| The Wall Street Journal Western Edition 1992 |
| Title | Subject | Authors |
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| Apple Computer posts $132 million net for its 3rd period on 14% sales gain. (Technology) | Business, general | Ralph T. King Jr. |
| As computers flip, people lose grip in saga of sabotage at printing firm. (Southeastern Color Lithographers Inc.) (Cover Story) | Business, general | William M. Carley |
| At Next Computer, van Cuylenburg gets high posts. (Peter van Cuylenburg appointed to COO and President) | Business, general | Bill Richards |
| AT&T becomes first company to win two Malcolm Baldridge quality awards. (Commerce Department's Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award) | Business, general | Gilbert Fuchsberg |
| AT&T is working to erase its name from uncertain venture's sales pitch. (business dealings with International Communications Group) | Business, general | John R. Emshwiller |
| AT&T to offer companies a plan for phone fraud. | Business, general | Robert J. Brennan |
| AT&T unionists seek greater role in management. | Business, general | Kathleen Deveny |
| Autodesk forecast of earnings drop sends stock reeling. | Business, general | Marilyn Chase |
| Boston Technology expects to post profit for 2nd quarter after year-earlier loss. | Business, general | Suzanne Alexander |
| Brass at AT&T get new carrot, but with string. (new stock-option programs for top employees tied to corporate performance) | Business, general | Amanda Bennett |
| Cable channels for interactive game shows set. (Sony Corp. and International Family Entertainment Inc. to launch interactive game show networks) (Entertainment) | Business, general | Laura Landro |
| Caller ID service is ruled illegal in Pennsylvania. (automatic telephone number identification) | Business, general | Milo Geyelin, Mary Lu Carnevale |
| Canada allows competition in market for long-distance telephone service. | Business, general | John Urquhart |
| Cellular-phone rental firms mine a neglected market: entrepreneurs prosper by providing a service in out-of-the-way places. (Enterprise) | Business, general | Gautam Naik |
| Cellular phone shares jump, setting off sharp rise in Nasdaq Composite Index. (OTC Focus ) (Column) | Business, general | Sara Calian |
| Centel's Frazee expresses confidence holders cleared acquisition by Sprint. (Centel Chmn John Frazee) | Business, general | James P. Miller, Randall Smith |
| China's telecommunications industry looks appealing to big Taiwanese firm. (business planning of Pacific Electric Wire & Cable Co.) | Business, general | Hongmin Qi, Jeremy Mark |
| Cities cut drug dealers' connection to pay telephones. (Marketplace) | Business, general | Gautam Naik |
| Classrooms without walls: advances in telecommunications promise to transform both learning and teaching. (Telecommunications: A New World) | Business, general | Ellen Graham |
| Compaq's tall order for agency: sell new line ... and new image. (Compaq Computer Corp. hires Ammirati and Paris advertising agency) | Business, general | |
| Competition to invade Canada's market for long-distance public phone service. | Business, general | John Urquhart |
| Computer buffs compete via technology to give new freedom to the disabled. (Johns Hopkins University sponsors 1991 national technology contest) | Business, general | Raquel Santiago |
| Computer campaign: technology puts a new spin on an old game. (use of computers in election campaigns) | Business, general | Kevin G. Salwen |
| Computer chip prices jump roughly 20%; surge follows agency move to charge Korean firms with dumping in U.S. | Business, general | Marilyn Chase |
| Computer issues may have further to fall. (stock market) (Heard on the Street) | Business, general | Michael W. Miller, John R. Dorfman |
| Comsat reports $6.4 million loss, takes a charge. (Communications Satellite Corp.) | Business, general | Robin Goldwyn Blumenthal |
| Cordless-phone users win degree of protection from eavesdroppers. (Legal Beat ) (Column) | Business, general | Jonathan M. Moses, Junda Woo |
| Court eases copyright rules for software. (Altai Inc.'s products can incorporate structure developed by Computer Associates International Inc.)(Marketplace) | Business, general | Jonathon M. Moses |
| Cray Research sees net dropping up to 20% in 1992. | Business, general | Bob Ortega |
