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PC Magazine OnlineTrends Online
Wednesday, March 27, 1996


This Week's News and Analysis:

Paper and Searchable Images Head for the Web
Innovative document management software unveiled in Chicago.

The Internet, When the Dust Settles
Will online technology lead to anarchy, utopia, or something in between?

Yahoo Debuts Kids' Web Guide
Yahooligans keeps Yahoo! ahead of the pack.

A PC That Listens in on Your Calls
Computer telephony software talks back.

Search-and-Retrieve App Erupts with Possibility
Krakatoa technology is ready for the Web.

Object Technologies Head for the Web
Database developers join big players in development push.

NexGen Hits the End of the Line
Parent AMD turns its attention to the K5 and K6.

WOW! CompuServe in the Playroom!
New online service bucks industry trend.

Memphis, Cairo, Nashville, and Beyond
Microsoft briefs developers on future operating systems.

Consumer Protection in Cyberspace
Industry group takes steps toward self-regulation.

Previous Trends Online Stories:

3/13/96 -- Gates Points to Rapidly Changing Internet
3/13/96 -- Let's Make a Deal...or Two...or Three...
3/13/96 -- Cyberspace Copyright Cases Go to Court
3/12/96 -- Microsoft Briefs Developers on Its Internet Roadmap
3/11/96 -- Microsoft and DirecTV Bring Satellite to Your PC
3/8/96 -- Internet in the Living Room: @Home's Strategy
3/7/96 -- Internet Dial Tone
3/7/96 -- Cyrix Wants to Sell You a PC
3/7/96 -- Got an Internet Beef?
3/6/96 -- Sun's Schmidt Points to Paradigm Shift
3/6/96 -- San Francisco Hosts First Netscape Developers Conference
3/5/96 -- Borland Promises Faster Java Applets
3/5/96 -- Compaq Steps Up Peripherals, Steps Down Prices
3/1/96 -- The PC Card Gets a Little Sibling
2/28/96 -- AT&T Reaches Out and Grabs the Internet
2/27/96 -- I/PRO Wants you to Have a $Grand Day
2/27/96 -- The a2z Guide to the Web
2/26/96 -- NetDay96
2/26/96 -- Beating the Markets While Flyfishing
2/23/96 -- Texture Makes Web Feel Real
2/23/96 -- TurboTax Miscalculates
2/21/96 -- Using Biology to Battle PC Viruses
2/20/96 -- Lights, HTML, Action!
2/20/96 -- MBAs Tackle Internet Commerce
2/20/96 -- Sausage Software Creates Egor
2/20/96 --AST Debuts New Multimedia PCs
2/16/96 --Cyrix Chip Pulls in the Best Winstone Scores in PC Labs' History
2/16/96 --Courts React to Commununications Decency Act
2/14/96 --The Internet Meets the Screen Saver
2/12/96 --Microsoft Ships Windows 95 Service Pak
2/12/96 -- Netscape's Latest Net Acquisition: InSoft
2/12/96 --Product Preview: Universal Serial Bus Peripherals
2/09/96 -- Why is Our Home Page Black?
2/09/96 --The Web Minus the Modem
2/08/96 -- Behind The Scenes At "24 Hours in Cyberspace"
2/08/96 -- 24 Hours at PC Magazine
2/08/96 --Microsoft's Internet Strategy: Free Stuff
2/08/96 --Packard Bell to Acquire Zenith Data Systems
2/07/96 --Will an ORB Light Up Your Network?
2/06/96 --Can Online Services Survive?
2/02/96 --Intel's '96 Road Map
2/02/96 --Telecom Bill Gets Thumbs Up From Congress
2/02/96 --General Magic Brings Telescript to the Web
2/01/96 --MasterCard and Visa Join Forces for Electronic Commerce
2/01/96 -- "Skinny Clients'' to Rule in the New World Order
2/01/96 -- Demo 96: PDA Redux
2/01/96 -- Demo 96 Conference: Web, Web, and More Web
