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F EAT U R E S
46 The well-outfitted home office
24 Road map to mobile computing
Equipping and setting up a workspace that works
26 Mobile Pentium II for notebooks

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82 Ergonomics: obeying the natural laws ofwork
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112 Tools for tackling email traffic

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74 Catalyst extends time to deal with Y2K bug
76 Netcom's Mike Kologinski in conversation
79 Small businessesfailure and how to avoid it

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92 350/400 MHz Pentium II chips
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who must travel
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every week.
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pre-occupation is with finding the minimum
amount of computing gear I can take with me
and still be able to do what I need to do. Since
1990, I' ve always traveled with a laptop com-
puter, but my most recent trip toLexington,

Kent,, for a factory tour and media briefing,
sponsored by Lexmark Canada

was the first
time in eight years I didn't pack one.
But I was not totally without computing
power. I took the Mobilon HC4500 on loan
years 85 percent of information technology

departments in corporations will be'supportinstant-on nature of the unit, for example, ing an extended workforce. That's a lot of
made it much more convenient to quickly telecommuters. And out of predictions like
Volume11, No. 6,June1998
check email or fire up the word processor and these come market projections that the
type a note.
handheld computer market will be worth
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reports from the field. The city is among 25
organizations being recognized this year by
within several minutes. However, on the trip the Smithsonian Institution for innovative
back, with a couple of hours to use of remote access techonology.
kill in Chicago, I snapped off a
As people begin contemplating the
couple of shots in the airport. Internet as a vast storage device, the crucial
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feature of mobile devices will be connectivity,

not horsepower. One of TCP'sfreelance writ-
ers has ongoing problems with his email, so

he sometimes files his stories to his Web page.
Does this have anything to do

with the real work world? I When I want to see his submission, I use a
think it does. As companies Web browser as a file manager.
decentralize and downsize,
It shouldn't be surprising, then, that
more of us will find ourselves Microsoft chose to marry the Windows interworking in places beyond the face with a Web browser metaphor for
10 by 10 foot cubide that pre- Windows 98. When data resides everywhere,
viously defined office life. it makes less sense to have one data access
Technology forecaster, the system for local data and another for remote
Gartner Group, projects that data.
by 2001, 60 million workers
worldwide will "regularly work
Interesting times ahead,
outside the boundaries of the
enterprise." Other research
David Tanaka,
predicts that over the next five
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Concerned about Year 2000
ning a business requires cash flow. If your
Set the clock in your computer to Dec. 31,

1999 at 10 minutes to midnight. Turn off
the machineand take a coffee break. When
own house is in order, but companies you ing for them right after New Year' s, how
depend on can not supply you with prod- many would have taken defensive meauct, or you are not getting paid by your cus-
you come back, turn on the machine and
tomers, you have a cash flow problem.
try running some programs. More than half

of the machines we depend on will experi-
When you have to use the courts to rectify the situation, you will need records.
When computers do not keep those records,
cash. If a foreign country is involved, pack a
we all have a problem.

Even if your machine passes this simple
If people had been told in December of
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ence problems. (see "Gambling with the
1997 that a catastrophic ice storm was wait-
sures?
The airplanes will fly OK but they will be

concerned about scheduling landings. Don' t
test, what about the machines at your
When I talk to people about Y2K [the
Year 2000 problem or Millennium Bugt they

don't believe they have a problem or that
they will be affected. That is like saying your
end of the boat is not leaking.
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tent and rations.
Pick a sector and imagine what your life
will be like when it can not meet its obligations.
When motivated, Canadians repeatedly
have demonstrated their strength of will,
resilience, generosity and sense of community. We can enhance those admirable characteristics with research and preparedness. At
the very least it is our civic duty to call
Industry Canada and ask for the report A call

for Action [available at Industry Canada's
Web site, http: //strategis.ic.gc.ca/sos2000].
The more people that read that report,
the better we will all be for it. To quote the
report " I t i s a m atter of grave national
importance."
Robert Pollock
www.tcp.ca
"Viruses spontaneously mutating, expert
done with the knowledge that final outcomes cannot be predicted with absolute
accuracy. However, the cyber mutation
the "mutation" or spontaneous "cross breed- model most closely resembles the natural
ing" of macro viruses and the potential process of genetic mutation. Should we be
threat which they might pose to data on net- concerned with the natural process? Yes, of
works. However, he overstepped himself in course (the antibiotic resistant strains of
his closing paragraph when he tried to draw bacteria which have evolved are proof of
a parallel (and sound a warning) between this). However, since the macro virus model
such mutations and genetic engineering.
more closely resembles the natural model, it
I don't belittle the potential dangers of is not appropriate to use it as a warning
says" by Jeff Evans.

Mr. Evans did an excellent job explaining
Mutations don't imply

geneticengineering
I read with great interest the May '98 article, gene splicing, and agree that this should be about the potential consequences of genetic
engineering
Perhaps the more accurate and interesting issue to ponder in closing would have
been the potential for some sort of cyber
evolution. Of c o urse genetic evolution
takes place on an i n credibly long ti me
scale, but with the accelerated timeline of
computing, we could perhaps see some

very interesting (or frightening) results in
the decades to come.

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recognizes its powerful advantages, I take
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Why would one not want to be familiar
with Linux? In many ways it is far superior,
technically, to any flavor of Windows, has
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and, to top it all off, it and most applications that run under it are free and have
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high-end users.
The average users who make up the
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it is quickly becoming easier to use, perhaps
more so than Windows, is cheaper to operate
on orders of magnitude and presents fewer
learning barriers to new users.
It is understandable why a publication
that makes its money from advertising
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ignore the power and convenience provided by a large worldwide development community.
Ian Stevens
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Reader gripes
over Symantec comment
We (the users of Winfax all over the world)
w ould appreciate forwarding this to t h e
Symantec generalmanager of Canada.
Dear Mr. Monnette,
I wish you would have visited your own
company's newsgroup (with regards to

Winfax 8.0/8.03) before stating [see "In conversation: Chris Monnette, Canadian general
manager of Symantec Corp." in the May '98
issue) that Winfax was an "extremely good,
stable product." The articles in this news-
group would help you realize how exasperated and disgusted several users are with the
state of Winfax today as well as the support
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A computer rival to the Walls-man'?

Saehan Information Systems of Korea recently
released mp-man, a portable device designed
to store and playback highly compressed CDaudio quality sound files stored directly into
The mp-man has 32 MB of flash memory,

which is expandable to 64 MB. Ordinarily, this
amount of space would be required for one or
two short songs. But using the MP3 digital
audio compressed data, the file size is reduced
can store a dozen or so tunes in a single basic

mp-man unit-all at CD-quality
Songs are transferred to the mp-man from
www.tcp.ca
download them directly from sources on the

Web. Because mp-man is capable of digitally
a computer, using the printer-cable connection and an mp-man docking station. You can
flash memory chips. It may prove to be a seri- by up to 12 times. This means a typical pop compress your favorite songs yourself using
ous rival to portable CD and cassette players.
song takes up less than 2 MB of space, so you
freely available MP-3 compression software, or
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storing files, it can also be used to save regular

computer files as well, providing up to 64 MB
of storage space.
The mp-man has caused some controversy
in the international music industry, especially
the the U.S. and Britain, because of fears that
it it may contribute to piracy. As a result, distribution is limited, but models of mp-man
can currently be purchased in the U.S. for
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the 64 MB version. The mp-man weighs 65 g
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cash in a blink of an eye using new automatic
banking machines (ABMs) developed by NCR
Corp. When a customer inserts a cash card in
an ABM, a camera mounted in it photographs
the customer's iris. If it matches the record on
the databank, the ABM will allow instant
access to bank accounts without the need for
a PIN number. The process can take as little as
two seconds and is harmless to the customer' s
eye, according to NCR. The recording process
is a one-off procedure, since the iris remains
unchanged asthe human body ages,the company says. NCR's new machines are presently
part of a j oint t rial with the Nationwide
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B.C. gets Canada's second Sun SITE

VANCOUVER (NB) Sun Microsystems Inc.
has announced its second Canadian Sun
Software, Information a n d T e chnology
Exchange (Sun SITE) at the University of
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e-commerce [electronic commerce] and

British Columbia.
At UBC's department of mathematics, the online insurance are all areas of growth for
new SITE will concentrate on using computers financial institutions," says William Koty,
in mathematics, with an emphasis on Sun' s manager of UBC Internet Programs and coorjava programming language, company offi- dinator fo r t h e c e rtificate i n I n t ernet
cials said. It is part of an initiative Sun started Marketing. "Although financial institutions
in 1992, which now includes more than 50 have tended to be conservative when stepping
sites globally. The only other Canadian Sun
SITE is at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont.
Sun is on the World Wide Web at
Contact: Sun Microsystems, http: //www.sun.corn
Dragon adds medical vocabulary to
speech system AT L ANTA, Ga. (NB)Dragon Systems has unveiled its Dragon
N aturallySpeaking M e dical S u i te. T h e
Windows 95 and NT-compatible program lets
medical professionals dictate medical reports,
correspondence or memos and create patient
records directly into Microsoft Word, Corel
WordPerfect, and other Windows-compatible
applications.
A spokesperson for the firm said the
Medical Suite includes dictation program's
Deluxe edition, which has a 230,000 word
back-up vocabulary including commonly used
medical words, abbreviations, and phrases. To
conserve memory, users can choose to activate
limited sets of words. For medical professionals, the active medical vocabulary can be
30,000, 45,000, or 55,000 words. Words can
be added to the list to reflect specialties.
Features of the Medical Suite include a
built-in macro scripting language to create
boiler-plate documents, multiple user support,
spoken corrections and format changes, and
text-to-speech playback for audible proofreading and editing of a document.
The spokesperson said studies have shown
Dragon NaturallySpeaking programs has an
accuracy rate of between 95 and 98 percent for
experienced users. The program will carry a
suggested retail price of US$995.
Contact: Dragon Systems,
http: //www.naturalspeech.corn
into the online arena, it's clear the Internet is

having an enormous impact on the entire
industry's revenue models, communications
and record keeping."
The 38-page study identifies the pitfalls
and opportunities that face Canadian banks,
credit unions, trust companies, investment
firms and insurance companies as they

embrace Internet technologies.
T he report i s a v a ilable f ro m U B C
Continuing Studies for $150.
Contact: Pam Williams, Tel: 604-822-7525.
Email williamscce.ubc.ca
Continued on page 14
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UBC study examines banking and the

Net Th e University of British Columbia
Continuing Studies department has released a
study that looks at the effects of the Internet
on the financial industry. The hnpact of the
Internet on the Financial Services Industry, commissioned by the university for its Internet
Marketing program curriculum, examines
how Canadian financial companies have
developed their business models and marketing strategies to respond to the enormous
growth of the Internet.
Researched and written in January by
Global Village Consulting, the study is now
being made public following a demand for
timely and Canadian-specific information on
the subject.
"The Internet has exploded in terms of
size, scope and commercial importance in the
last few years, and Canadian financial service
organizations have responded with varying
degrees of success in taking advantage of
Internet technology," says Diane Currie,
author of the report and director of sales for
Global Village Consulting.
"Although many financial services companies find that using the Internet can be risky,
they' re coming to the conclusion that the risks
of not using the Internet in their business are

greater than the risks associated with using it."
"This study shows that online banking,
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ware/hardware company delivered more than Anderson said he expected "flat" results in the
product line with new portable products and

home computers.
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were down US$0.2 billion from the same sales strategies.
quartera year ago, but the second quarter in
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in America were up nine percent. Europe was
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Fifty percent of total 1998 second quarter
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ust about everyone with a radio, TV or
Internet link in II.C., and many others
across Canada, know who Dave Chalk is
rough the prominent presence he's developed in those media over the past few years.
He's the guy who started the $100-million
I had done it through a couple of other people

before but none of them seemed to have what
it took to see the vision of how computer
friendly I wanted the show to be."
tion has completely disappeared, It now

works much better as an integral part of an
overall concept that not only informs people
about specific products, but informs them of
how the product might be employed or
enjoyed from within an agenda of overall
computer education.
Educating viewers is a goal Dave Chalks
Computer pmgram aspires to, and to a great
degree, achieves. Aimed specifically at families
and new computer users, the show's mandate
is to "take a non-technical look at computers
and explain some of the concepts in an easy
to understand language." Judging from the
episode I recently viewed, they have succeeded in that task through a pleasant and comfortable mix of rudimentary explanations
about computer software and equipment
(modems and scanners, for example) along
with short tips on how to generally take care
of the equipment you already own.
Where the latter comprises little more
than common sense
take out your mouse
ball and clean it once in a while the former
can be far more gratifying despite the fact that
this is the venue for touting specific products
by specific manufacturers. I have yet to see

Chalk compare multiple examples of any
hardware or software and express which is
better or worse and why.

Executive producer Chalk is quite succinct
about the reasons for the simplistic approach
of the show: "The new show arose out of my
forming a new company to produce the show.
happy that they' re accomplishing a long-held

goaL "Mike and I have been dabbling in this
for quite a few years and we have a fairly good

Continued on page23
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chain of Doppler Computer stores, which

became his springboard into a m ultiplemedia world hungry for information about
the Information Age.
On radio, Chalk is host of Chalk Talk, the
top-rated nationally syndicated show about
computers that is broadcast across Canadaand beyond via Real Audio. On the Internet,
Chalk became the first in the world to put
together a regular broadcast of the show Dave
6r Mike's Computer Showand now archives his
shows in very high bandwidth Real Video. On
TV, he's hosted both DaveR Mike's Computer
Show and an earlier version of Dave Chalk's
Computer Show.
And now we have his new television
show again modestly christened, Dave
Chalk's Computer Sirow
which began airing
March 7 and is now broadcast nationally on
the Global Network. It has also been picked
up by Canadian Airlines which is airing it inflight t o f i l l t h ose interminable spaces
between meals.
Anyone familiar with Chalk's previous
hour-long show will note that the main difference here is that it has been cut to a halfhour format. The new program has also
been at least partially weaned off the teat
of blatant "advertorial" that so diminished
the possibilities of the earlier incarnations.
Which is not to say that product promo-
The new show is filmed at Chalk's own

farm with different segments shot in different
rooms to break things up. Aided and abetted
by the show's producer, Mike Agerbo, Chalk is
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Chalk up another for Dave

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"My belief and my goal is to have people
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in to learn about technology."
The information might be comfortable,
developed a far more comfortable and professional on-air relationship than the too deliberate folksiness of the past. And viewer
response, apparently, reflects this:
"We get literally hundreds and hundreds
of emails per week," says Chalk. "The majority of whom really enjoy the show. Many write
in that they want more details about something we' ve covered or want guests on the
show. But it's not in our mandate to do that
because there's always another computer
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show around the corner and somebody else
can do that type of show.
"We won't be having guests on, and we
won't be going into detailed explanations for
one simple reason: that's what a lot of other
computer shows have tried. But on television
you have to address a cross-section of people
so that anyone who isn't interested in a parsomewhat as Chalk looks forward to changing ticular item you' re covering won't tune out.
to a two-camera shoot from the current single Our goal is to keep enough change and intercamera: "When you' re watching normal TV, est going by just touching on products and we
it's almost like the eye moves back and forth always give out Web sites so that anyone who
from person to person. When you watch start- wants more can go to them for that. We' re
up shows, the camera has to spin a little bit. simply saying, 'Here's what the state of the art
So, fortunately, through some of the success is' the shows are current 'and these are the
we' ve had with the show, we' re able to take things that are happening in the world of
that next step and it will look a lot more like computers.'"
a network television show."
As well as airing on Global and Canadian
While veteran computerists may not be Airlines, Chalk's show is also shown in
drawn to expianations suitably simplified for Canada on Prime TV (another Global netthe target novice audience, the new hardware work) and in several major American cities
and software introductions serve as a good with many more expected to sign on. In
starting point for even the most experienced fact, Chalk expects his show to be airing in
user to start shopping for new devices. Chalk more than 60 U.S. cities within the next
and Agerbo work well together and have year. 0
but the camera work by Greg Moore and Rick

Read is of the wobbly, hand-held "cinema verite" variety subtly perfected on the show Law
6r Order, but exaggerated to uncomfortable
proportions during MuchMusic's formative
years. It is a school of camera work Moore and
Read seem to subscribe to strongly.
But thankfully, things are likely to settle
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puter companion that used an oper-
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f you' re looking for a
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Casio, Sharp, NEC, Philips, LG

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ing a desktop machine. Yes, you"
more software vendors seem to be
have to make many of the same

decisions: how fast a processor, how
much memory, the size of the hard
drive, the dimensions of the display.
However, intertwined with those
questions is another set dealing
specifically with portability battery life, weight, size. You can't have
expressing interest in developing

applications and utilities for this
platform.
Danny Savard, marketing man-
them all (well maybe you can if

your pockets are deep enough) so
tions as viable alternatives to note-
ager for HP's mobile products division, recently told us that Windows
CE-powered devices are being seriously considered by some corporabook computers. Because the oper-
you must choose some features and

sacrifice others. With advances in
handheld computers, you many not

even need a fullsized notebook
using a
266
MHz
Pe n t i um er 5 GB hard drive as standard. The
computer to satisfy your needs,

"Tillamook" processor. Prices begin Armada's expansion base, called the
We' ve
assembledwhat weconsid- at $5,000.
Armada Station II i ncludes USB
er a good cross-section of what is
ports and PCI expansion slots.
available on the market. We have yet 2. NEC 6200

to lay our hands on any Pentium IIpowered notebooks, but outwardly,
they will look similar to the premium
lines of notebook PCs. We' ve not
included the "lunchbox"-style
portable computer, a form which first
Reviewed last month, NEC's latest

offerings in the high-end of note-
The NEC measures' 29.7x2Sx5.8

cm (11.7x9.9x2.3 in.) and weighs
3.4 kg (7.5 lb.)., a typical size and
book computing is the 6200 series. weight for this class of machine.
We could just as easily have placed
Prices for premium notebooks range
models from a variety of manufac- from $4,500 to more than $10,000.

