NewtNews-172-17Mar98

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  EDITOR'S NOTE: Nancy Hanger <nhanger@windhaven.com> at Windhaven Press

  <http://www.windhaven.com> has volunteered to translate the HTML version

  of NewtNews published every week while I finish my thesis into text so

  that it can be emailed out.  Wow!  This is cool!  Enjoy!! :-)

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by Steve Holden <newtnews@pobox.com>. This is a weekly freeware

newsletter focusing on Newton Technologies and related topics. NewtNews

Copyright 1994-98 Steve Holden. All rights reserved. See the

Administrivia at end for details and FAQ info.



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Table of Contents

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 1.  Top News

 2.  Comments from the Editor

 3.  New and Updated Newton Information

 4.  New and Updated Newton Technology

 5.  Handheld Mentions in 'The Media'

 6.  NewtNews Tips and Tricks You Can Use On Your Newton

 7.  Dear Newton Developer

 8.  Other Handheld Technology News

 9.  Other Tidbits of Information

10.  Advertising Notes

11.  Product and Service Information

12.  Edupage, 09Mar98 thru 15Mar98

13.  INNOVATION, 09Mar98

14.  Administrivia





Top News

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** MP2100 HAS ERRORS **



A Newton Developer reports that Apple knows about a bug in the Newton OS

that causes MP2100s to randomly generate a -10061 error message. There is

no work around available, and Apple has stated in a conference call with

developers that the have no plans to fix this problem. If you 'Think

Different' please contact Mark Rabkin at: rabkin@newton.apple.com and let

Apple know that you "demand" this bug get fixed ASAP.



[EDITOR'S NOTE] -- On a less than positive note, several former Newton

developers

and technical support individuals have sent me private email about the

-10061 error messages on the MP2100. They are all of the opinion that

while the bug is fixable, that Apple doesn't have the in-house talent to

fix the problem. Thus the problem will most likely not be fixed no matter

the pressure placed by users and developers.



** STILL A LOT OF OTHER HANDHELD PRODUCTS OUT THERE **



There is a host of new handheld product news:



  - 3Com <http://www.3com.com> has announced the PalmPilot III

    (learn more via PR <http://www.palmpilot.com/pr/palmiii.html>,

    Wired <http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/other/technology/

    story/10790.html>, and InformationWeek Online

    <http://www.informationweek.com>);

  - Epson <http://www.pos.epson.com> has a compact pen-based system

    called the EHT-410 (US$3500) that is "ideal for the medical market";

  - Brother International 's <htpp://www.brother.com> Color GeoBook

    NB-80C

  - UK's Option International 's Snap-On (a GSM adapter for PalmPilot)

  - Hand Held Products <http://www.handheld.com> a new PC and bar code

    scanner called the Dolphin RF;

  - Nintendo <http://www.nintendo.com> announced a future Color Game

    Boy product line in Rome, Italy yesterday (product won't be out

    until late 1998);

  - Cross Computing's CrossPad <http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-

    bin/news?ID=980310163420>;

  - Hitachi Home Electronics' HPW-200EC Handheld PC

    <http://halny.hitachi.com>; and

  - LG Electronics <http://www.lgeus.com> has announced a new Windows

    CE 2.0 Phenom Handheld Personal Computer (HPC) device.





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      O N    S A L E    N O W  ! ! ! !



             S T I C K Y    N E W T S

             Put sticky notes on your Newton



      <http://www.conceptkitchen.com/index_0201.html>

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Comments from the Editor

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** WAY COOL DEVELOPERS**



The following Newton developers have announced plans to continue Newton

development efforts at least for the near future:



  - Gerd Staudenmaier <gerds@micronet.de>

  - Foundation Systems <http://www.tow.com>

  - StandAlone Software <http://www.standalone.com/>

  - Concept Kitchen <http://www.conceptkitchen.com>

  - NS BASIC <http://www.nsbasic.com>

  - Five Speed <http://www.fivespeed.com/>

  - Mark Ebell <http://www.familypractice.msu.edu/retriever.htm>

  - PelicanWare <http://www.pelicanware.com>

  - Catamount <http://www.catamount.com>

  - VisualNewt Software <http://www.VisualNewt.com/>

  - Tima Scientific <http://www.timasci.com>

  - MAR Software <http://www.marsoftware.com>

  - Sine of the Times <http://www.sineware.com>

  - EBB <http://www.ebb-ubb/ebb/voicenotes>

  - Enfour <http://www.enfour.com/>

  - Steve Weyer <http://members.bellatlantic.net/

    ~sweyer/newton/index.htm>

  - SilverWare <http://www.silverware.com>

  - Sun Sabre Software <http://members.aol.com/sunsabre>



** NEWTON BUSINESS THAT APPLE CAN EXPLOIT **



A Newton business area that Apple needs to exploit -- Apple MessagePad

Keyboards. Landware <http://www.landware.com> has a solution that makes

it possible to use a Newton keyboard with a PalmPilot. This Japanese page

shows a Windows CE device with a Newton keyboard

<http://www.tt.rim.or.jp/~hiraide/hpc/hkkey/index.html>.



