MacWEEK articles from June 1996

MacWEEK archives from June 1996

Corel to duel MS Office with Java-based suite. (introduces Corel Office JV, new Barista publishing technology)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 1996... Corel Corp. made several Java-related announcements at last week's JavaOne Conference in San Francisco that it hopes will give it the upper hand in the productivity software battle with Microsoft Office and ClarisWorks. The company unveiled a...

Kodak's consumer focus; Alliance to push FlashPi format. (technology to broaden appeal of digital imaging) (Technology Information)
June 3, 1996... At this week's Comdex/Spring '96 in Chicago, a consortium of industry players hope to popularize image editing with consumers. Sources said Eastman Kodak Co., Microsoft Corp., Live Picture Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. will announce FlashPix, a...

Digital camera less than $350. (Kodak's consumer focus) (Kodak DC-20 digital camera)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 1996... Kodak may be a family name in photography, but until now its digital camera offerings required fairly deep pockets. With a price less than $350, the company's new DC-20 camera may change all that. Slated for introduction this week at...

Amelio names names for new Apple divisions; Buckley out as U.S. sales boss. (Apple CEO Gilbert Amelio) (Company Operations)
June 3, 1996... Apple CEO Gilbert Amelio was two days early in delivering his promised reorganization. Last week, he shifted corporate structures and executives in a shake-up that gave profit-and-loss control to several new operating groups and triggered the...

Help, configuration tools get make-over in Mac OS 8. (Apple offer glimpse at new operating system features) (Product Development)
June 3, 1996... Apple this spring offered glimpses of how it will take the mystery out of dealing with Mac OS 8, code-named Copland. With an increasing jumble of components and new features threatening to overwhelm users and technical support, Apple will beef up...

Truevision card to use M-JPEG with Bravado. (Truevision Inc introduces Bravado 1000 Motion-JPEG card for PCI Macintoshes)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 1996... Truevision Inc. staked a claim on the low-end digital video market last week with its $1,095 Bravado 1000 Motion-JPEG card for PCI Macintoshes. Due in late July, the Mac version of the Bravado 1000 nonlinear editing system will ship with a...

Photoshop plug-in visualizes color. (Digital Frontiers LLC's HVS Color available as Adobe Photoshop plug-in or custom-code module for DeBabelizer)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 1996... Putting the squeeze on color, Digital Frontiers LLC recently released software that the company said can enable eight-bit systems to display 24-bit-color images without dithering or visible banding. Available as an Adobe Photoshop plug-in or as...

Apple plans to bring native PPP to OT, ARA. (Point-to-Point Protocol for Open Transport 1.5 and Apple Remote Access 3.0) (Company Business and Marketing)
June 3, 1996... Protocol to carry AppleTalk traffic Furthering its efforts to support industry standards, Apple over the next eight months will integrate Point-to-Point Protocol with its networking architecture and remote-access product line, the company...

Fore, Asante update ATM, Ethernet lines. (Fore Systems Inc ships ATM switches, lowers prices; Asante ships 5216 Ethernet switch)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 1996... Fore Systems Inc. and Asante Technologies Inc. are expanding their switching families this summer, bringing faster throughput to Mac networks. Fore ended May by shipping its family of 25-Mbps Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) devices. Fore's...

Serving up real-time chat. (free ichat Inc Navigator client plug-in improves Internet chat) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 3, 1996... ichat Inc. is attempting to boost Internet interactivity by bringing a new face to real-time chat. The ichat system comprises a free Netscape Navigator plug-in on the client side, which is expected to ship this week, and a server that runs on...

Digital Ocean splashes onto Mac, Windows. (Grouper and Manta wireless LAN pods now work on Mac and Windows platforms)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 3, 1996... Digital Ocean Inc. expanded the reach of its connectivity options in May when it announced that its wireless LAN products now work on Mac and Microsoft Windows platforms. The company this month released software that makes its Grouper and...

Notes servers to publish databases on the Internet. (Lotus Notes Server 4.0 enters beta testing)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 1996... Lotus Development Corp. this week plans to release a beta version of its Notes server that will open the groupware system to the Internet. According to Lotus, the update, expected to be finished at the end of the second quarter, will convert...