turers in this spot; for example the
gained popularity with the Osborne, Compaq Armada, IBM ThinkPad 3. Toshlbts libretto 100
and later, the first generations of 770 or Toshiba Tecra. This class of Toshiba awed notebook fans last
Compaq portables, or special purpose
computers like the ruggedized units
that you can drive a car over.
On the smaller end of things,'
we' ve only seen photographs of the
new palmtops that use the Windows
CE operating system. These are
about the same size as the 3Com
Palm III, and will do their best to
grab sales away from the Palm.
Incidentally, the Triumph TR3
used as a backdrop in the photograph and the NEC Versa belong to
TCP writer Ross MacDonald. The
rest of the computers were loaned to
us by the respective manufacturers.
machine will now be found with

Mobile Pentium II processors, along
with other features that separate
these from the less expensive, entrylevel notebook PCs.
Premium notebooks typically
come with biggest hard drives and
screens available on notebooks, and
lots of standard memory. They may
also be equipped with features such
as a Zip or LS-120 drive, MPEG or
other TV support.
When Intel announced the
Mobile Pentium 11 processor in early
April,
so me
manu f acturers
announced new notebook models
at the same time. For example,
1.Eurocom 8$00
Toshiba of Canada announced its
One of the best examples of manu- Tecra 780DVD. This Tecra has a 266
facturers taking a slightly different MHz Pentium II processor, 64 MB of
approach is Canadian manufacturer RAM, 4 MB of video RAM, and a 4.7
Eurocom Corp. with its 8500 series. GB hard drive. Among its other
Among the noteworthy features of noteworthy features are a built-in
the 8500 are an impressive15.1- MPEG-2 hardware decoder, Dolby
inch screen and a 102-key keyboard Digital sound and a videoconferenc-
year with its tiny Libretto SOCT, a

computer that was about the size of
a videocassette case, but included a
75 MHz Pentium processor, a tiny
but very clear TFT screen and an 800
MB hard drive. Many people disliked the cramped keyboard, but
many more were willing to sacrifice
less than ideal ergonomics for the
smallest Pentium computer around.
Toshiba had a hit on its hands. The
Libretto 70CT followed with a bigger hard drive and a 120 MHz
Pentium MMX processor.
Then in April, Toshiba raised the
bar again with the Libretto 100CT.
This model uses 166 MHz Pentium
MMX processor and a much larger 3
GB hard drive and more standard
RAM (32 MB versus 16 MB on previous Librettos). The screen dimension has grown one inch diagonally,
but unfortunately so has the weight,
up to 1 kg from 810 g (2.3 lb. from

1.8 Ib), and the size of the case to
that includes a separate numeric ing system (including a digital cam- accommodate the larger screen. It
keypad. This feature ought to attract
the attention of number crunchers.
At 35.7x27.5xS cm (14x10,75x2.1
in.), the Eurocom 8500 is bulkier
than standard notebook computers,
and at 4.5 kg (9.5 lb.) also heavier. It
is available in a number of configu-
era), all for a tad over $9,000.
Compaq Canada's entry in the
now measures 21x11.4x3.3 cm
(8.3x4.5xl.3 in.)
M obile Pentium I I r ace is t h e

Armada 7800, a $8,749 notebook
that, like the Toshiba Tecra, uses a
We begged Toshiba to let us

have an early look at the Libretto
also has 64 MB of RAM and 4 MB of
around the various editors in the

office, it still rated a high on the
ating system and main applications

reside in ROM, the support costs
arising from users tinkering with
gee-whiz meter, although not like their machines and inadvertently
the original Libretto 50. At just deleting crucial system files are
under $4,000, it seems a bit pricey largely eliminated. The initial purfor a mere 166 MHz Pentium, but chase costs are also lower; HP's 620
for those of us that like to carry a color Windows CE machine, for
computer around with us all the example, currently sells for about
time, it sounds almost affordable.
$1,000. This is less than half the
The Libretto reminds some of us cost of a new entry-level notebook.
HP's 620 and Sharp's Mogilon
of the original Hewlett-Packard
OmniBook, a similarly tiny sub- are the only tw o W i ndows CE
notebook of an earlier era with
machines currently available with
Windows 3.0 in ROM.
color screens, although NEC preHP seems to delight in impress- viewed a color model at a trade
ing us with it technological one- show last year. From our experience,
upmanship, and its new Sojourn did the color screens have a dramatic
just that. The 233 MHz Pentium- positive effect on the usability of
powered Sojourn weighs just 1.4 kg these devices.
The Mobilon measures approxi(3 lb.) and is a mere 1.9 cm (0. 71 in.)
thick but still includes a large clear mately
18. 6 x 9.65x1.5 cm
display and a full-size keyboard. The (7.25x3.75x1.2 in.) and weighs 495
estimated price is $8,000.
g (1.1 lb.). It costs approximately
IBM just released a ThinkPad $1,300.
600, which weighs less than 2.25 kg
(5 lb.) but is powered by a Pentium S. %Corn Palm III
II processor. The company which The most successful handheld comstarted th e u l t rathin c ategory puting platform is the Palm Pilot
rolling was Digital, and its current series from 3Com. The third genermodel is the Ultranote VP 2000.
ation of this line, renamed simply
the Palm III, was introduced in
4. Sharp Mobiion HC4500
ApriL The Palm is apparently the
The category of handheld computers right product at the right time, havis not new and companies such as ing sold one million units in its first
Sharp and HP have had moderate 18 months on the market.
market success with products like the
The Palm III is not a radical
BOSS o r ganizer
and
HP departure from the Palm Pilot. It
95/100/200LX series. Psion has also uses the latest revision of Palm opergained a f o l lowing mainly in ating system, comes with more stanEngland and Europ~with its Psion dard RAM and has a flash-upgradSeries 3 and most recent Series 5 lines. ableROM. The case has also been
It was probably with the launch restyled, with the corners smoothed
of Windows CE in November 1996 and afl
ip-up lid added.
that mainstream computer users
Arguably the best feature of the
were given the first heavy doses of Palm is the one-button HotSync fea-
100CT,and the company obliged. handheld computer marketing. The ture that allows users to effortlessly
266 MHz Pentium II processor, and As the machine made its way main message of Windows CE was transfer contacts, appointments,
rations and processors, up to one video RAM, but with a slightly larg-
that, for the first time, Windows PC

users could have a handheld com-
etc. from a desktop PC to the Palm.
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By Jeff Evans
usability of a mobile device. Many months management, and email). A "real computer,"
typically pass before Intel comes out with a
in the form of a full-featured desktop PC,
or many years, there has been a basic similar speed but cooler running, lower- remained in the offfce for heavy duty number
dividing line between mobile and desk- wattage mobile version of a chip for the note- crunching when the worker was back at home
top computers, in the form of the differing speed of the processor chips available for
each form of PC.
Without exception, Intel, the industry
leader in computer CPU chips, has developed
a larger, hotter, more energy-hungry version
of its new chips first, These high-wattage chips
are suitable for desktop PCs, which have
access to regular electrical supply, and are fitted with fans and heat sinks sufficient to keep
the chips cool.
For notebooks, however, the high electrical consumption and heat generation of a
high-wattage chip is potentially lethal to the
book PC market. This has meant in practice

that notebook computer users have to wait
between eight and 12 months for the latest
base. This was very wasteful, not just in hardware cost, but in terms of total cost of ownership (TCO) for maintenance, service, training,
and greatest Intel chip to come out in a form and software for two completely different PCs.
suitable for the notebook market.
In recent years, however, mobile Intel
In the past, this sometimes meant note- CPU chips have gained the muscle to make
book users couldn't run the latest industry- them a viable alternative for all but the most
standard versions of MS DOS or Windows exotic and demanding applications. This has
operating systems or business applications on allowed the information technology (IT)
a notebook.The phenomenon of the "twocomputer" worker meant that a notebook

might only be used for a limited number of
undemanding functions while the worker was
on the road (such as word processing, contact
departm
ents of businesses of all sizes to use
high-powered notebooks as afull replace
m
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for the desktop PC.
On April 2, intel pushed the envelope of
mobile "power user" computing a sizable step
forward with the introduction of its first
Pentium II chips for notebook PCs. Running
at speeds of 233 and 266 MHz, the new
Mobile Pentium II chips are a good deal slower than the iatest 350 and 400 MHz Pentium
II chips (intended for use in desktop PCs,
workstations and servers) that w ere

announced a couple of weeks after the. launch
of the mobile chips.
However, although th e n e w M o bile Qeveloper response
Pentium II chips are not going to excite the PC to Rwohlle Pentlurn II
workstation crowd, they are likely to grab the Virtually all the leading-edge notebook develinterest of almost everybody else in the busi- opers, including IBM, Acer, Compaq, Toshiba,
Je
ness-computing market. A 266 MHz Pentium II

chip has the power to handle the vast majority
of current office computing and multimedia
tasks, including video conferencing, digital
video playback and voice recognition.
Plenty power, puny padcage
(5 lb.) weight range.

in a "mini-cartridge" package, containing the
The abffity to have full desktop PC produccore processor plus 512KB of Level-2 cache, tivity on the road will enhance the perforThe Mobile Pentium il processor is mounted
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Wireless modem, handheld PC a natural fit

By David Tanaka
otorola sent us the latest version of
its PM 100D wireless modem, along
with a com p l ementary e m ail
account through the Bell Mobility/Ikon service. I expected it would require a serious
effort to set up, so I delayed looking at it until
I had a clear weekend to devote a solid block
of time to it.
I needn't have bothered. Within 10 minutes, I had installed the software on a Sharp
Mobilon Windows CE machine and was sending my first email message. Installing Ikon's
mail client, MobileChoice for Windows CE,
proved to be a model of simplicity. With the
Mobilon connected to a desktop PC, it was
just a matter of running SETup from the single
3.5-inch diskette placed in the notebook's
Personal Rfiessenger 100D

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Price: $27.50-$55/mo.
and HP200LX handheld computers). The costs of up to $55 per month, you'd have
PM100D also includes utilities on a single
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don't need to find a phone outlet to send or
receive email. Staying connected in the field
INobilon
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Platform: Windows CE2.0
Price: $1,299
Conclusions
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as we hoped it would, and was very easy to
becomes a real possibility. The use-it-any- set up.
where character of handheld computers is
Of course, testing it in an urban envienhanced by the PM 100D.
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being involved in the computer industry is sitting back and literally watching technology change daily. If it's hot today
and you just spent a small fortune on it, you' d
better enjoy it quickly because before you
know, it' ll be yesterday's news, worth half of
what you paid for it. This holds true for CDROM drives, video cards, hard drives, but
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Pentium II processors was released in May
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not the new line of processors would succeed.
The reason for the debate, not to mention
controversy, was because if you wanted to
enjoy this new technology, you had to first
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processors, and then another couple hundred
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interchangeable or backwardly compatible
with the Pentiums (and Pentium-competitors)
that fit into Socket 7.
One of the results of this news was hardware-related newsgroups flooded with mes-
sages from long-time supporters and fans of

Intel who said they were going to jump ship
and buy an AMD K6, which was also new at
the time and offered comparable performance
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works. The new generation of Voodoo 2-based

cards are now slowly making their way onto
the scene, and are expected to make record
sales. First to market was Creative Labs, followed shortly by Diamond with its
Monster II. The all new 740 chip
from Intel is also beginning
to make its debut, and is
already receiving praise as
being a lower-cost alternative to 3D gaming with performance comparable to the
first generation of Voodoo cards.
Matrox also has something in the
works, but we' re currently under a nondisclosure agreement which prevents us

from mentioning any details until June 1.
moving too fast? That question (But after a visit to Maxtor's Montreal headis up for debate, but consider this: the first quarters for a tour and some sneak pecks at
Pentium I I
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announced in May 1997. Today it's generally going to great!)
considered entry-level, since the Pentium line
So is the PC industry moving too fast? For
is very close to being discontinued.
most of us, absolutely. And although it can be
And on April 15 of this year a week incredibly exdting to watch, it can also be
before we completed this lab test report Intel incredibly frustrating for those of us who have
announced two new additions to its Pentium to review these new technologies for our readII lineup with speeds of 350 and 400 MHz. ers. This month was a good example of what
Along with the new processors came a new c an happen when n e w t e chnology i s
chipset, known as the 440BX, which officially announced but is not available (we' re refersupports the long-awaited 100 MHz bus.
ring to the new 350 and 400 MHz CPUs).
And guess what folks? If you want to take
Our Test Lab schedule isdetermined
advantage of the two new processors with 100 months in advance, and for this June issue we
MHz bus speeds and BX chipset, you need a were scheduled to test high-performance sysnew motherboard. You see, the current batch tems. When we began extending our invitaof motherboards on the market with the
tions to the PC manufacturers, these new
440LX chipset were only designed for proces- processors were not available, nor had they
sor speeds up to 333 MHz with a 66 MHz bus. been officially released by Intel. So we were
Want even more great news? At 400 MHz,

your current 10 ns (nanosecond) SDRAM
believe Intel would force them to buy new might not cut it. We' ve received a number of
motherboards if they wanted Pentium II
reports from our regular Test Lab contenders
power in their systems. How dare they try and who have been informed by Intel that the
single-handedly bring about a revolution?
n ew recommended (perhaps soon to b e
After all, we all had become attached to required) timing on RAM will have to be
the idea that good old Socket 7 technology reduced to 8 ns,
will always be there for us, and if a newer,
Currently there are only two manufacturfaster processor should happen to come ersthat make this fast RAM, and the price tags
along, all we do is replace the chip. Why the are no laughing matter. A typical 32 MB
sudden change to Slot 1?
SDRAM DIMM module goes for around $75
Many who opposed Intel saw this as noth- today, whereas the new faster 8 ns RAM curing more than a ploy to squeeze the last rently sells for just over $200 for the same 32
breath out of competitors AMD and Cyrix. MB. This will certainly change in time as
Both corporations have developed reputations demand grows, maybe even by the time you
for their alternatives to Intel processors with read this article, but at the time of this writcomparable performance at a significantly ing, the idea of upgrading yet again to gain
lower price, And most of all, AMD and Cyrix more megahertz is not at all appealing.
processors were pin-compatible (still are) with
And it's not just the processor world that' s
Socket 7 motherboards, which meant you experiencing this type of fast-paced lifestyle.
could put either company's CPU onto your Hard drives today are double and even triple
board if you so desired.
the size of what they were this time last year.
With Pentium II processors, Intel moved Seagate recently began shipping its new line
to its patented Slot 1 design, thereby com- of fluid-bearing motor drives, which spin at
pletely preventing the competition from
7,200 RPM and have capacities up to 9.1 GB.
designing processors that could be used on And no, we' re not talking SCSI, but plain old
the same motherboards. This was just the IDE.
ammunition that anti-Intel activists needed
Maxtor has gone one step further, offering
to try and convince the world that Intel was a drive with a total capacity of 11.5 GB. In the
yei another evil empire, intent on driving its world of hard drives, size really does matter,
competition out of business through arguably and themanufacturers are ma king sure you
unethical business practices.
know it,
So here we are today, one year later and
This year will also seemany changes in the
what do we see? The dreaded Slot 1 design world of video. Whether it's ZD or 3D accelerand Pentium II have not only withstood ation, nearly every video card manufacturer
incredible opposition, but have managed to has something new, or something new in the
for a much lower cost. People could not
pace, but is it
The last two years have seen a tremendous

amount of activity tal'ing place in the world
of CPUs, thanks mostly to the efforts of Intel
and its take-no-prisoners approach to market
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on their way to becoming the norm.
left with no other alternative than to test

what was readily available: the 333 MHz
processors which were originally introduced
Jan. 26.
As our deadline drew closer and closer, so
did April 15 the release date for the new
processors. Suddenly we had a couple of vendors that were able to get their hands on the
400 MHz chips and asked if we'd be interested in reviewing one of those systems as well.
Naturally we agreed since ideally we would've
tested nothing but 350 and 400 MHz systems.
However, most of the systems featured
this month are based on 333 MHz processors.
Now don't think that 333 MHz is anything
less than incredibly fast just because there are
a coupleof faster CPUs on the market. When
you stop and think for a moment just how
much computing power is inside one of these
machines, it's really quite mind boggling.
In fact, any PC you buy today has several
times more computing power than what
NASA had access to when it sent a man to the
moon in 1969. That was 29 years ago. Can
you imagine what the next 30 years holds in
store for us?
What's new under the hood?
With the release of the 350 and 400 MHz
Pentium II CPUs and the new 440BX chipset,
we' re not seeing anything really new as far as
technology goes, with a couple of exceptions.
The number of transistors found inside the
CPUs still totals 7.5 million, the Level-2 cache
is still 512KB, and they both use the 0.25
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has been drinking on the job, or if there's a
catch with this new Celeron processor.
333 MHz version back in January.
If you guessed the latter, you would be
The most important differences are the right. Remember the old saying, "there's no
support for a 100 MHz system bus, which will such thing as a free lunch" ? The Celeron
boost data throughput, as well as the obvious processor shows us just how true that is.
increase in the processor's core speeds. The
In its desire to bring Pentium ll technolo-
Hmm, you decide.

