June 1997 / What's New

Brighter PalmPilot Adds Communications PalmPilot Professional	The original PalmPilot organizer was widely praised as the best of the bunch. - by Jon Pepper
Millennium Turns Pro	Matrox's Millenni um Pro (starts at $399) graphics accelerator card offers improved performance with its fast Gouraud-shading engine, as well as support for 32-bit z-buffering and perspective-correct texture mapping for PC-based 3-D workstation applications.
Look Ma, No PC ViaTV Phone	ViaTV Phone works with a TV and a plain old Touch-Tone telephone line to let you communicate visually without using a computer.
Low-End Routers	U.S. Robotics' LANLinker 56 ($995) and LANLinker BRI ($795) offer LAN connectivity to remote offices that need a direct connection to corporate networks and the Internet.
PC Videoconferencing System	XtoX integrates a Pentium-processor PC, an overhead projector, a video camera, and other equipment to let you incorporate the typical elements of a business meeting into a videoconference over H.320 ISDN.
Dual-Mode Spread-Spectrum Modem	The Hopper FD wireless modem sends data via direct sequence or, for areas with high interference levels, frequency-hopping spread-spectrum technologies.
LAN Switch with Electronic Patch Panel LANmaker Switches	The LANmaker family of modular Ethernet switches integrates 10-/100-MB Ethernet switching, electronic patch-panel capability, and graphical management software at a price of about $200 per port.
Internetwork Protocol Analyzer PrismLite	PrismLite combines a WAN/LAN/ATM protocol analyzer in a 15-pound unit that you use with a Pentium-processor notebook.
Print Your Photographs Masterfully Printed	The Alps Masterpiece MD-2300 ($749) lets you print photographic-quality images at 600- by 600-dpi resolution.
UPS for Multiple Servers	The Symmetra Power Array protects multiple servers and Internetworking equipment.
Affordable Sheet-Fed Scanner	HP's ScanJet 5s is a color/gray-scale sheet-fed scanner that offers 300-dpi optical (600-dpi enhanced) scanning.
$200 Gets You 24 Bits	The Astra 300P flatbed scanner offers 24-bit color capabilities and an optical resolution of 300 by 600 dpi (an interpolated resolution of up to 4800 dpi) for $199.
Wave-Table Sound for Notebooks	Jive WaveTable, a Type II PC Card, provides the facility to add wave-table sound to business presentations and games.
Pro 3D for PC Prices Intense 3D	Intergraph's new TD line of PCs features an Intense 3D 100 graphics accelerator card, 6 MB of RAM, a 1.7-GB hard drive, and Windows 95 at prices starting at $1185.
Midrange Mac	The PowerCenter Pro is a midrange Mac OS system based on a 180- or 210-MHz 604e processor and a motherboard with a 60-MHz system bus (many other Mac clones today use a 40- or 50-MHz bus).
Rugged Palmtop for Mobile Apps	Fujitsu offers two new ruggedized portables for lightweight pen-based computing.
Desktop Replacement Notebook	The Ascentia P series (starts at $4299) sports a 166-MHz Pentium with MMX technology, a 256-KB L2 cache, and 32 MB of EDO RAM (expandable to 80 MB).
Bigger-Screen Value Notebooks DEC Hits a HiNote	Digital Equipment's value-priced HiNote VP 500 series of notebooks for Windows 95 or NT feature 12.1-inch displays, 133-MHz or faster Pentium processors, power management, and a two-in-one removable 12-speed CD-ROM/floppy combo drive.
Publish Info Instantly Over the Net Instant Net Publication	Arpeggio Live Information Publishing Server lets you publish real-time information over the Internet or an intranet to business users with a Web browser.
Text Search for NT	Searcher Pro ($69) is a 32-bit text search and file management alternative to the Windows 95 and NT Explorer.
Let Your PC Find You a Job	ResumeMaker Deluxe ($39.95) for Windows creates professional résumés and cover letters.
Dictionary for Linux	Xdic, a CD-ROM dictionary for Linux (DM 39), provides bidirectional translations from German to English, French, Spanish, and Italian.
Web and E-Mail Translation Tool Easy Translator	Easy Translator ($49) translates text, e-mail, and Web pages in Spanish, French, and German to and from English.
Make Electronic Photo Albums with Your PC Albums Go Electric	The explosive growth of PC photography thanks to digital cameras, scanners, and color printers brings a concomitant need to manage these images. - by Jon Pepper
FirstClass Intranet Server	Like its sibling FirstClass 3.5, FirstClass Intranet Server ($999) offers e-mail, replicable discussion databases, remote access, forms processing, enterprise database access, and information publishing, but for the Internet.
Use Your Voice to Surf	With VoiceType Connection for Netscap e Navigator ($14.95) for Windows 95, you can use your voice to surf the Web.
Better Synchronization for PalmPilot	With Desktop To Go (about $50) for Palm Computing's PalmPilot, any modifications made to Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Organizer 97 are updated automatically on your hand-held and d esktop computers.
Automated Web-Site Testing Tools Smooth As Silk	Segue Software's Silk product family for Windows 95 or NT offers broad test coverage for industrial-strength Web applications.
Configuration Management for NT	ClearCase 3.1 for NT provides version control, workspace management, build management, and process control for programmers.
Tools for Embedded PowerPC	CodeWarrior for PowerPC Embedded Systems ($699) provides an IDE supporting Motorola's MPC 8xx fa mily of embedded processors.
Write NT Drivers in C++	Driver::Works ($795) combines a C++ class library with wizard technology to let you build kernel-mode device drivers for NT.
Stateful Internet Publishing Server NetAnswer May Be the Solution	NetAnswer 2.0 lets corporate or commercial publishers make up to 100 GB of customized data, text, and multimedia content available via the Internet or intranets.
WebMaster Suite	Corel's WebMaster Suite ($299) includes WYSIWYG We b authoring, site management, bit-map and photo editing, vector illustration, animation, 3-D virtual-community design, and database-publishing applications for Windows 95 and NT.
Personalize Your Web Site for Customers	InterSite monitors activity such as transactions, help- and chat-session t ranscripts, and Web-page browsing frequency of customers on your Web site.
Take Customer Support Off the Hook	Silknet ServiceDesk (between $75,000 and $500,000) lets you off-load customer-support phone calls to a Web site.
WinRosa Generates Fuzzy Rules	WinRosa automatically generates fuzzy rules from data sets.
NeoAccess 5.0	NeoAccess 5.0 ($749), a cross-platform ODBMS, adds support for databases larger than 4 GB, support for the latest versions of all major compilers, expanded schema evolution with less applications-developer involvement, support for collections that are not based on B-trees, and template-based swizzler classes that reduce the need for casting and ease object reference counting issues.
NetWorker 4.4	Legato's NetWorker 4.4 for Windows NT ($1000), a storage management program that preserves programs and data on file/print and database and applications servers, offers a new administrative GUI, disaster recovery support, and centralized recovery of remote clients.
Map'n'Go 3.0	AAA Map'n'Go 3.0, the mapping program for Windows that plots the best route based on your parameters, adds a new highway exit services database, new tourbook information, improved routing, the ability to download detailed street maps from Street Atlas USA 4.0, direct access to 250 city Web pages containing local and regional information, and many more improvements.

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