HOOKED ON JAVA by Arthur van Hoff, Sami Shaio, and Orca Starbuck, Addison-Wesley, 181 pages, ISBN 0-201-48837-X, $29.95
Java, the cross-platform programming language from Sun Microsystems for building Internet applications, has be
en blessed by all the major Internet players, including Netscape and Microsoft.
- by Rex Baldazo
PC ROAD KILL by Michael Hyman, IDG Books Worldwide, 466 pages, ISBN 1-56884-348-8, $19.95
It's part of BYTE's storied folklore: Philippe Kahn, unable to finance his fledgling software
company, hoodwinks a BYTE advertising representative into giving him ad space on credit he didn't have.
- by Stanford Diehl
CONSUMER REPORTS CARS: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE, 1996 EDITION, Creative Multimedia, 225 SW Broadway, Suite 600, Portland, OR 97205, (503) 241-4351, $19.99
If you're shopping for a car, buy this CD-ROM first.
- by Rich Friedman
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