| Cray's Rollwagen criticizes Japan for pact with NEC. (Cray Research Inc. chairman John Rollwagen, NEC Corp.) | Business, general | Masayoshi Kanabayashi, Michael (British actor) Williams |
| 'Cure' for junk calls faces skeptical FCC. (Federal Communications Commission) (Technology)(Information Age) (Column) | Business, general | William Bulkeley |
| Cutting the cord: new technology and services for cellular-phone users. (Telecommunications: A New World) | Business, general | Weber. Thomas E. |
| Data General and Wang Labs report losses. (minicomputer companies report quarterly loss) | Business, general | Lawrence Ingrassia |
| Dell Computer, Apple reduce prices on lines. | Business, general | Karen Blumenthal, Ralph T. King Jr. |
| Dell Computer profit doubled in 3rd period. | Business, general | Robert Tomsho |
| Dell to offer shares despite trading fracas. (Dell Computer Corp.) | Business, general | Anita Raghavan, Michael Siconolfi |
| Digital agrees to buy 9.95% stake in Olivetti for about $340 million; plan commits Italian firm to use of the Alpha chip as core of its computers. (DEC, Ing C. Olivetti and Co.) | Business, general | Ron Suskind |
| Digital phones and games take to the air. (In-Flight Phone Corp.'s FlightLink service) (Column) (Information Age) (Evaluation) | Business, general | Brett Pulley |
| Digital plans charge of up to $1 billion in quarter to cut more jobs in fiscal '93. (DEC also forms partnership with Microsoft Corp.) | Business, general | John Wilke |
| Director goes on-line to push 'Sneakers'. (Phil Alden Robinson promotes the film 'Sneakers' using CompuServe, the on-line computer 'bulletin board' service) (Movies) | Business, general | Thomas R. King |
| Dow Jones and Nynex to develop service for transmission of video information. (Dow Jones and Company Inc.) | Business, general | |
| Egghead stock slips on news that sales trailed forecasts. (Egghead Inc.) | Business, general | Bill Richards |
| Electronic bulletin boards help businesses post success; small firms link up via computer and swap tips across the nation. | Business, general | Jeanne Saddler |
| Emerging multimedia products raise concerns over copyrights. (Law) (Column) | Business, general | Arthur S. Hayes |
| Entrepreneurs decry Pay-Phone venture. | Business, general | John R. Emshwiller |
| Europe debates the next TV technology: costly issue is which high-definition route to take. (Europe evaluates selection of High Definition Television standard) | Business, general | Peter Goldstein |
| Faster, but more expensive, electronic returns. (filing tax returns electronically) | Business, general | Georgette Jasen |
| FBI seeks software to enable taps on new systems. (Federal Bureau of Investigation's plan would have customers pay for software to decipher digital communications) (Technology) | Business, general | Joe Davidson |
| Fidelity's Bradford Lewis takes aim at indexes with his 'neural network' computer program. (Fidelity Investments) (investment software) (Mutual Funds) | Business, general | Robert McGough |
| Firms can tap long-distance phone service deals. (Talking Strategy) (advice on cutting the cost of long-distance telephone service) (Column) | Business, general | Brent Bowers |
| Firms run by executive teams can reap rewards, incur risks. | Business, general | Amanda Bennett |
| Fitness exams help to measure worker acuity. (new computer programs can detect impairment in employees) | Business, general | Laurie McGinley |
| For parents: here's educational software that gets high marks. (Knowledge Adventure Inc's Knowledge Adventure, Sports Adventure, Science Adventure data bases; Broderbund Software Inc.'s Living Books data base; Davidson & Associates Inc.'s Kid Works 2 educational software) (Software Review) (Personal Technology) (Evaluation) | Business, general | Walter M. Mossberg |
| For trips abroad, technology offers new alternative to traveler's checks. (automatic teller machines) | Business, general | Kenneth H. Bacon |
| From here to there. (TravTek car-navigation system) (The Wall Street Journal Reports: Technology)(supplement) | Business, general | Neal Templin |
| FTC probe of Microsoft trade practices appears to be nearing a conclusion. (Federal Trade Commission) (Marketplace) | Business, general | |
