MacWEEK articles from October 1996

MacWEEK archives from October 1996

New dimension in acceleration: IMS' 3-D chip. (Integrated Micro Solutions' TwinTurbo 128-3D processor)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Reflecting the market's accelerating demand for 3-D, Integrated Micro Solutions announced a new processor that will enhance the 3-D and 2-D performance of the company's TwinTurbo graphics accelerator cards as well as boards from IMS' OEM...

Low-end Mac speedup. (Apple's low-priced Power Mac 7300 line based on PowerPC 604e processors, Power Mac 4400 based on PowerPC 603e) (Product Development)
October 7, 1996... Apple's low-cost Macintosh line will transform twice in 1997. A new Power Mac 7300 series aimed straight at the mainstream will be followed by an even cheaper series, code-named Gossamer. Meanwhile, a single low-end system, the 4400, will offer...

Clamshell Newton to blur laptop line. (Apple's Shay keyboard-equipped Newton OS system, high-performance MessagePad) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Apple will reportedly cross the line between notebook computers and PDAs this month with two mobile devices: a keyboard-equipped Newton OS system, code-named Shay, and a new, high-performance MessagePad. Sources said the initial Shay product...

Metrowerks boss looks afield. (Metrowerks targets CodeWarrior development environment for Macs, embedded systems) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... While the developers-tools community zigs, Metrowerks Inc. zags. "I'm quite a contrarian at heart," said Jean Belanger, chief executive officer of the Austin, Texas, tools developer. "If people go right, I go left." Belanger's tendencies are...

Third parties chafe at Apple competition. (Mac vendors perceive Apple Network Administrator's Toolkit as competition) (Company Business and Marketing)
October 7, 1996... Apple Network Administrator's Toolkit is called ANAT, and to some Mac vendors it is more than a small annoyance. The collection of software for managing groups of networked Macs competes with products from several independent Mac developers -- at...

Adobe overlays new face on Persuasion upgrade. (Adobe Systems' Persuasion 4.0 presentation software)(Beta Test) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
October 7, 1996... If you had any doubts as to whether Persuasion 4.0 would bear the mark of its move from Aldus Corp. to Adobe Systems Inc., you should apply the Eraser tool to them. Persuasion 4 represents as significant an interface change from Version 3.0 as...

News reports send Apple stock on roller-coaster ride. (conflicting reports about Apple's return to profitability) (Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Apple's stock rose and fell sharply last week following conflicting press reports about the company's return to profitability. On Oct. 1, Apple's stock rose almost 10 percent, increasing by $2.44 to $24.625, apparently in response to remarks...

Newer to ship RenderPIX 3-D cards in December. (Newer Technology's RenderPIX PCI/502, RederPIX PCI/500)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Newer Technology last week announced two RenderPIX 3-D accelerator cards slated to ship in December. Both PCI-based cards offer 2-D and 3-D acceleration; 32-bit color; 832-by-624, 16-bit double-buffered resolution; and 64-bit video access. The...

Plextor unveils series of 12x CD-ROM drives. (12Plex line of 12-speed CD-ROM drives, MegaPlex 200-capacity CD-ROM jukebox)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Company preps an 8x jukebox Where will the speed wars end? Not with 8x or even 10x CD-ROMs, apparently. Plextor Corp. this week took the wraps off a series of 12-speed CD-ROM drives. The company is also preparing a 200-disc CD-ROM jukebox...

Apple to publish bug list database. (creating online bug-tracking database based on Radar internal bug-tracking system) (Company Business and Marketing)
October 7, 1996... Addressing one of the top 10 Mac developer concerns, Apple last week detailed plans to open its online bug-tracking database to third-party developers. Apple said the database will be based on its Radar internal bug-tracking system and is...

No rest for FireWire. (vendors working on future versions of FireWire standard) (Technology Information)
October 7, 1996... As users anticipate the first widespread release of FireWire-capable PCI cards and peripherals, vendors are working on future versions of the standard that promise higher performance and networking capabilities. According to industry insiders,...

