December 1994 / News & Views

New Products Help Road Warriors Stay in Touch	A new group of communications products seek to improve the efficiency of telecommuters and mobile workers - by Dave Andrews
Sony Releases Magic Cap Device Magic Link Highlights	The latest entrant in the quest for the killer PDA (personal digital assistant) is Sony's Magic Link PIC-1000. - by Andy Reinhardt
Network Management Gets Physical	The term LAN management can refer to a myriad of tasks, ranging from the management of such devices as bridges or hubs on a network to managing servers, PCs, and software. - by Salvatore Salamone
Holiday Gift Sampler	3DO Arrives for PCs In October 1993, Panasonic released the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer system for playing multimedia 3DO games with photo-realistic graphics, full-motion video, and 16-bit, 44-kHz CD-quality sound. - by Eric J. Garland
Interactive Science Fiction for the Mac	Here's a neat interactive CD-ROM science fiction game called Iron Helix. - by Tom Thompson
Something in the Myst	If you have a double-speed CD-ROM drive or faster, there is one game you must own. - by Rex Baldazo
Hockey Starts on Time in PC Land	More Windows games should be available this holiday season, thanks to WinG (see ``WinG Addresses Windows' Weakness in Games,'' November BYTE, page 48), but DOS continues to thrive as a games platform. - by Stanford Diehl
Matrox Delivers 3-D Video for Games	Complex computer games require significant computer resources, especially when it comes to video and memory. - by Stanford Diehl
Machines That Move	If you're looking for something a little different to do this holiday season, consider building the Mobile Robot kit from A. K. Peters (Wellesley, MA, (617) 235-2210). - by Raymond GA Cote
Cool Practical Gifts	If you are looking for something besides games and multimedia upgrade kits to give for the holidays, check out any of the screen savers.
Motorola's Envoy Device for Magic Cap	Motorola's Envoy Device for Magic Cap (see ``Motorola's Envoy First to Run Magic Cap,'' May BYTE) Sony's release of th e Magic Link, the first available device that's based on General Magic's Magic Cap operating system and Telescript communications software, has people wondering about the status of Motorola's Envoy.
These Maps Lead to the Desktop	The symbiotic sciences of mapmaking and demographics--otherwise k nown as charting the social and economic lay of the land--on computers have long been the domain of specialists in GISes (geographic information systems). - by Christopher O'Malley
Electronic Banking Faces Numerous Hurdles	Much as vendors of imaging and electronic-forms software want to create the paperless office, developers of personal-finance software are introducing on-line services that let you handle financial transactions without paper. - by Ken Sheldon
Step-by-Step Windows Database Development	I don't think I've ever seen an applications builder that takes the step-by-step pa radigm to the extreme as does DataBoss, a Windows database program builder from Kedwell Software (Portsmouth, NH, (603) 431-0536). - by Rick Grehan

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