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jULY 1998 THE COMPUTER PAPER GREATER

TORONTO EDITION
Po41ng aroggnd the dlgltal dar4rooDn
images captured at. the highest resolution.
A few of us around the TCP office are pho-
This means you must have ready access to a images. Traditional photographic prints don' t
computer to download the images orsavethem preclude this, but some projects are much easat a lower resolution. A 4MB card still costs ier to achieve if your imagesare already digital.
around $100, sostocking up on a few of theseA couple of the digital cameras reviewed
tography enthusiasts, so preparing this

month's feature on digital cameras vuas aspecial treat. We had the opportIInity to look at
the latest the industry has to offer.
allow us to explore new uses for personal
as one might stock up on a few rolls of film is in this issue include PhotoVista panorama-
We were gen- simply out of the question for most people.

erally impressed
The second, and somewhat related probwith, the image lem, is battery life. Most digital cameras use
quality coming standard AA batteries, which is good because
f rom
t h e s o - replacements will be readily avauable from any

called
m e ga- comer store. However, you might be a little dispixel cameras. mayed at the frequency with which you will
With o n e of have to replace them, particularly if you use the
t hese and a LCD screen to preview or review your images.
p hoto-qual i t y
The third issue doesn't have as much to
inkjet printer, it
do with cameras per se as with the whole
is not difficult to process of making prints. Some manufacturcreate snapshots ers Olympus and HP come to mind offer
that are as good as what you would get taking special printers that allow you to easily out-
creation software from a company called

LivePicture. (Other software companies,
including Apple, offer similar products) The
software allows you to create 360-degree
computer, using your mouse to move the
angle of view left or right through a full 360

'
kind of technology to allow potential buyers

to take a virtual tour of the inside of houses.
Artists have posted panoramas on their Web
ways to go. However, as a starting point for a you can also make snapshots with special
graphic, digital cameras can be handy tools. inkjet paper. However, with inkjet technolo- sites, and commercial photographers are
Check out the paint box on this month's gy, the issue of image permanence rears its including panoramas at part of the images
cover. This image was taken with one of the ugly head. Whereas a properly photofinished they have for sale.
better-quality cameras reviewed in this issue. print will last 50 or even 100 years, an inkjet
Panoramas are just one type of image
The image exhibits some pixelation, which printed image has a much shorter lifespan, facilitated by digital cameras. As more people
our graphic artist, jana Kolar, masked with measured in months rather than years. A begin to alse these tools, we' re sure to discovsome Photoshop special effects filters. She Lexmark spokesman recentlyexplained that er other ways to express our creativity.
also enhanced the saturation of the colors, as long as inkjet inks are dye-based, the probwhich tended to be a bit-washed out in the lem of fading will persist. Only when some- The bgAslness pages
original image.
Ironically, the image we selected came from
a camera that did not have the highest resolution in terms of the most pixels captured by
the imaging sensor. However, it did have very
one develops a pigment-based inkjet ink will

they be able to extend the life of images.
Also in this month's issue is our first supplement,Tech nterpri

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devoted to business tech-
Lexmark recently developed a pigment-based nology. As digital technology pushes itself into
black ink, which the company claims is both more comers of our lives, we need to gain a
more durable and waterproof. Color is prov- better understanding of computers and related
good optics. The lesson here is one every pho- ing to be a bigger challenge.
technologies. That is especially true for small
tographer knows: the quality of the camera
business, where technological proficiency is
lens is as important as resolution of the film.
01g1talto digital
not an option; it is at the core of survival and
Despite the progress made in digital cam- You might conclude that digital cameras aren' t prosperity. If you own or work for a small to
era technology, today's digital cameras are worth the bother because you can get images medium business, we hope you find this supstill not quite ready to replace film cameras of equal or better quality for far less money plement useful, entertaining and illuminating.
for three reasons.
with a 35mm film camera. If snapshot-style
First, storage remains problematic. A 4 MB prints are all you want, that would be a reaEnjoy the issue
memory card will hold approximately 10 sonable conclusion. However, digital cameras
David Tanaka, Editor
LETTER$ l dr
let',s prepare for V10K
Everybody is talking about the Y2K problem.
Even Sundaymorning
chat shows are lining up
pundits. There is nothing wrong with making
the general public aware of the problem. What
I hate is their attitude toward the "stupid" programmers who didn't foresee this problem.
Actually programmers did foresee this
echnology"
Pentium II t
I found what I feei
are some misinformed opinions regarding the
Celeron Processor, specifically in the last paragraph under that heading.
Mr. Halinda states "Buyer be especially
wary if you plan on purchasing a PC that will
be used for some intense gaming. On the

other hand, if a Celeron processor will power
problem but they also believed that manageyour office PC, where you do little more than
ment would get around to putting aside extra Word, Excel and email, you have little to
money to resolve this problem when hard- worry about," This information is somewhat
crates that garners crave. Checking framerates
And the Celeron is overclocking-friendly. I

don't recommend overclocking, of course, but
we are resolving the YZK problem, we are lay-
CPU yet costs considerably more. In fact, a
ing the seeds for the YIOK problem.
Cyrix 6x86PR266 outperforms a Celeron over-
Pance Stojkovski
clocked to 333MHz in this test as does the

AMD K6-266. But don't just take my word for
Oont agree with Celeron deployment
it, others have tested this performance and
I recently finished reading Steve Halinda's arrived at the same conclusion; the Celeron is
article and lab tests on "The fastest Pentium a BAD choice for office applications, period.
Ips" (TCP June1998).
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TORONTO EDITION www.tcp.ca
Most garners who want power don' t Jeff Evans failed to make any mention of Apple
mind spending the extra $200; Heck, most of
them are spending $4000 anyway... $200 is
only five percen more for a all-around faster,
better processor.
But that's just my opinion.
Glen Anderson
Computer's portable PowerBook products.

Jeff m akes n o me n t io n of t he
Apple/IBM/Motorola G3 chip designed for
portable use, It consumes less than a quarter of
the power of the I'entium 11 chip. 'I'he slowest
puters deserve to be included in a paper that bills

itself as rCanada's Computer Information
Source." C'mon guys take the blinkers off and be
brave enough to mention the computer that
gave Bill Gates his catch-up idea of "Windows."
Tom Hidderley
Mac, with a 233 Ii IHz I'owerl'C G3 chip, has

more than twice the speed of the Compaq
M;/. replies: /)ue to our editorial deel/ines, we
Armada's 266 MHz I'entium Iv(MX chip. With 11'ere onll' ble to get nesvs of Ap/>I<'s nevt G3three screen sizes to choose from and two expan- basecl Powel'book into thcILC. <In(i electro>u'c eclision bays that will accomodate anything froln a tionsofour l/ol publiction. Iv'c certinly greeit
second battery to a DVD player surely these corn- 1vs cn> in>I)ressiv(' tou>olulceln('nt, <IS ws nc'(vs of
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For the first and possibly last time I picked up
your paper focussing on Mobile Computing, the
June edition. The articles by David Tanaka and
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More fRilot IEeyhoard tips
I have read the latest edition of Tile Conlputer
Paperand was very glad to see the article on
using a Newton keyboard with the I'alml'ilot.
(see eA keyboard solution for the Palm I'ilot e
in the June issue) Last week I made my own
version of PiloKey, and all I spent was $2 at an
electronic parts store for a mini 8-pin female
DIN connector. (Actually it you have some old
MAC equipment, you can most likely to use
the serial port connector.)
Personally I haven't tried the PiloKey software from Landware but there are at least two
other freeware Newton keyboard drivers for
Pilot. FreeKey (http: //www.undergrad.math.uwater
!oo.ca/-njaharve/freekey.html) from Nicl Harvey
a t U n iversity o f
W a t erloo a n d K e y Z
{http: //www.umcs.maine.edul-radlow/pilot/) from
Jeremy Radlow at University of Maine. I am
using FreeKey because it is smaller than keyZ.
A cool feature I like about I reeKey is I can
use ctrl-option-backspace to turn off my I'ilot.
Now let's talk about hardware, you can go
to FreeKey's web site, there are instructions for
make you own ronnector. I choose to install
the mini tl-pin DIN connector at the back of
the cradle but you can make an adapter with
a 9-pinD-type connector on one end and DIN
connector on the other.end.
'I he Newton keyboard itself will draw power
from the serial port, and it uses very little power
(official rating is at 4.5V 0.00(3A), the output of
the keyboard is an RS-232 signal. After using the
Newton keyboard for a week, I like it!
Derek Kwan
Write-offs for SOHO
Itod I.amirand's article was (see '"The well-outfitted home office" in the June issue) informative, interesting, and accurate until the section on taxes. A 30 percent Capital Cost
Allowance on a $3,000 computer is not $1,000;
it's $900. However, even that number is wrong.
In the year of purchase, Itevenue Canada
requires you to do two things, pro-rate the
deduction for the number of months you
owned it that year (a purchase on July I would
give you a 6/12 deduction), then divide that
number by 2. Therefore, the deduction in the
first year for a $3,000 computer purchased
July 1 would be $900/2 or $4$0/2 equals $225.
The following year, the dedurtion would be
($3000-225)*.3, which equals $832.$0.
Lamirand states: "One of the main raveats
here is that these savings ran only be applied to
your business income. You can not run a horne
business to create.a loss and then applythat loss
to other inrome,sYou tn d o exact ly t hat. If you
are in business to make a profit (as opposed to
making the occasional dollar froln a hobby or
other interest), but have a loss one year, that loss
can be applied to other income, You can' t, however, apply expenses from the home (the busi
ness's share of elertricity, rent, mortgage interest, etc.) to create or increase a loss. If you have
a loss, these expenses can be carried over to the
fogowing year's profit to reduce the taxes paid.
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t's all about power, market share and
money. Despite all you may have read,
seen and heard about the recent action by
the United States Department of Justice
against Microsoft Corporation, it is not really
about software, Internet browsers or technology. It's about who gets what and how they
get it.
At the core of the case against Microsoft is
the allegation it has attained more than 90
percent of the computer operating system
(the software that controls the way your computer's screen looks and acts) market share
through questionable business practices.
The U.S. government's case also alleges
Microsoft has used the power of this effective
monopoly to force computer makers and
users to choose its Internet Explorer Web
browser rather than the browser of its major
competitor, Netscape, by "tying" the browser
to Microsoft's Windows operating system.
Additional allegations by some U.S. state
attorneys general further accuse Microsoft of
using its Windows monopoly to gain wider
acceptance and an 80 percent-plus market
share for its Microsoft Office suite of office
productivity applications.
At the end of the day, power and market
share equal more money for Microsoft more
than enough to keep Ivficrosoft co-founder
and chief executive officer, Bill Gates, at the
top of the annual
Forbeslist of wealthiest businesspeople
in the world. This
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Exclusionary and predatory conduct

The United States government says it wants to
stop wMicrosoft's continuing efforts" to maintain its "operating system monopoly by
exclusionary and predatory conduct, to
unreasonably r e s training co m p etition
through various exclusionary and predatory
practices, including tying and other exclus ionary agreements, and t o a t t empt t o
monopolize the Internet browser market."
Microsoft is being asked to do a number of
things in a U.S. government motion for a
"preliminary injunction," filed May 18. These
include a demand to remove what the government says are restrictive clauses in agreements with internet service providers (ISPs)
and computer manufacturers. Even more
daunting are demands that Microsoft either
remove Internet Explorer from Windows or
allow users the option of installing either
internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator when
internet content providers, independent software vendors, and consumers the freedom to
choose the Internet products that are installed
on their computers," charges the government
in its May 18 f i l ing of c l aims, "Unless
enjoined, Microsoft will carry out the next
significant step in this continuing pattern of
anti-competitive
c o n d uct . Mi c r osoft's
impending illegal actions, coupled with its
ongoing exclusionary conduct, will maintain
the software giant's existing monopoly power
over personal computer operating systems
and extend that monopoly to another critical
market the market for Internet browsers."
existing Windows 95 operating system.

"Over the past two years, Microsoft has
engaged in a pattern of illegal and exclusionary conduct designed to deny personal computer makers, Internet service providers,
Even if the government succeeds in winning

support from the courts, it will by no means
be. the end of the story. The more important
anti-trust question is, can Microsoft be broken up into a series of smaller companies to
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prevent it from again using a monopoly in

one sector of the software industry to build a
new monopoly in another?
That question started to appear on the lips
of anti-trust experts in the United States in
the weeks following the filing, as they debated the merits and potential consequencesof the U.S. Department of Justice's anti-trust
case against the world's largest independent
software company.
One of the leading lights in this debate is
Washington, D.C.-based lawyer I'eter Huber.
He is a veteran of anti-trust cases and was the

a uthor of a 1 9 8 7 r eport f i led b y t h e
Department of Justice reviewing the AThH'
divestiture decree, Huber also recalls the long,
p rotracted case against I B M b y the
Department of Justice, which ran throughout
the 1970s and into the early 1980s.
Huber seems uniquely qualified to comment on the Microsoft case as he used to work
at the same law firm as U.S. Assistant
Attorney-General Joel I. Klein (who has led
the government's current case against
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Microsoft). Another former colleague at that

firm was Klein's immediate predecessor Anne
K. Bingaman (who won a 1995 "consent
decree" against Microsoft in the government's
first fight with the company).
"It could come to that [the break-up of
Microsoft), but certainly I don't see that in this
round [of legal action]," Huber says. "I think it
is inevitable that Microsoft will liberalize its
contracts with equipment vendors, give them
more flexibility over initial screens and what
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will also give up all attempts to write restrictive
contracts with Internet service providers.n
As someone familiar with both the players and the anti-trust issues that saw ATftrT
broken up Huber suggests it could depend .
less on legal arguments made on both sides
than on the personalities of people like Klein.
"Joel Klein gave me my first employment
as a young lawyer 14 years ago and he is a sensible, level-headed person," says Huber. olf
anybody else was in charge I would have been
worried that there would have an attempt to
s top distribution of W i ndows [until t h e
browser could be removed from it], but he has
not sought an injunction to block distribution of the program entirely. And knowing
Klein as I know him, I am not surprised."
As to any move that would see the government attempt to break Microsoft into
independent operating system and application software companies, Huber says "we see
no sign of that yet." He adds, however, that in
a trial, it is "almost possible" that such a thing
could happen. l3ut Huber suggests very few
judges would be prepared to claim such an indepth understanding of th e i mpact of a
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Jackson announced Microsoft has only three
months, until Sept. 8, to prepare its case. It
had requested seven months. Although more
time is better for the software giant, Jackson
did give Microsoft some good news with the
bad. He announced that he will not hear the
plaintiffs' requests for various injunctions
related to bundling browsers with Windows
98 until after the official release of the operating system, June 2S. Et/.J
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cautious in their comments on t h e case.
According to international Data Corporation
analyst Jean,Bozman, the real issue lies in
what Microsoft is offering consumers by conducting business in this manner.
"Microsoft is saying that it is making life
convenient (for consumers] by bundling
[Internet Explorer with Windows]," she says.
"The debate is about convenience versus
choice. Microsoft could put it all together [the
browser and the operating system], but while
it is convenient for some, choices are being
made very early on for other people. Shouldn' t
it be possible to offer greater choice?"
Bozman suggests perhaps Windows 98
could be redesigned to offer only a basic set of
browsing functions to which other thirdparty companies could add, in the same way
Netscape offers the capability for "plug-in"
applications to integrate with it.
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Di ital cams on the ver e o mass a eal

By Chudc Calloaai
s a digital camera destined to become part

of your life? Most likely. If not this year,
perhaps next year. Here are some reasons
for the growth of this market:
Falling prices: ln the last few months, the
price of many digital cameras has dropped by
2S percent or more.
Rising quality: Digital output is already
m ore than sufficient for posting on t h e
Internet, or printing on photo-quality inkjet
printers.
Competition and technology: Because
both camera and electronics manufacturers
are producing digital cameras, there is keen
competition. Manufacturers depend on technology to gain the competitive advantage.
Thus, as they work feverishly for greater market share, quality will continue to rise and
prices drop, further fueling sales.
Inexpensive software and color printers:
'I'he Iow prices of color printers, as well as
page-layout, image-editing, and greeting-card
software are also stimulating digital camera
sales.
The internet: 1his may well be the biggest
factor influencing sales. Digital cameras are a
boon for Web page designers and consumers
wanting to attach photos to email or send
electronic postcards.
Many benefits: Digital cameras are far
more convenient than conventional cameras.
Snap a picture and see the results on a I.CD
screen in seconds. Not happy with what you
see'. No problem; delete the file and try again.
It's better than instant-film cameras, since
there's no expensive film to waste.
Save on film, processing, and scanning
costs: Shoot, enhance, and manipulate photos
without a messy darkroom, and get results
fast.
Many applications: The variety of applications for digital photography is a powerful
lure, attracting new users. Digital cameras are
proving to be a valuable tool for many, including Web page designers, insurance claim
adjusters, law enforcement officials, desktop
publishers, real estate agents, building contractors, and news and portrait photographers.
Digital cameras will soon be everywhere.

