Online articles from March 1996

Online archives from March 1996

Finding the right answer at the right cost.(Column)
March 1, 1996... Isn't it great these days to go to a social event and have people actually understand what you do for a living?! Usually, they are anxious to tell you how they, too, search the Internet, America Online, or CompuServe for information. Why, in just...

Web begins to swallow traditional online services.(World Wide Web)
March 1, 1996... With the increasing popularity of the World Wide Web, some online services are abandoning their direct dial services or pairing them with direct access over the Web. Microsoft has edged toward making MSN an Internet service instead of a...

PLS unveils "smart" personal agent software. (Personal Library Software)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... Personal Library Software (PLS) has unveiled Personal Agent, a powerful, "intelligent agent" software designed for both Internet and intranet information streams, The software monitors incoming information and selects the most pertinent items...

Mac users can now access News/Retrieval. (Macintosh, Dow Jones News/Retrieval)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... Dow Jones and Trax Softworks, Inc. have collaborated on Macintosh software for Dow Jones News/Retrieval service. The software is available free to all Dow Jones subscribers by contacting the company at 800/522-3567, ext. 52; or from the company's...

LEXIS-NEXIS Mac search software updated. (Macintosh)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... LEXIS-NEXIS has released a new version of its research software for the Macintosh. Version 2.9 is fully compatible with Mac operating systems 7.0 and higher and the software is now available via disk or may be downloaded from the company's home...

Disclosure and American Business Information produce Big Business Database.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... Disclosure and American Business Information (ABI) have produced a Big Business Database of 100,000 public and private international companies for delivery on Disclosure's Business Prospecting Home Page on the Internet. The database combines...

Foreign news offered through Web. (World Wide Web, World News Connection)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... World News Connection (WNC) is an online service for locating time-sensitive information from non-U.S. sources. WNC offers an in-depth collection of international, unclassified military, political, environmental, and sociological information...

Tax information on the Net. (Internet)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... The Research Institute of America (RIA) now has a home page on the Internet at http://www.riatax.com. RIA is offering tax news on its home page before it is published in any other media. Issues concerning current federal, state, and local tax, as...

Windows 95 in the real world.(includes related article on installing CD-ROM hardware)
March 1, 1996... Every computing magazine in the world has covered Windows 95, and you have surely read your share of these articles and hype over the past year. In this special section in this issue of ONLINE are three Win 95 articles that are different. They...

Windows 95: Microsoft goes online.
March 1, 1996... Microsoft Network, Microsoft's new online service, has much in common with Windows 95 (with which it comes bundled). Both were accompanied by fanfare and hype that exceeded their actual significance. Both will be widely adopted, but this will be...

Connecting to the Internet with Windows 95.
March 1, 1996... Setting up an Internet connection on Windows 95 can be compared to flying a kite on a windy autumn day or snorkeling through treacherous coral reefs. Judging from the deluge of email that pours into discussion groups and newsgroups--1,000...

Engineering Information Village: a new spin on the World Wide Web.(includes a related article on costs)
March 1, 1996... With the move from ASCII interfaces to the World Wide Web, one of the key questions has been, how will commercial information services be able to create business value in the anything-goes world of the Internet? Engineering Information, Inc.'s...

ProQuest Direct: document delivery (with images) to the desktop.
March 1, 1996... A New Yorker cartoon a few months ago showed a dispirited group of people standing around at a cocktail party--frowns, bored expressions, no conversation at all. The hosts look at each other in dismay, and one says to the other "Oh, lord--we...

Waring the baton: NewsNet's new search interface.
March 1, 1996... The online world has become considerably more colorful with the advent of the graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that every host seems to be springing on us now. The icon for NewsNet's new Baton search interface sports a fluorescent green...

Trademarks for the business searcher.(includes related articles)
March 1, 1996... A ny business person contemplating a new product or changing an existing product and renaming it should be interested in trademark searching. Yet it never ceases to amaze me, many people ignore this basic business activity and pick a name...

PRINT and SEND for speedy "offline" prints.
March 1, 1996... Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a country that seemed very far away, there lived and worked a printer in the Land of Online Database Searching (ODS). The printer in the Land of ODS absorbed the results of database searches performed by...

CAS chief awakens a sleeping giant. (Chemical Abstracts Service's Robert J. Massie)
March 1, 1996... (Since mid-1992, when Robert J. Massie assumed the helm at Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), this venerable sci-tech database provider and host has come alive. New products like SciFinder and Chemical Abstracts (CA) on CD, as well as improved...

Greater than the sum of their parts: CD-ROM/online hybrids.
March 1, 1996... Imagine you're reading an article about Pablo Picasso in an encyclopedia on CD-ROM. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to click a button and join an electronic art forum where you can discuss his works? Or imagine you're researching Peru, and you...

NlightN carries Pierian Press databases.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... NlightN is offering a Core Reference Services package of four databases from Pierian Press at its Web site http://www.nlightn.com). The databases--A Matter of Fact, Directory of National Helplines, Media Review Digest, and Consumer Index--will be...

SqURL searches multiple search engines.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... Currently available for Windows, SqURL Jr., SqURL, and SqURL Plus unify multiple World Wide Web Search engines into one searcher, effectively eliminating duplicates from cross-engine searches. SqURL Jr., designed for light Internet use, searches...

Newsletter targets corporate searchers. (The CyberSkeptics Guide to Internet Research)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... The CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research, an eight-page newsletter edited by Susanne Bjorner, targets business librarians and researchers who need to find substantive information via the Internet, Each issue offers an in-depth review of a...

Pipeline available for Macintosh. (Pipeline Internet online service, Macintosh browser software)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... Macintosh browser software for the Pipeline Internet online service is now available. Pipeline provides access to the World Wide Web, email, over 14,000 Usenet Newsgroups, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and Talk, telnet, File Transfer Protocol, and...

Magellan to be on MSN and Europe Online. (Magellan Internet Directory, Microsoft Network)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... Microsoft has selected McKinley's Magellan Internet Directory for the Microsoft Network (MSN), Microsofts Internet online service. Magellan provides fully reviewed and rated resources along with powerful search technology to inform users of a...

Java creates new potential for Internet information.
March 1, 1996... The name for the latest Internet craze, Java, represents the boost it can give to Web performance, just as coffee boosts some people's moming performance. Java, from Sun Microsystems, has burst onto the Internet scene with as much fanfare as...

Critical mass and mud wrestling on the Internet.
March 1, 1996... Hurry, hurry! Come one, come all! It's the battle of the browsers, the standoff of the search engines, the crush of critical mass. Yes, folks, it's the Internet--faster than a speeding packet, more powerful than a firewall, able to launch FTP in...

Putting it on paper; choosing a printer.(includes editors' choices of 1995 printers)
March 1, 1996... Remember the paperless office? My best guess is that offices will stop using paper about the same time everyone stops traveling to conferences and business meetings and relies entirely on videoconferencing. So you're still producing...

Knowing your needs: the question to the ultimate answer.
March 1, 1996... Fans of Douglas Adams will recognize this title as a running gag in his famous "five-part trilogy," The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A highly advanced alien race builds the supreme computer and asks it for the Answer to the Ultimate Question...