EtherPeek to gain IP skills. (AG Group adds Internet features to EtherPeek 3.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 1996... Adding Internet features to its protocol analyzer, The AG Group Inc. this month will ship EtherPeek 3.0. The new version, the first native Power Mac incarnation of this network diagnostic tool, will sport a plug-in architecture for expanding...

A cavalcade of Claris. (Claris Corp shines as Apple reorganizes) (Company Business and Marketing)(Editorial)
June 3, 1996... A few months ago Gilbert Amelio remarked at a private company meeting that he did not bring up Claris Corp. in the context of a discussion on Apple's woes because there was "nothing to fix." Although we doubt that any organization is above...

MHz may not mean much, but they are nice to have. (PowerPC poised to pass the Pentium in processor performance) (The Second Decade) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
June 3, 1996... Another bright spot on the Mac horizon: The PowerPC is poised to edge past the Pentium, at least for a lap or two, in the processor-performance derby. Keeping up with Andy The PowerPC partners have actually delivered on most of the ambitious...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
June 3, 1996... Things not to come I must say I was quite astonished to see in MacWEEK a screen shot for a Mac product that was taken from an Intel-standard PC running Windows 95 (05.20.96, Page 14). The article, "Netscape puts VRML 2 on Mac," shows a picture...

The best Internet strategy for Apple starts with e-mail. (Apple lays foundation for Internet strategy) (The Mac Manager) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
June 3, 1996... I've got to stop watching "Late Show With David Letterman" while I'm writing this column. Here I am, trying to reflect on Apple and the Internet, while some guy is doing a Stupid Human Trick: blowing bubbles with a tarantula in his mouth. If a...

Video-editing systems ready for prime time. (Apple Macintosh use in TV studios) (includes related article on business use of Mac video)(MacWeek Guide to Digital Video) (Technology Information)
June 3, 1996... Back when videotape was introduced into television production, film purists derided its poor image quality. Yet to most television viewers videotape looked just fine, while to producers its low cost looked a lot better. A similar drama is being...

The storage decision. (storage market changes) (MacWeek Insider) (Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
June 3, 1996... It's the razor blades, stupid! This is the longtime maxim of the supplies business. You sell a printer or removable-media drive on the cheap and make up the profit in the consumable. The downside of this strategy, for users, was made clear to...

QuickTime 2.5: Here's what it looks like so far. (Apple adds features to desktop video software) (MacWeek Guide to Digital Video) (Product Development)
June 3, 1996... When planning its successor to QuickTime 2.1, Apple intended to dub it QuickTime 2.2. However, Apple decided its wealth of new capabilities warranted calling it QuickTime 2.5. Users can decide if that number is justified. (As of this writing,...

CNN news hounds use digital technology to report, edit, produce. (Cable News Network) (MacWeek Guide to Digital Video) (Technology Information)
June 3, 1996... For science fiction fans, the phrase "journalists of the future" may conjure images of the clunky, intrusive mechanical men in a Philip K. Dick novel. But as described by Gordon Castle, director of operations and special projects at CNN Headline...

Strike up the bandwidth. (Apple addresses digital video users' demand for more power) (MacWeek Insider) (Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
June 3, 1996... Power, power and more power. That's what digital video users want, according to a customer study Apple conducted last fall among its digital video customers and third-party developers under the direction of Dan Monahan, Power Mac product manager....

UMAX's S900L clone combines flexibility with compatibility. (UMAX SuperMac S900L tower computer) (includes related article on UMAX's upgrade path) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
June 3, 1996... Score card: Excellent ***** Very Good **** Good *** Fair ** Unsatisfactory * SuperMac S900L UMAX Computer Corp. Estimated street price: $3,995 Overall value: 4 (Very good) UMAX's parent...

In Control 4.0.3. (Attain Corp adds minor refinements to organizer) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 3, 1996... Attain adds minor changes to ease organizer's data entry Excellent ***** Very Good **** Good *** Fair ** Unsatisfactory * Overall value: 3 (Good) When Attain Corp. released Version 3.5 of its venerable...

