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knew this, but admittedly I failed to make the discharacter to tell the FTP client program that tinction clear in the article (and the one that folthey are to be passed to the command inter- lowed it). I am also aware that these commands
preter rather than interpreted by the applica- may not work under all Unix OSes orshells. I tried
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tioning which were ftp commands and which were

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evaluation would have pointed out the fail-

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out!

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Emru Townsend did a good job disparaging

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has only been in the last few months that

BIOS manufacturers have provided the
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aren't selling in the large numbers that diskette. As it stands, the Zip drive cannot
Iomega's Zip drives are. A more technical replace a diskette drive.
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the 28 recipients of the SHL Systemhouse lion scholarship program by SHL. Full-time Tel: 613-563-3961, Web site: http: //www.aucc.ca
Presidents Awards distributed nationally, six computer science or computer engineering
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Mone Benjamintz of BCIT, Scott Juzkow of istered by the Association of Universities and or Canadian companies only seem to get the
Kwantlen College, Greg Lakatos of UBC, Sean Colleges of Canada (AUCC). Twenty universi- recognition they deserve when they get
Puttergill o f S i mo n F raser, and Jeremy ty awards of $5,000 and eight college awards noticed south of the border. That pattern has
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Schwartzentruber of the University of Victoria, of $2,S00 are available each year,

small Toronto-based software firm, recently

garnering a major industry award from Unix
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with lots of personality. Mic 'n Friends, from

MidiLand, incorporates a unidirectional

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microphone and a flexible gooseneck arm.

The base of the microphone has an adhesive
pad, which allows you to stick it to your monitor and position its gooseneck in anyway you
choose. The microphone has a frequency
response of 100 to 16,000 Hz,
The cute factor comes from colorful foam
cutouts that you can attach to the head of the
unit, transforming the device into a flower,

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products in the Japan
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Heffrnan + Aasodates ~ TOKYO INB)Japan's Mitsubishi I nternational Corp. has
signed an agreement to become an equity
investor in Hoffmann + Associates (H+A), a
Canadian-based digital content and multimedia

ment, Isabel Hoffmann

president and chief exec-

doggie or snowman. The estimated price is

utive officer of H+A, commented, "This is the

start of a l ong term strategic relationship
between the two companies, Mitsubishi is now
a preferred partner for H+A on every business
opportunity in Japan and aII of South East Asia,"
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Statpower Technologies Corp. of Bumaby,
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power conversion devices used in a number of
products such as recreation vehicles and alternative energy systems. Statpower makes a line
of portable inverters that plug into a vehicle's
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reported in the TCF'sJan 98 Small Business
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addition to a service for business operators,

REX uses the Internet or a rno'dern connection

to transfer flles to a remote server. The user
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to the interactive digital content business

could provide wider business coverage to H+A,

home entertainment and educational as well

as the medical series. Corel holds a minority
interest in the company,

Corp., has introduced a 17-inch monitor that

takes up about the same depth as 14-inch
units. The GS771 is the fust in what the company calls its 5-class design, which uses a 100-

with a focus on the Asian and Japanese interactive consumer market.' Inagaki has been
appointed to the H+A board.
Contact Hoflman+ Associates,
Hoffman + Associates' pmluct line of Web site: htlp Jtwww.h-pfos-acorn
interactive recreational and educational software includes over 80 titles. Karher this year, it

acquired Corel Corporation's CD-ROM line of

ner thaxx other 17-inch monitors.

Like other ViewSonic monitors, this model
includes OnView screen adjustment controls
and mob the TCO 95 specification for emis-

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Seelitz phrasehxlx lannclxed for Felon

handhold K ~ LONDON (NB) Psion has
announced that a Series 5+ompliant version
of the Berlitz interactive language phrasebook
is now available for its Series 5 personal digital
assistant (PDA).
According to S tephen Pang, a p r ess
spokesperson for Psion, the US$68 package
will mean that "users of the Series 5 will never
be lost for words, wherever they are in the
world.

determine yourbest

The package,
which comes on aPC floppy
diskette, is billed as offering more than 2,800
useful phrases in 13 different languages from
around the world.
In use, the software allows phrases to be

options.

guages: Eng4h, French, Italian, German,

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manage da t abases of
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Webxnasters can also use it to create guestbooks, collect email addresses for maihng lists

translated between any of the followuig lanDutch, Swedish, Danish, Hungarian, Russian,
Norwegian, Portuguese, Japanese (in Roman
characters), and Spanish. The software splits

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tion mode, the software presents English text

on CD-ROM via mail order and can be ordered

alongside the original Japanese in the Web via the Fujitsu Web site.

the phrases into 60 different topics, induding

eating out, emergendes, traveling, shopping,

and even dating.

browser, outline mode translates just headings

and links, and clipboard mode allows users to ConhCL Fujilsu,
highlight text and have it translated to appear Web site: hllp Jtwww.fsc.fuiitsu.cornAwguegel
in another Explorer window. Translations rely
on a 150,000-word dictionary which includes Industry Canada effers banlr charges

Internet
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calculator online 01TAWA (NB)-

The software costs US$88 online and $98

Curious about how your bank's service

charges compare? Industry Canada has put a

Financial Service ChargesCalculator online to

let Canadian consumers compare their bank's
service charges with those of other financial
institutions. Accessible through the Consumer
Connection on the federal ministry's Strategis
Web site, the calculator lets consumer compare charges at 11 Canadian financial institutions. It was developed

The Berlitz Phrasebook for the Series 5 is

daimed to be suitable for 4 MB and 8 MB vari-

ants of the Series 5. Although the package

comes on a PC floppy, it has been designed to
install on the Sedes 5's internal memory400KB of disk space is require or onto a
standard Psion memory disk

Gonhct Psion's Intemafionel distributor delails,

Web site: htlp Jtwww.psion.comil
nhmahonat.

Canada adopts digital tehsvtslon standard 01TAWA fNB)

Industry Canada has
announced that Canada will adopt the ATSC
A/53 standard for digital television. This is the
same standard adopted by the United States,

federal offidals noted.

They said Canadians can expect to see the
first digital TV broadcasts some time in 1999,
and that analog broadcasting is likely to persist for 10 years or so before being fully

replaced by the digital technology.

DEC to analyze translation uses NEW
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release of the first free language translation on

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emerging as the most popular language-tolanguage pair, according to Louis Monier,

dhector of technology for Digital Equipment
Corp.'s Alta Vista Seat!eh service.

We' re just at the beginning of this, and

we' re going to seewhat kinds of purposespeople find, Monier remarked at Internet Wodd
in New York in Decembez
Digital's Alta Vista search engine is now
utilizing technology fmm Systran to let users
get automatic online translations of documents between English and five other languages.
No automatic translation technology is
perfect today, acknowledged Monier, but at
this point, Alta Vista is mainly interested in
letting surf!as landing on the site experiment

with the new technology, which will give the

company some ideas on the direction it
should take in language translation.
From the Alta Vista site, users can now
translate Web pages, complete with HTML

(hypertext madmp language) formatting, as

well as sections of text, induding email, documents, and chat.
Monier said Digital will also analyze and
interpret the results of end user exIerimentation with the translation technology.

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ICL wants software for wortet's first
computer BRACKNELL, ENGLAND (NB)- for the Computer Conservation Society, the
ICL has launched an appeal for programmers competition does not require any special

invited to run their program on the computer

Contact Strategis,
Web site: httpi/stretegls.ic.gc.ce/oca

worldwide to enter a competition to write a

skills. E n t husiasm and i magination are

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light of the anniversary celebrations, officials

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The project is being undertaken jointly by
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and ICL. The plan is for the computer to "go

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and was used back in 1948 to calculate the

highest factor of a numbers,

at

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http I/eww.cs.man.ac.uk/proggg/.
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tumed the Baby into the Ferranti Mark 1 com-

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What's rv is crtmpiied hy Jeg Evans, Keir
wrote the world's first computer program, will
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judge the entries.
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grams put in by a user that set the Baby apart
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ted@

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connections in much the same way that operators used to transfer calls on old-fashioned
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'Convergence' has been a buzz word in the computer Md for years.

It refers to the trend of modern media evolving into a digital format,
':;-.- which can be eas'
Qy manipulated with lowest computing 'appliances.'
The TV, the phone, and the computer will become as one, according
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the focal point of daily life in the 21st century? Or will the future be
more complicated, and maybe more interesting, than that?

---you typically needed fairly exiiensive produc- The fntzfactor:there ain't

tion equipment (movie cameras,recording stu- no such thing as a free lunch
roughou 'm o human tustory,:peo- dios, video editing suites). To be a consumer, The price you pay for trying to achieve a conpie have reIIed on facs, to-face=contact you had to fill your house with gadgets: TVs, vergence of TV and phone functions on a PC

cable TV line, phone line, high-speednetworking cable, input devices (like scanners and

with other people foi most of their r ecord players, tape cassette players, radios, is partly monetary: the more you want to do,
information. Even something as basic as mass phones, answering machines, tape recorders, the more you have to spend on the latest PC
literacy was relatively sporadic and rare until V CRs, and so on. The bother and expense of hardware, add-in cards and software. More
the last 200 years.
buying and then l
how to use and than that, however, you have to become a bit
The Industrial Revolution 200 years ago maintain all of these devices is considerable.
of a computer expert, and spend endlesstime

to be cheap (preferably well under $1000), and

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video framegrabbers), and output devices,

(such as printers and speakers). It would have

"smart" so well designed that it would be a

snap for even a novice to hook up and use.
This device doesn't exist. The closest thing
to it that does exist is... a modem multimedia
helped create, and was created by, what we
Dig ital technology offers a fundamentallyreading manuals, and fiddling with computer PC.
now regard as the traditional mass media: different way to create and access media. products that don't work the way the manual
books, magazines, newspapers, advertising, Digital information is simply "bits." The num- said they would. The technical term for this is TV vs. PC
and popular music. These.media, relying on ber zero, and the number one, "on" and "off,
"futzing around."
People love their TVs. In many ways, the ideal
new technologies and new systems of eco- arranged in infinite patterns that can describe
Admittedly, when most people want to convergence device would seem to be a big TV
nomic production and distribution, inevitably a word from a book, as easily as a painting by watch TV, they turn on a TV set, rather than screen, with the smart convergence appliance
tended to fall outside the control of tradition- V incent Van Gogh, or a live telephone call, or feed a video signal into+ special card installed tucked away either in the TV set's chassis, or a
al religious and political structures of belief, a 3D space for Duke Nukem to run around in. in their PC. Watching TV on your PCcan be a set-top box of some sort. Users could relax in
and helped provoke the constant change that
Onc e you take information from the worldcharming novelty, for example viewing the X- the living room in proper couch potato mode,
is a feature of our modem daily life.
and record it digitally, it potentially ceases to Files in a window on the monitor screen, and control all the proceedings via a wireless
The last 100 years have seen a prolifera- be part of one or another separate medium. while at the same time answering one's email clicker, and perhaps voice recognition or wiretion of still more new forms of visual or elec- When information is digital, it can be mixed in another window on the monitor. However, less keyboard and mouse. Unfortunately, the
tronic mass media: radio, film, sound record- and matched, one form of information with the charm quickly wears off.
vision of the TV~entric convergence appliings,andTV.Thisproliferationofinformation any other. photos can be integrated with
The current multimedia home PC, c'uca ance tends to fall down quickly in reality.

earnin
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technologies has helped spur the growth of sound, 3D spaces

can be moved through interour modem shopaholicglobal consumer actively by a person playing a game.

1998, offers a tantalizing sense of being

"almost there" as the ultimate convergence

society. It has also ineant that an increasing
device, but in fact it isn't there yet. What is
part of our understanding of the' world, our The eflclency of inefficiency
the state of "convergence," and what still
"mental landscape," is defined not by dhect The great benefit of the personal computer is needs to be done?
contact with other people or with the physical that it is such an untidy, unfinished, but flexworld, but second or third h'and, through ible device. The PC is digital: it eats up any The questfor the perfect
commercial mass media.
kind of information in bits and bytes, lets the convergence apisllance
With the appearance of the personal corn- user slosh it around, and spits it out as printer In order for people to be induced to toss out
puter, a whole new element of modem life has hard copy, audio, or a visual display on the every consumer electronics or computing
arisen. We increasingly have the option of c omputer screen. Over the last 15 years, end- gadget but one, that remaining device, the
immersing ourselves in a truly interactive but user demand for PCs that can simulate tradi- mythical holy grail of convergence, would
non-physical information sea, where tens of tional media, such as telephone and televi- have to meet a host of user needs. It would
millions of people can now lead a kind of life sion, plus offer the interactivity of computer have to be compatible with analog, commerthat is very different from what has ever gone games and the World Wide Web, has driven cial TV signals (induding regular broadcast TV
before.
the rapid evolution of the PC.
and videotapes, plus possibly cable and satelIn analog-media days, nobody thought of lite feeds). It would have to be compatible

The road to floisville

TVs are great for watching TV (obviously) and

for playing video games,but they turn out to

be lousy for some other, very important convergence functions that phones and computers do. The most important is reading large
amounts of text. Here's why:
The standard NTSC television signal is
15.75 kHz, interlaced. This produces a shaky,
fuzzy, jumpy text display, which is further
degraded by the average TV's very coarse dotpitch or phosphor dot size.
If you watch the TV screen from typical
family room distance of 1.8-3.6 m (6-12 ft.),
text is hard to make out. If you move closer to
the screen, the text is very blocky and unsta-

