MacWEEK articles from March 1996

MacWEEK archives from March 1996

Next millennium: new directions or new owner? (Apple's future) (The Second Decade) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
March 4, 1996... Let's suppose that Gilbert Amelio turns out to be SuperCEO, able not only to leap tall buildings (that's the easy part), but also to restore employee morale, management focus, developer commitment and customer confidence. If he can do all that,...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
March 4, 1996... Anti-Mac logic doesn't fly As a technical consultant to NASA's Johnson Space Center several years ago, I was involved in helping civil service managers procure personal computers, including Macs, for the center. Your article about John...

We've seen the problem at Apple, and it is us. (The Mac Manager) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
March 4, 1996... I've been thinking about the "problem with Apple" for months now. I've looked at its operation up close and personal. I've interviewed dozens of Apple heavy hitters and dozens more outside the company who are obsessing on the fate and future of...

1996: the year of business color printing, perhaps.(Buyers Guide)
March 4, 1996... Color printers have yet to match the strength of their monochrome cousins. Like major-league managers forecasting their success for the upcoming season from the practice fields of spring training, printer vendors are again predicting that this...

Users network color printers, but mostly for sales, marketing. (Technology Information)
March 4, 1996... Color printing over corporate networks is taking hold, but it's not widespread. The advent of inexpensive color laser printers has so far produced a stroll rather than the predicted stampede toward widespread color printing on corporate...

mTropolis arrives: powerful features at dizzying price. (mFactory's mTropolis multimedia authoring tool) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 4, 1996... Score card: mTropolis 1.0 mFactory Inc. List price: $4,995 Overall value: 4 (Very good) For the serious multimedia author who's looking for an easier development environment but doesn't want to sacrifice high-end features,...

Virtual worlds on horizon. (Apple's QuickDraw 3D Rave API software) (MacWEEK Insider)(Product Announcement)(Column)
March 4, 1996... A virtual 3-D universe not unlike the Metaverse, the on-line realm in Neal Stephenson's novel "Snow Crash," is coming soon to the Web. The past few months have been replete with announcements of advances in 3-D. While the Mac market has never...

3-D graphics APIs duel. (Apple's QuickDraw 3D RAVE and Microsoft's Direct3D APIs)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 1996... Apple and Microsoft Corp. last week faced off with competing APIs for hardware acceleration of 3-D graphics. Apple unveiled QuickDraw 3D RAVE (Rendering Acceleration Virtual Engine), which will be available as both driver and software...

PowerCurve a fast clone, but needs better support. (Power Computing's PowerCurve 601/120 PowerPC-based system) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
March 4, 1996... Overall value: 3 (Good) Power Computing Corp.'s new PowerCurve 60 1/120, an entry-level system, is one more indication that the company can develop better Mac OS-compatible hardware than Apple itself -- at least when its engineers have Apple...

OneWorld Combo. (Global Village Communication's communications server) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
March 4, 1996... Global Village rounds out communications server. Overall value: 4 (Very good) Global Village Communication Inc.'s $2,099 OneWorld Combo is the only communications server on the market to combine remote access, network modem pooling and fax...

Taking stock of secret update to the Mac OS. (Apple's System 7.5.3 operating system) (MacInTouch) (Product Development)(Column)
March 4, 1996... Microsoft Corp. has its problems, but it did a lot of things right with Windows 95. Perhaps the smartest tactic of all was getting beta copies out to masses of customers for testing and feedback, snagging extra revenue in the process by charging...

Built-in slots, more functions: PC Cards have come of age. (Technology Information)
March 4, 1996... Users have accepted PC Cards with foresight, trepidation and high hopes. Pocket-size PC Cards have come far from their PCMCIA roots. And while they have expanded functions, they have a way to go before they grab users' hearts as the perfect...

Mac Visual FoxPro 3 to gain object abilities; beta users knock speed, stability. (Microsoft's DBMS)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 1996... With the release of the Windows version of Visual FoxPro last summer, Microsoft Corp. announced it was turning its attention to the Mac. Now, eight months later, the company said it will ship Visual FoxPro 3.0 for the Mac by midyear. The Mac...

