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I depend on electronic BBS's and on-line services for messages, stock quotes, talking with my editor, and getting the latest shareware, among other uses. I log on to at least […]

Layout tools from leading vendors all offer high automation with optional manual override. As a new user, you may begin doing place and route with 'pushbutton layout.' Among the most [...]

NEW YORK--The battle to provide what could become a de facto U.S. standard for automatic highway toll collection is now between two participants, as systems from Dallas, Tex.-based Amtech Corp. […]

The Air Force center that coordinates Strategic Defense Initiative work needed a visual way to access and query diverse databases of schedule, budget and text information. Robert Leong, integrated master […]

Many corporate users who require portability don't want to give up the power or color of their desktop systems. Benjamin Goldfarb, manager of personal computing systems at StarKist Seafood Co. […]

Before the House Appropriations Committee moved to an automated PC inventory system, staff members had no good way to track computer equipment, staff assistant Michael Weinberger said. Now off-the-shelf software […]

Cosmetic surgery was not something Mel Gosling considered when he inherited an IBM mainframe and a load of ageing information systems that needed major beauty treatment. Instead, the information services […]

Bulk-mail discounts come to those who use mail management software certified by the Postal Service, a fact not lost on the government money managers at the National Science Foundation. 'We're […]

JEFERSONVILLE, Ind. -- Sometimes it takes more than a little faith. You need strategy and preparation. That's why the Presbyterian Church Foundation, a large and growing financial foundation, established a […]

Developed with the guidance of our own process customers to meet their specific needs, DECedms embraces the philosophy that document management systems should not be standalone islands, but rather integrated […]

REDMOND, Wash. -- Help/Systems recently achieved a milestone when Microsoft became the company's 3,000th client of its Robot software. Microsoft is one of the world's largest PC application and operating […]

NORCROSS, Ga. -- As the company quickly grew, Peachtree Software (Norcross, Ga.), an accounting software publisher for PC applications, found itself out on a limb with its underpowered UNIX-based machine. […]

HARTFORD, Conn. -- In 1989, Travelers, an insurance, financial and health services company, began a pilot study to support nurses and other staff charged with examining pre-authorizations for medical procedures. […]

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- After ListMaster, a direct marketing and telemarketing agency specializing in list compilation and brokerage, replaced its Prime system with an AS/400 Model B50, it found itself […]

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- IBM is assisting a Polish bank in its efforts to computerize its operations, with the AS/400 playing a starring role. Bank Slaski, one of nine commercial […]

Customer service and productivity improved dramatically at Utah Retirement Systems in Salt Lake City. A new telephone switching system, a Rolm 9751 Model 10, includes Phone-Mail, the latest voice messaging […]

NEW YORK -- For more than a year, Macfadden Holdings has been taking a unique approach to the complex accounting requirements of its 16 publications, which include True Story and […]

By Bill Catchings and Mark L. Van Name Life in the fast lane used to be a lot less confusing. You went into a special room and used a special […]

The House of Representatives has vastly increased productivity in its pensonnel and accounting functions using FileNet Corp. imaging products. 'We started with personnel records and then added accounting documents,' said […]

Originally provided for users of Norther Telecom's Meridian private-branch exchange (PBX) systems, HP's Applied Computerized Telephony (ACT) is now available for use on the public telephone network. ACT automates call […]

Bytes DSSI Power Migrated to VAX 6000 Systems When it comes to high performance and data availability, the Digital Storage Systems Interconnect (DSSI) has proven itself to be an industry […]

IBM's next generation of mainframes, loaded with high-tech enhancements, is already finding its way into Wall Street's back offices. TWO GIANT WALL STREET brokerage houses are among the early users […]

DOT Calls for Greater Automation Into Next Century Transportation Department officials this week will send to Transportation Secretary Samuel K. Skinner a report calling for greater automation in the Office […]

Postal Service Moves to Automate Magazine, Newspaper Processing The Postal Service made moves last month to increase automated processing of larger flat mail, such as big envelopes, magazines and newspapers. […]