SyQuest jumps carts to 230MB. (EZFlyer 230MB removable-cartridge drive)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 1996... Seeking to give its sagging sales a lift, SyQuest Technology Inc. this week will unveil its new entry-level removable-media drive. At $299, the new EZFlyer 230MB will cost about $60 more than the EZ135 drive SyQuest introduced last year. The...

Sun extends language horizons. (Sun Microsystems details plans for new Java APIs, new Java-based operating system, and repositions HotJava) (Company Business and Marketing)
June 3, 1996... API and Beans at JavaOne show At Sun Microsystems Inc.'s JavaOne developers conference in San Francisco last week, Sun's JavaSoft division charted a path that extends its namesake programming language over a broader developers base and across...

Apple to SEC: Losses will continue. (sluggish sales and no stock dividends expected) (Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
June 3, 1996... Apple's road to recovery doesn't look to get smoother any time soon. The company's recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission predicts more losses, sluggish sales and no dividends. Apple's regular quarterly filing with the...

Bryce 2.0. (MetaTools terrain generator is a time waster) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 3, 1996... Excellent ***** Very Good **** Good *** Fair ** Unsatisfactory * Overall value: 3 (Good) Terrain generator offers frustrating path to 3-D When we reviewed the 1.0 release of MetaTools Inc.'s Bryce, we...

Exploring Type 11 roots, as well as more print drivers. (what can go wrong with the Macintosh operating system) (Product Information)
June 3, 1996... Programmers working to isolate problems at the lower levels of the Mac OS have fingered several bugs that can cause the infamous Type 11 crashes, as well as other types of bombs and freezes. Unfortunately, there are no work-arounds for these...

Service bureaus stock up on removable-storage options. (SyQuest's removable-storage market share being eroded by Iomega's Jaz and Zip drives) (Industry Trend or Event)
June 3, 1996... Asking an imaging service bureau what types of removable-storage media it has is a bit like surveying a supermarket to find out whether it stocks Coke, Pepsi or 7-Up. Service bureaus, like supermarkets, need to have on hand what their customers...

Claris OfficeMail ships: POP 3 server has Net link. (Post Office Protocol 3)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 1996... Claris Corp. this week began delivering Claris OfficeMail, a new e-mail server designed for small businesses and schools. OfficeMail works over AppleTalk and TCP/IP networks and is based on Post Office Protocol 3 (POP 3) and SMTP (Simple Mail...

OAI cuts ribbon on pair of CD server towers. (Optical Access International CD/Enterprise Server 3200 and CD/Enterprise Server 6400 CD-ROM servers)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 1996... The skyline of information high-rises climbed even higher last week when Optical Access International Inc. released a new pair of high-capacity CD-ROM server towers. The company's CD/Enterprise Server 3200 and CD/Enterprise Server 6400 hold up...

Apple shipping new 120-MHz Performa model. (Apple Macintosh Performa 6320CD)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 1996... Apple last week shipped a Performa aimed at game and multimedia enthusiasts. The $2,599 Performa 6320CD, a faster version of the Performa 6300 that shipped last October, packs a 120-MHz PowerPC 603e processor. It comes with 16 Mbytes of RAM, a...

LED printers a 'plus' for Kyocera. (Kyocera Electronics FS-3600+ workgroup printer)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 1996... Workgroup models feature lower prices Updating its FS line of LED printers, Kyocera Electronics Inc. recently released a trio of "plus" models with improved network capabilities and lower price tags. Aimed at workgroup applications, the...

High-res monitor. (ViewSonic P815)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 1996... Setting its sights on graphics professionals, ViewSonic Corp. this week plans to roll out a 21-inch display that will support a resolution of 1,600 by 1,200 pixels at a refresh rate of 85 Hz. Called the ViewSonic P815, the $2,195 monitor is...

For the record.(Correction Notice)
June 3, 1996... In the 05.27.96 story about Apple's Mac OS clone designs (Page 1), the Phase One models were incorrectly described. The systems are based on the Power Mac 9500 and Power Mac 7200.

