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Technology Stocks : Dialog Corp.: Good Buy? (DIAL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Solder who wrote (94)	10/5/1999 1:53:00 AM
From: Basildon Bond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116

Cutting from today's issue (London) of the Financial Times. By the way, someone on the ESI thread in the UK said that they heard Dialog's name mentioned on CNBC yesterday. Did you hear anything? DIALOG: Group plans pay-per-view By Caroline Daniel Shares in Dialog yesterday jumped 10 per cent after the online information group announced plans to make its extensive database of business content available to any internet user, on a pay-per-view basis by credit card. Until now, users could only access this content if they paid a subscription fee or if their company paid to use theservice. Dialog is building on its relationship with Netscape, the US internet browser company, which will help Dialog build its new consumer pay-per-view service. Dan Wagner, chief executive, said the decision to make 30 per cent of Dialog's database available - on business, science and technology topics - was the "first of many tie-ups to expose our content to the broader internet user". According to a report in February, produced by the NEC research institute of the US, Dialog has 7.5 times more content on its database than is available on the whole of the world wide web. Mr Wagner said the research showed that there were 800m pages of text on the internet, compared with more than 6bn pages available from Dialog. The shares closed up 6½p at 69½p. regards Basildon Bond