True, sales are modest when compared with
film cameras, but the industry is still in its infancy.
Nevertheless, the signs are clear. March sales,
for example, were double that of January,
and International Data Corporation predicts
sales will climb to US$1.5 billion by 2001.
one million points of information for
each color. I say only one million
because that amount of information is
very small in comparison to the amount
found on a3S mm negative taken by a
film camera.
However, in practice, megapixel digital cameras don't fare too
badly. According to Jim Omura,
who has written about digital cam-
proposed a new standard: CIFF (camera image
, "-5 My<
eras in previous issues of TCP,

"'Let's assume a typical standard
lens and 'drugstore film' system gave at least 40 lines per
millimetre at S0 percent contrast in full color. A comparative specification in digital
technology
mig h t
be
1,440x960 pixels at 24-bit
color."
'I'he latest cameras offer
1,2IIOx960 pixel resolution,
which is close to t y pical drugstore
photofinishing quality.
Another aspect of image quality is
how usable digital images are in realworld applications. You get a good idea
with a couple of simple examples: magazinequality printing and images on a computer
monitor.
- Connectivity: Depending on the camera,

images may be downloaded to your computer
via the serial port, parallel port, SCSI connection, 3,S-inch floppy (with Sony's Digital
Mavica), PC card or floppy disk adapter. In the
future, we may see cameras using a USB (universal serial bus) connection, or lomega's new
Clik! drive. The Clik is similar to a Zip drive,
but the removable discs are much smaller and
hold 40 MB of data. They are expected to sell
for around $15 each.
Image Sensors: Currently CCD (chargecoupled devices) and CMOS (complementary
metal oxide semiconductor) image sensors are
used in digital cameras. CCD's offer superior.
color fidelity and sensitivity in low light.
However, CMOS sensors cost far less to make
(because of high production), require less
power {extending battery life), and can incorporate additional circuitry (reducing camera
body size).
File formats: To make digital images transferrable, 20 camera manufacturers (including
Canon, Nikon,Pentax and Olympus) have
VGA).
If my digital camera has a lowly

resolution
of
3 40x280, h o w
large w il l
the
image appear on my monitor? Answer:
4.7x3.9 in. or nearly 4xS in. (if my monitor is

set to VGA resolution>, which is big enough
The quality needed for basic glossy maga- for most applications.
zine work is a miniinum 300 ppi (pixels per
Most reasonably priced digital cameras
inch). If you use a 150-line screen and use the have a resolution of 640x4IIO, which correrough rule of thumb of doubling the half-tone sponds to a full-screen image at VGA resoiuscreen.
tion, These are often adequate for Web work,
Here's how to apply the formula. Let's say
I have a megapixel camera with a resolution of An Industry ln flux
Making sense out of resolution
'I'he resolution of digital cameras is usually 1,280x960. How large can I reproduce the Because new developments are swirling about,
expressed by the arrangement of pixels on the image? No larger than 4.3x3.2 in., because some may wait for the dust to settle before
sensor. For example, if the sensor has 640 pix- 1,280 pixels divided by 300 ppi equals 4.3 in. buying. The digital camera market is in a state
of flux because of the following:
els per row and 480 rows of pixels, the resolu- and 960 divided by 300 equals 3.2 in.
Can we makea sharp 4x6 In.im age? Nope.
M emory cards:
'I'hese are used to increase
tion is said to be 640x4II0, the same as VGA
resolution o n y o u r c o m puter m o nitor. Can we make a Sx7 in. enlargement? No way. the number of exposures that can be taken, or
Multiplying the two figures gives us the total How about an 8x10 in.? Forget it! A high qual- in cameras with no onboard memory, are the
ity gx10 in. image would require a picture sole medium of storing images. Three differnumber of pixels. 'I'hus, a resolution of
640x480 can also be expressed as 307,2{)0 pix- with a resolution of 3,000x2,400, or 7,200,000 ent types of memory cards have emerged as
replacements to the I'CMCIA standard: Intel's
els. 1'he more pixels, the higher the resolution pixels.
This example looks only at pixel resolu- Miniature Card, SanDisk's CompactFlash, and
and the sharper the image,
Most digital cameras capture images in 24- tion. In reality, other factors come into play Toshiba's SSliDC (solid state floppy disk card),
bit color (16,777,216 colors). Each of the near- with professional work, For example, the lens- also known as SmartMedia cards. Of the three,
ly 17 million colors is a unique combination es on most sub-$1,500 digital cameras are not CompactFlash seems to be gaining the most
of red, green, and blue. 'I'o define color, one- the same quality as those on professional 35 support among camera makers. We predict
third of the image sensors capture red, one- mm film cameras. Also, digital cameras typi- this will emerge as the standard,
There are PCMCIA adapters for both
third capture blue, and one-third capture cally use some kind of image compression,
SmartMedia or CompactFlash cards that allow
green. Therefore, a resolution of 640x4II0, or which can introduce artifacts to the image.
Here's a second example: How large can these devices to be read from the PC Card slot
307,200 pixels, is really equivalent to 102,400
we
make our image on a computer monitor of a portable computer. 'I'he CompactFlash
points of information for each color.
without
loss of quality?
card is available in capacities up to 48 MB. For
Even it we' re working with a m u l t iTo find the size, divide the resolution by SmartMedia memory cards, adapters are availmegapixel camera with a resolution of three
million pixels, the sensor can only capture 72 ppi (the average for most monitors set to able allowing access from a floppy drive,
file format). Meanwhile, film companies,

Kodak and Fuji, support another standard:
EXIF (exchangeable image file). For now, most
cameras use JPEG, and some will store images
in the FlashPix format proposed by Kodak,
Microsoft, Live Picture and others.
Image processing: After taking a picture,
intensive processing takes place in the camera.
Analog circuitry filters and enhances the sensor output, which is converted to a digital bitstream. The data is then cleaned, color corrected, formatted, compressed and saved.
L'xpect new cameras to shift this intensive processing from the camera to your computer,
resulting in far lower camera costs.
For the above reasons, you may want to
consider alternatives to an expensive digital
camera. You don't need a digital camera to
digitize your photos. Instead, you can order a
Kodak PhotoCD at your photo retailer. Some
dealers also offer inexpensive floppy photo

disks. Furthermore, you may want to buy your
own scanner because of the huge price drops.
Scanning your own photos makes a lot of
sense,
New camera standard
Acer, Compaq, Epson, Hewlett-Packard,
Kodak, Polaroid, Toshiba and other computer
and camera manufacturers have agreed to
comply with a ne w standard called the
Portable PC Camera '98 Design Guideline. If
followed, digital cameras should share some
basic characteristics, such as the following:
Mi n i mum of 640x480 resolution
I. ossless compression
Support for the FlashPix file format

Im a ge processing shifted from the camera
to the computer for lower camera costs
Support for USB connectors
Removable flash memory for storage

Built-in electronic flash for indoor and
outdoor photos
Battery life of at least 100 exposures

A downloading rate of at least two i
m
ages
per second
An audible click after each exposure
No m ore than a five-second delay after
each exposure (ten seconds for flashexpo-
sures)
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Digital cameras go up Everest
The two digital cameras used on this expe-
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high enough for projection onto a large manufacturer, were solicited by 'I'umpach
screen and Tumpach is forever touring the
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astronaut or jet pilot are standard kiddy

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ent vision when he was aleetle tripperskavich in
1950s Czechoslovakia. He wanted to climb the and 45 hours of digital video.'I'he slides wert
seven highest mountains in the world.
A forward leap by several decades brings us
to the present, 28 years after Tumpach
escaped to the West and only a few months
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send the pictures to the satellite. We could
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with a much higher resolution but then the
file sizes would have been way too big to
transmit to the satellite in the time we had."
As it was, the average )PEG file for each
photo was about 100 to 140KB and took eight
to 12 minutes to transmit through one of the
expedition's two Imersat M telephones up to
the satellite link. The 3.6 kg (B lb,) Imersat M
satellite telephone system looks like a
portable computer, but instead of a lid containing the screen, there is a dish antenna.
1 he oniy technological problem Tumpach
encountered was losing the satellite link
while a long transmission of digital photographs was in progress. Finding the geostationary satellite and establishing a link was
apparently easy, taking less than 10 seconds,
But the signal had to travel from Everest to
the satellite, from the satellite to Perth,
Australia, then along many ground iines and
numerous microwave switches before eventually ending up in Calgary, where 'I'umpach's
Web server is located. '1'his complex system
collapsed and disconnected many timesusually after about seven minutes forcing
them to transmit the same data each time.
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of his DC-SOs too because the digital photos
they were sending to the newspapers back
home were of poor image quality. "When
good pictures started showing up, the newspaper called them to ask what camera they
were using but they didn't want to say
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The memory cards were "emptied" into

the expedition's three NEC Versa 60SO notebooks, then transmitted through a satellite
link at the end of each day.
"The NECs were the only computers that
didn't collapse," he says. "Panasonic and
Hewlett-Packard computers that others were
using just didn't last. in fact, there was a
Spanish expedition at the base on the north
side jone of eight parties that arrived there at
the same time), which ended up borrowing
one of my Versas because their computer had
given out.
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because they presented absolutely no problem in the extremes of heat and cold that
characterize an Everest assault. "We had
problems with both of our Nikon 35 mm
cameras at Katmandu and in the Annapurna
region because of the extreme humidity, but
our digitals kept going," he says.
"The digital camera is also good because
in extremely dusty conditions you don't have
to worry about the film getting scratched.
You' ve got to keep it clean and protected, of
course, but particles don't scratch the Film
because there isn't any."
The Kodak DC-50 stores about 26 highdefinition pictures on one 4 MB PC Card
memory card. Tumpach had four cards in
total.
flexible solar energy collectors that look

like... well... blankets. During the daily climbing, or any other time they were outside, they
would drape these blankets over their backsand their Yaks recharging the batteries for
their devices all day. Neatol
In addition to his Web site, Tumpach is
working on a book of his adventures, which
will b e a p propriately called T/ ir Sr v nr
5'awnrits: Owe Man's Dreaw.an account of fulfilling his childhood ambitions, replete with
exactly the same as running a multinational mm cameras and the two digital cameras,
corporation. Expedition leaders are like the Tumpach'steam hauled two Sony VX-1000
chief executive officers, the supervisory staff digital video cameras and a Sony DVCAMand the labor all at the same time. The fact 537, which is a studio-quality incarnation of
that it costs approximately $200,000 to con- the VX-1000.
duct an Everest climb means they also have
Anyone experienced in t h e p o rtable
to be careful about. corporate relations, which world, even with a cell-phone. is probably
is why his Spanish peers felt compelled to asking what type of batteries such an array of
demure at promoting or even identifying- 'wireless technology demands.
a competing sponsor's product.
Tumpach found a nifty solution to that
In addition to the three notebook com- problem too. Members of his team all carried
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ne of my favorite things to write
about here in the Test Lab is how
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processor designed for notebook computers.
Here are some interesting facts concerning the
new mobile version of Intel's latest processor:
It c omes in a mini-cartridge version, as
opposed to its desktop SEC (single-edge
Connector) counterpart.
The new design is about one quarter of the
weight of the SEC cartridge and one sixth
the size of the desktop version.
It consumes two-thirds the power of the
desktop version.
It operates at an internal core voltage of 1.7
volts.
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The new processors operate at 233 and 266
MHz, the same as their desktop counterparts.
With these new Mobile Pentium II chips, a
consumer has more processing. power available than most would know what to do with.
I mean, let's face it. I:,ven the most demanding
multimedia applications won't need anymore
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bells and whistles such as a larger monitor,
plus much faster overall performance even at
the same clock speeds. Most of us take a note-
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with them. Let's say there's a particular PC or
notebook you' ve been eyeing for some time
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know will meet all your computing needs,
and then some. Will that same PC be any
less useful to you if tomorrow you learn
that a new processor has entered into the
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pie will be crunching 82 MB Photoshop files
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dering 3D images or playing Quake (well,
slim at b est. Sure
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there's an extra 33 MHz
ln fact, for the amount of time the typical
user spends on a notebook, he or she may i n t here, but the numbers don't tell the whole
very well find that even one equipped with 16 t r u th. And this holds true for both desktop
MB of RAM and a 166 MHz Pentium MMX a n d notebook PCs the overall speed of the
processor is overkill. If all you' ll be doing is system is determined by far more than the
typing u'p letters or checking email when c l ock frequency.
you' re away from home or the office, you
Thi s m o n th, we' ve looked at notebooks
obviously don't need the power of a Pentium r a nging from as little as $2,350 to more than
Il in your notebook. This industry has done a $6,000. When we first planned to review midvery good job convincing the consumer that r a nge notebooks this month, we were thinkfaster is better. But is it really! just how much i n g along the lines of machines equipped with
166 MHz processors and 32 MB of RAM priced
power do you need in a portable PC?
close to $3,500. What we ended up getting
instead, was a mixed bag of machined ranging
Categories set on their ears
Of course, there are those who rely on their f r o m the Toshiba 300CDS to a fairly loaded
notebook as much as others rely on their
I B M Thinkpad 770. No matter who we talked
desktop machines. If you' re on the go a lot, t o , the message was the same: because of the
especially in sales, then a high-performance new Mobile Pentium II processors, anything
notebook may very well be what you need..
s l o wer than 200 MHz is history.
When we were planning this lab test, we
Bec a use of the wide variation of models
had targeted what is sometimes called the w e received this month, we' re handling the
"business-class" notebook. These are usually l a b test portion a bit differently. For one
priced in the middle band, roughly $4,000- thing, we aren't giving out any Editor' s
$6,000. As it turned out, primarily because of Choice awards, simply because there is too
the introduction of the Mobile I'entium II
m u c h variation in our product samples to
processor, defining this category became make a fair or meaningful comparative rating. For example, the ThinkPad 700 family is
increasingly difficult.
For example, a high-performance system I BM's premium line, while Toshiba's Satellite
in February used a 233 MHz or 266 MHz 3 0 0 i s part of that company's entry-level
Pentium MMX processor, a mid-range system line.
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the introduction of the Mobile Pentium Il
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redefines as usinga 266MHz Pentium II. And o n j u s t over half o f t h e machines not
accordingly, the 233 MMX system became the enough to make a fair comparison.
mid-range, while the mid-range system gets
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2mb PCI video 8 33.6 vfx modem
Enh Win95 keyboard, mouse & speakers
P-233A MD'
$697
P-266A MD'
$795
P-300AMD'
$927
Add Windows cd ver /TV Tuner $135/$110
Intel Pentium chipset or LX/BX440 Pll chipset

32 mb fast10ns SDRAM 8 4.3gb hdd
Blitz 3D 4mb fast AGP video, 15" .28dp mtr
Mouse, kybd, NetLink 56k vfx modem,32x CD
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sound, 80w speakers,550 CD titles
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Ms-Windows 95 cd ver installed & configured
Intel Pentium chipset or LX440 Pll chipset
64 mb fast 10ns SDRAM & 4.3gb UDMA hdd

64 mb fast 10ns SDRAM 8 4.3gb UDMA hdd

Mouse, kybd, NetLink 56k vh modem,36x CD

Wave 32 sound, 120w speakers, 550 CD titles
incl encyclopedia.and IOMEGA Zip drive
P-233AMD'
$1570 or lease $58/mth
Penll-266MMX $1853 . or lease $69/mth
Penll-300MMX $2044 o r lease $76 /mth
Penll-400MMX' $2930 o r lease $108/mth

ATI 3D Exprstn 4mb PCI video, 1T .28dp mtr
Mouse, kybd, USR 56k vfx modem,32x CD
incl encyclopedia and edutainment titles
Penll-266MMX $1795 o r lease $66/mth
Penll-333MMX $2194 o r lease $81 /mth
Penll<OOMMX $2873 o r lease$106/mth
InteVAsus LX/BX440 Pll mbd
Intel Pentium or LX440 chipset
64 mb fast10ns SDRAM & 6.4gb UDMA hdd

Blitz 3D 4mb fast AGP video, 17" .26dp V773
64 mb SDRAM & 6.4gb UDMA hdd
128 mb SDRAM & 6.4gb UDMA hdd
ATI Expit@Play 4mb AGP, PC2TV video

17" V773 .26dp Viewsonic mtr, Kytmc kybd,
MS Intellimouse, Ensonic PCI, USR 56k vfx
modem, ACS 45 spkrs, Toshiba 32x CDROM
Ms-Windows 95 cd ver installed & configured .
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17" Sony200ES .25agp mtr,W in95 kybd
Mouse, SB64AWE sound, USR 56k vfx mdm,
120w spkrs, 36x CDROM, Zip drive or LS-120
Ms-Windows 95 cd ver installed 8 configured

64 mbfast10ns SDRAM & 6.4gb UDMA hdd
Matrox Mill II or ATI Xprt Play 8mb AGP
video, 17" .26dp V773 Viewsonic mtr mouse,
kybd, USR 56k vfx mdm, DVDII kit, SB64AWE
sound, 120w spkrs, 550 CD titles encyclopedi
Penll-300MMX $2765 or lease $102 /mth
Penll-333MMX $2973 or lease $110/mth
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kybd,USR 56k vh mdm, DVDII kitSB64AWE
sound, 120w speakers, 550 CD titles encyclp
Penll-266MMX $3062 orlease$113/mth
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14.1" Active mabix 1024x768 clr 32mb ram

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Penll-300MMX $2324 o r lease$92/mth

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128 mbfast10ns SDRAM & 6.4gb UDMA hdd
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$ 2 10 1 or l e ase$78/mth

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12.1" Active matrix 800x600 clr 32mb ram
3.1gb hdd, 256k/512k cache 8 1.44 flpy
no USB/USB,20/24x cdrom, 2/4mb video
2x PCMCIA, no TV out/TV out, SIS/TX chipset
Approx 2hrs battery life, carry case & ac adptr
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P-300AMD/9780
$2230 or $83 /mth

$2575 or $95/mth
$2695 or $100 /mth
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Upg to ATI Xperte Play 4/ Smb/ All In Wonder Pro 4/ Smb AGP
Upg Blitz to Diamond Monster 3D 4mb/ 3D II 8mb (OENI)
Dwngd Pll-268cpu to Pll-233cpu/Celeron 266 cpu (not worth It)
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Upg 4.39b to8.4gb/8.4gb UDINA hdd/ Wave32 to SB16/8864...
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$1451

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$1225
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15.1" Active matrix 1024x768 clr 32mb ram

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$3209 or $118 /mth
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$3667 or $133 /mth
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$4480 or $166/mth
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$4187 or $155/mth
P-300AMD
$4335 or $160/mth
Pll-266MMX
$5243 or $194/mth
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Weight
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3.3 kg (7.5 lb.)
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Windows 95
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IR port
Extras
carrying case
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$2,399 SRP
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good package with all the basics you want in
a notebook. Due to a Windows 95-related
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CD-ROMdrive
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256KB
32 / 96.
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3GB.
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30x23x3.8 cm
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Palm Rest
10 cm (4 in.)
Weight
1.8 kg (4.9 lb.)
Lithium Ion
Battery type
Windows 95
Operating system
Yes
IR port
n/a
Extras
Price
$5,500 SRP
Contact: 800-265-061 6, http://www.panasonic.ca
Analysis:
good overall quality as can be expected
from Panasonic
CD-ROM and floppy drives are removable
removable
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Crystal SRS
3D
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Panasonic CD-35
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IBM ThinkPad 770
M A K E S Sc. MODELS AVAILABLE
It's very hard to find anything bad to say

about the ThinkPad 770. We had the privilege
of testing this same model in January, when
this a notebook with a 233 MHz MMX processor was top of the line. Its price has come
down considerably, but its performance is still
nothing short of spectacular. The configuration we tested is priced at $6,399, but that can
be further reduced if you choose a smaller
hard drive or go with a NiMH battery.
very good quality screen
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excellent system loaded with features

spectacular 14.1 inch Tl I' screen
large 5.1 GB hard drive
fast 20x CD-ROM drive
built-in 33.6Kbps modem
Analysis:
quite affordable
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Palm rest
9 cm (3.5 in.)
Weight
3.5 kg (7.8 lb.)
Battery type
Lithium lon
Windows 95
Operating system
Yes
IR port
Eidras
n/a
Price
$6,399 SRP
Warianty (years parts, labor) 3P, 3L
Contact: 800-465-7999, http: //www.pc.ibm.corn
33.6Kbps (internal)
2
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31.2x25x5.6 cm
The CF-35 from Panasonic has all the makings

of a good notebook PC, but at a suggested
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much as its competitors. There is no excuse
for the 256KB Level-2 cache or for the outdated 10x CD-ROM drive. lf this machine were to
cost roughly $3,500, it might be in the running, but with its current configuration and
high price tag, you won't find any bargains
here.
Palm rest
Weight
Battery type
Dperating system
IR port
Extras
Sceptre Soundx 550OT
2
Touchlmd
30.25x23.3x5.1 cm
(1'I.9x9.2x2 in.)
8.9 cm (3.5 in.)
3 kg (6.62 lb.)
Lithium lon
Windows 95
Yes
The PC-M200 from Sharp offers a slim, attractive design with a good makeup of components, although at a suggested retail price of
$4,499, it's not exactly a bargain. For a
machine equipped with a 200 MHz processor,
the benchmark scores it achieved were very
good and certainly worth noting.
carrying case
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Price
$3,399 SRP
Contact: 000-788-2670, http:/iwww.sceptre,corn
Analyslss
nicely configured system
Video RAM
Hard disk
great quaiity 13.3 inch TFT screen
CD-RDM drive
floppy and CD-ROM drive are interchange- Roppy drive
Audio
able
competitively priced at $3,399 SRP
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and flat-panel displays. Recently, the compa- Dimensions (WxDxH)
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notebook world, having won a number of
2MB
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20x (internal)
removable
Crystal 3D
56Kb ps
(internal)
2
Touchpad
31.5x25.5x5.6 cm
(12.4x10.1x2.3 in.)
Palm Rest
6.35 cm(2.5 in.)
Weight
3.7 kg (0.2 Ib)
Battery type
4thium Ion
Operating system
Windows 95
much goad in a Windows 95 environment. IR port
Yes
An additional 16 MBs are definitely recom- Extras
n/a
mended.
Price
$4,499 SRP
Contact: 000-567-4277, htlp:llwww.shar p,ca
awards. The Soundx 5500T we looked at this
month is a good overall system at a competitive price, but with 16 MB of RAM. it won't be
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Video RAM
Hard disk
CD-RDM
Floppy drive
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Processor (MHz)
Cache
Screen (in.)
Video RAM
Hard disk
CD-ROM drive
Floppy drive
Audio
Modem
PC Card slots
Pointing device
Dimensions (WxDxH)
EthernetCardPCISorecam..... $30.00
5 Port 198 - T
HUB...,....... $ 55.00
8 Port 108 - T
HUB........... $ 00.00
16 Part 108 - HUB..........
T
$1M.OQ
Doytok14"1024.28.......... $190,00
Doytok15".28......... . . . . $239.00
Daytok17" .28/,26......., .. $40S/44S
Acor 15" 1280.2056C........ $285jN
Shamrack14"/15" .29,....... $105/260
Shamrock
17" .28....,....... $505.00
Shamrock
17" 16QDX1260.25.... $595.M
Acer17"76E0.28/.....,..... $4'15.00
781E0.26........... $405.00
SAMSUR
G15" IE)............ $315.QO
SORT
)DOES15" 025...,..... $415,0D
SOOT
2MES17" 12900.25 .... $170.00
SONY
200PS17" 12600.25 .... $1030.0D
Yiewsaoic17" PT775,....,.... $045.00
Viowsoaic17" 0773.......... $040.00
USR
568lnt wl Voice(OEM.)..., $110,00
Aaer 33.6K
with Voice......... $ 5 5.M
Aaer 56K
Iot. with VoiceV.90.... $ QD.QQ
Desk
Tap,2MWLED.......... $ 42.M
Mini-Tower.
250WLED......... $ 3000
IOid-Tower,
250WLED/ATX...... $42/85
Full-Tower,
25DW1ATX........ $125.M
CreativeLobDVDEncore DXR2... $3053N

Toehibo
32X,..........,.... $,MAN
Ponasooi24X/32X......,....
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$ 80/55
Aaer 32X/36X............ ... $ 65/00
Acer (6206)6W2R.......,.... $445.00
Acer Scanner
319S300dpi FB... $155.00
Acer Scanner
310P300dpi FB... $135.00
Acer
Saonoor610PSQOdpiF.B...$ 105jN
SB-16 PoP .........

SB-AWE
64(OEM).....
AcorAWE32 ........
ATI 3DExpression + 4MBw/MPEG$ M.M

ATI 3D
ProTubro4MO/OMB..... $115/145
ATI Xpert@P)ay
4MB(AGP)IDME) . $145.00
ATI Xpeit I Work4MD(AGP) (OME). $120.00
ATIXpertXLPCI Ragepro4MB(EDO). $08.M
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ATI
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ATIAGP3DCharger 4MB(EDO).... $85.M
ESS1916SoundCord.
S3 SonicPCI........
49.0D
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32.00
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HP Deskje692C..........,..
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$ 310.00
HP Los
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Pent.
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HP Scooje510OC............
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P/L (MN) withAudio . $105.09
HP 722C......,..... . . . . ... $ 425.00
GigabytePentM,B.TX2512K... $ 150.00
HP Losorlet 6L .............. $ 52MS
AcusP2L97(ATX) ............ $195.00
HP 670C............... . .., $ 2904l
AsasP2L97(S)(A1X).......... $320.DD
HP 1000CXI
OMDPI........... $515,M
Acus1X-97w/512K.MMX...... 5 175.00 Brotherlaser7300X/76ON Plus. $430/540
Asus PH
P2BX............... $245JN
BrotherMFC7069
Arista 44DLX
PET 6ATXMJ3 .... $ 149.00
Maltikuactioo
Centre........... $940.00
ABIT44DLX PET6............$1M.OO
Canon
4300..........,..... $ 249.0D
Canon
B)C-250.............. $ 105.M
Canon
8)C-4200SE....,..... $255.00
Keytrooia
104Keys/95......... $ 28AID
Epsoo
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Miteumi104K.B...,......... $ 17.M
Epsoo
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(11.9x9.4x2.2 in.)
Palm Rest (in.)
7.6 cm (3 in.)
Weight (ib)
3.4 kg (7.7 lb.)
Lithium ion
Battery type
Operating system
Windows 95
Yes
iR port
carrying case
Extras
Price
Contact: 800-387-5645, http: //www.toshiba.ca
No doubt about this machine from Twinhead:

if you' re looking for great value, the Slimnote
91'E has it all from it's built-in 56Kbps faxmodem to its 3.2 GB hard drive. Unfortunately
the newer version of Windows 95 OSR2 that
was installed on this machine was not compatible with BAPCo Sysmark32, so we had no
performance numbers. Normally we would
have re-installed a compatible version of
Windows 95, but due to ti ming constraints,
we were unable to do so.
Analysis
has the makings of a solid entry-level system

~ small Level-2 cache size of 256KB is not
typical of Toshiba
built-in )6x CD-ROM and f)oppy drive
coexist simultaneously
uses an Enhanced S1'N screen as opposed to
Active Matrix, further reducing cost
benchmark scores suffered as a result of 16
MB of RAM
800x600
2MB
3.2 GB
20x (internal)
internal
Yamaha OPL3-Sax
56Kbps internal
2
Touchpad
29.7x23.6x4.8 cm
(11,7x9.3x1.9'in.)
If you' re looking for an entry-level notebook Palm Rest (in.)
n/a
from a name you trust, the Satellite 300CDS is Weight (ib)
3.15 kg (7 lb.)
a great place to start. Although it won't win Battery type
Lithium ion
any awards for speed, it still has the makings Operatingsystem
Windows 95
of a great notebook if value is your number IR port
Yes
one concern.
Extras
n/a
Price
$2.499
Warranty (years parts. labor) 1P, 1L
Contact: 888-734-3577. http: //www.twinhead.corn
From
Peripheral Express
Pentium 200 MMX
Processor (MHz)
Analysis
excellent price with good system design
Cache
512KB
32/128
fast 20x internal Cl)-ltOM drive
12,1 TFT
built-in 56Kbps faxmodem
Screen (in.)
Twinhead Slimnote 9TE
Max rnternal resolution

Video RAM
Hard disk
CD-ROMdrive
Floppy drive
Audio
Modem
PC Card slots
Pointing device
Dimensions (WxDxH)
Ultinet 6100
T CI' T E $ T l A B$
CD-ROM drive
Floppy drive
Audio
Modem
PC Card slots
Pointing device
Dimensions (WxDxH)
20x (internai)
removable
ESS1879
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2
Touchpad
32.7x22.8x5 cm
(12.9x9x2 in.)
Palm Rest
9.5 cm (3,75 in.)
Weight
3.37 kg (7.5 lb.)
Battery type
Lithium ion
Operating system
Windows 95
IR port
Yes
carrying case
Extras
Price
$2,350
Contact: 800-513-7732, http: //www.uitinet.ca
Analysis
as always with Ultinet machines, excellent
price/performance
~ packed with 64 lvltt of RAM
speedy internal 20x CD-ROM drive
in cludes choice of CD-ROM with 500-plus
shareware titles or a seven-title mini office
suite
priced at $2,350 with one-year parts and
three-year labor warranty
The specs on this machine tell half the story,
while the price tag tells the rest. At just
$2,350, this machine has everything you need
whether you' re lool ing for value or a bit of
Processor (MHz)
Cache
Screen (in.)
Video RAM
Hard disk
Pentium 233 MMX

512KB
64 /128
12.1 TFT
800x600
2MB
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zing.
Ultinet 9780
Processor (MHz)
Cache
AMD K6-266
512KB
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31.5x26x5.3 cm
(12.4x1 0.2x2.1 in.)
Palm rest
9.5 cm (3.75 in.)
3.37 kg (7.5 lb.)
Weight
Lithium ion
Battery type
Windows 95
Operating system
Yes
IR port
carrying case
Extras
Price
$2,695
Contact: 800-513-7732. http: //www.ultiitet.ca
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Screen (in.)
Video RAM
Hard Disk
CD-ROM drive
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Audio
Modem
PC Card slots
Pointing device
64/128
12.1 TFT
800x600
4MB
3GB
24x (internal)
removable
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None
2
Touchpad
the only machine in the survey to use an

Alp(D-K6 processor
loaded with 64 MB of RAM
total of 4 MB video RAM
larger 3 GB hard drive than 6100 model
speedy internal 24x CD-ROM drive
very competitively priced at $2,695
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If you' re looking for a notebook with an alternative to an Intel processor, the 9780 from
Ultinet would be an ideal choice. It boasts an
AMD K6 processor running at 266 MHz and
offers excellent price/performance, scoring
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For transferring images to a computer,

cable connections are already outdated. Avoid
them if you can. Convenient methods are
inexpensive floppy disks, an lomega Clik!
drive, or SmartMedia cards plugged into an
adapter, such as Fuji's Floppy Disk Adapter.
A camera that offers a choice between low,
medium and high, or low and high resolutions can be useful. If you are working on a
project strictly for viewing on the computer,
you can shoot in low resolution and store
more images because of their small file size.
If you are undecided between two cameras
that are equally attractive, consider the software that comes bundled with the camera.
You may find one comes with a very useful
software package. If you plan to shoot indoors
and out, look for a camera with a built-in electronic flash.
Zoom lenses are handy but add to the
price. A macro feature is also useful. 0
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internal software used by the camera to
process images, the type of sensor and the
compression method all affect the outcome of
the image. Color fidelity, for example, can
vary from camera to camera.
At times, a camera can outperform a competitor that has higher resolution! Even a
famous brand-name may quote a resolution
based on interpolation, rather than true resolution. So be wary and try before you buy.
Also, before buying be sure to check compatibility with your platform, operating system,
and connections.
Although they consume considerable battery power, LCD screens are great for previewing. If you don't like what you see, delete the
file and shoot again! Make sure your camera
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Asus TX97N
Asus P2L97 Pent ll
Asus P2L97S Pent II
Asus P2L97D Pent. II
Asus PZL97DS Pent. II
Asus P2B
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$147
$152
4152
$310
$181
$310
$377
$479
$242
$447
$622
$102
$149
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Micro-Star LX 6117 (ATX) $155
Micro-Star LX 6118 (AT) $155
Micro-Ster BX 61 19
A-Bit P55TX (TXS)
A-Bit PSSTX (PXS)

A-Bit P2 44LX (LX6)
A-Bit P2 44BX X6
$199
$123
$103
$170
$240
Pemium 166MMX (OEM) $140

Pcntium 200MMX (OEM) $146
Pcntium 233MMX (OEM) $197
Pemium PH
233 (OEND $269
Pentium Pll 233 (BOX)

Pentium PII 266 (OEM)
Pe tmm Pll 266 (BOX)
Pentium Pll 300 (OEM)
Pentium PII 333 (BOX)
Pemium Pll 400 (OEM)
Pentium PII 400 (BOX)
$310
$360
$384
$540
$556
$727
$740
$861
$909
$1224
$1239
AMD K-6 233 (OEM)
IBM M2
200 (OEM)
$243
$284
$101
$117
$160
$224
$91
IBM M2 233(OEM)
$102
Ceieron 266(OEM)
Ceieron 300 (OEM)
AMD K41 200(OEM)
AMD K-6 266 (OEM)

AMD K-6 300 (OEM)
16MB 72Pin
16MB 72Pin EDO
32MB 72Pin
32MB 72Pin EDO
32MB 168Pin
64MB 168Pin
32MB 168Pio w/EPROM
64MB 168Pin w/EPROM
128MB 168Pin w/EPROM
$25
$22
$48
$41
$43
$104
$44
$105
$209
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$69
3D Xpression+ 2MB PC2TV $76
3D Xpression+ 4MB PC2TV $93
XpcrtPlay 4MB PCZTV $127
Xpcrtt0 Play 8MB PC2TV $160
$103
XperttatWork 4MB
$137
Xpert{0work SMB
Xpert XL EDO 4MB
$95
XpertPiny 4MB (AGP) $136

XpertIPiay SMB (AGP) $1 69
Xpen
Work 4MB (AGP) $112
Xpert@Wo*SMB {AGP) $145
Xpert XL EDO4MB (AGP) $102
All-In-Wondr Pro
4MB $ 2 87
A ll-in-Wondr Pro SMB $ 3 5 2
Ail-In-Wndr Pro 4MB (AGP) $315
Ail-In-Wndr Pro 8MB (AGP) $379
$104
ATI Tv Tuner
Marrox
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Milienium ll 8MB
SCILU
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Cirrus Logic 5446
S3 Virge 4MB
$53
Trident 9685 w/2MB PC2TV $46
Panasonic24X CD.ROM $72

Panasooic 32X CD-ROM $86
T oshiba 24X CD-ROM
$7 7
T oshibs 3ZX CD-ROM $ 9 5
Mitsumi CDR ZxW/gxR IDE $365
C rmuive Lab 16
(OEM)
$41
C reative Lsb 64 (OEM) $ 8 5
Crsmtive LabEnsonio PCI $51
AxtachPCI 3D Sound64B it$50
Ensonio PCI 3D Sound32Bit $36
Yamaha PCI Sound
Card $43
16Bit YamahaSoundCard $19
Poneer DVD-I
$107
Hitachi DVD-2
$192
$203
Toshibs DVD-2
Creative LabPC-DVD Kit $369

Labtec LCS-3010 .
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$15
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Digicom 56K V/F/M (Box) $82
Motoroiia 56K Int. V/F/M SCall
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$202
Quantum 3.2GB
$223
$255
Quantum 4.3GB
$319
Quantum 6.4GB
Fujitsu 2.6GB
$179
Fujifsu 3.2GB
$202
Fuptsu 4.3GB
$219
Fujitsu 5.3GB
$269
Fujitsu 6.2GB
$272
W.D. 2.5GB
$196
W.D. 3.2GB
$216
$246
W.D. 4.3GB
$290
W.D. S. IGB
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Daytek 15" Analog

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Daytek 15" Digital
$230
$416
Daytek 17" Digital
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KDS 15" Digital 1280x1024 $243
KDS17"Digital 1280x1024 $416
Proview 14" Dignal
$170
Preview15 DISitai
$206
$424
Sony 15" 100ES
$487
Sony 15" 100GS
So 17" 200ES
$813
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ViewSonic 17" P775
View Sonic 17" V775
VicwSonic 21" G810
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$280
$720
$627
$1492
1.44 PanasonicFDD
$24
104 Win95 Keyboard
$15
Mitsumi 2 Button Mouse $7
Logitcch 2BunonMouse $1 I
Logitech 3 Bumm
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L ogitech First
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Mustek 1200 HI EP scnnr
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Mustek 1200 IB SPscam36 $345
Mustek Digital Cmnam $432
Toshiba VideoConfrencing $172
Adaptec 2910PCI SCSI Catt $159
AdopteeZ940UWPCI SCSI $266

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Odd stares follow the Agfa ephoto 1280. Due

to its unusual futuristic design, people often
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can be rotated up and down in relation to the
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adjustable focal length. They simply take a
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I'he el'hoto has a real telephone lens that
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equivalent to a 35mm film camera). Combine
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like image selection and deletion. 1'he ePhoto

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same as the Epson PC 700. It has five other
resolutions, with the lowest being 640x480,
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series of control buttons. Unlike film cameras,
they include additional options and settings
camera.
Agfa ePhoto 1280

From: Agfa Division, Bayer Inc.
Tel: 800-268-1331
Maximum resolution: 1,280x960 pixels
Storage medium included: one 4 MBSmartMcdia card
Platforms: Windows 95/NT,PowerPC7.0 or later
Softwa/e. Agfa PhotoWise, Agfa Photosenie. Agfa
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Weight: 380 g (13.3 oz.) excluding batteries
Dimensions: 15.5x5x9.5 cm (6.12x2x3.75 in.)
Price: $1,299 (price is expected to drop to about
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Pres: Very goad resolution, great telephoto lens.
Cons: No viewfinder, serial plug cover pops open,
camera sometimes turns on accidentally.
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The only downside to this camera is that it

doesn't come with any CompactFlash memory cards, so if you take more than 11 high-resolution or 5 0 s t andard-resolution shots
between downloads to your computer, you' ll
need to buy a memory card or two. However,
unlike some of the other cameras reviewed
here, it does have 4 MB of flash memory built
in. RL
go to a meeting or family get-together and run

a slide-show-style presentation on any television! The included battery charger, with four
AA NiMH batteries, is great and should be
mandatory on all such devices. The PC700
allows you the option of using the standard
little viewfinder instead of the LCD display,
which helps conserve battery power.
Other handy features of the PC700 include
a sensitivity mode (ISO 120) to make night
pictures better, a 2x digital zoom, a feature
that lets you crop on the fly and a good visual interface for the camera's software. Overall,
the camera feels sturdy and solid.
HP PhotoSmart C20 TMP

From: Hewlett-Packard Canada
Tel: 800-387-3867
Maximum image resolution: 1,152x872 pixels
Storage medium: CompactFIash card (includes one 4
MB card)
Platforms: Windows 95
Software: PhotoSmart; Microsoft Picture It! 2.0