Why we are going digital

using a record player for watching TV, orusing with standard audio formats, mainly CD ble. In any case, the result is eyestrain, fatigue,
The old prexomputer electronic technologies a phone for making movies, yet a PC can, audio, but also AM/FM radio. It would have to and headache.
are "analog." They consist of traces of light admittedly with some trouble and expense, be have full telephone functions, including basic
Also, you need to interact a fair amount
recorded on film, magnetic recordings of m ade to function as almost any kind of inforaudio and video waveforms on tape, or wave- mation device. Plug a video capture card into
forms broadcast over the air or transmitted your PC, and hook it up to a video camera,
through a metal wire. Analog media tend to and you can use a PC as a still or movie cam-

voice phone and answering machine, with

bells and whistles such asspeakerphone, fax,

low-cost long distance voice access via the

with a convergerice device to tell it what to do

goad some software, surf through pages on
the Web, send an email). To navigate through

Internet, and even videophone capabiTity.

be very distinct from each other, and are not era, or a videophone. Attach a microphone
It would also require PC-style features.
immediately compatible with each other.
and load voice recognition software, and you These include the ability to run business, eduYou need a different "playback" device for have a hands-free typewriter, where you can cation and games software (probably MS
each analog medium (a movie theatre, a TV write a term paper just by speaking it aloud, Windows compatible, but alsoJava), save and
set, a radio). Also, every time you copy a Want to write and publish a bonk, either on print files, connect to networks (including the

a host of options, you need a pointing device

photo, dub a videotape, or transfer a film onto paper or on the Web? A PC can help you do

fax hooked up, you need to be close enough

Internet and business LANs or even home net-

such as a mouse, and a text input device such

as a keyboard (even with voice recognition, a

mouse and keyboard are essential for making
corrections, additions and menu choices effi-

ciently). Also, if you have a printer/scannerI

videotape, you lose a significant amount of that. File your taxes and pay your bills elec- works), and allow the user to enter text, do to operate thesedevices, putting in and taking
the original information. Analog media are t ronically? A PC can do that too. Want to email, and edit a variety of different kinds of out sheets of paper. Finally, it's likely that
impredse, and "leaky": they lose quality when reserve an airline ticket, look for a prospective fiies.
you' ll need to frequently change disks or carthey are transmitted or reproduced.
mate, start a business, or take a college course?
The perfect convergence appliance would tridges (CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, removable
To be a commercial quality media creator, A PC can be used for any of those things.
come with connections to all souKes of media:
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satellite. Canadians will
be able to communicate
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comsnuting, remote learning, and business

videoconferencing,
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and in ways they never consider tqring to becomepart of the program

as beta testers. According to Telesat"sBoisvert,
could before."
The new research

there will be a substantial need for end user

program is called the input and testing: "Our national test network

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Development and Trials Program, and is spon- cost effectiveness of satellite communications

sored by the federal governm

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industry Canada. Some 75 percent of the project's $10-million budget will come out of the
Canadian Space Agency's budget, with the
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media delivery platform for Canadians.

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mainstream in connecting our country from
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Canada, several of Canada's other leading
high-tech enterprises will participate, includ- satellite multimedia service will be the total
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to have a bright potential to be part of a rainCanadArm), Bell, and SED.
Using satellites as a multimedia delivery bow of options that also includes wireless and
system neatly sidesteps the major limitation land=based telecom and networking systems.
of land-based information networks, which is Telesat is also not limiting its vision to the
limited data transmission speed, or band- Canadian market. The company has a history
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a color screen to browse the Web, a storage
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Notebook PCs have acquired most of the
features of multimedia desktop PCs, and their
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market with add-in cards and peripherals to

facilitate c o n vergence o n th e PC.

mobility would seem to make them ideal con-

embedded computers buried in other devices.

It may be that a PC will be anything running

How to get therefrom here

At the end of the day, the best road map to

Multifunction devices from Xerox and convergence is being offered by the PC indus- an operating system (probably Windows, less
vergence appliances, able to be moved from Brother (the latest Brother multifunction try. No other platform, not phone, or TV or probably Java), and possessing a chipset that
room to room in a house, or to the classroom, device has a video framegrabber built in), dig- any other consumer electronics or telecom allows it to juggle all the media that users
or out on th e road for mobile business.
However, although the top of the line notebooks from IBM or Toshiba or Canada's
Eurocom are indeed impressive, they are

ital cameras, and t h e ATI All-In-Wonder

graphics card, are all price examples of how
awareness of convergence is driving manufacturers to supply the necessary building blocks

extremely expensive, and about as complex to leading to an ideal convergence appliance.

use as a regular desktop PC. The small size and

clever multimedia integration of notebooks
do place them on t h e l eading edge of
ergonomic design and efficient use of space.
At Fall Comdex '97 in Las Vegas, IBM treated the public to the sight of a N etwork
Vehicle, a family van wired to the gills with
satellite communications gear, display screens
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in front of every passenger seat, voice activated email for the driver, and a host of other
high-end capabilities. This, however, was
"conceptcar," blue sky stuff
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In the short term, we are likely to see many
of the most interesting moves towards convergence happen in the mobile computing field
in the form of less ambitious, less complete
solutions, embodied in tiny handheld PCs.
Devices such as the 3Com Palm Pilot, and new
versions of the Windows CE platform are
attempting to cram as many functions as possible into the tiniest and lightest form factors.
Wireless modems, digital camera cards, voice
input options, multimedia business presentation capabilities, are all sprouting up on handheld devices on a daily basis.
It will be difficult to come up with a handheld that offers all the functions of PC/TV/
phone in the near future. It will be possible to
make handheld devices that offer a wide

enough, useful enough convergence feature

set to attract millions of new users, and greatly stimulate continued rapid improvement.
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Does NC stand for Not Capable'
One of the bright hopes of convergence
visionaries was that. Sun's Network Computer
(NC) initiative would result in a much cheaper, easier to use alternative to the Wintel PC,
After a few years of trying, the results to date
are a bit disappointing. While NCs would
seem likely to have a viable market as nextgeneration replacements for traditional dumb
terminals, the NC specification seems to have
been developed to a fairly low standard as far
as multimedia muscle is concerned.
It should have been possible to specify
chipsets that would offer high-speed ZD and
3D graphics, digital-to-analog video conversion, 3D sound, and telephony at a very low
cost of production, but this hasn't been done.
Short of an NC II standard that offers built-in
TV/PC/phone convergence capability in hardware, at a l e vel t h a t o u tperforms the
Windows/Intel PC, it seems very unlikely that
the NC will capture a wide market.

Convergence gadgets:
we got a million of 'em
Literally hundreds of vendors have rushed to

technology, has been as progressive or visionary as the computer nerds. Over the next
decade, we are likely to see convergence PC
technology in a variety of formats, including

need, with a minimum of cost and hassle. For

the moment, though, I would continue to put
my bets on the desktop PC as the best hope
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33

CONVERGENCE

Piece by piece:
What's new in convergence technology
S Y IEFF EVAN S

access and remote data synchronization. The

two devices are both optimized for the MS

a significant step forward from the much

C ontacbSharp, Tsi:800-56-SHARP,
more limited first generation of Windows CK Web sits: httpJ/www.sharp.oa
handhelds.
Continued on pageSl

ere really is no elegant, inexpensive, Windows CK operating system, and represent

entirely satisfactory computing appliance that integrates TVtphone and cora-

puter at least not yet. However, the goal of

digitally integrating all media is guiding hundreds of hardware and software developer's
efforts, resulting in a flow of new products to
the computer market that, to some degree,
satisfy the needs of end users for more flexible
multimedia computing. The end result of this
progress, some years hence, will be true convergence appliances. In the meantime, here
are some of the newest, most noteworthy, or
simply most interesting stepping stones on
the road to converged digital media paradise:

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WehShare sllves

multip
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As the number of small offices and home

offices continues to grow in Canada, many PC
users find themselves needing Internet access
for more than one PC. Protec, based in Pointe
Claire, Que., has released the latest version of
its popular WebShare hardware device, which
allows up to three PCs to share a single
Internet access connection simultaneously,

using a single Internet service provider (ISP)

account, and single IP address. The WebShare
device is an external peripheral that connects
to up to three PCs via serial cables, and,

depending on the WebShare model, connects

to the Internet either by an internal or external modem, The latest version of WebShare
supports the fastest current modems, and
prices begin at about $250,
Gonlact: Protsc, Tel: 800-363-8156,
Web site: http: //www,protec,ca
MEC, Sharp handheld PCs Introduce

color,
multimedia features
Computing and consumer electronic giants
S harp Klectronics of C anada and N KC
Computer Systems Division have introduced
Windows CK handheld PCs. Weighing under
450 g (I lb.), these units feature the ability to
output PowerPoint multimedia displays to
computer monitors in full color. The Sharp
Mobilon 4500 features a color LCD screen and

o11Ipucon Superoraph 3D Workstation will bring a new

dimension to your designs.
The SuperGraph-252S,our high-end workstation, isequipped with superb graphics
power'. 3Dlabs GlintMX graphic processor, 8MB VRAM frame buffer and 16MB EDO
local buffer graphic memory to accelerate all rendering operations of Open GL under
both Microsoft Windows NTo and Windows 95. Ideal for CAD/CAM and animation
production,the SuperGraph 252S provides ultra-fast professional graphics performance.
If you need to work in any of the following professional CAD/CAM and graphics
applications like Pro/Engineer. I-DEAS Master Series, SolidWorks, AVS/Express,
GameGen II, Sommage 3D, LightWave 3D, Lightscape Visualization System,
OpenInventer, WorldToolkit and WorldUp, 3D Studio Max, the Compucon SuperGraph

Series is ideal for you.

The complete 3D Workstationsseries include SuperGraph-252S, SuperGraph-250D

(Dual Graphic board based on Glint 500TX ). SuperGraph-250 and SuperGraph-230

(powered by 3Dlabs Permedia II)

an optional color digital camera for high-powered display and imaging capabilities, while
the NKC MobilePro 700, though equipped
with a grayscale display, has the ability to output a color VGA signal to a computer monitor.

The Sharp device has an integrated imageediting utility, a voice recorder, and multhnedia email software for integrating sound and
image with text. The NKC MobilePro 700 has
a large, easy-to-typeen keyboard, Integrated
modem, and a bundle of software that
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ASUS PII P2L97-DS ...................................47$
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GA-586T2(AT 430TX 512K) ......................... 149
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Tyan Tomcat III Dual PS/512k .................... 259
Tyan 1692DL(ATX 440LX) ............................385
Tyan 1571(AT 430TX 512k) ........................ 178
486 PCVISA/VLB MB ..................................... 89

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Canon Ink Cartrige Color ............................. 19
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Epson Ink Cartrlge Black/Color .............. 22/29
Epson Ink Jet Paper (Photo Quality)................. 15
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SB Discovery Kit (AWE 64 &24x) ........ 329
Speakers 100/200/320W ................ 18/39/4$
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MS Natural Keyboard ...............................,.79
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Cyrix M2(MMX)166/200................. 108/145

AMD KS 166........................................... 139
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lomega Jaz I G SCSI Int/Ext............369/494
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MS-Home 98 CD Bundle.........,......,...,.....89
MS Encarta'98 Home Bundle ................... 59
Compon's Encyclopedia 97 ...................... 18
Corel Draw 8 Full................................... 179
CorelWordPerfect 8 suite........................69
Lotus SmartSuite 97 Full Ver................. 19
Grolier 97 &Lot Games (10CDs) ............ 59
7 Titles Encyclopedia&Games ................. 49

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13/15/19n Tower Case w/230W...... $34/38/52
19/24" ATX Tower Case W/PS............ 89/115
25" Full Size Tower Case w/230W PS....... 85
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1.44 Floppy Drive Fujitsu/Mitsumi ......... 27

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CONVERCENCE

Nnv variations on TV-computer convergence

B Y GEOF W H E ELWRIG H T

t's all coming together. And "it", in this

case, is TV, telephone, Internet access,
Web-browsing, email, faxing, videoconfer-

media marvels or simply big TVs for home

entertainment enthusiasts who want a bit of
computer power in their living rooms.

Set-top boxes
encing and computing. Convergence is upon One of the biggest boosters of set-top-box TV
us and it is happening with startling speed. has been Microsoftwwned WebTV Networks
And no one yet knows just how it will all
Inc., which recently announced a deal with
shake out.

American telecommunications giant MCI to

Will we be running our computer applica- jointly market the WebTV Network service,
tions from wireless keyboards linked to TV settop boxes via infrared controls? Will we watch
TV shows in a window on our desktop computers? Will we switch from standard telephone calls to loved ones to videoconferencing via the Internet? All of these things are
possible now, at a range of different prices and
varying degrees of difficulty.
It would seem that the direction taken by
t his technology convergence trend w i l l

depend not on what is possible from an engineering or product design point of view, but

NTN Interactive Network, specialized "channels" for children and seniors and a Canadian
investment site.
The BeyondTV service will cost $29.99 per

"full Internet capabilities and Enhanced TV

services via open standards."
Oracle says Navigator will allow network

an ISP can receive the BeyondTV service for

shopping and TV Chat. "The introduction of

operators
to offer new services such as elecmonth, which will allow Internet access and tronic programming guides, personalized
five email accounts. Users that already have news and information services, interactive
$9.99 per month.
DTV Navigator ushers in a new era for the
The Batra Group in Markham, Ont. is pro- cable industry," claimed Wei Yen, president of

v iding th e I n t ernet set-top b oxes f o r

bringing the Internet to televisions for as little as ViewCall's BeyondTV service. The WebSurfer
US$14.95 per month. The service will be available in areas covered by MCI's national network.

