MacWEEK articles from July 1993

MacWEEK archives from July 1993

Enterprise Division may be dissolved in Apple reorg plan. (Apple's Enterprise Systems Division)
July 5, 1993... Cupertino, Calif. - Apple's Enterprise Systems Division is in choppy seas, sources said, and could go under during the company's current reorganizational storm. Walking papers have already been issued to top executives in the Enterprise...

AT&T and Apple fail to connect for now: companies quash rumors of merger.
July 5, 1993... New York - Despite continuing press speculation about talks between AT&T Co. and Apple, sources report that the negotiations have ended, for now, without resolution. Sources close to both companies characterized reports of possible joint...

Apple powering AOCE for Boston Macworld debut. (Apple Open Collaboration Environment to be introduced in August 1993, PowerTalk and PowerShare to ship after)
July 5, 1993... San Francisco - The Apple Open Collaboration Environment will be rolled out at next month's Macworld Expo, according to sources. The first two products, client software called PowerTalk and server software called PowerShare, are expected to...

Apple display to handle sound. (AudioVision 14 Display) (Brief Article)
July 5, 1993... Cupertino, Calif. - Apple next month is expected to tighten its hold on the multimedia market with the introduction of the AudioVision 14 Display, a new 14-inch monitor priced at less than $800. The new device, reportedly slated to make...

Connection Kits will link Newton to Mac, Windows. (Newton Connection Kits)
July 5, 1993... New York - Even though it hasn't officially announced its first Newton, Apple last week introduced a family of products designed to help Mac and Windows users exchange data between desktop machines and the handheld devices the company hopes...

Vendors take shine to Amber: WordPerfect Novell, IBM back OpenDoc. (consortium backs new crossplatform standard)
July 5, 1993... New York - An "anyone but Microsoft" alliance emerged last week around Apple's proposed cross-platform standard for compound documents as WordPerfect Corp. and Novell Inc. announced plans to co-develop a Windows version and IBM Corp. and...

HyperCard 2.2 will offer choice of scripting systems: variety of interfaces, runtime builder due.
July 5, 1993... Cupertino, Calif. - The next release of HyperCard is in alpha-testing at Apple, and a release is due this fall, sources said. The upgrade integrates AppleScript with the stack development tool; however, some anticipated features, such as color...

Apple to put new face on PhoneNET. (to be resold by Apple as LocalTalk RJ-11 Connector) (Brief Article)
July 5, 1993... Cupertino, Calif. - Taking a license from one of its most successful third-party developers, Apple last week released its own version of a PhoneNET network connector. Farallon Computing Inc. of Alameda, Calif., has licensed PhoneNET to...

Novell readies cross-platform tools: AppWare simplifies writing net apps. (AppWare)
July 5, 1993... New York - Novell Inc. last week at PC Expo here unveiled a new network-application development system that could make the Mac a more equal citizen at multiplatform sites. Called AppWare, the object-oriented system is designed to reduce...

Purple Bullet provides platform for PB hard drives: add-on card fits in any NuBus Mac. (ETC Peripherals Inc.'s Purple Bullet for Apple Macintosh PowerBooks) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... Tampa, Fla. - A $99 NuBus card from ETC Peripherals Inc. could provide a new and productive home for displaced PowerBook hard drives now sitting idle on dealer shelves and in users' drawers. Called the Purple Bullet, the card provides a...

Neuron Data unveils elements of expanded development system. (Neuron Data Elements Architecture's Open Interface Elements, C/S Elements) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... Palo Alto, Calif. - Neuron Data Inc., best known for its tools for building GUIs and knowledge-base systems, hopes to extend its reach into commercial and corporate cross-platform application generation with a new development system. The...

For the record. (Correction Notice)
July 5, 1993... A June 14 story on compression should have listed Storm Technology Inc. as a company that offers JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) still-image compression products.

RasterOps docks help Duos reach big screens. (RasterOps' DuoMate 8, DuoMate 16sc for Apple PowerBook Duos) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... Santa Clara, Calif. - RasterOps Corp.'s DuoMate presentation docks for the PowerBook Duos are finally on the market, several months after they were due. The company is shipping two models, one with a SCSI port. The DuoMate 8, priced at...

