More footnotes date August 2011 ACORN acronym for A Classification Of Residential Neighbourhoods is a Geodemography geodemographic information system categorising some United Kingdom postcode s into various types based upon census data and other information such as Statistical survey lifestyle survey s. It was developed by Richard Webber of CACI Limited , who also developed the competing Mosaic geodemography MOSAIC system, and is sold to businesses, health and local authorities typically for marketing and planning purposes. The population is divided into five categories from Wealthy Achievers 25.1 to Hard Pressed 22.4 . They are also broken down into 17 categories from Wealthy Executives 8.6 to Inner City Adversity 2.1 and into ACORN demographics categories 57 categories from Wealthy Mature Professionals, Large Houses 1.7 to Multi Ethnic, Crowded Flats 1.1 . File CACI Instant Demographics Advertisement.tif right thumb CACI s Instant Demographics Advertisement from 1987 History CACI s history as a pioneer in the field of geodemographics is echoed by their involvement in a geodemographics database hosted on the Compuserve Online Service back in the latter part of the 1980s ref Compuserve Online Today, October 1987, Page 2 ref , and it served the United States at first, rather than the United Kingdom. One could reach the service by entering the keywords GO DEM . Their flagship product was entitled Neighborhood Reports , which revealed information by US zip code. The service was oriented towards casual users and small business owners. Such outreaches toward marketing said material to the general public are commonly not made today. At this time, they were headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia. References references External links http www.caci.co.uk acorn default.asp ACORN web site http www.guardian.co.uk britain article 0,,1091504,00.html Acorn in the Press The Guardian http www.telegraph.co.uk property main.jhtml?xml property 2003 07 15 post16.xml Acorn in the Press The T ... more details
Infobox Software name Personal Knowbase developer Bitsmith Software latest release version 3.2.4 latest release date March 2012 genre Personal information management operating system Microsoft Windows Windows 98, 2000, Me, XP, Vista, 7 website http www.bitsmithsoft.com www.bitsmithsoft.com Personal Knowbase is a freeform notes database application for MS Windows . Personal Knowbase was first released in 1998 on the CompuServe Information Service and is an example of a personal knowledge base . Text articles are displayed in a flat, rather than tree based, listing. Stored articles are retrieved using a scheme based on user defined keywords. This type of keyword based system was based on the keyword systems used by common research databases of the 1990s, such as Knowledge Index and CompuServe s file library, and is similar to the keywords Index for a MS Help file. In recent Internet usage, such keywords are now often referred to as metadata tags . Articles are filtered using various criteria, including keywords, dates, and attachments. A free read only version of the program, called Personal Knowbase Reader, is available to allow for distribution of content in the Personal Knowbase format. Features Boolean queries on keywords Hypertext links to external files and between articles Attachments to external files and URLs Password protection Export to external formats Import external formats Portability Personal Knowbase is a portable application and can be installed directly onto a USB flash drive . See also List of personal information managers List of portable software References http www.tucows.com article 1481 Tucows.com Spotlight on Personal Knowbase http www.writersdigest.com article The 2005 WD Guide to Writing Software The 2005 WD Guide to Writing Software http www.technewsworld.com story 47309.html Review on TechNewsWorld Stephen Davies, http portal.acm.org citation.cfm?id 1897840 Still Building the Memex , Communications of the ACM , Volume 54 Issue 2, February ... more details
, or to the public only indirectly through e mail gateways provided by hosted systems such as CompuServe ... Web Unleashed publisher Sams Publishing accessdate 23 January 2011 ISBN 0672306174 ref In 1995 CompuServe bought Spry, Inc. for 100 million in cash and stock of H&R Block the parent company of CompuServe ... page. Early web browsers DEFAULTSORT Internet In A Box Category 1994 software Category CompuServe ... more details
