As great as Lotus Notes is for deploying productivity-enhancing applications throughout a company, it still suffers from numerous weaknesses. Here's what users want, as well as a hint of things to come from Lotus.
- by Rick Dobson and Dave Andrews
Software companies that develop Windows database tools for the corporate end user continue to refine their products' ease of use while building in room to extend to enterprise databases.
- by Jane Richter
The storage capacities of personal communications devices, pagers, and digital cameras could improve greatly in 1995, thanks to a 32-MB new flash-memory device, called CompactFlash, from SunDisk (Burlingame, CA).
- by Dave Andrews
Although IR data links have long been possible, a lack of standards has resulted in incompatible technologies that have stymied IR connections' widespread adoption.
- by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Powerful desktop
computers combined with new video-editing programs are delivering professional video-editing capabilities to the PC, Mac, and Power Mac platforms.
- by Jon Pepper
Information publishers are turning to a new breed of smart-indexing tools that can automatically summarize and condense huge documents without human intervention.
- by Dennis Allen
On-line services are responding to users' enormous demand for Internet accessibilit
y by incorporating Internet access and tools as fast as their engineers can bring the connections on-line.
- by Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols
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