July 1997 / International What's New

Turn Your Phone into a Full-Fledged PC Partner Draw a Pair to Partnership	Most of today's PC telephony solutions emulate the functionality of a phone in software by turning your PC into a speakerphone, but they don't give you control over the call. - by Bob Emmerson
Voice and Data Modem Double-Duty Modem	Allowing users to converse and send data simultaneously over a single standard phone line, the OfficePorte voice/data modem can be used to run remote-training and technical-support applications.
Dual-Port CD-ROM Recorder	The Nomai 680.RW, an external CD-ROM writer, provides double-speed write and six-speed read, and both a parallel-port interface and a SCSI.
DVD Drive for Mobile PCs	Freecom's external DVD drive connects to a PC Card Type II port and reads all DVD formats with a capacity of up to 17 GB.
Shared Access to Jaz Drives Jazz Up Your Sharing	Axis StorPoint is a file-server-independent solution that lets you share access to Iomega's popular Jaz drives.
Fibre Channel RAID Adapter High-Achievers from ICP Vortex	By using optical and copper-link modules, ICP Vortex's new RAID disk-array controllers achieve data transfer rates of up to 100 MBps.
Dual Pentium Pros on One Board	Peak-6020, a dual Pentium Pro single-board computer, provides support for concurrent PCI-bus mastering and includes Intel USB ports.
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.
Turn Your PC into a Radio Receiver	With Anubis's Typhoon FM board, you can turn your PC into a radio receiver.
New Color Printers Color Printing Heats Up	The SpectraStar family of color printers now includes an A3 thermo printer as well as a portable ink-jet printer.
LCD Monitor Works with Standard Graphics Boards	Vobis's 15-inch Highscreen LCD monitor uses TFT active-matrix technology.
Data Acquisition PC Card for Notebooks	The high-speed DAQ for PCMCIA i516, a Type II PC Card I/O device, lets you analyze signals and transients, measure voltage, and log other data from a notebook or hand-held computer.
ProzessWare Brings Work Flow to the Web Apply Logic to Your Work Flow	Lotus Notes and the Domino Web server provide the essential services that let developers build Web-enabled work-flow applications. - by Volker Weber
Internet Downloads Without Loss	If you usually have to restart your Internet download several times because you lose connection to your ISP, Smartload may help.
VRML Modeler for the PC 3-D Development for the Web	WOERML, a PC-based VRML modeler, prod uces 3-D interactive and dynamic content for the Internet.
More Flexibility for Notes Applications	Workbench4Notes, a development and administration environment for Lotus Notes, includes a component library, template and parameter database, and developer guidelines.
Printed Circuit Board Software	Version 3.5 of the Eagle printed circuit board design package runs under Windows 95 and NT.
Real-Time Design of Shaded Models Cinematic Scope for Modeling	Cinema 4D, a 32 -bit rendering tool for the PC and the Power Mac, provides real-time modeling capabilities of shaded models.

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