As great as Lotus Notes is for deploying productivity-enhancing applications throughout a company, it still suffers from numerous weaknesses. Here's what users want and a hint of things to come from Lotus.

BYTE looks at three Windows database offerings - Microsoft Access 2.0, Lotus Approach 3.0, and Alpha Software's Alpha Fiver for Windows - that claim to be the best end-user database available.

The storage capacities of personal communications devices, pagers, and digital cameras could improve greatly in 1995 thanks to a 32-Mb new flash memory device called CompactFlash from SunDisk.

The Infrared Data Association's new standard has vendors getting on board the infrared bandwagon.

Powerful desktop computers combined with new video editing programs are delivering professional video editing to the PC, Mac, and Power Mac platforms.

Information publishers are turning to a new breed of smart indexing tools that can automatically summarize and condense huge documents without human intervention.

On-line services are responding to the enormous demand of users for Internet accessibility by incorporating Internet access and tools

The PN60 prints color anywhere; CalcPac calculates in Windows; Duet puts a Mac voice in PCs; and more;

BYTE editors pick the 50 outstanding products or technologies of the past year.

Why a maker of phone-testing equipment chose to repackage the Apple Newton MessagePad as its solution for client/server-based automated field service.

This GUI navigator is also a tool for doing business on the World Wide Web.

Getting the color you want without unpleasant surprises is no simple trick.

New software standards help manage color for consistent and accurate reproduction.

Today's crop of monitors are producing better color than ever. Here are some tips on how you can pick the best monitor and video card to get the kind of color accuracy you need.

Color printers, more affordable than ever, hold out the promise of better color.

Four new quad-speed CD-ROM drives are affordable if you work with high-speed video or animation.

HSC Software's Live Picture is an impressive image editor for the Power Mac.

Apple presents its top-of-the-line PowerPC-based system as an application server.

Macintosh programmers have access to a powerful visual-programming environment - and it's not from Microsoft.

The traditional slide-show leaders - Charisma, Harvard Graphics, Lotus Freelance Graphics, and Microsoft PowerPoint - concentrate on power and usability.

As more people incorporate sound and video in their presentations, projection panels must keep up. Proxima's new Ovation+ active-matrix LCD projection panels support 24-bit color and stereo sound.

The Windows version of dBase makes all the right noises in object orientation and ease of use, and it knows how to read old dBase files.

Netscape Communication's free Mosaic browser is optimized for 14.4-Kpbs modem connections. Versions of its commercial Mosaic server offer security features to enable commerce on the Internet.

Autodesk releases AutoCAD Designer 1.0, a 3-D solid-modeling program.

BYTE/NSTL searches for the best 17-, 20-, and 21-inch monitors, using an extensive battery of tests to measure image quality, sharpness, contrast, convergence, legibility, power consumption, and distortion. We also evaluate ease of setup, controls, power management, and documentation.

A simple comparison program can help programmers who grapple with FPU imprecision.

A flexible bus interface and the ability to sustain high performance with low-cost memory make the 29030 a good choice for the embedded market.

Niklaus Wirth's Oberon/F is a lightweight, portable, object-oriented component framework for the Windows and Mac environments.

Bring the legendary simplicity and flexibility of PhoneNet to the twisted-pair Ethernet LAN.

Jerry discusses modems and networking.

A look at books on artificial life and genetic programming and a CD-ROM on warplanes.

Heresy or a cogent view?

Highlights from two decades of covering the PC revolution.

Readers describe solutions using agent technology and express frustration with TCP/IP addressing.

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