IBM schedules OpenDoc 2.0. (mutiple-OS release to include tools for integrating OpenDoc with other architectures) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... IBM Corp. last week filled in its release schedule for OpenDoc and outlined plans to weave the technology into other component-software models. Scott Hebner, IBM manager for OpenDoc market development, said the company will launch OpenDoc...

PowerBuilder set for v5.0 in December. (Powersoft Business Group's PowerBuilder 5.0 for Macintosh cross-platform client/server development tool)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... The Powersoft Business Group this week is expected to announce that PowerBuilder 5.0 for Macintosh is on track for early December. The update to the cross-platform client-server development tool will run native on Power Macs, Powersoft said;...

For the record.(Correction Notice)
October 7, 1996... In a story on UMAX Computer Corp.'s upcoming 225-MHz Mac clones (see 09.30.96, Page 1), the size of the Level 2 cache was misstated. It will be 512 Kbytes. A story on accounting applications in the 09.23.96 issue (Page 4) should have noted...

Nikon's newest scanner targets midrange market. (Scantouch 210 flatbed scanner)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Nikon Inc. has once again thrown its hat into the scanner ring, this time with a midrange flatbed model. The $895 Scantouch 210 offers an optical resolution of 600 by 1,200 dpi and a maximum interpolated resolution of 9,600 dpi. The scanner...

HP to release LaserJet 6MP for Macs. (laser printer)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Hewlett-Packard Co. this week will fire off its latest LaserJet for the Mac market. The LaserJet 6MP will be available for a street price of less than $950, the company said. It replaces the company's LaserJet 5MP. According to HP, the new...

MacWeek index.(Illustration)
October 7, 1996... September top sellers The top Macintosh products by dollar volume and category at ComputerWare, a chain of Mac-only resellers in California. The list includes Apple-label products. Aug. Sept. Macintosh CPUs 1 1 Power Mac 7600/132...

APS' Fireball. (APS Technologies' APS Q 1280, Q 2100 and Q 3200 drives based on Quantum's Fireball TM Ultra-SCSI mechanism)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... APS Technologies Inc. of Kansas City, Mo., announced last week three new drives based on Quantum Corp.'s Fireball TM, a 4,500-rpm Ultra-SCSI mechanism. The APS Q 1280, Q 2100 and Q 3200 have 1.2-, 2.1- and 3.2-Gbyte capacities and cost $349,...

Irrepressible Iomega. (internal version of Zip drive)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 7, 1996... Iomega Corp. of Roy, Utah, announced last week an internal version of its popular Zip drive. Priced at $199, the internal model includes brackets that fit in most standard 5.25-inch drive bays, the company said. It also includes a disk with the...

CDs stand alone. (DynaTek Automation Systems' CDM 4001 CD-ROM mastering and duplication system)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... DynaTek Automation Systems Inc. of Bedford, Nova Scotia, is now shipping the CDM 4001 CD-ROM mastering and duplication system. Equipped with a 1-Gbyte internal drive, the 4001 frees the host system while creating CDs, DynaTek said. The $2,999...

All in the family. (Kao Infosystems' KD8-112m, KD8-160m, KD8-CL8 8mm data cartridges)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Kao Infosystems of Plymouth, Mass., announced the KD8 family of low-cost 8mm data cartridges. The KD8-112m, priced at $9.95 per cartridge, can hold up to 2.3 Gbytes, while the $19.99 KD8-160m holds up to 7 Gbytes. A cleaning cartridge, the...

Hammer time. (Hammer by Stream Logic's SledgeHammer*Pro arrays)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Hammer by Stream Logic Inc. of Menlo Park, Calif., closed out summer by shipping its SledgeHammer*Pro arrays with removable drive modules (see 05.13.96, Page 8). They offer two, four or eight bays, with capacities ranging from 8- to 34-Gbytes per...

Iomega beefs up Zip Tools 5.0. (drive utilities application)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Iomega Corp. last week introduced Version 5.0 of its Zip Tools drive utilities package. The suite includes Copy Machine, which facilitates making copies of Zip volumes without needing multiple drives, and FindIt, a cataloging and searching...