Cyberdog beta could learn a few new tricks. (Apple's Internet access tools) (Product Development)
March 4, 1996... Cyberdog, Apple's forthcoming suite of Internet-access tools, carries a dual burden: It is, by all indications, the centerpiece of the company's yet-to-be-articulated Internet strategy, and, as the first major OpenDoc-based product, it's likely...

Now Utilities update to add macro creation; version 6.0 to get tabbed windows. (Now Software's Utilities 6.0 operating system enhancement)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 1996... Now Software Inc. will add automatic typing and tabbed windows to the sixth incarnation of its utilities suite. Due to ship March 29, Now Utilities 6.0 will include three new components: Now AutoType, Now Shortcuts and Now Tabs. Now AutoType...

Apple recalls some early PowerBook 5300 models. (Power PC-based notebooks) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
March 4, 1996... PowerBook 5300 woes continued in February as Apple recalled a batch of units from dealer inventory, sources said. A February letter to dealers reportedly announced the PowerBook 5300 Reseller Exchange Program, recommended for PowerBook 5300...

AT&T provides free Net access. (AT&T WorldNet Service) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 4, 1996... AT&T Co. took the offensive last week in the Internet service provider market by offering its long-distance customers free access to the Internet for a year. The offer is a promotional effort for The AT&T WorldNet Service, which provides...

Adobe to link PostScript fonts to Web pages via HTML 3 spec. (Adobe Systems, Apple and Netscape Communications improve font control) (Technology Information)(Brief Article)
March 4, 1996... Adobe Systems Inc., Netscape Communications Corp. and Apple plan to give Web designers better font control. Last week the three companies said they are working on an open HTML 3.0 spec for embedding TrueType and Type 1 PostScript fonts in Web...

Director, take 5: Xtras, new casts. (Macromedia's Director 5.0 multimedia authoring program)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 1996... With a team of new features, an overhauled interface and an open architecture, Version 5.0 of multimedia trouper Macromedia Director will debut at this week's intermediaWorld conference in San Francisco. The latest version of the authoring...

Adobe builds on strengths. (Adobe Systems Inc management) (Company Business and Marketing)
March 4, 1996... After gobbling up Aldus Corp. two years ago, Adobe Systems Inc. is discovering that melding operations with Frame Technology Corp. and Ceneca Communications Inc. is a bit more ticklish. The new acquisitions take the Mountain View, Calif., company...

Amelio takes stage, Web stars at Seybold. (Apple CEO Gilbert Amelio at Seybold Seminars Boston 96) (Industry Trend or Event)
March 4, 1996... One of the most talked-about sightings at Seybold Seminars Boston 96 this week was not a product but new Apple CEO Gilbert Amelio. The opening keynote was his first major trade-show appearance as Apple's chief, and Amelio frankly identified the...

Specular suite to bring depth to Web pages. (Specular International application development suite code-named Fireball) (Product Development)
March 4, 1996... Specular International Ltd. is building an application suite to simplify bringing 3-D and animation to the Web. Off the show floor at last week's Seybold Seminars Boston 96, the company demonstrated a product code-named Fireball that adds...

New Apple CAO. (Apple hires National Semiconductor Exec VP George Scalise as chief administrative officer) (Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 4, 1996... New CEO Gil Amelio reached into the executive pool he built at National Semiconductor Corp. last week to bolster his recovery team at Apple. National Semi Executive Vice President George Scalise will leave his post March 8 to become chief...

Attain to add Internet links to In Control organizer. (In Control 4.0 organizer software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 4, 1996... Attain Corp. will this month add Internet links and drag-and-drop support to its organizer software, In Control 4.0. Version 4.0 will let users link Internet sites to items and connect directly to that site from In Control. The product will...

Users, developers form Apple support groups. (developers form Assn of Independent Macintosh Engineers and Developers; users form Concerned Silicon Valley Engineers Who Use Macs and Angels for Apple) (Industry Trend or Event)
March 4, 1996... In the wake of recent Apple troubles, developers and users are looking to take a more active role in influencing the company and its press relations. A group of Mac developers in February formed the Association of Independent Macintosh...

