A new round of telecommunications-savvy products seek to improve the communications of telecommuters and mobile workers.
[theme : MOBILE COMPUTING]
Sony's new Magic Link PIC-1000 offers a break from traditionnal computing that at times enables and at other times hinders communications.
[theme : PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS]
To help make management easier for LAN administrators, vendors like NHC Communications are integrating physical network capabilities with their SNMP management programs.
[theme : LAN MANAGEMENT]
Holiday gift ideas for the BYTE reader include a build-your-own robot kit; cool CD-ROM games for DOS, Mac, and Windows; 3-D graphics/video accelerator cords; screen savers; and a card that brings 3DO games to the PC.
[theme : ENTERTAINMENT]
Companies are making their geographic information systems products available for personal computers in increasing numbers.
[theme : MAPPING]
The merger between Intuit and Microsoft will align two powerful software compagnies in the personal finance arena. Yet software vendors face numerous hurdles before electronic banking become ubiquitous.
[theme : PERSONAL FINANCE]
[theme : NEW PRODUCTS]
Apple is betting on three new technologies that it hopes will transform its future. But if Apple guesses wrong, it could finish the decade as a minor player.
[theme : NEW TECHNOLOGIES] [author : Tom R. Halfhill]
Computer-based training keeps employees up to speed.
[theme : MULTIMEDIA] [author : Mickey Williamson]
The emerging Winsock standard can make writing networked services for Windows NT more palatable. This hands-on guide answers WinSock design questions.
[theme : APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT] [author : Chuck Chan, Margaret K. Johnson, Keith Moore and David Treadwell]
Take a look at how you can sort out the pieces of your network puzzle.
[theme : NETWORKS] [author : Russel Kay]
You say you don't know what's happening on your network, bucko? What's with every interface card, router, bridge, and hub? Where the bottleneck and problems are? Here's how to find out.
[author : Paul Korzeniowski]
Increasing network performance tops almost everyone's wish list. But be careful when deciding to use a more glamourous technology just to gain bandwidth. Other factors may have a greater influence over network performance than bandwidth.
[author : Brett Husselbaugh]
How the ATM traffic cops maintain orderly data flow and guarantee service to high-bandwidth applications.
[author : Mark Juliano]
New laser models offer color-printing quality and per-page costs competitive with the best ink-jet printers but with laser-printer speed and networking capabilities. Tom Thompson reviews the color lasers from HP, QMS, and Xerox.
[theme : PRINTERS] [author : Tom Thompson]
BellSouth's Simon is here. Able to send and receive E-mail, faxes, and pages, it's easily the most communicative PDA to date.
[theme : PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS] [author : Chris O'Malley]
[theme : ELECTRONIC FORMS] [author : Stan Miastkowski]
SCSI host adapters from Adaptec, BusLogic, and Future Domain bridge Fast SCSI-2 to faster PCI. But performance testing under NetWare shows that all PCI SCSI cards are not created equal.
[theme : INTERFACE ADAPTERS] [author : Steve Apiki]
Peer-to-peer LANs are now better at managing resources, and file integrity will improve as future OS/2- and Windows 95-based systems emerge. Tests of four top players reveal important differences in speed, compatibility, and security.
[theme : NETWORKING] [author : Barry Nance]
Here's how the P54C supports dual-processor configurations.
[theme : CPUS] [author : Roeland Van Krieken]
CTOS shows the practical business benefits of a microkernel architecture.
[theme : OPERATING SYSTEMS] [author : Dirk S. Faegre and Jon Udell]
[theme : PROGRAMMING] [author : Rick Grehan]
Network protocols constantly exchange management information. LAN users normally don't notice the lost bandwidth, but over a slower WAN connection, it can be significant. Worse, WAN connections are often charged on a usage basis. Spoofing is one technique to reduce network overhead.
[theme : NETWORKS] [author : Jeffrey Fritz]
[author : Jerry Pournelle]
Reengineering, trip-planning CD-ROMs, a multivolume set on BSD Unix, and Unix whiners.
[author : Thornton May and others]
A look at the development of safety-critical systems.
[author : John Cuadrado]
[author : Dennis Allen]
Highlights from two decades of covering the PC revolution.
Plug and Play criticism and the OS/2 debate.
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