Call them network PCs, Internet appliances, or browser boxes, a new class of dirt-cheap computers is coming soon. But first, their designers must overcome four technical hurdles.
[author : Tom R. Halfhill]
[author : Jon Udell]
The Virtual Reality Markup Language helps create and explore three-dimensional on-line worlds. No need to travel in flat space.
[author : Udo Flohr]
Those strange boxes that do something with phones are becoming more data-friendly by connecting to LANs. New architectures and APIs are joining these communications technologies.
[author : Salvatore Salamone]
From storyboards to development tools to network delivery, here's what you should know about making multimedia.
[author : Salvatore Salamone] [theme : Multimedia Development]
Before developing your project, you should do like filmmakers and first develop a storyboard.
[author : Salvatore Salamone] [theme : Multimedia Development]
Here's how to tackle the timely delivery of multimedia over networks and the Internet.
[author : Nathan J. Muller] [theme : Multimedia Development]
Multimedia authoring tools range from low-end presentation-graphics programs to high-end CASE tools. Picking the right one will make the job easier.
[author : Robert A. Delrossi] [theme : Multimedia Development]
Lawnmower Man comes to the office as VR starts to influence the business world.
New technologies will let you work longer without plugging in.
Multimedia Web pages are more than just visual gratification.
Speech technologies are going to change the way you work (and play).
Net surfers are using the Web for info gathering. Here's what you could change that.
The latest thing in high-tech fashion.
It's a software implant: Symantec has inserted a Java compiler into its latest software-development system.
Connect the PDA and push a button. Presto! Your data's synchronized.
Apple's QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card promises more realistic 3-D imagery: Lotus cc:Mail for Macintosh Release 3 helps you automate handling; plus more new hardware and software.
Quarterdeck's WebCompass, a "metasearch" utility that queries Internet search site, gets high praise from our reviewer.
[author : Rex Baldazo] [theme : Internet Tools]
IBM's new ThinkPad 760CD has a display to die for. But this well-equipped notebook won't run graphics like your desktop does.
[author : Russell Kay] [theme : Mobile Computers]
Vinca's StandbyServer 32 lets you cost-effectively mirror a NetWare server. And the new SnapShotServer can perform backups without affecting server availability.
[author : Bill Lawrence] [theme : Network Lawrence]
We see how well Visionneer's upgraded PaperPort Vx and HP's new ScanJet 4Si handle our personal paper crisis.
[author : Stanford Diehl] [theme : Scanners]
Our tests find Watcom's C++ compiler the best if you're programming for multiple Intel platforms, but Microsoft's is tops if you're building 32-bit-only programs.
[author : Rick Grehan] [theme : Programming Tools]
Two new quad-speed internal CD-ROM drives from Alps Electric and NEC prove that four discs are better than one.
[author : Chris O'Malley] [theme : Storage]
PowerSoft's PowerBuilder for Unix makes it amazingly easy to port Windows and Mac client/server applications to Unix.
[author : Tom Yager] [theme : Applications Develoment]
Leading-edge forms software can query databases and help you manage workflow. In our roundup, Delrina FormFlow and Novell's InForms demonstrate the best form.
[author : Mark Hettler] [theme : Electronic-Forms Programs]
It's time to put your company's message on-line. Our tests show that these Web servers make it easier than you might thing.
[author : Chandrika Mysore and Brent Melson] [theme : Web Servers]
Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed and fairly portable operating system. It could be playing soon in a niche near you.
[author : Paul Fillinich] [theme : Operating Systems]
The new SPEC95 benchmarks more accurately measure the performance of systems and microprocessors.
[author : Tom Yager]
The leap developer of the BYTEmark tests clears up the mysteries of malloc() memory mismanagement.
[author : Rick Grehan] [theme : Programming]
The first wave of Internet-enabled client/server applications are under developement.
[author : Salvatore Salamone]
Jerry refurbishes an old 486 for multimedia, wrestles with an OS dilemma, and settles on Windows 95—but COM ports and communications pose problems.
[author : Jerry Pournelle]
Bill Gates writes about the future of computing; plus, code fragments for the Mac and an off-line search engine for the Web.
[author : Dave Andrews, Tom Thompson, and Rowland Aertker]
[author : Curtis Franklin, Jr.]
[author : Raphael Needleman]
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