So when you walk into a store with knowledgeable sales staff and they try to caution
you on the Celeron processor, heed their
advice. Don't go thinking that they want to
sell you the more expensive processor just to
400 MHz CPU can deliver a 20 percent perfor- gy down to a much more affordable level,
it's original 266 MHz counterpart, so buyer
mance boost over a 333 MHz model with inte-
Intel has decided that it would be best to

remove the 512KB Levei-2 cache. So what's a
beware!
Buyer be especially wary if you plan on
number of transistors (millions) that are located beside the actual processor. Its function is
processor delivers a score of 440, whereas the to speed things up greatly,
350 MHz versioncomes inat386,When comWhen you take a look at the black plastic
pared to the 333 MHz Pentium II, which casing that houses the Pentium II processor,
comes in at a score of 366, we can definitely you' ll notice it's much bigger than a typical
see a noticeable improvement with the two Pentium chip that you may be more accusnew processors.
tomed to. One of the reasons for this is that
intense gaming. On the other hand, if a
make a bigger sale. There's a good reason why

the new processor costs around $200 less than
ger-related applications, and 19 to 21 percent

performance improvement on multimedia Level-2 cache? In plain English, it's a large purchasing a PC that will be used for some
benchmarks.
On the iCOMP index 2.0, the 400 MHz
Analysis
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We asked vendors to send us machines based
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The 440BX chipset's primary function is to the Pentium 11 processor itself is larger in size, MB of RAM, All other components were left
allow the system bus to operate at 100 MHz, as plus the fact that the level-2 cache sits right
opposed to 66 MHz, which has been in use for beside the processor (all inside the plastic carquite some time now. This was the case with tridge).
the first Pentium processors with 100, 133,
By removing the Level-2 cache, Intel saves
166 MHz and eveiy processor after that up quite a bit of money on each processor it manuntil the 333 MHz Pentium II line. The only ufactures, but this saving translates into a perexceptions were the 150 and 166 MHz formance loss. And just how much of a loss
Pentium Pro processors that still used a 60 are we talking? Can the missing Level-2 cache
MHz bus. Also, the 440BX chipset offers sup- really hinder performance that much? At the
port for Mobile Pentium II processors, which risk of using bad grammar, let's just say the
should make their debut around the time this numbers ain't pretty.
issue is published.
up to the vendor, but we specified that the
overall system cost should be kept between

$3,000 and $3,500, not including a monitor,
A s mentioned before, the timing of t h i s
month's article clashed with the release dates
of the 350 and 400 MHz Intel processors,
which is why the large majority of the systems
are based on 333 MHz units,
As usual, we ran the BAVCo Sysmark32
benchmark tests on all machines, which we
configured to run at a resolution of 1,024x768
The Celeron processor, which operates at at a 32-bit True Color depth.

266 MHz, can achievean iCOMP index of
The $1,000 lsC
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with iPentlusn ll tecisnEElogy?

You may have heard a lot of hype during the
past little while about sub-$1,000 PCs. And
although it's certainly been possible to build
such a machine for quite some time now, Intel
is now about to open a whole new can of ugly
worms.
How? By making it seem that you can now
Azura
at 203. A regular Pentium II 266 MHz processor achieves an iCOMP index of 303. The From: Empac
numbers speak for themselves. This new 266 Tel: 905-940-3600
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performs a previous generation Pentium
processor running 233 MHz. In fact, according
to the iCOMP index, it is 4.9 percent faster
than a233 MMX Pentium, and 42.25 percent
have a Pentium II 266 MHz processor in a low- slower than a 266 Pentium II processor with
cost machine priced at {or dose to) $1,000. its Level-2 cache intact.
But this is a good thing, right? For the large
Same clock speed, but 42.25 percent less
majority of the public, wrong!
performance. Sure it may cost less than a CPU
It's called the Celeron processor and yes, it with the cache working, but how much are
uses the Pentium Il processor core, and yes it you wilBng to sacrifice in order to save a couruns at 266 MHz. It even uses the latest 0.25 ple hundred bucks? At the time of this writmicron manufacturing process found in the ing, a Pentium II 266 MHz CPU cost $493.
333, 350 and 400 MHz versions, and it costs a Although we don't have a confirmation of
whole lot less than the original Pentium II
processor. By now you must surely be wonder-
what the Celeron processor will cost, a reliable

source tells us it will retail for around $280,
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ind encyclopedia.and edutainment titles
Ms-Windows 95 cd ver installed & configured
P-233MMX'
$1299
Penll-266MMX $1510 o r lease $56/mth

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ATI 3D Exprstn 4mb PCI video, 15" .2&dp mtr
Mouse, kybd, NetLink 5&k vfx modem,32x CD
SB 16 sound, 80w speakers, 550 CD titles
incl encyclopedia.and edutainment titles
P-233MMX'
$1392
Penll-26&MMX $1602 or lease $59/mth

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Mouse, kybd, NetLink 56k vfx modem,36x CD
Wave 32 sound, 120w speakers, 550 CD titles
incl encyclopedia.and IOMEGA Zip drive
P-233MMX*
$1714 or lease $63/mth
Penll-266MMX $1924 o r lease $71 /mth
Penll-300MMX $2136 o r lease$79/mth
Penll-400MMX*
$3022 or lease $112 /mth

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10ns SDRAM & 4.3gb UDMA hdd
ATI 3D Exprstn 4mb PCI, video, 17" .2&dp mtr
Mouse, kybd, USR 56k vfx modem,32x CD
incl encyclopedia and edutainment titles
P-233MMX
$1738 orlease$64/mth
Penll-400MMX
Intel/Asus Pentium or LX440 Pll mbd

64 mb SDRAM & 6.4gb UDMA hdd
Matrox Mill II or ATI Exprt@Play 4mb AGP
17" V773 .26dp Viewsonic mtr, Kytrnc kybd,
MS Intellimouse, SB16 sound, USR 5&k vfx
modem, ACS 45 spkrs, Toshiba 32x CDROM
P-233MMX
Intel Pentium or LX440 chipset
Enh Win95 keyboard, mouse & speakers

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$690
P-200MMX*
$700
P-233MMX'
$750
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Mouse, kybd, NetLink 56k vh modem,36x CD

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Penll-300MMX
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$ 2 00 9 or l e ase$74/mth

64 mb fast 10ns SDRAM & 6.4gb UDMA hdd
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Viewsonic mtr Mouse, kybd, USR 5&k vfx
modem,36x CD SB64AWE sound, 120w
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P-233MMX
128 mb SDRAM & 6.4gb UDMA hdd
Penll-400MMX' $3354 o r lease $124/mth
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Blitz 3D 4mb fast AGP video, 1T .2&dp mtr
Mouse, kybd, NetUnk 56k vfx modem,36x CD
Ms-Windows 95 cd ver installed& configured
P-233MMX

Matrox Mill II or ATI XprtPlay 8mb AGP
video, 17" .2&dp V773 Viewsonic mtr mouse,
Intel Pentlum chipset or LX440 Pll chipset

64 mb fast 10ns SDRAM & 6.4gb UDMA hdd
Matrox Mill II or ATI XprtPlay &mb AGP
video, 19" .26dp V95 Optiquest mtr mouse,
kybd, USR 56k vfx mdm, DVDII kit, SB64AWE
kybd, USR 56k vfx mdm, DVDII kit SB&4AWE
sound, 120w spkrs, 550 CD titles encyclopedi

Ms-Windows 95 cd ver installed& configured
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$2545 or lease $94 /mth
Penll-400MMX
Penll-400MMX'
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Penll-300MMX $3467 orlease$128/mth
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Penll-300MMX
$ 2 2 6 6 or l e ase$84/mth
$ 2 47 7 o r l ease $92/mth
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2.1gb hdd, 256k/512k cache & 1.44 flpy
USB/non USB, 20x cdrom, 2mb video ram
2 PCMCIA slots, TV out video, TX/SIS chipset
Approx 2hrs battery life, carry case & ac adptr
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P-26&AMD
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$ 2 8 3 4 or l e ase$105/mth
$ 3 84 4 or l e ase$142/mth
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15.1 Acbve matrix 1024x768 clr 32mb ram

2.1gb hdd, 256k/512k cache & 1.44 flpy
USB, 20x cdrom, 4mb video ram
2 PCMCIA slots, TV out video, TX chipset .
Approx 2hrs battery life, carry case & ac adptr
Ms-Windows 95 cd ver installed 8 configured
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USB, 20xcdrom, 4mb video ram
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.. . .$135/$275
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.. . . 4 85/4115
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Analysis
comes loaded with everything you need and points. Each system uses top-notch compo-
A good package overall, although most power

users would probably prefer name-brand components they recognize, and the BTC name
may not do that for them. If the components
inside this system were swapped with recognized names, it would increase the overall system price a fair amount. If, on the other hand,
performed
admirably on our benchmark tests.
The SPL 333 is built to order, meaning you
can customize it in a number of different
ways, and is one of the reasons the price is so
competitive at $3,199, which includes the 17inch monitor.
excellent overall package from NEC
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fe atures some great components
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price. The 333 MHz system was very close to

achieving top performance on our BAPCo
tests, missing the top mark by only six
nents for maximum performance, leaving
very little to be desired. It should be noted
majority of the other systems were 333 MHz

units.
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name-brand components
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was benchmarked and included in our
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ireless data communication is won-
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I have spent the past six months
working with a variety of wireless data communications alternatives to a standard modem,
and have come to the conclusion that most of
them just aren't ready for "prime time."
Infowave wireless data service

From: InfowaveWireless Messaging Inc.
Tel: 604-473-'3600
Estimated price: $7.700 for 25-user licence
Wireless modem
From: 3Com
Price: $559
workforce. It is downplaying its individual

account structure in favor of corporate pricing.)
It was a superb solution. I could sit quietly at my local Starbucks with my notebook
computer while sipping a latte and sending
data at the same time. The email went wirelessly via the modem over a data radio network to Infowave's offices, where the server
passed it out over the Internet to its destination. I thought this was going to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
And so I invited the modem along with
me to the United States. I don't know whether
it was the garish light of Las Vegas, the dens
of gambling and booze

or maybe the ninevolt battery but the modem just didn't want
to work for me in the U.S.,
despite being billed as
c apable o f do i n g s o .
Numerous call s
to
Infowave to sort things out

eventually revealed that
there was probably a glitch

in the modem. It t h en
failed to operate properly
when I got home again.
I went back to using
the modem locally and
eventually
had
it
swapped out for an RIM
Mobitex m o d em . It
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ably when used locally and I
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The latest
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enjoy some time with my notebook computer
is Infowave's wireless data service. For the purposes of the test, Infowave kindly set me up
with an account on its corporate mail server,
an ID and password, along with a wireless
3Com modem to use with it.
(It should be noted that Infowave is looking
at its service as a corporate solution for a mobile
was once again soon merrily sending

emails from my daughter's dance class, the
Seabus in North Vancouver and the passenger
seat of my car. Liberation was mine!
Now jump ahead a few days to my next
trip to the U.S. This time it was the Big Apple.
I was feeling confident, whatever its previous
problems with the American radio-based data
services, that my Infowave account would
serve me well. I even talked to the company's
marketing people about it and they happily
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tion anyone who wants to use a wireless

modem while travelling that they should
have a back-up plan just in case an experience such as mine awaits them, When it
works, it is a delightful technology and the
best possible way of sending and receiving
email. i just wish it worked for me in a wider
variety of locations and with greater reiiabiiity. I hope to report back soon that this is
now the case.
Note: as we were finalizing this issue, Geo
f sent
ns the following e>nails: "This wireless comtection
appears to be working withnnt worries in New
Orleans!" Then later: "Here's soniething alnazing.
This thingeven appears to workfron( 30,000 feetin
the air. l'w now on a plane f New Orleans to
Dallas, and it's actnally working." Ert. 0
Wirelessdatacomm nearly there

Continned frow page 40
recounted tales of sending email from the
back of a taxi in Manhattan.
I decided to do the same. After hauling out
my notebook computer and getting everything ready to send my first NYC "back of the
car" email, i was once again met with no
response from the wireless modem.
Infowave has been extremely helpful in
trying to sort out these problems for me. The
main difficulty seem to have been reiatd to
the configuration of the hardware, and once
adjusted, the modem has worked reliably in
other U.S. cities.
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By Rod I.amirand
anadians are increasingly finding
themselves in need of a home office. In

some cases a home office is a shared
space for the whole family: Dad does some
consulting in the evenings; mom uses it as a
home base for her realty work; the children do
reports; and everyone needs to send a fax, surf
the Net, or do some typing.
For all the wonderful technological possibilities that come to mind when presented
with the job of outfitting your office, there is
the hard r e ality o f li m i t e d r esources.
Obviously, with enough money, time, and
space you could run NATO out of your home,
but life does not usually, that way, run. So, for
your reading pleasure, this article will bring
together the most immediate and pressing
considerations you will be forced to make in
creating your home office.
there is a printer and possibly an external

modem, removable media drive or scanner.
You want to be able to move papers around
and have CD-ROMs and other items on. the
Tips for
equipping
work surface, so desktop space is essential.

You need one big chair and ideally, a side
chair. The big chair is your pilot's seat and
needs to be adjustable, able to swivel, and possibly roll about. If you get one with wheels
and you have carpet you will need a plastic
floor cover. The second chair should be plain
and setting
up a
workspace
and take up less space.

You will need plenty of shelves, and filing
cabinetspace. The shelving can be bookcase
style or wall mounted. Mounting shelves on

the wall is less expensive but requires more
that works
effort to install. They are also a good choice if
you need to work around other components

of a room or if you need to conserve floor
space.
The space
Be realistic about the space your home office
will need. Even if you are planning to have
nothing in it except office equipment (some
individuals will also want to keep products, or
samples, in their office), you will need at least
one room. Trying to squeeze the office into a
room that's also being used as a bedroom,
sewing room or TV room can be a mistake.
Your office needs a whole room, dedicated
only to that function and the bigger the better. Sufficient electrical outlets (three if possi-
ble) and a phone line are necessities. A window with a view, and a door that can be firmly closed are optional but highly desirable sanity savers.
Basement home offices can be spacious
but extra attention needs to be paid to creat-
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will accept tapes ranging from 1-7 GB uncom- which allows you to drag files to and from the
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pressed. With the included compression software, you can store as much as 10 GB on a
tape that costs around $50. The Iomega backup utility allows you to create an exact image
of your hard drive on tape. If your hard drive
fails, a diskette-based utility will boot your
computer and restore your hard drive's contents to a new or reformatted hard drive.
TCP is currently evaluating the Ditto Max
Pro. One of its nicest features is a 125 MB
FlashFile area at the beginning of the tape,
ves, the LS-120 SuperDisk, Zip or Jazz drives

and others.
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ranging from around 100 MB in the case of
the Zip and LS-120 devices to I GB for the Jaz
and Syquest Sparq devices.
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tape backup system. For example, the lomega
Ditto Max Professional costs around $400, but
complicated.
tape without using the backup utility. While
The first thing to decide is whether you
tape access will be very slow compared to hard .can use your home phone number for your
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have to make will be understanding your answer the phone; it will allow for access to
communications needs. The services are the Internet without tying up th e home
many, the features disparate, and the pricing phone; and other benefits such as easier faxing.
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the company will be able to trace it and call income. You can not run a home business to
the police.
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Another important issue is the effect of other income.
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expenses as tax deductions, be aware of the be remiss if you didn't take advantage of some
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your home, Revenue Canada requires that For example, almost every major financial
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conferences, which typically have huge "press
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nce the status symbol of the truly your PC peripherals. Dubbed the multifuncconnected, the trusty fax machine has tion centre or multifunction device (MFD),
been lapped by the inexorable march this wiuiderkind boasts the ability to print,
of progress. Now that email is the new yard- scan, and copy, as well as handle all your fax
stick by which connectedness is measured, duties, both from the device and your comdocuments no longer have to be shared on puter's desktop.
The current generation of multifunction
curled sheets of shiny thermal paper. Personal
computers have made it possible to move centres comes in two flavors: laser and color
high-resolution information directly from
inkjet. The color units are largely aimed at the
one screen to another. Today's email docu- home office, where a PC can expect to be used
ments both sing and dance
and they do it in
for everything from faxing expense reports to
making calendars from holiday snapshots,
glorious Technicolor.
But the darned fax machine won't go
while the laser models are designed to meet
away. A relic from the days when technology the office environment's need for efficiency
was designed to last longer than a single soft- and reliability
ware development cycle, the fax has become
I tested six units, representing offerings
to business what NTSC video is to home from all but one of the major manufacturers,
entertainment an outdated standard that in a price range from $600 to $1,100. At the
high end of the scale were Brother's two units,
just won't die because it's so widely used.
But do you really have to buy one for your the laser based MFC 4550plus, and the color
workspace? After all, many offices have cen- inkjet MFC 7000c. Hewlett-Packard has its
tralized fax machines to take care of every- bases similarly covered with the high-end
one'sfaxing needs. Moreover, the average LaserJet 3100 and t h e m i d range color
home office is an exercise in essentialism. Officelet 635. Okidata's contribution was its
Once you' ve invested in office furniture and midrange Okioffice 44 laser unit, and Xerox
the obligatory PC, monitor, printer, scanner, supplied the WorkCenter 450c, the least
modem and second phone line, there isn' t expensive model reviewed.
Most manufacturers are covering both
much room left in the budget, let alone the
sides of the small office market with different
workspace, for a clunky old fax machine.
When I assembled my home office a cou- machines. Although not reviewed here, both
Okidata and Xerox similarly have compleple of years ago, I chose to add a copy of
WinFax Pro and a 600 dpi (dots per inch) mentary products. Canon also has two multiflatbed scanner to the PC and color inkjet function centres, but was unable to supply a
printer I already owned. I'm still happy with review unit in time for this article,
that setup, but there have been times when
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or have wanted to make a copy of a document
without having to fuss with two pieces of
Since I'm a home office user who does a fair
hardware and a graphics program.
Apparently printer manufacturers have bit of graphics work, I was immediately drawn
been thinking a long t h e s ame l i nes. to the color units. I wondered if any of these
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Xerox IAfortICenter 4SQc

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Estimated street price: $599
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HP OfftceJet 63S
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implies, is designed more for the office than Estimated street price: $699
the spare room, but being the cheapest print- Pros: Easy-to-use software, small size.
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budget. Interestingly, a Xerox representative
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producing acceptable translations with miniThe OfficeJet 635 is easily the best looking
mal fuss. Not exactly sexy, but it works.
machine in this review. You'd be forgiven for ic" in place of specific scanner resolutions.
The true test is, of coursehow the hardmistaking its compact, simple looks for a
More precise controls are available, but you ware actually performs, and here is where HP
straightforward inkJet. Only the telephone have to dig down a few layers to get to them. starts losing points. The 300 dpi optical resokeypad on the left-hand cowling betrays its
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Installation was a little nerve rattling. The
drivers seem to have been written with
Windows 3.1 in m i nd, and the installer
crashed before restarting my system. The
Visioneer PaperPort software was equally misbehaving, and only some determined tweaking and fussing got all the parts working
together in software. The control interface
also lost some marks for its terse and ugly
design. The printer and scanner drivers were
quite unstable, processor intensive, and

crashed far too often, requiring frequent,
though relatively harmless, reboots.
What marks the MFC-7000FC lost for software it more than regained for hardware. The
printer uses individual color cartridges for better economy, and even though it can only
manage 5 ppm, printouts were dean, crisp,

and well saturated. There was no visible banding, and the print heads deaned themselves
automatically after long periods of inactivity.

