Four companies are scrambling to put the fastest and lest expensive x86 chip in you PC.
[theme : PC MICROPROCESSORS]
Apple and IBM will make major PowerPC-related announcements this spring and summer.
[theme : POWERPC]
Over the next several years, technological advances will accelerate the use of color printers.
[theme : COLOR PRINTING]
The day of numerous, tiny Internet service providers may be over.
[theme : INTERNET ACCESS]
A new Universal Serial Bus that supports a maximum 12 Mbps could become standard PC connector.
[theme : PC CONNECTIVITY]
Intel's Pentium OverDrive processor puts a rocket in your socket, but the upgrade has a 32-bit 486-style I/O bus - not the 64-bit bus of a Pentium.
[theme : PC PROCESSORS]
What do pension plans, elevators, and battery charges have in common? Each is an application of fuzzy logic.
[theme : PROGRAMMING]
Microsoft says it will work to improve Window's support for blind users.
[theme : WINDOWS]
A 100-MHz Pentium notebook; wireless infrared printers from Hewlett--Packard; the latest version of Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit; and more.
[theme : NEW PRODUCTS]
What you need to know to hit the road.
[author : Andy Reinhardt]
Wireless links are expanding - despite obstacles
[author : Salvatore Salamon]
New display technologies are coming, but LCD is still king.
[author : Chris Chinnock]
Battery technology for mobile computing is at a crossroads.
[author : Gil Bassak]
What does Windows 95 offer users on the go?
[author : Jon Udell]
PDAs finally evolve into useful business tools for mobile workers.
[author : Michael Nadeau]
Tip from a savvy world traveler on getting on-line from anywhere.
[author : Raphael Needleman]
The Tadpole P1000 - screaming performance
[author : Rex Baldazo]
The SparcBook 3XP - A workstation to go.
[author : Doug Tamasanis]
Satellite Pro - power at the right price.
[author : Rex Baldazo]
The Eurocom - lots of features but short battery life.
[author : Dave Andrews]
The Globalist 250P - good for heavy-duty number crunching.
[author : Dave Andrews]
Xerox's entire sales force will soon be working from virtual offices.
[theme : THE VIRTUAL OFFICE] [author : Michael Nadeau]
Apple completely redesigned its Mac OS to provide a growth path to the future while continuing to support the existing software base.
[theme : OPERATING SYSTEM] [author : Tom Thompson]
Six new pavement systems aim to move your money across the Internet.
[theme : INTERNET PAYMENT SYSTEMS] [author : Andrew Singleton]
QNX's Photon kernel gives developers welcome control over windowing programming.
[theme : APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT] [author : Peter D. Varhol]
Dividing your network into two or more parts can boost performance.
[theme : NETWORKS] [author : Brett Husselbaugh]
Sorting out the dazzling variety of new memory technologies.
[theme : MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES] [author : Russell Kay]
New chips and new technologies compete for adoption.
[author : Peter Wayner]
Packing silicon wafers tightly creates compact new memory devices.
[author : Rick Cook]
With roaming-enabled access points, good range, and high throughout, WaveLAN-base wireless LANs are the ones to beat in North America.
[theme : NETWORKING] [author : Rex Baldazo]
Oracle In Motion's agents take over network housekeeping chores, virtually eliminating the wireless performance penalty.
[theme : MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS] [author : Peter Wayner]
Bundled with Palindrome's automated backup software for NetWare, HP's SureStore Tape 12000e DAT Autoloader can provide weeks of unattended network backup.
[theme : DATA STORAGE] [author : Bill Lawrence]
Scitor links an optimized spreadsheet to flowchart objects, and - presto! - an instant simulator that most anyone can use.
[author : David Essex]
In the OS/2 spreadsheet duel, upstart Mesa 2 has the advanced GUI features that 1-2-3 should have.
[theme : SPREADSHEETS] [author : Daniel Gasteiger]
SQL front-end tools empower nontechnical managers to make informed, time-critical decisions by giving them direct access to client/server databases.
[author : Charles Vogt]
V.34 represents the best and fastest modem technology available today. NSTL evaluates 32 state-of-the-market modems for throughout, reliability, robustness, and compatibility.
Digital's three CPUs bring powerful possibilities to desktop and workstation systems design.
[theme : CPUS] [author : Bruce Faust]
Windows 95 will eventually unify a series of graphics APIs - for video, games, and 3-D - using a new set of device-driver interfaces.
[theme : OPERATING SYSTEMS] [author : Standford Diehl]
Part 2: This month, we write the event handlers and the dispatch table.
[theme : PROGRAMMING] [author : Tom Thompson]
Remote monitoring lets managers find out what's going on at distant locations.
[theme : NETWORKS] [author : Salvatore Salamone]
AAAS's annual meeting and Washington, DC, highlight Jerry's month.
[author : Jerry Pournelle]
Four books about the Internet, CD-ROMs for learning applications and computer languages, and Nicholas Negroponte's experiences, insights, and predictions.
[author : Andy Reinhardt and Rich Friedman and Edmund X. Dejesus]
Don't blindly jump on the bandwagon.
[author : Ted Prince]
[author : Raphael Needleman]
Highlights from two decades of covering the PC revolution.
Letter on Intel's P6, Microsoft's Bob, and personal quandaries.
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