2/01/96 -- A Day Without Shockwave?
1/31/96 -- Corel Will Try to Save WordPerfect, But Is It Too Late?
1/30/96 -- Netscape Changes Its Mind
1/30/96 -- PC Labs Uncovers Server Software Surprise
1/29/96 -- Survey Says: Internet and Networking Had a Big 1995
1/23/96 -- Why Sun Wants Apple
1/22/96 -- Major Bulletin Board Service Drops Adult Content
1/18/96 -- Mac Clones Get Competitive
1/17/96 -- Singing the Body Electronic
1/16/96 -- Don't Believe Everything You Download
1/12/96 -- Space Race
1/10/96 -- MacWorld: Some Things New, Some Things Old
1/08/96 -- Winter's Consumer Electronics Show: Digital Video and Wacky DooHickeys
1/05/96 -- Still Waiting for Universal Serial Bus
1/04/96 -- Desktop-Class Graphics and Thin CRTs Planned for Future Notebooks
1/03/96 -- Webware: Customers Are Turning to the Web for Mix-and-Match Components
12/28/95 -- CompuServe Shuts Down Newsgroups to Comply with German Law
12/28/95 -- Networking Merger to Ease Migration to ATM
12/27/95 -- The Stage Is Set for Web Terminals
12/26/95 -- How to Build a Web Applet, Espresso
12/21/95 -- The Plug-In Parade: New Web Development Tools Take Center Stage
12/21/95 -- Real-Time Video on the Web
12/19/95 -- Sidestepping Your Long-Distance Company
12/14/95 -- Worldwide Encryption Technology is Needed on the Net
12/14/95 -- SoftRAM95 -- Frequently Asked Questions
12/13/95 -- Web Auditing Gets Serious
12/11/95 -- Censoring Online Pornography: The Political Battle Is Heating Up
12/8/95 -- Bug In Microsoft Internet Explorer Can Cause Windows 95 Resource Problem
12/8/95 Bill Gates Unrolls Microsoft's Internet Map
12/6/95 -- ATM on the Desktop
12/04/95 -- Browseable, Searchable Television
12/04/95 -- Roll Your Own Web Browser
12/01/95 -- SoftRAM 95 Fails PC Labs Tests, Again
11/29/95 -- ISDN Heats Up
11/28/95 -- Full-Screen, Full-Motion Video--On a Plane or a Train
11/21/95 -- Electronic Software Stores Are Bustling on the Internet
11/15/95 -- Oracle Chief Larry Ellison Reveals Details of the $500 Computer
11/14/95 -- Bill Gates's Comdex Keynote: Invisible Applications
11/13/95 -- Lou Gerstner's Comdex Keynote: Pounding the Network Pulpit
11/10/95 -- Not Appearing on a PC Screen Near You:
11/09/95 -- Virtual Playground Unites Hospitalized Kids:
11/09/95 -- The Web, Minus the PC:
11/07/95 -- eShop Plaza:
11/02/95 -- Lotus and IBM Deliver First Child
11/01/95 -- Flat Screens and PDAs Take Center Stage in Osaka.
11/01/95 -- PC Labs Finds No RAM Compression in SoftRAM95
10/31/95 -- 3-D Worlds on the Web
10/30/95 -- Novell to sell its business productivity applications
10/25/95 -- The Digital Curator: Bill Gates expands his electronic art collection
10/24/95 -- Americans Reveal Online Habits
10/23/95 -- Lesser known Web search sites afford Internet accessibility
10/20/95 -- Soho market gearing up for Internet access, says Gallup survey
10/20/95 -- Electronics industries support interchangeable storage technology
10/18/95 -- Microprocessor Forum Spotlights Alternative Processors
10/16/95 -- The Internet Comes to Cable: Cable modems to speed Internet access at home
10/11/95 -- Jim Manzi Steps Down From Lotus: His departure marks the end of an era
10/10/95 -- Cyberspace Arbitration?
10/06/95 -- Cyrix Announces Its Sixth-Generation Processor