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NCI. "For the first time, cable operators and

set-top box manufacturers have an open software platform to deploy exdting new services
and levels of interactivity over existing cable
networks. Most importantly, DTV Navigator

offers cable operators a greater choice of settop boxes, applications and network infrastructure."

"WebTV From MCI Internet." After the first

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PC or 7V or both?
On the TV/PC hybrid front, Compaq and RCA

recently worked together to produce some-

subsaibers and reverts to the standard low

what w~ s c o nsumers actually want. TV rate of $19.95 for all others.
tuners inside computers, for example, were
With the odginal WebTV Internet Terminal,
highly fashionable during the "home comput- or the new WebTV Plus Internet Receiver, users
er Christmas" of 1994, but had become just can aeate up to six accounts for email, save

thing they call the Compaq/RCA PC Theatre.

The companies claim it is "a showcase for
some of today's most sought-after technologies, all combined in an interactive, big-screen
multimedia product that delivers outstanding
another option for home PCs by Christmas of more than 600 of their favorite Internet sites devices will be available at consumer electron- entertainment for t h e e n tire family." It

1997. There appear to have been only a limited number of people who had interest in
watching television on their PC screen.
The two big technology convergence stories this year are the emergence of the TV settop box Internet acct device and theAevel-

and can print Web pages in color with some ics stores, priced at around $450. The price
Hewlett-Packard and Canon home printers.
includes a wireless keyboard and printer port.
ViewCall Canada Inc., a Winnipeg firm,
Meanwhile, Oracle subsidiary Network
launched a competing serviceBeyondTV in Computer Inc. (NCI) announced in December
November, claiming to be "Canada's first per- it's DTV Navigator software platform for
sonalized Internet television service."
"deploying next generation digital set-top

opment of big screen PC/rV hybrid systems.

Among th e c o ntent p r oviders that boxes and Internet-based consumer devices."
The former provides Web access and email ViewCall has lined up for its service are CBC DTV Navigator is what NCI has dubbed "an
though the TV while the latter can do double- Newsworld, T h e Wea t he r Ne t w ork, application platform" for set-top box manuduty either as multipurpose boardroom multi- SportsTicker, a multiplayer game service called facturers and cable operators which delivers
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wIth StyleTeh personallxed PCs
Tired of that ugly, avocado colored pile of
plastic and metal that is the average PC?Want
something that would fit more unobtrusively
into the wood-grained decor of a family room
or home theatre? Pennsylvania-based StyleTek
has taken a great leap forward (or backward,
depending on one's point of view) with handcrafted natural wood casework for multimedia
PC systems. StyleTek's designs include the
exquisitely finished Artisan line of matching

All-In-one comm solution

from 01 Communique

As the final numbers come in for the

Christmas of 1997, it will be interesting to see

how the sales numbers for these products

stack up and whether there really is interest
and demand for this hnd of convergence. 0
Pentium PC, with a headset equipped with a

head mounted display in place of the usual

computer monitor, a mike for voice input and
control, an IrDa-standard infrared data link,
and a pointing device to control menu
options. Xybernaut systems are aimed at

Canada's 01 Communique Laboratory Inc. has

announced an all-inane computer/telephony

integration solution. Communicate! Pro
allows users of Windows PCs to combine a
host of common computing and telephone

maintenance, inventory, health care and

instruction applications, where the ability to
have both hands free to perform other activities, while still being able to view and input
data, are essential,

functions on a Windows PC using a single

software program. Featuring a natural, intuitive user interface, Communicate! Pro gives
an onscreen visual display that mimics several

common telephone functions, allowing even

a novice user to get up and running with computer telephony in a m atter of minutes.
Behind the simple interface, however, is a soft-

solutions, PC systems that have been engi- Contact:

Xybemaut,Tel:888-992-3?7?.
neered to allow hands-free mobility for

Web site: http: //www.xybemaut.corn

Xybernaut users. Basically, a Xybernaut sys-

ware engine capable of great power and user tem consists of a belt mounted multimedia

Digital video products from VCR Inc.

customizable features, including contact data-

Mississauga-based VCR Inc. has introduced

several hardware devices to allow the integration of NTSC video into a PC, for uses ranging
from digital time-lapse recording, to motion
detection, to multiple video windowing on a
PC monitor. The Video Catcher IV Plus is a
device that plugs into a computer via the par-

basemanagement, faxwn4emand, and pager

dispatching. With Communicatel Pro, any PCbased home office can acquire high-level business fax and phone capabilities with minimal
investment of money and training time.

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allel port, and allows up to four video sources

Conhct:01 Communique,Tel:800-668-2185.

Web site: httpi/www.01corn.corn

to be input to the PC and displayed in win-

dows on the screen, for time-lapse recording,

alarm monitoring, motion detecting, and

handcrafted wood, in user-definable colors Xybernatst wearable computiny

and finishes. With ergonomic keyboard One of the great goals in the quest for convermountings, CPU chassis, and monitor and

includes a 36-inch diagonal Twin Tuner big

screen TV, Pentium processor, lots of hard disk
space, high-speed modem and all the goodies
you wouldexpectin a high-end home TV and
home computer.

remote video monitoring. The QV-200 multiple video card fits into a PC to allow four

gence is how to make high-powered multime-

speaker housings, StyleTek's Personalized PCs dia appliances portable enough for people to

external NTSC video somces to be displayed

merge into a home theatm setting in a way

that is visually compatible with other con-

carry them about in their daily activities.

on the monitor in movable and resealable

sumer electronic devices.

Ideally, this would save multimedia users from

from having to go to a particular location,
such as a family home theatre or a desktop PC

Contact BtyleTek, Tel: 215-508-0?27.

workstation t o

Web site: httir1/www.style-teiccom

Xybernaut is a leader in "wearable computing

windows, at full 30 frames per second, with

quality enhancement featums such as time
base cormction and genlock for each video
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PERSONAL FINANCES

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beautiful, content-rich, Internet-connected,

bank-wired, personal, financial program
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If you haven't used your computer to organize

your personal finances, this is a great time to jump
in. Today's finandal software, is amazing in its simplicity and features. By adding Internet and online
banking connectivity to the multimedia capabilities of CD-ROMs
plus the power of new CPUsthis category of software won't disappoint.
Products revlevred:
Quicken 98
Money 98 FinancialSuite
Financial Tools
Canplan
Money Guide
Financial Competency
f you' ve used financial software in the past
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programs are real productivity enhancernent tools. They may be pretty, but they also
allow you to make important life decisions.
Personal financial software can be divided
into two types: programs that give you tools
for understanding and calculating your.

fmamial
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From: MicrosoftCanadaInc.
Estimatedstreet price: $69.95
Microsoft Money 98 Financial Suite is
another attempt to steal the crown
from Quicken and it the closest
Microsoft has come to succeeding.
While attempting to buy Intuit,
Microsoft had clearly been working very hard on another version
of Money. Soon after the anti-trust
laws were used to stop the acquisition, Microsoft released Money 97 and
it was good. Now Micmsoft has completely

Quicken often led in the development of interface improvements for

the whole world. The 1993 version of
the program saw the debut of an
aut~omplete feature, which fills in
a text box based on your first few
letters, a feature which has been
copied by hundreds of programs

overhauled the program again and come

today.

Microsoft must have also seen how

good the product was, and how important,
for just a few years ago it made an attempt to
acquire the successful little company. After a
year-long investigation, the American government quashed the deal on the grounds that it
would render that software category devoid of
investments and debts;and, programsthat do any real competition. Good thing too. Thisis
all that and add personal bank account track- a superlative product and Microsoft's attempts
ing as well. In the former category are one to build a better Quicken is fueling a productAmerican (Financial Competence) and three improving upward spiral.
Canadian (Vorton's, Financial Tools, and
Over the last few years, Intuit has made its
Money Guide) program. In the latter group QFN (Quicken Finandal Network) an imporare the well known and mature: Microsoft tant part of the program, Links within
Money and Quicken.
Quicken point to information on the Web
site. However, this year Intuit has taken a
huge step forward. It has created a Canadian

Cemlllete
jlepsalial

Money IeS Financial Suite

Quicken site! This is good. The site is well

built and has considerable content. The com-

accounts,
investments, your mortgagewhatever you do with money can be recorded,
calculated, tracked, totaled and printed. Want
to plan for your son's university education?
How about that boat? Want to track how
much you spent on GST this year? Thinking
about retirement?
Another feature that really makes this a
great program is the multimedia content.
Having a voice with graphics walk you
through a procedure is a such a nice way of
accomplish a mundane task There are more
featureswizards, accounts, explanations and
hints than can be mentioned here. If it has to
do with your money, and it is not businessrelated, you can do it in Quicken. Quicken
makes money tracking enjoyable.
But what if you do have a,business? Well,
then you should choose another program
such as Intuit's QuickBooks or QuickBooks
Pro. These are small business programs that
use the same interface style and features as
Quicken but with an emphasis on reports,
time and cost tracking, payroll, and complex
invoicing.
Intuit has also introduced a new version of
Quicken this year called, Quicken Home and
Business. This $79.95 product is a souped-up
version of Quicken 98 Deluxe. It contains
everything that Deluxe does as well as features
that allow invoicing, tracking receivables, and
m ore business content. This i s n o t
QuickBooks but aimed at a small and home
office user who is the sole proprietor of a business.
Also available, is Quicken Basic for $49.95.
This version comes on disc and wi0 not run
o n Windows NT but does come in a
Macintosh version. Much of the multimedia
content is missing of course, but the program's core functionality is maintained.

pany has teamed up with Rogers Multi-Media

Inc., which is the content provider for Rogers
From: Intuit Inc. Canada
Communications. The cooperative venture
Estimatedstreet price: $69,95
gives Rogers, and its customers, access to
Quicken
98 financial tools, while Intuit gets a local site
Deluxe is the best with local content. This is a win-win scenario
personal financial that The Computer Paperencourages.
software program
More than this, Quicken 98 Deluxe has
ever written any- finally brought online banking to the masses.
.
aasar
where, anytime. The software will allow
members of certain
Just go out and banks or credit unions to have their financial
buy it.
institution automatically update their bankEach year we ing information in Quicken. This meansyou
look forward to
press a button, the software calls the bank and
having another
gets an electronic copy of your account items,
look at Quicken. and then updates your software! No more
For those of you not familiar with Intuit, the
entering your account items manually. This is
company that makes the product, here is a litprogress.
tle bit of background.
After a few years of offering this service to
Scott Cook, co-founder and chairman, of
Americans, and a few years of The Computer
Intuit Inc., first saw an opportunity to make a
Paperasking for a Canadian service, Intuit has
small DOS/Windows 3.0 program in the late
deliver
ed.Quicken 98 can beused in thisway
'80s. He wanted an intuitive bank account
with CIBC, mbanx, Canada Trust, Toronto
tracking program that could also print
Dominion and ScotiaMcLeod.
cheques. Thus was born Intuit, and its first
So what does Quicken do? Weil, in a nutQuicken 98 Deluxe is aWindows 95 or NT
product Quicken,
shell, everything, You can track all your trans- program that needs a 486 or better multimeThat program was rather ugly and primi- actions, of any sort, in any number of
tive, but it caught on. As Windows evolved accounts. You can set up loans, or savings dia PC, with an Internet connection, for best
results. Quicken Deluxe 98 is also the most
and improved so did Quicken. In fact,

Quicken 98 Deluxe

out with Money 98 Financial Suite,

Money 98 Financial Suite comprises Money 98, Advisor FYI, Goal
Planner and M i crosoft Investor.
Advisor FYI is a program that monitors
what you do and then tries to give suggestions. Based on what you do and where you
are in the program, FYI offers
hints and other
i nformation t o

help you perform

a particular function or recognize
c ommon

m i s-

collection of wizards that makes

setting up and working on financial goals easier. This step-by-step process is especially useful for new users. Microsoft Investor integrates
Money 98 with the Microsoft Investor Web
site, allowing users to track stocks or bonds,
funds or other financial vehides. If so desired,
a user can receive a free, six-month subscription to Investor's premium services that

includes brokerageservices.

Money '98 has a new interface and you

can probably guess what it is. Yes, that's right,
a Web page metaphor.The page,called Money
Home, has links that the program updates,
alters or inserts depending on events that
occur in your accounts, as well as current
financial news of your choice from the
Internet. Thus cgcking on a link might take
you to the MSN Financial Center or to an article on the Money 98 CD-ROM, or it might
take you to an entry in one of your accounts
on the hard drive. This is an extension of
Microsoft's concept of the new interfaceInternet everywhere!
Does it work? Yes and no. Yes, it does work
so long as the user understands that this is
simply a new way of presenting information,
But also no, because it is unnecessary and

does not add anything to the program's

usability. Intuit's integration of the Internet is
better.
Money 98 has one area where it surpasses
Quicken: Canadian content. The disc contains
175 Canadian personal fmancial articles from
Canadian financial experts including TCPs

own Douglas Gray. Other notables include

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FE BRUARY 1998 THE COMPUTER PAPER

BC EDITION www.tcp.ca

PERSONAL FINANCES
Tools to keep an eye on your money

The Canadian content of the CD-ROM

and Web page are also reflected in the pro-

Continuedfrom page 40

Financial Suite is a mature and wellwngi-

BenjaminMcLean, EvelynJacks,FrankCasula, gram and manuals. Money is better cusJohn Caspar and Stephen Gadsden. Not only tomized for Canadian use than Quicken. sonal finances. The basic features of the proare there articles on practically every personal Microsoft Canada has.gone to great efforts to gram are as one an/outd expect: account
make sure this is a Canadian version of the
program. Terms like IRS or K401 do not turn
up in Microsoft Money, though they still do in

financial topic relevant to Canadians but, by

using Microsoft Insider, which accesses information from Microsoft's Canadian Web site,
users can get even more current, relevant articles, worksheets and other data.