Weight: 303 g (10,7 oz.)
Dimensions: 12.7xBx4.8 cm (Sx3.15x1.9 in.)
Estimated street price: $999
Pros: sliding cover protects lens, very good image
quality, LCD viewing panel, ACadapter included.
Cons: Lacks zoom lens.
This second-generation digital camera from
Hewlett-Packard is a useful tool for gathering
images. Compared to the Agfa or Kodak cameras, the PhotoSmart takes a more traditional
design approach. With a top resolution of
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with other cameras. The built-in flash and
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Price: $1,279
Maximum resolution: 1,152x864 pixels
screen, at 1.8 in., is slightly smaller those on Storage medium: CompactF!ash card (includes 1 4 MB
card)
the other cameras mentioned here.
The interface is somewhat prosaic, but cer- Platforms: Windows 95, PowerPC7.2 or later
tainly workable. It has none of the more elab- Software: Kodak Digital Science, Kodakapplication
orate conventions of the Kodak or Epson cam- and driver, Kodak ImageMagic.
eras, but it does allow users to review pictures Weight: 312 g (11 oz,) without batteries
Dimensions: 13.1x8.2x4.8 cm (5.15x3.2x1.87 in.)
individually as thumbnails.
Microsoft Picture It! 2.0 works well, and
combined with the PhotoSmart photo finish- Pros:Solid body, great lens, excellent interface,
ing software is a better all-round software infrared connectionoption.
bundle than is usually found in these prod- Cone: Not quite the highest resolution here, should
ucts. The two applications make it easy for come with rechargeable batteries and recharger.
beginners to set up and start using their new
The Kodak DC210 digital camera is one of the
camera.
The PhotoSmart C20 uses CompactFlash best cameras in this category. It combines
cards and comes with one 4 MB memory card. good resolution (1,152x864) with a high-qualErgonomically, it feels a little bulky and i ty telephoto lens (equivalent to a 29 t o
awkward. Its overall look suggests nothing 58mm). The lens makes the camera more suitmore than functionality was considered dur- ed to regular and wide-angle shots compared
ing development, although the uncluttered to the more common 35mm camera zoom of
35 to 80mm, which provides slight wide-angle
design appealed to some editors.
Refreshingly, the product comes with an to slight telephoto settings. The camera body
AC adapter. This is a laudable decision and is traditional and rugged with both an LCD
should be required by all camera makers. Also screen and a standard viewfinder.
The DC210 has no internal storage, but
included are the usual cables for connecting
uses ATA-compatible CompactFlash cards.
to your computer or TV.
The C20 is part of the HP PhotoSmart PC Data can be transferred to the computer via a
Photography System, designed to create pho- standard serial cable, or the memory card can
be placed in an optional PC Card holder and
inserted into a laptop. If the alkaline, or
rechargeable 1.2V NiCd (nickel cadmium)
b atteries fail, the images remain on t h e
removable cartridge and are not lost. This
camera does not come with a recharger as
some others do. Using regular batteries with a
digital camera would be costly, since these
units tend to use lots of juice. Rechargeables
willsave you money, and we recommend you
factor in the cost of buying such an item
NII
DIGITAL CAIHSRAS
viewfinder, as well as a color LCD screen for

framing or reviewing shots taken. The LCD
when comparing camera prices.

tosforhome use.The package includes a color
inkjet printer, a scanner, special papers and
inks, and the camera.
It is a well-rounded product that includes
an AC adapter and makes for a decent offering
from HP. RL
Kodak DC210
From: KodakCanada
Tel: 800-465-6325
One of the best things about the DC210 is

its camera interface. The thoughtful design
allows the user to view and save or delete pictures, set camera options and check the battery and remaining pictures. The desktop software is also good, but like all such included
programs, is limited in functionality.
One feature that makes the Kodak unique
is its built-in infrared transceiver. You must
buy an optional infrared connection package
to use this feature, but if you do you can avoid
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of the SmartMedia memory cards are greatly reduced

when high resolution images are captured.
The Olympus D-500L is roughly the size of a

traditional 35mm film camera but with a very
comfortable handhold to one side and a lens
housing that resembles a protruding snout.
The D-SOOL incorporates many of the
same features found in a semi-professional
35mm film camera. It has an SLR-type
viewfinder through which you actually see
what the lens sees when setting up your shots.
The glass lens is a f i l m-camera quality
Olympus 9.2 to 28mm, f2.8 to f3.9, seven-element arrangement (the equivalent of a 50 to
150mm lens on a 35mm camera) with a 3X
zoom. These optical features result in images
in the megapixel range, although it actually
captures just under 800,000 pixels.
The only genuinely negative aspect to
this camera common to all cameras in this
the hassle of plugging into the back of a com- roundup are the high power requirements,
and limited storage capacity of memory
puter each time you want to download the
cards when images are taken at high-resolupictures from your camera.
Other features of the DCZ10 include: the tion settings.
My experiences proved the D-500L was
choice of saving images in either JPEG or
somewhat
difficult to master because it has so
FlashPix formats; the ability to adjust the LCD
many
options
and configuration possibilities. It
screen for brightness, and a 10-second selftimer option to get the whole clan into the commands the same intensity of study and
practice as any sophisticated film camera. Of
picture.
The only possible criticism of the DC210 is course, the nice thing about going digital is that
its middling resolution. Otherwise, this is a you can look at your pictures on the 1.8-inch
LCD immediately after you' ve taken a shot,
camera that will do it all.RL
erased the less successful shots and repeat the
process, until you get what you want.
Olympus D-SOOL
All of the effort is worthwhile, though, as
From: Olympus America Inc. (distributed in Canadaby
the D-SOOL is capable of capturing very highThe Carson Group)
quality images for monitor viewing or print out.
Tel: 800-347-4027
Regular, camera-like features include a
Maximum resolution: 1,024x768
viewfinder
diopter adjustment, manual spot
Storage medium: SmartMedia cards (includes one 2
metering, through-the-lens (TTL) centreMB card)
weighted contrast detection, focus lock, manPlatforms: Windows 95/NT 4.0/MacOS 7 or later
ual focus override, three-f-stop +/- exposure
Software: Adobe PhotoDeluxe, PhotoShop plug-in for
compensation and a pop-up flash.
Macintosh, In Media's Slides 8 Sound
Optional accessories include a leather case,
Dimensions: 11.4x8.4x13 cm (4.5x3.3x5.1 in.)
rechargeable
NiMH batteries and charger,
Weight: 470 g (16.6 oz) without batteries
additional
SmartMedia
cards and PCMCIA
Estimated street price: $1,299
adapter, AC adapter, Olympus PictraAlbum
image cataloguing software and Olympus
Pros: A true 35mm camera replacement with highquality zoom lens, multiple photographic features and SYS.Drive image-archiving utilities. An accessory kit is available for an additional $325 that
good enough resolution to allow for more than snapshots. Feels very nice in the hand, and looks nice too. includes almost all that minus the PCMCIA
Cons: Power hungry, requires some study and practice adapter and SYS.Drive utility.
This is a serious camera at a serious price
to make use of the many features. Storage capabilities
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YivKam $100
From: Vivitar Canada
Tel: 905-513-7733
Maximum resolution: 1,000x800 pixels (1,920x1,600
interpolated)
Storage
medium:Type-1PC Card
Platforms: Windows 95
Software: Vivitar image capture utility, LivePix image
editing software, PhotoVista panoramasoftware
Weight: 227 g (8 oz.) without batteries
Dimensions: 12.7x7.6x6 cm (5x3x2.375 in.)
Pdce: $849.95
ful in our attempt to capture images with the

CompactFlash card an d a d apter. There
appeared to be a bug in the system.
One feature that differentiates the ViviCam
is its use of six AA batteries, compared to the
four other models require. This means
improved battery life, but the extra two batteries add to the weight and bulk of the camera.
At $849, the ViviCam is the cheapest camera in this review. However, against that low
price is the non-standard PCMCIA card and
the lack of an LCD readout. RL 0
Pros:
20-second sound bitescan be added to images.
Cons:Lacks LCD preview and zoom lens,PC Card is
non-standard, camera is a bit bulky.
The Vivitar, ViviCam 3100 is the only camera
here that does not have an LCD screen for
reviewing images, As taking then deleting
images until you get it right (and freeing up
limited storage space for the best shots) is one
of the main benefits of digital photography,
this is a serious disadvantage.
The highest resolution of the ViviCam'
3100 is also less than any other camera here at
1,000x800. The camera's manual advertises
the output image resolution at 1,.920x1,600
"software selectable," which means this is an
interpolated result. The camera does not have
true megapixel quality since it captures only
800,000 pixels.
On the up side, the ViviCam 3100 allows
the user to record a 20-second-per-picture
sound bite, which can be played when viewing pictures on the computer. Also, the included panorama software allows you to stitch pictures together. This means you can use a tripod and take pictures in a 360-degree circle,
then paste them together to form a panorama
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The camera has a glass lens and most other
digital camera options including the use of an
motion videoconferencing device.
An adapter is available if you prefer to use
CompactFlash memory over the included
Type-1 PC Card. However, we were unsuccess-
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Snappy 2.0 about a year later, andmore
recently, Snappy 3.0, dropping the price as it
went along. In each case, the company didn' t
so much redesignthe mousetrap as change
the flavor of t h e cheese. The hardware
remained the same, but the software was
updated significantly, and the included thirdparty software spiffed up ever so slightly.
1 reflected on this whole mousetrap analogy as I installed the Snappy 3.0 software.
Snappy 2.0 had been something of a disappointment; I don't know what I was expecting, but what I got essentially the same software with some design changes
didn't do
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similar feeling.
lt now has a scenery-chewing graphic
interface reminiscent of something out of Meff
in Black;one can almost feel the lovingly rendered chrome surface and elliptical buttons.
It's very pretty. It's also annoying. Maybe 1'm
getting crotchety in my old age, but a certain

simplicity of design is missing here. Snappy
1.0 wasn't perfect, but it had a logical and
easy-to-follow layout.
While Snappy 3.0 doesn't require a degree
in rocket science, it does have its ambiguities
and extraneous mouse twitching. A few items
will undoubtedly require a brief trip to the
manual, something that was completely
unnecessary with 1.0.
Interface issues aside, the resulting frame
grabs are still stellar (since the Snappy hardware is unchanged, this is no surprise). There
is one improvement: a High Definition button on the Snappy 3.0 interface. This feature
uses interpolation to smooth the jaggies out
of high-resolution images. The results aren' t
film quality this is NTSC .video, after allbut they' re much clearer than you'd expect.
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Enter the ZlpShot

Other mousetrap makers have aiso been
busy, and one of the contenders is ArcSoft's
ZipShot. Like the Snappy, this is a compact
frame grabber that plugs into the parallel
port.
The ZipShot looks a lot like the Snappy. It
is less rounded and less colorful (though I
prefer the ZipShot's richer purple), but if you
put it next to a Snappy there's no question
that they' re designed for the same purpose.
This theme of being the same yet different runs through all aspects of the ZipShot.
The experience of being a Snappy user trying
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you begin to notice the little touches, where
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For starters, just take a closer look at the
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Snappy owners have been clamoring for. (The
ZipShot can also handle SECAM and three

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to buy a separate Snappy for PAL, and it doesn't do SECAM at all.)
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TORONTO EDITION www.tcp.ca IULY 1998
AEW$
Mac clones cost Umax US 35 million

l(EMONI; Calif. (NB) Umax Computer
marketsand did not develop new ones. He
won't be knocking on Apple's door when moved quickly to end the program saying
the last Mac OS licensing agreement
expires in July. Fortunately, the company's
scanners, Intel-based desktop and notebook
computers, digital cameras, network communication devices and servers, absorbed a two-year
loss of US$35 million from its line of Macintosh
clones called SuperMac.
According to a new report, Umax lost about
US$20.1 million from making Mac-compatible
clones in 1997 and expects to add approximately US$14.9 million in losses this year.
Umax finance managerChang Jung-huei
said 1998 losses are the result of discounts
accompanying the discontinuation of their
Mac clone experiment.
'I'aiwan-based U max an d i t s U m a x
Computer Corp., in the U.S. are the last of
Apple's short-lived cloning program. What
beganas'plan to extend Mac OS-based computers into new markets ended in strained and at
times bitter relations between certain clone
makers and Apple.
IBM, Motorola, Vower Computing and
Umax acquired Macintosh operating system
licensing agreements from Apple more than
threeyears ago. Mac clones began appearing
almost a year later and after more than a year of
sales, Apple's chief executive officer Steven Jobs
declared the clones cannibalized existing Apple
Apple would not extend existing licensing

agreements to include new technologies.
He paid Vower Computmg, the most successful Mac clone maker, n>i)lions of dollars to
reacquire the licensing agreement and certain
Vower Computing personnel, leaving a divided
and troubled company, which closed within
months. Motorola's clone division officials
walked away in bitter dissatisfaction; IBM never
got its clone business off the ground.
Umax remained as what Dataquest analyst
James Staten calls, "a good licensee who did not
want to upset Apple" and continued to manufacturer Mac clones. "I think they thought they
could develop niche markets which were outside Apple's traditional strengths," said Staten.
Those niche marketsnever develnped.
According to Staten, Umax had two major
problems. First, their clones arrived while
Apple's market share was dropping and, secondly, they did not have a long-term contract
with Apple.
"They never controlled their Own destiny,"
he continued. "They always had this July date
[the end of their Mac OS contract) hanging over
their heads. They had to trust in Apple, so they
tried to be a good citizen, but in the end Jobs was
committed to ending the clone experiment."
While Umax has continued to ship Mac
images, the High Definition feature would

sway me toward recommending the Snappy
over the ZipShot (unless you are using an Sa keyboard or bus port has a more environ- Video or non-NTSC source).
However, the ZipShot comes with some
ntentally friendly approach to energy consumption than the Snappy, which uses a 9- extras that are also worth considering. The
volt battery. I'he ZipShot also has a parallel first is a time-lapse feature, which automatiport pass through, which is a godsend in this cally grabs images at a set interval Iup to 10
era of easy-to-install parallel-port devices. frames a minute for up to 24 hours) and autoEventually, the USB (universal serial bus) matically saves them to disk, This is easy to
specification will solve problems like this; use, but suffers from two tlaws. First, the feature can't be activated I'rom the TWAIN driver;
until then, it's a point for ArcSoft.
When it was t ime t o s tart grabbing in order to use it, you must activate the
images, I took one look at the ZipShot inter- ZipShot capture software from the included
face (like the Snappy, the ZipShot uses a Vhotolmpression program. Second, the image
'I'WAIN driver) and instantly fell in love. Here resolution is limited to 640x4%.
The other nifty feature is the ability to
was the elegant, uncluttered interface I
desired! 0 joy! 0 rapture! Just about all the capture full-motion video as an AVI file up
functions of the Snappy (there are no indi- to five minutes, S9 seconds, at a maximum
vidual red, green, and blue controls) were resolution of 320x240. (You may need to
download a patch from ArcSoft's Web site to
there, in a visually appealing layout.
The preview window, which updates a lit- capture audio.) This must be done from withtle closer to real time, was a pleasure, It also in Photolmpression as well.
Now, here's the rub: all of this can be done
allows you to reduce the preview image size if
with
the Snappy as well, but only if you get
you need to squeeze out a few more frames
the Snappy 3.0 Deluxe package (US$199, or
per second.
Capturing an image is as easy as blinking: $39.9S to upgrade from any previous Snappy
after choosing your settings, push the red but- release). It seems strange that a company as
hip and consumer-friendly as Play would
ton marked "capture."
1 he ZipShot's image quality is comparable charge extra for a feature that other compato that of the Snappy. I set both on their high- nies have been including for some time now.
I hope Play r'ectifies this by dropping the
est quality setting for a still i mage, and
grabbed a 640x480 image from a laserdisc. prices further, or at least including these features
in Snappy 4.0, which is due by the end of theyear.
They produced identical crisp images. At
In the meantime, the two frame-grabbing
higher resolutions, however, the ZipShot
loses, It has a m aximum resolution of devices are neck and neck, differing just
1,600x1,200. compared to t h e Snappy's enough to make choosing one a minor
1,%()x1,125; but without an interpolation headache. You' ll just have to decide what kind
feature like Snappy's High Definition button, of mouse you want to trap. CI
the extra pixels don't help all that much.
Emru Townsend will gladly stretch a metaphor for Iun
Comparative analysis
or profit. Yuu can visit his Web site at
If it were simply a matter of grabbing still
http: //www.cam.erg/-emru.
clones for the first five months of this year, Jobs
"We are focused on the steps we have taken
has reorganized Apple's desktop and notebook in the past mne months," added Brady. We
product lines based on VowerPC G3 microprocessors, outlined a new operating system
strategy which will evolve into Mac OS X and
streamlined channel operations.
Umax was left with older Mac clone systems
based on earlier versions of the PowerVC microprocessor. The company offers one model with
a VowerPC G3 upgrade card from Newer
Technologies, but without a new OS licensing
agreement, Umax clones become antiquated.
Asked if Apple intends to extend a licensing
agreement with its "good citizen," Apple
spokesperson Russell Brady said, "We will
honor all of our licensing agreements completely." However, he pointed to an earlier
statement from Jobs who said the problem with
Mac clones is that Apple was in essence subsidizing the clone makers.
have posted two profitable quarters and shown

the industry where we are going."
Apple and Umax are going in different directions. Apple has already initiated a new era and
Umax maintains it is phasing out SuperMacs.
Currently, SuperMacs can be purchased as
low as US$995 with an older PowerPC chip.
Staten thinks SuperMac prices might drop considerably as the company liquidates remaining
inventory, but he does not believe Apple sales
will be impacted.
"It doesn't make a lot of sense to buy one of
these older systems, unless they fit into an
existing network or company's operations,"
added Staten.
Without an official announcement and in a
whimper, Apple's Mac clone experiment will
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Electronic commerce is atough nut for many small businessesto crack. While it is easy enough for
most to understand the value of having a signpost in cyberspace to point customers to their realworld establishments, the idea of actually conducting businessonline is much more challenging.
By Geof Wheelwright
ccording to Dr. Richard J. Schroth, a

senior fellow at the Wharton School (a
leading business school in the United
States) and chief executive officer of Executive
Insights Ltd.. businesses large and smail must
meet this challenge if they are to survive. And he
suggests that many of them will actually reshape
their businesses in doing so.
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mechanism forhelping customers "discover"
more about the company and its products
through richer Web sites, online customer support, online catalogs and online demonstrations.
According to Schroth, it then evolves into
actually doing transactions over the Internet, a
stage atwhich many large businesses have
just arrived. This stage allows customers to do
online eveiything they could previously do via
telephone shopping, yet gives them more
information about the products and services
they are buying. It also provides greater flexibility and convenience.
The final stage of t his t ransformation
involves creating a community of customers
and this "business of community" is where the
key to successfulcommerce electronic or
otherwise really lies. Schroth says this feeling of community extends beyond the creation
ol' a better channel fo r c o mmunication
between abusiness and customers to a channel between customers themselves through
chat areas and other interactive online elements that bring them together.
This is potentially antithetical to the way
many businesses have operated, however.
"The largest fear of corporations is that customers will chat to one another," Schroth said.
Though it seems true that relationships appear
to be the key to most successful, long-term
business enterprises large or small. He said,
for example, that many credit unions exist
solelybecause they provide stronger "one-toone" relationships than large chartered banks.
They evoke asense of community rather than
a sense of inevitability ("I want to bank here"
insteadof "I have to bank here" ).
There aredozens of real world models for
this kind of theory not the least of which is
your favorite neighborhood watering hole. You
probablydon'tgo there because they have the
best drinks at the lowest prices and deliver
them in an instant. Chances are you go there
because you feel you belong, that you' ll run
into other people you know and the staff will
treatyou well because you are "a regular."
Call it the Cheers theory (where everyone
knows your name).
Solutions for small business

lt is no small leap to map this theory onto e-commerce implementations for small businesses.
But a number of software companies are aiming
to do just that, by developing products that concentrate as much on building online business
relationships and communities as they do on
helping with the mechanics of selling goods and
services electronically.
One such company, Vancouver-based
Maximizer Technologies lnc., is aiming to do
just that with a couple of new products. The
first is Maximizer 5.0, the latest upgrade in its
venerable line of customer-information-management software.
The company saysithas made more than
70 enhancements in Maximizer 5.0, but it is
most excited about its new suite of e-commerce features that "enable a small business
user to create a Web site and start accepting
orders and inquiries online in under an hour."

