MacWEEK articles from March 1997

MacWEEK archives from March 1997

Illustrator 7.0 falls into line. (Adobe Systems' application to unify interfaces of firm's other graphics applications) (Product Development)
March 3, 1997... Adobe Systems Inc. will continue to draw together its core graphics applications and cross-platform strategy this spring with Adobe Illustrator 7.0 for the Mac and Windows, sources said. The update will also reportedly reflect efforts to unify...

Rumors fly as staffers brace for Apple cuts. (Company Operations)
March 3, 1997... Morale was low and dropping in Cupertino, Calif., last week as Apple employees traded rumors about impending layoffs and tried to justify projects to their bosses and newcomers from NeXT Software Inc. Many longtime workers and higher-ups said...

Apple preps DVD as Wired readies PowerBook card. (Wired's DVD-To-Go DVD card)(Product Announcement)
March 3, 1997... At a time when many Apple projects are in limbo, Digital Video Disc ventures appear to be on solid ground. Apple CEO Gilbert Amelio, at February's Macworld Expo in Tokyo, said the technology has the potential to transform the consumer and...

Apps reveal differences in L2 cache-size benefits. (L2 cache size may impact performance of Mac OS-compatible computers) (Technology Information)
March 3, 1997... Does the size of Level 2 cache make a real difference in the performance of Mac OS-compatible systems? The question has long vexed students of Mac performance, but in recent months it has acquired more practical relevance for buyers seeking...

PIOS clones pack Mac, Be, Amiga OSes. (PIOS Computer AG to introduce Maxxtreme 200 Mac clone, TransAM PowerPC-based systems) (Product Development)
March 3, 1997... German vendor PIOS Computer AG plans to step into the U.S. market with PowerPC Platform-compliant clones it has in the works. The company said it will introduce in April multimedia systems that include BeOS and a next-generation Amiga operating...

Epson Stylus Color 800 joins speed and quality. (includes related article on Epson America's Stylus Color 600 color ink jet printer) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
March 3, 1997... Epson America Inc. aims to paint its competition into a corner this week with a new color inkjet printer that mixes high speed with a sparkling resolution of 1,440 by 720 dpi. The CMYK-based Stylus Color 800 has an estimated street price of...

First CD-Rewriteable due from Ricoh this month. (Ricoh Disc Media & Systems Products' MP62006)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 3, 1997... The first CD-Rewriteable drive, from Ricoh, is slated to ship this month. Ricoh Corp.'s Disc Media & Systems Products division this week will announce the MP62006, the first CD-Rewriteable drive. The $599 drive, slated for the end of this...

Adaptec purchases Toast, leaves EZ-CD on the side. (Toast CD-ROM Pro, Toast CD-DA authoring software from Astarte)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 3, 1997... Adaptec Inc. purchases Toast, the popular CD-R authoring software from Astarte GmbH. Adaptec Inc. of Milpitas, Calif., last week announced an agreement to purchase Toast CD-ROM Pro and Toast CD-DA authoring software from Karlsrue,...

3Com and U.S. Robotics plan $6.6 billion merger. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 3, 1997... 3Com plans to acquire U.S. Robotics in a $6.6 billion deal. In what some analysts called the biggest networking deal ever, U.S. Robotics and 3Com Corp. last week agreed to merge in a deal worth about $6.6 billion. The combined company, which...

SoftWindows 95 update: emulator gets Pentium boost. (Insiginia Software's SoftWindows 95 4.0)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 3, 1997... Insignia Solutions Inc. this week is scheduled to deliver Version 4.0 of SoftWindows 95. The updated Windows 95 emulation software for Power Macs now includes the Pentium instruction set and comes with the latest version of Windows 95, the...

Tempo will show Copland-like face. (Mac OS 7 upgrade) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
March 3, 1997... Copland may be gone, but this summer users will get a glimpse of what might have been when Apple delivers Tempo, the next major upgrade to Mac OS 7. According to screen shots obtained by MacWEEK, Tempo's most visible revision will be its...