Quicken.
Like its competition, Microsoft Money 98

many financial questions.

neered program that will do pretty. much anyMoney 98 has some agreements with
thing you will ever need in the world of per- Canadian online banks and is working to

ledgers, loan and mortgage amortizing, printing of cheques, portfolio management, asset
tracking, financial calendar with drag and
drop and an extensive help system with text-

bring more institutions on-board, but at this

time the feature is not in the same league as
Quicken 98. Money 98 Financial Suite needs
Windows 95 or NT and a multimedia PC with
Internet connectivity for full use.
With. a real value in Canadian content

based reference information to help answer Microsoft Money 98 Financial Suite is a very
good program and closer than ever to stealing
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Tools to keep an eye on your money
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II

George etson's
bank account
B Y ROD L A M I R A N D

Imagine sitting at your

home computer and seeing
exactly what the teller sees
when he or she looks at
your account: credits and
debits, when and to whom,
as far back asyou want!

thing known as the Internet.

Problem was, the Internet=and the
browsers that people used to surf it did net
provide a very secure system for transmitting
personal bank account information. This was
especially true if the institution wanted to
offer fund transfers er bill paying. Bankers
don't even like to contemplate what would

happen if a criminal accessed

ane of their cus-

tomer's chequing acceunts.

Some financial heuses, like Canada Trust,
set up a page on their Web sites that allowed
a custemer to enter an ID and password and
see a record of account transactions. Others.
ut you can do mare. You can sort those wrete or purchased small programs that
transactions by any criteria you like. would dial up private networks that allowed
You can move funds from one account richer services without any security risk.
to another (as long asthey are your own) and
Then a new generation of browsers arrived
pay a few bl)ls. Heck, tell the computer to pay with better interactive abilities and much
your Uisa next Wednesday if you like.
Improved encryption. As well, everyone startSound like something fmm that old car- ed getting online. Today, most national banks
taon, The fetsorrs?Well, think again, This is and credit unions offer online banking either
online banking and it's here today! Fellow by the Net, their own network, or both,
along and we wi(I exp)atn the development of
Simply put, institutions have two mutes
online banking and tell you about a new pro- they can go
private or public. Whereas a
tocol that pmmises to make it hetter.
year ago, the players were evenly split, today
it looks like the Internet is the way we will all
Beets'ocslc lsanltlng
be checking up on our accounts. Security is
The banks have been electronically moving no longer an issue due to 128-bit encryption.
money and informahon around for decades. Improved features include services such as:
Canadian business, induding small business, ability to check account items, often for
has also been deing this for years. It was look- months past; paying bills, including post dating like the most the average joe was ever ing payments; applying for loans and or mortgoing to get was tele-banking! You may live gages; and transfering money between
by it but it pales in comparison to banking by accounts.
computer.
Many financial institutions now have

When the home PC became comme, online banking. However, there is a new
many financial institutions began trials and
pilots to test online banking, Unfortunately,
none of these worked well enough to survive
continuously until a little credit union in
British Columbia gave it a t r y . B.C.'s
Vancouver City Savings Credit Union
(UanCity) launched its online system in 199S
and has successfully been offering online
banking for almost three years!
Other institutions looked at the proprietary system UanCity created and either
bought it or made their own. However, still
others were starting to think about this little

development in this area that makes it likely

that all financial institutions will saon offer a
consistent set of features:

New prcstocol

The problem
was, banks had to cieate their

own personal financial software or customize

someone else'sprogram for their customers to

be able to do anything with their bank
account data Customers who were already
using products such as Microsoft Money or
Quicken and wanted to continue to do so
Continued onpage 70

Nickel and dime-ed to death

With all the major banks reporting record prof)ts in 1997, it might not be a bad idea to take

a good look at all those service chargesyou' re paying. If yeu use more than one bank, and
most people do, service chargesreally add up. They also vary widely between institutions.
You know youshould spend sometime adding up the monthly costs but it all seemssotimeconsuming and petty. Well, there is some help available.
Industry Canada's Web site is a wealth of information about business. The site, called

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cost of using your ATM, someone else's ATM, walking up to th teller, tele-banking or online

banking, and a number ef other charges, When you are done the Web applet will tell you

~ P E RSONAL FINANCES

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how much you are paying and how much all the major banks charge.

Try it
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promising to deliver exceBent performance
for far less than we could've hoped for even a
year ago, Strong competition among the various manufacturers today means that if one of
them'should try and cut comers to save a few
bucks, they could very quickly find them-

selves goingfrom a contender to a forgotten

player. This is great for consumers, because
now we' re all faced with two choices when it

the screen.
It used to be that several different video
cards from different manufacturers would use
the same graphics controller on their video
cards. It wouldn't take much looking to find a
video card that used a controller from S3 or
Cirrus Logic. Video cards that made use of
full-motion video cap- these chips were very popular (and still are
ture, editing and playback, today) because of. their low cost. You could
and a category of products arose that walk into nearly any computer store and buy
dealt with the TV-style video signal.
a basic PCI video card with I MB onboard for

Generally speaking cards dealing with around $35, Unless your needs are very basic,
full motion TV or videotape capture,
editing and playback are specialized products, which we won't be
dealing with in this Lab Test.
Hence, in this lab,'we use the
terms graphics card and video
card interchangeably to refer to
the same thing.

we definitely would not recommend these

cards, Sure they may be incredibly cheap, but
in the end, you get what you paid for,
These days, video card manufacturers at
least the bigger ones
are designing their own
graphic controllers. The latest generation of
cards from ATI, for example, use the new Rage
Pro chip. Likewise, Matrox cards are equipped
Moreover, some of today's graphics card with the company's very own MGA series
incorporate TV-style video functions, but they controllers. Once again, the competition in
are now usually referred to as "TV output" or the marketplace requires each of these manu"full-motion video capture" or some other facturers to constantly work on improving
function having to do with NTSC or PAI video their current graphic controllers in order to
signals.
satisfy the customer's continuing need for
Similarly, not too long ago, the terms speed.
"video accelerator" or "graphics accelerator"
were being thrown around. Much like any Things to consider
new development in the world of technology, Shopping for a video card should be treated
this term led to an onslaught of new ques- no differently than shopping for a computer
tions, the most common of w h ich was or a printer. In the end, you want to get some"what's the difference between a graphics card thing that will give you both the performance
and a graphics accelerator?" The answer is and list of features you desire while not breakquite simple, actually. The older generation of ing the bank.
graphics cards did not have onboard conThe first thing you should do when shoptrollers, or processors. It would be up to the ping for a video card is determine what the
CPU to handle all graphics and text sent from card's primary duties will be. For instance, is
your computer used mostly for games or for
the graphics card to the monitor.
As applications, and especially games, everyday word processing? Perhaps you' re
became more and more demanding, the CPU into video editing, or you may be a CAD professional who often works at home.
became bogged down and was doing too
many things at once. A simple solution was to
If you fall into the category of "casual
put a graphic controller on the graphics card user" where you turn your computer on once
itself, and let that take care of all the image or twice a week, then a simple $50 card would
crunching, and thus the graphics accelerator do the trick. If, on the other hand, you' re an

comes to the quality of video cards: good and card was born.

avid gamer or a more advanced user, we

would definitely recommend that you considas a separate computes It has a processor er one of the cards we reviewed this month.
onboard, as well as RAM for storing informaBut no matter how light your computer
tion, The RAM on the video card functions usage might be, keep in mind that your video
just like the RAM in your computer. It is used card is responsible for everything you see visufor storing information that is processed by ally. That includes all the simple things most
The video card (also known as graphics card) the graphic controller. And just like your com- people don't even think about, such as the
Ls the main link between your computer and puter, the more RAM you have on the video menus that appear in your programs, or the
your monitor. It's responsible for taking the card, the better it's performance will be= at lists you may have to scroll through with
information that is processed and delivering it least to a certain degree.
1
arrows. No matter
to you visually through your monitor. How
Every video card you buy today will have how simple the
good a particular brand of video card is some sort of graphic controller onboard. It is task, your video
depends on a number of things, all of which this controller that will determine, more than card is the part
go down to the engineering level. This is anything else, the overall speed of your video that gets the job
where the video card is still just a mess of card, In your computer, the more sophisticat- done. So even if
very good. As our tests this month have
shown, it's quite remarkable what you can
buy for around $200.

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you don't require a card that delivers 40 frames
per second in Quake, don't forget how easily
annoyed you may get as you literally wait for
your screen to get drawn section by section.
Also remember that if you' ve spent extra
money on a better monitor, you won't get the

Make sure the video card is capable of a

refresh rate of at least 72 Hz in all of its video
modes, or at least the ones you plan on using.
This is important because some people can see
the image flicker at refresh rates of 60 Hz.
Some also notice it even at 6S Hz and maybe
even 70 Hz. Very few will notice any kind of
flickeringabove 70 Hz.
Don't forget, however, that regardless of
what refresh rates your video card is capable
of, your monitor must also be able to handle
them. It's no good if your video card can send
out refresh rates of 85 Hz while your monitor
tops out at 60 Hz. If you' re not sure, check the
monitor's manual under the technical specifications section. If y our monitor cannot
refresh at a minimum of 70 Hz, we strongly
recommend you invest in a newer model. A
screen that flickers is likely to cause eye strain
and discomfort when looked at for more than
a few minutes.

ing from 66 to 100 MHz. Since it's not as

expensive to manufacture as WRAM or VRAM,
it offers a good balance between price and performance. Both ATI and Matrox have adopted
this type of RAM for their latest generation of
cards aimed at the home user.

