MacWEEK articles from October 1995

MacWEEK archives from October 1995

eWorld turns to Internet, spins in Web. (Apple reorganizes E-mail to emphasize move toward the Internet)
October 2, 1995... Responding to the lackluster growth of eWorld, its commercial on-line service, Apple last week announced a major reorganization to the service that will push it rapidly toward the Internet and group it with Apple's existing and future World-Wide...

New Apple displays to get sharper image: 17-, 20-inch models expected Oct 16. (Apple Multiple Scan 1705 Display and Apple Multiple Scan 20 Display)(Product Announcement) (Product Announcement)
October 2, 1995... In an effort to keep pace with bigger, brighter and lower-cost competitors from a growing number of vendors, Apple is embarking on a series of updates to its big-screen display line going out through the second half of 1996. Sources said that...

Novell kills off PPC NetWare. (NetWare for PowerPC dropped, to develop Common Hardware Reference Platform version)
October 2, 1995... In a surprising move, Novell Inc. and Apple late in September privately abandoned all development efforts of NetWare for PowerPC. Instead, Novell will concentrate on the Common Hardware Reference Platform version of the product and Apple will...

Mac holds own at Seybold. (trade show report on Sep 1995 Seybold San Francisco)
October 2, 1995... With the mass media biting at its heels, Apple took a deep breath and basked in the glow of graphics, digital video and all things pre-press at Seybold San Francisco last week. Although struggling to cope with such a media blitz, Apple showed it...

How FileMaker Pro 3 relates. (Claris' database)(Beta Test) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
October 2, 1995... It has been two and a half years since Claris Corp. released Version 2.1 of the popular, easy-to-use FileMaker Pro database. The much anticipated Version 3.0, expected by the end of this year, will be Power Mac-native and offer relational...

Adobe declares itself No. 1. (Adobe Systems had huge presence at 1995 Seybold San Francisco trade show)(MacWEEK Insider)(Column)
October 2, 1995... Working on the MacWEEK Report, our show daily for Seybold San Francisco last week, we were well aware that we were preaching to the choir. The annual pre-press and publishing show plays straight to the most entrenched segment of the Mac home...

SuperMac on the way back. (Radius resurrecting SuperMac name with proposed licensing/start-up agreement with former Radius VP Rich Schrameck)(Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... Radius Inc. is in the preliminary stages of resurrecting the SuperMac name to kick start its flagging Mac clone business, MacWEEK has learned. In a Sept. 8 letter of intent to Rick Schrameck, former vice president of Radius' cloning efforts,...

Apple investigates Paladin: all-in-one Mac would do it all.(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... All-in-one Mac would do it all Apple continues to test the waters with products that expand traditional market categories. According to sources, the company is exploring the concept of an all-in-one Mac that combines fax, copy, printing and...

HP CopyJet M prints and copies: multifunctions for workgroups. (color printer and copier)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... Broadening its color options, Hewlett-Packard Co. in November will release its CopyJet M, a multifunction color printer and copier. HP said the device is aimed at workgroups that, in addition to printing, often wish to make color copies of...

Windows Internet developer acquires WebStar maker. (StarNine Technologies acquired by Quarterdeck)(Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... StarNine Technologies Inc. was acquired last week by Windows Internet software developer Quarterdeck Corp. for about $12.5 million in common stock. Santa Monica, Calif.-based Quarterdeck paid 670,000 shares of its stock, which closed Sept. 27...

Connectix speeds Doubler: suite of utilities faster and cleaner in Version 1.0.2.(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... Connectix Corp. released last week an update for its Speed Doubler utility suite. The revision, Version 1.0.2, is available on-line. A number of enhancements further increase the performance of the Speed Emulator module when operating under...

Touche pad keeps cursor on track. (Touche Technology's Touche Touch Pad track pad)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 2, 1995... Touche Technologies Inc. recently introduced its new Touche Touch Pad, a device that one-ups other Macintosh trackpads. The $59.95 ADB device incorporates Edge Motion technology, which measures the direction of a user's finger movements across...