New Sequencher eases DNA analysis. (Gene Codes Inc.'s Sequencher 2.0.10 DNA-sequencing application) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... Ann Arbor, Mich. - If the hit movie "Jurassic Park" has inspired the cloning urge at your company, you can turn to a new version of a DNA-sequencing application from Gene Codes Inc. The company has updated its Sequencher application to...

Mass Microsystems bolsters array lineup. (MASSterArrays, MASSterDrive Fast SCSI-2 drives) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... Sunnyvale, Calif. - Mass Microsystems Inc. last month unveiled several high-end storage systems, including four new array models. The MASSterArrays and MASSterDrive Fast SCSI-2 drives are based on various 3.5-inch Seagate mechanisms,...

La Cie release new drive models, reduces prices on current stock: SyQuests, internals now on the market. (Brief Article)
July 5, 1993... Beaverton, Ore. - La Cie Ltd. last month rolled out a handful of drives, including a new SyQuest model, and cut prices on a number of its existing systems. > SyQuest. The company's new 3.5-inch SyQuest drive, available now, offers a...

SyQuest clone controversy continues. (Mass Microsystems Inc. to market French-produced disks and defends SyQuest Technology Inc. charges that cartridges from clone maker can damage drives) (Brief Article)
July 5, 1993... Sunnyvale, Calif. - Adding to the brouhaha over SyQuest cartridge clones, Mass Microsystems Inc. said it is about to begin marketing French-produced disks for use in its DataCart line of SyQuest drives. The cartridges are produced by...

DNA scanner includes gene software. (IntelliGenetics Inc.'s FilmMate scanner bundled with BaseWorks image-analysis software) (Brief Article)
July 5, 1993... Mountain View, Calif. - IntelliGenetics Inc. last month took the wraps off a bundling deal that pairs its film-scanning system for DNA analysis with software that speeds identification of genetic sequences. Users who buy a $29,000...

HyperProject Lite gains weight: upgrade improves project manager. (HyperProject Inc.'s HyperProject Lite 1.4) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... Granada Hills, Calif. - Six months after it introduced HyperProject Lite, HyperProject Inc. has shipped an upgrade to the scaled-back version of its Mac project-management package. Like the initial version, 1.3, of the $124.95 package,...

ViewIt can now take AppleScript. (FaceWare's ScriptIt module for ViewIt) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... Urbana, Ill. - FaceWare last month added AppleScript support to ViewIt, its application development library. A new $95 module called ScriptIt, when incorporated into C, Pascal and Fortran-based applications, lets users write, load, edit,...

HyperHIT Deluxe a mere C-note? (SoftStream International Inc.'s new marketing scheme for product prices product at $99) (Brief Article)
July 5, 1993... Dartmouth, Mass. - SoftStream International Inc. is making its client-server relational database tool, HyperHIT Deluxe, more affordable with a no-license-fee policy and special discount. The company this week announced that it will no...

Portfoliio cuts Dynodex, Dynopage prices. (Portfolio Software Inc. cuts prices on Dynodex 3.0, DynoPage 2.0, SmartScrap/SuperGlue products) (News Briefs) (Brief Article)
July 5, 1993... Cupertino, Calif. - Portfolio Software Inc. last month cut prices on its line of Mac products, including its Dynodex contact manager. The company dropped the price of Dynodex 3.0, DynoPage 2.0 and its SmartScrap/SuperGlue bundle from...

Best CheckUPS focuses on power problems. (Best Power Technology Inc.'s CheckUPS for Mac) (Brief Article)(News Briefs) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... Necedah, Wis. - A power outage is never pleasant for a computer user, but Best Power Technology Inc. has introduced Mac software designed to put a happy interface on the experience. CheckUPS for Mac, priced at $109, monitors and reports...