commercial online services went live in 1979. CompuServe owned in the 1980s and 90s by H&R Block ..., and CompuServe, MCI Mail , and other services experimented with X.400 protocols to exchange email until ... X.25 data communications networks, or the services own networks as with CompuServe . In either case ... displays. Early services such as CompuServe added increasingly sophisticated graphics based front ... broke the business model that had supported the rise of the early online service industry. CompuServe ... the largest services like AOL which later acquired CompuServe, just as CompuServe acquired The Source ... based online services. Compuserve would later offer, with the advent of the Apple Macintosh ... GUI interface. Compuserve continued to offer text only access for those needing it. Online services like Prodigy and AOL developed their online service around a GUI and thus unlike CompuServe s early ..., and online games. Major online service providers like Compuserve also served as a way for software ... more details
would be good too. As CompuServe morphed into AOL s value brand , Fujitsu sought to sell off its product ... ref Gameplay WorldsAway users would login, first only via dial up Compuserve accounts, later via the public ... CompuServe in 147 countries around the world. accessdate 2008 02 25 note Wired cite journal url http ... worlds in 2003 and 2004 http www.vzones.com VZones Website DEFAULTSORT Worldsaway Category CompuServe ... more details
Peacock date July 2009 Commented out because image was deleted Image Microsoft MVP logo.png thumb top right 100px The Microsoft MVP Logo The Microsoft Most Valuable Professional MVP is the highest award given by Microsoft to those it considers the best and brightest from technology communities around the world who actively share their ... technical expertise with the community and with Microsoft . An MVP is awarded for contributions over the previous year. ref http mvp.support.microsoft.com Microsoft ref The MVP program grew out of the software developer community, as the initial MVPs were some of the most active on the online peer support communities such as Usenet and CompuServe . It has since grown to include other types of products, and other avenues of contribution. Steve Ballmer spoke to a group of Microsoft MVP s about XP and Vista. ref name Windows 7 What the Future Holds Cite web url http www.pcmag.com article2 0,2817,2314409,00.asp title Windows 7 What the Future Holds author Edward Mendelson publisher PCMag date 2008 06 02 accessdate 2011 06 08 ref ref name MVP Cite web url http www.zdnet.com blog microsoft the best of the microsoft mvp 2011 summit tweets so far 8792 title Best of 2011 MVP Summit author Mary Jo Foley publisher ZDNET date 2011 02 28 accessdate 2011 06 08 ref A posting from Tamar Granor on the Universal Thread web site gives this account of the origin of the MVP program. cquote Way back in the dark ages, Microsoft provided a great deal of technical support on CompuServe. The CompuServe FoxPro forum was extremely busy and Calvin Hsia, then an independent developer, now Developer Lead on the Fox team, created what we called Calvin s List. It was a listing of the number of postings by person, including info on both messages sent and received. Being in the top 10 on Calvin s List any month was an accomplishment, though we discussed whether it was a good thing or a bad thing. As the story goes, some of the Microsoft people jumped on Calvin s Lis ... more details
nofootnotes date November 2009 Scott L. Kauffman born 1956 is an American business manager. He was born in Princeton, New Jersey Princeton , New Jersey to Ellwood and Shirley Kauffman, and grew up with his sister Jane and brothers Geoffrey and Matthew Kauffman Matthew . In 1973 he appeared briefly in Steven E. de Souza s first film, Arnold s Wrecking Co. . Kauffman has worked for a variety of media companies Newsweek was the first, and then Time Warner in the founding of Entertainment Weekly . clarify date November 2009 His next job was as a vice president of CompuServe , where he worked on all of the online brands and pioneered SpryNet , CompuServe s ISP service. With help from Goldman Sachs , Kauffman participated in the development of one of the first initial public offerings of the Internet industry. He left CompuServe in 1997 to become president and CEO of ClickOver, a company focused on developing management solutions for Internet advertising. ClickOver later became AdKnowledge after acquiring Focalink . Before Scott left AdKnowledge and the company was sold to CMGI , AdKnowledge grew to over 80 employees and more than 100 customers. Kauffman then spent time in turn with eCoverage , a direct to consumer online insurance company Coremetrics and, as President and CEO, MusicNow , an online music service partnered clarify date October 2009 with FullAudio . In 2005, he ran the San Francisco based digital magazine service provider Zinio . Scott holds an AB in English from Vassar College and an MBA in marketing from New York University s Graduate School of Business. In July 1992, Advertising Age named him one of the top 100 marketers in the country and in 1996, he was named by Advertising Age as one of twenty Digital Media Masters . In 2006, Scott was named President and Chief Operating Officer of BlueLithium . On December 4, 2008, he was named Chief Executive Officer of SourceForge, Inc., now Geeknet , owner and operator of SourceForge.net , ThinkGeek , Slashdot , F ... more details