Pitch catches a PIM from Field Integration: acquires right to Full Contact. (Pitch Software acquires assets of Field Integration Technology, including PIM) (to introduce Full Contact 3.0)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... Last week Pitch Software announced that it has acquired the assets of Field Integration Technology of Santa Clara, Calif., including rights to the Full Contact personal information manager. Pitch, of Campbell, Calif., said it will release Full...

Lexmark widens its laser printer lineup. (Lexmark International's Optra C, Optra Rt+, Optra Lx+ and Optra Lxi+)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... Lexmark International Inc. last week beefed up its line of laser printers, delivering its first color model and four new monochrome devices. Lexmark's color offering, the Optra C, is based on a 600-by-600-dpi CMYK Canon engine (see MacWEEK,...

Kyocera raises CPU speed on FS printers. (Kyocera Electronics' Ecosys FS 1600A, FS-3600A LED printers)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... Kyocera Electronics Inc. this week will release speedier models of its 600-dpi Ecosys FS line of LED printers. The FS-1600A and FS-3600A, which cost $2,379 and $3,779 in Mac configurations, are now based on 50-MHz Motorola 68LC040 processors...

Clock chips boost 8500 and 9500. (KS Labs' Variable Speed accelerator for Power Mac 8500 and 9500)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... Power Mac users with the need for speed can now get even more performance with clock-chipping accelerators from KS Labs Inc. Shipping this month, the Variable Speed accelerator for the Power Mac 8500 and 9500, priced at $79.98, replaces the...

Rebate on Office. (Microsoft offers rebate for Microsoft Office 4.2)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... Microsoft Corp. recently announced a $50 rebate for purchasers of Microsoft Office 4.2 and one of three other programs. The promotion, which runs through the end of the year, applies to purchases of the $499 Office and either Microsoft...

Illustrator is now 6.0: app forges bond with Photoshop. (Adobe Systems' Illustrator 6.0 illustration application)(Product Announcement)
October 2, 1995... Adobe Systems Inc. last week test drove its latest version of Illustrator for Seybold San Francisco show goers. Version 6.0 of the PostScript illustration application features tighter ties to sister application Photoshop and the debut of a new...

Alaras revamps Tropix. (Alaras Tropix 2.0 modular application)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 2, 1995... Alaras Corp. last week turned up the heat on image management when it delivered a major rewrite of its Alaras Tropix software. Version 2.0 of the modular application for 680x0-based Macs features cataloging, customization tools, work-flow...

Adobe's Warnock on publishing market. (Adobe Systems' CEO John Warnock)(Interview)
October 2, 1995... On the eve of Seybold San Francisco last week, Adobe Systems Inc. CEO John Warnock spoke on a number of topics involving the Mac market with Senior Associate Editor/GA Matthew Rothenberg. Warnock even offered some friendly advice for Apple....

Pisa leans on EFI for piece of RIP action. (Pisa Systems' PhotoScript 3000 Direct Connect device for Canon color copiers)(Product Announcement)
October 2, 1995... Hoping to tear into some of Electronic for Imaging Inc.'s RIP action, Pisa Systems Inc. announced a PostScript-compatible device for Canon color copiers at last week's Seybold San Francisco. The PhotoScript 3000 Direct Connect, due this month...

Honeybee sweetens project management. (Honeybee Software's Job Central scheduling application)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... Looking to take the sting out of work-flow management for graphic designers, Honeybee Software Inc. last week announced Job Central at Seybold San Francisco. Due in October for about $600 per user, the Power Mac-native package is designed to...

Summagraphics now out on vinyl. (introduces new SummaChrome printer that outputs to vinyl)(Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... Summagraphics Corp. last week offered sign makers a quick fix with a new entry in the company's large-format SummaChrome printer line that outputs directly to vinyl. The company unveiled the new printer at Seybold San Francisco and said it is...

EveryWare to Tango with graphic dev tool. (EveryWare Development's Tango graphic development tool update to ButlerLink/Web product)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 2, 1995... EveryWare Development Corp. plans to ship in early October Tango, a graphical development tool for integrating the company's Butler SQL database with StarNine Technologies Inc.'s WebStar World-Wide Web server. With Tango, users will be able to...