Sony delivers digital camera. (Sony electronics' DSC-F1)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 3, 1997... Sony Electronics Inc. last week shipped its DSC-F1 digital camera, a compact design with built-in color LCD and flash. The $849 camera, originally slated to ship in October 1996 (see 09.09.96, Page 4), shipped on schedule in Japan but was...

MicroNet raises CD-ROM ante with 16x drive. (MicroNet Technology's ADVCDE16E CD-ROM drive, Master CD Plus 4x6 CD-rewritable drive)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 3, 1997... MicroNet Technology Inc. last week announced new CD-ROM and CD-Recordable offerings. According to the company, it shipped the first 16-speed CD-ROM drive. The half-height ADVCDE16E, priced at $275, provides an average access time of 150...

CambridgeSoft retools ChemDraw, ChemOffice. (ChemDraw 4.0 molecular drawing application, ChemOffice 4.0 suite for storing, drawing, publishing chemical surgery)(Product Announcement)
March 3, 1997... CambridgeSoft Corp. has been busy in the lab. Last week the company shipped new versions of its molecular drawing application, ChemDraw, and its laboratory management suite, ChemOffice. The first major update since May 1995, Version 4.0 of...

MacTech to publish in Japan. (Xplain to work with ASCII Corp to publish MacTech Japan developer magazine in Japanese) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 3, 1997... Xplain Corp. announced it is launching with Japanese publisher ASCII Corp. a Japanese version of its MacTech developer magazine. Called MacTech Japan, the magazine will appear bimonthly, with the first issue due in April. The Japanese...

For the record. (News Briefs)
March 3, 1997... The 02.17.97 story on PowerTools Corp.'s 4200dVp and 3200dVp (Page 70) should have said the systems use a 3-Gbyte IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) hard drive.

Tasting the first fruits of spring. (Apple cuts prices on Color StyleWriter 1500 and Color StyleWriter 2500 color ink jet printers) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
March 3, 1997... Apple this month dropped the price of two Color StyleWriter inkjet printers as it gears up to release a new model based on an engine from Hewlett-Packard Co. of Palo Alto, Calif., (see 01.27.97, Page 1). Apple is offering a $50 mail-in rebate...

The mopier is hungry. (HP's HP 92298X Maximum Capacity Toner Cartridge)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 3, 1997... Driven by the trend of printing multiple original copies, or mopies, on office laser printers, Hewlett-Packard Co. this week will introduce the Maximum Capacity Toner Cartridge. Designed for HP's family of LaserJet 4 and 5 printers, which...

Mopier acceleration. (Xionics Document Technologies' XipPrint II printer accelerator for HP Mopier)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 3, 1997... Xionics Document Technologies Inc. of Burlington, Mass., in January shipped a print accelerator for HP's Mopier that can triple or quadruple the speed of printing images, Xionics said. According to Xionics, the $895 XipPrint II, which plugs...

Expanding HP's paper handling. (Genesis Technology's JetTray 1500, JetTray Adjustable Multi-Media Feeder, JetTray 250 High Capacity Envelope Feeder, JetStack 250 High-Capacity Stacker with Offsetting)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 3, 1997... Genesis Technology of Hayward Calif., recently released four paper-handling devices for common laser printers and copiers, including HP's Mopier. Genesis' $649 JetTray 1500 is a high-capacity feeder that handles as many as 1,500 letter-size...

Video-editing system forges digital link. (TrueVision's Targa 2000 SDX)(Product Announcement)
March 3, 1997... Truevision Inc. this month will ship a new video-editing system that delivers a high-end signal format to the Mac desktop. The $11,995 Targa 2000 SDX will support the SMPTE 259M protocol, a form of the Serial Digital Interface (SDI) standard....

Developers teach 3-D apps new tricks. (five 3-D applications)(Product Announcement)
March 3, 1997... The Mac 3-D market is spawning a cottage industry as vendors announce tools that add bells and whistles to 3-D applications and speed file migration between packages. Fractal Design Corp. of Scotts Valley, Calif., this month will release a set...

Live Picture adds texture to image editor. (Live Picture 2.6)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 3, 1997... Live Picture Inc. announced an update to its namesake image-editing and compositing application at February's Photo Marketing Association International conference in New Orleans. Live Picture 2.6, scheduled to ship in April for a street price...

Macromedia names CFO; Shockwave taps Castanet. (Macromedia chief financial officer Jack C. Parsons) (creates Castanet Tuner Shockwave plug-in for Marimba's Castanet product)(Product Announcement)
March 3, 1997... Following on the heels of a third-quarter dip in profits, Macromedia Inc. last week announced the appointment of a new chief financial officer. Meanwhile, the San Francisco company announced plans to plug Shockwave, its Web-based multimedia...

Netscape posts suite. (Communicator 4.0 beta for Macintosh)(Product Announcement)
March 3, 1997... Vying to be the intranet package of choice, Netscape Communications Corp. last week released the first Mac beta version of Communicator 4.0, the company's upgrade to Netscape Navigator 3.0. Communicator will combine Web browsing, Web authoring,...

New Texture twist: HTML conversion. (FutureTense's Texture 1.1 Web authoring tool)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 3, 1997... FutureTense Inc. this month will weave an HTML page converter into Texture 1.1, its Java-based Web-authoring tool. Texture currently comprises two components: Texture Designer, used to create Java applets in a QuarkXPress-like environment, and...

Webmasters unfazed by new HTML specs. (Cascading Style Sheets Level 1, HTML 3.2) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
March 3, 1997... Webmasters are taking a wait-and-see approach to two new recommendations for HTML standards, citing lack of browser support. The first of the new recommendations, recently released by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), is Cascading Style...

ScriptEase SDK spans platforms. (Nombas's ScriptEase:Integration SDK 3.0)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 3, 1997... ScriptEase, Nombas Inc.'s Netscape JavaScript-compliant language, will reach across platforms when the company releases a new software developers kit this week. The $995 ScriptEase:Integration SDK 3.0 includes Nombas' Distributed Internet...

Simply Surveys 3.4 lets Webmasters canvas users. (WorqSmart's polling tool)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 3, 1997... WorqSmart in February released Simply Surveys 3.4, a tool that promises to help Webmasters poll visitors. Simply Surveys lets site managers conduct surveys over the Internet, across a local network, via disks or on paper. The software features...

NetObjects Fusion 2 due. (Web-creation tool for Windows available, Mac version to ship soon)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 3, 1997... NetObjects Inc. last week shipped the Windows version of NetObjects Fusion 2.0 and said its Mac counterpart will arrive in the next 60 to 90 days. NetObjects Fusion is NetObjects' $495 Web-site creation tool targeted at users who want high-end...

Marketing's new czar. (Apple's new Guerrino De Luca head of marketing, advertising and product management) (Company Operations)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
March 3, 1997... Reorganizations are intensely disruptive actions. Despite the frequency with which Apple management exercises this particular tool, the effect is always the same: dispirited employees, work on hold, executive resignations and tons of negative...

Intel chips? Why not - it's the OS that matters. (Apple's plans to offer Rhapsody OS for Intel hardware positive move)(The Second Decade) (Product Information)(Column)
March 3, 1997... If the response to last week's column is at all representative, most readers seem delighted to know that Apple really does intend to offer Rhapsody for Intel hardware. In fact, much of the mail implied I must be deficient in the manhood...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
March 3, 1997... Promote the users Regarding your editorial on Apple's inept advertising campaign (01.20.97, Page 24): It never ceases to amaze me how the company responsible for the best television commercial of all time has followed up with one bad...

PowerPC-Rhapsody duo proves faster is better. (performance results achieved with fast Mac OS-based systems)(The Mac Manager) (Technology Information)(Column)
March 3, 1997... Forget all the talk of Apple finances and reorganization. When the merry-go-round stops, the question we want answered is: How fast are our Macs today, and how fast will they be tomorrow? And on that one most-critical technology path, life in...

LightWave 3D 5.0 darkened by bugs and poor interface. (NewTek's 3-D animation package for Macintosh) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 3, 1997... NewTek's first foray on the Macintosh has much potential but needs a Mac overhaul. NewTek Inc.'s LightWave 3D is the first do-everything 3-D animation package to be ported to the Mac from other platforms since the introduction of Apple's...

Mac OS Web servers gain speed, features. (eight Web servers) (includes product table) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 3, 1997... In the early days of the Web's popularity, the Mac established itself as a compelling alternative to Unix-based machines for hosting Web sites. Building a Mac Web server then was a simple proposition: Take a modestly powered Mac, load Biap...

New owner teaches Fetch file databasefew new tricks. (Extensis Fetch 1.5 image browser) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 3, 1997... Extensis Fetch 1.5 3 (Good) Adopted by Extensis Corp. after being abandoned by Adobe Systems Inc., Fetch is back with its first update in more than three years. In the short time it has owned Fetch, Extensis has consolidated the single-user...

Big speed gains coming, installer needs tuning. (Macs likely to be much faster in 1998)(MacInTouch) (Product Development)(Column)
March 3, 1997... I could be wrong, but it looks from here as if Macintosh systems will be running about four times faster next year. Impossible? Not if you add up the real performance advances heading our way from several sources. First are PowerPC processor...

Secure Internet commerce means upfront precautions. (includes related article on how Web sites of technology experts are vulnerable to hackers) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
March 3, 1997... The thought of all those credit, debit and ATM cards out loose in the world has people madly trying to retrace their steps and dig out customer service numbers when one of them turns up missing. Add the realization that your address, Social...

Support trimmed: Apple cuts evenings, weekends. (Company Business and Marketing)
March 3, 1997... One of Apple's first cost-cutting moves has directly affected consumers, as the company last week more than halved telephone support services for Performas. Free telephone help for the consumer channel was cut from 24 hours a day, seven days a...

Hancock says she's staying. (Apple executive VP Ellen Hancock) (Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 3, 1997... Ellen Hancock, Apple executive vice president and former chief technical officer, said she is staying with the computer maker as long as she can help in its recovery. "She has no intentions to leave the company," said spokeswoman Maureen...

For the record: reviews.(Correction Notice)(Brief Article)
March 3, 1997... Since our review of the Power Mac 4400/200 (02.17.97, Page 27), Motorola Computer Group has twice dropped the price on its competitive StarMax 3000/200 DT. That machine now costs $1,495. Also, Motorola says the StarMax line is compatible with...

StockWatch. (News Briefs)(Illustration)
March 3, 1997... 02.27.97 weekly close change Apple 17.00 0.00 MacWEEK Composite* 129.27 -1.69 Software Developers Adobe 35.50 -3.88 Caere...

Knife of the living dead.(Mac the Knife) (Humor)(Column)
March 3, 1997... While they share a penchant for basic black and an unhealthy fixation on cutting implements, the resemblance between the Knife and the Grim Reaper is strictly coincidental. Like the terminally chipper Von Trapp family, the Knife far prefers...

MkLinux runs on PPC 604. (Apple's MkLinux Developer Release 2.1 operating system runs on PowerPC 604-based PCI Macs)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 10, 1997... MkLinux runs on PPC 604. Apple released at the end of February an update to MkLinux, a version of Unix for Power Macs. MkLinux Developer Release 2.1 adds support for PowerPC 604-based PCI Macs; the previous release ran on NuBus Power Macs only....

MkLinux. (Apple's MkLinux Reference Release operating system)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 10, 1997... MkLinux runs on PPC 604. Apple released at the end of February an update to MkLinux, a version of Unix for Power Macs. MkLinux Developer Release 2.1 adds support for PowerPC 604-based PCI Macs; the previous release ran on NuBus Power Macs only....

Apple Guide development. (Lakewood Software's AG Author development tool for Apple Guides)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 10, 1997... Apple Guide development. Lakewood Software of Toronto shipped Version 1.0 of AG Author, its development tool for Apple Guides. The $99 environment supports the various types of guide files, Lakewood said, and manages Apple Guide definitions,...

Metrowerks updates CodeManager. (version 4.0 of source-code management application)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 10, 1997... Metrowerks updates CodeManager. Metrowerks Inc. of Austin, Texas, recently shipped Version 4.0 of its CodeManager source-code management software. The update to the SourceSafe-compatible tool features faster database access over a network, the...

