We help you sort out Apple's newest line of desktops and preview new Apple Duos.
[theme : DESKTOP SYSTEMS]
New PDA chips from AMD, AT&T, Microelectronics, and Intel/VLSI are slated to ship in 1994
[theme : PROCESSORS FOR PDAS]
Writing an OLE 2.0 application isn't the easiest thing to do in the world. But the benefits are worth it.
[theme : WINDOWS/OLE 2.0]
If current trends continue, CD-ROM will soon gain wide acceptance in the business world.
[theme : MULTIMEDIA]
Windows NT is sparking hot competition among chip makers who want a piece of the growing market for high-performance desktop PCs and servers.
[theme : WINDOWS NT PROCESSORS]
Microsoft fixes some deficiencies in its workgroup program.
[theme : WORKGROUP COMPUTING]
WordPerfect opts for bigger code and more features.
[theme : WINDOWS WORD PROCESSORS]
Information technology consultants in Cyprus get no respect.
[theme : A MARKET IN TRANSITION]
A color and gray-scale scannec external and internal frame grabbers; a 3-D manipulator; graphics software; and more.
[theme : NEW PRODUCTS]
[theme : NETWORKS]
The four key issues of connecting networks to one another are bandwidth, protocols, management, and cultural conflicts.
[author : SMITH AND JON UDELL]
Developed by Olivetti and DEC, the Active Badge network improves at-work communications by tracking your colleagues' whereabouts.
[theme : COMMUNICATIONS] [author : DICK POUNTAIN]
[theme : PRINTER TECHNOLOGY]
People want faster, easier-to-use printers that produce higher-quality images. Those demands are starting to be met.
[author : JOHN P MELLO Jr.]
The Network Printing Alliance Protocol will provide communications capabilities to your network printer. Now you'll know when the printer is low on toner, out of paper, and more.
[author : FRANK HAYES]
In the near future, you will be asking your printer to produce pages ever more quickly. Help is on the way in the form of better processors and more efficient software. Your computer's CPU might throw its weight behind processing print images, too.
[author : PETER WAYNER]
At both the high and low ends, color printing continues to improve dramatically. Whether you want photographic-quality output or to just spice up a document, you'll find a color technology that fits the bill.
[author : MICHAEL ZEIS]
All three of the market-leading Windows spreadsheets-Borland Quattro Pro for Windows, Lotus 1-2.3 for Windows, and Microsoft Excel-have undergone major product upgrades. Gasteiger sorts out the field and determines how each competitor stacks up.
[theme : SPREADSHEETS] [author : DANIEL GASTEIGER]
Microtest's Discport CD-ROM server makes the marriage of CD-ROM and Novell NetWare easy for all concerned.
[theme : CD-ROM] [author : STEVE BOSAK]
Inexpensive color printing from Star Micronics, Hewlett-Packard, and Fargo. Star Micronics' SJ-144 and Fargo's Primera break the $1000 price barrier for thermal-transfer color printing by leaving the image processing to the host system.
[theme : COLOR PRINTING] [author : TOM THOMPSON]
Multiple floating objects deliver new power and flexibility to bit-map image processing. Micrografx Picture Publisher 4.0 and Fractal Design PainterX2 feature object layers and other useful innovations.
[theme : IMAGE PROCESSING] [author : CAL VORNBERGER]
An under-the-hood exploration of two Alpha-based systems from DEC: The DEC 3000 Model 300, a Unix box, and the DECpc AXP 150, which runs Windows NT.
[theme : PROCESSORS] [author : RICK GREHAN]
We evaluate 90 high-end 486 systems, with CPUs from Intel, Cyrix. and IBM, to find the best PCs for your applications. Our rankings include ISA and EISA bus implementations, as well as local-bus designs.
[theme : 486 SYSTEMS]
Reliable optical character recognition faces many hurdles, including odd typefaces and marginal output. Expert systems, machine learning, and other techniques can help you tackle the problem.
[theme : IMAGING] [author : PETER WAYNER]
Build C++ tools to manage your directories and perform other useful tasks.
[theme : PROGRAMMING TOOLS] [author : ALLEN I. HOLUB]
The water is in Stockholm: the keyboards are in Chaos Manor.
[author : JERRY POURNELLE]
Starting a business, a classic dictionary on CD-ROM, and more
[author : RAYMOND GA CÔTÉ AND TOM THOMPSON]
Computers are rapidly changing the English language.
[author : EDWARD R. SWART]
[author : DENNIS ALLEN]
Opinions on video computing, SGML, India's software development, and installer hell.
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