DataWare Dials for Dollars If you live in the northeast part of the U.S. and you're listed in a phone book, NYNEX has your number. They keep it in their […]

E-MAIL PLUGS PEOPLE DRAIN What do you do if, as a subsidiary of a national conglomerate, you get a message from on high to cut administrative costs and improve productivity? […]

HANDLING MOVE AND MERGER When Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Ohio planned the renovation of its downtown Cleveland offices, computers kept getting in the way. The data center and personnel who […]

SPEEDY STOCK CHECKS SAVING BMW BIG BUCKS Many companies discover that as their market share increases through enhanced customer services, so too do service demands. Unfortunately, all too often they […]

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN' The insatiable love affair between Californians and cars is legendary. Imagine yourself in a sporty red convertible, your favorite companion by your side, winding along the rocky facade […]

HOW POST OFFICE HANDLES INQUIRES In 1988, the United states Postal Service implemented an interactive voice-response system. The Postal Answer Line (PAL) was one of several internal USPS changes resulting […]

E-MAIL HELPS IMPROVE HEALTH CARE Electronic mail systems have become as commonplace as telephones in most businesses. Hospital networks are booming. * Saint Francis, Tulsa, Okla., has extended E-mail from […]

REI Exec Says Imaging Systems Have Opened Up The days when proprietary imaging systems were a better choice than an open system are over, a Recognition Equipment Inc. official said. […]

STEADY ASCENT OF PROPERTY LADDER Healey & Baker is one of the country's top five commercial estate agents, and operates from London's West End. In 1981 it installed a Data […]

By 1985, Hewlett-Packard had grown into 64 divisions in 50 countries, occupying over 30 million square feet of space. For years, they had had difficulty receiving accurate, consistent, measurable data […]

IMPERSONAL TOUCH? Jay Gardner loves voice processing, no matter what anybody says. His Risk Management Resources, a 20-year-old third-party administrator of medical-insurance claims, gets at least 800 daily calls. 'I […]

TOKYO (FNS) -- Japanese floppy disk drive makers, engaged in continuing price competition, have been hobbled by a sluggish personal computer market that has idled some of their highly-automated production […]

In our lead news story, beginning on p. 32, our man in Washington, Willie Schatz, delves deeply into the tangled web woven by General Motors, EDS, Xerox Computer Systems, and […]

Shoppers fighting their way through the Christmas battlezones of Hamleys and Harrods are in for a big surprise. They are likely to come face to face with a six foot […]

Control system retrofit reduces power plant's operating costs At Nevada Power Co.'s (NPC's) Reid Gardner generating station (Moapa, NV), a major retrfitting of the station's automatic control systems was needed […]

Call distribution saves time for a company timesaver Franklin Institute, Inc. is an example of a company practicing what it preaches. The Salt Lake City, UT-based company has forged its […]

LAVC in the country helps search for oil worldwide 'IT'S KIND OF a funny place for an oil company,' our driver remarked during the 45 minute ride from Gloucester station […]

RCA: the screens move in Stroll the corridors of the Royal College of Art and you could be in for a surprise: there seems to be a computer of some […]

General Electric Government Services (Cherry Hill, NJ) knows that first impressions count. That's why when it now prepares proposals for new business, it utilizes an electronic publishing system to quickly […]

Controller ups flexibility, cuts cost of meat processors During the processing of most meat products, air is removed and replaced with a mixture of moisture and flavoring. The process is […]

PLCs speed chain saw testing, increase production eightfold Stihl, Inc., a manufacturer of gasoline-operated chain saws, has changed the control of its saw testing from manual to programmable controller (PLC) […]

TI, Sun Microsystems join CASE chase If computer-aided software engineering (CASE) is such a hot area right now, why hasn't any of the really big companies thrown its had into […]

Post Office Picks DOS-Compatible Operating System As part of its modernization drive, the U.S. Postal Service has placed an order for what may be the largest multitasking, multiuser operating system […]

Space Center Launches Integrated Data Network NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is the hub of U.S. space launch activities. Over the last three decades, personnel and facilities have […]