Plasma displays return; monitor giants prep color panels for walls, kiosks. (Technology Information)
March 4, 1996... Plasma, a display technology previously eclipsed by CRT and LCD display technologies, has recently gotten a shot in the arm from a series of announcements by monitor vendors. Most recently, four major monitor vendors -- Fujitsu Microelectronics...

MultiClip syncs with System 7. (Olduvai's MultiClip Pro 3.5 image browser)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 1996... Nearly three years after it released Version 3.0, Olduvai Corp. has released MultiClip Pro 3.5, a beefed-up version of the company's Scrapbook replacement. The $149 utility now includes native software for Power Macs and 680x0-based models. In...

New Tally inkjet aims at desktop. (Mannesmann Tally's T7070 color inkjet printer)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 1996... Moving from the high end to the desktop, Mannesman Tally Corp. is reportedly angling for a piece of the color printing market with a poster-size inkjet device. Sources said the T7070, which the company demonstrated at last week's Seybold...

PosterWorks thinking big in latest upgrade. (S.H. Pierce & Co's PosterWorks 4.0 DTP software)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 1996... S.H. Pierce & Co. this month is slated to deliver Version 4.0 of PosterWorks, its software for creating and printing documents measuring up to 10,000 square feet. Besides adding a native Power Mac version, the upgrade to the $495 package...

Fractal scoops up Ray Dream in stock trade. (Fractal Design acquires Ray Dream) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 4, 1996... Fractal Design Corp. in February added to its palette of graphics software by nabbing 3-D specialist Ray Dream Inc. in a stock deal worth about $47 million. The deal, which industry observers said will fill one of the few gaps in Fractal's...

PhotoPrint has designs on signs. (Amiable Technologies' PhotoPrint Designer software suite)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 1996... Throwing everything but the kitchen sink into a single package, Amiable Technologies Inc. last week unveiled PhotoPrint Designer, a software suite that combines a variety of graphics capabilities with a proprietary PostScript Level 2 interpreter....

EFI warming up Fiery upgrade. (Electronics for Imaging's Fiery XJ Color Server Software 3.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 1996... Electronics for Imaging Inc. of San Mateo, Calif., will add fuel to the RIP fire with the latest upgrade to its server software. Version 3.0 of the Fiery XJ Color Server Software, which debuted at Seybold Seminars Boston 96 last week and will...

Extensis readies XTensions. (QX-Assistant for Macintosh)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 1996... Suite for XPress manages docs Beefing up its base of plug-in tools for graphics applications, Extensis Corp. announced a new suite of XTensions for QuarkXPress at last week's Seybold Seminars Boston 96. QX-Assistant for Macintosh, slated to...

Lightware projector targets mobile users. (ViewPoint portable LCD projector)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 1996... Start-up Lightware Inc. will weigh in later this month with a portable LCD projector that promises to ease the burden for mobile Mac presenters. The 9.4-pound ViewPoint, to be priced at $6,500, uses a 24-bit-color, 640-by-480-pixel LCD panel...

Pantone, Colossal unveil six-color wares at Seybold. (Pantone's HexWrench color processing software and Colossal Graphics' C6 Hi-Fi Digital Color System printer accessory at Seybold Seminars Boston '96)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 1996... Adding a new twist to color management, Pantone Inc. last week rolled out HexWrench, a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop that generates six-color separations for Pantone's Hexachrome color system. The plug-in, shown at Seybold Seminars Boston 96,...

Farallon to enter Net; two free spinoffs from Timbuktu. (Farallon Computing's Look@Me workgroup software and FlashNote file transfer software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 1996... Farallon Computing Inc. this spring will break out two Timbuktu Pro features as free Internet applets. Farallon's Look@Me applet, based on the Observe feature of the screen-sharing and remote-control utility Timbuktu Pro, will let users...

