January 1997 / Bits

Web Tools Will Converge Web Development Roster for a Typical Team Hot Web Tools from HAHT	Better tools are coming that address all the needs of an enterprise Web site application. - by Dave Andrews
Geek Mystique	Geekette Power
Yeah, But	September 17, 1996, and the National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN) starts its autumn by filing Chapter 7 bankruptcy. - by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Netcards Coming to America Internet Security Framework	A marvel of technology that enjoys widespread use in Europe, and to a lesser degree Canada, may finally gain acceptance in the U.S. The PC/SC Workgroup, supported by the Smart Card Forum and made up of PC and smartcard companies, recently announced its intention to develop open standards allowing the integration of smartcards with PCs. - by Daniel Coyle
Future Watch	Coming This Year: Virtual Receptionists - by Dave Andrews
Wireless PDAs Will Proliferate U.S. Digital Standards	Mobile phones are on the verge of experiencing the same sort of growth and options that personal computers did years ago. - by Jon Pepper
Bug of the Month	HTML Stymies Netscape Navigator
Welcome to the Real Data Superhighway	North America stands poised to finally enter the age of the true electronic "information superhighway. - by Daniel Coyle
Survey How Difficult Is ...	Coordination, Cleansing Most Demanding Data Warehouse Tasks - by Dave Andrews
Book Review: Net Metaphors	Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors, by Mark Stefik, MIT Press; $27.50, hard cover Are the metaphors we use to describe the Internet a danger to its development? - by Michael Nadeau
Book Review: Life in the Outernet	America Off-Line: The Complete Outernet Starter Kit, by A. J. Jacobs, Cader Books, ISBN 0-8362-2433-7, $8.95 There's a brave new world out there where you can access thousands of magazines and newspapers, chat with friends, make new acquaintances, and receive mail free of charge (albeit only six days a week). - by Jenny Donelan
Goodbye NT for MIPS	The original RISC platform for hosting Windows NT, the MIPS architecture, is getting phased out as a host for Microsoft's enterprise operating system.
But Cheaper Alpha NT PCs Are Coming	While MIPS gets de-emphasized as a platform for NT, Digital Equipment and VLSI Technology are working to bring less-expensive computers based on the Alpha microprocessor to market.
Datapro Report Companies With a Plan Top Microcomputer Security Breaches	Security Wake-Up Call - by Rebecca J. Duncan and Jackie Hyde
Corel PDA to Bundle Java Suite We Be Java'n	Does the world need another PDA? Corel (Ottawa, Ontario) certainly thinks so. - by Jon Pepper
CD-ROM Review: Learn to Read and Have Some Fun You'll Catch More Kids with Miss Honey	Finally a great program for three- to six-year-old beginning readers. - by Rich Friedman
Why Java Won't Repeat the Mistakes of Unix Scott McNealy, CEO, Sun Microsystems	Scott McNealy, chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems, talks about how Java will change computing and the computer industry. - by Dave Andrews

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