Breaking News From The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition Now Available As A Screen Saver.PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--February 4, 1997-- Updated Highlights from Leading Web Source Now Available via Free Edition of Popular Screen Saver A utility that was originally created to prevent a CRT from being etched by an unchanging image. After a specified duration of time without keyboard or mouse input, it blanks the screen or displays moving objects. Pressing a key or moving the mouse restores the screen. from Berkeley Systems Berkeley Systems was a San Francisco Bay Area software company cofounded in 1987 by Wes Boyd and Joan Blades. It made money early on by doing contract work for the National Institutes of Health, specifically in making modifications to the Macintosh so that it could be usable by Subscribers to The Wall Street Journal(R) Interactive Edition can now receive regularly updated business news from the Web's leading business news source via the new After Dark Online screen saver from Berkeley Systems. The new software is available for free download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. at either http://wsj.com or http://www.afterdark.com. The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition on the After Dark Online screen saver presents frequently updated, visually animated summaries of the top U.S., Asian and European business news, as well as key Wall Street Journal features covering the markets, technology and other business topics. Specific sections of the Interactive Journal can be displayed on After Dark Online so that readers receive only the news they want from the 10 sections available -- for example, the Front Page, Money and Investing, Marketplace, or Europe News. Clicking on any summary of interest takes the reader directly to the Interactive Journal's Web site for full coverage. Also, current stock quotes, based on a subscriber's specific companies of interest, and updated sports results appear at the bottom of the screen saver as a scrolling (chat, games) scrolling - To flood a chat room or Internet game with text or macros in an attempt to annoy the occupants. This can often cause the chat room to be "uninhabitable" due to the "noise" created by the scroller. Compare spam. ticker ticker An automated quotation system on which security transactions are reported after they occur on an exchange floor. Even though the newer systems are electronic and no longer actually tick, the name of the old mechanical device has stuck. . "Business people and investors depend on the Interactive Journal to keep them informed throughout the day," said Thomas Baker Thomas Baker or Tom Baker is a name shared by several notable persons: British people
Introduced in April 1996, The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition features continuously updated coverage of the full spectrum of business news both in the U.S. and abroad, prepared by a dedicated news staff in The Wall Street Journal's New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of newsroom. Subscribers have access to more than 9,000 in-depth background reports on companies, an archive of news articles, and personal news and stock portfolios. Subscribers can also access the vast Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance News/Retrieval(R) Publications Library that features current and past articles from more than 3,500 same-day newspapers, magazines and business-news sources. After Dark Online brings personal computer users updated news and information via user-selected "channels" that access the Web. The After Dark Online application is available for computers running either Windows 95 or Macintosh 7.0 operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . While the application itself is free, the Interactive Journal "channel" is available only to registered subscribers to the Interactive Journal who pay $49 a year, or $29 a year for subscribers to any print edition of the Journal. All new subscribers receive a two-week free trial period. About Dow Jones Dow Jones Interactive Publishing, the electronic publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. arm of Dow Jones & Company, provides business and financial news and information products, including The Wall Street Journal(R) Interactive Edition on the World Wide Web and Dow Jones News/Retrieval(R), to corporations, consumers and private investors through a variety of electronic media: computer, telephone, facsimile and radio. Dow Jones also publishes The Wall Street Journal(R) and its international editions, Barron's(R) magazine and other periodicals; electronic information services See Information Systems. , including those of Dow Jones Telerate and Dow Jones Financial News Services; and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones also produces business television programming internationally. More information on Dow Jones Interactive Publishing and its products can be found at http://bis.dowjones.com. -0- The Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, Dow Jones News/Retrieval, Barron's, and Dow Jones Financial News Service are marks of Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All other products mentioned are the marks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Dow Jones, Princeton Kris LeBoutillier, 609-520-4638 or kris.leboutillier@cor.dowjones.com |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion