MacWEEK articles from November 1995

MacWEEK archives from November 1995

Industry tells Spindler where to go with Apple. (Company Business and Marketing)
November 6, 1995... Amid rumors that Michael Spindler has only six months to improve the company's bottom line, industry insiders weighed in with advice for Apple's beleaguered CEO. On the heels of disappointing third-quarter results and the abrupt departures of...

Ailing Radius faces Q4 loss, slashes staff. (peripherals vendor Radius Inc) (Company Financial Information)
November 6, 1995... Bracing for a huge fourth-quarter loss, Radius Inc., the struggling Mac clone maker, last week laid off nearly half its 320 employees and is reportedly up for sale, MacWEEK has learned. The company -- beset by sluggish sales of the 8 1/110...

Apple's Eilers to step down. (Dan Eilers leaving as head of Worldwide Marketing and Customer Solutions Division) (Company Operations)
November 6, 1995... After only a short term as the head of Apple's Worldwide Marketing and Customer Solutions division, Dan Eilers resigned last week when another reorganization stripped the senior vice president of a large portion of his powers. Eilers, the...

OpenDoc ushers in brave new world for Mac users. (Industry Trend or Event)
November 6, 1995... Although Apple and IBM Corp. have been talking up OpenDoc as a panacea for developers, prospective users of the component-software architecture should be wondering what's in it for them. "Users shouldn't have to infer what a technology does for...

HP peripherals proliferate. (HP to introduce LaserJet 5Si MX laser printer, ScanJet 4s and 4Si scanners, ScanJet 4c flatbed scanner)(Product Announcement)
November 6, 1995... Hewlett-Packard Co. this week will debut a high-speed network printer with a raft of paper-handling options as well as a new lineup of desktop scanners. Analysts said the new peripherals should extend the hardware giant's reach into new...

Temptations of the flesh.(MacWEEK Insider) (Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
November 6, 1995... Sometimes covering the computer industry for a Macintosh publication is like being a vegetarian food reviewer at a steak joint. There are aromatic chops sizzling on the barbecue, but you serve your readers an enthusiastic account of the braised...

Pentium Pro unveiled; new chip targets Mac strongholds. (Intel Pentium Pro microprocessor)(Product Announcement)
November 6, 1995... With the rollout of the new Pentium Pro processor, Intel Corp. has thrown down the gauntlet to Apple and its PowerPC partners. At a San Francisco press event last week Intel and a flock of system vendors demonstrated the Pentium Pro's prowess...

Apple delays ship of PPC cards for PBs. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
November 6, 1995... PowerBook Duo and 500-series owners who have been waiting to bring their 68040-based notebooks into the PowerPC generation are going to have to wait a little longer. Apple revealed last week that it is delaying the shipment of its 100-MHz 603e...

QMS rolls out new pair of magicolor laser printers. (magicolor CX 8, CX 20)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 6, 1995... Raising the bar for its color laser line, QMS Inc. this week shipped two new color laser printers, the magicolor CX/8 and CX/20. The new color lasers are based on the same IDT 3081 40-MHz RISC processor as the $7,999 CX/32 (see MacWEEK, Sept....

Novell to sell WordPerfect. (Company Operations)(Brief Article)
November 6, 1995... Ending months of speculation and second-guessing from the financial community, Novell Inc. last week announced it will sell the WordPerfect Business Applications Division, saying WordPerfect has put a strain on operations. In a statement,...

Apple ranks No. 2 in third-quarter PC sales. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
November 6, 1995... Apple was the No. 2 seller of personal computers in the third quarter of 1995 and also increased its worldwide market share, according to preliminary results of a report by Dataquest Inc. of San Jose, Calif. The study said that Apple shipments...

WorldWrite to hit U.S.: word processor to be priced at $99.(Product Announcement)
November 6, 1995... A second international software developer is exporting a major word processing package to the United States. WorldSoft U.S. this month is slated to ship WorldWrite 3.0 for Macintosh, a $99 program that will combine high-end word processing with...

CTX, Hitachi, Sony line up fall display. (CTX International Inc, Hitachi America Ltd, Sony Electronics Inc announce new monitors)(Product Announcement)
November 6, 1995... Three companies have announced new monitors that will be rolled out at this month's Comdex/Fall '95 in Las Vegas. > CTX International Inc.'s first aperture-grille display is the 17XA DiamondTron, a 17-inch monitor with a 16-inch viewing area....

Typhoon blows in at 40-ppm speeds. (Dataproducts Corp Typhoon 40)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 6, 1995... Dataproducts Corp. is readying another laser printer designed to narrow the gap between desktop devices and high-speed copiers for document production. The $30,995 Typhoon 40 will be based on a 400-dpi Hitachi engine and will output 40 letter-...

Claris harvests Apple titles. (takes over distribution of Mac operating system) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
November 6, 1995... As predicted by Claris Corp. bigwigs last summer, the production company recently took over the sales and distribution of Apple-branded software. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Claris said it will handle the licensing and sales of products,...

For the record.(Correction Notice)
November 6, 1995... The Oct. 30 story on OEM hard drives (Page 6) incorrectly stated that a model of IBM Corp.'s UltraStar 2XP will use a Fast-40 interface. It will come with a Wide Fast-20 interface, which has a maximum speed of 40 Mbytes per second.

Pinnacle drive lowers cost of CD-R. (Pinnacle Micro RCD 5020)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 6, 1995... Pinnacle Micro Inc. this month will knock down CD-Recordable prices with the release of its RCD 5020 system. The double-speed drive will list for $1,295, and Pinnacle said it expects a street price of about $1,100. The unit will use a...

Vendors arrange for new PCI RAID. (Spirit Technologies Inc; Direct Connections; FWB Inc)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 6, 1995... Several vendors are expanding the range of RAID systems for PCI Macs with internal and external arrays. > Spirit Technologies Inc. next week will release its Xstream RAID2 models in capacities of 4.3 and 8.6 Gbytes. Xstream RAID2 systems come...

Casa Blanca driver plays Jaz. (Casa Blanca Works Inc's Drive7 3.6)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 6, 1995... Casa Blanca Works Inc. recently revved up its Drive7 SCSI formatter and driver package. Version 3.6 of the $89.95 utility supports System 7.5.2 and can create partitions containing up to 4 Gbytes each. Casa Blanca said its new driver supports...

Changes in store for PD. (Panasonic Communications and Systems Co cuts price of PowerDrive2 phase-change optical drive) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
November 6, 1995... Panasonic Communications & Systems Co. of Secaucus, N.J., last week dropped the price of its PowerDrive2 Phase-change Dual (PD) drive. Previously $995, the drive now carries a $649 price tag. PowerDrive2 is based on a Matsushita mechanism that...

Cutting the Blues. (Microtech International reduces prices of Blue Storm, Blue Streak drives) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
November 6, 1995... Microtech International Inc. of East Haven, Conn., recently reduced the prices of several Blue line products. Previously priced at $1,750, the 2-Gbyte Blue Storm drive is now $1,392; the 4-Gbyte model is now $1,760. Microtech also trimmed its...

FWB pares CD-R prices. (cuts price of hammerCD-R 2x, 4x models) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
November 6, 1995... FWB Inc. of Menlo Park, Calif., recently lowered the cost of its CD-Recordable drives. The double-speed hammerCD-R 2x moved to $1,549 from $1,895, and the 4x-speed model slid $400 to wind up at $3,099. The units come with Astarte GmbH's Toast...

Universal format. (Optical Storage Technology Association announces Universal Disk Format standard) (Technology Information)(Brief Article)
November 6, 1995... The Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Optical Storage Technology Association recently announced a Universal Disk Format for removable media. Based on the ISO 13346 standard, UDF will be used with Digital Video Discs, the next-generation CD-ROM, OSTA...

Macromedia spinning unified Web solutions. (Macromedia Inc International User Conference) (Company Business and Marketing)
November 6, 1995... San Francisco -- Macromedia Inc. is stretching its wings. Just a few years ago, the company's annual user conference filled only a small downtown hotel. At the 1995 Annual Macromedia International User Conference here last week, however,...

Radius readying its new software codec. (SoftStudio)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 6, 1995... Radius Inc. last week told MacWEEK that it is toning up software that will add processing muscle to its hardware-based nonlinear video editing systems. The company said it hopes to ship SoftStudio, the new JPEG-based compressor-decompressor...

Adobe bites into consumer market. (PhotoDeluxe consumer photo-editing application)(Product Announcement)
November 6, 1995... Adobe Systems Inc. is setting its sights on the home market with PhotoDeluxe, a consumer photo-editing application that draws on the same engine as the company's high-end Photoshop package. PhotoDeluxe for the Mac is due to ship in time for...

Optimizing graphics for use on the Web. (Technology Information)
November 6, 1995... Designers face new challenges in producing or converting graphics for display on the World-Wide Web: They must ensure that images offer a consistent appearance and display speedily -- regardless of the Web browser and platform being used by the...

Trio focuses on digital cameras. (Minolta Corp, Dicomed Inc, Fuji Photo Film USA introduce new models)(Product Announcement)
November 6, 1995... Digital cameras are gaining speed, judging from three imaging heavyweights' announcements that they will ship new studio and field cameras over the next several months. > Minolta Corp. this month will ship the RD-175 for $9,995. Based on the...

Sybase unveils its System 11: database improves scalability, speed.(Product Announcement)
November 6, 1995... Looking to re-establish its prominence in the database market, Sybase Inc. last week unveiled Sybase System 11. The company said the upcoming release will address users' concerns about the database's scalability, speed and reliability. As...

Mac Notes client may ship late. (Lotus Notes 4.0 for Macintosh) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
November 6, 1995... Lotus Development Corp. has released a beta version of Lotus Notes 4.0 to more than 10,000 users, and in a departure from previous statements, would not say when the Mac client would ship. In October more than 10,000 Lotus Business Partners and...

Asante prepares new Ethernet trio. (Asante Technologies Inc ReadySwitch, AsanteFast 100 hub, AsanteView 2.6 management software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 6, 1995... Asante Technologies Inc. plans to have a speedy holiday season. The company said it will release in December and January an Ethernet switch, stackable Fast Ethernet hub and updated management software that will support its 100BASE T products....

After modems peak, what's next?(future of data communications) (Industry Trend or Event)
November 6, 1995... Telecommunications experts agree that analog modems can't get much faster than the 33.6-Kbps transfer rate provided by the fastest modems currently available. After analog modems max out, what's next? Some industry observers say we'll see an...

Valvoline races to the Web during Indianapolis 500.(Case Study) (Technology Information)
November 6, 1995... The automotive parts business is about as competitive as the professional racing industry it sponsors, so it's hardly surprising that Valvoline Co., one of the nation's leading motor oil manufacturers, raced to become the first in its market to...

Mac, Newton users get wireless e-mail.(Wynd Communications Corp WyndMail 1.0 for Macintosh, WyndMail 2.0 for Newton)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 6, 1995... Mac and Newton users can send wireless messages with Wynd Communications Corp.'s WyndMail 1.0 for Macintosh and WyndMail 2.0 for Apple Newton MessagePad, new clients for Wynd's wireless communications service. WyndMail users can send Internet...

Apple to add to PPC-based server bundles.(plans to bundle Virex anti-virus software, netOctopus LAN administration software with Workgroup Server line) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
November 6, 1995... Apple announced it intends to beef up the software bundles that come with several of its PowerPC-based servers. The company said it plans to add to the Workgroup Server bundle Virex anti-virus software and the netOctopus network software...

SelectStar updates StarTrieve. (SelectStar Inc introduces StarTreive 1.5)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 6, 1995... SelectStar Inc. in late October released Version 1.5 of its OLAP tool, StarTrieve. OLAP, or on-line analytical processing, lets users drill down through data and extract summary information. SelectStar said it boosted the analytical...

Apple gets Mail*Link. (licenses Mail*Link Internet for PowerTalk)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 6, 1995... Apple recently announced a licensing agreement with StarNine Technologies Inc. and a new version of PowerShare. Apple has licensed and is freely distributing Mail*Link Internet for PowerTalk, Mail*Link MS for PowerTalk and Mail*Link QM for...

Ditch the designer label. (Apple designing elaborate systems for the sake of design) (Company Business and Marketing)(Editorial)
November 6, 1995... In these tough times of parts shortages and disappointing financial results, it is discomforting to see that Apple is reportedly looking again at the concept of selling "designer" Macintoshes. The latest experiment, ironically code-named...

Some simple solutions for System folder mayhem. (The Second Decade) (Product Information)(Column)
November 6, 1995... I've been asked by some folks at Apple for concrete suggestions about cleaning up the System folder mess I described last month (see MacWEEK, Oct. 2, Page 24). While I'm pleased to see their interest, I'm a little hesitant to respond because...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
November 6, 1995... Held hostage by Claris The ever-impending release of Claris' FileMaker Pro 3.0 is holding me hostage. For the past year I've been waiting patiently for news on the long-overdue relational version of FileMaker. In that time I've looked at...

New Panda model smarter than the average computer.(The Mac Manager) (Product Information)(Column)
November 6, 1995... "Here we go again," I thought. Another "greatest thing since sliced bread," waste-of-my-time phone chat with the head of a start-up computer company. I've had this dream before, and it generally turns out to be someone else's nightmare. As it...

PressView 17 SR sets new standard for color display. (Radius Inc)(includes related article on how products are tested) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
November 6, 1995... Score card: PressView 17 SR Radius Inc. List price: $2,399 Overall value: 5 (Excellent) Radius' PressView 17 SR is an Adobe Photoshop user's dream monitor. It has all the features of its more expensive 21-inch siblings, but it's...

AppleVision 1710AV offers high quality at low price. (Apple 17-inch multimedia monitor) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
November 6, 1995... Score card: AppleVision 1710AV Apple List price: $1,159 Overall value: 4 (Very good) Apple's 17-inch monitor with built-in speakers and microphone presents a solid, all-in-one solution to business users for whom color is...

Reviews forum: relating to FileMaker 3.0.(Letter to the Editor)
November 6, 1995... Relating to FileMaker 3.0 Your Beta Test of Claris FileMaker Pro 3 (MacWEEK, Oct. 2, Page 1) was interesting, but the program's touted features, such as the capability to display data from one file in the form of another, have been available...

DiskGuard 1.5 elegant solution for security. (ASD Software Inc) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
November 6, 1995... Score card: DiskGuard 1.5 ASD Software Inc. List price: $129* Overall value: 4 (Very good) DiskGuard is a low-end security product that makes unauthorized access difficult by hiding folders and disk volumes; like Apple's At Ease,...

Kensington Mouse. (Kensington Microware Ltd) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
November 6, 1995... Device's two-pronged attack takes discomfort out of input Overall value: 4 (Very good) Kensington Microware Ltd.'s second entry into the mouse market is a streamlined version of its four-button Thinking Mouse. The $59.99 Kensington Mouse...

Prometheus CyberPhone: modem/speakerphone adds telephony functions to Mac. (Prometheus Products Inc) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
November 6, 1995... Overall value: 3 (Good) Talking back to your computer has questionable therapeutic value, but if your Mac is equipped with a telephony system, you can put your energies to practical use. Aimed at the small-business and home markets, Prometheus...

Notes delivers as development base. (companies deploying Lotus Notes across platforms, geographically disparate sites) (Product Information)
November 6, 1995... PRODUCT INFO Lotus Development Corp. Lotus Notes: $275 (any client or server in quantities of 50 or more); Lotus Notes Desktop: $155 (per client license for 50 or more, runtime version); Lotus Notes Express: $100 (per client license in...

Gremlins haunt monitor; memory fix speeds PCs.(MacInTouch) (Product Support)(Column)
November 6, 1995... The Energy Saver control panel and an AudioVision monitor could be trouble. Ted Landau is a true expert in Macintosh troubleshooting, and his book, "Sad Macs, Bombs and Other Disasters," is an excellent reference. (The second edition, from...

Design firm's data now safe, sound. (Corey & Co implements new digital linear tape backup system)(Problem Solving) (Product Information)
November 6, 1995... Corey & Co.: Designers Inc. Watertown, Mass. Problem: Week's worth of work on server was taking six hours per night for three consecutive nights to back up using a DAT drive. Solution: Replace DAT drive with DLT drive from APS Technologies....

RealAudio 2.0 to rock Web, live. (Progressive Networks Inc)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 6, 1995... Progressive Networks Inc. expects to move the Internet closer to radio's domain when it ships RealAudio 2.0 in January. The new version will expand real-time broadcast capabilities and synchronize on-screen actions to a soundtrack. Version 2.0...

Adobe delivers $99 PageMill. (Adobe Systems Inc WYSIWYG Web authoring software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 6, 1995... Adobe Systems Inc. last week rolled out PageMill, its WYSIWYG World-Wide Web authoring tool, at a bargain-basement introductory price of $99. Adobe said the price would be good until Jan. 31; pricing thereafter has not been determined....

StockWatch.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
November 6, 1995... 11.02.95 Weekly % close change Apple 36.63 5.40 MacWEEK Composite* 346.48 17.34 Software developers Adobe 60.75 13.02 Caere...

Smooth sailing to Byzantium.(Mac the Knife)(Column)
November 6, 1995... The goings on at Apple lately are on the verge of assuming epic proportions, or at least proportions of a television epic. Of course, if Hollywood takes up the challenge, the resulting product would be a bit different but still recognizable....

Apple buffs up Shiner; AIX server due for Q1. (a Unix server code-named Shiner) (Product Development)
November 13, 1995... Apple's on-again, off-again Unix server, code-named Shiner, is reportedly back on Apple's list of things to do. Although Shiner has swung in and out of Apple's plans over the past year, sources said Apple now intends to unveil the machine in...

CHRP specifies Mac OS in desktop, laptop CPUs; final spec due for Comdex debut. (Common Hardware Reference Platform) (Technology Information)
November 13, 1995... The PowerPC troika today will fire the opening salvo in an offensive that may be the first real challenge to Intel Corp.'s dominance of personal computing. At the Comdex/Fall '95 show in Las Vegas, Apple, IBM Corp. and Motorola Inc. will...

Radius slipping in key areas. (Radius Inc)(Company Report Card) (Company Financial Information)
November 13, 1995... In little more than a year, the turnaround fairy tale of Radius Inc. has become a corporate horror story leading to a series of huge layoffs and massive financial losses. The significance of the Radius tale depends on whether it portends troubles...

QuickDraw 3D accelerator a master of its dimension. (Apple's QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
November 13, 1995... Score card: QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card Apple Overall value: 4 (Very good) List price: $399 The QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card delivers workstation-class, real-time 3-D rendering to the Macintosh for a paltry price. The...

InterCon to pull eWorld into its Internet orbit. (online services) (Company Business and Marketing)
November 13, 1995... On the tail of Apple's announcement of a major transition for its on-line service, sources said eWorld may soon have a new guardian: InterCon Systems Corp. Herndon, Va.-based InterCon and parent company Performance Systems International Inc....

A comedy of errors. (Radius Inc's spectacular decline)(MacWeek Insider) (Company Financial Information)(Column)
November 13, 1995... It's said that the best defense is a good offense, and Radius Inc. lately has been doing a great job offending me. It's not enough that the company, through its own arrogance and poor decision-making, has all but crashed and burned. Radius seems...

ViaCrypt unveils Mac PGP encryption tools. (ViaCrypt PGP for Macintosh 4.0 systems/data security software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 13, 1995... Mac users will soon have commercial tools for PGP public-key encryption and digital signatures, thanks to the pending release of ViaCrypt PGP 4.0 for the Mac. For several years, Windows and Unix users have been able to employ ViaCrypt's PGP...

Apple admits PB never shipped. (PowerBook 5300cc notebook computer)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 13, 1995... Is it poor supply or just a no-show? Buyers in search of the highest-end PowerBook have been asking that question since it was supposedly re-released Sept. 25. Last week, Apple confessed: It never shipped the 5300ce. Blaming "qualification"...

