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- Subject: Dow Jones News/Retrieval Available Through the Internet (fwd)
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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 16:53:08 EDT
- From: Allison Pihl <pihl@nisc.jvnc.net>
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- Subject: Dow Jones News/Retrieval Available Through the Internet
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- DOW JONES NEWS/RETRIEVAL AVAILABLE THROUGH INTERNET
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- PRINCETON, NJ, September 1, 1992 -- Dow Jones News/Retrieval is now available
- to academic and commercial institutions through the Internet, a global data
- communications network consisting of more than 6,000 individual networks spread
- over 40 countries.
-
- Access to News/Retrieval's world business news, industry information and
- global market analyses was previously available only through a dial-up
- connection. Now academic institutions on the Internet may access
- News/Retrieval directly. Commercial organizations may now access
- News/Retrieval through a connection to Global Enterprise Service's JvNCnet.
-
- "We are offering News/Retrieval through the Internet to address the specific
- needs of the academic community as well as corporations that find the network
- useful to their businesses," said Allen Grossman, executive director of
- product marketing and development for Dow Jones Information Services.
- "Having News/Retrieval on the Internet allows our academic customers to reach
- a variety of services from the same connection at a lower cost and at a much
- faster speed," he noted.
-
- Dow Jones News/Retrieval is a leading provider of online business and financial
- news, company profiles and full-text articles from more than 1,300 publications,
- and is the exclusive online provider of the full text of The Wall Street
- Journal and its international editions, Barron's and the Dow Jones family of
- domestic and international newswires.
-
- Dow Jones News/Retrieval is published by Dow Jones Information Services, a
- unit of Dow Jones & Company, Inc., a leading international business news and
- information company. Dow Jones Information Services publishes other electronic
- services and includes Telerate, Inc., a worldwide provider of real-time
- information and transaction services. Dow Jones & Company, Inc. also
- publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international editions, Barron's
- and the Ottaway group of community newspapers.
-
- Global Enterprise Service's JvNCnet is a communications network that provides
- Internet access and network services to academic, commercial and government
- organizations both nationally and internationally.
-
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- # # # #
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- Editorial inquiries: Maggie Landis of Dow Jones, 609-520-4638
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- Customer inquiries: Dow Jones Information Services Customer Service,
- 800-522-3567 ext. 134.
-
- Global Enterprise Services, Inc, JvNCnet inquiries: 800-35-TIGER or
- (609) 258-2400. Elecronic mail inquiries: market@jvnc.net.
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