Scans were similarly impressive. Images were

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sharp and rich, despite the relatively low 300

dpi resolution. The printer's internal settings
created dark color copies, with too little contrast, but excellent copies could be made if the
images were scanned into software and manually tweaked before printing.
Video printing produced similarly mixed
results. Direct captures to paper tended to be
gray and colorless, but a little tweaking went a
long way.
The voicemail functions worked right out
of the box, and so did the internal fax storage.
T HE W O R K S PA C E
I discovered this the morning after I installed

the unit, when I realized the machine had
both voicemail and a fax waiting for me, even
though I hadn't set either functions up.
All things considered, the MFC-7000FC is
a remarkably good machine, let down somewhat by poor supporting software and documentation. The kind of power users who are
willing to pay $1,000 for a personal multifunction centre with this much horsepower
will probably grin and bear it unti! new drivers
are released. But don't take too long to decide.
When a company halves the price of a product less than six months after releasing it,
they' re usually cutting their losses and moving on. So, you may want to think about
snapping up one of these before they' re all
gone.
graphics and multimedia design requirements

of the home market, laser-based units are
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environment. The three units reviewed were
very similar on almost all counts. They boasted the same feature set, comprised of faxing,
scanning, copying and printing, and all had

similar specs. Differences lay largely in the
drivers and bundled software. Results were
surprising nonetheless.
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(.'orrtiuned from page 60
left off. According to the manual, my only
recourse was to install more memory.
I would have been furious if I had paid for this
device. A phone call to technical support might
have alleviated some of my suffering, but I
shouldn't need to call support to get a product
installed. Brother really needs to get its act together on the software end, This MFC 4550plus might
have been an excellent product, but it was impossible
to see beyond the bad software.
HP LaserJet 3100
From: Hewlett Packard (Canada) Ltd.: 800-387-3867
http: //www.hp.corn
Price: $1099 esp
Pros: Easy to use software and drivers. attractive
styling.
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scanning, expensive
T HE W O R K $ P A C E
warranty, so aside from the disappointing scan- all-in-one station in an office, one of these comning performance and poor dithering, all the bos is certainly worth some consideration.
problems could have been solved by an
But with photo quality bubble jets available
exchange.
for around $400 and flatbed scanners for as litHowevew it's difficult to recommend this tle at $200, you could whip up one of your own
unit over Okidata's Okioffice 44, for although that will easily match the horsepower of the
the HP has a finer scanning resolution and Brother MFC 7000FC at only a little more than
boasts better software, it costs $300 more than half the price.
its competitor, and lags behind the Okioffice 44
How much is a couple of square feet of desk
in. Butmy problems didn't end there. A manu- in most other department.
space worth to vou anyway? L3
facturing defect caused the wire document
holder, which should hang horizontally, to cant Are they worth it?
Mo Einuaimy is a Montreal-basedtechnology consultant,
upwards and at an angle from the front of the While none of these machines have come close writer and journalist. We
can usually be found up to his
unit. These two defects are obviously acciden- to convincing me that I need to ditch my old e ars in computer gear muttering "I can't believe they
pay
tal, and covered by warranty, but the fact that scanner, printer, and modem, if you' re building me to do this," The number
for an appropriate 12-step
lightning struck twice was disconcerting, and your home office from scratch, or need a remote program can besent to mo@montraai.corn.
raised ugly questions about quality control.
The software installation, as with the previous unit, was seamless. Like the Okioffice 44, the
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works or of parts thereof, or a work resulting

from the selection or arrangement of data."
he protection of databases and other
The value of many databases lies in their
valuable information has taken on sigc ompiled factual information, not i n t h e
nificant importance in the Digital Age,
arrangement or co-ordination of that infordue to the relative ease with which digital
mation. The collection and selection of inforinformation may be copied, manipulated
mation are often expensive and laborious
and distributed. Canadian laws may not proprocesses, but the arrangement of the data
vide adequate protection for databases and
may be standardized and obvious, reflecting
may not s t rike a n a p propriate balance
no creativity or originality at all. A strict
between protecting the rights and interests
application of traditional copyright princiof database owners and protecting the larger
ples, including the fact/expression dichotopublic interest in free and open access to
my, would mean that valuable, factual inforinformation.
mation contained in databases would have
little if any copyright protection.
Copyright law protection
In order to address this difficulty, a numCopyright law is intended to promote the
ber of Canadian and American courts extendcreative arts by granting authors of original
ed copyright protection for fact-based compiworks time-limited, exclusive rights to almost
lations, Those decisions held that "industriall commercially valuable uses of their works.
ousness" or "sweat of the brow" in the creation of a fact-based compilation could'satisOriginality
fy copyright's originality requirement. Some
Originality is. the touchstone of copyright.
i n t erest in the ee flow of ideas and factual cases also suggested that database copyright
Under traditional Canadian copyright princi-. :information.
: would protect not only the selection and
ples, a copyrightable work must be the origi- :'
: arrangement of data, but also compiled facnal and independent creation of its author.: Co mpilations and databases
: tual information obtained through substanThe Copyright Act expressly provides that D a t a bases are compilations of factual infor- : tial effort and investment. The rationale for
copyright subsists in "original" works. What. :mation arranged so that they can be readily : 'those decisions was a desire to prevent unfair
is original is a question of fact and a matter of: accessed and understood. Telephone books: ,
compe
titionand protect the compiler's effort
degree. Originality does not require novelty. ' and similar directories, collections of finan- : 'and investment
lt is sufficient if the work is a product of its .: cial information, weather statistics, sports '
The "sweat of the brow" doctrine was
author's skill, judgment and labor, rather: scores, and online research and news services: recently rejected by the Canadian Federal
- :are familiar examples of databases.
than merely a copy of another work.
Court of Appeal ln its October l997 decision
Before 1994, the Conn<finn Copyright Act ,' in Tele-Direct (Publications) hrc.v. Ainericrrn
. :did not expressly provide protection for corn- =' Business h~fonnaiio lac.
Ideas and facts versus expression
Copyright protects only the form of expres-;. pilations. Nevertheless, compilations were ,.
sion, but not the underlying ideas and facts. c o pyright protected as literary and other Tbe Tele pirect case
Under traditional copyright principles, even f o rms of works. Effective January 1994, the: The Tele-Direct case considered whether
facts that are newly discovered or gathered: Copyrighi' Acl was amended to implement '. Canadian copyright law p r otects factual
through considerable effort and expense are:. Canada's North Ainerican Free Trade Agreement ' information contained in telephone directonot copyright protected. This is because facts:. obgatio by expressly pding prott i , : r i es. American Business information inc.
are not the original work of any author. Like; for compilations, which are defined as "a : ( AB[) copied subscriber information from
ideas, facts are in the public domain. The: ,work resulting from the selection or arrange-: Tele-Direct"s YellowPagesdirectories for use in
fact/expression dichotomy protects society's m ent of literary, dramatic, musical or artistic '
Corrtimied on page 66
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1Il
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Business Computing section to The Covrpnter Prtper
in December, Since then, it has grown,
drawing the interest of readers and
advertisers alike. The market research
we' ve conducted tells us we' re on the
right track, and the conversations
we' ve had with our readers and advertisers have been enthusiastically supportive.
The reason is simple. Small- and

medium-size enterprises represent a
significant chunk of the economy.

They have been generating the most
jobs according to StatsCan, and they
are where more than half of the workforce works. And yet, we' ve been told,
there is no technology-focused publication in Canada that specifically
addressesthe needs ofsmall and medium enterprises. We' re about to change
that.
Beginning i n J u ly, o u r S mall
B usiness Computing section w i l l
evolve into Business Technology, a
regular supplement to The Computer
Paper. it is here that we' ll provide editorial content that we are confident
businesses will value, We chose the
name Business Technology rather
than Business Computing. Why?
Because the technology issues that
businesses now face go well beyond

questions about which computer to
buy.
We' re in the midst of a digital
transformation. Business prosperity
depends on understanding how that' s
changing th e l a n dscape, closing
opportunities in one place but opening them in another. Computers are
heavily implicated in this transformation, but they are not its sole instruments. Business Technology will help
you keep track of the change.
Tire Couipnter Pnper has become a
leading resource for consumers in this
country. Our goal is to make Business
Technology a must-read for business
decision makers in Canada. We' re very
excited about our new supplement,
and hope you will be too. Watch for it
in July!
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Protecting your database
right protection." The Tele-Direct case part ies are seeking leave to appeal to t h e
Conthmed fioIn pagei5$
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Copyright protection summary
base products, sued ABI for copyright
A factual compilation may be protected by

copyright if it features an original selection
or arrangement of facts, but the copyright
protection is limited to the particular selection or arrangement and does not extend to
the facts themselves. In light of this limited
protection, database owners must look elsewhere for additional protection.
infringement.
The issue in dispute was narrow was
Tele-Direct's organization of b asic subscriber information (received in a disorganized state frotn local telephone companies) and the additional information TeleDirect collected (such as facsimile numbers,
trademarks, and number of years in operation) copyright protected?
The Federal Court of Appeal held that to
be copyright protected under Canadian law
a data compilation had to be an independently created, original work of "intellect
and creativity" that displays a minimal
degree of skill, judgment, and labor in its
overall selection or arrangement. The court
held that the threshold for creative originality is low and is a question of degree, but
s ome compilations wil l n o t m e e t t h e
requirement. The court also concluded that
"industrious collection" and "sweat of the
brow" are not sufficient for copyright protection. The court justified its conclusion
on the basis that it was consistent with the
purpose of Anglo-Canadian copyright law,
which is to protect and reward original
intellectual creativity.
The court also noted that Canadian law
r egarding compilations i s s i m i la r t o
American jurisprudence, most notably the
1991 decision of the United States Supreme
Court in Feist Publicationsv. Rural Telephone
Service Company. The Feist court rejected a
claim of copyright in a white pages telephone directory. The court held that to be
copyright protected a compilation must dis-
Contract protection
Contracts can protect databases by establishing a private set of rules governing the
purchaser's use of the database. Typically,
such contracts usually take the form of a
licence agreement. Under a licence agreement the licensor retains ownership of the
product and grants to the licensee a limited
right to use the product subject to stipulated restrictions, such as limits on the right
to copy, share or resell the data, and restrictions on the purpose and method of use of
the data.
Licence agreements are commonplace

regarding consumer computer software.
They typically take the form of a "shrinkwrap" agreement, whereby the purchaser
accepts the terms of the licence by opening
the plastic-wrapped software package. One
concern regarding shrink-wrap licences is
that the terms of the licence are inside the
software package, and are usually not seen
by the purchaser until after the software is
paid for.
The validity of shrink-wrap agreements '
under American law was confirmed by the
United States Federal Court in its 1996 decision in ProCD v. Zeidenberg.In that case
play originality by virtue of independent
Zeidenberg purchased a copy of ProCD's
creation and a modicum of creativity in the

selection, co-ordination or arrangement of
its data. The court also held that copyright
protection for fact-based compilations was
limited, because copyright protects only the
original elements of the selection, coordination, and arrangement of the compilation, and not the compiled facts or information. The court also held that the "sweat
of the brow" and "industrious collection"
Selectphone CD-ROM containing a database compiled from more than 3,000 telephone directories at a cost of more than
$10 million. The CD-ROM was sold pursuant to a shrink-wrap licence that prohibited purchasers from distributing the listings and making them available to others.
The box indicated that the software was
s ubject to th e restrictions stated in a n
enclosed licence. Zeidenberg argued that he
doctrines were contrary to the "most fun-
was not bound by the shrink-wrap licence,
damental axiom of copyright law that no

one may copyright facts or ideas."
In the Tele-Direct case, the court concluded that the disputed portions of TeleDirect's Yellow Pagesconsisted of compilations "of such an obvious and commonplace character as to be unworthy of copy-
because the licence terms were inside the
box rather than printed on the outside, and

he did not know or agree to the licence
terms at the time he purchased the software.
The U.S. Court of Appeal held that the
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but also remembered what it was
like to learn how to use computers
or nearly 15 years, I' ve made a for the first time.
Hard on the heels of DOS for
living from computer technology. This might seem modestly flmrnies came the first edition of
impressive, until I share my secret. I Mac for DIITIies,written by David
had help.
Pogue, a modern day renaissance
If personal computer technology man (professional composer, conworked properly, I'd have had to get ductor, musician, magician, columnist and Mac enthusiast).
a real job. A large portion of my
According to Pogue, in conversatechnology-related work over the
lastdecade and a half has been tion with TCP ona recent Canadian
book tour, "I' ve always tried to
teaching, writing, consulting, and
troubleshooting f i n icky, p o orly remember what it was like to use
thought out, unfinished, buggier- computers for the first time, and
"almost-there" write from the perspective of 'how
than-an-ant-hill,
do I do this common task, and how
computer products and systems.
And smug M a c s u p porters do I solve this common problem?'"
Pogue and Kilcullen were largely
shouldn't feel too self righteous
down in their bunkers, assuming responsible for the "look and feel"
of the Dmmniesbooks, which have a
that I'm only t alking about the
much-maligned PC. A fair amount unique blend of humor, iconic symof the wonky technology that paid bols (inspired at. least .partly by the
Apple Mac's graphical user intermy rent was Mac related (if you
were doing PostScript color separat- f ace), and a "task-oriented"
ed film output in 1987, you'd have approach to the subject that was
lots of Mac horror stories too). To only possible if done by a writer
add variety to the mix, I also learned who actually used and understood
more than I w a n ted t o a b out the technology he or she was writAmigas, Silicon G raphics/UNIX
ing about. The Dmmiesbooks are
workstations, the ol d A t ari ST, "anti-manuals." They don't contain
Commodore 64...and,w ell,you get every imaginable bit of information '
about a computer product or systhe picture.
I swear, though, t h ings are tem, just the most important, useful
changing. Not only i s computer and commonly confusing bits.
Open any DmIiesbook, and
technology gradually getting more
idiot proof, but as more people con- within a couple of paragraphs, you
tinue to buy computers for home, should be able to tell what is going
school, and small business, they are on, and you may even start enjoynot as patient as the previous gener- ing yourself, Dummies books are
ation of PC hobbyist-tinkerers. They usually a good read, and even if you
don't laugh at every corny joke-or
want their computer systems to
work, and they want them to work pun or cartoon, you'd have to be
now!
really humorless not to at l east
smile occasionally.
Dummies, arise!
To meet this need, there is an ever- The cream of the crop
swelling wave of popular how-to Success breeds imitators. Other pubcomputer books that aim to make lishers have attempted to duplicate
computing less painful and more the DIImmiesformula, with varying
productive. The pioneer publisher degrees of success. According to
of truly user-friendly books is IDG Pogue, some of the attempts at simBooks Worldwide, whose Dummies plification he sees in the computer
line (Netscape COIrNIIicator for book field can reach ludicrous levD mmies, Microsnft W or d f o r els.
"Any book titled Program in C++:
DIries, etc.) of reference books
set the standard for making com- i a Day, or Write /ava in One Hour
are promising immediate gratificaputer technology understandable.
The Dummiesseries began when tion, but they just can't deliver."
publisher John Kilcullen overheard Pogue and Kilcullen both told TCP
a frustrated PC user complain that they admired the efforts to popularwhat was needed was something to ize technology by the late science
explain DOS for dummies. Kilcullen fiction author Isaac Asimov, who
had a flash of inspiration, and an wrote dozens of paperbacks explainindustry wa s b o rn. D O S F o r ing subjects as diverse as archaeoloDImies was a wild success, not gy and organic chemistry. The
because its writer assumed comput- DImies series is serving a similar
er users were stupid, but because he purpose in m a king k n owledge
believed people were smart enough accessible to a wide audience, on
many topics.
not to want to wrestle blindly with
The DIIInmies line has broadthe obscurities, illogicalities, and
bugginess of MS DOS. What com- ened its scope beyond the computer
puter users wanted, rather, was field, with t i t les as diverse as
By Jeff Evans
theatre, Vogue has been inspired to

write two excellent DIrviestitles
on classical music and opera, and is
also completing a DIIIIiestitle on
magic. However, h e h a s a l so
retained both his passion and his
optimism for his beloved Macintosh
computer, and has recently published the fifth edition of Macs for
Dmmies.(Pogue praised IDG Books
for maintaining a strong Mac pubBshing presence, and predicted the
turnaround of the Apple's fortunes .
has begun).
One-minute hookreviews
In order to pay the sincerest form of
flattery to the DIIiesapproach, I
offer the following series of minireviews of how-to books:
Macs for Dummies,

Sth Edition
Author: David Pogue
Publisher. IOGBooks Worldwide
http: //www.dummies.corn, http: //www.idgbooks.corn
Softcover 412 pages 1997
Price: $26.99
small businessperson get the most

productivity out of computer technology, and avoid the most com-
mon (and expensive) pitfalls of

being a do-it-yourself chief information officer (a function, which in a
large business, requires highly paid,
highly qualified professionals). This
book isaimed at businesses ranging
from a home office startup to a full
fledged office with several networked PCs if you already know
the basics, you can simply skip the
introductory parts and go right to
the more technical sections.
In a step-by-step approach, SITIIIII
Bsirtess CompIIting far Dummies
other I a WeekeIIdbooks is that the

reader is willing to devote an intensive weekend's worth of time to simply sitting down and learning to do
a serious computer-related task. The
book is organized into tutorials that
are intended to be performed within a certain period of time.
For example, on Friday evening
you get started, learn the basics of
Web browsers, terminology, the
concepts behind a Web page and
the hypertext markup language
(HTML), and how to edit HTML
online or offline. On Saturday, you

work through a basic HTML tutori-
al, and on Sunday you first plan,
leads the reader through the process then create your Web page. There is
of making a business technology also a tutorial for creating a Web
plan, buying the appropriate com- page table, publishing the page, and
puter hardware, software and promoting its existence around the
peripherals, organizing a computer- Web. The included CD-ROM conized bookkeeping system, and doing tains several HTML editing probusiness on the Web. The included grams, paint software, file manageCD-ROM has a trial version of
ment utilities, and other useful proQuickBooks Pro (U.S. edition), and a grams.
variety of useful utility programs,
A lthough lacking t h e l i g ht
including Mr. Burns Productivity
touch and often corny humor of the
Monitoring P a ckage (perhaps DumrrIies line, in i ts s ober way,
named after the capitalist hero of Create Yorrr First Web Page delivers
the SiITIpsoIIScartoon show). This
the goods. As to whether you' ll realbook distills a couple of years of ly get your Web page finished in
well, it's possible.

