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U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for January 26WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:  LOTUS 1-2-3 Profile America — Monday, January 26th. On this date 32 years ago, the infant personal computer was empowered to become something much greater than a glorified word processor with the release of the spreadsheet program Lotus 1-2-3. The popular program drew acclaim as the first PC "killer application." Finance and accounting workers were thus freed from hunching over ledger books and switched to hunching before a computer screen. The name "1-2-3" stemmed from the product's integration of three main capabilities — spreadsheet, charting and graphing, andrudimentary database operations. Today there are over 8,600 software publishers in the U.S., employing almost 420,000 people in the $170 billion per year business. You can find current data on the country's economy by downloading the 'America's Economy' mobile application at www.census.gov/mobile. Sources: Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotions of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button). Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110428/DC91889LOGO
To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-census-bureau-daily-feature-for-january-26-300021213.html SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau 
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