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As the expiration of its content agreement with Sabre looms and a marketing agreement with the GDS already expired, American Airlines last week alerted agency and corporate customers that beginning [...]

With gas prices roughly 50 cents per gallon higher than this time last year, costs are escalating for everyone, but companies that reimburse employees using personal vehicles for business with [...]

Cendant Corp. and Sabre Holdings remain travel management company consolidators-in-waiting after bidding on TQ3 Americas, which will be snapped up by Carlson Wagonlit Travel in a deal likely to be [...]

Worldspan's sale closed last week, but the global distribution system provider will remain tightly tied to its former airline owners, particularly Delta and Northwest airlines, for at least the next [...]

[EDITOR'S NOTE: In the September 2002 issue of Searcher, we published an article by veteran searcher Amelia Kassel ('Tales of a Searcher's Life. A Comedy of Errors or A Test […]

SEVEN YEARS AGO REED BUSINESS Information made a decision about publishing online which it claims "by a bit of luck and a lot of judgement" has made the company a […]

A mid the many corporate earnings announcements for the fourth quarter 2001, an unassuming release from Hoover's Inc. could be easily overlooked. The company, which went public only in 1999, [...]

Job hunting and resume placement on the Internet are discussed.

Search and retrieval capabilities have long been a key element in knowledge management. Information-laden government agencies must be able to search their knowledge storehouses or creating them will have been [...]

The operations and management of Rentrak Corp of Portland,OR, are described in detail by chairman and CEO Paul A. Rosenbaum. The company is a provider of business information services.

With Reed Elsevier's acquisition of Harcourt cleared by the antitrust authorities, and online sales now approaching $2.8 billion this year, Elsevier Science chairman Derk Haank says in this interview that […]

It's tough being an aggregator. But then, it's always been tough to be an aggregator. It's tougher than being the other two sides of the information triangle: the buyers and […]

A prominent news librarian from one of the nation's top-10 newspapers recently called her primary full-text vendor and asked for a report on which data had gone off-line due to […]

MORE THAN A DECADE ago I wrote about three family-owned publishers that served online information professionals (see 'The Database Press,' LJ 3/1/89, p. 56-57). Online Inc., Meckler-Media, and Learned Information [...]

Confidential statements concerning several newspaper publishing and information companies are given by industry executives and observers.

Personally, I don't watch reality programs on television. Frankly, the concept makes me uncomfortable. It feels too much like some dire end-of-civilization predictions coming true. I can almost hear Orwell, […]

The operations and management of Worlds.com Inc of Boston, MA, are described in detail by president and CEO Thomas Kidrin. Worlds.com provides virtual 3-D reality for the Internet.

The operations and management of HomeSeekers.com Inc of Reno, NV, are discussed in detail by president and COO John Giaimo. HomeSeekers.com provides information services and technology to the real estate industry.

The operations and management of EDGAR Online Inc of Norwalk, CT, are described in detail by CEO Susan Strausberg. EDGAR Online is in the database industry.

The Human Genome Project (HGP) has made genomics a living, evolving paradigm for biotechnology and it may, through emerging genetic testing techniques and manipulation of genes, transform the practice of clinical medicine. The potential impact on drug discover/delivery is discussed. For the top 20 pharmaceutical companies to keep pace with Celera Genomics and such companies they will need to grow by 7%/yr and generate an extra $28.9 bil in sales on average from new products between early '01 and '05. They would need to launch at least 24-34 products earning $1-1.45 bil apiece in the next 5 years, up by a factor of 4-6. Self-cannibalization is the alternative to joining the genomics revolution. History and evolving goals and prospects of the HGP are summarized. .

H. W. Wilson is celebrating its 100th year in business this year Recently, IT contributing editor Paula Hane interviewed president and CEO Harold Regan, who has been with the company […]

Does this description fit you? You're a talented and ambitious librarian or information professional. You've spent years gaining knowledge and information skills in the new online information age. You're an [...]

Although I've been a librarian for a number of years -- with my share of horror stories about locating government information -- my blood still runs cold when I have [...]

