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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--ABC and Epson America have joined forces with Indesys, of Mountain View, Calif., to offer a point-to-multipoint high-speed telecommunications service. Indesys, which will start the service in October, […]

NEW YORK--Digital Communications Associates Inc. (DCA) will market a PC modem capable of transmissions as fast as 10,000 bits per second (bps) over ordinary telephone lines. The new modem, called […]

There's this little store on a seedy back alley in Munich that engages in illegal traffic in a controlled substance. The commodity? Why, modems, of course. Think about that the […]

NEWTOWN, PA--Tseng Laboratories Inc. has developed a set of chips it says emulates and improves upon the IBM Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA). Tseng will offer its own version of the […]

If you're talking telecommunications, you're talking modems, right? That's surely the response that most computer users would give, but it would be wrong--in certain situations. To communicate from my office […]

If the IBM PC had a father, it was Philip 'Don' Estridge, who in early 1980 was given a blank check and an exemption from many of the official rules […]

When it comes to videotex, we've all heard more promises than a gullible flight attendant on the cross-country red-eye, but thus far little has been delivered. By now, we've been […]

Countermeasures Against On-Line Intruders You keep your corporate database inside its glass-walled fortress, guarded by the MIS security police. You keep your personal printouts of financial statements and confidential personnel […]

AT&T Offers Chips For Commercial Sale To Strengthen Unix AT&T last week announced plans to offer a 32-bit microprocessor and associated chips to computer and electronic device manufacturers. Until the […]

The telecommunicatiopns utilities have always reminded me of one of Gertrude Stein's famous putdowns: 'There's no there there.' I mean, Tymnet and Telenet and Uninet and the others always seemed […]

NEW YORK--Iomega Corp. has introduced a new line of Bernoulli Box disk drives that double the maximum capacity on the floppy-disk system while reducing the size of the units. 'We're […]

That's not your telephone ringing--it's your PC in a death rattle, as your innocent modem delivers a million or so volts down the line. Until recently, this possibility was news […]

WEST BOYLSTON, MA--A new software and hardware package from Image Concepts will let librarians, photographers and archivists maintain a database and laser-disk-retrieval system for more than 54,000 photographs or graphics […]

NEW YORK--Panasonic has introduced a transportable 8086-based microcomputer that features a gas-plasma display and a built-in thermal-transfer printer. The Panasonic Exec. Partner--a true 16-bit portable that possesses what Panasonic officials […]

LINCROFT, NJ--With the introduction of 70 products last week, AT&T kept its promise to link its mini and microcomputers with IBM mainframes. Most of the products were aimed at connecting […]

WASHINGTON--AT&T and Bell Atlantic have begun a three-month trial of a cellular radio modem designed to allow on-the-go transmission and receipt of data. The 2400-bits-per-second modem, which includes a sophisticated […]

It was a dark and stormy night. In the window of the house on the hill, a single, dim light glowed, casting the shadow of a lonely scrivener, hunched over […]

ITT's Dialcom is strictly business. It is a high-speed, high-efficiency electronic-mail and public-database system that seems well tailored to the sophisticated business user. In last week's column, I discussed some […]

The $50 million rise and fall of Gavilan Computer Corp. has gone beyond the newspaper financial pages and into the MBA case study books. A former top executive of the […]

Federal Government Spent $137M on Micros in Fiscal '84 Federal agencies purchased more than 37,000 microcomputers last year, found a recent General Services Administration report. The government spent $137.2 million […]

Beaming Up a Satellite Transmission Solution In the past two columns, we've taken a look at a pair of contenders seeking to cut the cord between your personal computer and […]

Xerox Enters MS-DOS Market; Debuts Laser Printers, Four PCs After a series of disappointing earlier entries, Xerox Corp. is making another bid to become a dominant force in computers and […]

Xerox Touts Printers, AT&T Deal Xerox Corp. has unveiled two printers and a product line, and also revealed deals with AT&T regarding new products and communications compatibility. The announcements were […]

TV Network Links PCs, Stock Market The PC is moving closer to becoming part of the stock market, as details of the IBM-Merrill Lynch joint venture for nationwide television broadcast […]

IBM Abandons Epson Printer, Debuts Its Own After years of selling the Epson dot-matrix printer under its own name, IBM has dropped the Epson and introduced its own printer. The […]