up at rival Compuserve this facility became an expensive and under used overhead to maintain. Losses ... members, but later fell back compared to 500,000 at Compuserve by 1989 . During much of its existence ..., The Category CompuServe Category Online service providers Category Companies established in 1979 Category ... more details
Image WinComm Pro 7.0 screenshot.png thumb 350px Sample screenshot of WinComm PRO 7.0 WinComm was a communications software package that was offered by Delrina in the mid 1990s. Seeing a growing business in online communications utilities, Delrina launched WinComm PRO. It was used primarily to connect to Bulletin board system Bulletin Board Systems of the time, prior to the advent of the Internet. By double clicking on an icon, the program would automatically connect to any of a number pre defined online services, such as Delphi online service Delphi , Compuserve or GEnie , or to any other local BBS a user may have had defined. Delrina tried to expand aggressively into this market space, first by acquiring the Canadian online bulletin board service CRS Online , and then using it as a distribution channel for free versions of its WinComm LITE and DOS based FreeComm products in March 1995. The WinComm PRO product culminated in version 7.0, which was bundled with the CommSuite 95 software package, which also included versions of WinFax and Cyberjack . WinComm was a relative latecomer to the market, which was dominated at the time by Datastorm Technologies, Inc. Datastorm s Procomm series of products. Competitors Qmodem ProComm Hilgraeve Crosstalk Mk.4 External links http www.monitor.ca monitor issues vol3iss10 feature4.html Review of WinComm PRO 7.0, accessed November 6, 2005 Category Communication software Category Terminal emulators Category Windows only software ... more details
CompuServe s B protocol , also known as CIS B , is a file transfer protocol computing protocol developed for their commercial online service CIS in 1981. The protocol was later expanded in the B Plus or QuickB version. It was a fairly advanced protocol for its era, supporting efficient transfers of files, commands and other data as well, and could be used in both directions at the same time in certain modes. These advanced features were not widely used, but could be found in a small number of client side packages. Since B protocol was designed only to work within the CompuServe, most third party communications clients of the day were not compatible with it. Notable exceptions were Datastorm Technologies, Inc. Datastorm s ProComm Plus on the PC which featured the ability to listen for the code Enquire code command on the active communications port, and ZTerm on the Mac which allowed auto starting transfers. This development was part of a wider trend of using external communications applications in conjunction with online services. Description The original version of the B Protocol was an outgrowth of an earlier bi directional protocol introduced in 1979, adding options for including a standardized command structure in the stream. This protocol was intended for use by a custom online ... the overall concept primarily on supporting downloads from CompuServe, as opposed to user to user transfers ... problem control characters were always quoted, a requirement because many people accessed CompuServe ... the basic concept was that the user s terminal program would respond to CIS s CompuServe Interrogation ... the only user of the Transport Layer was CompuServe s own Host Micro Interface HMI application ..., The CompuServe B Plus Protocol , 18 November 1993 A zip compressed version of this document is available as http www.filegate.net comm bplus.zip bplus.zip . Levi Thomas and Nick Turner, The compuserve B protocol , Dr. Dobb s Journal , Volume 11, Issue 7 July 1986 , pp. 54 59 Category CompuServe ... more details
Infobox album See Wikipedia WikiProject Songs Name Quoth Type ep Cover Polygon Window Quoth.jpg Artist Aphex Twin Polygon Window from Album Surfing on Sine Waves Released March 22, 1993 Format CD, 12 vinyl Recorded Genre Ambient music Ambient , Techno Length Label Warp Records Producer Aphex Twin Richard D. James Quoth is a single released by Aphex Twin Richard D. James under the alias Polygon Window . Quoth appears on the album Surfing On Sine Waves . Quoth was released as a single on transparent vinyl and compact disc CD , accompanied with two remixes of the title track, and two exclusive non album tracks. The single was released and then deleted from Warp Records Warp s catalog in the same day. ref cite web url http www.aphextwin.nu learn 98136141045227.shtml title The Aphex Twin Community Learn Interviews & Articles Compuserve article publisher Aphextwin.nu date accessdate 2011 12 03 ref Track listing Quoth 5 34 Iketa 4 27 Quoth Wooden Thump Mix 7 52 Bike Pump Meets Bucket 5 48 Quoth Hidden Mix 6 46 only on US CD and first UK CD issue, not listed on the cover References references Richard David James Category Aphex Twin EPs Category 1993 EPs es Quoth fr Quoth ... more details