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The latest edition of the classic Mac
handbook is aimed at Mac newbies,
or Mac users upgrading to a new
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Mac OS.Mnc for DIIIInies contains a
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encounter. This book should be
included with every new Mac sold.
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for Dvmm1es
Author. Brian Underdahl
Publisher: IDG BooksWorldwide
ISBN: Q-7645-0287-5
Soitcover353 pages CD-ROM included
$35.99
This book is aimed at kick-starting

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from books written by people who Dmmies, and Sex for Dummies. Small B I Isiness CoIpting f o r tomakeaW eb pageby Thursday!"
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gy departments to dedicate themselves to Y2K been difficult to get boardroom consensus on
fixes, which is often the case inside a large the best approach to solve the problem without straining the financial and personnel
Much of the debate around Year 2000 resources of the organization."
Not surprisingly, PeopleSoft is offering a
s olutions so far has been of the "fix o r
replace" variety. Some companies are offering "third way" around the Y2K that neither relies
deals that will allow you to patch up your on fixing existing code nor replacing entire
existing appiications to carry you through to systems, and it is one that may prove attractive
the next millennium, while others suggest to small and mid-size businesses as a result.
Known as PeopleSoft Catalyst, it slightly
you use the Y2K challenge as a good excuse to
turns the software clock back to the days
upgrade your whole system.
A survey earlier this year by corporate soft- when software services were "outsourced"
ware giant PeopleSoft, however, observes that and you hadsomeone elsedo then-complex
many businesses may feel a little like a deer jobs like running your payroll. With Catalyst,
caught in the headlights of a car they don' t you can buy your company more time to sort
know whether to stand still and hope the car out your long-term Year 2000 solution in
whatever manner you see fit, and be confiswerves to miss them or to run like hell,
According to the PdopleSoltYear 2000 dent that you can run a Year 2000-compliant
Progress Survey,67 percent of chief executive solution in the meantime.
PeopleSoft Catalyst operates as a 36officers say their company has committed
additional resources to fixing the problem month lease that aims to have companies
that may cause many legacy computer sys- rapidly move their financial, payroll and
tems to produce flawed or unpredictable human resources applications to PeopleSoft's
results after Dec. 31, 1999. But only 42 per- year 2000-compliant applications software,
cent of the chief information officers polled effectively delaying long-term solutions to the
Y2K problem until after the year 2000 crunch.
said added resources were earmarked.
To help make this possible, PeopleSoft has
Additionally, while nine out of ten business leaders said they were looking into the signed a deal with MC I subsidiary SHL
problem, 38 percent of those surveyed said Systemhouse to act as prime integrator, prothey had no idea when they were planning to viding the outsourced environment, applicaimplement a strategy to fix the year 2000 tion and technology installation, mainteproblem. Statistics Canada estimates that nance, upgrades and implementation services.
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companies can discontinue the service, acquire W orkstation operating systems 4.0, t h e
the application outright "with enhanced services" (i.e., they' ll add extra goodies if you actually buy it), or take the system in-house.
In this respect, it is very similar to a car
lease. You get a fast way to immediately
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Microsoft Windows 95 operating system,

Office 4 Standard, Office 95 Standard and
Professional editions as well as Office 97
Standard and Professional.
Not surprisingly, it is older Microsoft products that seem to have the most compliance
quick Year 2000 solution

and if you don' t
problems. Microsoft Word 5 for DOS, for

example, requires a detailed explanation on
like the solution after three years, you can

return it to the dealer and get another.
why it is not compliant, along with the rec-
The only difference is that you don't gen- ommended steps to compliance. Microsoft
erally expect to run your business on the suc- has also committed to further updating these
cess or failure of a leased vehicle. It is clear product guides as tested product information
that PeopleSoft is banking on most compa- becomes available.
nies acquiring the application outright, as it
The resource centre also includes:
will likely be the simplest solution for them- A definition of compliance that provides
and by that time it will very much be a
known quantity,
Another solution for small business
for the simple categorization of specific
Microsoft products as compliant, compli
ant with minor issues, or not compliant.

De tails indicating how clock information
PeopleSoft is not the only company heavily promoting Year 2000 solutions to small businesses
is obtained, stored and used in Microsoft
in recent weeks. In April, Microsoft announced

the establishment of an Internet-based Year
A description of how to bring non-mmpliant Microsoft products into compliance,
2000 resource
centreon the Web. The company
says this site at http1/www.microsoft.comly
rear2000
has substantial new material, including a product guide that it says outlines the Y2K+ompli-
ance status of specific Microsoft products.
Microsoft claimed that of the products
tested, the vast majority were compliant or
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service packs or new versions to consider.
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employees and a presence in four citiesV ancouver, C a lgary, T o r ont o an d
Montreal but now has local points of presence in 36 cities and employs about 130.
TCP writer, Ross MacDonald recently had
the opportunity to ask Mike Kologinski, vicepresident of sales and marketing, about
Netcom Canada's remarkably rapid growth
and what people should look for in the years
to come:
sized business. What are you doing to attract

those types of operations to your company speci fically?
MK: We' ve recently launched a service guarantee for business customers and we' re the
first Internet provider in Canada to be able do
that. What it means is that our business
Internet services will be available a minimum
of 99,5 percent of the time. Should service levels fall below that, the customer is entitled to
a credit of 25 percent of their monthly fee.
The Co>nputer Paper: Netcom has become a

>ual'or prese>rce in the ISP >narket in a relatively
short ti>ne. What do you see is your market position in Canaria right now?
Mike Kologinski; We' re essentially a national
Internet provider across Canada with a primary focus on serving individuals as well as
small- to mid-sized business markets. We' re
one of the largest Internet providers in
Canada and we function as part of a larger
o rganization c a l led N e t co m On - l i n e
Communications, one of the largest Internet
service providers in the world operating out of
San Jose, Calif.
Netcom only reports worldwide customer
numbers, but I think the last reported statistics indicated about 550,000 customers
throughout the U.S., Canada and the U.K.
TCP: What about a similar gr>arantee for i>rdividuals?

MK. For individual consumers we haven't yet
been able to roll out a guarantee program but
we are looking at that as well. In the case of
the individual, one of the most critical things
is no busy signals that's what we hear from
our customers more than anything else. So
what we have done is implement a program
in which we actually have a way of carefully
monitoring the busy signals of our network.
Our engineers have put together a program that makes 150,000 test calls every
month to every one of our access points
across the country and we' re just continually
calling in to everyone to see if we get connected or a busy signal. We then look at the
resulting statistics and continue to build the
network so that customers will get on, first
time, 95 percent of the time during peak periods... which is the evening,
TCP: Most consunrers seen to approach ISPsas

all be>rg very similar in terms of simply providing
a >ueaus of l>ooking up to the hrtenret. Does
TCP: ls that something you would say separates
Netcom do any n>ore than that?
MK: Our p ortfolio o f s ervices includes Netcomfrom otherISPs?
Internet access, Internet domain name ser- MK: That's what we have really focused on in
a high qualivices, email and Web posting services. We also trying to establish ourselves as
ty,
very
reliable
Internet
service
provider.
offer other capabilities to our customers
through what we call a network of value- That's the position we' ve been establishing in
the marketplace. We' ve done it through a lot
added partners; designing a Web site, for
of
investment in our network infrastructure
example. Although we don't provide that ser'and
buying the best quality server and
vice directly we would refer anyone looking
for such a service to one of our value-added modem equipment possible and we' ve built a
lot of duplication into the network.
partners.
For example, we have four DS-3 facilities
TCP: You u>e>tioned focusing on su>all- lo >uid-
connecting the Netcom Canada network to
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the rest of the Internet, which is a very high

capacity circuit. So, four of those means a very
high capacity but it also means a lot of redundancy in the system. Should one go down,
there are other routes into the Internet that
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TCP: Are your custoiners, and potential customers, aware of the reliability you' re proposing
with this system?
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think, because our service is well priced in the
marketplace and easy to buy from us we
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given us excellent word of mouth, We have a
pretty good reputation and; on the Internet,
that's been a key way of attracting customers.
People ask others who they use for their
Internet service and we' ve gotten very good
referrals from our customers.
TCP: Unlimited accessto the Internet is a prime
conceniamong mnny peopleshopping around for
an ISP and many ISPs advertise tliat as a draw
though oistomers occasionally discover it's not literally tnie. Does Netcom Canada limit the number of hours a user can be logged on?
MK: Our most popular product is a flat-rate
Internet access service
$26.95 per monthand we' re careful to describe as flat rate
instead of unlimited. Although it is virtually
unlimited for 98 percent or 99 percent of our
customers, someone who's on continuously
would see their access restricted during peak
periods when our network is at capacity.
Basically, what happens is that, we have a
system that monitors, city by city, how heavi-
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on a universal standard 56Kbps service, which
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tion of access during those peak periods but to support that is made available.
We' re optimistic that will make low cost
it's something that affects only one percent or
higher speed access more readily available to a
two percent of our customers.
broader number of customers. Some people
TCP: Whnt about business cwstoiners?
have definitely held back wondering about
MK; Businesses typically do not purchase the which type of modem to buy what's going to
flat-rate product. They' re usually on a metered be the standard so now that uncertainty
service, which never has any restrictions. It' s goes away. Modems that retail customers buy
only the flat-rate service that may have lower in the very near future will all be equipped
with the V-90 standard, eliminating the
priority access at some point.
choice of which technology to buy into.
TCP: Are there auy other aspects thnt sepnrnle a
TCP: What about fiiture plans for Netcoin
business
account from a consuiueraccomit?
MK: Typically, a business wants their own Cnnada in terms of mnrket positioning?
domain name,which is "mycompany.corn," MK: One of the things that we benefit from is
and they want email accounts that similarly being part of the Netcom worldwide organizahave addresses like "Mike(IBMycompany.corn." tion. And Netcom in the U.S. has a very large
Most of our business customers opt for that product development group that continually
kind of service while most of our individual brings new services to the market and we concustomers don't bother to pay the premium tinue to both actively participate and, in some
for that and are happy with a general address cases, simply benefit from their experience.
A specific example is that Netcom U.S.
that we make available. Businesses also usually need a different mix of services like higher recently merged with a company called ICG,
speed access, more email accounts and larger which is an integrated communications comWeb sites. So the products that they pick are pany that sells local and long distance services
different, but those products all operate on as well as, now, Internet access. We' re watchthe same network structure.
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of services it cunently provides?
MK: One of the things that's imminent is we
will be converting our network to the new
standard for 56Kbps service, which is called
the V-90. We' ve been offering 56Kbps service
for about a year now using a technology called
ucts that operate over the Internet. In fact,

they' ve recently announced in the U.S. some
very attractive pricing of 5.9 cents/minute for
long distance over the Internet over 150 cities
by the end of the year. That kind of service
isn't imminent with Netcom Canada but
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o be successful, it
expenses and make a profit.
is helpful for you
to understand the 4. Failure to evaluate themselves realistically: The failure to make a frank
reasons why o t h ers
assessment of personal strengths and
were not. The bad news
weaknesses, needs and desires is a comis that the overall statismon mistake. You may find that your
tics of smaff business
business requires skills that you do not
failures are very high. It
possess, such as a goal setting, decisionis estimated that there
making, and selling. Objective feedback
I
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is a 80 per cent failure
from your family, friends, relatives, and
rate over a f i ve-year
business associates is necessary.
period from business
commencement.The good news, ifyou are S. Failure to set and revise goals: Goals
or objectives are not determined, or they
operating from home, is that the failure rate is
are ineffective because they are not mealower than that for a business started outside
surable, specific, or realistic. Preparing a
the home. This is because the initial and
business plan is an essential part of goal
ongoing risk is usually lower. In addition,
setting. Failure to reassess goals can create
there are home-related expenses you can
serious problems. Various direct and indideduct from your business income, thereby
rect factors can affect your goals and
increasing the net profit.
require them to be modified in order to
The reasons for business failure are many.
remain viable and effective. For example,
The entrepreneur's personal limitations are
unexpected problems could occur such as
the primary reason. This includes, in order or
the illness of the owner, new competition,
priority, lack of personal qualifications to run
overly ambitious timetables, supplier
a business, lack of experience in the line of
delays, increase in lending rates, or loss of
business, lack of training, and unbalanced
a major client. Revising goals will ensure
experience. These limitations lead to the following more specific reasons:
your business continues to grow despite
unexpected obstacles. Reviewing the tar1. Money mismanagement: Money misgets you have met can provide an important sense of accomplishment, self-confimanagement is a common reason for busidence, and motivation to continue.
ness failure. Some problems home businesses typically encounter include: insuffi- 6. Not being suited for a home-based
cient funds to meet startup and operating
business: A person could otherwise have
expense needs,cash flow problems, too
good business potential but cannot adjust
to the unique features of operating a busimuch debt,not enough money to grow,
ness out of the home, such as self-discicharging insufficient prices for goods or
pline to establish a regular work routine,
services to make a profit, inadequate
or ability to separate family life and work.
financial planning, poor credit and collection practices, and inadequate bookkeep- 7. Lack of commitment: Personal motivation and desire to stick with the objective,
ing. Many entrepreneurs "bleed" the busiregardless of the normal ups and downs, is
ness by taking more money from the business that it can afford, It is important to
essential. Some people give up their commitment too easily if the goal is not
save some of the earnings a buffer for
attained quickly and without difficulty.
unexpected business expenses or to reinvest the business.
2. Poor marketing: Many entrepreneurs
Reflect on the reasons for failure described
simply don't know who their prospective above and set out to do the opposite. Do a
customers are. They have not done their detailed personal assessment, be honest with
marketing research have not identified yourself, and ask others who know you well for
their market, segmented it, or actively pro- their candid input on how suited you are for the
moted it on an ongoing basis. You may business you are considering. Seek and obtain
have a great product or service, but if the quality input from your professional advisers
message does not get out, the business will and from'those people who matter most. 0
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il 15 was a busy day for the comput-
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PC hardware makers simultaneously
In essence, IBM claims to be addressing

the major complaint against PC technology,
that it is too unreliable for "mission critical"
computing. According to I BM, th e new
came out with major announcements. Over

a period of a few hours, Intel Corp. officially
released a gaggle of new processor chips,
Compaq Corp. released its quarterly earnings
figures, and IBM officially announced a
broad array of new workstations, network
servers, and many other products and services aimed at the networked business computing market.
The Intel and IBM announcements were
directly related, as most of IBM's new computer products will take advantage of the latest 350 MHz and 400 MHz Pentium II chips,
to add power to its personal workstations and
network servers. However, the sizzle of the
hottest new chips was only a part of what
made the day significant for business computer users.
lntelliStation M Pro Line
IBM introduced its new line of Windows NT
IntelliStation M Pro "personal workstations,"
which can run up to two 400 MHz Pentium II
processors. IBM claims the new IntelliStations
Senrer-to-Web solutions
In addition to more reliable hardware and bett er m anagement s o ftware, I B M a l s o
announced complete solution sets for allowing medium-sized businesses to operate on
the World Wide Web as well as on internal
networks.
Among the options available from 'IBM
s olution p r o viders a r e new Nwa y s
Multiprotocol routers, and the Lotus Domino
Web software. According to Jose Garcia, business line manager for workgroup networks,
"The question is no longer whether companies need to. integrate e-business jelectronic
business] apphcations into their information
systems initiatives. It's now just a matter of
how fast they can do it and which vendors
make the best partners.
"IBM is clearly one of the only companies
in the world with the products, resources and
expertise to deliver comprehensive, end-toend network s o lutions. W i t h t o d ay' s
announcement, we' re making it easier and
more cost effective for our customers to get
new Web-based solutions up and running
quickly, while also helping them to interconnect branch offices to critical corporate
data."
Making life
more manageable
are the first from the company to feature the

