Online articles from July 1997

Online archives from July 1997

Growing pains. (Knight-Ridder Inc. places Knight-Ridder Information Inc. for sale) (Online On Point)(Editorial)
July 1, 1997... "They're selling off Dialog." The news spread rapidly from Miami to Mountain View, back to the East Coast and as far away as Hong Kong. When searchers heard it, they reacted in shock (or was it resignation?)--as though they were in danger...

IAC launches InSite Pro. (Information Access Co.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1997... Released in May after extensive beta testing and input from the information professional community, InSite Pro offers flat-fee, Web-based access to six key Information Access Company databases. Designed to meet the power search needs of...

TRADEMARKSCAN on the Web. (Thomson and Thomson Inc.'s SAEGIS service)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1997... SAEGIS from Thomson & Thomson is a suite of trademark resources that includes Web access to 16 TRADEMARKSCAN databases. The TRADEMARKSCAN Custom Search mode offers an advanced search engine, a phonetic search capability, the ability to search for...

Microsoft signs key business content providers.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1997... In a move aimed at consolidating its hold on the corporate desktop, Microsoft has announced relationships with key business content providers to develop Active Channels for Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0. Active Channels enable premium content...

Reed Elsevier PLC and Microsoft Corp. (five-year technology agreement worth approximately $30 million)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1997... Reed Elsevier plc and Microsoft Corp. have signed a letter of intent to make Microsoft technologies the basis of Reed Elsevier's electronic information products and corporate computing platforms. The five-year agreement is valued at approximately...

WavePhore Inc. (acquires Paracel Online Systems Inc. for $9 million)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1997... WavePhore Inc. announced a $9 million deal to acquire Paracel Online Systems to strengthen its position in the real-time customized news and information market.

Data Research Associates, Inc. (Internet access contracts with Library of Congress, Congressional Budget Office)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1997... Data Research Associates, Inc. has become the Internet service provider for the Library of Congress and the Congressional Budget Office. (800/3250888; http://www.dra.com)

SilverPlatter Information Inc. and Data Conversion Laboratory. (database publishing venture)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1997... SilverPlatter Information Inc. and Data Conversion Laboratory have formed a partnership to enhance opportunities for publishing databases worldwide through DCL's conversion of raw data into SPIRS (SilverPlatter Information Retrieval System) and...

Vectors of change: electronic information from 1977 to 2007.(Cover Story)
July 1, 1997... Many of the assumptions, technologies, and business models of the first thirty years of online and electronic information are now inapplicable. Online began with bleats and whimpers in the mid 1970s. In 1987, customers recognized the...

Choosing your weapon: personal computer platforms.
July 1, 1997... When was the last time you thought about your personal computing platform--the hardware and operating system, that is? If you're lucky, it's been awhile--but if it's been more than three years, it's time to review your situation. If you...

New life for old PCs (and PC pieces). (includes related article on recycling notebook computers)(PC Monitor)(Column)
July 1, 1997... The persistent push to upgrade is a fact of life in the computer world. Many organizations are replacing their PCs every 2 to 3 years, just to keep current with the latest hardware and software. This steady turnover in equipment results in...

Sally Khudairi, W3C Webmaster. (World Wide Web Consortium)(Net Siting)(Column)(Interview)
July 1, 1997... Connect to the Web page of Sally Khudairi, self-styled "Keeper of the Public Image" for the World Wide Web Consortium, a.k.a. W3C, and housed at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (http://www.w3.org), and...

Footprints and fingerprints in cyberspace; the trail you leave behind. (includes related articles on Web "cookies," Internet privacy tests and tracking user activity)
July 1, 1997... As we move through our lives in the real A world, we leave many traces of things we've done--credit card receipts recording the time, place, and nature of purchases, photos of our license plates at tollbooths, records of videotapes we've...

Downloading data from the Web; you're not in ASCII any more. (includes related articles on data capturing, managing World Wide Web tables)
July 1, 1997... Just when you thought you had mastered the art of down-loading information from online databases and using a word processor to dress it up into a nicely-formatted, tidy report, along comes the World Wide Web and makes a mess of everything...

Profound for the Internet: M.A.I.D. to order for professional searchers and end-users. (Market Analysis and Information Database Inc.'s Internet search service)(Evaluation)
July 1, 1997... It is no secret that I am a fan of Profound's online database (see "Profound: M.A.I.D. for End-Users," ONLINE, July/August 1996). Now Market Analysis and Information, Inc. has rolled out its product on the Web. Optimized to run on Netscape...

Thomson & Thomson's SAEGIS: trademarks made easy on the Web. (trademark information service)(Evaluation)
July 1, 1997... Thomson & Thomson (T&T) is known as the company to go to for trademark information. They have now made their services available on the Internet (http://www.thomson-thomson.com). With easy-to-use search formats and the ability to order in-depth...

Internet search techniques and strategies. (On the Net)(Column)
July 1, 1997... Tracking down relevant information quickly on the Internet remains an elusive quest. While it has been refreshing to see the last few years' development of significant and substantial databases of Internet resources, these databases and search...

Web succeeds consumer services a consumer online medium. (includes related article on consumer-oriented databases)(Consumer Online)(Column)
July 1, 1997... Over the past year there have been several paradigmshaking developments in consumer online. In November the revised, Web-based Microsoft Network appeared, with a radically new look and feel and greatly revised content. The new MSN is betting...

Commands that RANKle. (using the RANK online searching command)(The Dollar $ign)(Column)
July 1, 1997... As the new editor of DATABASE, I developed a burning desire to have a statistical portrait of the magazine. I wanted to know the topics we had covered in the past few years, names of the major contributors, and the length range of articles we...

Marketing the corporate information center for success.
July 1, 1997... Identifying market segments. Defining and promoting products. Adding value to increase customer satisfaction. Organizations around the world apply these basic marketing principles to grow their businesses. As markets become more competitive,...

Technology-enabled content: threat or opportunity? (The Successful Manager)(Column)
July 1, 1997... Evolution and convergence are continuous forces behind the adoption and integration of information technology (IT) within the workplace. Witness the evolution and convergence of IT with: 1) the electronic content industry, 2) the information...