Some kid's titles that finally break out of the mousetrap
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Walt Disney Co's $35 Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree multimedia children's educational application offers excellent animations, a great story line and good educational games. Winnie the Pooh is a good CD-ROM application for small children. Based on A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh books, Disney has successfully produced a rich multimedia application. The program, available for Windows, includes well designed animations taken from the 1960s films. Winnie the Pooh includes several learning games that help teach reading, and audio narration follows the text well. Winnie the Pooh requires 8MB of RAM. Living Books' $40 Dr. Seuss's ABC is another outstanding educational title that uses wacky Dr Seuss characters to teach the alphabet. Dr. Seuss's ABC requires only 4MB of RAM and is available for both Windows and Macintosh. Newsweek's $30 Parent's Guide to Children's Software 96 includes reviews and previews of dozens of educational applications, but its marketing tone is troublesome.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1995
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Prodigy has promise, but America Online may be the prodigy
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IBM's and Sears Roebuck and Co's Prodigy and America Online Inc's America Online are new low-cost online information services that feature graphical user interfaces. Prodigy is an especially inexpensive service, costing $14.95 per month, and America Online costs about $7.95 monthly, with an additional $6 per hour charge after the first two hours of use. In general, America Online is the better service. Its graphical user interface is the same type that is used with Apple Corp's Macintosh microcomputers and Microsoft Windows, which makes it convenient to use with a Macintosh. The service also includes over 50,000 computer programs that users may download for free. In contrast, Prodigy is difficult to use and slow, although it offers a rich selection of news articles, and the service's makers are promising future improvements that will make the service faster and more convenient.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1992
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Software makes paying your bills less of a chore
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Services are now available that allow microcomputer users to pay bills electronically via modems. Options include a payment system called Checkfree and a Prodigy service called BillPay USA. Checkfree, which can be purchased for as little as $17, keeps track of checking account transactions and manages communications for the modem. For those with more elaborate financial accounting needs, Meca Software Inc's Managing Your Money and Intuit Inc's Quicken will also connect with Checkfree, but they are somewhat more expensive, costing $129 and $35 respectively. Prodigy's BillPay USA is a good-but-expensive option. BillPay USA is sensible for those who already subscribe to the Prodigy service.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1991
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