February 1997 / What's New

Retrieve E-Mail Without a PC PC-less E-Mail Retrieval	Millennia's Email Reader lets you dial your desktop PC and listen to your e-mail using a plain old telephone instead of downloading your messages to a notebook PC. - by Dave Andrews
Intranet Productivity Suite Distinctive Solution	Available for Windows 95 and NT, the Distinct IntraNet Suite ($425) includes Distinct NFS 95 for sharing files, programs, and printers across heterogeneous networks; Distinct NetRover, a corporate Internet access solution that includes a Web browser, multiconnect FTP, and a newsreader and mail; Distinct IntelliTerm terminal emulation for IBM and DEC; and Distinct IntraNet Servers for managing network resources.
Add More Pert Charting to Microsoft Project Perky Project Charting	With Pert Chart Expert (single-user, $199), you can add more Pert charting capabilities to Microsoft Project or use the program as a stand-alone application to produce Pert charts from text files and spreadsheets.
Firewall System Brace the Barriers	A system of secure, interoperating firewalls for protecting distributed intranets and Internet connections, Telaxian Shield's ($7995 to $11,995, depending on configuration) firewall-to-firewall encryption capabilities allow for virtual private networks within a company site and throughout an extended enterprise, across the Internet and intranets.
Data Mart in a Box	SmartMart provides the software and services you need to build, manage, and use a data mart.
Manage Multiple E-Mail Accounts	An Internet e-mail product for Windows 95 and NT, Calypso (single-user version, $79.95) lets you simultaneously access and view multiple e-mail accounts from one mailbox.
CD-ROM on Finite Element Modeling	The Finite Element Modeling in Engineering Practice CD-ROM ($79) provides engineers with practical methods for testing computer models of parts, products, and processes.
Windows Desktop Video Editing Multimedia Like Magic	The Presto! Multimedia Suite ($129) includes Presto!
Create C++ and ActiveX-Based Interfaces	A set of components and class libraries, Ilog Visualization Suite (each product, from $5000 per developer) helps you build interactive, graphical, enterprise-class applications.
Create and Maintain Web Sites Cross-Breed Conferences	A cross between a direct-dial on-line system and an intranet or Web server, Wildcat Interactive Net Server (Community Edition, $99; Business Edition, $1125; Enterprise Edition, $2995) features a message system that enables forum-style conferences that you can configure for Internet e-mail, Usenet news, public messages, and private mail.
Promote Your Site	SitePromoter ($129) provides a simple tool to register your site with 150 major search engines, directories, and indices.
Open Personal Web Offices	With Netopia Virtual Office ($69.95), Windows-based intranet/Internet users can open a virtual office on the Web.
Scanning Software for 95/NT Explore and Incorporate Color	With Pagis Pro 97 (about $169), you can capture, use, and organize color documents and incorporate them into Windows Explorer.
Windows 95 on Silicon Graphics Workstations Insignia Treads Softly	With SoftWindows 95 for Silicon Graphics (right-to-use license, about $599), you can run Win 95 applications on your workstation under IRIX 6.2 and 6.3.
SurveyWin 3.2	SurveyWin 3.2, the on-line data collection and statistical analysis program for Windows 3.x, 95, NT, and OS/2, offers an unlimited skip feature, which automatically guides users to the next appropriate question; hyperlinks; bit-map support; and visible or invisible calculated fields.
WebXpresso 1.2	Implementing Netscape's LiveConnect framework, WebXpresso 1.2, the Web-enabling component of DataViews' DV-Xpresso modular development tool, lets you create applications that access transparently both client and server Web-based applications.
RemoteWare 3.1 for Windows NT	RemoteWare 3.1 for Windows NT adds messaging support, MAPI support, subscription and publishing services, and accessibility from within a Web browser.
Stereo PC Headset	The ANC-550 Stereo PC Headset ($79.95) features active noise-cancellati on technology.
Headset Telephone Hold That Phone	The lightweight, adjustable HT530 headset ($59.95) comes with a single-headphone-style ear piece and flex-mounted microphone.
686 Embedded CPU Board Half Size Board Goes Full Speed Ahead	Operating at speeds of up to 200 MHz, the IPH-686 Half Size ISA Pentium board (from $875) supports 256-KB through 1-MB pipeline burst and standard cache RAM modules for high-speed access to blocks of data.
Video Engine for PCs	You can use the VideoX2 (from $1795) as the foundation for a PC-based video-mixing system.
Help for Lost Souls Everywhere You'll Trip on This	DeLorme's Tripmate is a 9-ounce device that's slightly larger than a bar of soap and uses Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites to fix your location. - by Dave Andrews
Ultra-Wide SCSI-3 Macintosh Accelerator ExpressPCI-Pro	Designed to maximize I/O transfer speed and boost total system performance for digital video, prepress, server, and real-time applications, the ExpressPCI-Pro Series ($395) delivers transfer rates of up to 40 MBps.
Computerized Whiteboard	With Ibid (about $499), users in multiple locations can create, capture, collaborate, a nd communicate information.
Real-Time Videoconferencing	A hardware and software kit, SeeQuest transforms your Windows PC into a desktop videoconferencing workstation.
Wireless LAN PC Card Adapter and Access Points Range Rover	At 1.6 Mbps, the RangeLAN2 7400 PC Card ($695) provides high-speed data transfer and interchangeable antennae, so you can select the antenna that matches your specific device and coverage needs.
Four Desktop Scanners Cop A Scan	The four models in the Copiscan 8000 Series of scanners (from $22,000) range in speed from 60 to more than 100 pages per minute in portrait mode.
Wide-Screen Color Monitor PanaSync/Pro P21	The PanaSync/Pro P21 monitor ($2099) has a 20-inch viewable image size and features a refresh rate of 71 Hz, a resolution of 1800 by 1440, and a dot pitch of 0.25 mm.
Ultra SCSI Hard Drives	The Tomahawk 9 Model 3391 ($2900) provides 9.10 GB of formatted capacity in a 3.5-inch form factor.
External Tape Drives TapeStor 8000	The TapeStor 800 ($149) can store up to 800 MB of compressed data or up to 400 MB of uncompressed data on a Travan TR1 cartridge.
Petabyte Server FastfilePro-HA	A specialized data-access server, the FastfilePro-HA is capable of handling up to 1 petabyte, or 1024 terabytes, of data in the form of 128 disk volumes, each configured with 8 TB of storage.
SPARC-Compatible Graphics Workstations SPARCling Graphics Capabilities	Designed to deliver high-performance Creator graphics capabilities, including 3-D triangles, vectors, and quads, to a range of applications, the COMPstation U200-ES comes with a 200-MHz 64-bit UltraSparc 1 processor, 1 MB of external cache, and a data transfer rate of up to 1.6 GB per second.
Easily Upgradable Pentium Notebooks OpenNote Pentium Notebook	The architecture of the OpenNote Pentium notebook PCs provides an easy upgrade path for all sy stem components and peripherals.
SPARC Notebook	Incorporating a 170-MHz TurboSparc processor, the PowerLite Turbo 170 comes with up to 256 MB of memory, 512 KB of secondary cache, a 12.1-inch 1024 by 768 or 800 by 600 display, up to 3.6 GB of hard drive storage, a TGX graphics accelerator, a fax/modem card, and a 16-mm trackball in a 7.5-pound notebook-size package.

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