More trips start at a home computer

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Prospective travelers seem comfortable using microcomputers to browse through offerings on computerized travel services, though most users seem cautious about actually buying tickets through such services. Since 1985, only 150,000 people have actually reserved or purchased tickets through Eaasy Sabre, an American Airlines reservation system. But hundreds of thousands of others use Eaasy Sabre and the other primary service, Official Airline Guide, to peruse schedules and fares, check on hotels and reserve rental cars. Computerized services provide travelers with a way to review destinations, find good prices and simplify choices of vacation spots. Computer shopping services, of which the travel services are a part, are established and growing. Four are briefly described: Compuserve, Delphi, Genie and Prodigy.

Airlines, Online information services, Online shopping, Airline reservations, Reservation System, Online Information Service, Eaasy Sabre (Reservation system), Official Airline Guide (reservation system)

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Computer networks foster cultural chatting for modem times

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Computer networks are turning into popular arenas for public discussions on a multitude of topics. Online services cater various clubs and topical organizations as users discuss issues from classical opera to television soap operas. Nearly 45,000 public-access online systems exist in the US; most of them are small operations. Prodigy is the largest online service with 1.75 million users and 22,000 messages logged each day in its arts club. Compuserve and Genie, each with 1.69 million and 350,000 users, respectively, are two other large online computer network services. It is estimated that nearly 3.3 million people use commercial online services.

Computer networks, Services, Information services industry, Modems, Modem, Networks, Online

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U.S. and Japan reach pact on telephone trade issues

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United States Trade Representative Carla A. Hills says she is satisfied with the outcome of a trade agreement which involves trading of telecommunications equipment with Japan. The agreement comes after four months of negotiations in which the US was seeking greater access to Japanese markets for US telecommunications equipment companies. The Japanese have agreed to remove barriers keeping US firms from offering services such as voice mail and electronic banking. The agreement also opens up the market for network channel terminating equipment. The two markets are estimated to be worth $3 billion annually in Japan.

Telephone and telegraph apparatus, United States, Foreign operations, Japan, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, International trade, Telecommunications equipment industry, Telecommunications equipment, Japanese foreign relations, United States foreign relations, Negotiations, International competition (Economics), Communications equipment, Telecommunications, Japanese Competition, Negotiation

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