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Now that is a tall claim, but Maximizer and ping costs, process and settle payments, and gic inyour business," adds Humphrey.
its parent company MultiActive Technologies provides financial reporting to the merchant.
He suggests that retailers who run virtual
Inc. seem committed to fulfilling it.
NGage is part of MTS Advanced, the multime- shops need to be carefulabout how they
Starting with a software wizard, Maximizer dia and directory publishing subsidiary of
approachsuppliersin requesting e-commerce
users can create a Web site. then upload it to Manitoba Telecom Services Inc.
links."To succeed, there clearly needs to be a
willingness for the retailer to go to their supthe free Maximizer "online community" or
their own Internet service provider (ISP), and End-to-end solution needed
pliers and understand the supplier's capabili"begin receiving orders and inquiries through One experienced voice in the e-commerce mar- ties," concludes Humphrey. "I think the
electronic mail." All orders and inquiries are ket suggests that having a mechanism to deliver retailers who understand the real value of
automatically logged to Maximizer's database online orders to your company via the Web is electronic commerce know that they can't do
it without successful cooperation of their supforeasy follow-up and tracking.
only one piece of the puzzle.
Small
businesses
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deliver
pliers. It can't be a situation where the retailOtherInternet features have been added to
Maximizer 5.0, including an "e-mail centre" online also need a good relationship with super comes in and says I am the big retailer and
from whichusers can manage all email folders pliers, so they can ship in the time period they you havetodo this to keep my business.You
createdin Microsoft Outlook, Exchange and promise.They need a reliable method ofship- have to understand the supplier's capabilities
Eudora. In addition, the product provides ment. Manyhave turned to courier companies, and requirements, and then explain why it
direct links to the Inquisit personal news ser- such as Federal Express and UPS, for ship- [electronic commerce] is good for them as a
supplier."
vice and contact location mapping with ping andare increasingly using e-commerce
Common sense would suggestone area
solutions to build links to suppliers that
MapsOnUs by Lucent Technologies.
MultiActive's second big push is for some- ensure they will have the supply of goods that might not be appropriate for Internet
satisfy customer demand.
shopping is the clothing industiy where custhing it calls the Commerce Catalyst Suite. It needed to
is being promoted as "a turnkey solution that
According toRobert Humphrey, a vice- tomers are used to trying things on to ensure
the look and feel is right before they put down
puts Internet service providers together with presidentof European operations at e-comsmall businesses." The suite aims to reduce merce, software-maker Sterling Commerce, their money. A recent Internet fashion shopthe high cost of site creation and mainte- virtual stores cannot buy into the idea of elec- ping trial by The Arcadia Group (previously
nance,remove the marketing barriers of Web
tronic retailing in a half-hearted fashion. He the Burton Group) and British computer comsite promotion and assist with the Web suggests that they will make little headway if pany ICL, however, did not show this to be
Support neededfrom ISPs to get and keep they use a great Web site to take customer the case.
orders, but old-style technology to get product
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the companies recently announced
businesses on the Web.
their six-month trial has been so successful
The Commerce Catalyst Suite has two shippedfrom suppliers.
"In terms of education, our challenge is in they are about to launch what they claim to be
parts: Marketplace Engine and Marketbuilder.
the world's largest fashion shopping site
Marketplace Engine is designed to allow an getting retailers to understand that they will
ISP tosetup, manage and promote a merchant benefit from expanding their electronic com- online. The trial involved seven "high street"
community on the Web, while Marketbuilder merce programs," Humphrey says. He adds fashion brands, including Evans, Dorothy
is supposed to allow an individual merchant to the flip side of this equation lies in getting Perkins, Principles, Top Shop, Racing Green
quickly create a "high-quality Web site," suppliers to meet demand from retailers to do and Burton Menswear.
The companies said their trial site delivupload it to the Marketplace Engine. and business electronically.
If a retailer runs a Web site selling auto ered a total average of 2.7 million page
maintain the site from their own business.
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to increase revenues while reducing the cost of suppliers via fax machine and telephone, then per centof the buyers from the online stores
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T ECH EN T E R P R I S E
The rules of engagement

re you beingpushed into e-commerce?
Open ny magazine or flick through the

TV channels and you' re bound to come up
with some pitch about how e-commerce is going to
change your business fortunes. The dark implication is that if you don't embrace e-commerce,
you' ll end up as a greasy smudge on the digital
road to prosperity.
Until the World Wide Web gained widespread attention, e-commerce was mainly a
business-to-businessconcern, somewhat synonymous with EDI, or electronic data interchange. EDI is a transaction system that many
corporations like the Big 3 auto makers have
imposed on smaller suppliers as a condition of
doing business with them.
EDI allows the entire transaction chain,
from ordering to invoice payment through direct
deposit to be handled electronically. In the past,
it required a significant investment of time and
money to set up, often requiring a supplier to
buy into an expensive, proprietary EDI system.
Therefore,only companies that could hope to
generatea big chunk of business would bother
jumping through the EDI hoops.
As the Web gained public attention, a new
kind of e-commerce was born; a more glittery
one,waving the promise ofround-the-clock customers and near-zerocosts for warehouses,
showrooms, inventory, etc. What a promise! No
wondereveryone sat up to take notice.
A lot of the recent e-commerce activity has
gone into building the infrastructure to make
this retail paradise happen. MasterCard. Visa
and various technology companies like IBM.
Microsoftand Netscape have devised a secure
electronic transaction (SET) standard that
promises safe credit card buying over the
Internet. Web hosting services are constructing
back-end,e-commerce solutions to take care of
the transaction processing. Web site designers
are focusing on making attractive and effective
virtual storefronts on the Web.
The goodnews isthatthese Web-based commerce developments are not just about retail.
They are affecting the EDI equation too, by low-
CanadaComputerPaperinc.
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ering the costs of entry. In May, I attended the

Convergence '98 business computer show in
Calgaty. One of the sessions presented various
facets of EDI in the oil anti gas industry. A

speaker representing a smaller supplier to one
of the big oil companies noted that browserbased EDI components are coming, amd will
tional EDI soflware use Web browsers to link to

companies that do."
Price Waterhouse's Technology Forecrxsfr
So, even if you have no interest in setting up
1998 also notes this cross-fertilization. The a vifsual storefront, e-commerce opportunities
report notes that last year GE added a Web- may still be in your future.
based EDI component to its TradeWeb service,
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Evolving Web
Web accessuse it as a source for news and
Continued fromage
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Adobe PageMill, Microsoft FrontPage and
Symantec's VisualPage will be at least complemented, if not replaced. by a new generation of
tools geared towards the new dynamic, databased,
scripted
Web pages ofthe always-chanpng Net.
Web change
Change appears in the form of Figurel's exponential growth "snakes.' These curves show rapid Net
growth throughout the computing world.
information.
The Net creates new markets: witness Autoby-tel. Amazon,corn, and Travelocity successes.
The Net makes new connections:
Gallup
pollsters report 45 percent of youths socialize on the Net.
It feeds on itself: new users invent new uses.
These Web changesplay out in many ways.

The Netisbecoming the world's 24-hour.365days-a-year mega-bazaar.
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Despite substantial increases to date in Web

usage, industry analysts from IDC, Forrester,
and the U.S.
of Commerce foresee
more of the same well into the new millennium.
Five million U.S. Net users in 1993 became 60
million by 1997 and are predicted to reach 180
million by 2001.
Likewise, $17 billion in business-to-business commerce will become $300 billion by the
year2002. Consumer spending on the Internet is
following a slower but similar rise fmm $3 billion in 1997 to a projected $17 billion by 2001.
(There is a caution for these rosy projections:
Year 2000 problems may put kink in t he
"snake's"neck delaying full growth by one or
two years.)
But the
changes are undeniable Web use is
going ccp. Driving this growth will be much
cheaper PCs, modems, and Internetservice
costs.These will push consumers over the
hump, while shopping bargains, bazaars, multiplayer games and Net communities will be the
pull. In effect, as the following stats show, the
Web hasbecome an agent of change:
The Net isthe medium of infoexchange:
Gallup pollsters say 85 percent of those with
Depa
rtment
outages accidental or
deliberate. I t a d j usts
(becauseof its pmgramm ability) t o "misbehavin"' (spammers. porn,
etc.). The Net jumps over
l ocal c e nsorship. i t
makes previously expensive things closer to
free,and it is changing who does business and
how it is done.
The Net. because it is so malleable and
changeableitself,becomes the agentofchange.
Web trends change

application development
Justas the Web changes business models
and delivery, it changes how applications
are built:
it allows for much faster development
times;
it puts more emphasis on iterative prototypes;
it promotes N-tier distributed systems
designs;
and itchanges Web pages layout and
content dynamically.
success rate. This may be explained in part by

The move from static to
the fact that prototyping is much easier to do in
many simple Web development tools.
However,this success has to be balanced
againstthe challenges ahead; the Web's success
is pushing developers large and small into much
more interesting waters. It's like that IBM TV
commercial: creating a dancing or flaming logo
may possible, but the new trends in Web development take users and developers alike into the
daunting world of N-tier processing.
Four major Web trends lead in this direction.
First, there is the move from static to dynamic
page creation. The hetter Web sites are those Facets of Web development
that defer page creation to respond dynamically The move from static to dynamic page creation
to user requests.
means being able to respon<l to users' queries anil
Second, there is a move from memoiy-less to interactions on the fly. In effect, user queries
custom interfaces. A Web
site that remembers and
a u tomatically customizes
t ts 1 t 8 . t th . s s t 's
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Third there is a move
from singular to multiparty interactions on the
Net. What began with
multi player ~ames now
includes debug chat cortss ssCis~ "s~S~m s ttsst V"st+"
ners
l e s t estimonials.
and online hearings on public policy. These are determine not only the contents but the layout of
just the tip of the multi-participant Net iceberg the output. Fxamples of such dynamic sites
of the near I'uture.
include:
Finally, an overall trend from passive to bo oksellers A
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and
interactive Web sites is identified.
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We shall follow each of these developments travel information consultants Travelocity,
and Expedia;
la rger-scale purchase and refenal seivices
Auto-hy-Tel, and Inquiry.corn;.
and financial i n formation and s ervice
providersCharles Scwhab, and the Wall
Street.Joccrnccl.
dynamic page creation means

being able to respond to users'
queries and interactions on the
fly. In effect, user queries determine not only the contents but
the layout of the output.
Let us examine these tendencies.

beginning with information systems management (MIS) organizations. They are reporting
their Web development projects are not only
being developed much faster than classic
client/server development, but with a higher
in more detail. But the most important direction

is the use of the Web as a universal, open interface.The Java programming language catches
this spirit write once, run anywhere. Web

development is directed to this "open" end.
All are commercially successful sites that

tailor their pages not only to users' requests. but
also to past purchasing patterns. The Wall Street.
Journal allows each reacler to have a custom
look to their copy of the online publicationnews stories, financial updates with the layout
and contents of most pages filtered, and foimatted for each reader or user.
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software," as well as a systematic approach to
achieving legal compliance via centralized pmcurement procedures.
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Open Licence Solutions Kit a portfolio of
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and browsersand can fitpages to browser capabilities, or automatically recover if a user is cut
off. In addition, many sites store their users' profiles and are able to customize page layout to
userpreferences or pastpatterns ofusage.
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mt have
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dominate Easter Island's coastline. There are
many theories about how these huge statues were
raised by hand so follow the attempt online and
see how they do!
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using Lotus Notes-like news and workgroups,

live tutorials, and online support. The sessions
are monitoredfor a number of things, such as
repetitive problems, unruly behavior and quality of information. The key is to provide immediate aid from paid "mentors."
In general, with either Java Beans or plugins, it is easy to add chat capability to your Web
site. Java applets allow the most robust customization. The game Hearts being played at the
Yahoo site has a built-in chat session at the bottom ofthe screen.
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Now that we have spelled out the major Web therearefew standards and a scramble formartrends
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servers,and a whole range of tools using
JavaScript or Java to provide either explicit or
behind-the-scenesdatabase supportfordynamic
page creation and persistent/stored user profiles.
Multiparty, interactive pages are dominated
by Java applets. And, in fact, Java is beginning
to dominate the top end of the Web scene, particularly its server-side operations. This is
because Java interfaces readily with the Net and
can handle multi-threading, security, and database interactions effectively.
However, the bulk of the Web is still static.
In part two of this article, we will begin by lookSurprisingly, there has been very little effect on ing at classic Web authoring tools then see how
the original Web page editors. This is partially authoring and site management tools are evolvbecause static pages still dominate the Webing (or not) in response to a more active Net. 0
estimates suggest they comprise 90 percent of
sa W eb and database consultant
sites.To be sure, dynamic pages are used, but JacquesSurveyerI
they are undergoing a shift away from CGI (com- who Is lookingfor Webtips at Jbsurv@informap.net.
Iiffdsgazine'sJolt Awards, which was done with
online chat sessions. In sum, there will be more,
not less, users interacting at Web sites.
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45 percent of 18 to 24 year
olds use the Web to socialize
by means of online chat
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By Craig Menefee
NB Take atrip through the Blue Ridge Mountains

and leam aboutthe mountains, cowboys, folk art
and more.The current issue of this magazine
includes features onhiking in the moutains, gorillas
in the Georgia Mountain mist, an ancient waterfall,
the history of the Ocoeeand more.
http: //www.theblueridgehighlander.corn/magazine/magazine. html
SAN JOSE, Calif. (NB) The worldwide handheld industry, induding the
increasingly popular handheld. PC (HPC) devices, soared 65 percent in
1997, according to market research firm Dataquest. The market leader?
The Kom Palm Pilot, says Dataquest.
The researchers
said Pilot's success gave 3Com a 41 percent share of
the entire handheld market.
Dataquest, a unit of the Gartner Group, says HPC-type shipments
reached 2,4 million units and the market is gmwing "robustly.m The standard handheld segment's 1997 shipments grew 131 percent over 1996
shipments, surpassing 1.6 million units, the finn said. Dataquest defines
standard handhelds as general purpose computers that adhere to established hardware and software standards. They are typically about (Sx6x.75 in.) andweighlessthan450 g (I lb.). They havesmall keyboards
and operate on batteries.
10xl8x2.5 cm (4xlxl in.) in size, andweigh about450 g {1 lb.).
Ia tenas of market size, expandable organizers gtew seven percent in
Dataquest says 3Com shipped more than one million standard hand:,
1997,
with shipmeatsincreasing to854,000 units. Sharp wasthe top-selltcent
in
held units, growing its market share in that segment from 51.7 pet
1996 to 63 percent ia 1997. The million units were a 188 percent increase,~ing vendor in this segmerit with 56 percent market share, said the
researchers.
over 1996.
National Gardening
NB Selected features from the printed magazine
of the same name, published by the National
Gardening Association in the United States, can
be found here.
http://www2.garden.org/nga/EDIT/home. html
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ven this market and they seem to like Pilots. However, he adds, corporations are becoming interested in what Dataquest describes as "unconsciously portable reference devices" like Pilots and Windows CE devices.
Hewlett-Packard held down second place with a 15 percent share of
the standard handheId market. However, HP was top-ranked in the
Windows CE portion of that segment, with a 48 percent 1997 market
share. HP was followed hy Casio and Philips with 17 percent and 16 percent respectively, said the researchers. Windows CE devices accountdxl
for 26 percent of the standard haadheld shipmeats in 1997.
Expandable organizers accounted for 35 percent of the total handheld
device market in 1997, Dataquest said. Devices in this segment are distinguished by the capability to have the user add applications and memory, usually of a proprietary type. They typicaHy meastate 7.6xl5x2 cm
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MegaDepot a big store in a little space

"We will have to order it in." Any consumer who hasever been
frustrated by thesewords is acandidate for buying online
delivery deals that make it cheaper for him to
use conventional courier services to deliver
aunching a North American computer goods in one to t hree business days in
super tore on the internet is not something Canada. Customers pay only $5 for delivery,
you do every day. In fact, it's not something though express sermost of us would even consider. But for Glenn vices are available
Ballman, it seemed a great way to start a business at a premium fee
that could offer technology products to a vast that varies based on
potential customer hase without spending a huge t he i t e m b e i n g
amount on real estate. staff, warehousing and delivered.
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background, he founded the Vancouver-based store? At the moment,
online superstore called MegaDepot in late most products fall
1996. Oneyear later, he began selling prod- broadly under the
ucts online on a trial basis, and in March of headingof"computer
stuff," from computthis year celebrated the company's "virtual"
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to printers to mongrand opening.
Former Axion Internet colleague Robert itors to all manner of
Ayer,who became MegaDepot'svice-president application software and utilities. These are breadof sales and marketing, joined Ballman in the and-butter computer products that differ little from
what you would find in the average retail computer
effort. Both worked to generate the investmentand infrastructure needed to get this ambi- store. although Ballman and Ayer claim their prices
are generally cheaper than the average retailer.
tious operation up and running quickly.
While vou can't "touch" the products in the
And it is an infrastructure not for the faint of
online
store, MegaDepot tries to bring the buyer
heart, comprising about 100,000 inventory
items at launch. to be distributed from a network as close to their prospective purchase as possiof more than 40 centres across North America ble through lots of online literature and pictures
by courier companies including Federal of the products, as well as an innovative service
Express, Purolator and UPS. The company is called Ask the Expert. This allows customers to
doing all this with a stal'f of only 12 people and pose questions to the store's high-tech experts.
a huge dose ofenthusiasm. Ballman suggests with a promise thev will be answered within 24
There are also chatareasforusers toswap
that it is the "lean" nature of his operation. hours.
information
with one another (and MegaDepot)
which should attract customers.
"Our minimal cost of delivery is really about the products MegaDepot sells.
One of the best things about virtual shopping
what sets MegaDepot apart froni other stores
on the Internet," he says. Ballman explains is there is no salesperson following you around
he has negotiated favorable "bulk discount" in searchofcommission an unpleasantfeature
By Geof Wheelwright
of all too many "real world" computer superstores.