| FTC's lawyers seek injunction on Microsoft; report urges the agency to bar some practices by the software maker. (Federal Trade Commission) | Business, general | G. Pascal Zachary, Joe Davidson |
| Global PC outlook: a report from Tokyo. (includes related articles on color displays, pen-based computing, flashcard memory and NEC's marketing advantages in the Japanese market for portable microcomputers) (Special Advertising Section) | Business, general | |
| Globex System is vexed by low trading volume, overseas competition and technological glitches. (after-hours futures trading system) (Commodities) | Business, general | Jeffrey Taylor |
| GM's Hughes signs milestone pact in bid to lead in satellite-to-home TV service. (General Motors Corp.'s Hughes Aircraft Co. signs contracts with DEC and Network Computing Corp.) | Business, general | Jeff Cole |
| Here's one 900 line that's likely to receive the blessing of parents. (AT&T to carry Global Telecomm Ltd.'s daily Vatican message line) | Business, general | John A. Nichols |
| High-definition TV has networks, outlets worried about costs; they fear the revenue gains may be slight if people refuse to buy $3,500 sets; dividing rich from poor? | Business, general | Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg |
| High-tech home banking to link EC; Belgian bank signs on clients in several countries. (European Community, Banque Bruxelles Lambert) | Business, general | Nicholas Bray |
| Hong Kong Telecom reports 16% rise in profit to $410.1 million for first half. (Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd.) | Business, general | Robert Sherbin |
| Hungarian phone firm to sell shares in U.S. in bid to upgrade its network. (Hungarian Telephone & Cable Corp.) | Business, general | Cortney Murdoch |
| IBM debt rating affirmed by S&P at triple-A level. (Standard and Poor's Corp.) | Business, general | Kevin Pritchett |
| IBM, Japan's Hitachi agree to develop high-end printers in a tentative pact. (Marketplace)(Technology & Medicine) | Business, general | Yumiko Ono, Laurence Hooper |
| IBM net soared in 2nd quarter; stock tumbles; further strides were made in reducing some costs, but challenges remain. | Business, general | Lawrence Hooper |
| IBM signs pact to sell services to McDonnell: company hosts for a boost from 'outsource' deal estimated at $3 billion. | Business, general | James C. Hyatt |
| In-house hackers; rigging computers for fraud or malice is often an inside job; employees are more adept than outsiders at using and abusing the systems; discovering a 'logic bomb.' | Business, general | William M. Carley |
| Innovations for carpal-tunnel syndrome prospering: products to aid computer keyboard users more than doubled since '91. | Business, general | Paul J. Lim |
| Insiders buy IBM stock for first time in 2 years. (IBM board member Stephen Bechtel Jr. and others express confidence)(Money & Investing; Inside Track) | Business, general | Alexandra Peers |
| Intellicall names crisis expert interim chief. (James P. Hassett) | Business, general | Karen Blumenthal, Jo Ann Bragg |
| Intelligent Electronics skids 34% as downgrade by Merrill comes in wake of resignation row. (Garland Asher's resignation as chief financial officer, Merrill Lynch and Company Inc.) (Heard on the Street) (Column) | Business, general | John R. Dorfman |
| Intel takes step to get computers to save energy. (Intel Corp. to phase in easier sleep mode technology into microprocessors) | Business, general | Rose Gutfeld |
| Interactive TV entices many marketers, but so far hype outpaces technology. (Advertising) (Column) | Business, general | Joanne Lipman |
| Interactive video means jet set need never come down to Earth. (Worldlink, a Northwest Airlines in-flight communications network) (Travel) | Business, general | Rick Wartzman |
| Investment insights: securities analysts offer their advice on where your money should go. (Telecommunications: Battling for Business) (Panel Discussion) | Business, general | |
| Investors seen wary over Computer Sciences as flap over EPA contract clouds prospects. (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Computer Sciences Corp.) (Heard on the Street) (Column) | Business, general | Rhonda L. Rundle |
| Japanese memory chip makers savor rise in U.S. sales but move cautiously. (semiconductor devices) | Business, general | David P. Hamilton |
