Selected IT Stories

Magazine...	Story...	Outline - Quotes
The ACM Student Magazine	The Internet's History and Development by Scott Ruthfield	From Wartime Tool to the Fish-Cam
Australian Personal Computer	Stacking up suites - Introduction by Lachlan Botticchio, Ben Gerholt and Roulla Yiacoumi	The latest 32-bit suite releases offer new features, enhanced workgroup capabilities and tight integration with groupware platforms.

Byte

Let's Get Small by Rick Grehan

Super-small and super-smart, new microcontroller development systems are changing the shape of embedded design

CD-ROM Magazine	Music on the Internet	Will Internet kill the video star?
Chips Magazine	DMS: The journey from here to the desktop. by Wayne Deloria	DMS provides secure, accountable and reliable messaging services, ...
Computer Gaming World	Running Hot DOS Games Under Windows 95	... took the top game from each category in the CGW Top 100 and put them through their paces under Windows 95.
Computer Life	Windows 3.1 or Windows 95? Don't Choose, Run Both by Kay Yarborough Nelson	Here's how to do it: ...
Computer News Daily	APPLE SAID TO BE PAYING AMELIO AT LEAST $2.5 MILLION By MARGARET D. WILLIAMS	In fact, hiring a turnaround artist has worked in the computer industry in the past...
Computer Paper	Adding a Second Hard Drive by Patrick Duffy.	A Journey Through the Complexities of Installation
Computer Reseller News	Special Report: The Nuts And Bolts Of The Internet	Turnkey Servers Could Be Profit Gold Mine
Computer Retail Week	'Net result: Hardware boom by Gregory Quick	Overall, hardware sales soared at retail, growing 43.7 percent, ...
Computer Shopper	Hot Graphics Packs: Graphics Suites by Lynn Ginsburg	...graphics vendors have have begun to bundle their prodicts, offering several complete programs in one value-added package
Computing Canada.	Canadian IT companies jump on Intranet bandwagon. by Dale Burger.	An Intranet is a private network which uses Internet-related technology such as Web browsers, but is not actually hooked up to the Internet.
Computing Japan	Japan's PC Market — The Beat of a Different Drummer by Virginia Kouyoumdjian	Long driven mainly by the needs of "computer maniacs," with proprietary systems at premium prices, the personal computer market in Japan is at last coming into line with global standards.

Datamation	Jump Start Your I-Nets By Vance McCarthy	...before you rush out to build your own in-house, five-lane infohighway, take some advice from early Intranet users and analysts
develop, The Apple Technical Journal	THE VETERAN NEOPHYTE: Killing Time Killers. by Bob Johnson.	Are computers taking up too much of your time? Here are some tips to help get it back.

Education Technology Journal	Evaluating the Impact of Technology: The Less Simple Answer by Doug Johnson	Why then is it difficult, if not impossible, to find definitive studies which show the positive impact computers have had on teachers and learning?
EE Times	"Secret agents" By Alexander Wolfe	Here's a factoid from the software front lines: intelligent agents, those idiot-savant programs that can search through networks and retrieve information, ...

Global Monitor	Web Diplomacy by Alex Anderson.	The new (in-your-screen) face of diplomacy
Government Technology Magazine	Information-Age Kevlar By Ray Dussault.	When two officers knocked on the door, information saved their lives.

InfoWorld	Netscape's Jim Clark takes Bill Gates to task By Don Tennant	Jim Clark: And we probably have the largest list of partners of any company in history.
INTER@CTIVE WEEK.	Oracle's Ellison Would Draft Jobs To Lead Apple. By Tim Clark .	Oracle Corp. Chairman Larry Ellison actively discussed bidding to buy Apple Computer Inc. and put Next Software Inc. Chairman Steve Jobs back at the helm of the company he co-founded.
Inside Netware	Updating your network's system files	... where to download the latest patch for NetWare 3.11 and how to install the necessary components that provide optimal file server performance for clients on your network.
Inside OS	How to Load Your Windows Applications Faster	...how to enable Warp's Fast Load feature to make your Windows applications start more quickly.
Institute (IEEE)	India develops FANS technology for worldwide export by R.K. ARORA	NEW DELHI--With the International Civil Aviation Organization's switch-over to the Future Air Navigation System, known as FANS, proposed for the turn of this century, most developed countries are preparing products for the new market.
ION Visual Computing	Webography By Wendy Maurer	The Web is a gold mine of information on computer-aided design. Here's a tour through selected sites.