Developer bits and bytes. (News Briefs)
March 10, 1997... Developer bits and bytes. Kingston, Wash.-based Celestin Co. shipped Release 6 of its Apprentice CD-ROM, which contains more than 600 Mbytes of Mac source code and programmer utilities. The newest version costs $25, and previous editions are...

What's in a name? Tempo is 'Mac OS 8.' (Product Development)
March 10, 1997... Dusting off the designation first earmarked for its Copland effort, Apple last week christened its Tempo operating system Mac OS 8. The new OS, due to ship this summer, will include many of the interface elements salvaged from the Copland OS,...

Day of decision: Apple to tally layoffs Friday. (Mar 14, 1997) (Company Operations)
March 10, 1997... In a confidential memo sent last week to all Apple employees, CEO Gilbert Amelio promised to answer on Friday their most urgent questions about the company's reorganization. He pledged to announce on that date the total cost in jobs and dollars...

Director recast for role on Web. (Macromedia's Director 6.0 multimedia authoring software)(Product Announcement)
March 10, 1997... Macromedia Inc. will shoot for the Internet this month with a new version of Director that adds Web-streaming capabilities, Java playback and Web browser scripting. Director 6 will also feature a new object-based interface that reduces the...

Video-effects architecture makes cut in QuickTime 3.0. (Apple's video editing software) (Product Development)
March 10, 1997... Despite a keynote demonstration at last month's Macworld Expo in Tokyo, Apple is holding QuickTime 3.0 close to its vest. Last week the company showed a few more cards, offering peeks at capabilities that will probably be part of a...

Early buyers take measure of PB 3400c. (Apple's PowerBook 3400c laptop computer) (Product Information)
March 10, 1997... Early buyers say they like Apple's new PowerBook 3400c just fine, thank you. Users lauded the system's bright screen, speed and connectivity options but criticized its lack of support for dual video. Meanwhile, dealers are experiencing high...

Symantec Visual Page simplifies Web editing. (Web page editor) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 10, 1997... Symantec Corp.'s new WYSIWYG Web-page editor Visual Page 1.0 successfully integrates a page construction view with HTML source display and a Preview mode that runs Java applets. While this three-view architecture is similar to Adobe Systems...

Xerox introduces 6-ppm DocuColor copier/printer. (Xerox Office Document Products' DocuColor 5750)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 10, 1997... Xerox Corp.'s Office Document Products division last week unveiled the DocuColor 5750, a high-performance color copier/ printer. Set to ship in April, the model will have a price tag of $19,995. It will output 6 color or 24 monochrome...

Apple execs head out as reorganization continues. (Apple VP of marketing and research Peter Hartsook, Apple Americas head Robin Abrams) (Company Operations)(Brief Article)
March 10, 1997... A pair of Apple executives last week said they will take their leave from the company. Pieter Hartsook, Apple vice president of marketing and research, said he intends to quit the job he took last November. The longtime Mac industry analyst...

CE's QuicKeys 3.5 poisedto go Power Mac native. (CE Software's macro QuicKeys 3.5.2 utility)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 10, 1997... CE Software Inc. this week is slated to deliver the long-awaited Power Mac version of QuicKeys 3.5, the company's macro utility. Owners of Version 3.5, which shipped in August, will be able to get the 3.5.2 update free from the company's Web...

Apple readies Mac OS 7.6.1. (operating system)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 10, 1997... Under the working title Ides of Buster, Apple is reportedly honing a sequel to Mac OS 7.6. Mac OS 7.6.1, due this month, will run on 68030, 68040 and PowerPC boxes and will work with Mac and clone machines introduced since Mac OS 7.6 shipped...

AppleScript to get update, not the boot. (AppleScript 1.2) (Product Development)
March 10, 1997... Apple's technology shakeout is in progress, but AppleScript is apparently safe. "It is not going anywhere," said Sal Soghoian, the new AppleScript product manager. "AppleScript will continue to be supported." As proof, he said, Apple is...

Singapore cloner sets sights on U.S. (Vision Power's PowerMax, PowerExpress PowerPC-based systems)(Product Announcement)
March 10, 1997... Vision Power, a new Mac cloner from Singapore, is prepping systems for the North American market. The company said it will introduce this month several PowerPC 604e and 603e systems at CeBIT '97 in Hanover, Germany. Vision Power said it has...

Aatrix in negotiations to pick Peachtree Accounting for Mac. (Aatrix Software to buy Peachtree Software's application) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 10, 1997... Peachtree Software Inc. is reportedly negotiating the sale of its Peachtree Accounting for the Mac to Aatrix Software Inc. of Grand Forks, N.D. According to sources, Norcross, Ga.-based Peachtree is close to selling the Mac accounting package,...

ClarisWorks not just for adults anymore. (ClarisWorks for Kids productivity software suite) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
March 10, 1997... Claris Corp. announced it is working on a productivity software suite aimed at elementary-school-age children. ClarisWorks for Kids, available in a beta version later this spring and shipping in the summer, will be an integrated package...

FTC holds Apple accountable. (misleading advertising charged for Apple PowerPC upgrade kits) (Company Business and Marketing)
March 10, 1997... Apple last week agreed to offer half-price PowerPC upgrade kits to some Performa customers after the Federal Trade Commission determined the company had engaged in misleading advertising. Following an 18-month investigation by the FTC, Apple...

StyleScript to support Stylus Color. (GDT Softworks' PostScript Level 2 RIP to support Epson America's Stylus Color inkjet printers) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
March 10, 1997... GDT Softworks Inc. said a forthcoming version of its StyleScript RIP will support Epson America Inc.'s new Stylus Color inkjets. Due this summer, the new version of StyleScript will include drivers for Epson's just-released Stylus Color 600 and...

For the record.(Correction Notice)
March 10, 1997... A story on the Ricoh CD-Rewriteable drive in the 03.03.97 issue (Page 3) should have stated that the device has a 6x-read speed.

QTVR upgrade turns to gold. (Apple's QuickTime VR 2.0 virtual-reality technology)(Product Announcement)
March 10, 1997... The pieces are coming together for Apple's QuickTime VR. The company last week put the finishing touches on a major upgrade to its virtual-reality technology. Meanwhile, a third-party developer announced an easy-to-use QuickTime VR stitching...

Media 100 preps effects processor. (Media 100's Vincent digital video system to include HDRfx Card effects-processing enhancement) (Product Development)
March 10, 1997... Media 100 Inc. this week will announce a new effects-processing option for its Media 100 xs digital video system. The company will also unveil plans for Theo, its next-generation video system, due in the fourth quarter. Media 100, formerly a...

Printer drivers out, but GX still kicking. (Apple terminates printing portion of QuickDraw GX) (Product Development)
March 10, 1997... Apple last week pulled the plug on the printing portion of QuickDraw GX but said it remains committed to the architecture's typographical and object-based graphics capabilities. While Apple acknowledged the limited acceptance of GX by...

Inexpensive CameraMan goes native. (Motion Works Group's CameraMan 3.0 screen-recording tool)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 10, 1997... The least-expensive cameraman money can buy is now Power Mac-native. Motion Works Group Ltd. this month delivered Version 3.0 of CameraMan, the company's $69.95 screen-recording tool. Besides its support for RISC-based Macs, CameraMan 3.0...

Extensis' plug-in line will don masks in May. (Mask Pro Adobe Photoshop plug-in)(Product Announcement)
March 10, 1997... Extensis Corp. in May will add masking to its bag of tricks with a new plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. Extensis Mask Pro, priced at $299.95, will use Extensis' color-matching technology to offer users precise control when isolating parts of...

Sony preps portrait camera. (Sony Electronics' DKC-ST5)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 10, 1997... DKC-ST5 model will come with processing unit Sony Electronics Inc. in February unveiled a $31,500 digital studio camera at the Photo Marketing Association '97 show in New Orleans. Aimed at portrait photographers, the DKC-ST5 will ship in...

