Key Dates for Dialog

		Dialog releases DialogLink 5 to help enhance the role of information professionals in their organizations. DialogLink 5 features a more intuitive interface and additional tools to streamline the process of finding, retrieving and distributing information found through the Dialog® online service. The revolutionary software also includes chemical structure searching of 10 million chemical compounds searchable via research databases, including drug pipeline and patent files.
		Dialog releases Dialog Live News, a new personalized news monitoring service offering automated streaming of real-time news reports from 2,300 global sources and residing on Dialog's recently launched platform of business information, news and market research services. Dialog Live News allows users to create up to 10 profiles on relevant topics and to view scrolling news related to those profiles within seconds of when stories hit the news wires.
		Dialog unveils DialogLink® 4.0, an upgraded version of its software package for information professionals that adds XML delivery, new reporting capabilities, distribution across an enterprise and access to electronically published scholarly articles.
		Dialog launches a new comprehensive technology platform for its line of business information, news and market research services, Dialog NewsRoom and Dialog Profound. Included in the enhancements is the introduction of SmartTerms™, an exclusive taxonomy that facilitates much greater precision searching and document recall, with more granularity for more relevant information quickly, with precise, additional search options available for power users as they shape complex searches. Also included in the platform upgrade is Dialog BillBack™, a free, Web-based cost-recovery service. Dialog BillBack tracks online research charges and generates usage reports for client invoicing and internal budgeting through Dialog Profound and Dialog NewsRoom.
		Dialog launches its Dialog Application Programming Interface (API), a Web Service that enables Dialog’s extensive content collection and renowned search engine to be integrated transparently into Web sites, enterprise portals, corporate intranets and extranets, software applications and other interactive services.
		Dialog releases Dialog Portals, a next-generation information service that allows mission-critical business news, research and competitive intelligence to be integrated into enterprise portals.
		Dialog provides access to World News Connection® (WNC) through the Dialog-branded family of information services as File 985. WNC—the U.S. government's daily online global news monitoring service—offers electronic searching of an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information compiled daily by the U.S. government's Open Source Center (OSC) and published by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Technical Information Service (NTIS).
		DialogPRO Competitive Intelligence wins the e-Content Award for best business information service at the 2003 Information Highways conference. DialogPRO offers easy access to information culled from the more than 15 terabytes of information Dialog has gathered from around the world.
		Dialog celebrates 30 years of information excellence.
		ReferenceLink, a joint release by Gale® and Dialog, enables library patrons and students to search thousands of information sources simultaneously through a single, friendly interface.
		Dialog NewsEdge, the industry-specific, personalized current awareness and news alerting service for corporations, launches amidst hails as the "most advanced service of its kind available anywhere."
		The Dialog® Newsroom database is launched as a stand-alone, Web-based service and exceeds the company's goal in terms of content sources.
		Dialog launches DialogPRO for small business users.
		Thomson Intelligence Data is transferred to Dialog, expanding Dialog's reach further into strategic intelligence, competitive intelligence and marketing departments of the corporate marketplace.
		Dialog launches Graduate Education Program to help future librarians prepare to use online information services as they take up their jobs in libraries, schools and businesses around the world. The program furthers Dialog's strategy of proactively supporting information professionals worldwide.
		The Dialog Corporation releases Dialog Company Profiles, a fully integrated resource bringing together company information, product and brand information, industry rankings, company histories, news articles and financial information.
		Thomson acquires NewsEdge Corporation, a global provider of content solutions for business.
		Dialog launches Quantum2: a development program for information professionals. The program builds on and enhances a highly successful Dialog program first introduced in 1993.
		Dialog wins Grand Prize in Database Scalability Program 2000, administered by Winter Corporation. The Dialog implementation consists of a proprietary DBMS, an Amdahl Corporation server, and an EMC storage solution.
		The Dialog Corporation releases Dialog1, a streamlined search product developed to offer high-level content in an easy-to-use format.
		The Thomson Corporation names Roy M. Martin, Jr. Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer as president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Dialog, a Thomson company.
		The Thomson Corporation purchases the Information Services Division (including the Dialog, DataStar, and Profound services) of The Dialog Corporation.
		Dialog for Lotus Notes is launched.
		Dialog Intranet Toolkit is launched to enable clients to custom build their own interfaces to the unrivaled Dialog content collection.
		DataStar WebCharts is launched to enhance scientific information analysis on DataStar.
		TradStatWeb is launched to provide the world's first Web-based trade statistics resource.
		A suite of DialogSelect applications, targeting ten major market sectors, is launched by The Dialog Corporation.
		The Dialog Corporation purchases Responsive Database Services, Inc.
		DialogClassic, providing Web access to command-based Dialog®, is launched by The Dialog Corporation.
		DialogWeb is launched by KRII.
		DialogSelect is launched by KRII.
		Knight-Ridder Information Inc is acquired by M.A.I.D plc for $420 million; The Dialog Corporation is formed by the merger of the two companies.
		Dialog@Site is launched
		DataStarWeb is launched by KRII in Europe.
		Dialog Information Services becomes Knight-Ridder Information, Inc. (KRII).
		Profound, a cutting-edge business intelligence tool, is launched by M.A.I.D plc.
		DataStar is acquired by Knight-Ridder, Inc. from Radio Suisse for $36.3 million.
		Dialog Information Services, Inc. is acquired by Knight-Ridder, Inc from Lockheed for $353 million.
		Dialog Information Services, Inc. becomes a subsidiary of Lockheed Corp.
		Dialog becomes the world's first commercial online service.
		The online information retrieval system DIALOG is created by Roger Summit.

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