new Intel 440 BX chipset, which supports bus
operations at 100 MHz (compared to the 66
MHz speed of a conventional PCI bus), and
AGP (accelerated graphics port) graphics.
According to benchmark test results from
IBM, this allows up to three times the effective
processing speed of an older configuration
based on dual 300 MHz Pentium ll chips and
a 66 MHz PCI bus. This jurnp in performance
will allow a new generation of "visual computing" applications to become viable on the
Windows NT platform, according to IBM.
Visual computing includes real-time financial,
medical and scientific data visualization,
interactive 3D flight training, high-end animation, video and effects, and professionallevel graphics for desktop publishing,
The IntelliStations also incorporate new
manageability and security features, includi ng IBM Asset ID, Alert O n L A N a n d
LANClient Control Manager (LCCM) 2.0.
IntelliStation M Pro models start at a suggested price of $5,275.
Serving small- to large-scale
electronic business
IBM also made a major move to expand its
network server offerings in the small- to medium-sized business market, with new entrylevel and mid-range Netfinity servers. These
n ew servers, ranging in p r ice from t h e
Netfinity 3000 model starting at $2,500, are
based on the latest Intel Pentium II processors
and 100 MHz bus, but also feature technology
and service features based on IBM's mainframe computers.
Netfinity 5500 model offers hot-plug and

hot-add PCI technology, which allows
replacement of key components without
powering down the server or cutting client
PCs off. IBM's Light-path diagnostics dramatically reduces the time to locate and
fix a h ardware problem on th e server,
according to IBM. Lights mounted on the
motherboard of the server identify components that are failing or have failed, allowing technicians to home in on the problem
almost instantly. Asset management tools
in its "thin client" network computers (NCs),

with the entry-level model 100 now priced at
about $700.
As well, the IBM WorkPad line, which is
an IBM-branded version of the popular 3Com
P alm Pilot, was upgraded to t h e n e w
WorkPad PC companion,based on the new
3Com's new Palm 111. IBM only sells the
WorkPad as part of c omplete corporate
mobile data solutions, leaving the retail market to 3Corn.
IBM also announced a new Web site to
allow customers to preview and order IBM
PC products over the Internet. The new
Personal Sy
Group (PSG) site allows
Web surfers to check out IBM's offerings, but
stems
IBM alsoannounced a new, "highly managed"

desktop PC, the IBM PC300PL, a specially
designed computer that aims t o r educe final pricing and sales are handled by authorized IBM dealers, (According to Turgeon,
more than 90 percent of IBM sales go
through IBM business partners IBM directly sells to a relative handful of very large
business accounts).
IBM also showed an u ncharacteristic
scrappiness when dealing with its new major
the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of a networked business PC.

The PC300PL, which is available with an
Intel Pentium ll processor running at speeds
between 266 MHz and 400 MHz, automates
many of the networking management functions that formerly had to be performed by
technical staff.
According to Andre Turgeon, general manager of IBM's Personal Systems Group in
Canada, "The PC300PL provides customers
with IBM's industry-leading systems management technology, enabling them to maximize
their investment while minimizing their
costs. Customers can spend less time managing their networks and their assets and more
time focusing on their business."
such as the Netfinity Manager allows a network administrator to remotely monitor

hardware and software across the network,
allowing preventive maintenance of failing components, automatic installation
and updating of software, licensing compliance and reporting, and reconfiguring
of PC BIOS.
market, with two new models, starting at a

suggested list price of $1,116 for the G94
model. IBM also announced a price reduction
Other products
IBM also announced a hot new ultralight
ThinkPad 600 multimedia notebook, a lavish-
competitor in the business computing market, Compaq. IBM developed an advertisement pointing out that one of Compaq's
equivalent server offerings "cost $4,000 (US)
more unless you want the full service contract, in which case Compaq costs $19,000
more and it's ugly."
IBM is reconsidering whether it should
run that particular @, but the company's
direction is clear. Now that its long flirtation with OS/2 is over, IBM is seriously promoting e-business networking solutions on
the platforms that the market wants. These

include servers and workstations based on
Intel chips and the NT operating system,
combined with IBM's mainframe technology to give the company a price/performance
edge.
To go back toCompaq, that company
posted lukewarm quarterly profits, but
w hat should b e o f m o r e c o ncern t o
Compaq shareholders is that IBM is finally
fiexing its muscles to fight all out for the
lead in the networked business market. For
the business computing market, the picture
is positive, in that there are two giant PC
companies gearing up to compete to offer
ever better, ever cheaper computer net-
ly featured desktop replacement model with a working technology to an expanding globtravel weight of under 2.25 kg (5 lb.) and a
removable CD-ROM drive that brings the total
weight to 2.5 kg (5.5 lb.). Depending on the
configuration, it ranges in price from around
$4,500 to $6,500.
IBM has moved into the 19-inch monitor
al market. 0
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amount of ergonomic research, advice, tips

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confused.
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doing so, he tipped the load and caused the ing.
and maintain a comfortable viewing distruck to overturn.
IBM, which has more experience with key- tance, usually about 50-60 cm (20-24 in.)When it comes to using computers, boards than most PC companies (as it had its approximately arm's length with your finwhich are perhaps the most complex devices originals in the typewriter industry), suggests gers extended. Keep your head in a comany of us will ever be asked to use in the that your hands should "glide over the keys". fortable but upright position. Set the conworkplace, the ergonomic design challenges Hands remaining in a f ixed position can trast and brightness of the screen at a comare even greater. According to IBM's research, apparently cause fingers to over-reach for the fortable level. As the light i n t h e r oom
a properly designed computer work area can keys. Using a light touch for keying and changes, adjust the contrast and brightness,
make a major d
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comfort, job satisfaction, motivation, and also supposed to reduce potential health risks. keep your screen dean, use an anti-glare filsense of well-being and accomplishment." It You also need to put the mouse close to the ter where appropr'iate and, if yo u n eed
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when you are using your PC. It i s also
improvements will often result and usually or leaning over to one side.
justify any extra costs of achieving improved
The other major bit of advice that IBM has worthwhile to get your eyes examined peridesign, as well as a reduction in absenteeism to offer lies in configuration of your comput- odically.
er's display. It suggests you start by making
and accidents.
These are just a few of the ergonomic tips
Now a lot of this stuff just seems like com- sure you position the screen to minimize glare you' ll find on the Web.
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mon sense, but it is amazing to think how and reflections from overhead lights, windows
oftengood sense becomes uncommon when
and other sources. It also may be helpful to resources, visit the office ergonomics site
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strained when they first get started, and the are sent to it).
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the home and small business computer sector. th e p rinting function of a m ulti-function
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lay in the fact that he did not sell the system scanner or computer printer. The only selling
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productivity and revenue by communicating
more efficiently with employees, customers
C technology has always held out the and suppliers.
Intel says that these products ranging in
promise to small businesses that it will
price
from around $150 to $1,500 include
give them the same technology solutions
three 10 Mbps Ethernet hubs, three 100 Mbps
that have been typically available only to
Fast Ethernet hubs, two Ethernet switches and
large corporations.
One of the biggest challenges on this'front something it calls "the Internet Station," an
has been networking small business PCs. Until Internet connectivity device.
recently, this has been an expensive, complex
Of these, the most interesting is the
and dubious proposition. Until the advent of Internet Station, which is designed to help
the World Wide Web, widespread use of email small businesses connect multiple users to the
and significant sharing of data files between Internet simultaneously. Intel says multiple
users can simultaneously access valuable
users, the main networking application for
small businesses was simply to share printers. information and communicate with vendors
That is clearly no longer the case, and and customers, using only one phone line and
small businesses are now having to look long one Internet service provider {ISP) account.
and hard at how they connect their PCs. As a This potentially saves a significant amount of
result, computer manufacturers are moving money when compared to paying for multiple
quicldy to respond to this demand with a raft phone lines and ISP accounts,
The Internet Station supports both stanof new products that make it easier to get networked, managethe network, and make the dard analog phone hne and digital ISDN connectivity, meaning that you can share Internet
most of the connectivity.
access whether you have basic phone line
access or ISDN.
Intel courts small business
Intel says this Internet Station allows
Leading chip maker Intel, for example, moved
heavily into this sector in january with the office users to send and receive email messages
announcement of its new Intel InBusiness and two additionai analog PC Card modems
family of networking products. Intel says can be used for accessing bulletin boards, faxthese products are designed to help small busi- ing from desktop computers or accessing comnesses with two to 50 users "interconnect mercial online databases.
Perhaps more important are Intel's new
their PCs and gain Internet access simply and
"Plus" versions of the Intel InBusiness 8-Port
affordably."
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businesses share resources, and even increase quick creation of networks. Intel offers these
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standard on the OfficeConnect LAN modem
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computers on a LAN, while users access the
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Intel is not the only major PC market player (BRI) link. 3Com claims the OfficeConnect
behind these new small business network LAN modem simplifies networking by intehardware products. Network hardware giant grating a four-port Ethernet hub, an Internet
3Com is also moving quickly into this sector Protocol (IP) router, two analog voice/fax
to particularly meet the needs of ISDN small ports and an ISDN BRI line in one small box.
business users with its OfficeConnect ISDN
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LAN modem 10-user version.
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all their networking needs" by equipping a 10- configure the unit fo r ISDN service and
user office with a $699 OfficeConnect ISDN remains "live" during operation to alert users
LAN modem and an eight-port OfficeConnect to possible problems. 3
in a variety ofspeeds and port sizes. It says, for
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graphically intensive files or sophisticated
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By Emrn Townsend
axmodems
what's not to like? They' re
smaller, cheaper, and less wasteful than fax
machines. Best of all, they' re supported by
a host of standard programs on just about any
kind of machine, making installation almost as
easy as plugging in a fax machine,
back of the unit, giving callers the choice of

leaving a voice message or a fax. 'I'he second
makes up for the lack of a Receive Now button; if you answer the phone on the same line
as the PC/FAX Store and get a carrier in your
ear, you can automatically route the incoming
fax to the PC/FAX Store by pressing '9 and
OU1
hanging up. Not too shabby.

If you' ve already got a fax modem for your
small or home office, the PC/FAX Store is
worth the money. It only consumes 4 W
when idle, and 6 W when receiving a fax.
During the two weeks in which I used the
I'C/FAX Store, I had the computer switched
IDE or SCSIhard drive mobile rac4 reliable,

$24
IDE hard drive mobile rack, with FAN, reliable, $25
Exter
nal5.25 singleunitSCSIcase,40w,csa, $75
PC/FAX Stere 40/80

From: Panasonic
5770 Ambler Dr. Mississauga, ONL4W2T3
http: //www.panasonic.corn/PCSC/PC
PC/printers/pistop
.html
Street price: $189 (PC/FAXStore 40); $219 (PC/FAX
Store 80)
There's only one problem, one that has consistently plagued these wondrous devices: in
order to use a faxmodem, your computer has to
be on, with the fax software running. This
means that you have to leave the computer running all day, even if you' re not using it. Even
with power-saving motherboards, it means a
certain amount of energy is being wasted.
Further, if a fax comes in while you' re doing
some system maintenance or sneaking in a
game of Total Annihilation, you' re out of luck.
If this were a television commercial, this is
the point where the spokesman would brandish
Panasonic's KX-FB40C
otherwise known as the
PC/FAX Store 40. Briefly, the PC/FAX Store 40 is
a fax buffer, a tiny grey box that sits between the
phone line and the fax modem, patiently receiving and storing any incoming faxes.
To get the stored faxes into your computer, all you'have to do is activate your fax software, set it to receive, and push the Send to PC
button on the PC/FAX Store.
That's as complicated as it gets, There are
only two buttons on the unit: the aforementioned Send to PC button, and an Auto
Receive On/Off button. These two buttons can
also be used to set the number of rings before
answering, but even if you take this step you' ll
find that it takes longer to unpack the PC/FAX
Store than to get it up and running.
There are also two indicators on the unit:
one for power, and one for memory (the KXFB40C stores about 40 faxes, while its bigger
sibling, the KX-FBBOC, stores about 80). The
memory indicator consists of three LEDs,
which act as a gauge to estimate the number
of faxes in the PC/FAX Store. Of course, the
only precise measurement you' ll get is when
no LEDs are lit (no faxes present) or when all
three are lit (the unit is full). The nitpicker in
me would like to see some sort of numerical

display, but I didn't'lose any sleep over it.
Panasonic threw in two bonuses with the
PC/FAX Store. First is the ability to connect an
answering machine into a third jack in the
Externa5.
l 25 IDEto parallelcase,40w,cso, $99
standard 200W CSApower supply.
$23
AT style 200WCSA power supply, dearance, Q1
Mid Tower, 6 bays, 230w, csa,
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200W /400W UPS, w. surge prated, $139/ $209
Emru Townsend resisted the pcm"Just the fax, ma'am"

until riow. You can reprimand him at emrucern.org.
off for about 90 hours more than usual. Even

with an Advanced Power Management (APM)
motherboard, this represents a noticeable
energy savings. 0
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VGA 6'/l(y extension cable, (mm, m8,
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$95
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$188
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extensive history in modem popular houses and the salesmen who hawked them.
culture. Most people automatically (Remember Daffy Duck warning Elmer Fudd
think of The/etsons, but its history goes deep- not to "push the wed button"7) Of course,
they were also making fun of the automated
er than this single cartoon.
houses being touted in magazines and teievision at the time, promising everything from
automatically prepared meals to robot servants. The goal was to provide the nuclear
family with more of that all-important leisure
time (and, presumably, to work on being ever
more wholesome).
The idea still has some allure: witness the
collective oohs and aahs over Bill Gates' tiberhome, with its automatic follow-me-around
lighting and customizable artwork. While
awe-inspiring, the truth of the matter is that
anyone with a computer can automate their
home.
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wiring.
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fairly inexpensive (under $25), and can control incandescent lamps, ceiling and wallmounted lights, home electronic systems, and
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The simisltetty of X-10
It all started in 1978, when a company named can be programmed to switch on or off at cerX-10 started releasing products based on a tain times; the coffeemaker can be proprotocol of their devising (also referred to as grammed to start brewing shortly after you
X-10). The idea was, and remains, simple. wake up; or you can simply have control over
Using plug-in modules, the prospective home your lights and appliances from anywhere in
automator gains remote control of his or her the house. For true propeller heads who settle
(although the majority of home automation for nothing less than total control, third-party
fanatics seem to be male) electrical devices companies also supply motion detectors,
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work with X-10 devices.
X-10 sells its hardware and software packages under the ActiveHome moniker, but
other companies such as RCA, Automated
living, and IBM have gotten into the game as
well. In particular, IBM's Home Director has
been the most visible outside of h o me
automation-specific publications.
IBM does X-10
The Home Director Starter Kit couldn't be
more aptly named. The box contains a PC
connection module, two controller modules
(a lamp module and a remote module), and a
remote control. This is just enough to control
two devices, and (not incidentally) whet your
desire to buy more modules.
After 'unpacking the components, I had to
make a quick jaunt to the store for batteries
for the PC connection module and the remote
control. Six AAA batteries later, I plugged the
PC connection module into the wall socket
under my desk (fortunately, its pass-through
accepts power bars) and connected it to one of
the computer's serial ports. While the software
installed on the PC, I busied myself with the
two controller modules.
The lamp module (set to Al, or House
Code A, Unit Code 1) went into the wall socket next to the bed, and I plugged my reading
lamp into it and turned it on. I set the remote
module to A9 and similarly installed it in the
living room.
After running the Home Director software,
I was greeted by a control panel for module
Al, and then spent the next five minutes playing with the bed lamp from the PC, turning it
on and off and dimming it. (Similar playing
with A9 revealed that the remote module
makes an annoying clicking noise when it
receives a command. It has since been relegated to the coffeemaker.)
The next step, of course, was to try the
automation features; I decided to create a routine for my bedtime reading. Every night
before a work day, I read for about an hour
before going to sleep. Unfortunately, I often
get engrossed in my reading and end up staying up too late (years ago, I read until dawn);
on other occasions, I fall asleep while reading
and leave the light on all night. Using the
Home Director software, it was fairly easy to
create a routine whereby every night between
Sunday and Thursday, my lamp would switch
on at around 11:00p.m., and at midnight dim
to SO percent brightness for two minutesenough time for me to finish my paragraph
and put the book away before the lamp
switches off. After a few false starts(inen cwlpn:
I didn't read the manual fully), everything was
up and running. Now that I' ve cut my routine-programming teeth, the next job is to
have the coffeemaker start up automatically
every weekday morning.
Depending on your needs, you can program events in relation to local dusk or dawn
times, or set events for approximate times.
(The latter is designed for making houses look
lived in while on vacation.) There is also an
option for Home Director to keep track of the

previous 24 hours' module commands, so it
can build a program based on your regular
usage pattern.
Finally, there's the included remote control, which can control five audio/video
devices and, more pertinently, any X-10
module in the house, provided the remote
module is plugged in. If you find carrying a
remote around too cumbersome, IBM will
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lamp module. Also, some newer audio/video
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frenzied desire to rush Celeronb ased PCs t o m a rket. I BM
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Acer mentioned quietly that
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A e o a r s o u t ion or t e P a m P i o t
By Keith Schenglli-Roberts
eople
use their Palm Pilots for many different purposes

as a daytimer, address
book,game machine and note-taker.Asa
writer, I use my Pilot mostly for taking down
notes and jotting down thoughts for articles
(several of which have been written on the
streetcar to and from work).
enables you to use a keyboard with your Palm

Pilot. To work, PiloKey requires a small
Newton keyboard and a Palm Pilot base station. Installation and setup is easy it comes
PiloKey
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While I have mastered the craft of using