10/05/95 -- The Internet and the New Low End: Sun and Compaq envision ultra-cheap hardware
10/03/95 -- High-Speed Internet Access: Get your ISDN connection to the Internet working
10/02/95 -- Advanced Disk Accord Relieves Hollywood and Silicon Valley
9/28/95 -- Yahoo and OpenText Combine Technologies
9/28/95 -- Judge Rules On Electronic Copyright Infringemen
9/25/95 -- Pentium Outsells 486
9/22/95 -- Web-based Groupware Takes Off
9/21/95 -- Two-Way Paging Networks Pave the Way to New Wireless Messaging Services
9/20/95 -- Netscape Security Hacked, Again
9/19/95 -- Survey Says Internet Usage Includes Some Surprises
9/18/95 -- Internet Rating System Underway
9/15/95 -- The Internet Telephone Game
9/15/95 -- IRC and Beyond: New Approaches To Internet Communications
9/13/95 -- PC Makers Debut New Fall PCs for Home
9/13/95 -- TV-to-PC Data Transmission: Will It Beat Cable Modems to Market?
9/11/95 -- Giving it All Away: The big payoff from the free, on-line distribution of software
9/08/95 -- Cyberspace Copyrights: Is posting publishing?
9/08/95 -- I'll Take Internet Entrepreneurs for $100: Game shows hit the Internet
9/08/95 -- It's National Computer Virus Awareness Day
9/07/95 -- On-Call: Windows 95 Support Techs Get a Workout
9/06/95 -- The VRML standard may follow HTML into the fast lane
9/06/95 -- Government's Latest Encryption Policy Disappoints Software Industry
9/01/95 -- Microsoft Responds to Virus Alert: 'Bad Disk 2' Errors Explained
9/01/95 -- CD-ROM Content Gets Extended On-Line
8/30/95 -- The Power of Place -- 3D Worlds
8/29/95 -- Microsoft Maps Internet Inroads
8/29/95 -- The Electronic Charge Slip
8/29/95 -- Internet Security Under Scrutiny
8/28/95 -- The Winsock Story
8/08/95 -- The Web Divided: Will standards wars undermine common look and feel?
7/20/95 -- Internet Suites: Developers are looking toward integrated Internet tools
7/17/95 -- Net Worth: The Web's Financial District Is Bustling
7/08/95 -- Building Your Own Private Web: Web browsers go after internal corporate information.
6/30/95 -- Special Report: Intel Positions the P6 for 32-bit Apps, Eschewing Windows 3.1
6/30/95 -- Locking Out the Internet: Industry group counters congressional plans to clamp down on the Net
6/21/95 -- IBM Announces PowerPC Desktops, Notebooks.
6/15/95 -- Multimedia In Cyberspace: Oracle and Intel collaborate on on-line multimedia technologies.
6/12/95 -- The New Net: Competition for high-bandwidth Internet connections.
6/06/95 -- IBM's Bid for Lotus: A Little Friendly Hostility
5/26/95 -- On-Line Services: Publishers or Service Providers? Judge Says Prodigy Publishes
5/23/95 -- Microsoft Stops The Clock On Intuit Merger
5/01/95 -- Monopoly or Duopoly? Quicken Wins Either Way
4/28/95 -- Justice Department Aims To Sink Microsoft's Intuit Buyout
4/28/95 -- Spring Comdex: Showstoppers -- Bulletins #1-3
4/17/95 -- Under the Hood: Windows 95's 16-bit Legacy
4/07/95 -- The Arrival of Satan
4/03/95 -- How Many Windows in Windows 95?
3/27/95 -- Cyberspace Censorship Gets A Thumbs-Up From Senate Panel
3/16/95 -- VocalTec's use of IRC irks Internet group
3/14/95 -- Inside the Pentium Successor
3/03/95 -- Intuit Offers Revised Tax Software
2/16/95 -- Microsoft's Settlement With the Justice Department Is Shot Down


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