May 1994 / News & Views

The Engines to Make Multimedia Mainstream	As industry groups seek to standardize software programming interfaces, digital signal processing may hold the key to bringing voice, video, and telephony to low-cost PCs - by Dave Andrews
TI's Breakthrough DSP	Developers and analysts are raving over a new DSP (digital signal processor) that shatters speed records and brings an unprecedented level of performance to the desktop. - by Tom R. Halfhill
Take 2	In round 1 of the Microsoft-Stac compression lawsuit, Microsoft was ordered to pay Stac Electronics $120 million for infringing on data-compression patents in the companies' patent and trade-secret dispute.
LANtastic 6.0 Creates Peer Pressure	Peer-to-peer LANs have evolved from limited-function packages into full-featured systems. - by Stan Miastkowski
Artisoft and Novell in Technology Partnership	On the face of it, there's hardly a more unlikely pairing than Novell, the undisputed champion of corporate and enterprise computing, and Artisoft, which produces LANtastic, the popular SOHO (small office/home office) LAN. - by Alexis Tannenbaum
Front Ends Ease Internet Access	It seems like sacrilege, but it was just a matter of time. - by Angela Gunn
On-Line Access to the Internet	How much Internet access do the major on-line services offer their subscribers?
Adapting GUI Software for the Blind Is No Easy Task	The use of GUIs am ong blind computer users is increasing, for better or worse. - by Joe Lazzaro
Motorola's Envoy First to Run Magic Cap	In announcing the hand-held Envoy, Motorola is the first company to release details about a hand-held computer designed specifically to run General Magic's Magic Cap operating sys tem. - by Andy Reinhardt
Motorola Envoy -- $1500 price	Unlike the Newton Messa gePad, Motorola's $1500 Envoy includes a built-in fax modem and a wireless modem.
PDA Companies: We've Only Just Begun	Apple has released a slimmer, less expensive, and more capable Newton PDA, the MessagePad 110. - by D. A.
CAD Gets Objective	Rather than overloading their programs with new features, a few CAD software vendors are looking at the underlying architecture of CAD and exploiting new technologies, such as OOP (object-oriented programming) and OLE 2.0. - by Evan Yares
InfoModeler Gets the Message to the Customer	If you've ever been involved in the construction of a large-scale database system, you know the hazards. - by Rick Grehan
FoxPro 2.6 Targets dBase IV Market	For several years, each new version of Microsoft's FoxPro has set new standards for speed among PC databases. - by Mark Hettler
Apple's And Microsoft's System Software Road Map	Apple recently divulged new details of its system software strategy for the next few years. - by T. R. H.

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