Jabra handles docs, telephony. (Doc*Tel document and communications manager hardware/software combination)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... Jabra Corp. has announced Doc*Tel, a document and communications manager combining hardware and software that provides e-mail, document management and telephony features. The software either rides atop Apple's PowerTalk technology when available...

Modem, combo PC Cards reach PBs: ActionTec, TDK deliver add-ons. (Action Tec Electronics' DataLink 28.8 Cellular Ready Fax/Modem, ComNet 28.8 Fax/Modem + Ethernet Combination Card) (TDK Systems' DF2814APB Global Class PC card for Apple PowerBook 5300s and 190s)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 2, 1995... Owners of 5300-series and 190 PowerBooks looking to fill their PC Card slots have several new options for connectivity. Two companies have released new PC Cards that provide a 28.8-Kbps modem, a 14.4-Kbps fax, Ethernet, and combined modem and...

AOL feels sharp growing pains. (America Online)
October 2, 1995... America Online Inc. is learning about growing pains. While 1994 was characterized by intermittent service problems and a threatened member boycott, this year's headaches include password breaking, child pornography, World-Wide Web-access backlash...

Nonstop parade of switches. (Standard Microsystems, others introduce switches)(Product Announcement)
October 2, 1995... As networking vendors concentrate on developing switching modules that incorporate 10- and 100-Mbps Ethernet and ATM links, users are gaining the ability to stitch together switches tailored to their specific networking needs. Standard...

Cognos ships PowerHouse Mac client. (application development software)(Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... Cognos Inc. last month shipped a Mac client to PowerHouse, its cross-platform application-development environment. Cognos also has a Windows client for the product; the server version runs on Unix and OpenVMS platforms. The PowerHouse client...

4D on the Web. (Foresight Technology's NetLink/4D application links Fourth Dimension DBMS to StarNine Technologies' WebStar Web server)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... Foresight Technology Inc. of Fort Worth, Texas, gave users a way to connect ACI US Inc.'s 4th Dimension database to the World-Wide Web when it shipped last month NetLink/4D. The $189 application hooks a 4-D database to StarNine Technologies...

dtF embraces OpenDoc. (dtF Americas to provide OpenDoc tools for dtF SQL relational database)(Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... dtF Americas Inc. announced it will provide a suite of OpenDoc tools for dtF, its cross-platform SQL relational database. The dtF Database Toolkit for OpenDoc will include object-oriented parts for accessing dtF and other SQL databases and an...

Forte readies Power Mac version. (Forte Software's Forte 2.0 client/server development system)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... Forte Software Inc. of Oakland, Calif., said it is on track to release by the end of this year Version 2.0 of Forte, its client-server development system. The upgrade will include a native Power Mac client to the environment, which currently runs...

Cause add-ons. (Knowledge Modeling's add-ons introduced for Pluma Software's Cause development environment)(Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... Knowledge Modeling Corp. of Durham, N.C., last month shipped a group of extensions to Pluma Software Inc.'s Cause, a cross-platform develop environment for creating client-server applications. The extensions comprise an on-line reference guide...

NetMinder grabs 100BaseT. (Neon Software's NetMinder 3.3 protocol analyzer)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... NetMinder, Neon Software Inc.'s protocol analyzer, now collects data for 100BASE T Ethernet networks. Version 3.3 also supports a wider range of Apple and third-party cards. NetMinder troubleshoots, debugs and monitors Ethernet networks. It...

Execute now. (Apple's bungled product forecasts)(Editorial)
October 2, 1995... It's not an understatement to say that the computer industry is obsessed with the issue of product forecasting. The unforeseen boom in the consumer market alone has forced many hardware manufacturers to scramble for components to keep their...

