July 1997 / What's New

A Little Notebook with Bite More Than a Handful is Not a Waste	The Toshiba Libretto 50 (around $2000) is not quite a palmtop, yet it's not a full notebook. - by Jason Krause
Workgroup Scanner Good in Groups	Bell and Howell's Copiscan 4040D ($7495), designed for an office workgroup environment, aims to process high volumes of documents with minimum breakdown time.
Pentium Notebooks Under $3000	Tatung's TNB-5600 is a new line of Pentium notebooks priced under $3000.
Traveling Multimedia Take the Show on the Road	The Ascentia A series ($2999) from AST offers high-performance multimedia and communications in a midrange notebook.
More Power from a Mac Clone	Motorola's StarMax 5000/300 Mac clone, a 300-MHz system based on the PowerPC 603e chip, represents a jump in performance for Mac users.
Up to 72 Megs in One Chip Compatible in Any Direction	M-Systems DiskOnChip 2000 is a 32-pin JEDEC package ($67 in OEM quantities) that will give embedded designers up to 72 MB in a single chip.
Computing at Your Fingertips	If pushing a mouse around all day is too strenuous, you might consider Interlink Electronics' VersaPad ($69.95), which lets you move your cursor with the touch of a fingertip.
Handy CD-ROM Drive	The Backpack Bantam ($299, or $379 with sound card), an 8X CD-ROM drive, fits in the palm of your hand.
New Battery Technology for Portables Gatorade for Batteries	"Starved electrolyte" lead acid is a new technology for longer battery life.
Smarter SCSI Install Away	Super SCSI ($195), combining intelligent software and hardware, automatically installs and con figures an adapter board in a PC.
Modem Management	Motorola's 3460 Fast'r Modem ($595 for stand-alone model) is designed for network managers and MIS groups for remote access, SNA lease line, or dial-up analog applications.
Plug 'n' Play ATM	You can achieve plug-and-play ATM connectivity at the price of Fast Ethernet products with Fore Systems' Forerunner LE ($650 per 155-Mbps port, $3000 per 622-Mbps port).
New Printer Family	Minolta has introduced PageWorks, a family of compact monochrome and color laser printers.
More dpi for Your Dollar Title Contender	Lexmark's 7000 Color Jetprinter ($399) fights for the title of "highest resolution for an ink-jet printer in its category.
CD-ROM Servers	Legacy Storage Systems' SmartArray CD-ROM servers provide access to 16, 28, or 48 CD-ROMs through SCSI-2 Fast 4 disk-changer devices.
Higher Internet Throughput	MultiTech's CommPlete Server ($62,345) is designed for higher throughputs for Internet and intranet applications.
Take High-Quality Audio on the Road	Musicians, presenters, and audio producers can use the EMU8710 ($395) PC Card for laptops in presentations as well as mobile recording sessions.
Videoconferencing with an Assist A Better Mousetrap	Hauppauge's new VideoTalk package combines videoconferencing software and a PCI card for improved audio and video performance. - by Dave Andrews
Corporate Cooperation Model Integration	CASEwise's Modeler ($350 0) is a shared modeling repository that integrates human-resource business process simulation, corporate finance, and data modeling.
Express Access to Your Database License to Eliminate	Netiva's Web Database Application ($299, or $2999 for unlimited licenses) not only eliminates HTTP servers, SQL, CGI programs, and HTML, it also lets you produce database applications that are instantly available to multiple users through Web browsers.
Battle Barbarians Behind the Gate	McAffee's Desktop Security Suite ($99) provides security behind a corporate firewall with modules for transparent network traffic encryption, file encryption, secure e-mail, desktop firewalls, backup, and virus protection.
Road Warriors' Personal Assistant	iPost universal messaging system ($24.95 per month) allows fax, voice, e-mail, and pager communications to be collected in one location and accessed through either phone or computer.
Help for Visual Basic Developers Help is Only a Composition Away	The What's This? Help composer from Blue Sky Software ($499) provides an easy way to create and add context-sensitive Help buttons to any Visual C++ application.
A Free Java Platform	Object Space introduces Voyager, a development platform for agent-enhanced distributed computing in Java.
Manage Objects in Java	The POET Universal Object Server ($495 for a development kit; $998 for server) is an object database management system for handling persistent objects in Java.
Easy Effects and Editing Video Clip By Clip	Videotrope ($49) is a video editing tool that lets you edit, create, and apply effects to video clips.
Dynamic Hyperlinks	Taking multimedia hyperlinks to the next interactive level, Ephyx Technologies offers V-Active ($695), software that works within multimedia authoring environments to create hyperlinks that move with an object.
More Punch for Illustrator A Good Door To Go Through	Hot Door's CADtools 1.0 ($129) makes Adobe Illustrator more functional with new plug-in drafting and dimension tools.
Managing the Network Edge	Xyplex Networks' Edgeblaster offers a WAN solution for managing that nebulous network edge where enterprise network meets public network.
Group Surfing	Your bookmark page need not be a lonely jumble of URLs.
Easy Routing	Routing business documents across LANs and WANs with Isocor's SmartRouter ($2000-3000) software means high rates of data transfer without loss of message integrity, the company says.
Object Request Broker	Suite Software rereleases its Object Request Broker, now fully compliant with CORBA 2.0.
Oracle Human Resources	Oracle Human Resources offers a suite of products and kiosks designed specifically for workers and HR managers.
KEA! X 3.0	Attachmate's KEA! X 3.0 ($99) is the next generation of PC X servers for the Windo ws market.

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