Microsoft's next move is on line; objective is to sell access to Internet
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Microsoft Corp plans to provide users of its on-line network, Microsoft Network, with access to the Internet. Industry insiders believe Microsoft will aggressively compete for Internet business with established on-line information providers such as CompuServe, Prodigy and America Online. Insiders also believe that the company could accelerate the growth of commercial transactions on the Internet because of its leading position in the software industry. The company plans to charge commercial accounts a percentage of the business they generate over the network. Microsoft has chosen Uunet Technologies Inc to build its information network. The company will create a high-speed network with dedicated circuit connectivity to the Internet. This method of Internet hookup is more than twice as fast as competing telephone-company based connections used by Compuserve and Prodigy. Microsoft Network is scheduled to go online in 1995.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1995
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Pizza on line: hold the electronic anchovies
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A simplified plan is set to debut at the National Press Club as a consumer using an 'electronic wallet' and a PC will attempt to order a pizza via the Internet and pay for it with a credit card. The wallet allows the user to pick toppings and sizes and displays the cost and which credit cards are accepted. The pizza is prepared in the usual manner and delivered to the address the user types in. Previous on-line ordering schemes, such as Pizza Hut's system, allowed the user to order and pick toppings, but included no method for paying electronically. Creators of the new system, the Electronic Business Co-op, say users and merchants will not have to change the way they normally handle transactions. They say credit card transactions are protected via data encryption technology and no electronic accounts need to be established with merchants ahead of time.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1995
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Tele-Communications in deal for Internet access
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Tele-Communications Inc and the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers are planning to form a joint venture that will develop services to provide high-speed access to the Internet through existing cable networks. The new company will be called At Home and William Randolph Hearst 3rd will be the company's first head. The companies are planning to begin offering service on a trial basis by 1996 and become a national service in several years. More than 30 million homes reportedly have computer systems and more than 60 million homes are cable television subscribers. The goal of At Home is to get users to link their television cables to their computers and achieve data access speeds many times higher than currently available.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1995
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