'God-awful unholy mess' undermines case for Mac. (Mac OS System folder littered with fragments)(The Second Decade)(Column)
October 2, 1995... OK, Mac OS experts, time for a little System folder quiz: 1) Does your Mac currently require an enabler file? If so, what's its name? 2) If you have a PowerPC and a monitor, do you need the PowerPC Monitors Extension? Why? 3) True or...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
October 2, 1995... ClarisWorks first in its class The recent issue of MacWEEK included an index of Mac software sales that is inaccurate (MacWEEK, Aug. 21, Page 30). ClarisWorks, the best-selling software package for Macs, was not listed despite research from...

New warning label should appear: Made by Apple.(The Mac Manager)(Column)
October 2, 1995... Once upon a time, Apple computers had a reputation for unusually high quality. Apple even effectively used this point to justify the high cost of its machines. In the price-cut driven world of 1995, however, the benchmark of Apple quality has...

Now a real 486, SoftWindows 2.0 provides PC fix. (Insignia Solutions' PC emulator) (includes related article on product features) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
October 2, 1995... Score card: SoftWindows 2.0 Insignia Solutions Inc. Overall value: 3 (Good) List price: $499* SoftWindows 2.0 is a major upgrade to Insignia's PC emulator. Now mimicking a 486 CPU, SoftWindows permits advanced memory management and...

Xerox XPrint 4920 printer is fast, better, but not great. (includes related articles on new color laser printers and on product features) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
October 2, 1995... Score card: XPrint 4920 Xerox Corp. Overall value: 3 (Good) List price: $7,995 Xerox has done a solid job of updating its first-generation color laser printer to the performance and quality level of today's market leaders. The...

ATTO ExpressPCI-MC delivers: two Fast and Wide SCSI-2s in one slot. (ATTO Technology's ExpressPCI-MC card) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
October 2, 1995... Overall value: 4 (Very good) For pre-press and video users who are speed-hungry and slot-poor, ATTO Technology Inc.'s ExpressPCI-MC card offers two external Fast and Wide SCSI-2 buses in one PCI slot. In our tests with external RAID systems...

Truevision Targa 2000 offers good, clean QuickTime video. (video I/O card) (includes related article on product attributes) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
October 2, 1995... Score card: Targa 2000 Truevision Inc. Overall value: 3 (Good) List price: $5,495 The Targa 2000, an update to Truevision's venerable NuVista+ video I/O card, offers high-quality video digitizing for QuickTime video production,...

MapInfo 3 rules field of desktop mapping. (MapInfo's MapInfo 3.0 desktop mapping software) (includes related article on product features) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
October 2, 1995... MapInfo Corp. of Troy, N.Y., can be reached at (518) 285-6000 or (800) 327-8627; fax (518) 285-6070. Score card: MapInfo 3.0 MapInfo Corp. Overall value 4 (Very good) List price: $1,295* MapInfo 3.0, a multiplatform system with...

Digital audio tools shift to software. (multimedia sound tools) (includes related article on audio capacity and quality in hardware)(Buyers Guide)
October 2, 1995... Product Info Digidesign Inc. Session Software 2.0: $199 (through Oct. 31, $395 thereafter); Audiomedia II: $1,295 Menlo Park, Calif. (415) 688-0600 or (800) 333-2137 EMagic Inc. Logic Audio 2.5: $799, $349 (upgrade from Logic) Nevada City,...

Printing, ports, OT are big issues for PCI upgrade.(MacInTouch)(Column)
October 2, 1995... Freezes are hitting left and right among PCI Mac owners trying to print things. If there is one "show stopper" emerging for the PCI Macintosh models at the moment, it is printing. Somehow these systems shipped with software that can freeze the...

GoldStar will sell clones. (Goldstar Technology part of LG Electronics)(Brief Article) (Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... Macintosh clones are coming to South Korea. LG Electronics, the Seoul, South Korea-based organization that includes Goldstar Technology Inc., announced that this month it will sign an agreement to license the Mac OS. Anticipated for several...

Adobe shores up PDF on Web. (Adobe Systems announces Acrobat technology called Amber)(Brief Article)
October 2, 1995... In a plug for increased use of its Portable Document Format on the Internet, Adobe Systems Inc. last week announced new Acrobat technology that the company said will integrate the universal document software more seamlessly into the World-Wide...

