October 1996 / What's New

E-Mail Meets Personal Information Management The Outlook is Good	There's good news for those of you who spend a good portion of your day creating and responding to e-mail: Microsoft's Outlook 97 integrates e-mail with common business applications such as scheduling, PIMs, and word processing. - by Dave Andrews
Enterprise-Wide Business Planning Maestro Orchestrates Effective Management	Two integrated products for Windows help you manage and control groups, departments, divisions, and entire companies.
Manage Documents Over the Web Wide-Ranging Solution	Available for Unix and Windows NT, the Basis Intranet Solution lets you integrate enterprise-wide document management applications with Web t echnology to develop intranets.
Client/Server Project-Collaboration Tool Timely Tool	A client/server application that supports TCP/IP- and NetWare-based IPX/SPX networking, TeamWay (per server, $1000; per client, $350) delivers timely status information to individual team members and their managers.
Build Business Models	A stand-alone Windows application for creative business thinking, Advance 1.0 ($695) helps you build business models and analyze multidimensional business data contained in corporate databases.
Dynamic Database Management	A suite of software tools, Total Performance Management (tools, from $2995; TPM Premium Package, $25,000) proactively manages client/server database environments.
Engineering Series on CD-ROM	ns Series includes Civil Engineer's Solutions Suite ($79.95), Chemical Engineer's Solutions Suite ($89.95), and Architectural Engineer's Solutions Suite ($69.95).
Scanning OS for Desktop Imaging Now the TWAIN Shall Meet	By providing a link between a TWAIN- or Adobe Plug-In-compliant scanner and desktop applications, the Presto PageManager Suite lets you drag and drop a scanned image to a printer, fax application, e-mail, filing system, OCR software, or word processor for further processing.
Share Images Over a Network	Now, users on Novell NetWare 3.12 or higher LANs can store, manage, search, and share document images.
Windows 95 Backup Software Logical Backup	SmartStor's ($65) Installable File System feature uses a 32-bit VxD to establish a tape drive as a logical, mounted storage device, making it easier to view, back up, and restore data.
Internet Firewall Security On Guard Ready to Fence with Interlopers	Designed to provide computer network security for medium- to larg e-size organizations with Internet or intranet exposure, On Guard screens IP and IPX packets and rapidly compares the "state" of each packet against the firewall's rules base.
Make Space on Your Crowded Hard Disk	DiskMapper ($49.95) shows you the size of every file and subdirectory on your ha rd disk, as well as the filename, path, size, date, and extension type, so you can delete or compress files you don't need or rarely use.
Render Molecules, Calculate Symmetry 3-D Symmetry	Designed for desktop visualization and publishing, SymApps ($499) is a 3-D molecular rendering program for Windows 95 and NT that can calculate symmetry point groups and display the symmetry elements on-screen.
Notebook Surge Protector SurgeArrest Stops Spikes Cold	The SurgeArrest notebook protector ($29.95) offers three telephone jacks -- one phone in and two modem/fax lines -- and a 6-foot telephone cord.
Net Link Internet Device Sega Saturn Net Link	Sega Saturn Net Link ($199.99), a 28.8- Kbps modem and browser peripheral for the Sega Saturn, brings the Internet to your TV for networked gaming, e-mail, on-line chats, and Web connections.
Digital-Only PCI Frame Grabber	Designed for digital cameras, the DT3157 Mach frame grabber ($1495) can transfer images in real time to system memory or the display.
PCI-Format SCSI Adapter for PC and Power Mac	Using only a simple jumper to select PC or Power Mac capability, the AdvanSCSI ABP970 PCI Bus Host Adapter ($199) includes a dedicated 50-MHz RISC processor chip with on-board SRAM that relieves the host CPU of I/O tasks thr ough bus-mastering technology.
Improve Processor Speeds Three Mothers Perform	Three motherboards improve the processor speeds and performance of desktop systems in CAD/CAM and multimedia applications.
Champagne Graphics at Beer Prices Graphics Mystique	PC graphics are entering a new era. For the price of almost any of yesterday's vanilla PCI graphics boards, today you can get swift 2-D graphics, impressive 3-D effects, and smooth video. - by Mark Schlack
Wireless Infrared Token Ring Adapter	Now, you can connect your portable PC to Token Ring networks using JetEye Net Plus ($719).
100Base-TX LAN PC Card Meet the Bus	Meeting the 32-bit CardBus PC Card standard, the Network Flyer 100 ($329) is eight times faster than 10Base-T mode.