Procom ships small-footprint 2-Gbyte drives. (Procom Technology Inc.'s MD 2003 external drive, S1 20003 internal drive) (Brief Article)(News Briefs) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... Irvine, Calif. - Procom Technology Inc. last month shipped a line of 2-Gbyte half-height drives designed for small-footprint Macs. Based on a 3.5-inch Seagate mechanism, the external MD 2003 and internal SI 2003 models offer an average...

CheckWriter Pro calculates for PayCheck. (Aatrix Software Inc.'s CheckWriter Pro linked with PayCheck application) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... Grand Forks, N.D. - Aatrix Software Inc. recently upgraded its personal accounting package and linked it to its new paycheck-generating software. CheckWriter Pro, formerly CheckWriter 4.0, can now create check registers and perform...

ShirtPocket lets other platforms read, write Mac-formatted media. (ShirtPocket Software offers hierarchical file system code for EasyServer file server) (Brief Article)
July 5, 1993... Mesa, Ariz. - ShirtPocket Software last month released technology that lets developers make Mac-formatted media usable on other platforms. ShirtPocket has unbundled the hierarchical file system code from EasyServer, its...

Sizzling brings military lingo to WordPerfect. (Sizzling Software's Milspell for WordPerfect for the Macintosh) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... Portsmouth, N.H. - Sizzling Software is now shipping Milspell, a dictionary of military, engineering and computer-related words for users of WordPerfect for the Macintosh. The $49.95 Milspell, which includes more than 22,000 terms, is...

Beta testing at Mac sites: more than just bug hunting. (includes related article on experience of a beta tester)
July 5, 1993... Testing gives managers a chance to evaluate needs and influence products. Any organization that wants to keep up with Mac technology must constantly evaluate new products, and that means beta testing. For corporate and institutional Mac...

Calendar of events.
July 5, 1993... July 11-16 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Washington, D.C. Shows designed to facilitate the transfer of science to practical applications. Contact the...

Connect 918 transmits voice, video. (NUTS Technologies Inc.'s Connect 918) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... San Jose, Calif. - NUTS Technologies Inc. last week shipped a video teleconferencing system that lets co-workers collaborate using real-time video while sharing files and an eight-bit-color drawing board. Rolled out at Mactivity '93,...

Apple readies XTI, Streams APIs. (X/Open Transport Interface, application programming interface)
July 5, 1993... San Jose, Calif. - Apple is putting the finishing touches on a transport-independent application programming interface that will underlie forthcoming updates to its AppleTalk and TCP/IP protocols. At last week's Mactivity '93 here, the...

NetSpan's MultiRouter line easy to upgrade. (MultiRouter LT, MultiRouter LT/Sync, MultiRouter EN/LT, MultiRouter LT/V.32, MultiRouter EN/V.32, Route Manager software) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... Richardson, Texas - Start-up NetSpan Corp. is serving up a series of modular routers to users of growing AppleTalk networks. NetSpan's line of MultiRouters all sit in similar chassis and have cards that supply the various LocalTalk,...

White Pine VT300 1.2 emulator simplifies remote file transfer. (Mac300 1.2) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... San Jose, Calif. - White Pine Software at Mactivity '93 last week tuned up its line of VT300 terminal software for the Mac by adding more than 30 emulation features and making file transfers from the host easier to handle for mobile Mac users....

Server Manager now more flexible. (Technology Works Inc.'s GraceLAN Server Manager 2.0) (Brief Article ) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... Users can now be added without shutting server Austin, Texas - Technology Works Inc. next week will ship an upgrade of GraceLAN Server Manager that lets network administrators add and delete users without having to restart their...

Andrew opens PC gateway to Macs. (NetLynx Mac, ETU) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... San Jose, Calif. - Andrew Corp. last week at Mactivity '93 unveiled software that lets Macintosh users ride the same gateway to IBM midrange connectivity as their PC-using LAN-mates. NetLynx/Mac, due in August, will let Macs on LocalTalk,...

CE delivers new APIs for QuickMail. (QuickMessenger 2.0, QuickMailbar) (application programming interface) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... West Des Moines, Iowa - CE Software Inc. last month announced new and updated application programming interfaces to its QuickMail electronic-mail software. > QuickMessenger 2.0. Due to ship next month, QuickMessenger 2.0 adds...