Mac mania at Comdex: CHRP, OpenDoc to highlight show. (Common Hardware Reference Platform) (Industry Trend or Event)
November 13, 1995... Mac users have often found slim pickings at the annual Comdex/Fall show in Las Vegas. But this year will offer attendees a bonanza with the release of the Common Hardware Reference Platform specification, demonstrations of OpenDoc software and a...

Unleashing new PowerTalk client. (ConnectSoft Inc's E-Mail Connection 1.0)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 13, 1995... ConnectSoft Inc.'s Connection 1.0 for Mac is a PowerTalk client that will provide a single mailbox for e-mail from multiple systems, voice mail and faxes. Due in early 1996 for $89.95, it will support multimedia e-mail and is expected to compete...

New color scanners take wing; Primax and UMAX announce new flatbeds. (Primax Electronics' DeskScan, UMAX Technologies Inc's PowerLook II)(Product Announcement)
November 13, 1995... Home, business and high-end graphics users will expand their color horizons with a plethora of new flatbed scanners from Primax Electronics and UMAX Technologies Inc. > Primax's $399 DeskScan, shipping now, is a cross-platform device that...

JobOrder 2 tracks time, tasks. (Management Software Inc's JobOrder 2.0 process management software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 13, 1995... A longtime Mac developer in October unveiled a new product under a new corporate moniker. Management Software Inc., which originally developed geographical-information systems as MapPower Corp., is shipping JobOrder 2.0, a $995 program aimed...

Norton handles bigger volumes. (Symantec Corp's Norton Utilities for the Macintosh 3.2 data protection and recovery software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 13, 1995... Extending protection to users of new PCI-based Macs, Symantec Corp. recently released an update to its Norton Utilities for the Macintosh. Version 3.2 of the $129 data protection and recovery utility supports System 7.5.2's expanded volume...

Fix in for Office 4.2. (Microsoft's Office 4.2 integrated software) (Product Support)(Brief Article)
November 13, 1995... Microsoft Corp. last week released a bug fix for its Office 4.2 suite running on PCI Macs. The Redmond, Wash.-based company said a System 7.5.2 bug caused the Mac to crash after users clicked on the Office Manager tool bar. The corrected...

ProMax pushes RAID; new Ultra SCSI arrays set to ship in 1st quarter. (ProMax Technology Inc Fast and Wide SCSI-2 RAID arrays, Wide Ultra SCSI arrays)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 13, 1995... ProMax Technology Inc. last week took aim at high-performance storage for PCI Macs when it delivered new RAID bundles and took the wraps off forthcoming Wide Ultra SCSI arrays. ProMax's new line of Fast and Wide SCSI-2 arrays that come with...

DOS Mounter 95 does Windows 95.(Software Architects Inc's DOS Mounter 95 file-transfer software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 13, 1995... Software Architects Inc. is preparing to release an update to DOS Mounter, the company's cross-platform file transfer utility. DOS Mounter 95, slated to ship this month for $99.95, will offer bidirectional file transfers between Windows 95 and...

Adaptec patch to speed PCI card. (PowerDomain 2940W Fast and Wide SCSI-2 PCI cards) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
November 13, 1995... Adaptec Inc. in December will give users of its PCI cards an easy boost to speedy storage when it releases a firmware update that will support Ultra SCSI interfaces. According to the company, Adaptec will offer users of its new PowerDomain...

Plasmon shreds PD prices. (Plasmon Data Inc's Phase-change Dual, or PD, drive) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
November 13, 1995... Plasmon Data Inc. of Milpitas, Calif., this month pruned the cost of its Phase-change Dual/CD drive. Previously priced at $975, the Phase-change Dual, or PD, unit is now $589. The drive can read CD-ROMs at up to quadruple speed and read and...

Small is beautiful. (Toshiba America Information Systems Inc's MK-2101M and MK-1301MAV hard drives)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 13, 1995... Toshiba America Information Systems Inc., Disk Products Division, of Irvine, Calif., recently debuted new high-capacity 2.5-inch OEM hard drives that use PRML (partial response maximum likelihood) read channels. The 2.1-Gbyte MK-2101M will...