"MegaDepot offers both competitive prices
and a secure and convenient way to shop,"
boasts Ballman. "You
don't have to deal with
nesses can offer up to five products within the
MegaDepot store. The monthly fee rises with the

number of products the affiliate wants to offer.
The only additional cost is a $10 per picture fee
for digitizing product photographs.
MegaDepot, which buys products from its
the hassles of lineups, affiliates on consignment at wholesale prices,
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says it will pay for all shipping associated with
crowds and parking."
But. of course, you the product or products when stored in the
also don't get to see MegaDepot warehouse. If the aAiliate chooses to
the product in action. warehouse its own products, MegaDepot will
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MegaDepot pays affiliates once a month for
seems convinced this
will not deter many products sold, based on an agreed per unit
buyers, whom he says wholesale cost plus applicable taxes.
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the site.
How to attract consumers to sites like MegaDepot
is probably the biggest issue facing pioneers like
What can you sell?
MegaDepot isn't just about selling computer stuff Ballman andAyer.What makes a good online
?Th e key seems to lie in seven words: "We
to techies. Ballman has a much bigger vision than store'
that. Through what he calls the MegaDepot will have to order it in."
Any consumer whohas been frustrated by
Afiiliate Program, he is offering a "shelf space" in
cyberspace to a number of entrepreneurs and these words is a candidate for buying online.
heard them at a bookshop, auto
small businesses that might otherwise be unable to W hether you
parts
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afford online sales.
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ucts, including Glentel and suppliers of such to get what you want today, and you will have
diverse products as pet supplies and specialty to rely on somebody else to obtain it from a
CDs." he says. "It's a tremendous opportunity for third party.
To many of us, this is distinctly unsatisfactobusinesses to test drive their products online withry. It is reminiscent of the famous Monty Python
out a major investment of time and resources."
In fact, Ballman's fees seem pretty modest "cheese shop" sketch where John Cleese asks
by most retailing standards although he can forallmanner of cheeses, only to be fobbed off
probably afford to be generous with virtual shelf at every turn by a grinning Michael Palin. At the
space. For as little as $20 per month, small busi- conclusion, Palin admits he has been "deliberately wasting" his time. Cleese replies "I'm
sorry, I'm going to have to shoot you."
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promise to put an end to all that. They offer the
promise of being able to instantly order whatever we want. The goods will almost never be out
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XIII
Minimizing liability when signing a lease: Part I

Incorporate
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It is wise to incorporate in any business situation that involves high risk. A long-term lease,
that is five to ten years, obviously involves
potential risk. Statistically, approximately 75
percent of small businesses fail within five years
of'startup. For all these reasons, incorporating a
company and signing the lease under the corporate name would be prudent.
here is always a potentially high degree of
personal and business risk in signing a leam.
The locat
ion mav turn outto be a poor one,
competition may start to affect the business, or
health, marita1, or partnership problems may impair
the business operation. For these reasons and many
more. it is vital that precautions be built into the
lease .30minimize risk as much as possible.
Many small business owneiis are not aware of
the wide range of protections that can be negotiated into a lease. Here are some common, effective
techniques to discuss with your lawyer when
negotiating the initial offer to lease or re-negotiating an existing lease thai is coming up for renewaL Makesureyour law>cr is an experienced business lawyer with a thorough understanding of
leases.If you don't have a lawyer, contact your
local lager-referul service and speak to a minimum of threebusiness
before making a
decision. The initial consultations are free or have
a nominal fee. Clarify that in advance.
Here is noverview of some of the key
considerations io minimize financial risk.
lawyer
Penalty clause
You mav wish to negotiate a three-month penalty
as the total amount of damages the landlord
would expect from the tenant in the event the
lease is breached. The landlord may require the
three-month penalty be paid in advance and represent the last three months of the term of the
lease or the penalty, whichever comes first.
Auempt to negotiate that the funds go into an
interest-bearing account with interest to the favor
of the tenant. Many landlords will not want to
have the funds fettered in thai maruier. however.
The tenant could budget as pan of the startup costs the downside risk as heing three
months and have that money put asiile by giving
it to the landlord under the terms of the lease. In
this example, no other security would be given
to the landlord and the landlord would have no
further recourse against the tenant if the tenant
left before the term ol' the lease.
Another form of penalty provision could be
that the amount ol' the penalty be decreased
based on the length of time the tenant remained

in the premises under the terms of the lease. For
example, in a five-year lease the clause might
state that if the lease is terminated with four or
more years left on it, there would be a fivemonth penalty; with three to four years left in
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Seanix ponders U.S. market

By Geof Wheelwright
eanix Technology Corporation has survived
its first year in the Unite(I States and is
alive to tell the laic. The company says in
March of 1998. the U.S. operation began making
money.
While Seanix isn t
s aying how much i t
made in the U.S., it rloes
boastof uchieving annual sales of 81(X) million
in 1997. It employs more
than 'o60 pople anil
says it ships ')5.000 PC
per month.
Accorrling tu companv ('hief xpc at i vp offi<er and founder. Paul
( irard. survival alone is
design of the Pentium.

"We have to take a long term view of that. I
think that Slot I will be verv successful but in
Girard says, however,

that in Canada Seanix is
enjoying a steep increase
in sales.
and the company
is reaping the henefit of a
-vertically
in i t grated"
<Isign aml manufacturing
operation. L'nlik many
line to servers and notebooks. We are developing ourown server technologies. although we
still use a third-party supplier on the notehooks. We are <lpveloping server products that
have strong features aml lots of expandability.
It is a huge margin business and if we sold
servers al some of the prices that some of the
largervendors do.we would bp making 60 percent margin. So )ve are feeling really pumped
about opportunity.
One opportunity he is not quit so sure
about ut least in the. bort term is that present(I by Intr I's rlase of its Pentium IIbusrl Ct Iron systems forthp pnt)>-IvI nl<1r-
other PC lon( mukcrs.
k(t in Cuilailu. Il e suggists it w il l t ake the
(vill not move to Celcron as soon us it a tes

ripmaml fur the tt chnolo~
<n.
"We are rady I' or Cleron to go anytime."
he conclurles. -I(ight now. Ihe (:citron 266
St'ilillx i l c t u il ll v d c s l g lls
(..uilildiilll i n i i f k t' I l o i lg( I' to i n o vt' I u ( ..PIPI'on-
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un<i manufacturers mo. I
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Inti.l is ilynumiund comp( litive und planning
ol i l s
o w n hu = -lt vt I Pentiuni pro< t ssors with 'O'IIX tt < hnulogv.
"Th(. Can (dian market is dif'I'Prnt from th
motherboards, rather than
to roll uut 300 Milz C(Iron (vithout cache anil

then intgrat it Iattr on in the yar. Iiit tl is
goin to succerl. but it is a qut stion nl' lime. In
different business model in the U.S. [direct

sales versus the reseller and retail channel in
Canada]. Selling direct is different. The PC
market in the U.S. has also been changing
quite a bit [)vith the introduction of sub-
US$1,000 PCs]."
the short term Socket 7 is more cost effective
in terms of board cost," he says. "It is particularly relevant in Canada because )vith the
Canadian dollar at its current exchange rale
anrl customers in Canada wanting buy a PC for
'I1.000 Canadian. not LIS8.1000. Ihe life uf
Socket 7 in Canada is potentiully longer.%one of this is to say. holvevcr. thai Seanix
U.S. mark('I tn some xtnt. WP huv lo be autiuu. from that point ol' viiv.- h:ays. "But
market whcrprevious
buying them I'rom i hipmaker Intel or unv of the

dozens of Taiwanese sup-
illtPlllpts ilt Pstilbllshlllg
pl
thyears anrl (lelivers 50 pernt plus more
IIIOV(' il)V<1v li uin Il l le l p i '0('Pssofs if) il (IV Of
pt'ffoi'nlilllcp for the pri( t' every yeur year in
svstenls.
and year out. We expect that[eventually] it will

be sucessful [with the Celeron] aml that in
lollg ils I c;ll) Icallabel; h P silvs.
(1 In;ljof i)chit'V('<neat Ill il
a dirt-ct sales hpachtlpad nlaily i)v n l u cil
lp I' s.
SeanlXChiefeXeCutive Paul Girard
larger companies hav failed miserably.

"It [thL'.S. operation] is making money. It
is marginal at this stage. but we are confident
that we will h quite successful." he says. "In
hindsight. it is doing as well as we can expect.
At the beginning. we underestimated how difficult it was to succeed, and we are operating a
-In Canarla. wp are
growing quite well with

more than )0 percent annual growth." he says.
"We have achieved the landing of a lot of major
accounts and wc are s(eing a growing business
in education aml governmt;nt. These are ureas
where we have significant growth potential as a
federal government certil'ied supplier.
-We havealsobeen expanding the produ<t
terms of today, I think Sokt I 7 still i)us u lift . "

Su far. none ol' this has trmplil Girur(I tu
his
Int('I has be n a very successful ('onlpafly ovt'I
"We have ben 100 percent lntl fur as

W s t u dy
alt( mat ive pro<ssors an<i particularly ive

neer' to consirlt'r how we address the 81.000
PC market but it is a question mark in terms ol'
)vhther Celeron will hc able to a<ldr s that in
the short term. The II1.000 market in Canarla
is d i ffiu It to ac h i eve." J
two or three veurs people will not think twice
about[buying cleron systems]."

Girard says part of the problr.m lies in the
higher cost of moving to motherhoaixls that use
thc Slot I configuration of the Pentium II,
rather than the more establisherl Sock ('t 7
ITU agrees on Y2IZ battle plan

By Steve Gold
GENEVA, Switzerland (NB) The International
Telecommunications Union (ITU), which representsthe world's myriad of telecom companies. has drawn up its battle plans to tackle the
Year 2000 (Y2K) problem in the telecommunications arena.

The ITU has been studying the Y2K telecom problem for some time. In fact, the union
claims it started to address the issue back in
1995 in the context of Study Group 7, which
deals with data networks aml open system
communications.
ln the 1998-1996 period. ITU officials said
that the Sturly Group 7 developed technical
"solutions" for the two problem areas message hanrlling and directory services which
were approvprl
in March 1997. The Y2K issue
was subsequently brought up in May 1997 at a
meeting of Study Group 2 in the larger context
of telecom nt lwork and service operations.
The main anas thathave already been

identifierl by the ITU as being affected by the
changefrom 1999 to2000 are in me ssage handling systems (MHS) and directory services
that use "universal time." based on a two-digit
representationof the year and in some postprocessingoperations such as call charging,
customer billing or other record used within
the post processing billing systems.

List November saw the ITU setting up a
task force to coordinate all ITU worldwide
activities relating to Ihe year 2000. In adrlition,
the ITU is now in the process of creating a central database to compile Y2K information.
According lo ITU officials, its task force
has discovered that the telecom imlustry is vulnerable to the Y2K problem and that some
problems may be veiy diiTicult to fix. An example cited is the f irmware of undersea cables.
which is usually encorled in silicon, itself
encased inrepeaters on the sea floor,making
software updates almost
For this reason, the ITU says it has determined that it is impossible to say at this
time whether any major Y2K-related disruptions are expected with international telecommunication networks.
Ron Balls, the chairman of the ITU Year
')000 task force anrl a senior offi<ial within
impso
sible.
British Telecom. said that the exchange of

information among operatoii s is vital t o a n
understanding of the position un international
direct diuling (IDD) and international private
leased circuits.
"The business continuity aspects and the
interworking with equipment from a host of

suppliers and vendors could mean that a number of operators could potentially be severely
major suq)rises down the road with less than
affected one shoulrl not lose sight of the fact

that the globul network is only as strong us its
weakest link,- he said.
According to Tomas Nylund. the vice-chairman of
the task force,the sheer scalp ofthe Y2K
problem. )vhich is global, requires a global
approach based on local inlp]ementation.
-<Vot dealing with the Year o000 issue in one
country could be as dangerous to that countiy's
paltners as computer viruses. Evc)y telecommunication operator must ensure that its company
is Year OQQQ compliant und. to this end. must
conduct anaccurate assessment of what needs
to bedone. a thorough analysis on how to proceed, and a conversion phase whenever warrunted. They must also allow u testing period to
validate the action taken." he sairl.
Accordin lo )Iylund. no one can afford to
ignore the problem.
"Operators who fail lo <lo so <ould fact.
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Battery life remains preoccupation of mobile computerists

obile computing is changing fast, really
fast. And much of what is driving this
change is battery technology.
For years, battery technology has been the
weakest link in the mobile computing world. In
the pastfew years, portable computer screens
have evolvedfrom small,murky monochrome
LCD panels to bright, crisp and clear full-color,
ctive-matrix displays almost equal in size to
desktop displays.
Likewise, storage, memory and processing
power have increased dramatically. So have all
the "goodies' you would typically find on a
notebook or even handheld computer. Ev en
handheldsystems can now run email software, ';e':;-:,'
Web browsers, digital camna attachments and
vorce record>ng.
But the humble battery is still often the key
determinant of just how mobile your computer
is.The average notebook computer,for example,only runs for a couple ofhours on a single
battery charge and that's if you are lucky.
Handheld computers, particularly those
that run on standard AA batteries, usually fare
much better and can typically run for dozens of
hours. But even that is changing since Windows
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screens, modems and network PC Cards have
started to appear.
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M any notebooks
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www.tcp.ca
The Xew PCS phones

A mobile phone that receives email? PCS makes it possible.
widest coverage. Unfortunately, its older technology means it yields relatively low voice quality. (In some areas, it is worse than others due to
local technology-imposed limitations. In Los
Angeles, for example, the voice quality of a
TDMA PCS systems sounds a hit like Darth
Vaderbecause offewer bands in the vocoder a
problem that is not as se>ious for use within
Canada.)
In Canada. CDMA (code division multiple
access) is considered to offer the hest voite
quality, with GSM not far hehind. Both offn
"near land line quality" a welcome improve-
By Graeme Bennett
s you' ve probably heard, cellular services
from providers such as Cantel and
Mobility Canada have some new competition. Indeed, vdth the recent introduction of digital
systems like Fido and Clearnet in Western
Canada, the wireless phone equation just got a little more complicaterl. In this article. we detail
some of the differences between cellular and PCS
phones and describe the various technologies.
Today, most business people are relatively
familiar with what a cellular phone is and how it
works. But few are as familiar with the newer
PCS (personal communications services),
phones. In this article, we' ll describe the n>ain
differencebetween PCS and analogsystems and
look at some of the computer-friendly data capabilities PCS enables.
There areseveral different fl
avors of PCS,
with the main ones in Canada heing TDMA
(Cantel/ATgtT), GSM (Microcell Fido) and
CDMA (which has two variants: a so-called 800
MHz CDMA used by Mobility, and a 1,900 MHz
version used l>y Clearnet). These services use
different methods to transcode the digital signal
and, as
a consequence, offer varying voice quality. As always. there's a tradeoff.
The main concern for most people is the coverage area. Microcell Solutions, for example,
currently offers Fido PCS service in several
areas of the count>y. with coverage in greater
Quebec City, Montreal. Ottawa-Hull, Oshawa.
Toronto.
Ha m i l ton, Cal g ary,
Edmonton. and greater
Vancouver. (Check
w>th the. Con>panvnew regions are added
quite regularly!) I ts
digital service in each
area, however, is strictly
metropolitan only.
ln the Var>couver area,
forexample. Fido coverage
starts at
t h e t i p o f th e
U niversity
of
Bri ti s h
Columbia and extending just
north of Surrey. At least when
we tested a Fido phone. there
was nocoverage in most ofNorth
Vancouver. In the Spring of 1998,
thecompany began off
ering coverage in the Port Coquitlam area, and
Microcell says Chilliwack and the
Whistler mountain regions will be
covered in 1998.
Other areas (and other PCS
providers) offer limited coverage, too,
as they balance the twin goals of profitability and expanded service. Contact the
respective providers for details on their coverage
areas and take their future expansion claims
with a grain of salt.
Fortunately, new phones will help to eliminate coverage limitations. Dual mode phones, as
they are called, will support both digital PCS
and older analog. cellular services. In other
words,
if a region does nothave PCS tower,but
ment over most cellular connections.
an analog cellular one, then the cellular services

become available.
And, by the way, you do not.
have to pay extra for this roaming service. All
the major PCS providers offer it as a standard
feature of their "dual-mode" phone services.
Clearnetcunently offers a dual-mode phone
with CDMA/Cell roaming; Fido's GSM/Cell
maming, which until Dec. 1997. required two
phones. is now possible with its dual-mode
Nokia 6190 phone. In some cases. upgrades
fmm single-mode phones are available.
Microcell. the company that offers
the service called Fido, advertises that
it is the "first true PCS service in
Canada.However,ATILT was offering
PCS services prior to Fido's arrival.
How an that he? Fido's ads are
pointing out the fact that ATi%T service doesn't use the pa>t ol' the
microwave spectrum normally
associated with PCS services.
ATILT. you see, owns blocks of
spectrum in both the 850 MHz
and 1.900 MHz ranges and
markets "digital advanced

mobile phone services" (DAMPS) as PCS to its customers. However, the company primarily sells customersaccess in the 850
Mhz bandwidths where
it i s
o f f ered, a n d
defaults c u s tomers
over to the 1,900 MHz
range only when the 850 MHz
band is filled. Thus, some people consider
ATILT's use of the "cellular" band as PCS controversial, although it doesn't really matter
much.
If D-AMPS offers the digital functionality of
"true" PCS services, what is the difference?
The first difference is the frequency the
phoneoperateson.The cellular band comprises
about 25 MHz around the 850 MHz, while the
PCS band comprisesabout 30 MHz at amund
1900 MHz. In other words, D-AMPS phones
operateon 8SO MHz frequency (descriptions are

sometimes rounded ofl' to "800 phones") anti
PCS phonesoperate on thc new 1,900 MHz frequencies.
What doesthis mean to Joc Consumer?