** NICE TRY -- WE ARE STILL BITTER **



Apple Developer News (Issue 97 - 13Mar98)

<http://www.devworld.apple.com/> covered the news of new free software

from Foundation Systems <http://www.tow.com>. How about less coverage

about real world, hard working Newton developers and instead some answers

about the -10021 errors? Or better yet, some real discussions on selling

the Newton technology to interested parties. Sell part, write-off the

other. Cook the books. We don't care. Just free the Newton OS!



Maybe, just maybe, Gil Amelio was right in his recent Red Herring Q&A --

'Apple is just afraid to compete.'





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New and Updated Newton Information

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** SOME SPECIALS **



Mark Degg <markdegg@lister.softnet.co.uk> has announced a NewtNews reader

special ("quote 216665 with your order") -- a new Newton Flatstand for

the MP2x00 (US$24) and Mark's Newton Wonderbag -- together for 10% off.

You can learn more via this URL

<http://www.soft.net.uk/lister/newton.htm>.



AMUG <http://cdrom.amug.org/> has just released their Totally Incomplete

PDA CD-ROM for Newton #11. The cost is only US$29+S&H. You can learn more

via calling: 602.497.2244 or via email <sales@amug.org>.



PelicanWare <http://www.pelicanware.com> has announced a special upgrade

policy for registered owners of AvailWorks that allows them to purchase

Avail PointPro for a discounted price of US$39.95 (SRP US$79.95). Avail

PointPro includes all of the page layout features of AvailWorks, and is

also a complete slide show presentation tool for Newton 2.1 devices.



** DON'T FORGET ABOUT FARALLON'S DEAL **



MP2000 users who are upgrading to MP2100 should remember that the

Farallon Ethernet PC Card Offer (price drop between US$35-60) ends on

30Jun98. The deal is only good via FAX using the form that comes with the

upgrade package from Apple.



** POINT OF SALE SYSTEM BASE ON THE NEWTON **



FABS Systems <http://www.fabs1.com> has created a new site dedicated to

providing readers with information about "Sales Automation, Point of

Sales POS, Catering and mobile data access for PDA devices including the

Newton, use of wireless RF LAN and synchronization between field units

and host base systems."



** GOOD WWW RESOURCES **



Guido Heer <heer@pobox.com> maintains a German version of a Newton FAQ.

You can learn more via these URLs -- HTML

<http://pobox.com/~heer/newtfaqd.html> or TXT

<http://pobox.com/~heer/newtfaqd.txt>.



The 'Newton Info for Medical Students' site

<http://w3.ouhsc.edu/kwagner/newton/newton.html> has a new report posted

entitled: "To Buy or Not To Buy."



** NEWTON FANS IN JAPAN LOOK TO ENFOUR FOR LEADERSHIP **



Richard Northcott <richard@enfour.com> at Enfour <http://www.enfour.com>

reports that Newton fans in Japan think that it is up to him to save the

Newton. One <http://www.saryo.org/SmallWorld/faces/basuke.jpeg> of the

Japanese third-party developers did this page as part of an online "Save

the Newton by developing great apps" campaign

<http://www.saryo.org/basuke/newton-never-dies/poster.html>.



** A COUPLE OF SITES WITH MORE INFO ABOUT THE END OF NEWTON AS WE KNOW IT

**



Marc Rassbach <marc@tandem.milestonerdl.com> notes that the Apple Jedi

site <http://www.saracen.com/applejedi.html> has a WWW page devoted to

Apple decision to 'kill' the Newton OS

<http://www.saracen.com/ajp_uc.html>.



There is another Apple's Newton Decision? poll on the Net if you want to

continue to voice your opinion <http://www.insanely-great.com/vote.html>.



** INTERESTING APPLE NEWS **



The Red Herring ("The Business of Technology") published in Apr98 has an

interesting one-page Q&A with Gil Amelio on page 150. Gil has some choice

comments about his 'success' at Apple, and on Steve Jobs.



Guy Kawasaki no longer lists his occupation as Apple Fellow under his

picture for his "Technology: The Software Horizon" column on page 156 of

Forbes published on 23Mar98. He is now "CEO of Garage.com, a startup

capital firm in Atherton, California." The article is entitled "Get your

facts here", and is about three information retrieval companies.





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  NS BASIC 3.6 with Visual Designer! The latest implementation of

  this cool programming tool has an easy to use graphic screen layout

  function, plus indexed file communications, graphics and more!

  Program directly on Newton or with a PC or Mac. Create packages in

  the Extras drawer and much more. 260 pg handbook. Cost is $99+5 S&H

  for all Newtons. <info@nsbasic.com>, <http://www.nsbasic.com>,

  416.264.5999

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  PowerMedia is your source for all the latest cutting edge

  Newton apps:

   * Super NotePad: Quick access arrows, encryption, tags,

     filters, etc.

   * DateMan 3.0: Complete agenda and contact management.

   * Stationary Construction Kit: Build your very own custom

     stationary.

  Commercially available at your favorite Newton retailer. Or check

  out online demos via the following site:

  <http://www.powermedia.com/~pmi>.