able at the time of testing from each of the

manufacturer's respective Web sites.
Some of the cards we reviewed did not
have native support for a r esolution of
320x240, so we used SciTech's Display Doctor
to overcome this problem. As can be seen
most out of it if you have,a mediocre graphics
So what type of RAM should you look for? from our results, not all cards support this rescard. A lousy signal sent to a superlative monIf you' re doing a lot of gaming, SGRAM is olution, or at the very least, not with the
itor will still be a lousy signal.
probably your best bet right now. On the games we used. Since Quake II is a very new
Once you' ve determined what kind of
other hand, if you' re working in high resolu- product at the time of this writing, it is expectwork your video card will be doing, the next
tions in true color, a card with dual-ported ed that there are certain bugs in the game,
thing to consider is how much RAM you' ll
WRAM will provide the best results.
which resulted in some of these incompatibilwant on it. Today's video cards come in two
ities.
basic flavors 2 MB and 4 MB. as standard.
Is ACP the way to Iol
As far as the BAPCo benchmarks go, we
Getting a card with more than 4 MB on board
AGP is the latest acronym being tossed back ran the Graphics Sysmark portion of the suite,
usually requires a special order, as most retailand forth in the industry. It stands for "accel- which consists of an automated CorelDraw
ers don't get many requests for those beasts.
erated graphics port" and is a new interface script that p
several graphics-intensive
Sometimes the price difference between a card
designed by Intel strictly for high-perfor- tasks. Each video card was set to run at a resowith 2 MB and 4 MB onboard can be as little
mance graphics, namely 3D.
lution of 1,024x768 at 32-bit true color using
as $40, so if you can spare the cash, you
AGP was designed to deliver workstation a refresh rate of 75 Hz. All tests were conductshould definitely go for the greater amount.
quality graphics and speed to the home com- ed on a Pentium II 300 MHz system with 128
You may not think you' ll need it right away,
puter. A new slot is used for AGP cards on all M B of 10ns
SDRAM and a Seagate 6.4 GB hard
but who knows six months from now.
What about the type of RAMP
Pentium II motherboards. It's similar in shape drive. The bus speed on the system was set to
To get a better idea of how'much RAM The RAM found on video cards is often iden- and size to a regular PCI slotbut it's designed 66 MHz. For scores given in "fps" (frames per
you' ll be needing, decide on what resolu- tical to the RAM found inside your computer. strictly for video cards. It is not designed to be second), higher numbers represent better
tion(s) you' re most likely to use. This in turn The most common type of RAM is DRAM, or the replacement for the PCI bus.
scored. For our BAPCo test, the run time is
will depend on your monitor. As a general dynamic RAM. It's called dynamic because it
The AGP port operates at 66 MHz, versus measured in seconds and lower values are betrule, if you have a 14-inch monitor, you' ll needs to be refreshed periodically or it will
the 33 MHz PCI bus. At this speed, the PCI bus ter. In the overall BAPCo graphics score, highwant to use a resolution of 640x480 pixels. lose its contents. SRAM, or static RAM, which is limited to data transfer rates of up to 133 er numbers represent better scores.
Anything more than that, will produce an is most commonly found in cache modules MB per sec., whereas AGP has a peak transfer
The Test Lab wishes to thank Althon
image that may be too small for comfortable does not need to be refreshed, but costs more. rate of 528 MB per sec. with a technique called Systems of Markham, Ont. for providing us
viewing. If you' re using a 1S-inch display, the
DRAM is the cheapest to manufacture of sidebanding, and the help of pipelining.
with the ATI All-in-Wonder Pro and Xpert
ideal resolution is 800x600. If you' re fortunate all RAM types because its internal structure is
Perhaps the greatest thing about AGP, @Play 8 MB cards for this review
enough to have a 17-inch (or larger) display, rather simple and requires less silicon to man- aside from its obvious speed, is the way it hanthen you' ll want to look at resolutions such as ufacture making it the most popular choice. A dles video memory. AGP can make use of not Upcoming TCP Test lab
1,024x768 or higher.
limitation of DRAM-based video cards is their only your video card's onboard RAM, but it
Unfortunately we were not able to get a large
To determine the exact amount of RAM available bandwidth. When it comes to high also has the ability to access your system's enough sample of dedicated 3D accelerators
your resolution will require, you' ll also have r esolutions and c o lor d e pths such a s RAM directly to store complex images that this month based on the Voodoo and other
to know the number of colors you' ll be work- 1,024x768 in 16.7 million colors, an enor- would not otherwise flt into the space of 4 MB such chipsets. It is our intention to gather up
ing with. A very popular choice today is 16- mous amount of data is being sent through on a typical video card. And'since the AGP all of the latest 3D accelerators on the market
bit, or 65,536 colors. This offers enough colors the video card in any given second.
operates at the same speed as the memory bus, and put them through similar tests which will
to display near-photographic quality images
Before you can see ari image on the screen, reading and writing to memory is a breeze. be featured in an upcoming TCPTest Lab
on the screen, and most video cards perform your video card has to take the information, Because it is a completely separate bus, there report over the next couple of months.
really well at this color depth. It goes without which it has stored in its video RAM, and send won't be any other components that could
saying that the more colors you use, the more it to a component on the card called the RAM- weigh it down, such is the case with current
work your video card has to do.
DAC. This DAC (digital-to-analog converter) PCI video cards.
All of the cards we tested support 24-bit or takes the digital information stored in the
We were able to get a number of AGP cards ATI Technologies
1 6.7 million c o l ors a t r e solutions o f RAM in the form of zeroes and ones, converts for this month's tests, although there was no All-in-Wonder Pro
1,024x768. You probably won't be using true that information to an analog signal, then real improvement in performance due to the Xperi @Play
color mode unless you' re doing photo editing, sends the analog signal from the video card to lack of support'by the current versions of Two of ATI's latest offerings are the All-inor CAD work, or you happen to have a really the monitor where the electron gun paints the Windows 95 and NT. Both Windows 98 and Wonder Pro and the Xpert@Play cards. Both
zippy video card that 4oesn't get bogged image onto the screen.
NT 5.0 promise to support AGP, although are based on ATI's latest Rage Pro chipset, and
down at those color depths. To work in a resSince DRAM is single ported, it can only be we' re most likely going to be waiting until the each is targeted at a specific audience.
olution of 1,024x768 at 65,536 colors, you' ll read from or written to at any given time. This summer before that happens. AGP looks to be
The Xpert@Play is the perfect card for any
need a video card with 2 MB onboard.
means that the DRAM has to handle the two a very promising technology and has great gamer, while the All-in-Wonder Pro is suitable
The formula for determining the necessary requests for both read and write operations potentiaL
for not only garners, but multimedia fans and
video RAM is quite simple: multiply the hori- from the RAMDAC and processor, respectiveFor more information on AGP, check out graphic pros. The Xpert@play offers an Szontal pixels by the vertical pixels by the cor- ly. Because of this, if the data being transferred the following Web sites:
Video output as well as a composite connector
responding color depth. Use "1" for a color exceeds the limits of the DRAM, if won't be http:I/developer.inteLcom/technology/agpl
that allows you to redirect your output to your
depth of 256 colors (B-bit), use "2" for 16-bit possible to refresh the monitor fast enough so http;I/www.
TV.
agpforum
.org
color, and "3" for true color modes of 16.7 that the screen doesn't flicker.
httpf/www.diamondmm.corn/product-support/whiteThe All-in-Wonder Pro is the successor to
million colors. In our above example, we have
One way to overcome this problem is to papersNisualization/agp/
the popular All-in-Wonder. It features the new
1,024x768x2, which gives us 1,572,864 bytes use an enhanced form of DRAM known as
or 1.5 MB. Since video cards come with either VRAM. Although VRAM is still dynamic, it
1, 2 or 4 MB RAM onboard, we see that 1 MB allows for both read and write operations to
would not be enough, so we' ll have to go with occur at the same time. Quite simply, this We asked various manufacturers to send us
2 MB. That same 2 MB could also be used to means you can get double the bandwidth what they consider their top-of-the-line video
display 800x600 in 1 6.7 m i l lion c olors from VRAM than you would from DRAM. An cards for the home market equipped with at
(800x600x3 = 1,440,000 bytes),
enhanced form of VRAM is known as WRAM, least 4 MB of RAM. It was up to them how
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refresh rate of the video card. This was more of frequencies of up to 50 MHz, considerably choose PCI or AGP versions of their cards.
an issue a couple of years ago, but not so more than the 33 MHz used by the PCI bus.
Our tests this month are slightly different
much today. The vertical refresh rate of your Both VRAM and WRAM are commonly found than our usual round of benchmarks. We Rage Pro chip, uses the new AGP format, and
monitor and video card determine how many on more expensive video cards designed to be decided it would be best if we put these cards offers both an S-Video in and S-Video out
times the screen gets refreshed (or redrawn) in used at high resolutions and color depths.
to a real world test where people can actually ports that let you record SVHS tapes to your
one second. All video cards manufactured
A newer type of RAM now being used by a relate to the numbers they see in our chart. hard drive for editing and then send them
today will have refresh rates ranging from 60 number of manufacturers is SGRAM, or syn- We ran a timed demo of three of the most back to SVHS tape. The card also features a
Hz up to 150 Hz. Some will even go as high as chronous graphics RAM. Although it's single popular 3D games, Quake, Quake II and built-in TV tuner for watching TV on your
200 Hz.
ported, it is capable of higher bus speeds rang- Hexen II. We obtained the latest drivers avail- monitor in either a scalable window or ~
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would use its heavy duty 3D processor.

Both cards come bundled with a generous
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of closed-captioned programs with picture ActiveMovie a n d In te r ne t Ex p l orer,
stills.
Rea))Mat(on STE demo, and VDO Live player.
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equipped with 4 M B o f SGRAM, further price tag will clearly verify.
expandable to 8 MB. The Xpert CdrP(ay also features SGRAM, and is available in both 4 MB iwatroxGraphics
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excellent. Either of these cards would make a
fine addition to any PC.
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Two of LeadTek's newest cards are the L2300
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different market.
First, we have the popular Mystique 220
which is a hot item this year, especially for

garners, Based on the MGA-1164SG chip, the

Mystique 220 comes equipped with 4 MB of
SGRAM, expandable to a total of 8 MB. The
220 MHz RAMDAC will ensure your display
will be clear and flicker free no matter-what
resolution you' re in. With vertical refresh
rates up to 200 Hz, this is an excellent product
suitable for any home PC. A software bundle
is also induded, and consists of the following
titles: Moto Racer, Toy Story, Ka('s Power Goo,
CompCore SoftPEG MPEG player, and the
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of $1?0, you can't go wrong with this card.

The Millennium II is in the top of its dass
when it comes to 2D performance. The card is
aimed mainly at power users and graphics
professionals who require a high quality card
that offers both performance and stability at
an affordable price. Based on the MGA-2164W
chip, the Millennium II is a card that you can
purpose card, suitable for both gaming or
CAD applications. Based on th e 3Dlabs use for pretty much everything from gaming
Permedia 2 chip, this card delivered excellent to CAD/CAM design.
We tested both the 4 MB and 8 MB verperformance on our benchmarks, and supports an impressive resolution of 1,600x1,200 sions, and noticed a substantial improvement
on the benchmarks when using the card with
at a refresh rate of 75 Hz.
the larger RAM base. The maximum RAM conThe L2300 is equipped
LeadTek figuration is a total of 16 MB, while the RAMwith 8 MB of SGRAM
DAC is available in both a 220 and 250 MHz
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to take anything you can throw
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The card has both a 2D and 3D
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chip onboard, each designed for a
gives you technical specs such as
the model number,RAM onboard,
specific task. The 2D engine consists of
controller type, etc. The Millennium II
the S3 ViRGE/DX chip, while the 3D part
is excellent for use at high resolutions
consists of the GLINT MX and GLINT Delta
Geometry Engine from 3Dlabs.
and color depths and offers a sharp, flicker-

The L2520 contains an 8 MB frame buffer free image. The AGP version should be availmade up of high-speed VRAM, as well as an able by the time you read this. If you' re lookadditional 16 MB local buffer made up of EDO ing for a no-nonsense solution for high resoDRAM.
The cards both support OpenGL and offer
great performance at low 2D resolutions, but
once you getinto 2D at 640x480, the S3
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issue with this card because its primary focus
is for 3D modeling and rendering, where it

lution graphics, this is the card you want.

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card was second only to the Millennium II. According street price of $160. Both cards offer excellent perforto the numbers we obtained, the Revolution 3D seems mance for the money, and should be considered
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D accel
eratorsincreaseframe ratesofani-

mations of polygon and texture-mapped

models (such as are employed in most
games). These accelerators also improve the
smoothness and 'other aspects of the visual
display (bi-linear filtering, Mip-mapping, colored lighting etc.) of textures and lighting
effects.
The 3DFX Voodoo chip is a popular choice
in add-on 3D cards such as the Orchid

6MB of 40ns EDORAM 4MB for 3D, and 2

MB for 2D). Like theothers mentioned here, it
adds on to your video card. It sells for around
US$175. The extra MB will help in games with
many texture maps (or large textures), which
includes most recent games..The P3D also has
a built-in SVHS TV output.
Pure 3D is expected to be available by the

animations as they download new textures to. and Millennium II. Rive-based cards support
the card "on the fly." Further, because the hardware accelerated Direct3D under Win95

graphics output from your ZD card is totally and hardware support for OpenGL under NT4
separated from the 3Dfx card, programmers (with service pack 3). Note, however, that

have had to resort to various tricks to draw 2D

cockpits with th e 3Dfx Voodoo chipset.
(Games such as EF2000 G+, Jetfighter 3,
Mercs, Terracide, Extreme Assault, Interstate
time you read this. Checkout httpJ/www.game- '76 etc., use 3D cockpits; Flying Corps,
center.corn or http: //www.canopuscorp.corn for Hellbender, Scorched Planet and ID4 have
details.
nicely implemented 2D cockpits).
. Monster 3D is probably the most widely
Games that offer GLIDE support are optiRighteous 3D and the Diamond Monster.3D. available model based on the 3DFX Voodoo mized for the 3Dfx chipset. the 3Dfx also
The 3Dfx (Voodoo) is considered by many to chipset. Like most other add~i accelerators, accelerates Direct3D, Microsoft's 3D standard.
be the best 3D accelerator for the current crop it uses a pass-through cable to interface with
Lastly, be aware that 3Dfx was demoing its
of games being released. For example, the your existing video card.
new Voodoo2 technology at the Fall Comdex
3Dfx is the top-performing accelerator for
Note that users of Flash, Monster and show in Las Vegas in November. Cards based
Quake II, although the Power VR chipset Real3D cards often report some signal degra- on this second-generation 3Dfx chipset are
comes ver c lose. Note, however, that the dation when using the ZD card in high reso- expected to be available by March. From what
Power VR lacks support for colored lightinglution and high refresh rates (like 1,024x768 we' ve seen, itmaybe
worth the wait.
this reduces the visual appeal of many games. at 85 Hz and up). This problem is reportedly
Indeed, dedicated PC garners are eagerly
For 3D gaming, our recommendation is to not hard to fix with a little soldering (the cul- awaiting the release of the 3DFX VoodooZ
get a 3DFX card with more than 2MB of tex- prit is apparently NOT the pass-through cable) chipset, which will empower a whole new
ture memory.
and is unlikely to affect users running at lower generation of statezf-the-art computer gamThe Diamond Monster 3D(3Dfx with 4MB resolutions or refresh rates.
ing. The Computer Papersaw demos of the
EDO RAM) is approximately as fast as the
It's also worth mentioning that consumer- Voodoo2 at the recent Fall Comdex and it' s
Orchid Righteous 3D, and both cards are gen- level 3D cards have limitations that make safeto say thiscard isapowerhouse.
erally considered to b e f aster- than the them less than ideal for professional 3D appliAlso popular are such cards as the STB
Realvision Flash3D, despite that card's fast cations. For example, the 3Dfx Voodoo cards
and other cards based on the powerRAM. Many garners say the Orchid card is the cannot accelerate 3D graphics in a window, ful Nvidea Riva chip. These cards offer better
best in its class.
and these cards (especially those with only 2 3D acceleration than cards optimized for 2D
. Also, look for Canopus' Pure 3D card with MB of texture memory) tend to slow down acceleration, such as the Matrox Millennium

Veloce

there are a few issues to be aware of:

OE M cards acquired as part of a PC from a
systems provider such as Dell, Micron,
Gateway, etc., often do not come with support from the graphics card manufacturer
and the cards sometimes do not come
with the bundled software that ships with
retail packages.

