The first detailed look at the new breakthrough microprocessor architecture from Intel and Hewlett-Packard—and what it will mean for developers and users.

[author : Tom R. Halfhill]

New 3-D power of AMD, Centaur, and Cyrix chips will challenge Intel.

[author : Tom R. Halfhill]

Soon you'll be able to manage the network and all those devices from one console.

[author : Karen Watterson]

Microsoft's next Component Object Model will make it easier to create and use objects.

[author : David Ckappell]

We honor software and hardware that prove 0innovation was alive and well in 1997.

Enterprise-ready Windows NT 4.0

[author : Morgan Stern and Gary Monti]

Mitsubishi's MobileAccess and Samsung's Duette.

[author : Michelle Campanale]

Data requires careful control and cleansing to make it useful for business decisions

[author : Colin White] [theme : Databases]

Powerful processors, cheap memory, and a hardware standard enable speech recognition and synthesis on out-of-the-box PCs.

[author : Joseph J. Lazzaro] [theme : Operating Systems]

Before connecting your ATM network to the outside world, consider its addressing scheme.

[author : Jeffrey N. Fritz] [theme : Networking]

A video compressor/decompresser from C-Cube enables real-time MPEG-2 encoding for PCs.

[author : Les Kohn and Greg Efland] [theme : CPUs]

[author : Rick Dobson] [theme : Programming]

We look at seven sitebuilding and maintenance kits to help you choose the right one.

[author : Steve Gillmor] [theme : Software]

We test the current crop of thin clients to see what they're good for.

[author : Michelle Campanale] [theme : Hardware]

Freeware gems like Apache, Linux, and Perl keep the Web spinning.

[author : Jon Udell]

An OODBMS takes the plunge into Java.

[author : Rick Grehan]

Building a new dual Pentium Pro system is a snap, until you try to put it on the network.

[author : Jerry Pournelle]

We test two middleware programs that take the muddle out of multiple databases.

[author : Barry Nance] [theme : Data Access Tool]

Three high-end programs let you create Hollywood-quality 3-D animation on an NT workstation.

[author : David Em and Alex Pournelle] [theme : Graphics Software]

A new OS offers users a new set of options.

[author : Peter Wayner] [theme : Operating System]

A great new way to terminate annoying cell-phone calls.

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