infobox Book See Wikipedia WikiProject Novels or Wikipedia WikiProject Books name Lord John and the Scottish Prisoner title orig translator image prefer 1st edition image caption author Diana Gabaldon cover artist country United States language English language English series Lord John Grey series book 3 genre Historical novel publisher Delacorte Press release date Scheduled for November 29, 2011 media type Print pages isbn preceded by The Custom of the Army novella followed by Lord John and the Scottish Prisoner was the original working title of The Scottish Prisoner A Lord John Novel , the third novel in the Lord John series by Diana Gabaldon . Set in 1760, this is a two person book, alternating between Jamie Fraser s point of view and that of Lord John Grey . According to Diana Gabaldon, the book was renamed in order to emphasize the fact that the book is as much Jamie Fraser s story as it is Lord John s. ref http community.compuserve.com n pfx forum.aspx?msg 71623.2&nav messages&webtag ws books Message posted by Diana Gabaldon on the Compuserve Books and Writers Community, June 20, 2011. ref It is scheduled to be released on November 29, 2011. update after 2011 11 29 References references Diana Gabaldon Category American historical novels Category Lord John Category 2011 novels Category Hispanic American novels hist novel stub ... more details
Kesmai was a pioneering video game developer game developer and online game publisher , founded in 1981 ref http www.mobygames.com company kesmai corporation ref by Kelton Flinn and John Taylor. The company was best known for the combat flight sim Air Warrior on the GEnie online service, one of the first graphical MMOG s, launched in 1987 . They also developed an ASCII based MUD , Island of Kesmai , which ran on CompuServe . The company was acquired by Rupert Murdoch s News Corp. in 1994 . ref cite news title NEWS CORP. BUYS KESMAI work USA Today date April 27, 1994 author Pattie Joy ref ref name theage cite news title News buys top US online games maker work The Age date April 27, 1994 author Ben Potter ref The company continued to develop massively multiplayer games such as Air Warrior 2 and Legends of Kesmai . They distributed their games through AOL and eventually a new gaming service formed with three other publishers, GameStorm . ref cite news title GAMERS GANGING UP Four online companies team in GameStorm date November 24, 1997 author John Voland work Daily Variety ref AOL purchased CompuServe in 1997 and retooled its AOL Games Channel in a way that placed Kesmai unfavorably compared to its own games division, WordPlay . Kesmai sued AOL for monopolistic practices. ref cite news title Gamer Firm Kesmai Sues America Online date September 30, 1997 author By Craig Menefee work Newsbytes ref The suit was settled out of court with undisclosed terms. ref cite news title Kesmai, America Online Settle Lawsuit date July 7, 1998 author Bob Woods work Newsbytes ref In 1999 , the company was List of acquisitions by Electronic Arts sold to Electronic Arts , and the company s studios were subsequently closed in 2001 . Upon closure a number of the Kesmai staff went to work for Lodestone Games , also located in Charlottesville , Virginia . Flinn selected the name Kesmai from a set of names that were output by a random name generator that he wrote for in game use. References R ... more details
defence available under section 581 of the Second Restatement of Torts 1977 . In Cubby Inc. v. CompuServe Incl , ref 1991 776F. Supp. 135 ref CompuServe s CIS product is an electronic, for profit library ... little or no editorial control over that publication s contents. This is especially so when CompuServe carries the publication as part of a forum that is managed by a company unrelated to CompuServe. With respect to the Rumorville publication, a company uploads the text of Rumorville into CompuServe ... that CompuServe had no more editorial control over such a publication than does a public library, book store, or newsstand, and it was not feasible for CompuServe to examine every publication it carries ... also identified the appropriate standard of liability is whether CompuServe knew or had reason to know ... more details
