July 1996 / Bits

Richer, Thinner Notebooks Arrive IBM's ThinkPad 560	Although not quite paper thin and paper light, new notebooks offer many features found in heavier high-end portables. - by Dave Andrews
Geek Mystique	Think you ty pe fast? Michael Shestov, Guinness Book world champion of error-free speed typing, can enter the numbers 1 to 801 without a single mistake within five minutes.
Geoprocessing Goes Prime Time Oracle 7 with the Spatial Data Option	Driven by new geographic data sources, improved software, and widespread need, geodata and geoprocessing are becoming big business. - by Lance McKee
Yeah, But	The paperless office is approaching reality. Industry analysts estimate that the amount of printed information workers deal with will decline from about 70 percent today to about 30 percent in the year 2004.
Micromirrors Project Better Images How TI's Digital Mirror Subsystem Works	Usually mirrors reflect an image, but a new technology five years in development at Texas Instruments (Dallas, TX) uses mirrors to create an image. - by Dave Andrews
Future Watch	Thanks to new manufacturing facilities, choosing a thin LCD over a bulky CRT won't gouge your wallet quite as much.
OpenDoc: A Better OLE than OLE?	Among Windows software developers, Microsoft's Object Linking and Embedding technology is the standard for interapplication communication. - by Robert L. Hummel
Bug of the Month Cut the Cache	Empty the Cache into the Trash
Ten Reasons to Buy Duplex Printers	A duplex printer automatically prints on both sides of a piece of paper.
A Complete Trilogy of Visual Basic Tools	Code Complete is a triad of visual programming tools from MicroHelp that's primarily aimed at Visual Basic developers. - by Rick Grehan
Survey	ISDN: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
RoboCop, Meet Robo Fire Fighter The Flame-Fighting ChromBot	The future of home fire prevention could involve more than smoke detectors and hand-held extinguishers. - by Michael Bradley
Book Review	Good News for Cowboys - by Steve Apiki
How NT 4.0 Merges Win APIs...Right! Win32 APIs: Slowly Converging	When Windows 95 made its debut, Microsoft told programmers the new OS was the path to NT. - by Robert L. Hummel
HP Takes the Lead in Workstation Peformance Comparing Midrange Workstations	In the ever-changing workstation market, Hewlett-Packard has leapfrogged ahead in the category of $25,000-$50,000 midrange Unix RISC machines. - by Peter Lowber
CD-ROM Review Beats the Aroma of Formaldehyde	Virtual Dissection - by Rich Friedman
How Computers Will Solve the Health Care Crisis Haruhiko Asada, professor at MIT	Haruhiko Asada, professor at MIT and director of the Total Home Automation and Health Care/Elder Care Consortium, describes how computers, robots, and software will improve home health care. - by Dave Andrews

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