Yamaha spins down CD-R prices. (Yamaha Systems Technology Inc's CD100 II CD Expert CD-Recordable drive) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
November 13, 1995... Yamaha Systems Technology Inc. of San Jose, Calif., recently knocked $1,000 off the list price of its CD Expert CD-Recordable drive. Now at $2,995, the external CDE100 II records at up to 4x speeds. The system ships without authoring software;...

OSC polishes up Deck II; audio, video play role in new lineup. (OSC Inc's Deck II sound/audio software)(Product Announcement)
November 13, 1995... Pumping up the volume of its multimedia products, OSC has unveiled updates to its audio recording and sequencing packages as well as a new collection of QuickTime clips. Version 2.5 of Deck II, OSC's digital sound recording and editing...

CalComp rolls out plotter, tablet. (TechJET 175i plotter, Drawing-Slate II)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 13, 1995... CalComp Inc. is looking at the big picture with a new wide-format color inkjet plotter and thinking small with a 4-by-5-inch drawing tablet. Due to ship this week for $9,995, CalComp's TechJET 175i plotter features the company's new...

Extensis plugs new tools into drawing, graphics, DTP. (PageTools 2.0, a suite of Adobe PageMaker plug-ins; Intellihance 2.0, an automatic image-optimization plug-in)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 13, 1995... Extensis Corp. is expanding the capabilities of its plug-ins with releases for drawing, image-editing and publishing applications. > PageTools 2.0, set to ship in December, is a new version of Extensis' suite of Adobe PageMaker plug-ins....

QuickTime VR slowly becoming a reality. (Apple's technology for creating panaoramic scenes)(Includes related article on what QuickTime VR is)(Focus On Graphics Apps) (Product Development)
November 13, 1995... It's been six months since Apple shipped QuickTime VR, its technology for creating panoramic scenes. QuickTime VR products are slowly trickling to market, including some that explore intriguing new directions. A natural focus for QuickTime is...

4th Dimension menu expands; developers ship pair of extensions. (ACI US Inc's 4th Dimension DBMS; DataCraft's Coolbar 2.0; and Foresight Technology Inc's MenuSet)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 13, 1995... Users of ACI US Inc.'s 4th Dimension can pick up a couple of cool extensions for the database this fall. DataCraft plans to ship this month Version 2.0 of Coolbar, its extension for creating tool bars in 4D databases. The application lets...

Maclan joins Macs to Windows. (Miramar Systems Inc's Personal Maclan Connect 5.5 lets Windows 95 users connect to a Macintosh network)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 13, 1995... Bringing Macintosh file and print connectivity to Windows 95 users, Miramar Systems Inc. is shipping Personal Maclan Connect 5.5. The new version lets Windows 95 users connect to a Macintosh network. Users can mount Macintosh drives on their...

Novell ready to send AppWare packing; continues trend of selling assets. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
November 13, 1995... Novell Inc. of Provo, Utah, confirmed that it is looking to spin off its AppWare cross-platform application-development system to another company. The announcement comes just weeks after the company said it wants to sell off its WordPerfect...

Apple to certify PC cards for PBs. (PowerBook computers) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
November 13, 1995... Apple has rolled out a program to ensure compatibility among PC Cards for PowerBooks. With the Macintosh PowerBook Qualified (MPQ) program, PC Cards that pass the program's standards will be licensed to display the MPQ logo. To meet the MPQ...

OpenDoc catches eye of Mac developers. (Focus On Development Tools) (Industry Trend or Event)
November 13, 1995... As Apple and IBM Corp. prepare to sing the praises of OpenDoc this week in Las Vegas at Comdex/Fall '95, third-party developers are tuning up their tools for the architecture. Apple intends to detail its OpenDoc plans at Comdex and will ship...

4-Sight Fax, iSDN Manager updates debut. (4-Sight LC's 4-Sight Fax 3.1 fax software, iSDN Manager 3.0 network software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 13, 1995... 4-Sight L.C. has announced new versions of 4-Sight Fax, its network fax software and iSDN Manager, which the company positions as pre-press delivery software. Version 3.1 of 4-Sight Fax provides two modems from U.S. Robotics Inc. and support...