Three-tier development is getting a kick in the pants from components and the Web.

[author : Dick Pountain and John Montgomery]

Some tips and products that will help you avoid anarchy.

[author : Udo Flohr]

Transaction processing monitors keep Web servers humming.

TDMA, CDMA, GSM—from this alphabet soup will come tomorrow's wireless network.

Porting to hand-held PCs is nothing to dread.

A new architecture promises a big boost in server performance but not a big boost in cost.

Dragon's NaturallySpeaking.

[theme : Voice Recognition]

Object Design's ObjectStore 5.

[theme : Object Database]

Xerox's DocuPrint.

[theme : Color Printer]

APC's Symmetra UPS.

"We've got a problem: The VP of finance is questioning our reports"

[author : Richard Hackathorn] [theme : Databases]

Internet Foundation Classes lets you add useful UI elements to applets.

[author : Andy Turk] [theme : Operating Systems]

By caching name/address translations on your own system, you can speed your way to Web sites.

[author : Jonathan E. Brickman] [theme : Networks]

A new family of chips helps handle Digital Subscriber Line connections between the central office and the home.

[author : Dick Pountain] [theme : CPUs]

Microsoft's ODBCDirect gives programmers better ways of processing ODBC data sources.

[author : Rick Dobson] [theme : Programming]

Ten handheld PCs that do many of the things you used to need a bigger machine to do.

[author : Michelle Campanale] [theme : Hardware]

Microsoft's extension for NT Server will enable build-in clustering, bringing a new degree of reliability and fault tolerance.

[author : BYTE Editors]

A servlet-based group calendar becomes a surprising success and prompts an exploration of ways to bind Java programs to persistent storage.

[author : John Udell]

SGI's Cosmo Code, for 3-D development, is a good IDE.

[author : Rick Grehan]

Win 95 rains plagues upon Jerry. But Softimage's graphics wizardry cheers him up.

[author : Jerry Pournelle]

IBM's enhanced DB2 5.0

[theme : Database]

Trusted Web, a one-step authentication server.

[theme : Authentification Server]

Tumbleweed's Posta.

[theme : E-mail attachments]

An early look at Cryptolope.

[theme : E-commerce technology]

The programmer's best friend and Cyber BabeWatch.

[author : Marc Abrahams]

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