Practically nothing. You get the same features,
call quality and services on 8SO MHz that you do
on 1,900 MHz, when comparing 850 MHz and
1.900 MHz TDMA.
Cantel ATILT's "TDMA" service. is the oldest and most widely established se>vice in the
U.S. and Canada. Consequently. it offers the
GSM (an acronym forglobal system for

mobile communications) is growing rapidly in
popularity, due to aggressive pricing from
Microcell and the next-generation features of
phones like the Nokia 9000i (and the uprlated
9000il model announced in May 1998) that
combine phone functions with email, fax. nussaging,caller ID and even Weh browsing!The
high price of the phone ($1,500), of course, is a
drawback. In December 1997. Nokia announced
that the 9000i would be availal>le with l900
band GSN service on the Pacific Bell network in
California. There are more than 500 cities in
North America now of('ering GSM service.
CDMA is the new kid on the block. It oflers what
many consider to he the best technology, anrl its
phones boast the longest battery life.
Simply put. today's phones require that if
you live in a GSM area (as much of Eurot>e is).
you have to use a GSM phone, aml if you live in
A Short Glossary
of Digital Telephony Terms:
850MHz: This part of the microwave spectrum is the cellular band, although AT8:T runs
some (but not all) of its PCS operations in this range. Analog services usc 800 MHz in North
America and 900 MHz in Europe. Asia;md Australia.
1,800 MHz: The 1,800 MHz GSM standard is used in Europe. This unfortunately >neans that
1,900 MHz phones sold in North America can't be used in Europe.
1.900MHz: The portion of the microwave spectrum allocated in North America for PCS. The
1.900 band (also referred to as 1.9 GHz) is called "DCS" in Europe and "PCS" in North
America.
AMPS: Advanced mobile phone service. The current cellular technology offered l>y Cantel
AT8rT and Mobility Canada, AMPS is an analog system that lacks data capabilities, the
shortest battery life and the lowest sound quality.
CDMA; Code division multiple access. also known as IS-95. Sprint PCS uses this system,
as do Mobility Canada and Clearnet, albeit in incompatible variants. CDMA offers greater
capacity than its competitors TDMA or GSM. To consumers, this means potentially lower
rates. CDMA also offers slightly better voice quality than TDMA or GSM. CDMA is popular in Hong Kong, South Korea and parts of the United States and Canada. Like other digital systems, it ol'fers data capabilities.
CDPD: Cellular digital packet data
D-AMPS: See TDMA
GSM: The cellular system most common in Europe, supported in at least 109 countries. GSM
is technically a variant of TDMA, GSM and CDMA are completely incompatible, unless you
have a not-yet-available dual-mode phone. GSM currently has the widest selection of
phones, but fewer roaming options than CDMA.
TDMA: Also known as D-AMPS, TDMA has data capabilities and moderate sound quality.
It is offered in North America by Cantel AT&T. TDMA isn't considered a very robust technology compared to the digital alternatives.
Craeme Bennett
7 E C H E N T E RP RI SE
a CDMA area, people visiting from less developed areas won't be able to use their cellular
phones. It is widely believed that in the next few
months, phones capable of supporting multiple
protocols (via software?) will become available
at competitive prices.
Fidooperators,forexample, say thatcompanv will allow you to trade your old phone in for
the new type, so at least you won'1 be stuck with
iiuseless"singlemode" phone, once dual-mode
phones become commonplace and eliminate this
dichotomy.
Until then. remember: a PCS phone can only
use aPCS network unlessthe provider supplies
a "dualmode" phone. Clearnet was ahead of
Fido in offering this capability. With a PCS-only
phone. if you are out of range of the network, you
are out of luck. There are other complicating
factors,
too.PCS phones such as the 1,900 MHz
Qualcomm/Sony 1900/600 phone can'troam on
an analog system like a system using an 800
MHz digital phone, such as theQualcomm/Sony
800/500 model. However. if you believe the telcos, 95 percent of the United States will be covered bv CDMA and GSM within two veats.
Internetaccess, file transfer.

Telnet and more. It can even be
used asa faxmodem fora laptop computer via an infrared link! More info
on the 9000i (and its backlit cousin, the
newer 9000il) is on our Web site at
www.tcp.ca/gsb/net/nokia9000i.html.
Another i nteresting capability is
i nternational r o aming. C o mmon i n
Europe. where GSM is king. you simply
carrya "smart card' around with vou and
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Here's a useful PCS phone tip f r om

like the fa>mlands of Oakville or the hackroads
e've tested the Clearnet phone in both of Niagra-on-the-Lake, we were always in ser- Clearnet's Mark Langton: enter all of your
the Metro Toronto and G r eater vice areas.
stored phone numbers with long-distance
Vancouver areas for several months and
In Vancouver. we experienced very few prefixes. The Clearnet service is smart
have found it to be a gen(nally reliable performer. problems with Cl(arnet services. As far east enough to figure out if it needs to use
as Mission, at 286th Street in Maple Ridge, the prefix. That way. you can call peoClearnet PCS phone & services
ml the wilds of Pitt Meadows or Haney. sig- ple I'rom your phone's built-in phone
From: Clearnet
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http;//www.clearnet.corn
made nrl received a credit to Clearnet's you are in. Clearnet says it will
Model tested: Clearnet (by Qualcomm/Sony)
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transitions between rligital an<] analog soon announce Clearnet rli ( ital
Price: $149
modes (thephone can be set to heep when
service support in the U.S.. at a
Pros: Excellent audio quality and battery life. Email,
digital services are unavailable). This is in
nominal surchargethis summer.
voicemail and other digital services in some areas.
sharp < ontrast to our experience with sin I<Until then. the phone works in
Dual-mode operation allows phone to be usedalmost
mode Fido services. which invrial>lv cut out the L'.S.and most areas of
anywhere (tested extensively in Metro Toronto and
s when we moved away from the nmin ro<ls Cana<1 in analog mode, if digiGreater Vancouver areas for this
in these twns.
tal PCS services re not availreview). Relatively inexpensive perWher>PCS n>ode (lo<'s f'rite>; able.
second billing. Large, five-line backlit
voices occasionally cut ut or are
LCD.
garbled sou(id>ng, but w< experi- MIKE
Cons: Limited digital coverage. Bulky
enced ve>>' few dropped calls or Clearn<t aLsu offers another type of
phone. Phonesseemprone to qualitycontrol issues.
unintelligible communications. p hone service. d u bbed M I K E .
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Essentially a digital-service-only PCS
In Toronto, the phone worked
Clerllet we>'p good.
[)hone combined with a walky-talkv iDEN
very well. Even in out-of-the-way
Nevertheless. we strongly
radio phone. the MIKE phone allows you to make
areas like the bluffs east of the
r ecommend that yo u r en t a stamlard calls on the Clearnet rligital network or
Beaches area of Toronto, we
phone or borrow phone. from a talk to one or more people directly, CB-style. in
could take calls and use both cellular and rligi- friend. pay his or her phone charges I' or a day half duplex fashion (press the button and talk,
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tal modes. Dropped calls were infrequent, or two. and test the respective services and then the person at the other end presses their butalthough we experienced this more in Toronto coverage of Fido. Clearnet, Cantel. Mohilitv. or ton to talk ...etc.). One legemlary night, a number
than we did in Vancouver. A little further out any other mobile service you are considering. of Toronto journalists gave a MIKE phone to the
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when the licensing of the microwave spectrum
was define(l years ago. It is said that, in the
future, the plan is to consolidate them all into
a single, global system using much higher frequencies.
In early 1998, Microcell began offering the
Nokia 6190, a $250 unit that, with an optional
Nokia PLUS module, extends calling area via
access to analog networks. Thus, the module

makes it a dual mode(PCS and Cellular) phone
that offers both Cellular and PCS (GSM1900)
senice. Microcell's Lynda Phinney adds that
the 6190 is available to Microcell's 1997 customers asa SI00 upgrade. Nokia says a "data
suite" computer-connectivity pack is being
tested for the 6190 and will be announced soon
in Canada.
What's coming up
According to Fido's Kathy McLaughlin. the next
A rleluxe <lata-capable versionofthe MIKE phone can actas

wireless modem. The Motorola 470i MIKE
phone should be available in B.C. in October
and is available now in the Greater Toronto corridor area. It acts as a 9.6Kbps modem an(l can
thus work as a wirelessmodem on a Mac.
Windows PC, Windows CE handheld device or
even a Palm Pilot cool! 0
wave of devices will be multiband compatible, digital-only phone with a walky-talky style
addressing some of the geographic incompatibility radio transceiver, grow more popular. MIKE is
issues that plague current GSM devices in North currently offered in the Metropolitan Toronto
America
which can't. for example, he used on area and along the conidor toward Hull, but is
GSM phonesin Europe orAsia.As a workaround, being rollerl out in western Canada in the late
Microcell's phones have a chip that you can simply fall of 1998.
take with you and insert into a European phone.
At the moment, MIKE's Motorola phones
Companies such as Rent Express are setting up support (CDMA) digital PCS and the iDEN
rental programs to service ibis need.
radio standard. If a (currently hypothetical)
Some analysts predict "triple mode" phones future model were to add analog cell support,
will soon become popular, as senices like
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The studycovered 350 medium and large
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(information systems) support time and lost
book failures and got stories back that ranged
also included 250 large IS notebook PC buyers
user productivity, so it is not a hard number.
from children urinating on the keyboard to a
who support corporate users, plus 100 line-ofBut IDC points out lost opportunity costs may
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In the entertainment industry, Kuhn said,
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All ofthese can make use ofdata warehousing,
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A survey Price Waterhouse conducted with
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Retaining customers is a key to pmfits, said
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businesses are becoming more likely to buy 17inch or 19-inch monitors. The change in part is an
unexpected fallout from the explosion of Iow-cost
both the Java arul Microsoft's ActiveX technology PC systems. which has freed up resources for things
on the <lient. accordin< to Accpac. Grant like hetter peripherals.
The researchers say 15-inch monitors will
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demand will fall olf steeply next year for the same
Businesses adopt bigger monitors
International Data Corporation (IDC) says a survey reasons14-inch monitors have become less comthe finn.
just completeil of 300 non-residential business mon. says
Ed Buckingham.seniorresearch analyst,said
sitesvdth more than 100 employees each shows
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1997 to 44 percent in 1998. according to the

study.
Of those willing to spring for a 17-inch or
important monitors are compared to other periphlarger
model, the average respondent would be
erals. The data, he said, suggest there is not much
willing to pay a US$337 preniium. the survey
of amiddle pound among the respondents.
"What we found was that for those that felt Iou!ld.
One important factor. said Buckingham, is
monitor size was important. the level of importance was tremendous, with only network [LAN] that many cash-strapped businesseswant to
improve productivity without breaking budgets.
adapter beating it out.- Buckingham saiii.
Large
screens make more information visible at
Because of its perceived importance. the likeone
time
and reduce time scrolling around for
lihood of buying a 15-inch or smaller monitor is
expected to decline overall from 58 percent in content. As monitor costs drop, the return on
money spentfor larger monitors gets ever more
attractive, the r esearchers noted. Craig
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the purpose of the study was to finrl out how
Messaging causes stress: study

ln its second year of surveying office worker's attitudesto messay'ngsystems, Pitney Bowes says the
many Ioims of messaging
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stress for the typical office worker.
The study, based on a survey of 1,000 workers inlarge companies in the U.S., U.K. and
Canada, as well as face-to-face interviews. noted
usage patterns of 12 diferent forms of communications from telephone calls to letters and courier packages.
A similar study carried out by Pitney Bowes
lastyear found workers sent and gotan average ol'
178 messages daily, although the 1997 study didn't count the receipt of inter-o8ice, post office
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carve out a signiTicant share of the burgeoning ecommerce market;
HP announced a Domain Commerce alliance
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HP's transaction specialist subsidiaty, Verifone,
plus vendors of e-commerce systems including
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IBM is already working with a number of
clear move to cover itself against any possible mobile communications) users in both coun- insurance companies on "data insurance,"
misinterpretation of the results, the institute Iries. Sy/piu Dennis
including Cigna lnternationa. Reliance, and
Broad Vision, iCat, Intershop and OpenMarket.
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NRMS. Various kinds of policies are now being
To improve site speeds, HP says it will our finding and to explore the role of the various
IBM developing data insurance
explored and developed, such as: product liabildevelop a Domain Colnmerce platform that inte- physical factors.w
IBM has started to work with insurance firms to fig- ity; carriers' and providers' policies; and even
However, Ihe report does notethat there is a ure oul what terms and conditions to include in policies for "officers and directors," who could
grates a WebQuality of Service (Web goS) technology created in collaboration with Cisco. The demonstrable statistical associations between policies for Ihis new type of insurance, which is also be held liable for an organization's rnissystem will apply Cisco's policy systems to both calling time andnumberof calls per day, beingdriven by thehazards ofthe internet,accord- deedsor mistakes in cyberspace. Jucqrtefirte
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top lcve.l ol'a Weh site is the point at which you the U.S. government
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under consideration. This initial set of proposed tor general for industiy, this approach has
Europeansconccrncd. 'Although itwasdeveloped
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Pulver.corn report predicts 2000 will be year Internet telephony
issue of Internet telephony that he thinks business
leaders should understand.
NEW YORK (NB) Jef Pulver. president of It's a done deal: Future Public Networks
Pulver.Com president and producer of the Eumpean
will be IP (Internet protocol)-based. Until
and U.S.
Voice on tlie Netconferences,has issued a
recently, he says, the industiy has been
report detailing his observations on the Internet teleputting data over voice networks. Soon he
phony industiy. Pulver's pmgnosis onthe technology,
predicts, the industry will be putting voice
over data networks.
which is starting to take ofl' thanks to companies such
It's not a 1998 threat to service revenue:
as RSL Com and Delta 3, is extremely positive.
He predicts a rosy future for the industry and,
Despite the hype, propagated by what he calls
while the telephone companies may not be quakmisinformed market analysts, he notes that in
the cun ent US$70 billion j~obal minutes maring in their boots just now, they do have reason to
be worried.
ketplace, 1998 revenue for IP telephony minThe report
isdesigned to lay the youndwork for
utes amounts to no more than $30 million.
Pulver'
s Eumpean conference,which isscheduled Many PSTN/IP gateway vendors will start to
to take place in Olso, Noiway, later this month, as
support more than one operating system, most
likely Microsoft Windows NT and a favorite
well as the fall U.S. conference in Washington.
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By Sylvia Dennis
CA targets small, medium businesses

Continuedfrom page 6
CD-ROMs incorporating live trial versions of all
CA workgroup products. By receiving preloaded, live trial versions of the products with
each kit, CA said clients can also conveniently
purchase, deploy and utilize the complete solutions without any software reinstallation.
"This prograni grants world-class licensing
optionstoresellers and end-users, and for the

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CA Open Licencealso promises to offer
clients significant discounts for volume purchases.The piogram incorporatesthree "pointbased" purchase levels, each with its own dis-
1999 may be the year of gateway interoperability. As of May, 1998, he notes that there
are veiy few (if any) PSTN/IP gateways that
interoperate with PSTN/IP gateways of multiple vendors. This issue, he says, will have a
negative effect in the build-out of 1998 public
IP telephony-based networks. This wilL he
notes, have no effect on trials or the build-out
of private networks where it is customary to
single source a vendor.
Internet telephony technoloy'es will become
part ofembedded systems of future IP
devices. He predicts that the industry should
be onthe look outfor m any more hybrid IP
telephony appliances in 1999.
By the year 2000, look for IP to be a supported piotocol on Lucent switches, as well as
those fmm Ericsson and Noitel.
count plateau. CA said a client's purchase level

is determined by the total volume of workgroup
products.
The program also allows organizations to
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CA said that the offering, available in one- or
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H323 will not be the only protocol used by

most carriers and service pmvideis when they
mll out their Internet telephony services.
H323 interoperabi
lity has been proven and
implemented with PC-to-PC Internet telephony cli
ent software,he notes,and the same can
be saidforPC-to-phone services.
In 1998 Internet telephony is all about cheap
minutes. This is, he says, not hype but fact.
The Internet "applications" will start to show
up in late 1998 and early 1999, he predicts,
but notes it is the excitement of cheap minutes
that has gotten the attention of the Global
$800-billion telecommunications industry.
The education of next generation telcos and
PSTN/IPgateway vendors has already begun,
he says. Until recently, he notes, there was no
knowledge of the legacy intelligent network
envimnment demonstrated by many of the
next generation telco operators. Now that is
changing, he notes.
The regulation of Internet telephony, he predicts, will accelerate the movement of minutes
fmm public switched telephone network and
onto virtual private networks.
Furtherdetails ofPulver's reportcan be found

on the company's Web site at http: //www.
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Reviewer's notes
Memory options
Many but not all digital cameras include
small amounts of memory, with additional
storage provided by optional memory cards.
Some still use standard PC Card memory,
but most now use one of two smaller cards that
are emerging as standards: SmartMedia and
CompactFlash. They are roughly the same size,
but differ in orientation (CompactFIash is
about 4.45cm wide and 3.8cm high, while the
SmartMedia is about 3.8 cm wide and 4.45 cm
high) and thickness (CompactFlash is the
t hickness of t w o lo o n ies, w h il e t h e
SmartMedia card is thinner than a dime).
A 2 MB card will store about 30 frames in
"normal" mode (that's I/11 compression) or
20 in "fine" mode (I/8 compression). The
capacity varies according to how the manufacturer implements image compression.
'I'here are also 4 MB and 8 MB SmartMedia
cards available with capabilities. A 16 MB card
is in the works (but not all cameras can take
all capacities, so ask your retailer). Individual
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for these devices, as they tend to use AA batteries in quick order. However, ail accept
rechargeables and many accommodate an
optional AC adapter which isn't particularly
useful for picture taking (unless you' re near an
outlet) but it is useful when downloading to
your colttputer or other printing device.
Whet the industry says
A product manager at Fuji makes the following genera I points about digital cameras:
The main purpose behind digital cameras
is NOT to make prints. Prints from fiirn
cameras still have a higher image quality.
The fact that digital camera images can be
d irectly injected into email and t he
internet, incorporated into printouts and
viewed on the family TV (pius transferred
onto video tape from there) is a fun factor
inherent in digital cameras that compensates for their lesser image quality.
Market potential
frames or the entire card can be erased and/or An executive at Nikon offered the following
write-protected.
CornpactFlash cards are gaining much
more support from camera makers than alternatives. According to SanDisk, a major supplier of these cards, they have the advantage of
standardized memory access so a camera with
a 4 MB card can accept a 16 MB card, SanDisk
also claims CompactFIash cards are more
durable and shock-resistant than SmartMedia
cards, and are available in larger capacities
(the maximum to date is 48 MB).
Cursing the cable
Downloading images into your computer is
simple and with a serial cable connecting the
camera to the 9-pin serial port on your cornputer (where the driver and utiiity software
have to have been installed). A button or
knob on the camera is set to download and
the computer does the rest.
However, this process can be complicated
if you like me have only one serial port,
which is already dedicated to your mouse or
trackbail. After much cursing, I w o rked
around this problem by disconnecting my
trackball from the serial port and activating
the "mouse keys" utility in Windows 95.
Once that arrangement was established,
downloading, viewing and playing with the
pictures went smoothly.
F'ower hungry
Power consumption is a major consideration
statistics from a recent article in USAToday to

indicate the potential growth for digital camera purchases:
In the US in 1997, 2.4 billion pictures of
all types were taken (78 billion worldwide).
Worldwide sales of d i g ital cameras
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million of those in the V.S.) and are
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year 2000,
Digital cameras constitute the fastestgrowing product category,
Personal computers are now present in 40
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H OME CREAT I V I T V
A for a le so ware or creative ex ression

By Jean Allen-lkeson
ver the past couple of years, a new
category of software has arisen.
Called home creativity, these applications allow amateur artists to create custom projects like greeting cards, calendars,
and family history books, as well as to
touch up photographs. Kids can use it to
wow teachers with awesome title pages
and posters for school projects.
Most of these programs are affordably
priced and combine afew common functions. Because they are not developed for
professionals, most have simplified interfaces, employing "wizards" to walk you
through
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proc e d ures,
Templates for greeting cards, birthday banners, calendars, personal stationery, invitations, fancy borders, etc., enhance their
ease of use.
Home creativity s o f tware i n c lud'es
image editors, drawing p rograms (not
included in this review), image-organizing
utilities and desktop publishing software.
Image editing
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Project tip: custom party invitations

