November 1994 / News & Views

The Web Means Business	Companies are increasingly turning to the World Wide Web to spread the word on their products and services - by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
What's Wrong with the Web	The WWW (World Wide Web), and the browsers that support it, is a remarkable fabric of information threads that span the world. - by SJVN
Solutions To Internet Traffic Jams	During one week in July, users on the Internet downloaded more than 300,000 files, many of them megabyte-size images, from the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 server at NASA's NSSDC (National Space Science Data Center) in Greenbelt, Maryland. - by Win Treese
NexGen's Come-from-Behind Strategy	When you're number four, you try harder--or at least try something different. - by Tom R. Halfhill
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Polysilicon: The Path to Better Displays?	New fabrication techniques for creating screens based on the polysilicon technology that's used in high-resolution, diminutive camcorder viewing screens could result in higher-resolution LCDs than those now found on laptop computers. - by Chris Chinnock
Silicon Technologies at a Glance	Single-crystal silicon, which is the typical wafer on which ICs are fabricated, represents the high end of silicon performance. - by C.C.
Borland's and Microsoft's Latest Reflect Different Priorities	With their newest C++ products, Borland and Microsoft have taken two fundamentally different foci: Microsoft emphasizes cross-platform coverage and the ability to create OLE custom controls, while Borland introduces a highly modular set of OLE 2.0 tools. - by Nancy Nicolaisen
Whatever Happened to...	QuickRing (see ``Fast Transit,'' October 1992 BYTE) When BYTE first covered QuickRing, it was as a potential local-bus architecture that could compete with PCI and VL-Bus.
Plan Ahead with Quicken	Over the past two years, sales of personal finance software has been growing at an estimated rate of 50 percent, according to the Software Publishers Association, and Intuit's Quicken has about 80 percent of that market. - by Ken Sheldon
CD-ROM Drive Prices Drop	Strong competition and new technology should force already low prices for CD-ROM readers to drop even further this fall.
Create Voice Response Applications Visually	Visual Voice from Stylus Innovations is, at its core, just another Visu al Basic custom control. - by Rick Grehan
New Chips Arrive, But DX4/75 Sticks Around	Notebooks based on Intel's 75-MHz 486DX4 CPU are popular with users who require multimedia capabilities on the road for presentations or light teleconferencing. - by Ed Perratore
WinG Addresses Windows' Weakness in Games	Sales of DOS-based applications continue to decline, but one area where DOS still rules is in entertainment and games, thanks to performance advantages over Windows' GDI (Graphical Device Interface). - by Tom R. Halfhill
ODBC 2.0 Further Establishes Cross-Product Data Sharing Standard ODBC 2.0 Driver Sources	With all the attention focused on Chicago, Daytona, OLE 2.0, and Cairo, it's easy to forget another critical Microsoft-driven technology just now coming into its own, the ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) standard. - by Jane Richter
Apple Redefines the Macintosh Old Mac vs. New Mac	Apple (Cupertino, CA) is embarking on a two- to three-year project that will redefine the Macintosh's proprietary hardware/software architecture to accommodate industry standards and eventually merge with IBM's PReP (PowerPC Reference Platform). - by Trh

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