Editor's Note: With this issue, we introduce a new columnist to DATABASE readers. I've asked Ernest Perez to take on the task of covering not database searching, but database construction, [...]

As each year passes, the dawning of the Age of the Internet recedes further into the dim technological past. The command line use of ftp and gopher and arcane UNIX [...]

I started writing for DATABASE magazine in the late 1980s, a time of dramatic growth for scientific and engineering information. STN was taking bold steps to build an integrated system [...]

[Editor's Note: Donal Smith is managing director of electronic business information at Financial Times Information in London, which is part of Pearson plc.] Q Where does electronic business information (EBI) […]

Jeppesen Sanderson president Horst Bergmann says that the company has been changing from one that produced paper to one that provides information to the aviation industry. Bergmann notes that Jeppesen's customized Airway Manual Services are used by almost all airlines in the US and about 65% of airlines in other countries. Evolving from a company that distributed notebooks of data on airfields, Jeppesen hopes that its electronic library system for the Airbus A330/340 and Boeing 777 will be used the airlines., Jeppesen is expanding into electronic information and document management Created in 1934 to distribute copies of Elrey B. Jeppesen's famed little black notebook of data on airfields he used while [...]

'DATA JUNKYARD!' That's what Sequent Computer Systems' Michael Lee Squires calls the mishmash of computer systems most corporations have patched together to store and dispense information. 'Sequent has always had [...]

Looking for joint venture firms online sometimes takes more time. Joint ventures are typically set up to be temporary firms that achieve specific goals. Another problem is that joint ventures often occur between two companies in different countries. Searching for financial information about a joint venture is more difficult than a search for general news. Databases may also enter joint venture names in different ways., It's not unusual. You are trying to find information about a company. You, your client, and your colleagues are all familiar with the company name. But you come up empty-handed [...]

Most people who have spent decades in a culture other than their own would probably agree that it becomes difficult to 'keep one's assumptions straight.' I noticed that fact once […]

When I first began to consider the theme, for this month's issue, document delivery, I wasn't sure how I could work it in with my overall theme of 'online treasures.' […]

Online searching has been well established in Australia since the late 1970s. Products and services from the rest of the world still predominate, with a small but growing percentage of […]

Well, the information industry has been 'off to see the Wizard' and has finally arrived at the Land of Oz. Now how do you make friends with the Munchkins? And, […]

These days more and more information professionals find themselves involved in developing Internet-based information environments, as well as acting as hunters and huntresses for specific pieces of information. We considered […]

M.A.I.D (Market Analysis and Information Database) has long had a low profile among its peer group of business information services. There are several reasons. It is a British company that […]

They're popping up like spring flowers. Spin-offs are a popular and often practical way to start up a new company. Here's a few hows and whys. Spin-off. It sounds like [...]

Independent researchers are the poor relations of the information industry family. Neither fish nor fowl, end user or corporate subscriber, we don't fit easily into any category, and no one […]

Customer support lies at the crux of the online industry's problems these days. All the advisers in the art of management harp unendingly tht companies and industries must build their […]

America Online just made its subscriber list available for rental early last month, and already the privacy watchdogs have begun to growl. Granted, nobody got excited when CompuServe put its [...]

The Era of Monogamy In the first ten years of CD-ROM, it was easy to know who was whose, and who lived with whom. If you said ABI/INFORM, everyone knew […]

As I write this (in mid-January 1994), I look back on 1993 as a year that saw a lot of changes of interest to patent and technical literature searchers. There […]

Byline: Austin Kilgore The Mortgage Bankers Association will resume running the day-to-day operations of its MISMO subsidiary on Dec. 1, taking the task back from Merscorp, which has been handling [...]

Byline: Austin Kilgore The comment period has ended on a proposal that would bar mortgage investors and their servicers from foreclosing in the name of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. [...]

Reuters' chief executive has escaped the kind of publicity the organization subjects others to. Hashi Syedain supplies some data for its Textline service Enter the name Peter job into the […]