Friend of files. (Laurence Harris' File Buddy 3.4.6 utility application)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... File Buddy, a utility for working with files and folders by Laurence Harris, has reached Version 3.4.6. File Buddy can perform a variety of functions, such as finding files containing specified resources, batch-modifying file names, creating...

Controlling menus. (Vincent Tan and Ammon Skidmore's Control Strip Menu 3.0 file utility application)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Vincent Tan and Ammon Skidmore's Control Strip Menu has graduated to Version 3.0. The module allows users to access files and folders via the Control Strip. Holding down the mouse on a folder icon will show a menu of the folder's contents. The...

Delete this. (Bill Karsh's SmartDelete 1.1 application for adding delete commands)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... SmartDelete 1.1 by Bill Karsh adds deletion functions normally available in most text-processing applications to other programs. The $5 extension adds keyboard commands for deleting forward one character, forward one word and backward one word....

Whomp. (Richard Cardona's Click, there it is! 1.0.7 folder management application)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Richard Cardona has released Click, there it is! Version 1.0.7. The extension allows users to click on an open Finder window while they are in an Open or Save dialog box, making that folder the current one for saving or opening. Click, there it...

Avid MCXpress due for update. (Avid Technology's MCXpress for Macintosh 1.5 video-editing system)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Video-editing system to gain real-time effects Avid Technology Inc. in September unveiled Version 1.5 of MCXpress for Macintosh, its online nonlinear video-editing system. First announced at the 1996 International Broadcasters Conference in...

ICG launches Titan582 for platemaking. (ICG North America's computer-to-plate system, ScanXact 7.1 scanning and separation software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Giving print and production another push into the digital world, ICG North America this month will offer Mac users a new computer-to-plate system and a stand-alone version of its high-powered color-separation software. ICG's $375,000 Titan582...

Archetype to hitch database to TCP/IP. (MediaBank TCP Plus pre-press database to be linked to Internet, MediaBank Customer Connect client application, introduces NuDoc Web authoring technology) (Product Development)
October 7, 1996... MediaBank will cash in on Web Archetype Inc. plans to connect its MediaBank pre-press database to the Internet later this year when it ships two TCP/IP clients. The company also announced new Web authoring technology. MediaBank TCP Plus will...

ViewSonic adds 3 monitors. (P815, P810, G810 21-inch monitors)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... ViewSonic Corp. in September shipped three new 21-inch, high-resolution color monitors. At the top of the line is the $2,195 P815, which the company claims offers the highest resolutions and refresh rates of any monitor on the market. It...

Stencil It! takes craft out of digital art. (Kaetron Software's illustration application)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 7, 1996... Kaetron Software Corp. in September shipped Stencil It!, a low-cost illustration package that offers neophyte artists a leg up with graphical creations such as diagrams, floor plans, maps, Web pages and flow charts. Stencil It!, which lists...

Squizzmania! CD packs plug-ins for Mac artists. (Human Software Company's plug-in filters)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... The Human Software Company Inc. is making Mac artists a deal: a CD-ROM of plug-in filters, royalty-free images and background textures for an introductory price of $25. Squizzmania! The CD-ROM!, which will sell for $200 after Jan. 1, includes...

Magellan enters new territory. (Magellan Geographix's MGDigital Atlas.cmx digital maps)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Map set jumps to CorelDraw Magellan Geographix is preparing a new version of its digital maps collection for CorelDraw 6 users. MGDigitalAtlas.cmx, slated to ship this month, will comprise more than 700 vector-based maps of continents,...

Photojournalism in the digital age. (advantages of using digital cameras in photojournalism) (includes related article on how digital cameras help papers meet deadlines)
October 7, 1996... Quality on deadline: With the latest advances, pros opt to shoot in digital format. When an earthquake that measured 7.2 on the Richter scale hit Kobe, Japan, in January 1995, The Associated Press sent photographers to the devastated city, but...

Three vendors compete with Mac news servers. (Netwin's DNews, Peter Lewis' RumorMill, Imagina's Newstand Network News Transfer Protocol Usenet news servers)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 7, 1996... DNews shipping; Newstand and RumorMill due The first commercial Usenet news server for the Mac OS emerged from Down Under last month, and another Pacific Rim developer is preparing its own contender. Netwin Ltd. last month shipped DNews, a...

