suite (Personal finance software), Plan Retirement Quick and Easy (Personal finance software)

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Handling fast stock cars

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Sierra's $39.95 Nascar Racing 2 features 16 different stock-car race tracks to challenge Nascar motor sport fans. The likely No. 1 CD-ROM racing game licensed by a major auto-racing sanctioning group, Nascar 2 Racing allows players to select the car of any top 1996 Winston Cup driver or drive their own car. A smooth picture features grandstand graphics even at high speeds, and a brief hangup corrected itself in several seconds. Solid but unspectacular sound quality includes spotter warnings that rise above the engines's roar. One drawback consists of a failure to identify the correct sound card during setup, but a technician can solve the problem quickly. The 14 ovals and two road-racing courses depicted in Nascar Racing 2 do not include the two most popular annual Nascar races, the Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400.

Author: Siano, Joseph
Publisher: The New York Times Company
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1998
Software single product review, Computer games, Computer sports games, Online gambling, Sierra On-Line Inc., SIER, Sports/Gambling Game, Nascar Racing 2 (Sports/gambling game)

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