| Just like the big boys: small businesses finally get some respect from telecommunications companies. (Telecommunications: A New World) | Business, general | Robin Goldwyn Blumenthal |
| Kazan calling; in quest for billions, GM's Hughes to bring to phones to Tatarstan; futuristic network promises easier road to capitalism for harsh Russian area: even a 'racketeer' is pleased. (General Motors Corp.'s Hughes Aircraft Co.) | Business, general | Jeff Cole |
| Labs rely on computer models to predict changes in climate. | Business, general | Frank Edward Allen |
| Laptops: U.S. pulls plug on a domestic industry. (government anti-dumping policy harms U.S. laptop industry) (Editorial) | Business, general | Bryan T. Johnson |
| Latest formula in spreadsheets is ease of use. (Excel 4.0)(Personal Technology column) (Evaluation) | Business, general | William S. Mossberg |
| Let your fingers do the voting, maybe. (telephone voting) (Telecommunications) | Business, general | Louis Jacobson |
| Long-bond prices inch higher; IBM issues slump as company loses triple-A rating from Moody's. (Moody's Investors Service Inc.) | Business, general | Tom Herman |
| Makers of automated-home systems see a future of TVs talking to thermostats. | Business, general | Mitchell Pacelle |
| Malaysia award on phone work has hit a snag; three business groups said still to have problems tied to compatibility. (digital-exchange telephone lines) | Business, general | Stephen Duthie |
| Many Comptronic customers, suppliers stand by firm after it disclosed scheme. | Business, general | Martha Brannigan, Laurie M. Grossman |
| Many software issues rise as market gains just 0.3% in lackluster trading. (over-the-counter stocks) (OTC Focus) | Business, general | Mary Romano |
| McAfee, maker of antiviral software, plans offering to build on its success. (McAfee Associates) (public stock offering) | Business, general | Laurie Delater Weeks |
| Mexicans tangled in telephone lines begin to mobilize; cellular phone business offering a handy solution to long waits, red tape. | Business, general | Matt Moffett |
| Microsoft Corp. says federal agents seized counterfeit software. | Business, general | |
| Notebook PC unfolds to compact design. (BBC's SL007 portable computer)(Form + Function) (Product Announcement) | Business, general | John Pierson |
| Numbers game; how MiniScribe got its auditor's blessing on questionable sales; Coopers & Lybrand allowed computer firm to make suspicious adjustments; Cooper says it was misled. | Business, general | Lee Berton |
| Nynex net rose 14%, Pactel's fell 11% in 2nd period. (Nynex Corp.; Pacific Telesis Group) | Business, general | Lourdes Lee Valeriano |
| On the spot; at Digital Equipment, Ken Olsen is under pressure to produce; board asks that he bring in high-level outsiders, speed up restructuring; unfruitful talks with Apple. (DEC president) (Company Profile) | Business, general | John R. Rilke |
| PCs bring savvy to mutual-fund reps. (Information Age) (Column) | Business, general | George Anders |
| Philippine phone monopoly's shares will resume rise, some analysts say. (Philippine Long Distance Phone Co.) | Business, general | Lawrence MacDonald |
| PictureTel agrees with analysts on 4th-period net. (1991) | Business, general | Suzanne Alexander |
| Picture this. (the future of telecommunications) (Telecommunications: Blueprint for the Future) | Business, general | |
| Pitney Bowes offers a high-speed system for direct mailers. (Pitney Bowes Addressright turnkey system) (Product Announcement) | Business, general | |
| Portable pioneers. (blue-collar workers now using portable computers) (The Wall Street Journal Reports: Technology)(supplement) | Business, general | Thomas E. Weber |
| Pragmatism wins as rivals start to cooperate on memory chips. (IBM teams with Toshiba Corp, Siemens AG; Advanced Micro Devices Inc. teams with Fujitsu; Intel Corp. Teams with Sharp Corp; product development) (Computers) | Business, general | Laurence Hooper, Jacob N. Schlesinger |
| Pricing squeeze threatens PC firms in Korea, Taiwan; U.S. discounting and fast market changes help to promote a shakeout. (microcomputers) (Industry Focus) | Business, general | Damon Darlin, Jeremy Mark |
| Prime Computer share-offering price is cut again; Shearson charge expected. (Prime Computer Inc.; Shearson Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.) | Business, general | Ron Suskind |