Internet World nears. (Spring Internet World '97) (Industry Trend or Event)
March 10, 1997... Leading off with a keynote from Apple CEO Gilbert Amelio, Spring Internet World '97 in Los Angeles this week promises a venue for Mac products designed with the Web in mind. On the show floor, Apple will focus on Web publishing. In the...

Mini server dropped, WebStar gets update. (StarNine discontinues development on Personal WebStar, introduces WebStar 2.0.2 Web server)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 10, 1997... StarNine this month said it is discontinuing development of its miniature Web server, and in February the company updated WebStar to Version 2.0.2 In a letter to beta testers, the StarNine division of Quarterdeck Corp. said it is suspending...

Hotline offers FTP substitute. (Hotline Communications' Hotline 1.1 beta Internet communication/ file-transfer software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 10, 1997... Hotline Communications this week released a new beta version of Hotline 1.1, its client-server Internet communication and file transfer software. Hotline lets users chat in real time over the Internet. New to the product is the capability to...

VivoActive Producer 2.0 to automate video jobs. (Vivo Software's tool for developing low-bandwidth streaming audio and video for Web)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 10, 1997... Vivo Software Inc. this month rolled out a beta version of VivoActive Producer 2.0, the company's tool for creating low-bandwidth streaming audio and video for the Web. Vivo said Producer 2.0, due to ship in April, will let users automate and...

Insignia to ship NTrigue Net Client 2.0. (Insignia Solutions' remote-client software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 10, 1997... Insignia Solutions Inc. this week plans to ship an upgrade to NTrigue, its remote-client software for server-based Windows NT applications. NTrigue Net Client 2.0 for the Mac now works on machines running MacTCP and those with Open Transport....

Network traffic. (News Briefs)
March 10, 1997... * U.S. Robotics ships routers * Multi-Tech offers 56-Kbps updates U.S. Robotics of Skokie, Ill., last week rolled out two new remote-access routers: the $995 LANLinker 56, a 56-Kbps frame-relay device, and the $795 LANLinker BRI, an ISDN device...

A Web natural. (Apple's Internet/Web strategy succeeding) (Company Business and Marketing)(Editorial)(Brief Article)
March 10, 1997... No doubt about it: Apple blundered big time at December's Internet World. The Mac presence on the show floor was sparse, belying the platform's strengths as the top Web authoring platform and a leading Web server platform. But in Web-years,...

Microsoft ships Personal Web Server. (fixes bugs in Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0a)(Product Announcement)
March 10, 1997... Microsoft Corp. in February shipped its Personal Web Server and updated its Web browser. * Microsoft Personal Web Server. The free HTTP (Hypertext Transport Protocol) server comes with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Originally developed by...

New tools link Mac databases to Web servers. (MacXperts' WebX 1.0.4 WebStar plug-in, Cuesta Technologies' Cuesta Online Database System to link Claris FileMaker Pro 3.0 databases to Unix servers)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 10, 1997... Two companies recently announced tools for linking Macintosh databases to Web servers. * MacXperts Inc. released an update to its WebX plug-in for StarNine WebStar that lets users connect a Mac Web server to Oracle Corp.'s Oracle7 database....

Apple elaborates on plans for whatchamacallit OS. (cross-platform operating system plans)(The Second Decade) (Product Information)(Column)
March 10, 1997... This week: some new details on Apple's cross-platform OS plans. First, though, a correction - of sorts - to what I wrote on the subject two weeks back. Terminological travails In that previous column (see 02.24.97, Page 18) I coined the term...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
March 10, 1997... Netscape 3.0 looms large I read with interest the report on the new version of Netscape Communicator (03.03.97, Page 14). I am dismayed that it is getting so large. Already Netscape Navigator 3.0 requires 9 Mbytes of memory. It takes forever...

We're all in this together: wimps need not apply. (Apple to face bad publicity)(The Mac Manager) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
March 10, 1997... Look around. If you're a Mac manager, you're scared. Probably pissed off, too. I know that I am. We've been on a wild ride for a very long time, and the immediate track ahead will be worse than what we've just traversed. In a few weeks we'll...