Claris Home Page 2.0 due for October beta. (HTML authoring application) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Only two months after releasing the first version, Claris Corp. last week announced Version 2.0 of its HTML authoring product, Home Page. New to Version 2.0 will be built-in site publishing tools, QuickTime and Shockwave plug-in support,...

Mark/Space's custom pagers. (Mark/Space Softwork's PageME! tool for creating personalized pager software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Aiming to ease the process of sending alphanumeric pages, Mark/Space Softworks is shipping PageME!, a tool for building personalized pager software. Available now, the $119 software creates an unlimited number of personalized miniprograms,...

Mac CoolTalk a QuickTime collaboration. (Apple and Netscape introduce CoolTalk for the Mac OS available in beta form on Netscape's Web site) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Apple and Netscape Communications Corp. last week revealed details of their collaboration on Internet audio- and videoconferencing. As previously reported, the first fruit of their labor is the Mac OS version of CoolTalk, an audioconferencing...

VocalTec sends sound. (Internet Phone Mail 3.0 software sends audio messages along with traditional e-mail)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... VocalTec Ltd., the maker of Internet Phone, last week shipped software that piggybacks voice messages on top of traditional Internet e-mail. Internet Voice Mail 3.0, the first release, lets users record audio messages and send them as...

Noware's Activator clips applets in Java. (Network Oriented Software's The Activator Pro 2.0 applets for finance, advertising and business Web pages)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... You've heard of clip art, even clip media. Now get ready for clip applets. Network Oriented Software Pty. Ltd., also known as Noware, has released Version 2.0 of The Activator Pro, a set of Java applets for use in advertising, finance and...

Plug Master takes charge of plug-ins. (Mike Tilsta's Plug Master 1.6.1 application to manage Web browser plug-ins)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Users can now get a better grip on their Web browser plug-ins with Plug Master 1.6.1, a shareware application from Mike Tilstra of Luverne, Minn. Plug Master manages plug-ins much in the same way Extensions Manager handles system extensions....

Net VR's Turnado puts spin on Internet objects. (application lets Web users view objects from all sides)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Display engine, written in Java, views all sides Targeting the Web designers behind online catalogs and other sites featuring parts or products, Net VR Corp. released a product that lets Web users view objects from all sides without players,...

Fore lays out Gigabit plan. (Fore Systems is designing ATM switches with 1GB Ethernet ports) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... ATM switches to link standards Fore Systems Inc., a pioneer of Asynchronous Transfer Mode networking, this month announced its strategy for Gigabit Ethernet. The company said it is starting to design Asynchronous Transfer Mode, or ATM,...

Big Business hits the Web. (Big Software's Big Business Web Server Web-savvy add-on)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Big Software Inc. this month is introducing a Web-savvy add-on for Big Business, the company's accounting and business-management package. Priced at $999, Big Business Web Server provides browse-only access for multiple users to a Big Business...

Network traffic. (News Briefs)
October 7, 1996... * Domain names move Forw@rd * Internet provider is Mac-only Two tools for hosting virtual domains on the Apple Internet Mail Server (AIMS) shipped last week. Version 1.0b4 of Forw@rd from The Internet Business Association of Dallas lets...

Applauding bold moves. (Exponential Technology's X704 PowerPC chip to positively impact Mac OS market) (Product Development)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
October 7, 1996... Five hundred megahertz. The speed of Exponential Technology Inc.'s upcoming PowerPC chip has a nice ring to it. Moreover, what resonates from that ring has major significance for the Mac OS market. Machines built around the X704 chip will be...

Apple moves in response to Web users' complaints. (Apple updates Web pages with search engine)(The Second Decade) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
October 7, 1996... This week Apple stole my thunder, and I'm delighted--provisionally. I'd planned a follow-up to last week's critique of the company's Web presence, focusing this time on the difficulty of finding what you want among the scores of Apple servers....