StockWatch.(Illustration)
October 2, 1995... 09.28.95 Weekly % close change Apple 37.75 2.03 MacWEEK Composite* 317.77 -5.36 Software developers Adobe ...

Dreaming of a white Christmas.(Mac the Knife)(Column)
October 2, 1995... With or without you, it's going to be far from a blue Christmas this year. That's because those of us who are in this multimedia thing are in it for the long haul, and to us that means we're going to be putting our money where our mouse is until...

Lotus looks to cc:Mail for Notes 4.0 interface: upgrade to offer better scripting. (Lotus Notes 4.0 workgroup software)
October 9, 1995... Lotus Corp. is preparing a major new version of Notes with improved integration with cc:Mail, a revised interface and enhanced programming tools. The upgrade, Lotus Notes 4.0, will draw on the cc:Mail interface, giving it the look and feel of...

Apple pens new chapter in its PowerBook epic. (Apple teaming with Quanta Computers to co-develop next PowerPC-based notebook, Epic)
October 9, 1995... For those who thought Apple had already delivered its tour de force in the realm of PowerPC portables, sources said there's a surprise of epic proportions waiting in the wings. In an effort to reduce prices and development time on new...

Apple rushes to shore up forecasting, production. (head of manufacturing distributes internal memo about need to retool manufacturing operations)
October 9, 1995... Apple needs to retool its manufacturing operations dramatically if it hopes to get back on financial track, the company's head of manufacturing cautioned in documents examined by MacWEEK. For Apple, the solution is simple: If it builds enough...

CFO Graziano loses power play. (Apple CFO Joseph Graziano to resign)
October 9, 1995... Apple CEO Michael Spindler may have won a battle for control of the company, but he lost a CFO. Spindler last week emerged victorious from a shootout with company Chief Financial Officer Joseph Graziano, who questioned Spindler's leadership....

IBM cancels plans to ship PowerPC 620. (microprocessor)
October 9, 1995... IBM Corp., which will dissolve its Power Personal Division this week, is leaning toward scrapping plans to manufacture the high-end PowerPC 620 processor because of high cost and low demand, according to sources close to the company. "It's a...

BeBox plays new OS tune. (Jean-Louis Gassee's firm, Be Inc, introduces BeBox computer)(Product Announcement)
October 9, 1995... For the past several years, the most common topic of conversation at trendy Silicon Valley cocktail parties has been, "What's former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassee got cooking in that nondescript building of his?" Those who claimed to be in...

Going the O.J. way. (Apple receiving bad press)(MacWEEK Insider)(Column)
October 9, 1995... If we've learned anything from last week's conclusion to the Trial of the Century (TM), it's that once you've been tried and found guilty in the court of public opinion, no verdict to the contrary, even if it comes from those whose legitimate...

PaperPort scans grays: desktop scanner sports new chip. (Visioneer's PaperPort Vx desktop scanner)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 9, 1995... Visioneer Inc. this week will uncrate the next generation of its PaperPort desktop scanner pack. Outwardly resembling its predecessor, the $369 PaperPort Vx uses a new image-processing chip that integrates compression, image-straightening and...

Agfa to ship RIP for PCI machines. (Viper 1.9 card)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 9, 1995... Agfa is preparing to push PostScript aboard PCI Macs this month when it rolls out its latest host-based RIP. Version 1.9 of Agfa's Viper card consists of PostScript Level 2 as well as a variety of proprietary screening and rasterization...

CompuServe widens Net. (Spryte service to provide Internet access anywhere, anytime)(Brief Article)
October 9, 1995... CompuServe Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, has decided to leverage its worldwide network to provide Internet access anytime, anywhere. Its new service, code-named Spryte, will provide local dial-up access from more than 96 percent of the United States...

Apple nudges up share in Q2 sales.(Brief Article)
October 9, 1995... Apple last week inched up in worldwide market share for the second quarter while several of its rivals -- Compaq Computer Corp., IBM Corp. and Packard Bell Electronics Inc. -- either slipped or stayed put. The results, based on data from...