Byte Information eXchange ref http everything2.com index.pl?node id 1387786 Article on BIX at everything.com ref BIX was an online service created around 1985 by Byte magazine Byte magazine . It was a text only Bulletin Board System style site running the CoSy computer conferencing system CoSy conferencing software running originally on an Arete multiprocessor system based on Motorola 68000s. When that didn t scale well, it was ported to run on Pyramid. When that became too expensive to run, it was ported to a Digital Equipment Corporation DEC Alpha server. McGraw Hill also used the same software internally. Access was via local dial in or for additional hourly charges, the Tymnet X.25 network. Monthly rates were initially 13 month for the account and 1 hour for X.25 access. Unlike CompuServe , access at higher speeds was not surcharged. Many of the Byte staff were active on the service. Later, gateways permitted email communication outside the system. BIX was acquired by the Delphi online service in 1992. In the mid 1990s the Internet became more available to the masses and Usenet , mailing lists , and competing services such as CompuServe and America Online were able to offer flat rate services, which adversely affected BIX membership levels. In the late 1990s, as the Internet became more mainstream, membership and activity plummeted forcing BIX to cut pricing to 40 per year, with no per hour connection charge by using the Internet for access. Lower prices and full page ads in Byte magazine were unsuccessful in turning the service around. Consequently, BIX was shut down in 2001. Some members created a new service, based on an open source version of CoSy computer conferencing system CoSy , called NLZ ref http everything2.com index.pl?node id 1389513 Article at everything.com on NLZ ref Noise Level Zero ref http www.nlzero.com NLZ s website ref where they continue what remained of the service, with many of the same conferences and topics that were active at the end ... more details
was Bill Louden, in charge of games at CompuServe . He purchased a version in 1982 and turned it over to the programmers at Kesmai , who wrote many of CompuServe s games. They found that the copyright ..., MegaWars , went live on CompuServe in 1983 and ran continuously until 1998, although there were a few ... name maury In 1985 Louden left CompuServe to form GEnie at General Electric . Kesmai re scrubbed the system ... more details
above comparable IBM compatible devices. CompuServe for one, designed its own alternative disk controller ... of Stanford s WAITS operating system and the Compuserve time sharing system. Over time, some PDP ... on. The commercial timesharing services such as CompuServe , On Line Systems OLS , and Rapidata maintained ... . Usage by CompuServe One of the largest collections of DECsystem 10 architecture systems ever assembled was at CompuServe , which at its peak operated over 200 loosely coupled systems in three data centers in Columbus, Ohio . CompuServe used these systems as hosts , providing access to commercial applications as well as the CompuServe Information Service. While the first such systems were purchased from DEC, when DEC abandoned the PDP 10 architecture in favor of the VAX , CompuServe and other ..., CompuServe continues to operate a small number of PDP 10 architecture machines to perform some billing ... that CompuServe engineers designed a replacement power supply that consumed about half the energy. CompuServe offered to license the design for its KL power supply to DEC for free if DEC would promise that any new KL purchased by CompuServe would have the more efficient power supply installed. DEC ... modification made to the PDP 10 by CompuServe engineers was the replacement of the hundreds of incandescent ... more details
given. Restatement Second of Torts 256 . See, e.g., CompuServe Inc. v. Cyber Promotions, Inc. , discussed ... context. In CompuServe Inc. v. Cyber Promotions, Inc. , a 1997 case that was the first to extend the trespass ... mailing of a high volume of unsolicited advertisement emails to CompuServe subscribers constituted an actionable trespass to chattels. ref name CompuServeCompuServe Inc. v. Cyber Promotions, Inc. , 962 F.Supp. 1015 S.D.Ohio 1997 . ref CompuServe customers repeatedly received unwanted advertisements ... also modified its equipment and falsified other information to circumvent CompuServe s anti spam measures. Due to the high volume of email, CompuServe claimed damage to its servers as well as money lost dealing with customer complaints and dissatisfaction. CompuServe also extended its damages ... s intentional use of CompuServe s proprietary server was an actionable trespass to chattels and granted ... email address maintained by CompuServe. Cyber Promotions persistence in sending email to CompuServe s servers after receiving notification that CompuServe no longer consented to the use weighed heavily ... more details
