System links village's services
Firefighters in Buffalo Grove, Ill., can get blueprints of a burning building, locate hazardous materials and check for previous fire violations before they reach the scene'all from notebook PCs.
HANDHELD COMPUTERS
A palmtop or handheld computer ought to be a road warrior's Swiss army knife. It should have every tool needed in the field yet be able to slip easily into a pocket or portfolio.
$50 utilities suite lets you be your PC's Felix Unger
I've been a Norton Utilities fan ever since I started fiddling with computers. Now I've found something better.
Mail server's dial-up rules boost control for administrators
The $2,395 enterprise version of NT-Mail 4.2 is a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol mail server for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0.
Bargain: 17-inch Monitors
Chances are you've seen plenty of advertisements for $999 computer systems complete with monitor, a 433-MHz Intel Celeron processor, 64M of RAM, a 10G hard drive and a few other goodies such as a V.90 fax modem and possibly a cheap color ink-jet printer.
Do palmtops' text input systems see characters or handwriting?
The GCN Lab's reviewers got into a squabble over whether a palmtop computer performs character recognition or handwriting recognition.
Power Translator Pro stumbles with language barrier
Power Translator Pro does not try to be all things to all people. I've seen translation packages that claim to handle two dozen or more languages, including obscure ones. Most such programs are jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.
When you make Y2K fixes, make security changes too, expert says
Certain year 2000 fixes have the potential to compromise network security, according to Bill Keith, chief knowledge officer at Unisource Network Services Inc. of Annandale, Va.
Top-notch accuracy makes OCR software package a must-have
Early optical character recognition software introduced so many errors that it often was easier to retype documents than to scan and correct them.
CIO OUTLOOK
State governments are beginning to behave more like companies in managing information technology. They are evaluating plans, policies and procurements against good business practices rather than existing rules, customs or traditions.
Archiving system helps agencies automate e-mail
An e-mail archiving library from JVC Professional Computer Products Co. gives agencies an integrated way to automate their e-mail retention policies.
Here's what counts in ranking handhelds' features and assets
The GCN Lab invited computer makers to send their handheld, palmtop and companion computers for evaluation. Four companies responded with seven units. Lab personnel designated as palmtops all units weighing less than a pound and lacking a keyboard. Units with a keyboard and weighing up to 2.5 pounds were categorized as handheld computers.
FROM THE EDITOR
Online voting is on the boards in several states'and it looks like no part of civic life is left untouched by the Internet.
So what really makes an NT system ready for 2000?
The rollover to 2000 triggers more semantic debates than President Clinton's grand jury testimony.
Rational Software claims its suite is a revolutionary tool for app development
Rational Software Corp. officials said they expect the new Rational Suite to become the Microsoft Office of application development tools.
Virginia tech incubator finds niche in cybertechnology boom
Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology took more than a decade to find itself. But thanks to the Internet and some departmental realignment, CIT is ready to grow.
Get a read on features a monitor should have
A monitor that meets your minimum criteria for screen size, resolution, dot pitch and refresh rate is likely to give you trouble-free performance. But there are other features to be considered, too. A careful reading of a monitor's product literature should also find references to:
COUNTY LINES
PC watch. To monitor criminal activity in her neighborhood, Marilyn Seitz of Massanutten Resort, Va., simply logs on to her home computer and checks her e-mail.
RDBMS dodges cache delays by using memory
The Angara Data Server, a relational database management system from Angara Database Systems Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., avoids disk-caching bottlenecks by using main memory as its primary data store. It saves only log files and checkpoint images on a hard drive.
Faster systems beat bacteria
A food-borne disease such as salmonella does not take a leisurely stroll through a population. When microbial and bacterial diseases hit, they spread like wildfire.
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