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
October 7, 1996... Stick with team players I have to question the feasibility of Apple aligning with a company like Philips Semiconductors, which is only vested in creating Sun Microsystems and Intel development tools (09.23.96, Page 1). Especially when there is...

Apple should use those celebrities who use Macs. (marketing strategy)(The Mac Manager) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)(Column)
October 7, 1996... Day in and day out, I am asked, "Is Apple gonna make it?" And day in and day out it gets easier to answer with a resounding yes. But does that mean we can all relax? No way. Apple has so many product, development, support and service problems...

Infini-D adds flare to 3-D rendering and animation. (Specular International's Infini-D 3.5) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
October 7, 1996... Specular lowers price, adds lens-flare and Boolean features to Version 3.5. Many 3-D vendors are scrambling for market share as QuickDraw 3D matures and new Web standards for 3-D arise. Specular International Ltd. is trying to leap ahead of...

Home Page a stable, flexible HTML editor. (Claris Home Page) (Software Review)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Claris Corp. recently shipped the final release version of Claris Home Page, the Web-page editing package for Macintosh and Windows systems formerly known as Loma Prieta. Home Page 1.0, which carries a street price of $99, is almost identical to...

M.Pack software provides affordable MPEG encoding. (Astarte USA's QuickTime-to-MPEG-1 encoder) (Software Review)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Astarte's QuickTime-to-MPEG-1 encoder easy to use, but slow, lacks batch mode. MPEG, a cross-platform video compression standard from the Motion Picture Experts Group, has long been the promised land for digital video, delivering better...

DeltaPoint animates Java-shy Web sites. (WebAnimator Internet development package) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
October 7, 1996... Affordable WebAnimator is better-suited for casual Web designers than Webmasters. Does the world really need another Netscape Navigator plug-in? DeltaPoint Inc. seems to think so and plans to prove it with WebAnimator 1.0, an Internet...

Reviews forum. (News Briefs)(Letter to the Editor)
October 7, 1996... Spellswell suggests words In "Eudora Pro update strong on features but flunks spelling" (see 09.23.96, Page 52) MacWEEK writes that Working Software Inc.'s Spellswell is "awful" because it "failed to suggest the right words for any of the...

Speed, capacity clash for Hitachi, Pinnacle MO drives. (Pinnacle Micro's Vertex, Hitachi America's OU172 DOW MO 5.25-inch drives) (Hardware Review)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Hitachi OU172 DOW 3 diamonds (Good) Two new 5.25-inch disk drives, Pinnacle Micro Inc.'s Vertex and Hitachi America Ltd.'s OU172 DOW, represent the latest summit for magneto-optical technology. The drives for the $1,695 Vertex and the $2,295...

Myrmidon outputs HTML, other forms with some coercion. (Terry Morse Software's printer driver) (Software Review)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Myrmidon 1.0.3 3 diamonds (Good) Myrmidon is a capable $50 printer driver from Terry Morse Software Inc. that processes information sent to the printer in several intriguing ways, most significantly by converting it to HTML. However, you'll...

Smooth sailing with System 7.5.5: only for the lucky. (installing the OS)(MacInTouch) (Product Support)(Column)
October 7, 1996... System 7.5.5 Update is just like all the other Mac OS updates: Some people install it successfully and love it; some hit problems with the installation itself; and a few systems are rendered unusable by the installation, forcing a time-consuming...

Recovering from massive crashes takes skill, patience. (includes related article on diagnostic application choices) (Technology Information)
October 7, 1996... Late at night, between one blink of the digital clock and the next, Steed Kahn's system crashed. Almost everyone has lost work between saves, but Kahn, director of programming for a New York multimedia company, lost more than a mere file or...

Apple sales push: homeward bound. (Apple Bring Learning Home fall sales campaign) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Apple this month will roll out Bring Learning Home, its fall sales campaign aimed at home learning for K-12 students. The company plans to offer four software bundles, each focused on a segment of the home market: preschool, elementary school,...

