April 1997 / What's New

Faster, Brighter, Better PowerBook 3400	The above three words sum up the capabilities of Apple's latest notebook computer, the PowerBook 3400. - by Tom Thompson
Keyboard Platforms Comfortable Productivity	Designed to increase comfort and productivity while minimizing your risk of developing repetitive stress injury, the Figure Series of keyboard platforms ($197 to $332) let you bring your body closer to the platform surface so that your arms hang loosely and naturally parallel to your upper body.
Multifunction Keypad Mouse Multi-Mouse	Incorporating a 10-key pad with function keys and Windows 95 keys, the Super Mouse ($89.95) lets you input numbers and access function keys from the mouse.
Wave-Table Sound Card	With a PC equipped with the TidalWave32 PnP wave-table sound card ($299.95) and software, such as Intel's Internet Phone, you can talk long-distance over the Internet.
Ethernet Adapter for Pentium Pro Servers	Capable of achieving a maximum aggregate throughput of 800 Mbps, the ANA-6944A card ($998) has four full-duplex ports that automatically self-configure for either 10- or 100-Mbps transmissions.
Professional Labels for Your CDs Mark it with Your Signature	The Signature CD Color Printer ($1295) prints high-resolution text, logos, graphics, and photographs directly onto printable-surface CD-R media.
33.6 SVD Modem with AudioSpan	The AudioSpan Model AM3314IVSP modem ($249) lets you exchange simultaneous voice and data information to other SVD modems when you conne ct it to an analog phone line.
Eight-Speed CD-ROM Kit	Now you can add an eight-speed portable CD-ROM drive to your notebook PC.
Next-Generation Network Scanner Workgroup Scanner	Now workgroups can scan paper-based documents, convert them to electronic form, and send them to one or more recipients simultaneously.
Full-Page LCD Monitor In Full View	The Portrait PageMaster LCD monitor (about $1500) takes up a mere 11 inches on your desktop and offers full-page display of word processors, e-mail, forms-driven databases, faxes, and Web browsing.
12-ppm Network Laser Pr inter	Incorporating Kyocera Image Refinement software, which allows for resolutions up to 2400 by 600 dpi, and memory compression technology, the FS-1700 ($1645) comes with a Motorola MC68EC040 66-/33-MHz CPU; 2 MB of memory, upgradable to 66 MB; a 350-sheet paper tray, with options for 1000 or 2000 sheets; 79 resident bit-mapped fonts; and 45 LaserJet 4 plus-compatible scalable fonts.
Internet-Based Storage Net-Ready Storage	The LANForce Millennium (from $5995) can collect information from throughout a worldwide enterprise over a direct-to-subsys-tem TCP/IP Ethernet connection.
Workstation-Class Notebook PC Classy PC	The SparcBook 3TX (from $16,950) incorporates Fujitsu's 170-MHz TurboSparc processor; 256 KB of Level 2 cache; 32 MB of DRAM, expandable to 128 MB; a 10.4-inch active-matrix TFT display; a removable 1.2-GB SCSI hard disk option; a PC Card slot; built-in ISDN; a 14.4-KBps data/fax modem; and on-board Ethernet.
500-MHz Alpha Desktop Workstation	The Carrera Cobra 500's (from $4995) system speed is optimized by a Digital 21164 Alpha chip, 1 MB of synchronous pipelined 9-ns cache, 64 MB of 256-bit RAM with 1 GBps of rendering bandwidth, a 2-GB hard drive, a 12-speed CD-ROM drive, and a 2-D graphics accelerator with 2 MB of RAM.
PC/TV Combination	With the ElliVision (from $3195), you can prepare word processing and spreadsheet documents, make presentations, listen to CDs, play computer games, send and receive e-mail and faxes, and browse the Internet.
Rack-Mountable 3-D Graphics Workstations Mount Your Stations	The TDZ-410 RAX (from $16,700) and TDZ-610 RAX (from $23,000) come with dual and quad 200-MHz Pentium Pro processors, respectively, running Windows NT; 128 and 256 MB of memory, respectively; Intergraph's OpenGL RealiZm V25 3-D graphics accelerator; a removable 4-GB hard drive; a CD-ROM drive; and 10-/100Base-TX Ethernet and UltraSCSI connectors.