NetManage ships networking tools. (PacerTerm terminal emulation and file transfer software enhances NetManage Chameleon)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 1996... NetManage Inc. gave network managers and developers a boost last month when it updated its communications applications. New to the company's $295 Chameleon tools suite is PacerTerm, the terminal-emulation and file transfer application NetManage...

Wall Data ready to Rumba with clients and gateways. (Mac Rumba terminal emulation software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 1996... The choices for Mac mainframe connectivity will grow this week when Wall Data Inc. ships Mac Rumba, the company's line of terminal emulators. First announced in August (see 08.21.95, Page 22), Mac Rumba lets Mac users connect to mainframes and...

FileWave 2.5 adds scripts, templates. (Wave Research's FileWave 2.5 software distribution package)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 1996... This month Wave Research Inc. will add templates and scripting to a new version of FileWave, its software-distribution package. Designed for IS managers, the product distributes and manages software automatically, and it can detect when...

Component market to go on-line. (Kantara Development's Part Merchant on-line component software marketplace) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 4, 1996... Kantara Development hopes to make life easier for users trying to find and retrieve OpenDoc software. The company said it plans this month to open up Part Merchant, an on-line marketplace for component software. Users will be able to purchase...

Web DBs build custom HTML pages. (HeyerTech's WebMaster Pro and Purity Software's SuperNova databases)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 4, 1996... HeyerTech Inc. and Purity Software Inc. will soon offer tools that help Mac Web sites serve custom pages based on an individual surfer's interests. The applications will store text, images and files from a Web site as objects that can be mixed...

Corel draws on Mac buyers. (Corel Corp enters Macintosh market) (Company Business and Marketing)
March 4, 1996... A prevailing misconception about the Mac market is that no self-respecting Windows developer would set foot in it. This canard ranks with the one about Apple no longer being able to innovate. Corel Corp. is the latest successful Windows company...

StockWatch. (News Briefs)(Illustration)
March 4, 1996... 02.29.96 Weekly close change Apple 27.50 -2.38 MacWEEK Composite* 299.13 -3.52 Software developers ...

Amelio's got a brand-new bag. (Mac the Knife) (News Briefs)(Column)
March 4, 1996... There's something about taking over Apple that seems to imbue even the most jaded avatar of gray-flannel America with a certain cyberpunk sensibility. Take John Sculley's conversion to tie-dyed T-shirts; Michael Spindler's rumored enthusiasm for...

Now brings the Internet Up-to-Date. (Now Software to tie Now Up-to-Date and Now Contact applications to the Internet) (Product Development)
March 11, 1996... Now Software Inc. has reportedly found a way to tie its scheduling and contact-management programs to the Internet and is busy forming alliances to make this feature enticing to users. Now showed off the new Internet functions last week under...

QuickTime shifts into high gear; SGI teams with Apple on video. (Apple's QuickTime 2.2 to be included in Silicon Graphics' SiliconStudio architecture for integrated digital video production) (Company Business and Marketing)
March 11, 1996... Apple and Silicon Graphics Inc. last week stitched together an agreement intended to sew up the video production market. The pair said QuickTime 2.2 this summer will be rolled into SGI's SiliconStudio workstation-based architecture for...

Version 2.2, soft MPEG due by May. (Apple's plans for QuickTime technology, to introduce QuickTime 2.2 desktop video software) (QuickTime Shifts into High Gear)(Product Announcement)
March 11, 1996... In the face of Microsoft Corp.'s announcement of a rival technology, Apple came clean with both short- and long-term plans for its QuickTime multimedia technology. Apple will be making changes in two phases, with forthcoming pieces that will...

Roizen vows quick fix for Apple developers. (VP of developer relations Heidi Roizen introduces five-point plan to enhance developer relations) (Company Business and Marketing)
March 11, 1996... Heidi Roizen wasn't surprised when an audience of developers favored the Macintosh over Windows 95 in a platform shootout at the Software Publishers Association conference in San Francisco last week. "They love the Mac," Apple's new vice...