Some cards do not ship with OpenGL support under Win95 and, even if it is present, the drivers are sometimes of the mini malist variety sufficient only to r u n

games suchas GLQuake and not much

more.
Be sure to ask around and find out what

cards your PC gaming friends prefer. Matrox

or ATI cards, for example, are good examples
of cards well suited to business use, but not

ideally equipped for 3D garners. Similarly,

high-end 3D cards such as those based on the
GLINT chipset are better-suited to CAD and
rendering apps like 3D Studio MAX than
entertainment. As always, you need hardware
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TCO desktops, enters server

market

Seanix Technology Corp. has

made W i n d ow s NT
4.0
Workstation the standard operating system on its TCO line of
business desktop PCs. The business desktop line includes models
powered by processors up to a
300 MHz Pentium II, and are
available in a number of conflgurations and options such as
Ethernet cards. The TCO line also
ships with Intel LanDesk Client
Manager 3.0. Prices start at
$1,649.
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$6,999.
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IDC reports year of record
growth in IT service Industries
A new study released by Torontobased IDC Canada estimates that
the information. technology (IT)
services industry is in excellent
health with consumer and corporate external spending up 8.2 per
cent worldwide. The growth
boosts worldwide spending to yet
another record level of US$252
billion.
In the 1997 Worldwide and
Canadian IT Services Overview
Report,IDC estimates IT services in
Canada grew over 11 percent last
year, a rate almost three percent
higher than the global average.
Canadian IT services revenues
reached $11.5 billion in 1996.
The report investigates some
of the high-level industry drivers
that are shaping the IT services
industry, and presents the top 25
global services firms as well as the
top 10 Canadian firms. IDC
observed that the growth of systems integration spending finished the year below expectations, growing at 10.1 percent,
rather than the 15.3 percent
expected. In contrast, contract

programming is picking up at an
accelerated pace worldwide.
"Primarily, this is the result of
the demand for YZK [Year 2000]
conversion work, causing some
companies to reconsider starting
new projects, focusing instead on
fixing the clock problem," said
Continued on page$6

Wireless in the real world

TCP puts handheld communication combos to the test
that it is really hard not to want
one even if you don't really need
e've been hearing about
it. One of the real attractions of the
the "wireless revolution" handheld computer connected to a involve any kind of handheld com- Nokia 9000i is what you might call
for about 10 years now, cellular phone using a standard puter. It's a "souped-up" telephone the "James Bond" factor (although
but until recently it seemed a very Internet email service provider.
k nown a s t he No k i a 9 0 0 0 i the machine made its movie debut
long way off. Come the revolution,
Each of these solutions meets a Communicator that can act as a in last year's Bond rival The Saint).
we would all be able to make wire- need, while requiring a willingness standard PCS
When you
less voice and data calls cheaply and to live with a certain set of compro- digital phone
first see it, this
m ach i n e
easily with handheld devices that mises. Some are easier to use, others as well as a
looks like any ordinary
would let us keep in touch as much are more expensive. A couple of
personal digPCS telephone, except
. as we wanted.
these solutions are well-suited to a ital assistant
that it's a little fatter
The theory was great (except, "fleet" of mobile systems used by a (PDA) with
and a little longer
perhaps, for the notion that we all corporation, while others are better b u i l t - i n
want to keep in touch all the time), designed for use by individual pro- email, Web
than most. There are
but the handheld computer tech- fessionals or self-employed people.
b rows i n g ,
the standard telenology was just not up to the job.
And, if you want to go wireless text processphone keys and a
small screen to show the numMeanwhile, much of the world' s with your data, but don't like the ing, contact manwireless data communications infra- idea or the cost of an integrated agement, scheduling, short message ber you have dialed.
structure was still under construc- option, you may instead want to service (SMS), and fax capabilities.
The phone fits in the average
tion and where it did exist was look at a number of notebook PC
p ocket and i s s m aller t han a
Although at $1,500, it is not
difficult to interface to handheld and h andheld c o mputer-based cheap by mobile telephone stan- Windows CE or Psion handheld
computers.
options fo r a c hieving w i reless dards, it is just so compact, neatly computer (although a little thicker).
Well, now it is here, it works and Nirvana.
designed and 'beautifully integrated
Continued on page 70

BY GEOF WHEELWRIGHT

it is available in a number of forms.

This story, for example, has been
sent to its destination via a low-cost

Scenario 1: Nokia 90001

The ultimate in handheld data communications these days does not

Businesses need
communications
system policies
Part I: risks and liabilities
B Y B RA D

FREEDMAN

odern c o m munications
systems present exciting
new possibilities and challenges. In m an y r espects, the
Internet, intranets, email, and vmail
(voice mail) are changing business
methods, increasing productivity
and profitability, agd fostering a
transnational economy. Not surprisingly, these same technologies also

establishes policies and guidelines

for proper system use.

Comm
lmeations
system
defined

An effective and comprehensive

communications system p o licy
should apply to ail communications
system components, including the
Internet, intranets, electronic mail,
present business and legal chal- and voice mail.
lenges that many tend to overlook.
The Internet: The Internet is the
Communications system misuse global network of computer netcan reduce productivity and prof- works that can be used to transfer
itability, impose significant addi- electronic files, remotely access
tional costs, and result in costly liti- other computers, and send and
gation and substantial legal liabili- receive email and other electronic
ties. Every business should address data. The World Wide Web is the
these concerns by adopting a writ- best known and most widely used
ten policy that educates users and portion of the Internet. The Web's

popularity is due in large part to the

graphical, interactive and userfriendly nature of its point-and-click
interface, and the relative ease with
which one may establish a Web site.
Intranets: Intranets are closed
computer n e t w orks t h a t use
Internet technology, including the
Web-style point-and<lick interface,

to provide the same data-transfer

functionality as the Internet.
Email and Vmail: Electronic mail

is an immensely popular and

incredibly useful communications
tool. For many organizations email
has replaced both i nternal and
external telephone and paper comContinued on page 71

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Small Business Computing

Wireless ln the real world

moment that they usually gasp a little.

Continued from page6ff

tor. There's even a little music composition

You quickly 'discover that with this inte-

standard infrared wireless data communica-

application to let you compose your own ring tions connection and software that allows you
There is a small clasp along one side of the grated phone, keyboard and screen, you can tunes. You' ll know your phone is ringing to move data back and f o rth b etween
phone, however, and when you press it, the
phone flips open to reveal a full-width LCD
screen, a QWERTY keyboard, several function
keys along the top of the keyboard and several more on either side of the screen. When
you show the phone to anyone, this is the

use it to send and receive faxes transmissions,

email and short messages as well as access
Internet services and corporate and public
databases.
Other applications indude an electronic
calendar, address book, notepad and calcula-

when it's the only one in a crowded room to

be playing Smoke on the Water.
And you don't have to rely on using the
phone line to get i nformation from the

.Communicator and your desktop or notebook

PC.
And then there's the price. In Canada, the
Nokia 9000i Communicator is sold $1,500
Communicator to your desktop PC. The (plus tax) by Microcell Solutions Inc. for use
Communicator comes with a built-in IrDAContinued on page7$
George Jetson's banfr account
Continued from page$6

were especially unhappy" ,They were using a

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their home or office PCs and yet they were

stuck having to re-key every item on their
bank statement when connected to their
financial institution. All that, just to be able
to do a little analysis of spending, debts or
equity.
Intuit, the maker of Quicken, saw this and
developed OFE (Open Financial Exchange) in
cooperation with M i crosoft. This meant
financial institutions could export to a standard file type, OFE, and any financial program
that was written to import such a file could do
so. Great, except that is was not automatic
and quite a bit of a hassle.
So Intuit came up with QIF (Quicken
Import Format), which improves the whole
process in a number of ways. Essentially it
makes reconciliation between Quicken and
your bank automatic. With a commanding
installed base of users, they were able to convince mbanx, CIBC,Canada Trust,TD and
Scotia McLeod to use QIF. This means users of
the new Quicken 98 who bank with one of
those five institutions can have their bank
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Trust, Toronto Dominion, Scotia McLeod,

VanCity Savings, Citizens, and Royal.
Some of these have more than one type of
access and most offer more than one service.
Of those, only mbanx, CIBC, Canada
Trust, TD, and Scotia McLeod are ready to
work with Quicken 98's QIF standard. Some
offer account access and data, a few both
account and Visa downloads and, at time of
writing, only Scotia McLeod used Quicken 98
as the interface for e-trading.
Whether a bank or credit union has yet
joined the movement towards integration of
high-quality personal financial software and
the bank's records is not crucial, only nice. In
any event, if you have ever sat in your den,

and at your convenience, been able to look at

current electronic bank statements, or even
move that money around,you know that

online banking will soon be part of our everyday lives.

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70
with its Fido PCS network You' ll also need to

pay $50 for the "smart" SIM card needed to

connect to the Fido network, along with a $48

annual fee (which appears on your first bill).

The only additional charge is your air time,
which is sold for either $20 per month for 100
minutes or $40 per month for 400 minutes.
These minutes relate to local calls, with a
surcharge made for long distance calls as well
as calls over the amount allowed on a given
play (i.e., either the 100 or 400 minutes).

need a "black box" from Motorola that fits

between the Motorola cellular phone and the
modem by supplying the phone with an standard RJ11 telephone socket (into which you
can also plug in fax machines or another
other standard telephone devices). We paid
$350 for ours, but you may find one more
cheaply. And then there's the cellphone itself,
which with many cellphone service contracts

comes "free" in exchange for you signing a the Nokia system (although only the Series 5
three-year use agreement for airtime.
By the time you add taxes onto all of
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keyboard is a step beyond what you can get on

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(including a good word-processor, spreadsheet
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application) and there is a much broader
range of third-party software and add-ons.
Continued on page84

Dial-up Account
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on to a mail service in the United Kingdom
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Nokia uses the GEOS operating system
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email message can be found in numerous

locations, including the desktop computers,
email servers and back-up systems of the
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computer to overwrite the "deleted" data.

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munications. Email can be used to quickly
retrieved. A lso, email may be routinely
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including the Internet. Voice mail (veice rnes- used to facilitate the email transmissian.
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breach of confidentiality obligations, trade
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Internet connectivity that permits outsiders to
access system computers presents a security
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as it travels across the Internet.
Internet access can be a distraction that
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record who created it, when and to whom it
was sent, and in some cases when it was
received and read. Under Canadian law, email
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benefits and risks as email. Vmail messages
can be saved, recorded or transcribed, and
used as evidence. Although users tend to be Kriterprtse Rabllttles
more careful with vmail messages than with Businesses may bear direct or vicarious liabiliemail, they still may not be as careful as they ty for the misuse of their communications sys-

ought to be.

misconduct committed while acting within

the scope of employment. In certain circumstances employers can bear criminal liability
for employee conduct.
Communications system misconduct can
also result in embarrassing negative publicity
for the user and his or her organization. One
tem. Under Canadian common law, employ- factor that contributes to the risk of employer
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employer-provided email addresses that cont ain
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kinds of liability, including defamation, tangible property rights infringement (including
unauthorized access to other computer systems and data), intellectual property rights
infringement, and numerous employmentrelated claims (i.e. hostile work environment,

harassment, discrimination, human rights

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Srnallll Business Computing

Canadian CIos fear Internet intrusion

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' When asked if their systems were penetrated via the Internet last year, 64 percent of

world"s highest rates of Internet connectlvity,

the study shows. Eighty percent of Canadian

The survey also finds that 81 percent of

Canadian respondents would increase their

ORONTO (NB)
Forty-four percent of

Canadian respondents didn't know. Despite respondents offer employees access to the use of the Internet for financial transactions if

Canada's chief information officers

World Wide Web, compared to 50 percent

the prevalent use of firewalls in Canada, this

(CIOs) believe their organizafions are lack of certainty could be due in part to thenot prepared to defend themselves from external attacks over their computer networks,
according to an internafional survey released

in December.
Even more, 69 percent, admit they believe
they are vulnerable to internal attack by dis-

gruntled employees, and 87 percent of

Canadian respondents feel security risks have
increased over the last two years.
Canadian respondents to the Ernst Er

Ibung/CIOCanada Information Seciafty Sravzy

showed a higher than average level of concern
for their companies' security than respon-

Canadian companies are much more willing than

their interrrational colleagues to allow third-party
access to their networks. They see the benefits of ~
granting network access to customers, suppliers,
and consultants

The higher level of c oncern from

"Canadian companies are much more

willing than their international colleagues to
allow third-party access to their networks,
They see the benefits of granting network
access to customers, suppliers, and consul-

dents aren't monitoring their Internet connections at all. There might be seriaus holes in
their firewalls, but if they don't monitor and
test their connections they would have no

way of knowing that."

"There's no 'quick.fix,'" Fournier said.
"Human resources is one area where a lot of
improvement can be made. Security is often

employee awareness,38 percent said lack of

human resources, and 27 percent cited lack of
budget. The most significant difference for
C anadian respondents was i n
hu m a n
resources, identified by 61 percent as the
greatest obstacle, indicating "brain drain"the lass of Canadian information technology
talent to other countries is indeed a serious

challenge for most Canadian companies.

4,322 respondents fram 29 countries. There

were 153 Canadian survey participants,

Krnst gr Young is an accountancy and con-

Securing the Net for commerce

Of the 58 million North American Internet users, 30 milhon were online in the past 24
hours, according to CommerceNet and Nielsen Media Research, The fall 1997 study also
suggests 26 percent of the total population of Narth America (59 million) is using email.

VAth that many people on the Internet, what da you think is top most in the minds of
businesses? You guessed it making money. And what is the greatest impediment to doing
business on the Net? Security.
In the last few years various players have been working toward a solution to this problem. But it has only been in the last few months that any real consensus has been reached.

Now, almost everyone has settled on the SKT standard and business on the Internet is
poised to explode.
Secure Electronic Transaction (SKT) is a joint MasterCard-Visa standard that has been

created with help from Microsoft, IBM, Netscape, GTK, VeriSign and others. It uses the SSL
(secure sockets layer) system that is found in browsers to give users a transparent, encrypted transfer of information. The standard is much more detailed and complex than this, but

in a nutshell, SKT makes it safe to use your credit card online.