Orkis circles in U.S. waters. (France's Orkis SA forming Orkis Inc and bringing ImageBase-Pro image database to the US) (Company Operations)
June 3, 1996... Eyeing the growing image-management market in North America, French vendor Orkis SA this summer will form Orkis Inc. and bring ImageBase-Pro, its cross-platform image database, to the United States. The French Version 2.7 of ImageBase-Pro...

Apple tools to monitor Macs. ($599 Apple Network Administrator Toolkit network management tools)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 1996... Apple this month will release a triumvirate of tools for managing networks. The $599 Apple Network Administrator Toolkit (ANAT) will include Apple Network Assistant, a tool for managing networked Macs; Apple Users & Groups Manager, a tool for...

Metrowerks to bring ActiveX tools to Mac. (Microsoft agreement to deploy Java and ActiveX technologies on the Macintosh) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 3, 1996... Microsoft to use CodeWarrior Metrowerks Inc. and Microsoft Corp. signed a deal in May to work together deploying Java and ActiveX technologies on the Mac. As part of the deal, Metrowerks of Austin, Texas, will include support for Microsoft's...

Visual C++ price slashed. (Microsoft offers Visual C++ for the Mac at $199, down from $1,999) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 3, 1996... Microsoft Corp. announced last week it will offer developers a chance to upgrade inexpensively to its Visual C++ 4.0 Cross-Development Edition for Macintosh. Starting June 14, users of any Mac or Microsoft Windows C or C++ development...

StockWatch.
June 3, 1996... 05.30.96 Weekly Close Change Apple 25.50 -0.75 MacWEEK Composite* 281.84 -20.5 Software developers Adobe ...

The happiest place on Earth. (Mac the Knife) (Humor)(Column)
June 3, 1996... The Knife's inner child is no Horatio. Not an intrepid English cabin boy, plucky Americana booster nor failed Danish philosopher he, this runt still nurses psychic bruises from the slings and arrows of an all too delinquent upbringing. So, during...

Phase One camera back lowers costs. (Phase One United States Inc Studiokit camera back now priced at $13,990) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 3, 1996... Phase One United States Inc. has cropped the price tag for capturing studio photographs digitally with its Studiokit camera back. Available now, the $13,990 Studiokit bundle contains camera-back hardware, image-editing software, two light boxes...

Encore 4.1 reaches new MIDI ground. (Passport Designs ships Encore 4.1 music-notation software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 1996... Musicians with scores to settle can look to Passport Designs Inc. for help. The company in May released Encore 4.1, an update to its $595 music-notation software that works with more MIDI synthesizers and offers several ease-of-use interface...

Newly native, MacDraft returns with v4.2.1. (Microsoft ships native Power Mac MacDraft 4.2.1 2D CAD software, priced at $249)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 1996... One of the Mac's first applications is back in the picture. MacDraft, which made its debut in 1985, has found a foster parent in Microspot USA Inc., which lowered the price of the 2-D CAD program to $249. Version 4.2.1 runs native on Power Macs...

Shinko printers make splash. (Shinko Technologies ColorStream Digital A and B printers switch between themal-wax and dye-sublimation output)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 1996... Shinko Technologies Inc. in May stepped out with a new pair of dual-technology color printers. The ColorStream Digital A and ColorStream Digital B printers can switch between 300-dpi thermal-wax and dye-sublimation output. Unlike Shinko's...

Marketing, consolidation hallmarks of Apple COO. (Apple Europe Pres Marco Landi promoted) (Company Operations)
June 10, 1996... As Gilbert Amelio continues to reshape Apple in his own image, he has searched the company's ranks for a second-in-command who speaks his own language. The Apple CEO seems to have found such an executive in Marco Landi, 52, named chief...

AppleShare to cast Net. (upgraded network management software code-named FutureShare) (Product Development)
June 10, 1996... Mac servers will board TCP/IP AppleShare will soon serve much more than its usual AppleTalk fare. Sources said a major overhaul in the works for the Mac-based file server will turn it into an Internet platform with OpenDoc-based...