Chips ahoy: ATI, 3Dlabs launch new accelerators. (ATI Technologies' 3D Rage II graphics and video accelerator) (3DLabs' Glint 500TX, Permedia 3-D 3-D processors)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 7, 1996... With its forthcoming TwinTurbo 128-3D, Integrated Micro Solutions will enter a Mac 3-D processor market already staked out by ATI Technologies Inc. of Thornhill, Ontario, and 3Dlabs Inc. of San Jose, Calif. Both companies recently upgraded their...

Austin takes helm of Apple Imaging. (Apple hires Maury Austin) (Company Operations)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... After holding the position open since June, Apple last week announced a new head for its Imaging Division. The company named Maury Austin vice president and general manager of Imaging Peripheral Systems. He takes over a profit and loss center...

Global Mac software sales all over the map. (market share, revenue growth, shipment volume in Mac software market outside US for 2nd qtr 1996) (Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Revenue, growth, market share and total shipment volume in the Mac software market outside the United States were mixed for the second quarter of 1996, according to a study released last week. The survey, from the Software Publishers...

RAM prices on the rise. (Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
October 7, 1996... Short-term climb runs counter to long-term trend RAM prices rose last week, prompting concern among users and vendors that the year's welcome run of low prices might be ending. Last week a 16-Mbit dynamic RAM chip cost about $13 on the spot...

StockWatch.(Illustration)
October 7, 1996... 10.03.96 weekly close change Apple 22.38 0.00 MacWEEK Composite* 202.14 20.93 Software Developers 10.03.96 weekly close change Adobe 35.75 ...

Coming of age in Cupertino.(Mac The Knife) (Humor)(Column)
October 7, 1996... It may not have garnered him as many tips as his winning smile and extensive collection of compromising photos; nevertheless, the Knife has always found his A.A. in cultural anthropology (Laguna Honda Community College, 1979) to be an invaluable...

APS posts clone plan: mail-order Mac boxes. (APS Technologies to offer M*Power 603e160, M*Power 603e200, M*Power 604e200 Mac clones)(Product Announcement)
October 14, 1996... Longtime Mac mail-order vendor APS Technologies Inc. in November will drive into the Mac clone market with entry-level and midrange models. The company will offer a trio of systems based on Apple's Tanzania licensing design. The boards and...

Apple tunes Harmony. (working on System 7.6 OS) (Product Development)
October 14, 1996... Web server, Java features drop out of January release Apple is reportedly at work on System 7.6, its update to the Mac OS scheduled for January. Sources said the release, code-named Harmony, will be designed for 32-bit-clean systems with at...

Global modem speaks out. (Global Village Communications' TelePOrt 33.6 Speakerphone Edition high-speed modem)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 14, 1996... Global Village Communication Inc. next month will call up a host of telephony features in a new high-speed modem. Scheduled to ship in early November, the $269 TelePort 33.6 Speakerphone Edition will be the company's first speakerphone modem....

'Hello, is there anyone listening to me out there?' (Apple's marketing strategy for the K-12 and higher-education markets)(MacWEEK Guide to Higher Education)(Commentary) (Company Business and Marketing)(Editorial)
October 14, 1996... Excuse me, but what exactly is Apple doing about its K-12 and higher-education markets? I hope the company doesn't believe all that rosy nonsense from a few marketing surveys a few months ago. As I wrote in my Steamed Crabb column ("Apple had...

For the record: Reviews.(Correction Notice)
October 14, 1996... Our review of Motorola Computer Group's StarMax machines (09.23.96, Page 1) should have said that both the desktop and minitower systems will accept full-length PCI cards, except in the slot closest to the logic board. That slot accepts only...

InterMapper clearly shows network layout. (Software Review)(Evaluation)
October 14, 1996... Score card: InterMapper 1.0.1 (Good) Trustees of Dartmouth College List price: $795* Hits: Easy setup; lots of choices for trouble notification. Misses: Non-Mac-like interface for selecting AppleTalk devices; incomplete online...