10Base-T-to-100Base-T LAN Bridge	Single-port bridge users can connect their 10Base-T-only devices to Fast Ethernet LANs.
Personal Fax Server	Consisting of an external fax/modem card and a memory chip set, which comes with 512 KB of RAM (expandable to 4.2 MB), 3D FaxPal ($169) captures faxes from a telephone line and stores them (up to 20 faxed pages) for later retrieval from a PC.
Power Protection for Workstations Back-UPS Office Belongs Up Front	Now, you can combat hardware damage caused by surges and data loss from brownouts and blackouts.
19.2-Kbps Wireless Modem Cover the Miles Quickly with a Hopper	Designed with direct-sequence spread-spectrum technology, the Hopper DS wireless modem (from $980) can transmit and receive data at speeds of up to 19.2 Kbps at distances exceeding 6 miles.
Windows 3.1-Based Multiuser File Server	A combination of hardware and software, Centralan (i ncluding four monitors, under $7000) lets up to 16 users share a single PC with a 166-MHz Pentium processor, 32 MB of EDO memory (expandable to 192 MB), a multi-VGA adapter, a 2-GB Fast/Wide SCSI-2 hard drive, an eight-speed IDE CD-ROM drive, three internal and four external drive bays, and two 32-bit PCI and five 16-bit ISA expansion slots.
230-MB MO Drive	A battery-powered 3-1/2-inch 230-MB MO drive, Fujitsu's DynaMO 230 Portable PC Card Drive (from $499) comes with a Type II connector that provides a data transfer rate of up to 1.6 MBps.
DLT Libraries An Upwardly Scalable DLT Library	The entry-level, scalable Q2*15 DLT system can store more than 1 TB of data with 15 cartridges per library storage module.
120-/133-MHz Pentium Notebooks A Great Traveling Companion	The TravelMate 6020 (about $4199) and 6030 (about $4999) incorporate Intel 120- and 133-MHz Pentium processors, 256 KB of L2 cache memory, 8 and 16 MB of EDO memory, ZPV technology, a six-speed CD-ROM drive, 16-bit full-duplex audio, a 28.8-Kbps modem, and a removable hard drive (1.08 GB on the 6020 and 1.35 GB on the 6030).
Multimedia Notebook Goes 5 to 10 Hours	Weighing 7 pounds, the AcerNote Nuovo (about $3499 to $3999) features an Intel 133-MHz Pentium processor; 16 MB of EDO memory, upgradable to 64 MB; 256 KB of second-level cache memory; 2 MB of EDO video memory; a 1.2-GB EIDE hard drive; a 128 -bit NeoMagic graphics accelerator, which provides 16-million-color, full-motion video playback and full-color MPEG at 32 fps; an Ethernet controller with an RJ-45 jack; an 11.8-inch active-matrix or 11.3-inch dual-scan screen; a microphone; a 16-bit stereo audio system; a 28.8-Kbps fax/data modem with DSVD; a touchpad; and a palm rest.
Three Pentium Notebooks Three Pentium Notebooks Are We	The Monte Carlo (about $3199 to $5199) comes with a 100-, 120-, or 133-MHz Pentium processor; a 12.1- or 11.3-inch SVGA active-matrix color display with a resolution of 800 by 600 pixels; 8 or 16 MB of RAM, expandable to 40 or 48 MB; an 810-MB or 1-GB hard drive; a removable 3-1/2-inch floppy drive; a six-speed CD-ROM drive; stereo speakers and a microphone; MPEG-1 video-acceleration support; and an ErgoTrac pointing device.
RADical Advancements from Clarion	A RAD environment, Clarion for Windows 2.0 includes OOP enhancements to the Clarion 4GL language, OLE/OCX support, and new options for customizing application appearance.
HiJaak Gets More Professional	HiJaak Pro 4.0 supports common 3-D graphics, PostScript, and CAD formats; supports graphics file operations, such as viewing, printing, and converting, from the shortcut menu; and integrates with the Windows 95 shell to expand graphics handling in the OS.
BeyondMail Eases Information Handling	BeyondMail 3.0 Internet Edition introduces directory services via a four-tier address book: personal, workgroup, enterprise, and global; multimedia messaging; information handling with configurable folders; remote-access enhancements; and messaging-administration enhancements.
FireWall-1 2.1 Enhancements	Enhancements in FireWall-1 2.1 include Internet and intranet gateway support for Windows NT, management console support for NT and 95, integrated support for FireWall-1 SecuRemote client-encryption software on Windows 95 laptops and desktops, and extended application support for RealAudio, VDOLive, Internet Phone, and Oracle SQL*Net.

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