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New and Updated Newton Technology

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** NEW FREE NEWTON SOFTWARE **



VisualNewt Software <http://www.VisualNewt.com/> has announced the

re-released of two of its products as "freeware" to the Newton community.

The following applications are now free programs: VoiceAlarm

<http://www.VisualNewt.com/VoiceAlarm.html> & Newt'sTime

<http://www.VisualNewt.com/NewtsTime.html>. VisualNewt Software is

committed to its existing product line: Newt'sPaper, Newt'sWeather and

VisualNewt; and will continue to provide support for our customer base.



Steve Weyer <sweyer@bellatlantic.net> has released the following freeware

Newton applications created using his tools NewtDevEnv and Newt'sCape:

Sproing 1.0 (spring simulator); Geometry Construction Set 1.0; Tower of

Hanoi 1.1 (puzzle); and Ellie's Count Down 1.0 (day counter). Check them

out at this URL

<http://members.bellatlantic.net/~sweyer/newton/index.htm>.



Adam Tow <atow@tow.com> at Foundation Systems <http://www.tow.com/> has

released the following products as freeware gifts to the Newton

community:



  - AlarmClock 2.7 (NOS 2.x) and 1.4 (NOS 1.x)

  - Backlight Plus 1.7

  - nBattleship 2.5 (NOS 2.x) and 1.4 (NOS 1.x)

  - ProofRead 1.1

  - Styles+ 2.4



Foundation Systems <http://www.tow.com/> will also continue to market,

sell, and develop its existing product line of free and commercial

applications, including HyperNewt,newtToDo, WriteHere, Corrector+ and

nHTML.



** NEWSREADER FOR THE NEWTON GETS UPDATE **



DejaVu Software <http://www.martnet.com/~dejavu/> has released v1.12 of

Ink Spot <http://www.martnet.com/~dejavu/Ink/> -- their offline news

reader for the Newton.



** BACKDROP SOLUTION CONTINUES TO BE IMPROVED **



HexDump Development <http://www.hexdump.com> has released Backdrop

Builder for the Newton. This utility helps in the creation of backdrops

which can contain: images; user name; volume; time-related information

such as a calendar and digital clock; and many other user-defined

settings.



** POPULAR GAME HAS NEW BETA **



Scrawl Software <http://www.scrawlsoft.com> has announce the availability

of YAZI 2.0b4 (text adventure game for the Newton). This version allows

registered users to play the latest text adventure games up to 10 times

faster than previous versions. This version also fixes several bugs that

have been dogging users with various games. However, a bug remains

involving single character input. A "demo" version of YAZI will soon be

available for non-registered users.





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  WinSlurp! - Rare White Tiger Creations provides Newton Book

  publishing services and is NOW offering WinSlurp. A windows

  front-end to Slurpee which supports transferring notes back

  and forth between the Newton notepad and the PC desktop.

  Available for downloading from this URL:

  <http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/heringermr/winslurp.htm>

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Handheld Mentions in 'The Media'

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** HANDHELDS AND WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY CONTINUE TO GRAB MINDSHARE **



Dana Blankenhorn writes about "Darwin uses Microsoft's Merlin magic:

Animated Guide <http://www.hypersource.com/palmtop> pitching HP palmtops"

on page 25 of Business Marketing <http://netb2b.com> published on Mar98.



John Foley examines "Vendors Put Databases In Your Hand: Sybase, Oracle,

and others reveal plans for porting to palmtops and other devices" on

page 32 of Information Week <http://www.informationweek.com> published on

09Mar98.



InfoWorld published on 09Mar98 examines: "Wireless architecture easily

adds features" by Marc Ferranti; and "3Com launches new PalmPilots; cuts

prices" by Dan Briody on page 22.



PC Week published on 09Mar98 examines: "Wireless Vendors Concentrate on

the Web" by John Rendleman; "3Com Updates PalmPilot With New OS: Palm II

also features infrared network sync & pager card support" by John

Spooner; and "CE Systems, Upgrade Due" also by John Spooner.



Network World published on 09Mar98 brings us news of a new Bosch World

718 GSM phone that works at 900-MHz & at 1900-MHz GSM; and an article by

Andy Eddy that examines "Satellite 'Net access system flush with cache"

on page 39.



The 'Rumor Guys' at InfoWorld (Robert X. Cringley) and at PC Week

(Spencer F. Katt) both have PDA comments, and news in their respective

issues published on 09Mar98.



MacWeek published on 09Mar98 tries to have an editor opinion on page 3

about the Newton entitled "You can't always get what you want."



Wired (Apr98) -- Timex & Motorola's Beepwear [page 51]; review of Sine of

the Times' ShowMate 2.0 for the Newton [page 139]; Fuji's DS-300 Digital

Camera [page 140]; Thomas Bass <:%20tbass@hamilton.edu> wearable

computers in an article entitled "Dress Code" on page 163; and

'Negroponte' opinion piece on page 196 leaves readers with

thoughts/dreams of an "RJ-11 only pay phone."