In December, seven European banks announced support for SKT, South Africa is strongly supporting the standard. Canada's Royal Bank supports SKT and says it is the largest digital certification authority in Canada having recently issued its 10,000 public key certificate.
PuMic keys are one component of the system. Registration of businesses and individuals
through their banks is one of the key security measures of the standard. Others include 128bit encryption and validation functions.
VAith giants like Mcrosoft and IBM, Netscape and the credit card companies all on one
side, it looks like secure Net mmmerce is finally becoming a reafity.Rod Camirand

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This year marked the first time survey respondents came fmim outside North America, with

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Krnst gr Young's Information Systems added.
Assurance and Advisory Services in Toronto.
When asked to identify the greatest obsta"But it's a bit of a double-edged sword, cles to information security, 35 percent of the
because the more open the system, the more global' survey respondents cited lack of
vulnerable it is. Coupled with the proliferation of client/server networks and widespread
Internet access, today's CIO is asked to ma,nage a great deal of risk."
The fears are not unfounded, Thirteen percent of Canadian respondents reported a
financial loss of at least $100,000 dug to a
breach of systems security last year, while 52
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compared to 42 peasant globally.

The survey was conducted last sununer.

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ety of technology used, wider Internet access, installed correctly and tested on a regular
and the greater number of third parties grant- basis, firewalls can be an extreme1y effective
ed access to computer networks, Kmst gr security tool. But half of the survey responYoung's Mare Fournier said, adding that figures from American respondents are stfil
being tabulated.

As for testing, only 33 percent of Canadian

respondents have actually tested their plan,

tion security services to the clients, Fournier

the study. Only 39 percent af global respon-

Canadian respondents is likely due to the vari-

Canadian respondents have a formal business

continuity plan (disaster recovery plan), compared to 55 percent globally.

Eckhardt Xriel, of Emst 6r Young sultancy firm providing a variety of informa-

dents from the other 28 countries included in

dents felt their organizations were vulnerable
to external attack, while 59 percent globally
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stitutional protection against unreasonable

search and seizure by government or those
acting on its behalf.
It is an i n dictable offence under the
Canadian Criminal Code to wilfully intercept
a private oral communication or atelecommunication,a which includes any transmission of
writings or intelligence of any' nature by wire,
radio, visual or other electro-magnetic system.

Continuedfrom page 76
privacy to which a person is entitled is that
which is reasonable in the circumstances.
Under the Privacy Act, consensual conduct is
not an invasion of privacy.
Some Canadian courts have suggested that
there is a common law right to privacy. The
Charter of Rights and Freedoms provides con-

The crime is not committed, however, if the

c ommunication is i n t ercepted with t h e
express or implied consent of the originator of
the communication or any person intended
by the originator to receive it.
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and particularly Internet access, can be acaptiva'ting distraction that can reduce user productivity. Also, communications system abuse
and misuse can drain system resources,
degrade system performance and threaten system integrity.

A clear and Comprehensive written policy, pre-

pared with proper technical and legal advice,

can enhance the benefits and reduce the risks
of a communications system, and protect the
organization and its users. Part II of this article, to be published in an upcoming edition of
The Computer Paper, will discuss the creation
and implementation of a communications

system policy. 0
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The fact that this kind of system is "cobbled together" also cuts both ways. While you
need to take more physical stuff with you
when you head out of the house with a
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down the batteries of the machine while
doing email and then not having enough

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power left to make phone calls. On a combined unit, there is only one battery to serve
both needs and it gets drained no matter what

you are doing,

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It does not carry with it the complication

or expense of real-time wireless email, but it
does allow you to use time away from your
desktop or notebook computer to reply to
messages, in the sure knowledge that your
replies can be zooming through cyberspace to
their intended destination within seconds of
you arriving back at your Windows-based PC.
After using this for several days as a way of
getting email replies done while travelling on
the SeaBus between Vancouver and North
Vancouver, or while waiting to pick up my
children from school, it seemed a really effective way of getting something useful done at
times that would have otherwise been spent
in less productive ways.
You must, however, be able to function
without a keyboard for this option to be an
e ffective a l ternative. T h e P a l m P i l o t
Professional provides a form of handwriting

t wo AA batteries that are built into t h e

modem).
On Windows CE systems that use PC Card
modems, the batteries within the'CE device
must also power the modem, meaning power
can drain from them pretty quickly.
recognition (by using Graffiti shorthand) and
All in all, Psion's Series 3c with PsiMail .will also allow you to tap text into it using an
and the Psion Travel Modem (or its Series 5 on<creen keyboard. Neither would be great
with free messaging and browsing software for iong documents, but they are quite adeand the same modem) is a good solution to quate if you just want to dash off a few email
use with a standard analog cellular phone. replies that can be sent when you get back to
The software is pretty solid, the applications . your desktop or notebook computer.
are very capable and the system actually
seems to work unlike many wireless solu- Scersarlo 4: InfoWeve wireless
tions that seem a good deal more "flaky" than If you want to go wireless in a more organized
many people would generally be comfortable and corporate fashion, then you may want to
with.
look at an option incorporating Burnaby,
B.C.-based Infowave's technology. It is a wireScenario 3: Polmp'llot serrli-wireless
less data communications system that relies

The

3 C om/US on sending and receiving data using radio

R obotics P a l m
Pilot Professional
offers an interesting alternative to
wireless data communication. I t ' s
based o n
th e
n otion o f w h a t

technology running over the Cantel radio

network in C anada and th e RAM/Ardis
mobile data network in the United States.
It requires that you have a radio-based link

into and out of your corporate email system

and provides server and client interfaces for

Lotus cc:mail, Microsoft Exchange and

Microsoft Outlook. There are also Windows

CE 1.0 clients, with a Windows 2.0 client
" just- i n - t i m e "
under development at press time.
data communicaOnce you have the server link to the radio
tion. The Palm
network established, the basis of the system is
Pilot Professional quite simple, On your laptop or Windows CE
comes with built-in email software that will
2.0 handheld, you simply attach a wireless
allow you to send and receive email should radio PC data card, which can then be used to
you want to spend money on the optional access the radio data network from most
Pahn Pilot modem.
major cities in North America for sending and
Perhaps more importantly, however, the receiving electronic mail.
Palm Pilot Professional includes synchronizaThe system has severaladvantages over
tion software that allows you to download analog or PCS digital phone-based email
copies all of the text messages that have come access systems. The major advantage is that
into your Microsoft Exchange or Microsoft the mail system is "always on" and when mail
Outlook Inbox on your desktop or notebook is received, it is simply forwarded on from
computer. This allows you to read the mes- your corporate server to your notebook or
sages while you are out of the office and use handhepd computer. Similarly, outgoing mail
the Pilot to write replies to those messagesis forwarded from the mobile computer via
and then send the messages when you return the radio network to the company's server
and out to its destination.
to your desktop or notebook computer.

you might call

The really cool thing about this is that

Canada sonly CO'lllplit8r IIIIISSIIIII

have a few minutes here or there to use the

Pilot on the bus or while sitting in trafficthen this find of facility could be a huge time-

The only real disadvantage of the

sending the replies composed on the Pilot is

very simple. You only need to to stick the Pilot
in its docking cradle and press the synchronize button. The transfer software will find
any new message replies that you have written using the Pilot and will immediately send
them via whatever email service you have on

Infowave system is that it does not currently '

your desktop or notebook computer.

corporate email for mobile employees,

If you are someone who is running around

all day from meeting to meeting and will

Infowave seems a great solution that should

offer any form of Web access. If you need

wireless Web browsing, you' ll still need to
look at a solution that goes out over the
phone line to connect to a traditional ISP.
But for corporations that need to provide
reliable, effective and broadly based access to

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year, you are

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to your business and

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should maintain a mileage log book to

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or other eligible purposes. For example,

some good profession-

30 percent on your car and deduct the

appropriate portion each year from

al strategic tax advice,

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taxes and gratuity) relating to promotion

taking a prospective or existing customer
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cars and use one exclusively for business,

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income. Make. sure you obtain insurance

cent of that cost.
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of small business and home business owners
ness usage. The additional premium is 100
relatives or others to perform work for
leave a lot more on the table than they need
percent deductible.
your firm are all deductible expenses.
to. Keep two overriding principals in mind.
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You need the money more than Revenue
niture, computer hardware and software,
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Canada and if you don't adopt a pro-active
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life of the asset.
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the latter case, the other 50 percent could
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', HARDWARE
Prevalent among these extras are keys for
direct control over your multimedia onebutton launching of the CD-ROM and Video
players plus the standard controls for FF, REW,
PLAY, PAUSE, and STOP. Separate keys control
VOLUME (up and down) and MUTE, as well
as closing down the whole multimedia operation. In addition, one button automatically
launches your Web browser, wliile another
accesses a programmable utility for customizing the other buttons,
The Airboard software will also project a

functioning image of all the hot keys'onto the

screen. However, since these keys are right at
your fingertips, this seems gratuitous at best.
Pointer control is comfortably built into
the upper right-hand corner of the Airboard
and works like a miniature thumb~perated
joystick. Left and Right buttons are appropriately placed and a third button is strategically
situated to accommodate dragging and dropping. My quibble here is that the little joystick
is extremely difficult to control with any
degree of accuracy, so it becomes a frustrating
exercise to site the pointer directly above any
specific location.
Notwithstanding that disappointment,
the wealth of features incorporated into the
Airboard, in combination with its confident
construction, makes this an almost ideal piece
of hardware for those who look forward to
pampering their busy fingers.
However, it is the wireless aspect of the
Airboard that separates it from other high~alibre boards.
The Airboard hookup simply requires that
you attach a somewhat bulky IR receiving
unit t o y o u r c o m puter simultaneously
through the PS/2 mouse port and your regular
keyboard connector. Unfortunately, if you
have a 9-pin serial and/or an AT keyboard
connector (those are the large ones), you wN
have to buy adapters for either or both
because none come in the box.
Once physically connected, however, it
takes no time at all to install the drivers and
utilities, restart your machine and be wirelessly typing and pointing in minutes.
The unit requires four AA batteries (also
not included) and will operate at wide angles
of up to 60 degrees from the receiving unit
and from up to 6 9 m (23 ft.) away (really!...
though you' ll need a sharp-eyed assistant to
confirm it).

SurfNate Wireless Keyboard

accessed by simultaneously pressing the FN

key.
Regrettably, I found the "double duty"
keys and small keypad size to be unfortunate
design decisions because, otherwise, the
SurfMate would be a reasonable wireless keyboard choice. It's handsome, light, and works
immediately well without any fuss. Setting
up the SurfMate is as a easy as plugging a

slender (read: tippy) receiving unit into your

mouse and keyboard connectors and rebooting the computer. There are no special drivers
or software. The SurfMate simply takes over
your standard keyboard and pointer duties
sans cords. But, where the keyboard and
mouse cords aren't missed, little folding feet
on the bottom of the SurfMate are. Another
minor beef is that the numeric keypad is

embedded.

Further to curious design, the built-in

pointer is a pivoting thumb pad in the upper
right-hand comer that is easily mastered for
accurate pointer control, However, while the
right-side mouse button is placed directly
under the thumb pad on the right of the
SurfMate, the "primary" left-side button is
way over in the upper left-hand corner (near
the ESC key). Though not an actual flaw, this
does take some getting used to because it
amounts to two-fisted mouse operationright hand moves pointer, left hand clicks.
More toward the plus side, however, U.S.
Electronics considerately provides adapters for
both the mouse and keyboard hookups to
accommodate those 9-pinperial ports and AT
keyboard connectors, and they throw in your
first set of four AA batteries!
The SurfMate literafure, such as it is, touts
an operating distance of 13.5 m (45 ft.) but,
since the furthest distance I could achieve
without leaving my apartment is 7.5 m (25
ft.), we' ll just have to assume the total is accurate because I had no problems at all... except
seeing the monitor.
ScrollPoint Blouse
From: 18MCanadaLtd.
Estimated street price: $105 {grey)/$92 (pearl)
The first thing one might notice about the
ScrollPoint mouse is that it looks just like a
regular (albeit quite handsome) two-button
mouse but with one of those little knobby
sticks officially called TrackPoint between
the buttons. Hitherto they' ve only been found
in the centre of ThinkPad notebook key-

boards.