| Reaction is cool as PC firms export price war to Japan. (Industry Focus) | Business, general | Masayoshi Kanabayashi, Michael (British actor) Williams |
| Samsung moves from product copycat to developer; South Korean electronics company uses its know-how to turn a corner. (Samsung Electronics Co.) (Corporate Focus) | Business, general | Damon Darlin |
| Sharp advances seen by General Computer Corp.; firm links gains to growth of claims processing in health care business. | Business, general | Ralph E. Winter |
| Small - but not too small. (finding ideal size for miniaturized products) (The Wall Street Journal Reports: Technology)(supplement) | Business, general | John Pierson |
| Small high-tech firms hire as giants lay off staff; job-applicant pool and demand for lower-cost technology improve. | Business, general | Jeffrey A. Tannenbaum |
| Software can help you plan your retirement. (five retirement-planning software packages: Retire ASAP, Harvest Time, T. Rowe Price's Retirement Planning Kit, Retirement Planner and Retirement Surprise) (Software Review) (Your Money Matters) (Evaluation) | Business, general | Stanley W. Angrist |
| Software maker loses in copyright ruling. (federal judge rules against Accolade Inc in favor of Sega Enterprises Ltd) (Law) | Business, general | Junda Woo, Ellen Joan Pollock |
| Software stocks lead index higher after early jitters; volume is light. (OTC Focus) (Column) | Business, general | Dave Pettit |
| S&P lists IBM for possible cut in credit rating; stock plummets on reports big charges may come; air-traffic job at risk. (Standard & Poor's Corp.) | Business, general | Michael W. Miller, Bruce Ingersoll |
| Staying power; Motorola illustrates how an aged giant can remain vibrant; endless self-criticism keeps walkie-talkie creator thriving in the pager era; bosses who invite dissent. (Taming the Monster: How Big Companies Can Change, part one) (Company Profile) | Business, general | |
| Talk to me. (telephone voice recognition) (Telecommunications: A New World) | Business, general | Rose Marie Burke |
| Telefonos de Mexico makes promising start on a daunting task: rewiring a nation. | Business, general | Matt Moffett |
| Telxon's lofty goals yield to harsh market realities: news of earnings shortfall spurs lawsuits, ouster of two top officials. (Company Profile) | Business, general | Erle Norton |
| The brave new world of books on disc. (CD-ROM) (Leisure & Arts) (Column) | Business, general | Karen Benfield |
| The people's proxy: shareholder proposals on pay must be aired, SEC to tell 10 firms; at Bell Atlantic, a priest wins long fight for a vote on plan to halt bonuses: non-binding, but significant. (Securities and Exchange Commission) | Business, general | Kevin G. Salwen |
| TV's new 'Golden Age' gets canceled. (Advertising) (Advertising) | Business, general | Joanne Lipman |
| Two software kings take off the gloves in trade-data row; Borland International accuses and ex-manager, Symantec of theft of its information. (Philippe Kahn, Gordon Eubanks) | Business, general | Ralph T. Jr. King |
| Unisys nears favorable pact with its banks. | Business, general | Steven Lipin, Paul B. Carroll |
| U.S. says Japan is breaking vow on chip imports; failure to meet 20% goal in foreign market share to be issue for Clinton. | Business, general | David Wessel, G. Christian Hill |
| Vittorio Cassoni hops Atlantic again leaving Olivetti for as top spot at Xerox. (serves as an executive vice president) | Business, general | Laurence Hooper, Lourdes Lee Valeriano |
| Western Digital, Nippon Steel set pact to finance development of disk drives. (product development of 1.8-inch disk drives) | Business, general | Frederick Rose |
| Wiretap inquiry spurs computer hacker charges. (Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation leads to indictments) (Marketplace)(Law) | Business, general | Jonathan M. Moses |
| You can run... (portable computers and other devices and their effect on the home life) (The Wall Street Journal Reports: Technology)(supplement) | Business, general | James S. Hirsch |
| Zagat's to offer 3 travel guides on floppy disk. (Zagat's CityGuide computerized travel information service) (Software Review) (Evaluation) | Business, general | James S. Hirsch |
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