New adapter from Team ASA combines FDDI, SCSI-2 interface. (Team Advanced Systems Associates Inc.'s Stallion-QD+) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... San Diego - Team Advanced Systems Associates last week announced an adapter card that combines FDDI with a Fast SCSI-2 interface. The Stallion-QD+ fits in the processor direct slot of Mac Quadra or Centris models. Due in the third...

Apple ships fix for net installer. (Network System Installer 1.3.3, upgrades Extension Manager 2.0) (Brief Article)
July 5, 1993... Cupertino, Calif. - Apple's just-released version of the Network System Installer has been followed with a bug fix, Version 1.3.3. A package of connectivity-related drivers and software, the new version of the NSI is functionally...

QuarkXPress 3.2 gets color in tune: update adds EftColor, supports Apple events. (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... Denver - Desktop publishers this week will meet their match when Quark Inc. ships a new version of QuarkXPress that includes built-in color management. XPress 3.2, available for $895, features: > EfiColor. Users can proof color on...

Upgrade turns Fargo wax printer into low-cost dye-sublimation device. (Fargo Electronics Inc.'s Photo-Realistic Upgrade Kit) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... Eden Prairie, Minn. - Fargo Electronics Inc. this month will launch an upgrade that turns its low-cost Primera thermal-wax printer into a Mac-compatible dye-sublimation device that costs less than $1,500. The Photo-Realistic Upgrade Kit,...

Aldus SuperPaint 3.5 takes on QuickTime, scanner support. (Aldus Corp.'s SuperPaint 3.5) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... San Diego - Aldus Corp.'s Consumer Division last week shipped SuperPaint 3.5, an upgrade that adds new tools and QuickTime support to the painting and drawing program. The new version costs $149.95, down from $199 for the previous...

UMAX scanner family gains 1,200-dpi member. (UMAX Technologies Inc.'s UC1260 scanner) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... Fremont, Calif. - UMAX Technologies Inc. last week introduced a 1,200-dpi model of its 24-bit-color flatbed-scanner line. The UC1260 is slated to ship this month for $2,495. The CCD (charge-coupled device) scanner captures eight bits...

IDD builds on MacDraft features: update adopts tools from Dreams app. (Innovate Data Design Inc.'s MacDraft 3.0 incorporates aspects of firm's Dreams application) (Brief Article ) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... Concord, Calif. - Innovative Data Design Inc. last week shipped an upgrade to its CAD program that adds a host of new tools for technical and architectural 2-D drawing. Version 3.0 of the $399 MacDraft incorporates many architectural and...

ConcertWare Pro takes notation, transcribes MIDI into editable files. (Great Wave Software Inc.'s ConcertWare Pro) (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... Scotts Valley, Calif. - Great Wave Software last week shipped ConcertWare Pro, a $239.95 music-notation program designed for both amateur and professional musicians. Users can create a musical piece directly in notation mode, or...

VRex LCD panel projects color images, video in 3-D. (VR-1000 liquid crystal display panel) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... Hawthorne, N.Y. - A new LCD projection panel from VRex Inc. displays computer images and live video in three dimensions. Available now for $7,995, the VR-1000 is the first LCD panel that can project stereographic images to a group,...

Macromedia to create simulated life. (Smart 3D virtual reality technology) (Brief Article)
July 5, 1993... San Francisco - Macromedia Inc. is developing a new virtual-reality technology that creates real-time 3-D simulations of an environment with "live" characters. The technology, called Smart 3D, combines a fast 3-D renderer and an...

Oracle's revenues skyrocketing: database software pumps up profits. (fourth quarter 1993 revenues increase)
July 5, 1993... Redwood Shores, Calif. - Buoyed by the successful launch of its Oracle7 database software, Oracle Corp., based here, last week reported revenues for the fourth quarter of its 1993 fiscal year hit a record $473 million, a 31 percent increase...

Apple PIE to publish, distribute line of multimedia CD-ROMs. (Apple's Personal Interactive Electronics Division)
July 5, 1993... Cupertino, Calif. - In a move to spur the spread of CD-ROM and lay the groundwork for future publishing projects, Apple's Personal Interactive Electronics Division last month announced plans to publish its own line of multimedia CD-ROMs and...