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balloons or onto the body of one of the coman easy and satisfying program to use. These ical clipart figures included with the program.
two programs account for over 50 percent of Friends will be impressed and their parents
will think your are a computer guru. These
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Picture It!, unlike PhotoSuite, has utilities effects should take less than 10 minutes to
for customizing templates for special projects achieve, as the programs are intuitive and
(PhotoSuite II is due out soon and should walk you through the necessary steps.
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With Picture It! you can customize photos,
then paste or import them into Microsoft's
Greeting Workshop Deluxe or M i crosoft
Publisher 98 for your club newsletter. Both
will integrate smoothly. Picture It! has the
simplest "help" buttons. But Corel Print
House Magic is a close second for ease of use
and it has a larger variety of projects.
These programs and other photo-manipulation programs all accept images from the
Internet, scanners and digital cameras, or pictures that have been commercially saved to
floppy disks, CDs, or Zip disks. Most of these
programs include coupons from Kodak to
have undeveloped film or special photos
processed into these formats.
Image editing is one of the fastest-growing

areas of software, partly because so many
manufacturers bundle this type of application
with new computers, color printers, scanners
and digital cameras.
Picture It! 2.0 from Microsoft comes with
the wizards and hints familiar to users of other
Microsoft products. This program lets you
import photos, touch them up, cut parts out
and paste them into a collage on a new background and then paste the final product into
greetings cards, calendars, etc., or send it out
over the Internet.
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covers a vast array of topics trom symbols,
signs, borders and backgrounds, to images of
famous people and drawings of anatomical,
biological, botanical, or mechanical subjects.
The three biggest and (arguably) best
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Image Pak. MasterChps includes photos of

fine art (useful for school projects), and
video clips. It comes on 20 CD-ROMs yet
sells for less than $100. Best of all, these
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job of c ataloguing and b u ilding photo
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a photo album when you download images to
your PC from a digital camera.
This program and the others are a great
way to archive old pictures and to remove
scratches and flecks, or sharpen and brighten
black-and-white photos of your ancestors or
childhood vacations.
Another Canadian product on store shelves
is Vorton's Photo Zone. Vorton was founded by
ex-Corel techies, who have created an affordable program they think will satisfy both home
and commercial art markets. This software
won't make greeting cards out of your favorite
photo, but it does allow you to convert images
into a wide variety of formats, including nowesoteric ones such as Amiga.
Like the other programs, you can apply special effects to images like blur, mosaic, emboss,
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not likely to need is one that prevents unauthorized viewing of photo catalogues.
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One of the fastest-growing uses t'or a home
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Many companies now

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Get ready for a change in the way we
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Flat panels seem destined to become the display
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loaded with smart features, induding intelli-
panel product development.
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screen adjustment.
The Studio Display has a wide viewing
angle (120 degrees), and has inputs for comApple Cempslter, lnc.
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from a VCR, camcorder or cable TV, as well as
virtually any kind of computer.
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The Studio Display is not cheap; the sugf lat-panel d i splay t o gested retail price is $2,995. However, it is the
come to market so far, cream of the current flat-panel crop. Dennis
t he A p p l e St u d i o Manning of Apple Canada says the Studio
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offers double the brightness, contrast and manufacturer. This company has a broad line
sharpness of a traditional analog monitor. The of flat-panel monitor, and has been the leader
monitor comes in two configurations; mounted on an adjustable foot stand, or with an
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casts an image onto a movie

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producer wants to create a cool or
futuristic scene quickly and simply,
he or she puts a flat-panel display into the picture. Flat-panels are a premium product; they
claiming, for example, a

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Flat-panel displays have
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compact enough to be fashionable.
The ultimate flat panels are still the stuff of
sci-fi movies "electric wallpaper" that can
cover the entire side of a living room, showing
anything from the image of someone you' re
having a videophone conversation with to a
soothing 3D landscape, a Web site, or an
interactive action game.
At the smaller end of the scale, flat panels
also make visual information displays mobile
to an unprecedented degree. A two-way wrist
TV is no longer confined to the comic pages.
Digital wireless technology and miniature flat
panels make the pocket videophone a viable
concept in the near future. Whether the size
of a living room wall or a postage stamp, flat
panels will be with us in ever greater numbers
and varieties over the next five years, changing how we access information in ways both
obvious and subtle. This article examines the
current state of the flat-panel art, and predicts
where it is going.
What ls a flat panel?

The standard flat display is based on a liquid
crystal display (LCD), which consists of a thin
crystal layer that can be lit up with different
colors and levels of brightness to produce a
bitmap image. LCD panels can be used for a
viewing screen surface, or for a projector that
ray tube (CRT) monitors

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monitors have a great many
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panels.
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monitor with similar viewing
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cheaper to ship and less of a strain on whatever tabletop or computer chassis it may be
sitting on. It also takes up far less desktop area
than a CRT
anywhere from one-half to onequarter the "footprint" of a CRT. This is an
important point if space is at a premium.
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monitor's image quality also deteiiorates inexorably, as the phosphorescent coatings on the
inside of the tube break down with use.
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eyestrain in users, emit more radiation, consume more materials in production, cost more
to ship and store, ahd pose more of an environmental burden in their eventual disposal
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with only a tiny border strip
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fine, we are right to get suspicious.

F or notebook computer users, t h e
price/performance equation is different than
for desktop PCs. You simply can't lug a huge
CRT monitor around on the road, so you bite
the bullet and pay the extra money for the
typical notebook with its expensive LCD
screen. However, the sticker shock of large
LCD screens is felt in the notebook market as
well. The standard notebook LCD screen in
early 1998 was in the 10- to 12-inch range,
with an effective resolution limit of 600x800
pixels. Larger (up to )S.l-inch) screens are
restricted to high priced, top-of-the-line notebooks. Ironically, many notebook users buy a
large CRT monitor to use at the office.
Who ls bIIylng flat-panel displays?

The early adopters of flat-panel displays have
been people for whom the extra cost doesn' t
outweigh the smaller footprint and other
advantages.
These include computer users in
the financial industry (where space in pricey
office towers is at a premium), and in medical
fields where electromagnetic interference may
be a concern.
There are also the early adopters of leading-edge technology, for whom the ego boost
and bragging tights that come with a cool toy
outweigh the shock of a higher price.
users would buy a flat panel instead of a CRT

monitor it the flat panel's price were no more
than 50 percent higher than the equivalent
CRT. I'or the monitor industry to get us interested in buying more flat panel displays it
must drop the price.
And, judging by flat-panel price trends
over the last two years, as well as predictions
by industry analysts and monitor makers, by
the year 2000, we may see flat panels priced
only 1'0 to 20 percent more than equivalentsized CRTs. Such a marginal difference will
lead to an explosion in tlat-panel adoption by
the mass market.
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panel's price were no

more than 50 percent
higher than the equivalent CRT
display manufacturers, the retail price of 14and 15-inch flat panels (roughly equivalent to
15- and 17-inch CRT monitors) will decline to
the $750 range by the year 2000. This will be
done by improving the technology at flatpanel fabrication plants, and implementing a

new digital video standard in PC hardware.
According to Canada's ATI Technologies
Inc., one of the world's leading makers of
graphics cards, a consortium of leading monitor makers is working to "develop and promote industry-wide acceptance of a digital
video connector that will lead to mass market
adoption of flat-panel display monitors for
log graphic signa)s to a flat panel's native digita) mode, ln addition to lowering costs, an
all-digital graphics solution would improve
the quality of flat-panel images even more.
ATI predicts that general improvements in
manufacturing, along with the DFP initiative,
will cause flat-panel monitor prices to drop to
under $1,000 by the end of this year. If this
happens, it could mark the beginning of the
end for the CRT monitor.
acceptance of flat-panel monitors, we expect

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o you get aches and pains in your
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into getting an ergonomically designed keyboard (in addition to taking frequent breaks
from your work, of course) to relieve some
of the stress your fingers and lower arms
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reboot) attachment is a new feature broadly

supported in Windows 98. It's a nice feature,
but not a show stopper.
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onset of carpal tunnel syndrome or other
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ivlicrosoft developed such a keyboard

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was still affordable. Since then, the market
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Keyboard Elite. 1'he I'.lite mode) has a smaller footprint than its predecessor, a USB-compatibility option for next-generation of PC
systems and a lower price tag.
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I'hinner, smaller cursor-specific keys are
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The USB (universal serial bus, which
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ture. With sales of it s o riginal Natural

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MAC A I K N A
iMac receives enthusiastic welcome

By Patrick McKenna
to bulge with iMac opinions.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (NB) lt's the best

thing Apple has done since I 984. No, it's a
cheap, hobbled machine tosucker the Mac
More than 1,600 postings surface in
The space-age looking iMac is powered by Deja. news when a user types "i Mac." An
a PowerPC G3 microprocessor running at 233 array of opinions, facts, guesses, hopes
MHz with 5 I 2KB of Level 2 cache, a I 5-i nch and criticisms come from Mac loyalists
monitor, I 0/ 1 00Base-Tx Ethernet connectivi-
faithful. The US$1,299 all-in-one entry-level ty,a 33.6kbps modem, I2 M bps USB and 4
computer called iMac is causing newsgroups
Mbps infrared port and 24x CD-ROM drive.
and Windows users as they dissect

Apple's return to the consumer market.
Design, expandability, USB (universal serial
bus), and Apple

strategy, are subjects
for heated discussion.
One reply began, "Don't you see the plan
here? Sucker the Mac faithful in once again
with a cheap, hobbled machine that is useful
only when the users plunk down the big
bucks for the USB peripherals that Apple will
kindly sell you 'after' you buy the iMac and

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Apple is moving forward."
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want expandability, buy a PowerMac G3. As I
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mouse with computer, and call the GUI
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The excitement over iMac is not limited to
newsgroups. Even though Apple's new

translucent computer, keyboard and mouse
will not ship until August, the company's electronic store is being flooded with questions
about iMac details and how to place orders.
Apple spokesperson Rhona Hamilton told
Newsbytes that a special section of the store is
being developed to handle iMac questions.
Apple watcher and critic Don Crabb
applauded Jobs' new consumer strategy. "If
anyone thought Steve Jobs was kidding about
Think D i f ferent t o day's Flint C e nter,
Cupertino rollout of the new iMac and new
PowerBook G3s has dispelled such thoughts,"
wrote Crabb.
"Apple is serious about regaining its rightful place in the consumer and education markets markets it created in case we all forgot."
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may I'inally have figured out how to temper its
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Macintosh OS X due fall of 1999

NB Apple has unveiled a detailed operating r u mored to be a server and workstation
system (OS) roadmap which will culminate c l ient OS. In its announcement, Apple did
with Mac OS X (ten) in the fall of1999. In n o t r ule out a client version, but instead
the meantime, Mac users will see a major em p hasized Rhapsody as a server OS for
upgrade to Mac OS 8 and the first customer d esktop publishing and Internet servers.
release of Rhapsody, an operatingsystem for
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OS will skip the number "9 D and go to the
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system upgrade, Mac OS 8.5, will provide i n t erfaces (APIs) that developers have been
users with greater internet integration and u s ing for years to create Macintosh applicanew find and browsing capabilities. Other t i o ns. This means almost all current Mac
enhancements include easier Internet set-up, a p plications will run on Mac OS X. New
a d v anced virtual memory and preemptive

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able (and therefore can be cleaned) freeStreet price: $90
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extremely large buttons that sit flush with offer direct support. In these instances, the
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under the natural resting spots for your fin- equipped flight games, while the rest of the
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removed. The time to load the file and all its
IMG files, and render the files was taken for
"fresh" loads. To do this. the subdirectory
containing the file was renamed for each load
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left at defaults.
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We looked at a cross-section of products that

we judged representative of the devices that
are expected to be sold in the largest quantities. While the color devices are nice, the
prices will tend to relegate them to the fewer
sales. The IBM Workl'ad was selected as representing the 3Com/USRobotics Valml'ilot farnily. This did not cause any problem using
Hand Web.
MabiisPra 400 = 39.5 sec. (graphics were dithered)
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Nokia Communicator 90001 and the NEC Newton MP-2100 = (Nat Tested)
Mobilel'ro 700, but these were not available. Psian Series 5 = 77 sec.
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largest device of the group and. along with
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locators.commonly known as Web site
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way to remove addresses.
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missing instructions for modem usage. I was
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online. 'I'hese should not be problems for end
users, but merely caused by "bad timing" of
the tests.
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fairly well. It was turned off for the rest of the
test. 'I'he adjustable cache was set at SOOKB.
13oth the font and its size are selectable, and
were left at the standard 10 point serif. Proxy
addressing is supported but was not tested.
I'esting was done online using original
http: //www.uark.edu/-wrg/ files.
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due to a failure to render the 3.2 test page past
the list elements, NetHopper also has a useful
added ability to build outline style lists out of
heading tags for quick jumping to topics within a page.
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ltobotics modem. I'he shareware program
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program is not supplied, but it can be found
on the Internet. Although all the handhelds
were too restrictive in their settings, the
Newton is the worst out of the box.
NetHopper only renders as much of the
page as is actually displayed at any given time.
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Filters
Geoworks' Wireless Web Access and Spyglass's
Prism are filter applications that work at the
server level. 'I'his approach should further
enhance the value of the less powerful browsers
and more limited hardware by custom fitting
the files before they are sent to the browsers.
Summary
Microsoft Pocket Internet Explorer 2.0 and
I'sion Web 1.0 were clearly the best browsers
tested. The big surprise was that I found even
the HandWeb 1.0 on the IBM WorkPad quite
useful for grabbing text information to store
in Memos to be read later. Unfortunately,
another good browser for the Newton came
out a few weeks after the MP-2100 was
returned to Apple.
Steve Weyer's Newt's Cape 1.S shareware
browser (check out http: //members.bellatlantic.net/
-sweyer/newton/index.htm), which s u pports
tables and creates Newton Books out of Web'
pages, should be more competitive with the
better browsers than NetHopper 3.2.
AIIPen was bought by Spyglass recently, so it
will be interesting to see what will happen to
NetHopper. If Spyglass decides not to continue
development of NetHopper, Newt's Cape would
be a viable alternative. Further browser developments are also expected for the I'almPilot.
Looking at the current state of browsers,
and in light of the new H1ML 4.0 recommended standard, I think it is too soon to put them
in ROM. While the Windows CE devices are
upgradable in this respect, and the browsers are
good enough for now, most people who use
them at all will eventually want newer versions, and probably sooner than they would
want to replace other components of the ROM.
Overall, I was impressed with the usability and usefulness of all the latest products. I
will probably keep the W3C HTML 4.0
Recommended Standard (about 1 .6MB)
loaded as a "pocketbook" reference in one of
these devices.
With I'lash memory prices down to
around $100 for 4 MB, and 16 MB and larger
becoming affordable, there's no longer any
doubt about viability of this application. J
Software for travellers
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If y ou are bringing a printer, pack the
toner cartridge separately, preferably in its
original packaging, or in a resealable bag.
1'here is nothing like spilled toner to wreck
your printer ... not t o m ention your
wardrobe.
If keeping connected is critical and you are

traveling to an out-of-the-way place, bring
along a spare PC Card modem. You-might
not be able to buy one on the road if your
current modem card fails.
Don't wear "techie" t-shirts, and avoid
any luggage that indicates its contains a
computer: it makes you an attractive target for thieves, especially in airports and
train stations.
If you are traveling in the U.S., visit Yahoo

http: //www.yahoo.corn and do a search on
the city you' ll be visiting. Yahoo now
offers city maps, directories and other

handy information for travelers. You can
print them out, and store them in a duotang or folder while you' re on the road. '3
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JULY 1998- THE COMPUTERPAPER GREATERTORONTO EDIT(ON
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Sortin out the standar for 56K mo ems

Sy Rod Lanefrand
repeated the previous steps and found out the

modem couldnot be upgraded. USR modems
while back, I got an earful from my father sold in August 1996 as upgradable to 56.6
who had just purchased a 56K modem. turned out to be upgradable only after you sent
n after installing it, he discovered it them back and had the guts replaced.
wouldn't work at its advertised speed with his
Recent USR modems have fl
ash-programinternet service provider (ISP) or with the two mable ROM, which can be upgraded by softother ISPs offering service in his area code.
ware. These modems can adapt to the V.90
The problem was one of compatibility. standard with a simple software download,
Internet users with a 56K modern based on
I tried a simitar procedure with my Motorola
either US Robotics' x2 technology or Motorola's K56Flex modem but without success. The
K56Flex technology had to pick an ISP that moderns are upgradable; the Web sile says, "The
used the same technology. If you owned a x2- Motorola fanilly af analog modem systems is a
based modem and used a ISP that supported
line of software
upgradabte modem."
K56flex (or vice versa), your surfing wouldn' t lt adds that, "All systems
aresoftware upgradable
exceed 33.6Kbps.
to tTU-T V.90." So what's the problem?
tt tumed out my father v as not alone in his
There is someconcern that atl the players are
disappointment. The issue of ISP and modem not comp
letely in line with the new protocol.
coinpatibility put a damper on 56K modems 1'hus. the K56Flex coalition, which is a hetero-
comp
lete
salesn
ite
rnationally,
geneous group (whereasUSR/3Com is one enti-
But now that a 56K common standardV.90 has been announced, my father, and
others in 56K limbo, will soon be able to make
the most of their fast modem.
ty) is cautious. They are working the bugs out.

If you visit the IBM site you will find this:
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want this assignment to be added to the curtemplate (see Copying Styles).
rent template, select Ok and then Close. Test
You can also create a style from scratch. To your new key combination to make sure it
works.
do this:
Step 1: Select Format, Style, New and in the
.Name: text box type the name for Copying styles
ment unless you add it to the Normal.dot
unfortunately they are not pictured so it will

be a case of trial and error to find those that
clicks, you can select this style list from the

status line using your mouse without having
are most useful,
to navigate the menus.
To use a style, select the text and select

Format, Styles to access the styles dialog box.
From the list select the style you want and
other style options. Create allows you to
Step 2: Select Format and then select and set

each of the formatting options for
your new style.

Step 3:Select the 'Add to template' check box
if you want this style added to the current document template (this is gen-
Using Text, Named Styles you can access

create your own styles and Manage allows
click Apply.
Word's Organizer allows you to copy styles
your new style.
you to copy styles from another document.

Alter a style by using it to format a para-
Using Format, Styles you can create new
between documents and templates. To access

the Organizer, select Format, Style, Organizer
and select the Styles tab. Open both the document which has the style to be copied and the
one you want to copy it to. Select the style to
copy and click the Copy button. Using the
styles and edit the existing ones. You can also graphand then make the changes you want
Rename styles. If you have the current docu-
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by using your program's outline function.
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styles to a separate styles file or to open a
to make to the style to t hat paragraph.
styles file enabling the styles from the file to
Then, with the paragraph selected, select

Text, Named Styles, Redefine and it will be
be used in the current document.
redefined according to the alterations you
WordPerfect also offers a range of styles for

Organizer
you can copy stylesbetween docu- graphics which include styles for creating
ments and templates and also Delete and lines (Format, Graphics Styles).
erally Normal.dot).
Step 4: Select Ok and then Close to return to
your document. You can now use
your style in the current document as
you would any of W ord's inbuilt
styles. If you selected the 'Add to template' checkbox then you can use this
style whenever you create a document
based on that template.
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