Digital News was a

trade publication A trade magazine, also called a trade journal or trade paper (colloquially or disparagingly a trade rag), is a magazine or newspaper whose target audience is people who work in a particular tradesman, trade or industry. The collective te ...

that focused on products from

Digital Equipment Corporation Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president unt ...

(DEC).

History

They published independently from 1986 thru 1992. At that point, they were acquired and merged with '' Digital Review'' with the new title ''Digital News & Review''. ''DEC'' product news and reviews from

Sonny Monosson Adolf F. "Sonny" Monosson (c. 1927 - 2003) was known for having established a market in leasing Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) computer hardware at a time when ''DEC'' preferred that it be purchased. He also was "author of a newsletter on Di ...

, which were featured on the ''Digital Business'' pages of ''Digital News'' were retained in the pages of ''Digital News & Reviews''.

The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...

had described the situation between the prior publication owners as "The war among the Digitals: Bitter competition reflects growing rivalry between Ziff,

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empires." The combined ''Digital News & Review'' periodical was printed from 1992 to 1996 by

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''Hardcopy'' (magazine)

In 1988, ''Digital News'' acquired 1980-founded ''Hardcopy'' magazine (stylized ''HARDCOPY''). At the time,

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''Ziff Davis'' published "a third DEC-users journal, Boston-based Digital Review." ' was the fourth player.

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