Digital Review was a

trade magazine 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 trade or industry. The collective term for th ...

focusing on the market created by

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 unti ...

(DEC), at the time the second largest computer company; IBM was number one.

History

They were published independently from October 1983 thru August 1992 by

Ziff-Davis Ziff Davis, Inc. is an American digital media and internet company. First founded in 1927 by William Bernard Ziff Sr. and Bernard George Davis, the company primarily owns technology-oriented media websites, online shopping-related services, and ...

. At that point, they were acquired and merged with ''

Digital News Digital News was a trade publication that focused on products from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). History They published independently from 1986 thru 1992. At that point, they were acquired and merged with '' Digital Review'' with the new ...

''; the new title was ''Digital News & Review''.

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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. That title ceased publishing "due to the lack of an advertising base."

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Defunct magazines published in the United States Magazines established in 1983 Magazines disestablished in 1992 {{trade-mag-stub

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