Casio Introduces High-Speed LCD Shutter Printer Casio Computer Co. has brought to market a high-speed liquid crystal shutter printer, apparently leap-frogging several generations of liquid crystal technologies in the process. […]

ITT's Dialcom Is Now On Call For Fortune 1000 ITT--that other telephone and telegraph company--has been quietly carving out a healthy niche for itself as the 'official' electronic-mail service. The […]

Is a telecomputer a micro with a phone plugged into the back? Or is it a telephone with a computer hidden inside? And does it really matter? These questions are […]

TORONTO--Writers, sports fans and professional word processors gathered here last week for the first Great Canadian Word Processing Rally. Software and hardware manufacturers were invited to send a package they […]

NEW YORK--Phoenix Software Associates has introduced boards making formerly 'hostile' microcomputers or workstations compatible with the IBM PC. The expanded series of hardware designs for manufacturers also includes boards that […]

NEW YORK--The marriage between the PC and the laser printer will greatly expand in-house corporate typesetting and publishing, makers of computer-graphic devices said at a trade show here. A new […]

Among my least favorite entertainments--right up there with root-canal work--is looking for a house with a real-estate agent. ('Well, yes, I know you said you wanted to see new four-bedroom […]

NEW YORK--Paine Webber investors were advised last week not to expect imminent release of the PC-2, IBM's reputed 80286-based successor to the PC. Paine Webber analyst Jonathan R. Fram told […]

NEW YORK--AT&T, two major national banks and a communications conglomerate have joined in a venture to offer electronic banking, brokerage and other services to small businesses and consumers. The new […]

Television almost certainly will remain a 'vast wasteland,' although VBI broadcasting for PC users may redeem it a bit around the edges. VBI (vertical blanking interval) technology is a developing […]

ENCINITAS, CA--National Decision Systems (NDS) has announced a desktop market-research tool built around a specially adapted IBM PC XT. The product, known as Infomark, includes, a 1-gigabyte laser-disk system through […]

One of my principal objections to sitting in front of a PC all day is that for all the keys and dials and switches, I still can't change the channel. […]

I've just had an electronic argument, an asynchronous sniping session from there to here and back with someone with whom I am ordinarily quite civil. I got a message that […]

There's a major corporation I know where the chief executive officer is pretty well shielded from the underlings, with an Iron Maiden of a receptionist who bars the door and […]

RYE BROOK, NY--IBM has moved the PC into banks and other financial institutions as a special-purpose workstation for its 4700 Finance Communication System (PC Week, Dec. 25). Although IBM has […]

RYE BROOK, NY--IBM has abandoned its own voice-mail system in favor of a product developed by Rolm Corp., IBM's recently acquired subsidiary. At the same time, Rolm announced a new […]

BOCA RATON--IBM purchased space in 33 major daily newspapers last week, placing an ad complaining about coverage of its decision to suspend production of its PCjr microcomputer. The 12-by-18-inch ad […]

Last week, I took a consumer's look at MCI's extra charge for its advanced MCI Mail subscription, a fee that buys the user a bypass around a rather annoying series […]

To spur sluggish sales of its PC 6300, AT&T has introduced a wide range of enhancements and a series of hardware upgrades for the machine. In addition, the company has […]

NEW YORK--Computer Industry Daily, an international electronic and print newspaper, will be launched this summer by Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. Esther Dyson, currently president of EDventure Holdings Inc. and editor of […]

This is a true story of the differing definitions of value-added and value-received for users of public telecommunications networks. When the bank calls me, I usually expect bad news: A […]

Manufacturers of PCjr peripheral products were both surprised and relieved over IBM's announcement last week that it would halt PCjr production next month, and all of those surveyed said they […]

NEW YORK--A securities firm has introduced Shark, a quote processor for real-time analysis of financial instruments that ties an IBM PC into a mainframe database with a high-speed telecommunications link. […]

NEW YORK--It's strictly business at Businessland Inc., and the business is finally good. So said David A. Norman, president of the chain of computer stores based in California, at a […]

The world of love-hate relationships is fascinating. We must be strange creatures indeed to cherish most what can be most exasperating. Sometimes I feel that way about MCI Mail, the […]