Speed bump ahead for Power Macs: new 7600 to run on 120-MHz 604.(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 11, 1996... Next month Apple will release its fastest Macs yet when it bumps up the speeds of its current line of PCI Power Macs. Apple's new Power Macs will include top-of-the-line systems equipped with 150-MHz PowerPC 604 processors. The 120- and 132-MHz...

Step forward, Big Blue. (IBM should license the Mac OS)(MacWEEK Insider) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
March 11, 1996... Motorola Inc., Apple and IBM Corp. gave birth to PowerPC. Apple has been a good parent to the chip, nurturing it by selling it in large quantities to the masses through its Mac OS-based products. Motorola has licensed the OS and promises to take...

Power trims clone cost; 604/150 model reduced by $700. (Power Computing cuts prices for PowerWave and PowerCurve Mac clones) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
March 11, 1996... Power Computing Corp. this week is cutting prices on its PowerWave and PowerCurve clones. The largest cut is on the company's PowerWave 604/150 model, which uses a 150-MHz PowerPC 604 processor (see 10.30.95, Page 1). A base configuration with...

Copland not in cards for PowerBook 500s. (upcoming Mac OS incompatible with 680x0-based Macs upgraded to PowerPCs) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
March 11, 1996... Apple has long acknowledged that Copland, the company's next-generation operating system, will run only on PowerPC-based Macs. Now, Apple said the OS - which will ship to developers at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in May - will not...

eWorld coming to an end: users shepherded to AOL. (Apple's on-line service shut downs, users encouraged to move to America Online) (Internet
March 11, 1996... Apple's foray into the mainstream on-line service business will come to an end March 31 when eWorld shuts down. Diana Keith, director of Internet productions at Apple, said eWorld users will be encouraged to join America Online. Apple said it...

Apple gets CFO. (Apple Chief Financial Officer Fred Anderson Jr.) (Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 11, 1996... New Apple CEO Gilbert Amelio didn't wait long to fill out his executive roster. Last week he named Fred Anderson Jr. as chief financial officer. Anderson, former vice president and CFO at Automatic Data Processing Inc. of Roseland, N.J., is...

Corel supports WordPerfect. (to provide support services to WordPerfect customers) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 11, 1996... Corel Corp. announced last week that it has extended service and support to customers of WordPerfect, the business applications developer it shelled out $115 million for in February. Effective today, WordPerfect customers will receive free,...

Panasonic ships PB CD-ROM drive. (Panasonic Communications and Systems' KXL-D742 external quadruple-speed CD-ROM drive)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 11, 1996... Complaining about Apple's latest line of portables has become as popular as burning witches once was. However, one of the most common complaints - the lack of a CD-ROM drive - has now been addressed by Panasonic Communications & Systems Co....

HP to unveil color laser. (Color LaserJet 5M)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 11, 1996... Hewlett-Packard Co. next week will tone up its color output line with an enhanced version of the company's color laser printer. The $9,195 Color LaserJet 5M replaces HP's current Color LaserJet and is based on the same 300-dpi Konica engine as...

NEC presents new CRT technology. (NEC Technologies introduces MultiSync M500 and M700 feature CromaClear CRT technology)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 11, 1996... NEC Technologies Inc. this week will take the wraps off a pair of monitors using a new display technology. Dubbed CromaClear, the new CRT technology combines shadow-mask and aperture-grille designs in a "slot mask," which improves focus, color...

MYOB finance rev shakes out bugs. (BestWare's MYOB Accounting 6.01 and MYOB Accounting with Payroll 6.01 maintenance upgrades includes tax table update, fixes bugs)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 11, 1996... BestWare Inc. last week shipped a maintenance upgrade to its MYOB Accounting software that fixes a number of bugs and adds updated tax tables. Version 6.0.1 of the $90 MYOB Accounting and $140 MYOB Accounting with Payroll provides accurate...

For the record.(Correction Notice)
March 11, 1996... The 02.26.96 story on short-run color printing (Page 26) did not list all of Electronics for Imaging Inc.'s OEM partners. The companies include Canon Inc., Eastman Kodak Co., Minolta Corp., Oce Group, Ricoh Corp. and Xerox Corp.