FCC approves wireless service; gives Mtel nod. (Federal Communications Commission Mobile Telecommunications Technology Corp. receives privileged status)
July 5, 1993... Washington - The Federal Communications Commission last month gave its blessing to a new wireless communications scheme designed for the personal digital assistants and notebook computers of the future. The FCC, confirming a tentative...

Objective on financial skids after losing a major backer. (Objective Software Inc.)
July 5, 1993... Redwood City, Calif. - Less than six months after delivering SpreadBase, a much-hyped data-analysis and modeling tool, Objective Software Inc. is on the verge of closing its doors. The company's staff has been reduced to a skeleton crew...

3Com reports record results for Q4, year. (fourth quarter 1993) (Brief Article)
July 5, 1993... Santa Clara, Calif. - Fueled by a surge in demand for its network adapters, bridges and routers, 3Com Corp. last month reported record sales and profits. The company, based here, posted increases of 33 percent and 111 percent in sales...

Aldus completes buyout of After Hours. (After Hours Software) (Brief Article)
July 5, 1993... San Diego - Aldus Corp.'s Consumer Division last month completed a multimillion-dollar acquisition of After Hours Software. The Consumer Division, based here, paid $4 million for the Van Nuys, Calif.-based developer of such utilities as...

Manzanita flexes accounting muscle. (acquires Flexware accounting series from Microfinancial Corp.) (Brief Article)
July 5, 1993... Roseville, Calif. - Nearly a decade after entering the market with business software for the Apple II, Manzanita Software Systems has acquired its first Mac program. Manzanita, based here, last week bought the rights to Flexware, a...

Apple adds new company to reseller credit list. (Apple USA adds NationsCredit Commercial Corp.) (Brief Article)
July 5, 1993... Campbell, Calif. - Apple USA last week announced a new option for authorized resellers looking to finance inventory and accounts receivable. The company announced an agreement that puts NationsCredit Commercial Corp. on the list of...

GCC lays off one-third of its work force. (GCC Technologies Inc.) (Brief Article)
July 5, 1993... Bedford, Mass. - Squeezed by mounting competition and eroding margins, GCC Technologies Inc. has laid off one-third of its employees. The peripherals maker, based here, last month said it cut its work force by 30 to about 60 people. The...

Diesel Mike and Wacky Jack. (Apple Computer Inc. entering multimedia CD-ROM market may not make financial sense) (Editorial)
July 5, 1993... Wacky Jack's CD Game Show will feature more than 500 "multimedia cultural and geographic icons for adults and children to ask and answer questions about." A trio of CD-ROMs named Peter's Alphabet Adventure, Peter's Number Adventure and...

If an 'open Mac' has no advantage, what's the point? (collaboration with other computer makers may be counter-productive) (My Turn) (Column)
July 5, 1993... Apple is in the process of directing a significant amount of its resources to getting Mac technology in some form running on most every microcomputer on the planet. While this is a rather breathtaking ambition, it is a significant deviation...

Back to business, part 1: the brave new Finder. (The Mac Manager) (Column)
July 5, 1993... Now that the dust has settled surrounding the latest management change at Apple, perhaps we and Apple can get back to business. I heartily agree with Jim Young's My Turn column (see MacWEEK, June 21) in which he calls on all information...

Letters. (Letter to the Editor)
July 5, 1993... Professional data recovery may work when utilities fail I am astonished that MacWEEK failed to mention professional data-recovery services as an option in the story about emergency recovery tools, "Hard facts about hard disk utilities"...

Gold Disk's presentation app Astounds with multimedia: business slide show program adds pizazz to static visuals. (includes related articles on Astound's features and on upcoming Microsoft Windows version) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
July 5, 1993... .................... Score Card: Astound Gold Disk Inc. Version tested: 1.0 List price: $399 Overall value 4 Gold Disk Inc.'s Astound is a new breed of presentation program. It excels at static presentations -...

