Floppy-disk magazines are mostly a flop
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New high technology products include magazines published on floppy disks, such as UpTime, which has been forced into a Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceeding. These magazines have not proved to be very saleable. Other products introduced include Cyberspace Corp's new conventional laptop computer with no screen. Users wear an eyepiece designed by Reflection Technologies Inc, which uses light-emitting elements, lenses and an oscillating mirror, causing an image to appear in front of the user. Interlink Electronics Inc has introduced a force-sensing plastic strip that can be used in tennis to determine if a ball lands on a boundary line. The strip rings the court, recording precisely whether the ball had bounced inbounds. Lastly, users of Lotus Development Corp's Lotus 1-2-3 have discovered that version 3 will not work smoothly with Windows 386.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1989
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Lotus product spurs fears about privacy
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Lotus Development Corp's Marketplace data base, to be released in 1991, is causing concern amongst privacy advocates. Marketplace lists the names, addresses, likely income levels and shopping habits of about 80 million Americans. The product is presented on a palm-sized compact disk and will be targeted to small and mid-sized companies. The data base gives an increasingly accurate portrait of potential customers and is likely to increase the amount of junk mail people receive. Lotus maintains that their planned data base does not offer anything that is not already available, but critics note its low price is likely to encourage widespread use. Marketplace will cost $695 for 5,000 names and $400 for each additional 5,000 names.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1990
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Ozzie, the wizard behind Notes software, uses alliance with Lotus to do his thing
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Ray Ozzie of Lotus Development-backed Iris Associates, is the developer of the increasingly popular Lotus Notes workgroup program. Ozzie first worked for Lotus on its Symphony program, but then managed to find financial backing from Lotus to start his own company, Iris, to build the workgroup software that he envisioned. Lotus Notes is expected to make up 10 percent or $100,000 million of Lotus' 1993 sales. Among the largest Lotus Notes users are Price Waterhouse, General Motors, Chase Manhattan, Metropolitan Life Insurance and Arthur Andersen. As of Jun 30, 1993, Notes has an estimated 500,000 users at 2,000 companies. Entire networks are now being built around Notes and the product has spawned a new market.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1993
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