and fraudulent nature. ref name lcr In Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe Inc. , the court found .... v. CompuServe, Inc., 776 F. Supp. 135 S.D.N.Y. 1991 publisher Electronic Privacy Information Center ... Decency Act CDA preempted the 1991 holding of Cubby v. CompuServe , and that as a result, the CDA ... preempt the state laws. Based on the findings of Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe Inc. , which found that CompuServe ... Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe Inc. and Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co. In those cases ... against AOL , bnet.com Business Network ref See also Barrett v. Rosenthal Cubby, Inc. v. CompuServe ... more details
Infobox musical artist name Mark Jackson image Mark jackson.jpg caption Mark Jackson live at Starlite Room, Edmonton 2006. image size background non vocal instrumentalist birth name alias birth date birth date and age 1970 05 10 mf yes death date origin Essex , England instrument Drum kit drums , Keyboard instrument keyboards genre Futurepop , synthpop , trance music trance , Electronic body music EBM , electro industrial occupation years active label associated acts VNV Nation website http www.vnvnation.com www.vnvnation.com Mark Jackson is a member of futurepop Duet music duo VNV Nation , along with Ronan Harris . He is responsible for electronic drum s, Percussion instrument percussion and live Musical keyboard keyboard s. He is also established as a professional Club DJ and remix artist . In addition to his work with VNV Nation , Mark continues to take part in artistic collaborations with other musicians and producers in the electronic music scenes. Notably including vocal work with Reaper band Reaper , Oliver Huntemann and Negative Format The Parallel Project as well as live work and guest appearances with acts including Rotersand , Combichrist , Straftanz and Apoptygma Berzerk . Mark originates from Essex , England and worked as a Software developer , internet programmer and web designer for CompuServe , MSN and Microsoft before becoming a full time musician . He now lives in the South of France in the Basque Country greater region Basque Country region. A hobby of his is raising tarantula s. External links http www.vnvnation.com Official VNV Nation website http www.albertastars.com galleries vnv nation VNV Nation Gallery with Mark Jackson 2007 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Jackson, Mark ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1970 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Jackson, Mark Category Living people Category English drummers Category Musicians from Essex Category 1970 births UK drummer stub ... more details
working with CompuServe to offer multi player games ref cite book last Jong first H. Wi title Innovation ... 100,000 USD in computer time on CompuServe s system in three days before concluding they needed to rewrite ... to create Mega Wars III for CompuServe in 1983 that allowed Kesmai to adapt S for the system ..., and debuted on the GEnie online service the same day that Islands of Kesmai went live on CompuServe ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Infobox software name MacTerminal logo screenshot File MacTerminal screen.png 250px caption Screenshot of MacTerminal 2.2 developer Apple Computer latest release version 3.1 latest release date operating system Mac OS genre communications protocol Communications license Proprietary software Proprietary website MacTerminal was the first telecommunications and Terminal emulator terminal emulation application software Computer program program available for Mac OS . MacTerminal enabled User computing users to connect via modem or serial port to bulletin board system s and online service s e.g., THE SOURCE, CompuServe , and to other computer s. MacTerminal was capable of Terminal emulator emulating the Digital Equipment Corporation DEC VT100 and other computer terminal s. Apple Computer began retailing MacTerminal in July 1984 following the launch of the Macintosh 128K the first Apple Macintosh in January. Although MacTerminal was compatible with the original 128K model using Apple s optional 300 or 1200 bit s external modem designed for the Apple II , MacTerminal was not available for Development stage Gold general availability release general release at the 128K s launch date. Apple began bundling MacTerminal with later Macintosh models. When Apple Computer, Inc. spawned Claris in 1987 as its application software division, Claris continued development of most of Apple s major applications, but development of MacTerminal ceased. However, it was rolled into ClarisWorks terminal program . See also MacDraw MacPaint MacWrite Terminal Mac OS X Apple software DEFAULTSORT Macterminal Category Mac OS only software made by Apple Inc. Category Terminal emulators Category Discontinued software Mac software stub ... more details
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