AppleShare managers serve up network tools: admin programs ease management. (Technology Works Inc.'s GraceLAN Server Manager 1.0.3, Sonic Systems Inc.'s Server Sentry 1.0.1) (includes related articles on product features and on product information) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
July 5, 1993....................... Score Card: Remote AppleShare management tools Two new products aim to improve upon the native management tools in AppleShare. These products provide remote, multiserver monitoring and management. Both products are...

Astound challenges Aldus Persuasion and Microsoft PowerPoint. (Software Review) (Evaluation)
July 5, 1993....................... Score Card: Presentation software When we reviewed Aldus Persuasion 2.1 (see MacWEEK, March 23, 1992), we gave it our highest rating. Eight months later, we compared it with Microsoft PowerPoint 3.0 (see MacWEEK, Nov....

Data Desk helps users learn and apply stats to the real world: general-purpose program offers wealth of analytical routines. (Data Descriptions Inc.'s Data Desk 4.1) (includes related article on product features) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
July 5, 1993... .................... Score Card: Data Desk Data Description Inc. Version tested: 4.1 List price: $595* Overall value 4 Data Desk is a complete and very efficient program for exploratory data analysis. Its user interface...

When choosing a DBMS, look beyond its features. (includes related articles on third-generation languages and on data warehousing) (Buyers Guide)
July 5, 1993... Buying a DBMS is a long-term commitment; careful research and planning can head off trouble and save time and money. Choosing among database-management systems is unlike most other software buying decisions. Feature comparison - a very...

Which degree of change is the right one? (changing data base management systems)
July 5, 1993... Because of the time and expense involved, no one relishes the idea of changing database-management systems. However, to take advantage of new technology, companies must update applications occasionally. Whether simply upgrading to a new...

Looking at shareware and checking updates. (MacInTouch: Products, Bugs & Tips) (Column)
July 5, 1993... Trawl and Attributes are two of many useful shareware programs that have appeared recently. We also note updates to FileMaker Pro 2.0 and Now Up-to-Date. Products Cruising the networks With the growing number of Macintoshes,...

Programs make the switch. (Ask David Ramsey) (Column)
July 5, 1993... Q. What's involved in "porting" a Windows program to a Mac, or vice versa? A. An existing program for either platform must be largely rewritten to run on the other platform. Depending on the care taken, the result can be either pretty...

Apple layoff toll may reach 3,000. (reorganization) (Brief Article)
July 5, 1993... Cupertino, Calif. - Apple is expected to cut as many as 3,000 jobs -more than 20 percent of its worldwide work force of 14,000 - within the next 10 days. The restructuring is expected to have sweeping effects on all parts of the company....

The color of Duo 230 upgrades. (Mac the Knife) (Column)
July 5, 1993... Parental advisory: WARNING, the following column contains explicit rumors. Parental discretion advised. It was the talk of the industry last week, if not the talk of the nation. At times it seemed as if we might all be buried in the...

Memorybank II drive, tape combo now offers DAT auto-loader option. (Memorybank Inc.'s Memorybank II Tape Autoloader) (Product Announcement)
July 5, 1993... Ann Arbor, Mich. - Memorybank Inc. last month added a digital audio tape auto-loader and 3-Gbyte hard drive to the list of options for Memorybank II, the company's integrated storage subsystems. The Memorybank II Tape Autoloader, based on...

Vendors tune AOCE software as Apple delivers final beta. (Apple Open Collaboration Environment) (Product Announcement)
July 12, 1993... San Francisco - Apple last week delivered a final beta of its Open Collaboration Environment software to 15,000 users and developer sites, giving third parties a chance to fine-tune their AOCE-savvy applications. The company's first two...

Quadra 950 and server cuts set stage for 840av rollout: Apple slashes prices on high-end systems. (Apple Macintosh Quadra 950, Workgroup Server 95)
July 12, 1993... Cupertino, Calif. - Prices converged at the top of the Mac line as Apple last week cut list prices for the Quadra 950 and Workgroup Server 95 to make room for the upcoming Quadra 840av. Apple chopped at least $1,500 off the price of every...