Mobile Computing & Communications <http://www.mobilecomputing.com>

(Mar98) examines: HP 620LX on page 30; DTS Wireless' Zap-It AllPoints PC

card on page 31; review of SmallTalk Deluxe for PalmPilot on page 46;

there is a Palm Power Buyer's Guide starting on page 109 that has good

info about Windows CE, Newton, PalmPilot, and Psion; and finally on page

176 there is a Q&A with Psion's chairman David Potter.



ZDNET published "PDA WARS: WHO IS TAKING THE LEAD?" on 09Mar98

<http://www.zdnet.com/chkpt/zdnu980309001/www.zdnet.com/products/content/special

/current/pp.html>.



** HELPFUL MAJOR WEEKLY MAGAZINE WEB POINTERS **



  - Web Week: <http://www.webweek.com>

  - MacWeek: <http://www.macweek.com>

  - InfoWorld: <http://www.infoworld.com>

  - Computer Reseller News: <http://www.crn.com>

  - PC Week: <http://www.pcweek.com>

  - Network World: <http://www.nwfusion.com>

  - LAN Times: <http://www.lantimes.com>

  - Information Week: <http://www.informationweek.com>

  - Network Computing: <http://www.networkcomputing.com>





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Tips and Tricks You Can Use On Your Newton

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** NO NONSENSE NUGGETS OF NEWTON KNOW HOW **



By Roger Coleman roger@rogercoleman.demon.co.uk If you have similar

tidbits for this column, please drop me a line! Please include details of

the Newton model and OS that you are using.



** FINDING PREFS FOR MACINTALK ON NEWTON **



Peter Payne <seishun@mail.wind.co.jp> notes that those lucky folks who

have gotten a hold of the "Macintalk" software for the Newton can access

the Speaktext Prefs under the "i" button in the "InOut Box".



** TIPS WANTED **



Please send me any tips, hints, goodies, interesting or ingenious ideas

for future issues of this column to Roger Coleman

roger@rogercoleman.demon.co.uk. Thanks!





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  sources ready and waiting for you each & every morning with

  WebXpress! With WebXpress your Newton can retrieve and store

  sports news, weather reports, technology updates, medical news,

  stock reports, you name it! WebXpress, delivers the Web to you -

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  New Copy: Back-up your Newton to a desktop Mac through your

  Ethernet Network. Print to network printers. FTP files to/from

  the Internet and browse the web fast! Farallon offers 8 ways to

  connect Newton-to-Ethernet, including EtherWave, the daisy-chainable

  Ethernet technology that allows you to connect your Newton without

  unplugging your desktop computer from the net. For more info visit:

  <http://www.farallon.com/product/mobile/newtsolutions.html>

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Dear Newton Developer

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** INTRODUCTION & INCENTIVE **



This area is dedicated to trying to solve NewtNews readers programming

needs, and in turn hopefully lead to the creation of a legitimate Newton

shareware solution for the developer solving the problem. If a developer

solves such a problem, NewtNews will give them a 50% price reduction for

any advertising service they order for that product in our Products and

Services area. If you have a utility you need written, please let

NewtNews know by sending an email to: newtnews@pobox.com.



** A BUNCH OF GREAT SUGGESTIONS **



Don Starnes <dstarnes@flash.net> would like to figure out away to access

Microsoft Fax files that reside on his desktop system at the office when

he is on the road using a Newton. This solution could be email based.



Nicholas Hong <nichong@netcom.ca> would like to find a way to create a

link between the Newton and digital cameras other than the Agfa digital

camera like for Apple's QuickTake 200.



Glenn Eisen <gbeisen@bellsouth.net> would like a complete sunrise, sunset

moonrise, tides, moonset & moonphase Newton utility.



Stephen Hryncewicz <shryn@gol.com> thinks the Newton community needs a

desktop Newton emulator like the Macintosh Copilot for PalmPilot OS.



Christopher Sowada <bugboy@mail.utexas.edu> is interested in a solution

that would make it possible to beam data back and forth with Newton

devices and the recently announced PalmPilot III.



Conrad Gempf <chg10@cus.cam.ac.uk> is looking for a "time & date-specific

and persistent alarm to items in the NotePad". Sticky Notes does this but

it takes over 300K on his MP120 which is too much. He has checked out

PhoneMemo which is close but doesn't have persistent alarms. Send Conrad

email if you have a solution, or know of a programmer interested in

working on this idea.



Darl Singh <darl@sbg.co.nz> is looking of a keyboard shortcuts utility

for the MP130 units. Especially: cut, paste, and jump to the end of the

next word.



Van Rooyen Leslie <ARA@dwaf.pwv.gov.za> thinks it would be cool to build

a Newton utility that would make it possible to display interactive

handwriting solutions to LCD overhead projectors. Data entered into the

'system' would then be electronic form for distribution and archiving





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Other Handheld Technology News

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[EDITOR: News collected via snail mail, major publications, news services

(Inquisit <http://www.inquisit.com> & HeadsUp <http://www.individual.com>

), USENET newsgroups, email, and the WWW.]



** PALMPILOT **



Sierra Wireless <http://www.sierrawireless.com>, Reuters America

<http://www.reuters.com>, Aether Technologies, and Novatel Wireless

<http://www.novatelwireless.com> have teamed up to deliver a new wireless

CDPD information product called "Reuters MarketClip" for the PalmPilot

and Windows CE devices.



