Some companies offer free E-mail services, but there's a price
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E-mail is still the most useful and popular online activity, despite the current fascination with the Internet and World Wide Web. Many users send and receive their E-mail from their company's network, but individual users must pay for the service. The related costs are one of the primary reasons many people still do not have an E-mail address. Juno On-Line Services of New York and Freemark Communications of Cambridge, MA, are now offering free E-mail services. Juno provides free software and promises it will never charge any fees for the service, but users must agree to receive online advertisements with their E-mail. The ads target specific users, based on personal information they supply the service. Users can send and receive an unlimited number of messages, but cannot send or receive attachments to the messages. The service also poses possible privacy problems as Juno is releasing the user information to other companies.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1996
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Beware what passes for news when wading through digital data
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Consumers of news stories from online sources, such as the Internet, must be aware that the standards for journalism set for the traditional print mediums should continue to apply to the new digital formats. News on the Internet is frequently in the form of corporate press releases, passing unfounded and paranoid conspiracy theories and unbalanced commentary from unqualified sources. The Internet allows everyone with a connection to post a file and call it a news story. Real news is generated by a reporter or other qualified source that either witnessed an event or interviewed the participants in an objective manor. The journalist's work is commonly checked by an editor for accuracy and balance. These standards should not change as the medium changes from print to digital; good work is still required for accurate reporting. Consumers should consider the source of the information when choosing to believe or disregard a story.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1995
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Here's an easy way to free yourself from browser promos
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World Wide Web users can take measures to bypass the browser software manufacturer's promotional home page when logging on to the Web. Step-by-step directions are available for Netscape Navigator 4.0 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3.0 users. Many Web users, unaware of the option, default to the browser's self-serving start-up pages. Users instead may consult Web pages to develop start pages containing relevant information or favorite Web sites. Yahoo's My Yahoo allows users to customize news, stock quotes and weather forecasts for a start-up page. Crayon, another Web site, enables users to assemble their own 'newspapers' on favorite topics from preselected on-line news organizations. Users may change start-up pages at their convenience.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1997
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