Antivirus Protection for SMTP Gateways	Norton Internet Email Gateway ($795 per SMTP server) catches and destroys viruses found in e-mail attachments before they invade corporate networks.
Integrate Antivirus and Backup	The VirusScan Deluxe data-security suite (about $69) provides real-time protection against Internet-borne viruses and includes push-button virus signature file updating and idle-time scanning.
Control Document Repositories	The FOLDIR system for Windows 3.1, 95, and NT; the Macintosh; and Unix (from $15,000, depending on the number of users) includes a document-/work-flow system, an off-line browser, Internet compatibility, compound documents, a full-text search engine, OCR support, catalogs, and a document-ownership system.
Build Data Marts	Consisting of three Windows 95/NT clients and two Windows NT Server components, DataStage (from $37,500) lets you extract, transform, integrate, and maintain data from multiple sources.
Unite Engineering and the Enterprise	ModelServer Publisher (single-channel version, $9950; multichannel version, $24,500) and ModelServer Continuum ($37,500 per server) are the first two products in Bentley Systems' Engineering Back Office suite for Windows NT.
More Power for Paper and the Web The Power and the Web	PageMaker 6.5, the latest incarnation of this venerable page-layout program, serves up improved power, flexibility, and electronic publishing. - by Jon Pepper
Wavelet Design and Analysis	The LabView Wavelet and Filter Bank Design Toolkit ($495) is designed for researchers and developers involved in signal and image pro-cessing, computer vision, biomedical signals and imaging, physics, and mathematics.
250 Visual Basic Routines	According to MicroHelp, Muscle32's ($199) routines are faster than the equivalent Visual Basic code and perform some tasks that you cannot do in native Visual Basic code.
Software Project Estimation Tool Estimate Your Job	With KnowledgePlan (from $2900), you can plan new, enhancement, or maintenance software projects.
32-bit ActiveX Controls Pick Up a Seven-Pack	A set of seven 32-bit ActiveX controls, ActiveThreed ($139) helps you to create applications with an Internet/intranet look and feel.
Convert Legacy, Unix Applications	A GUI front-end development tool, TeemCreator (SDK, from $9000) lets you convert legacy or Unix applications to a client/server-style environment.
Web-Site Diagnostic Tool Diagnose the Missing Links	Optimized for Windows 95 and NT, Web Doctor ($149) automatically checks all the links of an Internet/intranet Web site and provides a variety of diagnostic reports.
Stress-Test Your Web Site	With Astra SiteTest ($9500), you can stress-test a Web site using a single Windows 95 or NT workstation to spot potential performance problems.
Java-Based Internet/Intranet Reporting Tool Cool Reporting Tool	Available for Windows NT Server and Solaris, DB Publisher (server license, $4195; each additional concurrent user, $95) provides open-standard query, reporting, and analysis tools for use with information in relational databases that you can maintain, upgrade, and administer from one location, even with users scattered worldwide.
Desktop Encryption Utility	PCCrypto ($65) lets you secure your desktop data and your Internet/intranet e-mail communications.
Manage Video Information	With the vPrism Video Computing Suite ($16,500 per seat), you can store and manage thousands of hours of video; annotate your video with notes, numbers, and transcripts; and query your video collection to find specific items of interest, examples, spoken utterances, notes, subjects, or events.
Forms-Based Data Collection	Designed for the mobile data-collection and corporate intranet user, the AllPen Mobile Forms Database ($79) allows you to create your own forms without the need for a desktop application.
DocuPact 3.0	Windows-based client/server software for document and image management, DocuPact 3.0 provides a single point of access for all enterprise information; indexing, organizing, searching, and security capabilities; productivity tools; Lifecycle Storage Management; and a clustered server environment for unlimited scalability.
Prospero 1.5	An enterprise application-integration tool, Prospero 1.5 adds new and improved database, OLE, and Web capabilities; a Task-Based Scheduler; and debugging.
T-Spice Pro 4.0	Circuit-simulation software for Windows 95 and NT, Sun SPARC, HP-9000/700, and Silicon Graphics Unix workstations, T-Spice Pro 4.0 includes a run-time update feature, which lets you view simulation results as they're generated; a multiple-window viewing interface; expression plotting; enhanced noise analysis; new table-simulation features; and a wave-form-smoothing option.

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