Word: networking
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...great extent, this is a response to both economic and journalistic realities. The three networks are no longer the only source of TV news; by the time the evening news rolls around, most viewers have seen footage of the day's big events, either on CNN or on their local stations. Network executives argue that their newscasts must go beyond simply recapping the day's news and provide more analysis and background. The most radical move in this direction is coming from NBC Nightly News, which has instituted a round robin of daily features with catchy umbrella titles ("What Works...
When American Telephone & Telegraph entered the computer business six years ago, big things were expected to happen. After all, the company had invented the transistor, the basic building block of modern computers, and it had built the nation's telephone system, which is essentially one vast computer network. Industry analysts predicted that AT&T one day would even challenge IBM for market supremacy. The government, which had barred Ma Bell from the business until the phone monopoly was broken in 1984, fretted that it might be opening the way for the giant (1989 revenues: $36.11 billion) to dominate the computer...
...With revenues of $5.96 billion last year, it is the fifth largest U.S. computer manufacturer (after IBM, Digital Equipment, Unisys and Hewlett-Packard). What excites AT&T, however, is not NCR's market share but the potential for linking its own long-distance telephone system to NCR's worldwide network of cash registers and ATMs. That would give AT&T significant entree into the exploding business of processing transactions for retailing and financial-services firms. And it fits into AT& T's dream for the 21st century: to wire every household for computerized shopping services...
...observes Mark Trainor, an Austin computer salesman browsing for clothes at San Marcos Factory Shops, one of two outlet malls off the interstate highway between San Antonio and Austin. "There are good buys at the discount malls but not great buys," warns consumer advocate Mona Doyle at the Consumer Network, based in Philadelphia...
...documentary re-creates the sad final chapter of Monroe's career: her work on Something's Got to Give, the 20th Century Fox film left uncompleted when she died in August 1962. The hourlong special (Thursday, Dec. 13, 9 p.m. EST, the Fox network) unveils raw footage that had been thought lost until it was discovered in a warehouse on the Fox lot in 1982. Written and narrated with nicely understated affection by producer Henry Schipper, the documentary gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse of a Hollywood star -- and a Hollywood studio -- in extremis...