September 1997 / Bits

More Power, Bigger Screens to Go For Prestige, Get the Elite	Thanks to bigger screens and 200- and 233-MHz Pentium processors, the newest notebooks are better desktop replacements. - by Jon Pepper
Geek Mystique	Coming: Info Tech Labor Shortage
MeetingPoint Wins at PC Expo Port the Portable High Performance, Low Cost Best of PC Expo Contact Information	White Pine's MeetingPoint videoconferencing software won BYTE's Best of Show award at PC Expo.
Future Watch	Better Way for Devices to Share Info - by Dave Andrews
Developers Like DHTML, but Many Wait Dynamic HTML Comparisons	New-and-improved versions of HTML promise more dynamic Web sites without requiring expertise in writing Java applets or ActiveX controls, but incompatibilities are causing developers to wait for a uniform standard. - by Rick Dobson
Bug of the Month Out of the Nest Too Soon	Empty Nest
Survey Many Developers Still Evaluating Y2K Solutions	Many Companies Just Starting to Address Y2K Problem
Mini Displays Get Sharper Focus New Mini Displays at a Glance High Resolution in Your Hand	New display technologies that feature very high pixel densities in miniature packages enable high-quality displays for portable devices of the future. - by Chris Chinnock
Datapro Report	Unix or Windows NT? Both! - by Mary Hubley
Book Review: Buried in Data	The Data Warehouse Challenge: Taming Data Chaos, by Michael H. Brackett, Wiley Computer Publishing, ISBN 0-471-12744- 2, $44.95 Data Warehouse: Practical Advice from the Experts, by Joyce Bischoff and Ted Alexander, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-5777370-9, $50 Just when you thought you were safe from viruses, hackers, and the year 2000 crisis, another computer disaster has popped up to menace your organization: data disparity. - by Rob Hummel
CD-ROM Review: Java Cyber Class Load Up the Class	Java multimedia study hall. - by Stan Diehl
Blasts From The Past September 1992 September 1987 September 1982 September 1977	5 YEARS AGO IN BYTE We wondered if Unix were dead.
More Powerful, Flexible Storage Anders Lofgren	Anders Lofgren, a senior analyst for Giga Information Group, discusses trends in high-end storage. - by Dave Andrews

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