LAN Magazine	Netware and NT: Necessary Gains? by Howard Marks	OK, IT WASN'T A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN—AT FIRST. BUT WINDOWS NT 3.5 OFFERS A CHANCE AT INTEGRAL BLISS WITH NOVELL'S NETWARE.
LAN Times	The Future With or Without SNMP By Sylvia Clark	Vendors deliver their own technologies in absence of standards

Mac User	Red Ink on the Bleeding Edge by PAMELA PFIFFNER.	I don't care so much that a few executives have left -- although seasoned management is important -- but I do care that Apple has been hemorrhaging engineers and product managers, people who are the real key to Apple's current and future success.
Mac WEEK	Apple as standard-setter? Let's start with the facts by Henry Norr	Apple, according to the open letter it placed in daily newspapers Feb. 8, "continues to define industry standards for the Internet." Excuse me, but which standards are those?

Network Computing Online

Firewalls: Weapons For The New Cold War On. by Peter Morrissey

Security Firewalls: Six Weapons To Stop Intruders Cold. As Security Issues Heat Up, A New Cold War Begins...

OEM Magazine	Marc Andreessen - Vice President and co-founder--Netscape Communications. By Larry Lange.	OEM Magazine caught up with Andreessen in the wee hours one morning ...
Open Computing	100 Products You Can't Ignore in 1996 By Rikki Kirzner and Lee Bruno	Dynamic forces are at work changing the fabric of the computer industry.

PC Computing	PC/Computing's WebMap ...	... a collection of sites for (almost) every purpose.
PC Magazine	Engineers: The Next Generation by Bill Machrone	Engineering is ... one of the best training grounds for programmers, because it teaches what's going on at the device and component level, something that's often a mystery to computer scientists.
PC World	Who Can I Trust? PC Reliability and Service By Roberta Furger	Homeward Bound or Bound for Trouble?
Personal Systems Magazine	Fault Tolerance for LAN Server. By Randall Johnson .	The author shows how a small investment in a fault-tolerant system can significantly reduce lost productivity due to server downtime.

Software Quarterly Magazine.	Back to the Future. by Alan E. Hodel	IBM's acquisition of Lotus ... ... interview with Mike Zisman, Lotus's newly appointed CEO.
SunWorld Online.	Java braintrust tells all ...	Sun's Arthur van Hoff and Kim Polese spill the Java beans, and four applets demonstrate Java tips and tricks.

TechnologyReview	Law and Order Comes to Cyberspace By Edwin Diamond and Stephen Bates	At the electronic frontier of computer networks, rules and regulations have been few. But as millions of settlers move into cyberspace, the new medium must accomodate the sometimes ill-suited legal restraints of civilization.
Technology in Government.	Hydro firms challenge high-speed telecom service providers . by Alison Eastwood	Move over, Bell and Rogers -- there's an unlikely competitor for high-speed networking on the horizon: your local hydro company... have formed a "committee for the co-ordination of fibre optic facilities'.
The Telecom Tribune	Japanese Government to Take Initiative in Popularizing Computer Communications ...	- An Interview with Mr. Eisuke Fujimoto, Director of Computer Communications Div., Telecommunications Bureau, MPT

Unix News International	On The Road To Hell? By Danny Bradbury	If desktop Unix is a niche area, then portable Unix is a minuscule market
UnixWorld Online	The Domain Name Systemby Tom Yager	Like much of the Internet's structure, DNS is a fascinating notion: it's a distributed database holding the alphanumeric names and IP addresses (and more) of every registered system on the Internet...
Upside	Steal This Article By Paulina Borsook	Does the age of virtually free communications and digital reproduction mean that intellectual property ri.ghts have become meaningless?

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WebMaster Magazine	The King of Connectivity ...	Ethernet inventor, 3Com founder and cyberspace visionary and journalist Bob Metcalfe spoke with "WebMaster" Editor in Chief Lew McCreary ...
Windows Magazine	How Well Does Your Browser Measure Up? ...	Here's a simple way to test your browser...
Windows Sources	Eudora Takes on Exchange ...	Eudora Pro is the first 32-bit E-mail client outside of Microsoft Exchange. Question is, should you switch? Windows Sources writer Scot Finnie and Qualcomm can help you make that decision.
WWWiz	Build Your Web By Building Circles of Influence by Michael Declan Dunn	How To Get People To Discover Your Web Site