Nakamichi speaks up. (Nakamichi America's SP-3d speaker system)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 11, 1996... Known for its high-end consumer products, Nakamichi America Corp. recently made sound waves in the multimedia market with a new low-priced speaker system. The company's $199 SP-3d is a three-piece system comprising a pair of compact satellite...

Olympus to ship 2.6GB PowerMO. (Olympus Image Systems' PowerMO 2600/Mac magneto-optical drive)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 11, 1996... Olympus Image Systems Inc. this month will release its PowerMO 2600/Mac, a 5.25-inch magneto-optical drive supporting 2.6-Gbyte cartridges. The $2,199 drive has a spindle speed of 3,600 rpm and offers an effective seek time of 13 milliseconds,...

Resumes your way. (Individual Software's ResumeMaker Deluxe CD for Macintosh)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 11, 1996... Individual Software Inc.'s ResumeMaker Deluxe CD for Macintosh may offer hope to workers feeling the downsizing blues. Now shipping, the $39.95 application lets users compose resumes and cover letters as well as track appointments. It offers 17...

Real-time animation on Web. (GEO Interactive Media Group's Emblaze Creator in beta-testing) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
March 11, 1996... Adding moving eye candy to a Web page will soon be possible without hiring a Java or Lingo programmer, thanks to an animation authoring system from Israeli company GEO Interactive Media Group. The company last week shipped a beta version of...

New PostScript RIPs tear up Seybold show. (Seybold Seminars Boston 96)(Product Announcement)
March 11, 1996... Software, servers line up in Boston Show goers were treated to an advance look at a slew of new PostScript RIPs and RIP additions at February's Seybold Seminars Boston 96. > Harlequin Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., introduced an upgrade to its...

Polaroid takes a shot at digital camera users. (PDC-2000 digital camera)(Product Announcement)
March 11, 1996... Instant-photography trailblazer Polaroid Corp. will enter the digital age in April when it ships the PDC-2000, the company's first digital camera. The camera will be available in three versions. The $4,995 PDC-2000/60 can hold 60 images in 60...

XTensions tap into document management. (KyTek's Autopage PE 4.5, AutoPage Pro 4.5; NRG Software's Font Fetch)(Product Announcement)
March 11, 1996... February's Seybold Seminars Boston 96 offered QuarkXPress aficionados two new timesavers. KyTek Inc. and NRG Software LLC debuted QuarkXTensions designed to ease the task of document creation. KyTek delivered upgrades to its Autopage XTension...

Java, server tools star at WebEdge III.(Product Announcement)
March 11, 1996... Cupertino, Calif. - More than 200 Mac Webmasters gathered at Apple's headquarters here for WebEdge III. The semiannual event offered attendees an opportunity to evaluate tools that link the Mac platform to the Internet. Featured topics...

System 7.5 Update 2.0 puts Mac OS together: version 7.5.3 has Open Transport 1.1.(Product Announcement)
March 11, 1996... Apple should make a lot of users happy this week when it releases System 7.5 Update 2.0, the latest upgrade to the Mac OS. The company will include everything from previous versions of System 7.5 and throw in the latest versions of several pieces...

Internet Explorer beta update: it works, really! (Microsoft's Internet Explorer Beta 3 Web browser)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 11, 1996... Microsoft Corp. released Beta 3 of Internet Explorer 2.0 for the Mac last week. Users will be pleased to hear that along with several new features, Version 3 works. Making a quick recovery from its previous public beta, Microsoft said Beta 3...

Poring over Java: it's still mostly hot water. (Sun Microsystems' programming language)(Working the Net) (Technology Information)(Column)
March 11, 1996... It's time to look at the latest four-letter word on the Internet. No, not some clever acronym for the debacle of the communications decency act - I'm talking Java. Java is a programming language developed by Sun Microsystems Inc. Despite the...

Network traffic. (News Briefs)
March 11, 1996... > Pictorius builds Web tools > Eastgate handles bookmarks Prograph developers will soon be able to build Web-savvy applications using the Internet Authoring Toolkit from Pictorius Inc. of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Due this summer, the kit will...