Speedy CPUs race toward Expo debuts. (Apple, Daystar Digital and Power Computing to release PowerPC 604e-based systems by Aug 1996 MacWorld Expo) (Company Business and Marketing)
June 10, 1996... Mac systems may hit 200-MHz speeds sooner than predicted. Sources said Apple, DayStar Digital Inc. and Power Computing Corp. will each roll out systems this summer using the long-anticipated PowerPC 604e processor. In late July, Power...

RAM prices bottom out. (dynamic RAM prices) (Industry Trend or Event)
June 10, 1996... It's a great time to buy RAM, industry observers say, because current prices are so low they can only go higher. A combination of excess inventory and international price wars has driven down prices for dynamic RAM during the past several...

Java development tools move beyond minimalism. (Metrowerks' CodeWarrior, Natural Intelligence's Roaster and Symantec's Cafe Java development tools for Macintosh) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 10, 1996... Mac Java development environments Score card: While Sun Microsystems Inc. promises to bring Java software to all platforms equally, existing Mac Java tools are aimed squarely at the professional developer populace. > CodeWarrior from...

I gotta wear shades. (Apple's AppleShare network operating system upgrade, code-named FutureShare) (MacWEEK Insider) (Product Development)(Column)
June 10, 1996... Screw Windows NT -- I want FutureShare running on the Mac OS. It's been long in coming, but it's about time Apple created a proper server platform. Of course, FutureShare isn't really a proper server. No, you'd need Novell NetWare or Unix or...

Rev nails bugs in System 7.5.3. (Apple releases System 7.5.3 Revision 2 operating system bug-fix update) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... Apple released late last week System 7.5.3 Revision 2, a bug-fix update to the latest version of the Mac OS. Apple said the minor enhancement to System 7.5.3, code-named Buster, squashes a handful of bugs on some PowerBooks running the popular...

Web server adds proxy services. (ResNova Software's NovaServer BBS software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... NovaServer combines e-mail, BBS, news server Another BBS has transformed itself into an Internet server, and this one offers proxy services. NovaServer from ResNova Software Inc. combines e-mail, bulletin board, Web and Usenet news-server...

Apple signs Norwegian Pippin licensee. (Katz Media to sell Pippin Internet and CD-ROM platform in Europe) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... Katz Media will sell to Europe Apple has signed yet another overseas licensee for its Pippin Internet and CD-ROM platform. Norwegian multimedia title developer and distributor Katz Media AS said it plans to ship devices based on the Pippin...

Iomega cashes in on Zip. (removable hard drive sales) (Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... Seeking to dampen rumors that exaggerated its successes, Iomega Corp. of Roy, Utah, this week said, contrary to published reports, that it has sold about 2 million Zip drives since the product's introduction in 1995. The company also said it...

SOYO joins clone cadre -- UMAX runs with PPCP. (SOYO Computer to license Mac OS from Motorola Computer Group; UMAX Computer unveils PowerPC Platform system) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... Mac clones took the spotlight last week with a new sublicensing agreement from Motorola Inc. and the demonstration of a new Mac clone, a PowerPC Platform system from UMAX Computer Corp. The Taipei, Taiwan-based SOYO Computer Inc. agreed to...

Software drivers take a spin. (Computer:applications enhances OnPage and MacJET driver packages; MindGate Technologies' releases LaserMerge Electronic Paper 2.0)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... A duo of vendors recently teed off with new QuickDraw GX and PostScript drivers that pump up options for output and printers. > Computer:applications Inc. recently added QuickDraw GX drivers to its $129.95 OnPage and MacJET driver packages....

New price cuts on upgrade card for PowerBook 500 systems. (Newer Technology's NUpowr PowerPC upgrade card)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... Newer Technology Inc. hopes to encourage PowerBook owners to become speed mavens by cutting prices this month on its PowerPC upgrade card for PowerBook 500 systems. The NUpowr is based on a 117-MHz PowerPC 603e (see 05.06.96, Page 37)....

Bibliography tool goes on Web. (Westing Software's Bookends Pro bibliography software for World Wide Web)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... Westing Software Inc. is now shipping a World Wide Web version of its Bookends Pro bibliography software. The reference-management application allows users to keep track of references, notes and citations in the Bookends database. With the $179...