ISO Productions' <http://www.isoproductions.com> "Everything CD for 3Com

PalmPilot" retails for $50.



PC World <http://www.pcworld.com> (Feb98) has an article entitled "Get a

Life: Great Ways to Manage Time" that examined the following products and

graded their overall performance: Ascend97 (C), Timex Data Link 150 (C+),

Day-Timer Organizer 98 (A-), IntellSync (B+), PalmPilot (B+), and

WebCalendar (B).



Palm Computing <http://www.3com.com> (a 3Com company) has reduced the

price of its PalmPilot organizer products. The PalmPilot Pro now has a

suggested retail price of US$299, down from US$369, and the PalmPilot

Personal will now retail for US$199, down from US$249. The suggested

retail price of the PalmPilot 1MB Professional Upgrade has also been

reduced to US$79 from US$129.



Some miscellaneous PalmPilot news:



  - "Homemade Tricks Soup-Up Palm Pilot", Omaha World-Herald,

    02Mar98

  - "WorldFAQ Lite Included in Palm III Connected Organizer Bonus

    Pack CD-ROM", Business Wire, 09Mar98

  - "3Com lands first blow in '98 hand-held computer fight",

    Washington Times, 09Mar98

  - "Mobility Award Winners Announced At Mobile Insights '98",

    Business Wire, 11Mar98

  - "Floating points - second sight - Piloted to the promised

    land", Guardian, 13Mar98

  - "PalmPilot users get UNLIMITED wireless data access to Email,

    the Internet and corporate intranets for $49.95 per month",

    Business Wire, 16Mar98



** WINDOWS CE **



Information Week Daily <http://www.informationweek.com> (10Mar98) reports

that NCD (the manufacturer of IBM's Network Station) has plans to release

Pentium powered systems costing under US$700 with up to 32-MBs of RAM

running Windows CE connecting to NT Terminal Servers by mid-1998.



Physix <http://www.physix.com/> has announced plans to insure that their

Windows CE version of Compendia, electronic medical record (EMR) system,

works with Proxim's <http://www.proxim.com> wireless RangeLAN2

technology.



Bandai Digital Entertainment <http://www.bdec.com> has recently announced

the cancellation of their Pippin product (based on the Mac OS), and will

focus on bringing future Internet savvy consumer devices to market using

Microsoft's Windows CE.



The following companies have recently published Windows CE related press

releases:



  - MobileSoft <http://www.mobilesoft.com>

  - GoAmerica Communications <http://www.goamerica.net>

  - Sybase's Adaptive Server Anywhere <http://www.sybase.com>

  - ParaGraph's CalliGrapher <http://www.paragraph.com>

  - Digital River <http://www.digitalriver.com>

  - ON Technology Corporation's Meeting Maker <http://www.on.com>

  - Oracle's Oracle Lite <http://www.oracle.com/clientdb/olite/>

  - Microsoft's Windows CE 2.0 for Japanese

    <http://www.microsoft.com/windowsce/hpc>



** OTHER DEVICES **



Psion <http://www.psion.com> has releasedPsiWin 2.1 -- software "that

enables Windows compatible connectivity software and an integrated

Messaging Suite, allowing email, send and receive faxing and web browsing

for owners of Psion Series 5 devices."





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  Tim Constantine has several cutting edge Newton solutions:

   * Flash - A Speed Reading Tutor;

   * CrazyDice - Multi-player Strategy Game, and

   * Clean Notes - Stationary w/o Lines.

  For more info: <timconstan@kagi.com> or

  <http://www.kagi.com/timconstan>. Tim is also available for

  custom Newton application development. Send Tim email if you

  have a question about custom application development or about

  his cutting edge solutions.

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Other Tidbits of Information

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** WIRELESS & MOBILE **



OAG Frequent Flyer (Mar98) has a 'Special Advertising Supplement' that

examines "Picking A Mobile Computing/Communication Systems" written by

PDAIA's <http://www.pdaia.org> Peter Wickman, WMS' John Covington, and

ACT's Veronica Williams. For more information about OAG Frequent Flyer

call: 630.574.6000 or fax: 630.575.6222.



You can learn more about General Magic's recent deal that licenses their

voice and data integration technologies (aka Serengeti) to Microsoft via

this URL <http://www.web-vantage.com/wv/980305n2.cfm>.



Information Gatekeepers <http://www.igigroup.com> (617.232.3111 or

<igiboston@aol.com>) publishes five wireless related newsletters that

individually focus on: Cellular, Satellite & Broadcasting,

Telecommunications, PCS, and Local Loop. The only downside to the

newsletters is that the price for 12 issues is US$595.



** APPLE - MACINTOSH - RHAPSODY **



Apple has new G3 powered servers called "Macintosh Server G3" available

via Apple's Online Store <http://www.apple.com>.



Newer Technology <http://www.newertech.com> has new G3 processor upgrade

cards for original PowerBook 1400 laptops.



Apple is reportedly working on some sort of consumer based DVD savvy

'set-top' device codenamed "Columbus."



The Fry's Electronics store in Sunnyvale, California now has an Apple

'store within a store'.



