January 1998 / What's New

Power Computing's Wintel Notebook Deserves Its PowerTrip	The day after Apple announced it was buying out Power Computing's Mac clone business, Power Computing representatives came by our office to show us the company's new Wintel notebook, the PowerTrip. - by Jason Krause
PCI Card Kills Boot Sector Viruses	The new PCI version of Full Circle Technologies' VirusBlaster defends against boot sector virus infection during power-up or rebooting, when your system's operating system and antivirus software haven't yet loaded.
Small but Dense Hard Drives Dense Not Dumb	IBM introduces the new Travelstar 8GS hard drive for notebooks.
Have Gigabytes, Will Travel	Adding storage to a system, one gigabyte at a time, is simple and inexpensive with the portable SyQuest SparQ.
Full-Featured Notebooks Under $4000	Starting at $3599, the WinBook XL offers a 233-MHz Pentium with MMX, 256-KB Level 2 cache, 32-MB EDO RAM, 3-GB hard drive, 16-bit stereo sound, and 20X CD-ROM drive.
DVD Comes to Laptops	Panasonic's CF-63 ($5999) introduces DVD-ROM to portable computing and delivers enough power and resolution to take advantage of the new medium.
Bandwidth Bonanza	According to GigaLabs, the GigaStar 8000 Gigabit Enterprise Switch can route 2 billion bits per second (2 Gbps) o f dedicated bandwidth through each of the 32 chassis slots in the unit.
Fibre Channel Fabric	Fibre Channel carries large files across building or campus backbones, lessening throughput and distance limitations for both peripherals and LAN infrastructures.
Simplified Videoconferencing Simply See Me	The VideoFlyer Rocket ($5995) offers computerless videoconferencing in a self-contained unit that plugs into standard TVs, speakers, video cameras, or projectors (as well as Windows PCs and Macintoshes).
New Printer, New Technology Not the Same Old Technology	The Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4000 ($1099) replaces the popular HP LaserJet 5, offering a host of new features for workgroup laser printers.
Digitize Images at Home	The EasyPhoto ImageWave ($149) is a flatbed scanner that simplifies and enhances the scanning process for home PC users.
A Handy Flatbed Sca nner	IBM's Color Flatbed Scanner ($299) delivers 30-bit software-enhanced color resolution at up to 9600 x 9600 dpi.
Scanning Made Simple	Epson's Perfection 600 ($299) has a new driver designed to make scanning more foolproof.
One-Stop Shopping Stop and Shop	Save time, effort, and space with Mita's multifunction fax, printer, scanner, copier, and phone machine.
"Traditional" 35mm	The Fujifilm DX-7 digital camera ($499) is designed to handle more like a conventional 35mm film camera than a typical entry-level digital camera.
The Little UPS That Can	Approximately the size of a videocassette and weighing 3 pounds, the Pulsar Desktop 220+ UPS system ($129) offers 10 minutes of battery protection in the event of power loss, surge, or fluctuation.
NT Clustering Is Here	Clustering has been around for years on platforms like VMS and Unix, and now Windows NT users are getting some of the improved database and applications-server performance the technology provides.
Kayaks Powered by Pentium II Roar Away in Your Kayak	Hewlett-Packard's Kayak PC workstations are Windows NT-based machines designed for 2-D or 3-D graphics applications.
Help for Getting from Point A to B Mapping It Out Gets Lots Easier	The classic question "Where are we on the map?" is now a lot easier to answer with Microsoft's Expedia Trip Planner 98. - by Jon Pepper
Personalized ISP Service Customized ISPs	Bridgewater Systems' WideSpan is a domain name service server that identifies registered ISP clients, letting Internet providers build customized services and b illing plans.
If You Build It, They Will Chat	Ichat's Customer Interaction Suite simplifies hosting large-scale on-line product launches, sales events, and chats on commercial sites.
Barbarians at the Gateway	If you can't depend on desktop browsers to give you sufficient Internet security, SurfinGate 3.0 can add enterprise-wide Java and ActiveX protection at the network gateway.
PC Guard Dog Beware the PC Guard Dog	With an ordinary desktop video camera you can leave a PC or laptop alone to defend itself against thieves.
Enterprise-Wide Reporting C ount 'Em All Up	Crystal Info 5.0 ($749 per user) builds on Seagate Software's Crystal Reports application, creating an enterprise-wide reporting and analysis tool.
Drill-Down Reporting Tool	The Raima Report Writer ($495) has two levels: a DBMS driver for accessing the Raima Velocis database server or Raima's Database Manager++, and a report server that can be implemented in two- or three-tier configurations.
Visual Data Analysis for NT	StatServer 2.0, the latest version of the program for electronically distributing statistical analyses and graphics to business users, adds new Web publishing functionality and access to MathSoft's latest data- mining technology.
E-Mail Made Easy	Sun's Internet Mail Server aims to simplify e-mail by eliminating the gateways and translation mechanisms that can lead to unreadable or undeliverable messages.
Real Security for Virtual Networks	An open TCP/IP environment need not compromise the security of your network traffic.
Professional Web Design Tools I Saw It In My Dreams	Dreamweaver ($299) is a web-authoring tool for professional designers.
Keep Your Hard Drive Clean	CleanSweep Deluxe ($59) recovers hard d rive space by deleting files unintentionally downloaded while you surf the Internet.
K56 Software Modems	PC-Tel's PCT388 Host Signal Processing (HSP) modem offers K56Flex technology without forcing you to buy any new modem hardware.
Write Once, Run Anywhere	The Superlinguist Manager makes it possible to simultaneously launch multilingual versions of Windows applications without affecting your source code.
Infini-D 4.1	For professionals who want to create 3-D animations and special effects with video, Infini-D 4.1 for Win 95 and NT adds numerous features, including support for Real Time Geometry's multiresolution geometry, as well as new over-video compositing capabilities.
Norton Utilities 3.0	Norton Utilities 3.0, now with a redesigned console-style interface, comes with new features like a rescue tool that works with Iomega Zip disks; a utility for monitoring the Windows 95 registry, system files, and software applications; and a quick-start function for launching applications.
Forecast Pro Version 3	Accounting for the vicissitudes of the business world can be maddening, so Forecast Pro Version 3 ($595) takes rules-based, multi-level event modeling and makes adjustments for strikes and other irregular occurrences that can affect a forecast.

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