Numbers behind the numbers
Article Abstract:
Fifteen tables and graphs display statistics on international telephone and telecommunication services and equipment. Telephone access lines, telephone traffic and costs for corporate telephone lines in various countries are compared. Changes in daytime rates for calling between US cities over the past 40 years are depicted, as are 1990 rates for calling from the US to various foreign countries. The number of telephone poles in US states, the percentage of US households with answering machines and the number of worldwide subscribers to cellular telephone service are shown. Other graphics display average US household expenditures for telephone service, changes in the cost of direct-dialed long-distance calls from the US, international telephone traffic to and from the US from 1981 to 1989, and telecommunications equipment expenditures by world region from 1984 with projections for 1994.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1991
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Moving up: What do you get when you upgrade software with the latest version?
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Software firms upgrade existing packages with performance improvements, enhanced features and correction of bugs. Several prevalent software programs have undergone such upgrades. WordPerfect Corp's $495 WordPerfect 2.3 has been upgraded to version 3.0 at an upgrade price of $30. New features include footnotes, on-line help, simultaneous operation of two documents and ability to combine data form different documents. Subsequent WordPerfect upgrades include versions 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 5.0 and 5.1. Intuit Inc's $99 Quicken 1, introduced in Oct 1984, has been upgraded three times. Quicken 2 has an upgrade price of $30, Quicken 3 costs $25 to upgrade and Quicken 4 costs $25.. Enhancements feature the ability to categorize expenditures and to split bills into categories.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1991
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New gurus build firms by assembling computer parts; Bruce Johnson substitutes technology for family to look out for elderly
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Northland Innovations Corp's Are You OK? is a computer system that telephones the residence of ailing persons and keeps medical authorities informed of their well-being. The system was developed without computer expertise by Northland founder Bruce Johnson and represents a recent trend in the single-industry computer market. Johnson developed the system at the request of a police department that wanted to keep track of dependent individuals in the community. Are You OK? was implemented after some testing and saved its first life in Aug 1989; the system is responsible for saving 20 lives to date. Johnson developed the system by integrating various off-the-shelf components existing in the marketplace.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1990
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