Media100 has decided to recommend Hammer Storage Solutions'

<http://www.hammerstorage.com> JackHammer SCSI Accelerator for usage with

the multimedia solutions being ussed in Apple's new Power Macintosh G3

systems.



The RhapsodyOS Report #6 <http://www.RhapsodyOS.com/report/index.html>

(08Mar98) has been published.



** OTHER **



The Internet Traffic Report <http://www.internettrafficreport.com> claims

to be able to give you "independent, real-time measure of how well

traffic "is moving on the Internet highway -- city by city, country by

country, and for the Internet as a whole."





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Product and Service Information

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* SOLUTIONS FROM LANDWARE. All work in the Newton 2.0 OS.

  - PROCALC EX: Programmable calc. w/ SAN & RPN, includes:

    proCALC 12c.

  - QUICKNAMES PRO: Rapid access to names and much more.

  - X-PORT: The 2.0 connection utility. Send/receive notes,

    contacts...

  - KWIKMENU: the Newton dashboard, includes GestureLaunch Lite.

  - NEWTPAINT: "MacPaint" on your Newton, w/zoom-in and screen shot.

  - SYNC+: Dates to Schedule+ 1.0 or 7.0

LandWare, 201-347-0031, <sales@landware.com>, <http://www.landware.com>



* Stand Alone, Inc. has over 70 applications for the Newton OS, including:

  - BUTTONBAR PLUS: Place the buttonbar on any side of the screen,

    or shrink it to a small floating window. Also, shrink icons

    and resize the bar to suit your needs. $25, 2.1 OS

  - STAND ALONE MENU EDITOR : Create custom menus for the text

    caret, screen corners, extras icons or StatusBar button;

    each with over 35 possible actions. $29.95, 2.x OS

  - STARTBAR: Win95 style task bar that shows all of your running

    applications at the bottom of the screen, and lets you switch

    between them with a single tap. $20, 2.1 OS

  - TIMEMAN: Works both as a timer and a time card where you

    record your hours. Multiple views and printing options make it

    easy to manage your billing, and track your time. $44.95, 2.x OS

  - PAPERBOY: A threaded off-line Usenet news reader for the Newton.

    Download your news to read it, and reply back on the go!

    $29.95, 2.x OS

For more information about Stand Alone's line of software for the Newton

OS, visit our web site at http://www.standalone.com, or contact us at

info@standalone.com, or (773) 477-2492



* Bricks is FAST -- Bricks, a classic ball and paddle game that utilizes

the speed of your Newton OS 2.1. What's fast? (20 frames per second!)

HexPaint, plus Paint Transfer (Mac conductivity) gray scale paint

application for Newton OS 2.1, filters include invert, rotate and flip.

German version of HexPaint also available. Demos available at

<http://www.hexdump.com>. 30-day money back guarantee!



* Organized yet??? Now it's time for something fun! We've got

  - Super Newtris,

  - xWordBuddy,

  - Sea Hunt,

  - MineField II,

  - Scramble,

  - Solito Deluxe, and

  - World Conquest

to provide you with hours of fun. Tactile Systems is your source for

inexpensive Newton Entertainment Titles Free demos available:

<http://rainbow.rmi.net/~rbruce/tactile/> email: <info@tactile.com> or

call: <303.841.1114> for more info.



* TeleType GPS - New v2.0 - now includes U.S. Interstate Highways data

overlay. GPS software provides plot of your position on moving maps while

you drive or fly. Overlay packages include cities and towns, Interstates,

and special Aviation overlay for pilots. Bundles include GPS receiver and

software. Never get lost again. Email: <TeleTypeGPS@teletype.com> or WWW

to: <http://www.teletype.com/gps/> for more information.



* NEW! 11th Volume of the Totally Incomplete PDA CD-ROM for Newton! This

CD-ROM from AMUG CD, Inc. contains over 1450 packages, 550 megs, and a

Newt 2000 only area. Works on Mac or PC. 2.x & 1.x Packages can be

downloaded directly from the CD to your MessagePad. Maximize your Newton

experience! ONLY $29 + S/H. Call AMUG 602.497-2244, or email

sales@amug.org to order! AMUG CD web page at http://cdrom.amug.org/.



* SALES AUTOMATION Solution from Mitchell System Designs

  - OrderTaker: create orders/invoices, integrated with Names,

    inventory and order template modules, export in format for

    MYOB*. $75USD

  - TrackIt: track and graph data, $20USD

  - Relations: genealogy for Newton, import/export GEDCOM,

    $20USD + MSD:

For more info: PMitchell@kagi.com or http://www.ccinet.ab.ca/pmitchell/



* BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY PACKAGES FROM PELICANWARE

All packages for Newton 2.0 OS - Upgrades also available.

  - QUICKFIGURE PRO 3.0: Spreadsheet application $59.95

  - NEWTCASE 3.0: The Ultimate Utility Suite $49.95

  - NOTION 1.5: High Performance List Manager $59.95

  - AVAILWORKS 2.0: Text, spreadsheets, drawing, and

    graphing $79.95.