Targa 2000 turns to PCI. (Truevision's Targa 2000 PCI digital video board)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 9, 1995... Plugging into PCI, Truevision Inc. last week shipped a version of its Targa 2000 digital video board for the new bus architecture. Targa 2000 PCI offers the same features and performance as the NuBus version, including up to 700 percent...

Newer ships PB wares: latest laptops gain display card. (Newer Technology's ColorPalette video display card, DIMMs, Newer Floppy MicroDock minidocks for notebooks)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 9, 1995... Newer Technology Inc. recently unleashed a torrent of products, including an internal display card for the latest PowerBook models. > Video. Slated for release in November, the $275 ColorPalette will be a 16-bit-color video card for PowerBook...

Vendors spin out new SCSI utility updates. (Transoft's SCSI Director Professional 4.0 utility, ClarisMac Engineering's Anubis Professional 2.54h storage utility, Micro Design International's SCSI Express Macintosh 2.0)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 9, 1995... Three vendors have raised the performance and compatibility of their SCSI utilities. > Transoft Corp. released an update to its $99.95 SCSI Director Professional utility. Dressed up with a new interface, Version 4.0 is now Power Mac-native and...

Sony adds jukebox to playlist. (Sony Electronics' OSL-6000 magneto-optical jukebox)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 9, 1995... Sony Electronics Inc. of San Jose, Calif., this month will release a new OEM magneto-optical jukebox that packs up to 60 cartridges. The $17,500 OSL-6000 stores up to 78 Gbytes with 60 1.3-Gbyte MO cartridges. It uses two Sony 5.25-inch drive...

Gyration will move input off the desktop. (GyroPoint Pro, GyroPoint Desk input devices)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 9, 1995... Hoping to give Mighty Mouse some competition in the flying department, Gyration Inc. in November will release input devices that let users get to the point on and off the desktop. Unlike most input devices, which use only lateral coordinates,...

Adobe polishes Amber: apps can view PDF documents. (Adobe Systems' new Acrobat technology code-named Amber)(Brief Article)
October 9, 1995... In a plug for increased use of its Portable Document Format on the Internet, Adobe Systems Inc. in September unveiled new Acrobat technology that the company said will integrate the electronic-publishing software more seamlessly with the...

For the record.(Correction Notice)
October 9, 1995... Contrary to a story in the Oct. 2 issue (Page 8), KS Labs Inc.'s Variable Speed accelerator does not include a fan. Contrary to a story in the Oct. 2 issue (Page 12), Cumulus 2.5, the current shipping version, offers dial-in capabilities....

GCC Web app manages printing. (GCC Technologies' WebAdmin World Wide Web management software for GCC's XL line of printers)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 9, 1995... GCC Technologies Inc. this month will release WebAdmin, World-Wide Web-based management software for its Elite XL line of laser printers. According to GCC, the software will let users check a printer's configuration and status and make changes....

DayStar to bring 100-MHz PPC to low-end Macs. (DayStar Digital's PowerCard 601 PowerPC accelerator family)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 9, 1995... DayStar Digital Inc. in November will release a new member of its PowerPC accelerator family that will bring 100-MHz power to several low-end 68LC040- and 68040-based Quadra, Performa and LC Macintosh models. The 100 MHz PowerCard 601, priced...

High-flying Macs. (San Francisco Exploratorium uses Power Computing Power 100 for videoconferencing demonstration)(Brief Article)
October 9, 1995... Mac videoconferencing recently reached new heights. The San Franciso-based Exploratorium's Ron Hipshman is shown here with a Power 100 from Power Computing Corp. used in a stratospheric aircraft-to-earth video conference that was transmitted over...

Colortron II: higher-res: color-matching system revised. (Light Source Computer Images)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 9, 1995... Light Source Computer Images Inc. has brought new power to the capabilities of its Colortron system, which combines a spectrophotometer, densitometer and colorimeter. Colortron II costs $1,295, $100 more than its predecessor. Like the original...

