April 1997 / Bits

Rhapsody with Blue Tentative Rhapsody Architecture Getting from Here to Rhapsody	Apple's new OS strategy offers compatibility and a path to Unix and Windows. - by Tom Thompson
Geek Mystique	Show Me the Money
Let's Get Small A Little Bit of Weather	Though embedded systems have long been featured in consumer products, many remain notoriously difficult to use. - by Nancy Nicolaisen
Future Watch	New LCD Challenger to Arrive Around Year 2000
Video Streams for More Than Two Revenues for MCUs	It takes a desktop videoconferencing user about a day to figure out that to truly be productive with this technology, a system needs to support far more than one-to-one conversations. - by Christine Perey
Bug of the Month	ATM Woes Strike Acrobat 3.0 - by Jenny Donelan
Replication Everywhere Stepladder of Heterogeneous Replication Solutions	No database is an island, thanks to heterogeneous replication. - by Rick Dobson
Survey BYTE Site Browser Distribution	Internet Explorer Gains on Netscape
Datapro Report Client Checks	Suites Solve Enterprise Info Management Needs - by Karen Shegda
Book Review: High-Impact Design	Dynamics in Document Design, by Karen A. Schriver, Wiley Computer Publishing, ISBN 0-471-30636-3, $3 9.95, softcover Elements of Hypermedia Design, by Peter Gloor, Birkhauser, ISBN 0-8176-3911-X, $46.95, softcover Creating effective documents is part science and part art. - by Michael Nadeau
CD-ROM Review: Prevent Java Attacks Strong Details, Weak Advice	Good explanations but lame advice - by Russell Kay
Better Data Delivery for the Net Karen Milne	Karen Milne, chair of the IP Multicast Initiative, talks about a solution to ease network congestion problems. - by Dave Andrews

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