Old-fashioned sentiments go high-tech
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Consumers can now purchase customized greeting cards at computer-equipped kiosks. A customer can use the kiosk's touchscreen and keyboard to edit a rack-selected card and then print onto it. Hallmark Cards Inc rolled out the first mass-marketed computer greeting cards in 1986, but now the industry believes the technology is poised for rapid growth. Hallmark currently has about 900 Personalize It! kiosks in stores and plans to install another 1,000 by Jun 1992. The cards generated by Personalize It! cost $3.50, or twice the price of the average greeting card. American Greetings Corp's 'CreataCard' kiosks allows customers to create cards from scratch. Because CreataCard kiosks do not need a customer-supplied card, they can stand alone almost anywhere. Hallmark is testing a similar kiosk, called Touch-Screen Greetings, that produces superior output because it uses a laser printer.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1992
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Netscape is putting a price on the head of any big bug found in Web browser
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Netscape Communications Corp will begin offering cash rewards to its beta testers who find major bugs in the next version of its Web browser application, a move that breaks from software industry tradition. Software developers traditionally find software bugs by quietly collecting information from volunteer beta testers. Developers have tried to avoid publicity concerning software problems. Netscape's Bugs Bounty program will offer $1,000 rewards to the first beta tester for find any major bug. Netscape hopes that the program will help it quickly find and fix potentially embarrassing bugs. Netscape has received criticism recently for a major bug found in the security features in its browser application. Analysts contend that the cash program demonstrates that the software industry is becoming serious about fixing software bugs.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1995
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Oracle replaced by rival in test of interactivity
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BellSouth Corp announced that it is dumping Oracle Corp as provider of software for an upcoming interactive television trial, in favor of Sybase Inc. The trial will provide service to about 12,000 homes near Atlanta. The interactive services that will be provided include 70 television channels, 240 digital channels, movies on demand, video games, messaging, home shopping and electronic banking. Insiders contend that the deal fell apart over price issues, not software quality. Oracle is considered the leader in the interactive software market, with several other deals in the works. The BellSouth setback could mark a change in the market, allowing other companies such as Microsoft to gain a foothold in the immature market. Sybase claims that although Oracle claims to be the leader, it does not necessarily have the best products.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1995
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