August 1997 / What's New

Pentium Power with Less Rattle and Hum You Too Can Have Pentium Power	In 1994, Silent Systems introduced the FE 4, a system that was for all practical purposes inaudible. - by Jason Krause
Java Applications Server	Use the Gemstone/J ($4995) Java applications server to build Java applications involving several hundred million Java objects and thousands of users in transaction-intensive environments.
Java Netstations Just Say Java	Java's cross-platform capability allows single-desktop access to all network resources through Hewlett-Packard's Java-capable Entria II and Envizex II netstations (starting at $700 without monitor).
New Windows-Based PCs from Digital	Digital Equipment's new line of PCs and workstations offer options for early adopters of the Pentium II with MMX technology.
DVD for Your PC or TV	The Sigma Designs Realmagic DVD/MPEG-2 playback card ($500) plays DVD video, CD-ROMs, CD audio, Video CD, and DVD-ROM.
Road Warrior's Digital Camera	The PDR-2A has no flash, and the LCD is tiny. However, this digital camera offers a new imaging technology, a tiny form factor, and a weight of 5.3 ounces.
The EggCam Coo-Coo Ca-Choo Egg Does Your Face	The Panasonic EggCam ($199) is a 3.2- inch-high by 1.6-inch-wide by 1.8-inch-deep desktop video camera for 24-bit color e-mail video.
SOHO Scanner SOHO no HoHum	Plustek's OpticPro 9630P's ($299) 600 dpi, 30-bit color depth, and image-editing software bring high- resolution scanning capabilities to entry-level scanners.
Router for SOHO	The LANLinker dual analog router (priced under $795), from U.S. Robotics, integrates two X2 modems into one unit, giving you twice the speed of V.34 modems and greater routing functionality over analog phone lines.
New Life for Microfilm Archives	For those who think microfilm is a storage-and-retrieval method for musty libraries, Fuji introduces M Drive ($20,000), a PC-based microfilm system.
Tough New Disk Arrays	The Artecon LynxArray RAID ($18,995-$44,995) can extinguish itself in case of fire, withstand 8000 V of electricity or temperatures as extreme as -4 to 140°F, and sustain a major earthquake.
Hard Drive with Legs Our Legs Fit Your Legs	The EXP HD Traveler ($499 to $679) is a pocket-size external hard drive for notebooks.
Hard Drives for PCs and Workstations Satisfy Your Space Cravings	For all of us craving more disk space, Micropolis introduces two new lines of hard drives for performance PCs, entry-level servers, and workstations.
New Tape Storage Technology	The MLR1 is a data-storage solution using multichannel recording, a 5-1/4-inch tape technology that is designed for better reliability and lower cost with the same or better capacities as DLT and other tape types.
Paperless Office	The Paperless Office, an office information manager files, stores, retrieves, annotates, and distributes more than 100,000 electronically created or paper-based documents for whole departments.
Remote LAN Access	The OfficeConnect Remote Access Server 1000 ($1195), from 3Com, gives mobile workers access to office LANs.
Smarter, Quicker 2-D CAD It's Smarter! It's Faster!	Imagineer Technical 2.0 ($495), a CAD tool from Intergraph Software Solutions, is a Web-enabled native Windows se at that reads and writes AutoCAD and MicroStation files.
Video Postproduction Tools Beyond Video	Intergraph's ViZfx ($299) is a plug-in that expands the capabilities of Adobe Premier and in:sync Speed Razor, two popular video-editing applications.
Create Universal Applications	Formida's Universal Development Environment ($5000 per development seat) is a tool to create new classes of applications or to extend existing ones using Universal Server-based enterprise-computing environments.
Web Data Mining	OnDisplay's CenterStage accesses data from multiple Web sites and extracts data and categorizes it by data type for integration with business applications for analysis and processing.
Clean Up Pictures with Photo Soap No Tears Photo Soap	Kai's Photo Soap combines a unique interface and intuitive operation to make image editing more accessible, especially for those of us who aren't Photoshop wizards. - by Jon Pepper
Internet Multimedia Authoring Tool Creations that Blaze	Emblaze Creator from Geo-Interactive is an authoring environment built for the Internet, offering data compression and continuously streaming video and animation.
Sell Your Wares on the Web From Our Business to Yours	Speedware's OrderPoint ($20,000 for NT, $30,000 for Unix) is an application that handles business-to-business ordering over the Web.
Talk to Your PC	Millennia Software's E-Mail Reader Plus ($89.95) lets you access and respond to e-mail messages over the phone with simple voice commands.
More Powerful E-Mail	eMail 97 ($29.95) is a new native Windows 95 interface with a 32-bit e-mail program designed to handle 3.2-Mb and larger files with a number of enhanced features.
Easier Remote Access Not a Remote Chance of Problems	SessionXpress ($5000) is the first product in a planned suite of software called XcelleNet Essentials that will automate remote-access functions.
Hey! You've Got Unix in My Windows! Unixly Yours	WinTed 2.0 ($149.99 per client) uses an X server to provide native access to Unix, Windows 95 and NT, and network resources on a single PC for improved enterprise network interoperability.
Keep an Eye on Your Network	Technically Elite offers DomainMeter 7000 ($6995), an RMON-based network monitoring and troubleshooting tool for Web-based network management.
Retouch Your Person al Photos	Polaroid's Before and After ($29.95) software sharpens, brightens, and enhances digitized photos on a home PC.
Mathsoft's S-Plus 4.0	Mathsoft's S-Plus 4.0 ($1790) is an enhanced version of the popular statistical data-mining tool.
WordPerfect Suite 8	Corel's WordPerfect Suite 8 ($395 or $179 for upgrade) is the latest version of the desktop suite of applications for Windows 9 5 and Windows NT 4.0.
OpenNT 2.0	Softway's OpenNT 2.0 upgrades version 1.0, which licensed Microsoft's source code for NT to create a native Unix system environment for Windows NT.

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