Tomorrow's TV. (Mitsubishi Electronics America's 40-inch plasma monitors) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... Mitsubishi Electronics America Inc. of Cypress, Calif., said it will release early next year a 40-inch monitor based on new plasma technology (see 03.04.96, Page 6). Dubbed "next-generation" TVs, plasma monitors are made from thousands of...

Smile, you're on TV. (Smile International's CB0913DL high-resolution color monitor)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... At the other end of the size spectrum, Smile International Inc. of Costa Mesa, Calif., has launched a high-resolution color monitor that measures only 9 inches across. Aimed at the retail, science and medical markets, the CB0913DL delivers...

Small is beautiful. (Interex Computer Products' VGA adapter) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... And if you're looking for the world's smallest VGA adapter, Interex Computer Products of Wichita, Kan., offers one that measures only 18mm in length. When connected to the display chain, the adapter saves "valuable space behind the CPU,"...

Mapping software has updates in sight. (MapInfo's MapInfo 4.0, ThinkSpace's MapFactory, Avenza Software's MAPublisher 1.0 and Cartesia Software's MapArt Globes mapping software packages)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... A handful of companies are unfolding new versions of mapping software this spring. > MapInfo Corp. of Troy, N.Y., is now shipping Version 4.0 of MapInfo. The update includes Map Sheets for linking maps and comes with new labeling and animation...

Toast and RAM on CD-R menu. (Astarte GmbH's Toast CD-ROM Pro 3.0 mastering software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... Astarte GmbH shipped its Toast CD-ROM Pro 3.0 mastering software in May. The updated version includes a new caching scheme and adds full drag-and-drop support. The new edition, priced at $359, uses system RAM as an additional data buffer....

Sony prepping new CD-R drives. (Sony Electronics Spressa 9411 CD-Recordable drive)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... Sony Electronics Inc. aims to improve CD-Recordable usability with its planned release of a new drive and intelligent driver technology this summer. Slated to ship in August, the Mac version of the external Spressa 9411 drive will cost...

MouseWorks unites Kensington devices. (Kensington Microware Ltd's control software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... Kensington Microware Ltd. consolidated the software for its line of input devices with the introduction this month of MouseWorks. MouseWorks replaces the different versions of control software used with Kensington's mice and trackballs. The new...

Intuit posts loss in Q3. (1996) (Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... The third quarter of 1996 was most taxing for Intuit Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., as the company posted a net loss of $300,000. That result, however, was an improvement over 1995's third quarter, when Intuit lost $3.8 million. The company...

Short-run CDs. (Ultera Systems' CD-R Multi-Master hardware-controlled duplicator)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... Trimming CD-ROM production times, Ultera Systems Inc. of Laguna Hills, Calif., last week released its CD-R Multi-Master, a hardware-controlled duplicator that can write to five CD-Recordable mechanisms simultaneously. Ultera said users can also...

Optima goes for this, DAT. (Sony Electronics' SDT-5000 and SDT-5200 DAT drives support Optima Technology's DeskTape software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... Optima Technology Corp. of Irvine, Calif., said several Sony DAT drives now support Optima's DeskTape software, which lets users mount tape drives in the Finder. Users can add drives with Sony SDT-5000 and SDT-5200 mechanisms with firmware...

Digital mediation. (Maxell Corp of America and Yano Electric's magneto-optical cartridges) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... Maxell Corp. of America in Fair Lawn, N.J., recently unveiled new 540- and 640-Mbyte 3.5-inch magneto-optical cartridges. The $41.99 media is slated for currently unannounced high-capacity MO drives expected to ship later this year from several...

Apple signs deals abroad, at home. (Asian distribution agreement with Founder Ltd. distributor, Finova Capital elevated to preferred financial partner and development agreement with Opne Horizon to create middleware) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... While CEO Gilbert Amelio was working on the company's reorganization, Apple announced three deals affecting distribution, dealer financing and enterprise connectivity. > Macs in China. Apple signed a distribution agreement with Hong Kong-based...

