Two proposals are competing to he sanctioned as the 100-Mbps standard
[theme : NETWORKS]
Borland's newest spreadsheet tries to make life easier for new users and pros.
[theme : SPREADSHEETS]
New Unix development packages help find a variety of memory-related errors.
[theme : SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT]
Companies in Taiwan and India have developed technology that uses image-processing techniques to identity suspects and present unauthorized entry
[theme : SECURITY]
A researcher makes strides toward an OPLA (optical programmable logic array) computer.
[theme : EMERGING TECHNOLOGY]
Big blue comes out with a new business model and a new line of low-end PCs.
[theme : SYSTEMS]
Embedded processors based on the PowerPC architecture could show up in printers, PDAs, and other products.
[theme : EMBEDDED PROCESSORS]
FrameMaker 4 shows valuable improvements.
[theme : DESKTOP PUBLISHING]
A self-moving hand scanner, pen computing on the desktop, PDA software. and more
[theme : NEW PRODUCT]
[theme : NEW TECHNOLOGY]
The first Personal Digital Assistants from Apple and Tandy/Casio fall short in key areas such as price, handwnting recognition, and communications. But these systems are still an impressive first step toward an easy-to-use computing and communications device.
[author : TOM R. HALFHILL]
BYTE editors test drive the Apple Newton MessagePad, the Tandy/Casio Zoomer, and the Eo Personal Communicator 440.
[author : TOM THOMPSON, TOM R. HALFHILL, AND MICHAEL NADEAU]
[theme : PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS]
For many tasks, your computer's clock isn't accurate enough. Here's how to make your PC a precision timekeeper.
[author : MICHAEL A LOMBARDI]
[theme : PEN AND VOICE INPUT]
The strengths of pen and voice technologies complement each other to create a powerful, natural user interface.
[author : HEWITT D. CRANE AND DIMITRY RTISCHEV]
Following much hype and great expectations, pen technology is finally beginning to deliver on its promise of mobile, intuitive data entry. Ink standards and good applications are helping to bring pen computing into the mainstream.
[author : DAN MEZICK]
Voice technology can add another dimension to the human-computer interface. Speech recognition will let you tell your computer what to do, and let your computer convert spoken words into text.
[author : WILLIAM S MEISEL]
If you don't need the programmability of a high-end data-base, the new class of personal databases for Windows can do the job without all the hassle.
[theme : APPLICATIONS SOFTWARE] [author : MATT TRASK AND DON SORENSEN]
The age of digital highways demands a standard for platform - and application - independent electronic documents, Adobe's Acrobat and No Hands Software's Common Ground deliver two unique solutions.
[theme : ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING] [author : STANFORD DIEHL]
Apple's Workgroup Server 95 sets a new performance standard for Macs and doubles the speed of AppleShare networking.
[theme : NETWORKING] [author : RAYMOND GA CÔTÉ]
Wiggins finds the latest upgrades of CA-Realizer and Visual Basic vast improvements: powerful, fast, and easy to use. And VB's database engine is a real knockout, although it has a few quirks.
[theme : VISUAL DEVELOPMENT TOOLS] [author : MICHAEL C. WIGGINS]
6.0 of one, or half-dozen of another? Two DOS word processors launch new releases that are surprisingly similar. The choice boils down to one between features and simplicity.
[theme : WORD PROCESSING] [author : SELINDA CHIQUOINE]
Coromandel's Visual Database Builder is a powerful toolkit for building source-independent database applications using Visual C++ and Visual Bask. Udell uses Integra VDB to quickly build some applications under Windows.
[theme : DATARASE DEVELOPMENT] [author : JON UDELL]
Nu-MEga4s debugging tool finds errors that other programs can't. Apiki uses Bounds Checker to snag elusive memory related problems in two programs. but he discovers that Bounds Checker, too, has its limits.
[theme : PROGRAMMING TOOLS] [author : STEVE APIKI]
Performance benchmarks, battery-life testing, and hands-on keyboard and screen evaluations find the be notebooks-from 25-MHz DOS systems to high-end Apple PowerBooks.
[theme : NOTEBOOKS]
An inside took at how it works.
[theme : GRAPHICS TECHNOLOGY] [author : LOUISA F. ANSON]
New tools expand OS/2's popular REXX(programming language).
[theme : PROGRAMMMING TOOLS] [author : MARK J. MINASI]
Good support at the operating-system level is essential to developing OS/2 and Windows NT applications.
[theme : SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT] [author : MATT PIETREK]
SriptX and other software could give multimedia the push it needs.
Essays from Stephen Hawking, Windows Internals, the Beatles on CD-ROM, and other selections.
[author : HUGHES PACK AND OTHERS]
From GUIs to distributed objects, component software is evolving rapidly.
[author : JON UDELL]
[author : DENNIS ALLEN]
High-speed modems, the EMF controversy, and more.
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