information utility

After trying for a while to achieve just those goals, it is clear why public information utilities have never really gotten off the ground.

Now they are committed to turning the phone line into an information utility conduit."

Your speech will be remembered by those in the hall, but their recorders-most are using our information utilities.

It would take another decade of hard work to transform the Internet from an academic toy into the basis for a modern information utility.

This idea of a computer or information utility was very popular during the late 1960s, but faded by the mid-1990s.

First released in 1990-01-11, it is a hardware information utility that displays information about user's system.

If users-through information utilities- can locate the information they need, they will pay for it.

Gurunet (www.gurunet.com) is a remarkable but still unfinished instant information utility.

SysInfo - a system information utility, incorporating diagnostics from 1993 onwards.

He is now founder and chairman of the International Education and Information Utility.

Information utilities.

I became a staff writer and then an editor for InfoLine, one of the information utilities on telelink.

Those perils are inextricably linked to what experts consider the Internet's big promise: evolving into an information utility as ubiquitous and accessible as electricity.

Public information utilities (such as home banking and shopping) and specialized industry services (e.g., weather for pilots) are expected to proliferate.

Setting up National Information Utilities(NIUs) as private companies with public purpose.

"Can we move from what we have now, which is an information source, to a network that's really an information utility, used for entertainment, education and commercial activities?

Jack Taub is founder of the world's first information utility, The Source, which he sold for megabucks to Reader's Digest.

"We're changing from a telegraph company into an information company, a computer-based information utility," Mr. McFall said in 1969.

In 1999, Rosenschein founded GuruNet, which created a 1-click popup Internet-based information utility.

Instead, the two hit on the idea of an "information utility," using cheap overnight excess capacity in minicomputers and data networks to make online information available to dial-up subscribers.

By contrast, competitive services of the time such as Prodigy funded by IBM and Sears, focused on shopping and CompuServe focused on being an information utility.

From Project MAC sprang innovations like an early E-mail system and the concept of shared information utilities, the forerunners of today's on-line communities and even the World Wide Web.

A spoken word dispatches the letter at the speed of light to the addressee, usually at a cost less than current postage (especially if sent by the upcoming National Information Utility "Moon Mail").

Hewlett-Packard, Mr. Belluzzo said, believes that businesses will use the Internet as an information utility to create links with customers, suppliers, partners, distributors and others, giving those who participate in electronic commerce an advantage.

For the last few years, the Electronic Data Systems Corporation's top executives have frequently gathered at the company's sleek mirrored-glass-and-concrete headquarters north of Dallas to ponder plans to make E.D.S. an all-purpose "information utility."