Arsenal aiming at sales forces. (Borealis' sales-automation software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 10, 1996... Offering users new business armaments, Borealis Corp. this summer will release Arsenal, its suite of sales-automation software. Slated to ship in September, the client-server Arsenal is targeted at the traveling sales forces of Fortune 2000...

Digital audio tools add automation to the mix. (Mackie Designs' UltraMix Pro 1.11 sound processing equipment and Digidesign's Pro Tools 4.0 digital audio workstation)(Product Announcement)
June 10, 1996... Automation has left its stamp on countless manufacturing industries, but what does it mean for digital audio editing? Automation of audio mixing, which lets users save mixer settings and other configurations, plays a key role in new products...

New software spins art onto Web pages. (Plastic Thought's ActiveArt Web Edition 3-D clip art, Creating Media's Plug-in Playlets 1.2 Java-based tools and MediaMagic Solutions' Instant Web Art CD-ROM library)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 10, 1996... Trio of vendors ships media sets Three vendors are making their marks on the Web with new products that promise to give HTML pages an artsy flair. Plastic Thought Inc. in May introduced the ActiveArt Web Edition of 3-D clip art for designers...

Acrobat 3.0 sets course for Navigator, Internet Explorer. (Adobe Systems portable-document software)(Product Announcement)
June 10, 1996... Adobe Systems Inc. last week announced the final details of Acrobat 3.0, the upcoming Web-savvy version of its portable- document software. Set to ship in August for $295, Version 3.0 will interact with Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Corp.'s...

FontXpress saves faces for XPress users. (Morrison SoftDesign's FontXpress 3.0 software enhancement)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... QuarkXPress users weary of rounding up the fonts that will accompany their files to service bureaus can now turn to an enhanced software add-on from Morrison SoftDesign. Version 3.0 of the $69.99 FontXpress, formerly dubbed ReportFont, can...

Adobe unveils HTML converter. (Adobe Systems' HoTaMaLe conversion utility)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 10, 1996... Further capitalizing on its incursion onto the Internet, Adobe Systems Inc. last week took the wraps off HoTaMaLe, a free Adobe FrameMaker-to-HTML conversion utility. While FrameMaker 5 already offers some HTML-conversion capabilities, Adobe...

Utility turns tables. (SoftTools' TableWorks authoring tool)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 10, 1996... TableWorks speeds creation of Web grids Web page designers accustomed to the WYSIWYG conveniences of Adobe Systems Inc.'s PageMill can now create HTML tables just as easily, thanks to TableWorks, a new program from SoftTools. TableWorks is a...

XMeDIA takes AMT for a spin. (The Carl Group's alternative multimedia engine for Apple Media Tool)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 10, 1996... The Carl Group Inc. recently shipped XMeDIA, an alternative multimedia engine for Apple Media Tool. The $299 plug-in expands the core capabilities of Apple's low-end authoring system. Apple Media Tool 2.0, which shipped in January, features an...

Howtek drum costs less. (Scanmaster 7500 large-format drum scanner) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... Howtek Inc. lowered the price of its Scanmaster 7500 large-format drum scanner to $52,900 last month after removing its scanning software from the package. Previously selling for $55,400, the 7500 has two drum sizes: 11.5 by 18.5 inches and 24...

Artistic type. (P22's Cezanne typeface)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 10, 1996... P22 Inc. of Buffalo, N.Y., last week released a new font based on the handwriting of Paul Cezanne. Cezanne the typeface, commissioned by the Philadelphia Museum, is $21.95, as are two other new fonts, Il Futurismo and Childs Play. Phone (716)...

Font giveaways. (International Typeface's ITC Kallos calligraphic fonts and Precision Type's FontLink 1.1 CD-ROM font libraries)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 10, 1996... International Typeface Corp. of New York released a new calligraphic family of fonts called ITC Kallos. And until Aug. 1 the company will give away one font with the purchase of any three. International Typeface's Fontek collection of TrueType...

Shepherding typefaces. (Insider Software's Font Box 1.8 font-management utility)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 10, 1996... Insider Software of San Diego has released an update to its $69.95 Font Box font-management utility. Version 1.8 can produce reports on the location and name of all fonts as well as a list of problems and possible solutions. Font Box provides a...