The Big Three Consumer Services: Looking for the On-Ramp to the Information Superhighway.

Levison, Andrew

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ERIC Number: EJ512293

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Publication Date: 1995

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The Big Three Consumer Services: Looking for the On-Ramp to the Information Superhighway.

Levison, Andrew

Online, v19 n5 p54-56,58-60,62-63 Sep-Oct 1995

Discusses three major consumer online services--America Online, CompuServe, and Prodigy. Topics include: Internet and Web browsers, alliances with cable and telephone companies, competition from Microsoft and other companies, and CD-ROM technology. A sidebar includes an interview with CompuServe's Barry F. Berkov. (JKP)

Descriptors: Access to Information, Cable Television, Competition, Information Networks, Information Services, Interviews, Online Vendors, Optical Data Disks, Private Sector, Telephone Communications Systems

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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