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Well, almost... These three organizations found a cost-effective solution to distributing Windows applications--EPiCON ALTiS. E-Business Benefit Problem: You need to provide access to a Windows application to hundreds of people, […]

Can a Network Computer replace a PC? Software is the key. A lower total cost of ownership is the promise made by manufacturers of network computers, or NCs, the thin-client […]

Internet protocols have transformed the groupware landscape. Lotus is battling not only Microsoft and Novell, but now Netscape, to hang on to the territory it conquered with Notes. When it […]

Distributed objects can increase efficiency and functionality, and reduce cost. What's not to like? Welcome to the world of distributed object computing, the buzz in IS and IT circles these […]

As San Diego moves into the 21st century, local telecommunications services -- telephone, television and access to the Internet -- could well fall under the umbrella of a single, quasi-public [...]

Yesterday he tackled civil rights, today he challenges elephantine problem of corporate culture In the early 1970s, Victor M. Bond was a social activist. He was nearly expelled from Harvard [...]

If a San Dimas man's vision comes to pass, the ailing aerospace industry in San Diego, and other regions of the state, will go from bust to boom. Gene Meyers, [...]

07-Mar-94 Sb: Step into cyberspace Fm: X400:(c=us;a=attmail; s=smith;g=james;d=id:jsmith) Jim, This is an experiment to see if my first venture into the cyberspace frontier, using this e-mail you've been bragging about, [...]

America's Cup challengers from Italy and France signed joint lease agreements with Driscoll Boatworks last week. The two teams, representing Europa Yacht Club in Venice and Yacht Club D'Antibes in [...]

Aaaand they're off! On July 28, the refrain from a bugle reverberating through a brand-new, $85 million grandstand will herald the opening of the 54th season of horse racing at [...]

Minorities will have an increased opportunity to set up shop at Lindbergh Field beginning next year. But whether they will be able to take advantage of that opportunity is a [...]

TwinPorts: Council may lack votes to extend building ban When the San Diego City Council meets this week, it could send the controversial binational airport proposal into a tailspin, landing [...]

Robert Rauch didn't move to San Diego to stir up trouble. He moved here to be with his wife. Nevertheless, the Arizona transplant -- one of those oft-slandered 'Zonies' -- [...]

Boatowner prevails in landmark legal case against yard In the first known test of California's vessel repair law, a consumer has prevailed. George Militzer, the owner of a 25-year-old Ranger […]

Aptex Software SelectResponse and SelectCast provide 'intelligent' responses to e-mail, Web-based queries, customer support, and consumer click patterns. Doing business online is now de rigueur, but some companies have found […]

Inso DynaBase 3.0 takes advantage of XML to turn unstructured Web sites into powerful information sources. Web site management software applications that harness the power of the eXtensible Markup Language […]

District may have to dip into reserves for difference San Diego's richest government agency, the San Diego Unified Port District, is feeling the pinch of the three-year recession. A $110.5 [...]

In the first known test of California's vessel repair law, a consumer has prevailed, receiving an $8,369 judgment against a Point Loma boatyard. On May 13, a San Diego Superior [...]

SAN DIEGO, BY ACCIDENT OF ITS HERITAGE AND MODERN CITIZENS, MAY BE ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE San Diego is the sixth largest city in the U.S., but in spite […]

Telecommunications guru Dr. Vinton Cerf was in San Diego recently with a message for the business community: 'Pay attention to the Internet. It's the world's biggest focus group.' That is, [...]

Bill Clinton's presidential pratfalls have proven to be popular, as well as profitable, fodder for a San Diego County publication. Slick Times, a magazine dedicated to lampooning the 'Slick Willie' [...]

NetPages lets business fingers do the walking along the Internet CARLSBAD -- The Internet has been compared to a modern city built upon the narrow, twisting streets, lanes and pathways [...]

Great Western Air Inc. is still on the ground. The fledgling airline, which is based in San Diego and will offer discount fares, had planned to begin operating in June. [...]

Students at Loma Portal School may have thought they were living out the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale during their first weeks of school this year. Many of the classrooms [...]