All from PELICANWARE. For more details email: info@pelicanware.com, vox:

503-221-1148, fax: 503-221-8709, or http://www.pelicanware.com.



* CATAMOUNT SOFTWARE offers the following:

  - POCKETMONEY assists you in balancing your checking, savings,

    credit card and loan accounts. Export and import transactions

    to Quicken, MYM and other desktop based program.

  - NAMIGATOR gives rapid access to Names. I know, I have over 5000.

  - MPG helps you keep your vehicle records in order. Track fuel

    economy, record mileage for tax purposes, schedule repeating

    vehicle maintenance items for multiple vehicles.

  - MORGAN is the Newton Media ORGANizer. Track CDs, tapes,

    records books, laserdiscs, videos, and more...

For more information call 802-372-9512, email <products@catamount.com>,

or visit our web site <http://www.catamount.com>.



* GPS MAP and GPS MAP LITE -- GPS based navigation with real moving maps,

showing all details as familiar from paper based maps. Features -- map

calculator, route planning, database, history track, and mission

recorder. Import your own maps from your Mac or PC at any scale. Connects

to most GPS receiver's offering a NMEA183 interface. For more information

& demo: <http://www.soaring.de/gps/GPS_Map.html> or <gerds@micronet.de>.



* COOL NEWTON STUFF from MAR Software:

  - THE EXECUTIVE NEWTON STAND Mahogany/Maple $49.95+S&H

  - BILLS TO PAY PRO 3.5.6 Budgeting/finance tool $39.95+S&H

  - THE CEO Black leather play through case 14 pockets $59.95+S&H

  - THE NEWTSUIT Black neoprene slipcase $29.95+S&H

MAR Software: info@marsoftware.com or http://www.marsoftware.com.



* Newt's Cape: create Newton books with text, graphics, tables, links &

forms from HTML (via web browsing, Notes, Newtworks) (shareware: $35.00)

Newt Development Environment: develop object-oriented applications in

NewtonScript on the Newton (shareware: $45.00). Crypto: puzzles & Sloup:

data/text transfer. For details, software, and registration info try --

WWW <http://members.bellatlantic.net/~sweyer/newton/index.htm> or email

<weyer@kagi.com>.



* NEW SCOREPAD 3.1 -- Golf scorekeeping package for Newton 2.0. Easily

keeps scores and statistics - analyze and graph the results. Figure your

unofficial handicap. Automatically calculates nassaus and skins. Keep

notes about each round and course. Available for US$50 from Software

Unboxed <http://www.unboxed.com> or directly from Sun Sabre

(513.899.4710) with 10% by mentioning NewtNews.

<http:members.aol.com/sunsabre/ScorePad.html>





Edupage, 09Mar98 thru 15Mar98

-----------------------------



** NEARLY HALF OF U.S. HOMES OWN A PC **



Computer Intelligence reports that more than 45% of U.S. homes now own

personal computers, up from 40% in 1996. As might be expected, households

with the highest incomes and those with children are more likely to be PC

owners: 80% of homes with annual incomes of $100,000 or more own PCs,

compared with 25% of homes with income under $30,000; and 60% of families

with children own PCs, compared with 38% of childless households. (Wall

Street Journal 10 Mar 98)



** BOOK PARTY **



Two major booksellers -- Borders Group and the German media conglomerate

Bertelsmann AG -- are preparing to engage in direct competition with

Amazon and Barnes & Noble for the online bookbuyer's purchasing dollar.

Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos claims not to be too

concerned: "I'm paranoid about Barnes & Noble's purchasing power, and I'm

paranoid of Bertelsmann's marketing skills, extensive customer base and

their publishing background. Our advantage is that we know more about

e-commerce than anybody else. We've been doing it longer, and we've

already leveled the playing field." Publishers are happy with the

tendency of electronic customers to prefer older "backlist" titles (such

as those written by many of the Edupage honorary subscribers!) to current

best-selling authors; for example, aided by electronic search engines,

Amazon customers bought at least one copy of 90% of the Penguin Group's

backlist. (New York Times 9 Mar 98)



** ONLINE NEWS PARTNERSHIP BREAKS THE CONNECTION **



Unable to agree on a direction for the business, a consortium of nine

major newspapers formed to make the publications available on the

Internet is dissolving. Called New Century Network, the group included

Advance Publications, Cox Newspapers, Gannett, Hearst Knight Ridder, New

York Times Co., Times-Mirror, Tribune Co., and the Washington Post. (USA

Today 10 Mar 98)



** JAVA -- WITH ONE TEASPOON OF MICROSOFT **



In a move that will anger Sun, Microsoft has released new programming

tools to allow software developers to write Windows applications in

Microsoft's version of Java, the computer language developed by Sun. Java

was originally conceived as a language that could allow software to run

on all computer platforms. Sun is suing Microsoft for allegedly

misappropriating the language by creating a version that will run

exclusively on computers using Microsoft's Windows operating systems. (AP

11 Mar 98)



** DIGITAL STRONGARM COULD PROVE INTEL'S SECRET WEAPON **



As part of the settlement last year between Digital Equipment Corp. and

Intel, Intel received licensing rights not only to Digital's well-known

Alpha chip, but also to a more obscure family of Digital chips -- the

StrongARM. StrongARM, which may turn out to be the hidden gem in the

deal, is a high-speed processor that runs at very low power, making it

ideal for use in battery-powered portable devices, such as palmtop

computers. The chip is "an absolute technical tour de force," says an

analyst with consulting firm MicroDesign Resources. "For $29 to $49, you

get performance that rivals a Pentium at about one-tenth the price. And

it uses one-tenth the electricity... I think it's going to scare a lot of

the other chip companies. Now Intel is armed to enter the consumer

electronics industry." (Investor's Business Daily 12 Mar 98)