NT bucking for star status in Hollywood. (Intel, Microsoft, others competing with Apple by marketing Windows NT and systems to Los Angeles-based movie industry) (includes related article on Cinebase Software's Digital Media Management System) (Product Information)
October 14, 1996... After competing with workstations for a starring role on Hollywood movie lots, the Macintosh is now facing pressure from a relative newcomer to the business -- Windows NT. Intel-standard PC moguls Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. are joining NT...

Internet Mail Server aims for more speed, new look. (Apple's Internet Mail Server 2.0) (Product Development)
October 14, 1996... AIMS upgrade due in early 1997 Hoping to quash rumors of its Internet Mail Server's demise, Apple is quietly preparing an update to the software for release early next year. Sources said Version 2.0 of the Apple Internet Mail Server (AIMS),...

Radius spinoff Splash makes ripple in market. (Splash Technology Holdings' initial public offering) (Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
October 14, 1996... Nine months after its conception, Radius Inc. spinoff Splash Technology Holdings Inc. officially cut the cord with its initial public offering last week. Splash offered 2.6 million shares at $11 each when it went public Wednesday. At the close...

Quarterdeck layoffs won't affect StarNine. (Quarterdeck to layoff 40% of workforce, StarNine division not impacted) (Company Operations)
October 14, 1996... Quarterdeck Corp. of Marina del Rey, Calif., last week announced plans to restructure the company and will lay off 40 percent of its work force. The company said it expects results for the fourth quarter to fall well below expectations. The...

Foresight to perk up 4D with new Java libraries. (Foresight Technology creates libraries for ACI US' 4th Dimension DBMS) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 14, 1996... Foresight Technology Inc. said it plans to unveil at this week's 4th Dimension developers conference in San Jose, Calif., a set of Java libraries for ACI US Inc.'s 4D database. Foresight said the libraries will let users create Java applets...

Quicken gains new interface. (Intuit's Quicken 7 and Quicken Deluxe 7 personal finance software)(Product Announcement)
October 14, 1996... Expanded stock options, online hooks provided Intuit Inc. this week plans to release Quicken 7 and Quicken Deluxe 7, the latest versions of its popular personal finance software. The new editions, Intuit said, incorporate more than 30...

Great Plains accounts for NT servers. (Great Plains Software's Great Plains Dynamics 3.15 business-accounting software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 14, 1996... Great Plains Software Inc. last week shipped Great Plains Dynamics 3.15, the latest version of its business-accounting software package. The company also announced a set of Internet and intranet tools expected to ship by the end of the month....

Toshiba jumps into 12x CD-ROM race. (Toshiba America Information Systems Disk Products division's XM-5701, XM-5072 CD-ROM drives)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 14, 1996... Toshiba America Information Systems Inc.'s Disk Products division plans to pick up the pace this week when it rolls out the first members of its family of 12x CD-ROM drives. Shipping now, Toshiba's drives join the 12x models introduced last...

Look modeler to show human genetic code. (Molecular Applications Group's Look molecular modeling application for Macintosh) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
October 14, 1996... Molecular biologists are increasingly looking at human genetic code for clues to new drug treatments. Molecular Applications Group is set to release a molecular modeling package for the Macintosh that the company said will aid the endeavor....

Hammer, Optima stretch optical storage lines. (FWB Hammer's HammerDisk 2600 and HammerDisk*PE640 MO drives, Optima Technology's DisKovery 650CDR CD-recordable drive)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 14, 1996... Drive options continue to proliferate, as FWB Hammer and Optima Technology Corp. each expands its range of optical storage products. Optima also expanded its product line with the introduction of its Ultra SCSI dual-channel PCI cards. FWB's...

For the record.(Correction Notice)
October 14, 1996... The cache memory of UMAX Computer Corp.'s SuperMac S900L/604e/225 clone was incorrectly listed in a 09.30.96 story (Page 1). The system comes with a 512-Kbyte Level 2 cache.

Motorola cites chip slump for loss. (lower 3rd qtr sales blamed on falling semiconductor business) (Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
October 14, 1996... Motorola Inc. blamed the declining semiconductor business for lower third-quarter earnings and sales, it said last week. According to Motorola of Schaumberg, Ill., 1996 fiscal third-quarter sales declined 5 percent to $6.5 billion, compared...