Two years ago, officials with the newly formed America's Cup '95 pledged to engage as many San Diego-area companies as possible to produce and market licensed merchandise. The idea was [...]

When it comes to what consumers want from the information superhighway, service providers may have taken the wrong road. A recent poll published by MacWorld magazine indicates the interactive services [...]

Officials of the Morale, Welfare and Recreation Department at Camp Pendleton are trying to get the word out that the Marine Corps base represents money-making opportunities for private businesses. They [...]

San Diego's cruise ship industry has been steaming through shoals for almost two years. And, if pending federal legislation allowing gambling on some intrastate cruises doesn't become law by the [...]

The top executive of a San Diego shipyard resigned last week, the result of an acrimonious three-way feud between the company's management, its chairman and its owner. Dennis Shaw, the [...]

$22.7M to help firm modernize shipyard The mood at National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. (NASSCO) was buoyant last week after company officials returned from a White House reception with $22.7 [...]

Utilities: Close to 100 companies statewide expected to compete Beginning Jan. 1, most area businesses will see their telephone bills decrease. How much they will decrease will depend on how [...]

Despite headlines tallying layoffs and consolidations within the software industry over the past year, San Diego's software companies say their future is bright and will continue to be so through [...]

The folks at the Navy's NISE West are feeling pretty good these days. Last week, the West Coast Division of NISE West -- Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center's [...]

In the beginning, there was the acoustic guitar, which produced soft, natural tones from strings vibrating over a hollow wooden body. Then came the electric guitar, which amplified the sounds [...]

A San Diego entrepreneur unveiled a plan last week to turn the former General Dynamics rocket manufacturing facility on Kearny Mesa into a space-oriented industrial/theme park. Speaking at the Reuben [...]

Once area's biggest employer, GD now just a shell Once the region's largest private-sector employer, General Dynamics will vanish from San Diego by early 1996. The company's Convair Division, its [...]

Fish and Wildlife could close runways to protect nesting threatened birds The San Diego Unified Port District is in a position that would be laughable if it weren't so utterly [...]

Universities are trying fresh approaches to ways of doing business The term re-engineering has come full circle. With its literal genesis in the field of engineering, U.S. companies adopted the [...]

Software giant to buy interest in tiny rival When puny Stac Electronics Inc. dared to draw its line in the sand last year, industry giant Microsoft Corp. didn't hesitate to [...]

An unknown role model created an ethic on which a career is built Manny Prupes says he no longer recalls the name of the man he holds up as a [...]

As expected, Martin Marietta Corp. will eliminate 1,800 of 2,100 former General Dynamics manufacturing jobs in San Diego over the next 18 months. The Bethesda, Md., aerospace giant acquired General [...]

Strength in numbers. It's a concept that predates the Roman Legions and Macedonia's Alexander the Great. But for the tidelands tenants who call the San Diego Unified Port District their [...]

Extortion is a strong term, but that's how Pacific Bell sees charges that its plan to install a statewide video network discriminates against low-income and minority groups. Pacific Bell is [...]

After years of travail, brothers make success of NTN Communications Patrick and Daniel Downs liken themselves to Lewis and Clark, trailblazers in the vast, and as yet poorly mapped, electronic [...]

Despite the opposition of the cable television industry, Pacific Bell last week began construction of its ambitious $16 billion effort to create a statewide fiber-optic network by 2010. But the [...]

Interactive multimedia is figured to fuel society's journey down the information superhighway in the coming years. In some people's minds, San Diego sits at a major crossroads, ready to dispense [...]

'95 event still lacks a presenting sponsor In an office window along Shelter Island Drive sits a sign that reads, 'Countdown to America's Cup '95, May 6, 1995. Days to [...]

The San Diego Port Commission last week refused to ante up half the estimated $140 million cost of expanding the San Diego Convention Center that the San Diego City Council [...]

When EG&G Astrophysics decided to redesign its security scanners, company employees resisted the suggestion that an outside designer be included in the process. The notion was viewed by many within [...]