WordPerfect 3 to do mail: AOCE mailer will let users dispatch docs. (Apple Open Collaboration Environment) (WordPerfect Corp. to offer WordPerfect 3.0 word processor for Macintosh) (Product Announcement)
July 12, 1993... Orem, Utah - A new version of WordPerfect Corp.'s Macintosh word processor will be among the first major applications to include support for the Apple Open Collaboration Environment. WordPerfect 3.0 will enable users to add AOCE "mailer"...

Apple to lay off 2,500 employees, trim exec salaries.
July 12, 1993... Cupertino, Calif. - Apple last week announced the first steps in what it called "a broad re-engineering of the company" to occur over the next 12 months. Apple said it will eliminate 2,500 jobs, with the majority of the layoffs occurring...

ACI US links 4D to Oracle, Mac apps: 4D Open will offer access to 4D Server. (new database products) (Product Announcement)
July 12, 1993... Cupertino, Calif. - ACI US Inc. this summer is releasing products that make it easier to access data in legacy systems from 4th Dimension and to access data on 4D Server from third-party applications. The company will also update its...

Double-XX makes stand-alone apps: HyperCard player not needed to run. (Heizer Software Double-XX) (Product Announcement)
July 12, 1993... Pleasant Hill, Calif. - Struggling to convert your stack into a stand- alone application? Can't wait for HyperCard 2.2 but don't want the overhead of Claris' stand-alone builder? Heizer Software's Double-XX seeks to bridge the app gap. ...

Managers still vigilant about virus protection. (includes related article on how to keep Macs virus-free)
July 12, 1993... Network managers say the regular use of anti-viral software is a must. Despite some industry experts' claims that the threat of Macintosh computer viruses is on the wane, Mac managers are taking no chances. Administrators employ...

CommForce extends net-fax line: iSDN Manager offers high-speed ARA links. (AppleTalk Remote Access) (Product Announcement)
July 12, 1993... West Des Moines, Iowa - CommForce L.C. this month expanded its family of fax software with announcements of a new package for small networks and driver software that lets Macs send and receive faxes or use AppleTalk Remote Access (ARA) over...

Print servers from three vendors simplify Ethernet print sharing. (Compatible Systems Corp., MiLAN Technology Corp., Focus Enhancements introduce new products) (Product Announcement)
July 12, 1993... San Francisco - Print sharing is still one of the most important requirements on Mac networks, and a trio of companies recently introduced new or enhanced hardware "servers" that connect printers to an Ethernet network. > Compatible...

CalComp heating up PS thermal-wax race. (PostScript printer) (Product Announcement)
July 12, 1993... Anaheim, Calif. - CalComp Inc. last week unveiled a new pair of thermal- wax printers that process PostScript files five times faster than previous CalComp models. The ColorMaster Plus XF devices include the letter-size Model 6603XF and...

Adobe ships Wild Type collection; Brendel, Swfte offer low-cost sets. (Adobe Systems Inc. introduces Wild Type font collection) (Product Announcement)
July 12, 1993... San Francisco - Desktop publishers thirsty for novel headline type as well as traditional text faces can now dip into a pool of new fonts. > Adobe Systems Inc. last week shipped Wild Type, a collection of 11 lighthearted headline fonts...

Software upgrading: is it worth it every time? (News Analysis)
July 12, 1993... When updating graphics software, users must consider retraining time and possible incompatibilities and bugs. Managers in the Macintosh graphic arts community regularly decide whether to purchase upgrades to their software tools. While...

Apple faces product forecast woes: company struggling to meet user demand.
July 12, 1993... Cupertino, Calif. - As Apple weathers its biggest layoff, industry observers say the company is having substantial trouble forecasting and meeting product demand. Executives in the reseller ranks blame Apple's financial woes in part on...

Apple software unit renamed, retooled. (Apple to rename Macintosh Software Architecture Division AppleSoft) (Brief Article)
July 12, 1993... Cupertino, Calif. - As part of Apple's biggest restructuring in five years, the company last week decided to give its Macintosh Software Architecture Division a new name and a broader mission. To be renamed AppleSoft, according to...