** SOFTWARE PIRACY **



A Decima Research survey released by the Canadian Alliance Against

Software Theft found that one in five Canadians pirates software,

although fewer than 1% do so frequently. Only 20% of respondents said

they would report someone for illegally copying software, and almost half

view stealing a chocolate bar as worse than pirating software. The CAAST

estimates piracy costs between $357- and $500-million annually, but

courts have been unwilling to award damages unless software makers can

prove exactly how much they lost, which is difficult to do since detailed

records are rare at illegal software shops. Changes to the Copyright Act

easing that burden of proof are expected to be proclaimed by the end of

April, providing tougher civil penalties of up to $20,000 for each

program illegally copied. (Toronto Globe & Mail 13 Mar 98)





INNOVATION, 09Mar98

-------------------



** TRENDS: MAGAZINES ABOUT THE NET: CONSUMERS SAY NO, MANAGERS SAY YES **



Most of the consumer magazines designed to explain the Internet died in

1997 or morphed into Web-based publications. Prayers for the Dead may be

said for NetGuide, The Net, Internet Underground, The Web, Internet

Shopper, Web Developer, Website, Internetwork, and Web Server. Industry

analyst Matt Boyle of Cowles/Simba Information says: "What we saw was the

death of a category. The Internet consumer magazines just folded." Yes,

but other computer magazines -- ones aimed at business people -- enjoyed

a 12.1% increase to $3 billion in advertising and circulation revenue.

Boyle explains: "This speaks to the convergence of business and

technology issues. It used to be this was the reading corner for tech

geeks. Now CEOs, CFOs, and CIOs are all reading" publications of this

kind. (New York Times 6 Mar 98) <http://www.nytimes.com/>



** STRATEGIES: DON'T JUST MAKE IT BETTER, MAKE IT DIFFERENT **



Strategos chairman and London Business School professor Gary Hamel says

that strategic innovations are successful because they are deliberately

subversive, and that new wealth is created not by prophets but by

heretics. Successful innovators are the ones "who not only challenge the

way an existing business runs but offer an entirely new way of thinking

about an industry." They're not satisfied with just improving things,

they want to change them; they don't just want something better, they

want something entirely different. A poster-boy for this kind of

heretical thinking is Virgin Atlantic president Richard Branson, who

completely rethought whole industries: airlines, music, banking, soft

drinks. In all cases he was an outsider, and in all cases a heretic. "The

one thing Mr. Branson's ventures all have in common is that the services

they sell and the ways they do business break all the established rules

of their industry." With the Virgin Atlantic model in mind, Hamel is

distinctly unimpressed (so far) by Compaq's acquisition of Digital

Equipment Corporation, because "it does not represent the sort of

unorthodox vision that characterized Compaq's success to date. Compaq has

grown by being among the computer industry's leading subversives, living

each year dangerously. If this merger signals a retreat to safety, it

will be remembered not as the birth of a new industrial star, but as the

flaring of a dying one." (Gary Hamel, "Will Merger With DEC Be Compaq's

Last Hurrah?" Wall Street Journal 2 Mar 98) <http://www.wsj.com/>



** INNOVATIONS: MOVING MICRONS WITH MICRO-CILIA **



Scientists working with microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) describe a

world where tiny, very smart machines could cruise through blood veins

and dispense cancer-fighting medication directly into the tumor, or drip

insulin into the bloodstream whenever the blood sugar count begins to

rise. To build these tiny devices, an engineer at Hewlett-Packard has

proposed using mechanical cilia that can be programmed to sort things by

size and shape, bring the right parts together, turn or align them

correctly, and present the assembled pieces for one final joining

operation. The Intelligent Motion Surface, as it's called, is a flat,

smart, ciliated surface that researchers have found could have other uses

as well, such as microscopic valves for extremely accurate printers that

move the paper through the printer by shooting jets of air; and

microflaps covering the wings and fuselage of aircraft to push a thin

layer of air over the surfaces, accomplishing the same effect as bigger

flaps. (Discover Mar 98) <http://www.discover.com/>



** MORE INFO ON INNOVATION **



Innovation is published weekly, with individual subscriptions available

at $15 a year. Topics are organized under the following headers: TRENDS,

STRATEGIES, and INNOVATIONS. For a six-week free trial subscription to

Innovation, please send an email message to:

innovation-trial@newsscan.com and in the subject line type the word:

'subscribe'. You can also use the trial registration form on their Web

site at: <http://www.newsscan.com>. For more info, send email to:

<gehl@newsscan.com> or <douglas@newsscan.com>.





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