Graffiti (handwriting recognition software) I
am still a faster typist than I am a Graffiti
writer. I often find myself using the Pilot onscreen keyboard in
a n effort t o g e t
more speed. But if
you are trying to
w rite
any t h i n g
lengthy, this can
become frustrating.
If you find yourself
in a similar situation, then maybe
PiloKey is for you.
P iloKey i s a
small (5 KB) software driver t h at
PiloKev
many disadvantages. Because the unit plugs

P~aitn i at
with its own software for loading the

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loaded, attach the kttyboard adapter
t hat comes with PiloKey to t he
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Palm Pilot base station, then click on the

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keys. The Newton keyboard comes with all
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Unfortunately for potential PiloKey users,
A pple has stopped manufacturing t h e
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plugged into the base station, it also means
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By Jacques Surveyor
ublisher 98 is one of those Microsoft pro-
grams that improves with age. Some

accuse Windows or O f fice Suite of
becoming bloatware, and being too hard to
master and use effectively. These may be valid
arguments, but if you want to see a program
that approaches the complex task set of desktop publishing, and makes the task very
approachable and beneficial to starting users,
take a good look at Publisher 98.
broader range of users. Desktop publishing

demands three sets of skills:
good writing to get a message across with
clarity and interest;
good design skills to layout the message
with consistent style and impact;
and good computing skills to master all the
details of layout and design.
Heretofore, Publisher's combination t)f
design templates, easy-to-use text and graphic
Publisher 98 wizards and is our recommended

install. The 600 MB full install includes all the
many pictures, clipart and fonts Publisher 98
provides. These are also accessible from a CDROM but with mor'e effort.
Publisher 98's new Catalog Wizard is one
of the reasons why this is a lot better.
Help attd the Catalog Wizard

Publisher has long had the reputation of making desktop publishing accessible to a much
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styles, etc.
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of import capabilities
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much richer set of document templates, color
schemes, textures, and backgrounds, giving
the user three choices:
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all the clip art associated with the wizards and
templates. An 80 MB working install loads all
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of learning.
If you wanted to create a business card, all
you had to do is preview business card designs
from the template files and load one in. Click on
a text frame to change the name and address.
Customize the card with your own font style,
color and/or sizing with a simple right mouse
click. If a new logo was needed, you would click
on the Show Index button in Publisher's status
bar. Help popped up as an on-screen window
pane to guide you through all the steps in the
process of making up your logo, sizing and placing it exactly on the card as desired.
The key to making all this easy was the
pop-up Help window with its step-by-step
cues for every imaginable task in Publisher.
Click on the Show Help button, and side-byside help, a recipe or cue card to get a task
done, was displayed. Click on Hide Help button to whisk the help card of the screen when
you needed more room for editing. In sum,
Publisher allowed one to get useful desktop
publishing (DTP) work done without realizing
your were doing DTP work.
Publisher 98 retains all this and goes one
step further. There is now the Catalog Wizard
to help users choose a design template. The
templates are organized either by graphic style
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smart. It allows the user to make changes in

the templates after editing a chosen template.
Take the above business card example: if
the user doesn't like the color scheme, graphic
design, or print orientation and tiling, a click
on the Show Wizard button allows any or all of
these to be changed. Better still, the Wizard is
smart enough to preserve all previous user
edits while making the style changes requested. If the new style does not accommodate a
user edit, Publisher 98 saves the user's object
into the Fxtra Content tab of the Design
Gallery. Make room for the object in your
design and just re-insert it from the Design
Gallery. Style changes couldn't be easier.
tors for any quick fixes.

However, there remain some problems.
One still cannot read H'I'ML files into
Publisher 98. This is a pity because it would be
very useful to apply the Catalog Wizard to
some clunky Web designs. In addition,
Publisher 98 cannot handle frames, framesets,
Cascading Style Sheets, or XML Its inability
to handle the latter two is curious because
Microsoft has been a pushing these capabilities in Internet Explorer and they are now
W3C Internet standards, Finally, Publisher
98's Web code, though improved over the
past, is still rather verbose and not for the
HTML faint-of-heart.
Web Publishing
Summary
Publisher 98 is not perfect. Two of the carryover problems from Publisher 97 are the size of
Publisher 98 save files
they vary with content
but range from 50 to 100KB per page. What
makes this particularly vexing is the amount of
time Publisher 98 takes to save a page
about
four to six seconds. So a modest publication
with say ten pages will take about 40 to 60 seconds to save on a 100 MHz Pentium-based system with 24 MB of memory.
In addition, there is still no thesaurus and
only a modest number of file formats that
Publisher 98 can import. Missing are Lotus
Ami/Word Pro, Abobe PDF, O'I'ML HTM, plus
most of the popular DTP files like Framemaker,
Pagemaker, Quark Express, Ventura, etc.
Also the new Catalog Wizard has a few
frays: it insert objects on top of each other
rather than sending them to t h e Extra
Content container.
But in general, Publisher 98 is an absolute
"must-have" for small and home office and
other occasional DTP users. 0
One of the attractions of Publisher 97 was its

Web publishing capabilities. With the many
style and color schemes one could layout a
very professional Web site in short order.
The new Catalog Wizard makes that even
easier because early design decisions can now
be readily changed. Even better, Publisher 98
outputs improved hypertext markup language
IHTMI.J, The previous version used predominately graphic "snapshots" of the page elements. This had the advantage of positioning
and font-style fidelity, but could result in
pages with large download times due to the
bulky graphics.
Publisher 98 uses more HTML tables and
text control features, resulting in trimmer
Web pages
so, unlike pages created by its
predecessor, Publisher 98 Web pages don' t
have to be reserved for Intranet use Iwhere
faster transmission speed could handle the
bulky Web pages) but can be used on the
internet. In addition, the new Web pages are
more readily editable from popular Web edi-
Syrnantec ships ACT! 4.0 for Windows

ymantec Canada has launched a new version of the ACT! contact management program.
The new version, ACT! 4.0, adds a high degree of internet functionality, which is directly
integrated into the program. ACT! 4.0 also builds on the historical connection between
ACT! and WinFax Pro, which allows for the use of WinFax Pro cover pages and attachments,
SMPT/POP3 Internet support, and Eudora Pro email support. The combination of Win Fax Pro
and Internet features allows for automated faxing via the Internet, reducing the need for long
distance dial-up costs.
The new release can link directly to Internet sites, such as the Yahoo! search service, to get
map, corporate, stock market, and other contact information.
While every attempt has been made to keep the program simple, some powerful new features have been added to make the program more useful, according to Symantec representatives. These include filters for activities by date, priority, and type, the ability to generate activity reports, easier search options, and the ability to tag files.
Backup is simplified, and a new SideACT! utility can be used to hold voice mail, memos, and
to-do lists. The Liveupdate feature allows ACT! users to easily get updates, patches and product
information. ACT! 4.0 for Windows 95/NT only comes with a complete copy of ACT! 3.0 for
Windows 3.1, pius trial versions of other Symantec titles, such as WinFax I'ro, pcAnywhere,
Norton AntiVirus, and other programs.
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management category, Symantec claims.
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connections with other people, as well as
scheduling activities.
ACT! 4.0 has a suggested retail price in
Canada is $199.95. Upgrades for registered
users of earlier versions of ACT! are $119.
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Contact: Symantec. Tel: 416-441-3676
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This article contains Information on
Windows 98 based on our experiences

with beta versions 3 through Release
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at USS209.9S, with upgrades listedat
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this information is subject to change.
Note: We do not recommend

installing prerelease software on your
primary machine.
performance than the Win95 add-on version

appear to be true (despite the fact that preliminary Win98 benchmarks suggest its graphics
subsystem performance and bus throughput
speeds are a little slower than those of Win95).
The new OS boots faster; Internet FJrplorer
New features
The most obvious new feature of Windows 98 and Outlook both loaded more quickly than
is its so-called Active Desktop,.which inte- they did in Win95, plug-and-play hardware
grates the Internet Explorer 4.0 (IE4) Web detection is much faster, and the new OS's
browser into the Windows environment. Of optimization scheduler which automatically
course, IF4 is already available as a free add-on rearranges the disk-block arrangement of frefor Windows 95 and NT 4.0 systems, so this is quently used programs is likely to further
not the most compelling reason to upgrade boost application load times for most users. It
significantly improved the loading speed of
for existing IE4 users.
However, based on our tests of prerelease Microsoft Word 97 and other applications on
code, Microsoft's claims that the final release our test system. For some users, this will be a
of Win98 will provide better Active Desktop big benefit. For others, cutting load time 30
percent (e.g., from ten seconds to seven),

won't matter much.
Windows 98
New hardware support

accelerated graphics port (AGP)
DVD
FireWire (IEEE 1394)
universal serial bus (USB) devices
ACPI-compliant (advanced configuration
and power interface-compliant) notebook
or desktop systems
computer/TV integration
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multiple monitors
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rumored to be part of the final release, it is now keep in mind..
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multiple monitors and/or display adapters
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percent less space on a 1.2 GB drive)
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RAM before making the leap to Win98.
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of RAM, consider investing in more RAM.
Win98 lacks the "compact" installation option
that existed in Win95. (However, you can still
uninstall items you don't need via the Control
Panel's Add/Remove Software option.
those of Win95 in other words, you should

have 16 MB minimum for acceptable performance. Win98 runs optimaliy on systems with
24 to 32 MB of RAM, a fast hard drive and a
Level-2 cache. Some features, like USB and ACPI We recommend....
Win98 includes an option to save your previous
support, require specific hardware, of course.
3) Not enough disk space? Win98 includes DOS and Windows files, allowing you to uninDriveSpace3 disk-compression software for stall it if something goes wrong. This option
requires an additional 50 MB or so of "undo"
space on your drive. Thus, if you have 150 MB
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and positive upgrade experience.
Before you begin, though, be aware that
beta versions of Win98 have an expiry date
FAT16 partitions and can approximately dou- built in (jan. 31, 1998 in build 1602, or April,
ble a disk's capacity useful on notebook 2001 in RCO for example). Also, be aware that
computers and other systems where optimal beta releases of any product may have bugs.
performance is not the primary requirement. Don't install beta code on any system used for
The Win98 version of DriveSpace is the same critical tasks. If you have installed the shell inteas the one shipped with Win95 OSRZ. Win98 gration feature of Internet Explorer 4.0, you
also supports the new FAT32 format, which should use the Add/Remove Programs control
can recover 20 percent of the disk space wast- panel to disable that before upgrading to
Win98. We'd recommend that, before upgraded by FAT16 on drives larger than 500 MB.
The important issue is to note that the ing, you back up your important data.
FAT32 format no longer supports compressed
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compress them.
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for some drives, and leave others as FAT16 or
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programs such as McAfee VirusScan 3.x work
well with the new release. Thanks to its high
compatibility with existing Win95 titles, we do
not anticipate compatibility problems with
many apps, although there are a few
MacLAN
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ask your dealer.
Tip: Copy the Win98 directory from the
CD-ROM onto your computer's hard disk for
added convenienceand reduced setup times
while you are setting up your system. When
Win98 asks for the CD-ROM to load device drivers, etc., just browse to the location on your
hard disk where you' ve copied the directory.
You can always delete it later. A hard-disk-based
installation takes only about 15 minutes, compared to 30 to 60 minutes for an installation
from CD-ROM. It is best to uninstall the Active
Desktop (Web integration) option of IE4 before
installing Win98. Although we have tempted
fate by not doing this, there have been no dire
consequences.
Despite its high compatibility with Win95,
an issue that's worth considering is the possibility that certain hardware and software you
currently use might not work properly under
Win98. We' ll discuss several solutions to this
problem including one method that's 100
percent guaranteed to.provide full compatibility but we'd recommend you make a list of
any programs you simply have to use, and ask
your dealer or local Windows expert if he or she
knows of any incompatibilities related to those
programs and Win98 and, if so, whether an
updated version or workaround is available.
Fortunately, we' ve found only a few Win95
or NT4-compatible hardware devices with
Win98 compatibility problems: so far, only the
GVOX guitar interface and Applica U2 caused
us problems, and only the latter product, a card
and cabling system that allows two users to
share one CPU, caused serious "blue screen. of
death" errors.
Because Win98 supports the same drivers as
Win95, chances are good drivers for many
existing devices will work. Further, because
Microsoft has distributed Win98 to the attendees at the Windows Hardware Engineering
Conference (WinHEC) in April 1997, developers have had time to ensure their products can
be updated to take advantage of new Win98
features before its release.
Warning: We had software problems with
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sound card's mixer showed up partly off-screen,
but otherwiseworked well.
Beta expliry date
Ever wondered what happens when the "time
limit" on beta versions of Win98 runs out (RCO
of Win98 expires on April I, 2001)? So did we, so
we set
the clock ahead and rebooted. Bad Plan.
After that date, an annoying message appears
every time you reboot, telling you your beta
licence has expired and advising you to upgrade
to the final version. (A few months before the
expiry date, awarning
message starts appearing,
telling you the deadline is coming up.)
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Ready to begin? For the sake of brevity, we' ll
assume you are familiar with the general
process of setting up a PC and installing
Win95; you will find Win98 almost identical.
After reading the release notes and ensuring
your hardware is supported, make sure that
all your system's peripherais are turned on.
Insert the Win98 CD-ROM or locate the
appropriate directory on your drive and run
Setup.
If you attempt to install Win98 onto a
hard disk or partition larger than 500 MB, it
will ask you if you want to enable large disk
support. This is the FAT32 option mentioned
earlier. As the release notes mention, FAT32 is
no faster than FAT16 and is, in some cases a
little slower. On systems with partitions larger than 1.2 GB, enabling FAT32 makes good
sense. For maximum flexibility in the configuration of FAT16 or FAT32 partitions, we' d
recommend Power Quest's Partition Magic
3.0. This product can even turn a FAT32 partition back into FAT16
something Win98 is
not normally able to do.
The first thing Win98 does is check your
system's hard disks for errors. We' ve found
that, if you have certain types of removable
storage devices, such as a magneto-optical or
floptical drive, you might need to eject the
disks before Win98's Setup will allow you to
continue.
Once the check is done, Win98 loads the
so-called Setup Wizard, which will guide you
through the installation procedure. (If you' re
not already familiar with the concept of Help
Wizards, you will be as there are a lot of them
in Win98 and related products.)
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Selecting the directory where you want to
install Win98:
You' re given the option of installing Win98
"on top of" your existing DOS and Windows
installation, or installing it into a different
directory. This is about the only really tough
choice you have to make in your Win98 install.
Here are the pros and cons of each choice.
Install to same directory Pros:
You don't have to reinstall applications;
system automatically migrates system settings and existing Program Manager groups;
and it saves disk space.
Install to same directory Cons:
If a program or hardware device isn't compatible with Win98, you are out of luck.
Install to different directory Pros:
gu aranteed compatibility with all hardware
and software;
yo u can switch at will between Win98 and
DOS/Windows 3.1 (etc.) simply by holding
down the F4 key at startup time. (Note that,
if you enabled FAT32 on the boot drive, this
"dual-boot" option does not work without
use of a third-party patch.)
Install to different directory Cons:
yo u have to reinstall all your applications;
and your old DOS/Windows directories and
related files take up additional room on
hard disk.
On balance, we'd say that, for most users
who are upgrading, it's a lot easier to replace the
existing DOS/Windows. Moderately advanced
users with new computers, where there are few,
if any applications pre-installed on the hard
disk, or users with new hard drives (especially
large ones!) might gain some peace of mind
from the knowledge that there won't be any
programs that won't run on their systems, but
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comes with it may be overkill.
For the record, we have several systems
loaded with both versions of Windows, and we
seldom if ever have the need
or inclinationto switch back to Windows 3.1. However, the
more likely you are to purchase "exotic" (nonmainstream/special-purpose) hardware or software, the more inclined we are to recommend
the switch-boot option.
Next, the system checks for installed components and checks to make sure there is
enough free disk space.
Tip: If the setup procedure freezes or crashes, try shutting off the PC, disconnecting
peripherals and trying again.
One compelling new feature of Win98 is its
support for multiple displays, where each monitor can display different information. To use
this feature, they must both be PCI (It does not
work if one is AGP!). You should install Win98
with the primary display adapter only, and then,
once it is set up and working, shut down, add
the second graphics card and monitor, and let
Win98's plug and play feature take it from there.
For example, if y o u h a d a M a t rox
Millennium and an S3-based video card, you
might start with only the Millennium card in
the system. When Win98 has booted, shut
down and attach the second video card and
monitor. When Win98 reboots, it recognizes
the second card and presents a message that
says "lf you can read this message, Windows
has successfully initialized this display adapter.
To use this adapter as part of your Windows
desktop, run the display applet from the
Windows control panel."
Unfortunately, if you do not see that message, it most likely means that your secondary
adapter cannot be used. Try a different graphics