Back to the developer question. (Apple needs to improve developer relations) (News Briefs)(Editorial)
March 11, 1996... Two weeks ago, at Seybold Seminars Boston 96, Netscape Communications Corp. top executive Jim Clark and Apple's Gilbert Amelio shared center stage at the keynote address. Clark was the more animated of the two CEOs, but Amelio held his own. He...

Web page speaks volumes on Apple's Internet plans. (Apple's outdated Web page)(The Second Decade) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
March 11, 1996... Hoping to get a better handle on Apple's cyber strategy? Where better to look than a company Web page called "Apple and the Internet" (http: //www.apple.com/documents/ applenet.html), which addresses precisely that issue. Just one problem: As...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
March 11, 1996... Apple's no fun Apple using its name in the toy business sounds fine (02.19.96, Pages 3 and 4), but did it have to work with Toy Biz Inc.? As a father of a 6-year-old boy, I have bought toys from every major toy manufacturer out there, and from...

Apple needs to improve its efficiency, but quietly.(The Mac Manager) (Company Operations)(Column)
March 11, 1996... Let's take a giant leap of faith. Let's assume that Gilbert Amelio's Apple will figure out how to fix its biggest problems and then actually do the fixes. Apple will discover how to re-energize its developers, how to market it products, how to...

Suitcase 3.0 packs away some of your font troubles. (Symantec's font management utility) (includes related product summary) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 11, 1996... Score card: Suitcase 3.0 Symantec Corp. Estimated street price: $69.95* Overall value 3 (Good) Symantec Corp. has rewritten Suitcase 3 from the ground up and refocused the program as a font-management utility aimed at desktop...

PowerBuilder for Mac: almost worth the wait. (Powersoft's application development software) (includes related product summary) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 11, 1996... Score card: PowerBuilder for Macintosh Powersoft Corp. List price: $3,295 Overall value 3 (Good) After an almost three-year delay, Powersoft has finally made good on its promise to bring its renowned client-server application...

Business matters. (Reviews Forum)(Letter to the Editor)
March 11, 1996... Thank you for your review of Big Business Server (see 01.22.96, Page 67). We were pleased with your candid discussion of the product's feature set, documentation and support, each receiving four diamonds. We were thrilled to receive five diamonds...

Mac tax packages ease filing - to an extent. (Intuit's MacInTax '95, Block Financial's Kiplinger Tax Cut '95) (includes related product summaries) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 11, 1996... Score card: Macintosh tax software As any U.S. taxpayer knows, filling out a federal tax return is an inhumanely complex task. To help ease the burden, two Mac software packages offer expert systems that lead you through the process, dispense...

Quicken 6's on-line financial services stumble. (Intuit's Quicken Deluxe for Macintosh 6.0 personal finance software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 11, 1996... Overall value: 3 (Good) After more than a year, Intuit Inc. has revisited the leading Macintosh program for personal and small business finance and given it a new suit of clothes. Unfortunately, the most important piece of the new wardrobe -...

Parts of System 7.5.3 arrive, but in beta version. (latest Mac OS)(MacInTouch) (Product Development)(Column)
March 11, 1996... Apple released Open Transport 1.1 to the public in the middle of February, but only as an unsupported Version 1.1b16. System 7.5 Update 2.0 was in "seed" versions apparently equivalent to late betas. System 7.5.3 itself was still unannounced and...

Low-cost digital video tools let users flex creative muscle. (Technology Information)
March 11, 1996... Like their counterparts in the independent-film world, digital video producers have had to learn to be creative on minuscule budgets. And considering that renting high-end editing suites can run to several thousand dollars per day, these...

New twist on FlexCam: S-video support. (VideoLabs redesigns digital video camera hardware)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 11, 1996... VideoLabs Inc., maker of FlexCam, recently stuck its neck out by simultaneously lowering the price and redesigning the hardware on its desktop digital video camera. The company said the new design is less expensive to manufacture, enabling it...