Pianzhang pagination app gains speed: new version is 400 percent faster. (Miles 33 International's Pianzhang 2.0)(Product Announcement)
October 9, 1995... Miles 33 International Inc. has boosted the speed and expanded the toolbox of Pianzhang, its batch-pagination software for QuarkXPress documents. Pianzhang 2.0, slated to ship in November, will paginate long documents more then 400 percent...

Quark's Gill pledges better tech support. (Quark founder and chmn Tim Gill)(Interview)
October 9, 1995... Tim Gill, founder and chairman of Quark Inc., the Denver-based developer of QuarkXPress, recently talked to Carolyn Said, MacWEEK news editor, about some immediate changes Quark plans in technical support as well as future product directions....

Linotype-Hell readies dry-film imagesetter. (DrySetter)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 9, 1995... Linotype-Hell Co. dipped a toe into a new output medium when it announced the DrySetter at Seybold San Francisco in September. The $173,000 imagesetter, due to ship at the end of the month, employs Polaroid Graphics Imaging's eco-friendly Dry...

EnCAD adds new NovaJet plotter. (NovaJet Pro inkjet plotter)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 9, 1995... EnCAD Inc. in September took the wraps off the latest addition to its NovaJet line of inkjet plotters at Seybold San Francisco. The NovaJet Pro will smooth large print jobs by letting users add ink without stopping the machine. The company...

Adobe's Virtual Net to link service bureaus: telecom product aims at pre-press. (Adobe Systems' Adobe Virtual Network telecommunications software)(Product Announcement) (Product Announcement)
October 9, 1995... Aiming to simplify the file transfer process for service bureaus, Adobe Systems Inc. has created Adobe Virtual Network, a telecommunications software product for the pre-press industry. Virtual Network consists of a host module at the pre-press...

BrioQuery 3.5 goes Power Mac-native. (Brio Technology's BrioQuery 3.5 SQL query tool)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 9, 1995... Brio Technology Inc. released Version 3.5 of its BrioQuery family of SQL query tools this month, adding a native Power Mac version and expanding the application's capabilities. The SQL data-analysis tools -- BrioQuery Explorer, Designer and...

Apple embraces Mentat as TCP/IP licensing partner.(Brief Article)
October 9, 1995... Apple has disclosed a key TCP/IP licensing relationship with Mentat Inc., a Los Angeles-based company that licenses networking stacks to companies including IBM Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Motorola Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. Apple has...

Protocol expands ISDN horizons. (Multilink Protocol)
October 9, 1995... With a new protocol as a framework, a helping hand from a leading vendor and a prod from a prominent user group, makers of ISDN equipment are moving to ensure that their customers can take full advantage of the digital communications technology,...

Shiva details ISDN plans. (Shiva Integrator line of ISDN devices to ship at end of 1995)(Brief Article)
October 9, 1995... Shiva Corp. laid out its upcoming remote-access plans at the recent Networld+Interop show in Atlanta, announcing it will ship by the end of the year the ShivaIntegrator family of ISDN devices. The products are the fruits of Shiva's recent...

Content is king. (analysis of state of DTP industry with the impact of the Internet)(Editorial)
October 9, 1995... A river ran through the recent Seybold San Francisco, with traditional print publishers on one bank and the new on-line elite on the other. There were times during the show when the factions bridged the gap, showcasing the convergence of these...

eWorld R.I.P.: It's about time to bring down the curtain.(The Second Decade)(Column)
October 9, 1995... Apple tried its best to put a positive spin on the news, but it isn't hard to discern the reality behind its recent announcement about its on-line service: It has given up on eWorld. It will attempt to preserve some of its features -- the look...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
October 9, 1995... Elusive Grand Illusion Your article about the Grand Illusion card (MacWEEK, Sept. 18, Page 1) piqued my interest. As a user of an Apple DOS Compatibility Card in my Power Mac 6100, I have found a number of aspects of the card poorly designed....

Apple needs to get big so that it can become small.(The Mac Manager)(Column)
October 9, 1995... In a space of 48 hours a few weeks back, the world's largest phone company divided itself into three pieces, while the world's second-largest media company regained the No. 1 spot through a buyout. Taking a look at the motivations and business...