adapter.
Computer) and choose Properties. A new Disk

Cleanup button allows you to easily delete
temporary files and old downloads. If you are
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During the installation process, you will be and revert to your old version of Windows, you
asked to identify your network protocol if the can choose to "Delete Uninstall files," too. If
system detects a network card. It doesn't really you delete this uninstall information, you' ll
matter if you choose NetBEUI, TCP/IP or some reclaim about 60 MB of disk space, but you
other protocol initially, you can configure oth- won't be able to easily uninstall Windows 98.
ers and add or remove items at any time.
A new Desktop icon makes an appearance
Tip: You can add an improved set of
in File Open and Save dialogs. Click it to jump
QuickView drivers to a Win98 or Win95 system immediately to the C:NWindowsNDesktop
using Inso QuickView Plus or Adobe File level of your hard disk. Shades of the Mac!
Utilities.
Try clicking this Desktop icon twice to see
Some users don't bother installing the items another useful feature it toggles between
listed under Accessibility options, but they have recently viewed directories.
at least one useful function: the ability to make
Microsoft has changed the Windows 98
your system beep when you accidentally press Online Update feature since its original appearthe Caps Lock key. Just turn on the ToggleKeys ance in early beta releases. Now, the update
feature in the Accessibility control panel,
function also searches for third-party updatesHopefully, the rest of the installation
presumably a revenue generator like the obnoxprocess will go as smoothly for you as it has ious ads in WebTV for Windows, or the ISP list
for us. Most users agree that Win98 is quite in the Win98 dial-up wizard, where Microsoft
simple to install and configure, at least during gets paid for recommending the services of AOL,
the installation process.
CompuServe and other providers.
When, at last, the installation is completed (as mentioned earlier, this takes between 30
and 60 minutes when installed from CDROM), the system restarts (perhaps more than
once, depending on the options you choose) F4 If you chose to install Win98 to a separate
and, after a few screens that allow you to condirectory than a previous Win3.1 installafigure the time zone and various other
tion on a system with a FAT16 boot disk,
options, you arrive at the Win98 desktop.
holding down F4 at startup time runs your
If Win98 did not identify one or more
previous version of DOS and Windows.
devices connected to y ou r system, t r y F$ Bypasses your startup files and starts Win98
installing a Win95 driver, or refer to the
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network services in also available.
similar to that of Win95 (differing mostly in the
way its drop4own menus "swing out" into
Safe Mode is useful for troubleshooting, or position), most users will probably want to
temporarily bypassing auto-starting programs or install its IE4 shell integration feature, which
device drivers that may be causing your system provides a variety of user interface enhanceto crash. If your system crashes or has another ments, such as single+lick file access, the soserious problem caused by a piece of software or called Active Desktop and an overall "browser
hardware you' ve recently added to your PC, the metaphor."
system will automatically invoke Safe Mode, in
When this option is enabled, Win98 has a
order to allow you to remove or reconfigure the very different look and feel than earlier
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ROM driver on the emergency floppy boot disk made to the taskbar along the bottom of the
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switch to the root level of your hard drive (so

that the search will examine your entire disk),
middle of the screen where they become float- press Control-Esc and then tap "F" twice.
ing palettes, too. Click the right mouse button
Control-Esc, as you will undoubtedly notice,
in the taskbar to see and configure the new tool- pops up the Start Menu. Tapping F-F calls the
bar options.
Find command, and then chooses the Find Files
Another change in the way the toolbars or Folders choice from the available find
work is evident with a single click. Applications options. As you may have noticed, the "F" is
can be minimized (sr maximized with a single underlined on the Find Command, as are variclick on their taskbar icon. This single-click ous letters on virtually all other menu and diainterface manifests in virtually all aspects of the log boxes throughout Win98; this is an easy way
IE4-integrated Win98 interface. (You can enable to tell what the shortcut keys for a given comor disable the IE4 shell integration at any time mand are.
with the Add/Remove control panel). For more
Win98 returns a list of all files that match
information, see the Windows Help menu.
any part of a name you type into the Find diaThe taskbar is used for more than getting log's text box. You can also search inside docunew users up and running, however. Microsoft ments for a specific text string (choose the
says that, during its usability testing of Windows "Advanced" tab and type the word you want to
3.1, it discovered that only 24 percent of experi- f ind into t h e "Containing text:" f i eld).
enced usersswitched between maximized appli- Naturally, Find operations take longer when the
cations with the Alt-Tab key combination (Alt- contents of each file must be searched.
Tab still works, by the way). In Win98, the
Caution: if you move executable files or
names of running apps show up in the taskbar, rename the folder a program is in, Win98 may
which is visible (and movable) at all times. A sin- be unable to find the program the next time you
gle click on an application's name in the taskbar try to launch it.
switches to it.
In other words, if you create a shortcut to an
To move the taskbar to the top or side of executable file and place it on the Win98 deskyour screen, click on it and hold the left mouse top, then rename the original executable, the
button down as you drag it to a new position. shortcut will essentially be severed, With
Note that you can also adjust its width by drag- Win98's often-touted long filenames, we can
imagine that many users will go gleefully
ging its edge.
Win98 also allows the default taskbar or any renaming files and directories, unaware that
of your custom toolbars to be slid to any edge of they are severing shortcut after shortcut in the
the screen, or set to auto-hide. You can turn this process. Suddenly, none of their applications
feature on for the default bar with the Start work, and a computer expert must be called in
menu's Settings: Taskbar... option. For custom to undo the damage. We can imagine that a
toolbars, just right click in the toolbar and Win98 upgrade without proper training and
choose "auto-hide." You may need to select support could result in a tech-support night"Always on Top" before you can select the auto- mare for many businesses.
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tion you want it.
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subsidiary manufactures the Palm III connected
organizers, and Microsoft recently began licens- is aimed at creative talent (above legal drinking its Windows CE operating system for use in ing age) with a variety of training, such as art
palm-size devices, it had designated as Palm school, marketing degrees, and communicaPCs. As part of the agreement, Microsoft will tions studies. Individuals, teams, and even
discontinue use of this term and will referring whole schools, officials say, can enter.
Design Contest 1998 is an international:
to the category of devices as "Palm-size PCs."
Contact: 3Com, http: //www.3com.corn
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ugly, but the government departments issuing creative talent to "design a new beer brand."
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ments of motor vehicles (DMVs).
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products will include large scale computerized "a surprise" for their hard work. The contest
facial recognition systems that will use Facelt ends on Oct. 1, 1998.
technology "to combat identity fraud right at
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its source, the driver licence," making it "vir- the way to enter the contest can be found on
tually impossible" for anyone to obtain multi- the "Design Contest 98" Web site.
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are operating outside the environment of the

enterprise network, asserted Julie Roberson,
manager of mobile software marketing.
"We' ve developed a product that will
make sure traveling execs and field service
repsget equal access to bandwidth management, data management, and systems management," Roberson said.
Mobile Equalizer extends these advantages to mobile workers through "key message queuing," a technology based on IBM's
MQSeries middleware, in addition to agents
for TME and Notes.
Roberson predicted that the new software
for enterprise servers and remote clients will
save money for corporations, pointing to figures from the Garner group pegging total cost
of ownership for laptops at $11,000 annually,

as opposed to $7,000 for desktop PCs.
John Krachenfels, product manager for
Mobile Equalizer, said IBM worked with end
users and administrators to achieve a user
Interface both find "very comfortable."
Mobile Equalizer's "key message queuing"
features include checkpoint restart and message selectivity, along with compression; the
ability to work off line; and store-and-forward
messaging with assured delivery,- Roberson
said. If a phone line connection fails, checkpoint restart will automatically reestablish the
link, "without making you start it again," the
IBM exec said.
Through message selectivity, the user can
view a list of messages with estimated transfer
times, selecting those for immediate transmission or retrieval. "You can preview the headlines to see whether this is a message you
want to deal with right now. If there is a large
attached file, for example, you might not
want to download it" Krachenfels said.
Administrators can opt to mark some mes-
sages with "boxes around them," for mandatory download.

Built-in agent technology for Lotus Notes
provides selective replication for Notes users.
In addition, administrators can use builtin agents for TME 10 for systems management; electronic software distribution; and
active publish-and-subscribe.
Although "administrators will set and
enforcethe rules," administrators can also opt
to distribute rules that users can select such
as "automatically distribute software if connected after 7 p.m.," for instance.
A beta edition of Mobile Equalizer is slate d for a v ailability b y m i d -April f r o m
bttp://wwww.software,ibm,corn/enetwork/mobile/.
The product is set for official release on
June 24, and will be available in 10 languages,
Roberson said. Mobile Equalizer will come
with a developers toolkit that includes APls
(application
p r o gramming i n t e rfaces);
automation scripts; and sample code.
IBM plans to add integration between
Mobile Equalizer and t h e L o tus Pager
Gateway in July. 0
Contact: IBM, http: //www.ibm.corn
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Jim's Titanic site by Jim Sadeer

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trol over the layout of elements on a Web page, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), proposed
the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)

specification in
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Though all of its elements have not been universally adopted, CSS has had its share of success. Now from the W3C comes CSS2, a new
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sound that were missing from the first CSS
specification. CSS2 includes support for such
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fonts, support for paged media, enhanced posi-
ther than this, providing the browser with displayedwhenever itappearson a Web page. ways they can shape and craft their Web
downloadable font types if a font specified on This can be
by adding an "equal pages. However, it should be stressed that at
a Web page does not exist on a user's comput- sign" or an "almost equal" sign to your CSS the time of writing none of these features can
er, so the Web author can specify exactly what code, as in the following example that high- be found in the popular Web browsers. It may
font should be displayed. This new mecha- lights the words "trademark" and "copyright" take a while before CSS2 catches on in a big
tioning elements and more powerful selectors. nism also supports Unicode, making it much whenever they appear in a page:
way, since many of these changes rely on the
The introduction of aural style sheets easier for Web authors to add characters from
browser manufacturers to add significant new
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Keith Schengili-Roberts welcomes any comments,
duced in the new specification. Aural style changing the way a bold tag appears on a Web
These and other such additions in the suggestions or HTML tips and tricks you mayhave.
sheetinformation ina Web page isdesigned page,you can selecthow a single word ran be CSS2 specification provide Web authors with You can email Keith ab robertsk@wave.home.corn.
to tell a browser how the text on a Web page
should be interpreted and read by some sort
of speaking device. In large part aural design
is there to aid the blind, but has other uses
too, which will likely have important applications for mobile computing. Aural style sheets
could read out a page while you a user is driving, or other instances when the user's hands
and eyes are otherwise occupied.
Many of these new elements can be used in
conjunction with standard HTML tags, modifying their aural behavior. CSS2 enables you to
control such things as the rate at which the
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When you createa new document based
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screen together with any text and other formatting contained in the template. You can
work on the document as you would any
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how you edit it. It is saved like any other document too. The template itself will not be
changed by anything you do in your document this is what makes them so usefulwhich allows you to use them over and over
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on modem
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$180.
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$400.
461-4168.
905-528-7190.
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Graphic Arts. 905-270-8209 ex 3108.
tart lid 575.
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416-281-8895.
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AMD 386
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T NE LAST B Y T E
Iy Jeff Evans
ell, it's official, sort of.
Internet addiction exists.
Something millions of
disgruntled s p ouses, t e achers,
employers, and other "significant
others" of compulsive Internet users
have long suspected is true: the
World Wide Web has spawned a
new breed of substance abusers.
Info junkies. Surfin' slaves. Chat
c huinps.
MUD
man ia c s .
Onlineaholics.
In num e rable
"wired" men and women are so intimately dependent on a regular data
fix that they display the classic
symptoms of the addict, with all the
personal, social, economic and even
criminal costs of addiction.
This is the thesis of a new book,
Cuiight hi Tlie Net, by Dr. Kimberley
S. Young, an assistant professor of
psychology at the University of
Pittsburgh. Far from being an exercise in pop-psych exploitation, this
book is a c alm, compassionate
description of a growing social problem, and a prescription for helping
Internet addicts recognize and modify their behavior.
Mynameis ohn ane Doe
a free trial subscription to t h e

Internet, and then cancel it after a
month . This is called the churn
rate, and ISPs are always trying to
figure out ways to get their subscribers to stay interested (online
businesses like a mild degree of
addictiveness to what they offer).
However, when an addiction is
o bviously beyond c ontrol a n d
becoming harmful, it's appropriate
f or those concerned about t h e
addict to get involved. Young recommends a range of strategies to
reach the addict and moderate the
troublesome behavior. In m a ny
cases, since the addiction is associated with a lack of more positive relationships, it's essential for those trying to help to examine their relationship with the addict.
Perhaps ironically, there have
been several recent cases where
employees fired for misuse of the
Internet on company time and
equipment have sued their employers for exposing them to the hazards
of internet addiction, without offering proper training, supervision, or
remedial help.
In fact, many businesses, schools
and families are trying hard to
i mplement w ay s to mon i t o r
Internet use and misuse, and to
s upervise and i n t ervene w i t h
Internet users' behavior before lasting harm can be caused. This raises
issues of privacy and censorship, but
What's theharm?
it is better to debate these problems
The Web has so many varieties of up front than to simply reject and
entertainment and socializing that punish the addict after the damage
whatever turns you on is probably has been done.
Perhaps the most basic message
out there. Various kinds of pornography form one obvious area of of Young's wake up call is that the
attraction, though not the only one. m ost important t h in g i n a n y
ln many cases, the objects of the human being's life is contact with
surfer's desire are more diverse: other sympathetic and caring peoonline computer games, gambling, ple. If, for whatever reason, somepolitical or social debate, chat room one isn't satisfied with his or her
friendships, sports and celebrity immediate, "real world" relationtrivia. These activities are not as ships, then he or she is especially
socially disapproved of as online sex vulnerable to the temptation of
(though online gambling is turning online alternatives. The best cure for
up as a problem more frequently), Internet addiction is for people close
to the addict to reestablish a posibut when they monopolize the
user's time, or when online friend- tive, human connection with the
troubled person, and to work with
ships turn abusive or irrational,
them to reduce the problem. As
they can have very negative outalways, the key to the appropriate
comes.
Serious addicts, whatever the use of technology is the human facvariety, eventually find the addic- tor.
The ancient Greeks said that the
tion begins to take a toll on the
other parts of their lives, and on the invention of steel was a curse from
the gods, since it made war so
lives of people who depend on
much cheaper and deadlier. The
them.
Internet is sometimes seen as a
curse that d estroys traditional
Reality checlv. what to do
and I'm an Internet addict
A cry In the darb

Young wrote Caught In The Net after
three years' study of Internet abuse.
She was spurred to investigate the
phenomenon by a call for help from
a friend whose husband's constant
Internet use was eroding their mar- music and pictures can be very
riage. Her friend claimed, "He' s enticing,
What most attracts some people,
addicted to the internet." Young's
curiosity was stimulated and she however, is the potential for apparbegan to pick up on other references ently safe, unrestricted social interto Internet obsessions in the media. action wit h l a rge n umbers of
Devising a variety of techniques to 'strangers. Online, there is a s'eemtry to gauge the real nature of the ingly infinite number of potential
problem, Young started compiling acquaintances and friends (and
even "lovers" ) from all over the
data on the phenomenon.
She started with a simple ques- worid, who are just waiting to chat,
tionnaire on problems resulting debate, and share fantasies. In a surfrom overuse of the Internet in
prising number of cases, Internet
ly competitive workplace. This initial approval can come from family

members, teachers, employers and
co-workers. Rarely do we think we
may be initiating a harmful process
by getting someone wired.
Brain candy
The computer i s a n in t i mate

machine. Its glowing screen connects
with incredible directness and force
to a user's mind and feelings. The
Web offers immediate connection to
November 1994, which she posted users quickly come to look forward millions of other people, without the
to Usenet groups. Within a day, to their Internet time as the most limitations of real social life.
Fantasy can take flight, and
dozens of responses began piling enjoyable part of their day. Soon,
up in her email box, posted by peoonline time can begin to crowd out Internet users can express themselves with a unique freedom, in
ple who were concerned about other activities and "real world"
ways they never would in face-totheir own overuse of the Internet, relationships.
and its effects on their families,
Young found Internet abusers face encounters. Mild-mannered
work and s c hool. T hese f i rst often share common features. The office workers can become mighty,
"addicts" reported they were often personality profile of an "at risk" ruthless warriors. Shy, insecure stuuncomfortably aware they had a
user includes loneliness, low self dents and housewives can portray
problem, and disturbed that they esteem, large blocks of unsupervised themselves as exotic and beautiful
couldn't control it,
time, and a history of other sub- to online friends who may be simiYoung developed more sophisti- stance abuse or maladaptive habits larly deceptive about their own
cated questionnaires on the effects or obsessions. However, this profile appearance, habits, or even gender.
of extreme Internet use, and inter- doesn't limit itself to the stereotype Once Internet use becomes intrinsiviewed large numbers of heavy of the asocial young male nerd. cally satisfying, it's as though the
Internet users, as well as parents, Housewives, blue collar workers, surfer's brain becomes conditioned
educators, employers and others high achieving college students, to produce the chemistry of bliss
who deal with Internet addicts. At business executives, doctors, and just by thinking about going online.
The kind of happiness that may
every stage, Young seems to have even, (according to recent press
been deluged by addicts desperate to reports) ministers and rabbis, have o nly occasionally occur i n l i f e
know what to do about their prob- all been found amongst the ranks of off line, becomes almost guaranteed
every time the addict-in-training
lem.
the Internet addicted.
In addition to the pleasure some logs on, Real life is rapidly displaced
If It feels good, do It?
users find in spending much of their by virtual life. According to Young
What Young found was that using lives on the Internet, there is often and other researchers, someone who
the Internet can be an incredibly strong initial social encouragement finds Internet use intensely pleasursatisfying experience. The sensation for becoming technically literate. able may find it as hard tocontrol as
of effortlessly flying through a uni- This ability is seen as a key to suc- abuse of tobacco, caffeine, or other
verse of s tories, conversations, cess at school and in the increasing- addictive substances.
If anyone suspects they or someone social and personal relationships.

they know may have a problem, The key to its appropriate use is to
don't panic. Many people who dis- recognize the basis of that danger,
cover some new fad or enthusiasm
go through a "honeymoon" phase
where they can't get enough of the
new experience. Then they often
begin to lose interest, and either rel-
and to concentrate on building positive networks of caring and of

communication, "offline" as well as
online. 0
egate the activity to an appropriate Contact: Dr. Kimberley S. Young

place in their lives, or lose interest
in it entirely.
Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
are very familiar with the large
numbers of people who sign up for
can be reached at ksy@pitt.edu, or

http:liwww.netaddiction.corn.
Caught In the Net
(ISBN: 0-471-19159-00, $27.95),
is published by John Wiley and Sons.
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