From: U.S. Electronics Components Corporation

Estimated street price: $180
Our other wireless keyboard constitutes
almost a diametric opposite to the Airboard
(above). First, it incorporates that wrist-rest
<egion that I personally would rather do withouh Second, though the key layout and travel
are fine and similar to that of my desktop,
notebook and A i rboard keyboards, U.S.
Electronics has inexplicably elected to shrink
the whole set-up by about 20 percent! AII my
other keyboards measure 28 cm (11 in.) across
while the SurfMate measures 24 cm (9.5 in.).
Fine for those of refined prestidigitation, but
anyone with fingers even remotely resem-

But it's that knobby TrackPoint button

that separates the ScrollPoint from other, normal mice because it's the means to operating
several very useful new utilities.
The first of these is a Zoom and Data Zoom
feature that lets you move in (or out) of your
document in much the same way as the print
preview function of your word processor. You
can see an entire page or zoom in on specific
portions by simply holding down the CTai,
key or the Smear key while pushing the "stick"
forward or back.
Anothe useful u t i l it y i s o n e -touch
scrolling, with which you can manually scroll
from anywhere in a document without havbling German sausage will be hard pressed to ing to click those frustrating scroll bars. It' s

get through even a single sentence without done by simply pushing the TrackPoint up
typos.
I suppose in aid of accommodating the

shrinkage, we have a 79-key board here

because several keys do double duty as AU/,
PcDN, HOMe and ENn (plus F11 and F12 are

alternates to Fl and F2), all of which have to be

and down or side to side. Directly related is a

feature called autoscrolling in which you program the stick during setup to initiate a continuous scroll at adjustable speed until you

stop it yourself.
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etc.) or in your Internet application (e.g.,

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For the rest of it, the ScrollPoint remains a

one serious limitation: the Zoom, Data Zoom,

Scroll, AutoScroll, Hyperjump and Cyberiump
features that is, all the specialities will only
function from within Microsoft Office 97compatible applications. Otherwise, at least at
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jumping as well as to common commands but started and stopped by dicking down on the
through an entirely different means than that wheel which can also function as a third butemployed by IBM's ScrollPoint.
ton. To go horizontal you "click" the wheel
Instead of a rubber stick, Microsoft"s two- and move, the whole mouse sideways as a
button mouse is distinguished from its peers unit; Zoom and Data Zoom are easily initialby a rubber wheel situated between the but- ed by pushing the CTRL or Smvr key in conjunction with rolling the wheei. Internet
navigation similarly has you clicking and
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poirit because they can boast a myriad of software packages from companies such as
Microsoft, Micrografx, Netscape, Intergraph,
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that will recognize this mouse. According to
M icrosoft's c urrent p r ess b u m ff , th e
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from 22 different publishers. A representative

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coming "on board" all the time.
Microsoft also makes a companion prod-

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but from a stationary position. The ball is a
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right of the trackball directly under the natur-

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than mice, the IntelliMouse TrackBall is
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Sound solutions, Part I

A computer music and audio hardware primer ~
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B Y GRAEME BEN N ET T
or a musician who is just starting to think
about adding a computer to the studio or
home recarding setup, there are many
questions: Mac or PC? What sound card? In
this article, we will attempt to answer these
and other important questions. In the Part II
of this feature, to be presented in an upcoming issue, will detail recent and forthcoming
developments in music software.
Indeed, many future possibilities depend
on the hardware yau base your computer
music system on. Thus, our first discussion is
about the computer. We' ve successfully used
both Windows PCs and Macs, so if you have a
preference for one or the other, you are not
like(y to be duappainted. With that said, however, there are different advantages to each

lifestyle choice more than anything else,

Fortunately, there are some more substantial reasons why the Mac is a good choice
for musical applications, More on that later.
If, however, you choose to use a PC, we
do not recommend Windows 3. 1 or
Windows NT for rnusicai applications,
unless the software you want to use runs
best on either of these OSes (and there are
a few cases where it does). In fact, choosing the software you want to run first, and
then getting the computer system that
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Overall, Windows 95, with its robust

multimedia architecture and braad applica-

Wavelab,

tion and hardware support, is the best choice

For musical applications, a Pentiumwrplatform. Here is asummary of our findings.

for Intel or compatible PCs, It's also worth better processor, 166 MHz or faster is recommentioning that the Cyrix 686 series of mended, along with a fast SCSI hard disk,
Pentium compatible chips is not an ideal (Better still is a system with two SCSI hard
Computer and OSconaldertstlona
First let us note that platform choices are, choice for many musical applications. In fact, disks, with one dedicated to your temporary
above all else, a personal preference. We' ve a Cyrix 6x86MX chip that is supposedly audio files.) A chip with MMX enhancements
asked people why they prefer the Mac for equivalent to a 200 MHz Pentium with MMX is worthwhile, although many of the leading
music and some have replied "...because that' s actually performs more like a 120 MHz
sequencers and audio applications are not yet
what Trent Reznor uses." Many creative peo- Pentium when running floating-point inten- MMX enhanced. For example, Steinberg's
ple, ,it seems, prefer the Mac, often as a sive applications such as Cubase VST or low-end audio-and-MIDI sequencing app,

Cubasis
AV, is MMX
enhanced; the
high-end Cubase UST
3.5 is not.
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may or may not be worth the extra money it
costs. While Cubase VST for the Mac supports
Mac systems with multiple processors, the
Windows 95 version does not and, at least at
this point, Cubase VST is not designed for
Windows NT. The company says an NT version with multiprocessing support is forthcoming. However, other programs may be
able to make good use of a multiprocessor system running Windows NT, Steinberg's

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Today's high-end music programs demand
serious processor power. Indeed, we tested the

WaveLab 1.6, for example, is designed to take general, we'd recommend at least 32 MB of
advantage of dual Pentium or Pentium Pro RAM.
CPUs and, according to the company, processMac users should most definitely go with a
es exactly twice as fast on a dual-CPU system Power PC-based Mac, preferably with the
as it does on a single-CPU. At any rate, you newer PCI bus architecture. Some older
should not put too much trust in "minimum
PowerMacs used what was known as "NuBus"
requirements." An application might say it
for their expansion slots; while some sound
runs on a 100 MHz Pentium with 16 MB of cards were (and are still) available for NuBus;
RAM, but it will be a lot more pleasant and they offered lower performance and are now

ably faster than the Mac in screen redraws and

general responsiveness. However, on closer
same programs
Cubase VST and Logic Audio examination, we found the PC version sufon machines of comparable CPU performance fered from serious timing problems: the
on both platforms. We used a Power PC 603e- metronome was quite erratic when playing
based PowerBook 5300 as one of our test back MIDI files with several channels, or
Macs, and a 90 MHz Pentium-based Compaq MIDI-plus-audio combinations. Interestingly,
LTE 5100 for our PC. Both machines had 24 the older Cubase 3.05 for 16-bit Windows
MB of RAM. Subjectively, the application per- (which works under Win95 or NT), also
less readily available than the PCI alternatives. formance was much better on the PC noticeshipped on the Cubase VST CD-ROM, did not
exhibit these timing problems. Steinberg's
technical support page has infd' on timingrelated issues, but nevertheiess, it shows that
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card that handles virtually aII Windows MIDI
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with this card an encouraging sign.

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solution for the musician on the go. However,
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limited choices in MIDI interfaces and internal sound capabilities.
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should be considered the absolute minimum.
Get more if possible. You' ll have to manually

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<,HARDWARE
configure your Mac apps to use the extra

more highly evolved on the Mac platform (the consider getting a "TX" motherboard that

memory, but it's worth it. (Windows 95 sys-

best of the bunch.)

Mac version of Logic Audio, for example, can supports the latest "Ultra IDE" hard drives
handle twice as many tracks of audio data as (sometimes called "Ultra ATA"), or better yet,

Bear in mind, also, that because the

AWE64 is a newer card, you ar'e more likely to

tems do not need to manually configure

memory allocations; the OS does it automati-

cally. However, some applications, st:h as

Steinberg's Cubase VST 3.5, inay provide an
option to further optimize cache settings.)
Because several popular Mac music titles use

copy-protected disks, and Mac OS 8 does not

support this form of disk protection, we do

not recommend that OS for use with titles

such as CubaseVST.and older Steinberg applications, DigiDesign SoundDesigner 2.82 or
earlier, etc. See Apple's Tech Info Library arti-

cle 30149 at http://Ill.info, apple.corn/ for more

info on problems with Mac OS 8 and copyprotected music applications.
Overall, we'd characterize the Mac as
somewhat better for high-end users due to its
broad support for "device profiles" courtesy of
Opcode's OMS software, which has become
the standard for that platform. Indeed, the
majority of the "Studio Pro" books on the
racks at music stores tend to feature Mac software and hardware solutions in their examples a tribute to the affinity many professional creative people have for the Mac. you'll
find Macs in many professional studio environments, where a sound card with digital I/O
and a high-end Power Mac is an investment
that pays off, an d s o ftware tools t i ke
Steinberg's Cubase VST, Emagic's Logic Audio

its Windows sibling). However, we find

spend a few hundred more and go with a pair find compatibility problems. For example, in

Apple's stubborn reliance on the one-button

mouse to make some operations unnecessarily difficult on the Mac. Cubase, for example,
uses the left and right mouse buttons for
selecting tools and setting loop points on the
PC-easier than the Mac Control-, Commandand Option+lick equivalents.
PCs, in general, tend to cost less, have a
better selection of MIDI and audio-related
software and can use a much larger variety of
high-quality sound cards. (PCs also deliver
more MIDI playback options trom Iow-end

of AV-class SCSI drives. Most experts recornmend saving your audio data onto a separate
drive from the one your OS is on for maximum performance, It is also prudent to
"defragment" your hard drives frequently.

sound cards.) ln general, we' ve seen better

timing accuracy and fewer hardware-related

problems from properly configured Macs;

we' re sure there are PC users who can say the
exact opposite and Macs are less likely to
need the fiddling that typically accompanies
the installation and configuration of a new
piece of h ardware on a W i n dows PC.
However, as mentioned earlier, we' ve had
some difficulties on the Mac with crashes, serial port problems and timing glitches. Desktop
Mac systems with a 604 of 604e processor, OS
7,6 or 7.6.1, and plenty of RAM should minimize these problems.
At any rate, on both PC and MaAystems,
an "AV" class SCSI hard drive is the best

and Opcode's OMS (etc.) can help manage choice; a good SCSI or EIDE drive is also adequate for all but the most demanding taL.

complex MIDI and audio hardware setups.

Also, because Macs have been popular with
musicians longer than PCs have, some titles,
such as Pro Tools and Logic, continue to b

We' ve had good results with our Maxtor

DiamondMax, an irrexpensive S.I GB EIDE
drive. Those buying a new PC system should

t he S t e inberg m e ssage s e ction of

CompuServe's MIDI Vendor Forum C, a
thread of messages describes some solutions to
compatibility problems with the AWE64 and
Cubase Audio. Although the problems are
solvable, one user wrote, "...I previously had

PC soundcards
an AWE32 [and had] no problems; I am regretThere are essentially two categories of PC ting buying the 64 now."
sound cards: those that support Windows
Multimedia audio+MIDI, and those that are
audio (or audio+digital I/O) only. First, let"s
look at the multimedia, "do-it-all" type.
Professional computer-using studio buffs

The good news is, the AWE64's S/N ratio is

dramatically improved over earlier models,
and its wavetable sounds and built-in digital
effects are not bad, considering its Iow price.
Best of a l l , i t o f f ers a d i g ital o u tput
typically scoff at low-end sound cards such as (unbuffered S/P-DIF) and provides unsurthe Creative Labs line of Sound Blaster cards passed compatibility with applications, both
for PCs, and point to the poor signal-to-noise musical and mainstream including games,
ratios and limited I'idelity of these cards. In However, earlier Sound Blaster cards, includgeneral,
we agree:there are certain drawbacks ing the popular and decent-sounding AWE32,
to be aware of with Creative Labs cards. For are not such a good choice for serious musical
starters, the way "full-duplex" audio has been applications. Their main problem occurs
implemented is limited. Basically, if the soft- when working with what is known as "fullware "WaveSynth" drfver is activated, you can duplex" audio. Briefly, full-duplex audio
only hear 8-bit playback while you record. means being able to record while you are playFortunately, the recording is in full 16-bit
ing back essential for efficient multi-track
fidelity. Thus, a Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold recording. In other words, half-Duplex means
card is an acceptable choice for casual audio that a card/driver is only capable of simultaprojects and games -but serious musicians neously processing audio signals in one direcmight regret the investment despite its very tion, i.e. either recording or playback. Fullattractive price,
duplex drivers allow simultaneous recording
(Different models in the Sound Biaster and playback While software drivers are availfamily of cards vary in their specs and signal- able from htipJ/www.creaf.corn to essentially
to-noise characteristics. The AWE64 Gold and fool Sound Blaster 16 and 32 cards into behavthe Sound Blaster 32 PNP are considered the ing like full-duplex cards, you are better
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Layla series of inexpensive and full-featured
PCI sound cards offers 20-bit recording and

full-duplex operation, The low-end Darla card

($430) lacks the digital I/O features of the

$630 Gina and $1,395 Layla models. I.ayla
also include's MIDI I/O and through ports. We
tested the Darla. It plugged and played easily
and was very, very quiet. It doesn't do much
other than record audio and play it back, but
it does that exceedingly weII. Note that, until
Event releases ASIO drivers, the card suffers
Turtle Beach Fiji and Pinnacle cards are from a lag between record and playback when
very highly regarded in terms of S/N ratio used with Cubase VST with monitoring on.
Also highly recommended is the Digital
(many Pinnacle owners seem to grumble
about the card"s software drivers, though, and Audio Labs Card D-plus (Full-duplex mode
timing complaints from Pinnacle owners are requires driver version 3.0).
Some dealerssay they have been having
showing up in the Steinberg VST discussion
forums), although you will also need a Sound good results from the emagic Audiowerks card
Blaster card if you want Sound Blaster com- originally designed for use with Logic Audio.
patibility, Yes, you might want to have more It now supports third-party sequencers, albeit
than one sound card in your system! We with a limited number of tracks.
Another impressive card is the $375
added an Event Electronics rDarlar card to
our system and it co-existed with an Sound Ensoniq Soundscape Elite. This card has a posBlaster 32 with n o p r oblems. One user itively amazing number of controllable softdescribed installing three cards in his system: ware parameters (for DSP effects, etc.) and,
G ravis Ultrasound, AWE64 Gold and a
according to the dealers we visited, works well
Terratec EWS64XL! Indeed, Terratec's latest in audio and sequencing environments.
We do not recommend the Digidesign
software driver for its EWS64 card allows sevAudiomedia HI. For one thing, this card does
eral EWf cards to share a single IRQ.
Check your software package(s) and Usenet not support stereo files. Also, the PCI burst
mode must be disabled in the BIOS settings of
re rts to ensure sound card compatibility
ore buying. Also, note that you can use two current PCs. Digidesign is reportedly working
half-duplex sound cards instead of a single full- on a new chip for the AudioMedia III, to make
duplex card and, in mos~ases will get slightly it work with burst mode enabled. (Numerous
better performance from the two-card system. users in CompuServe's MIDI Vendor Forum C
You will, of course, have to custom configure are also reporting serious AMIII problems.)
Check
D i g i design's W e b site
at
them to do this (aye, and there's the rub).
Multimedia sound cards for the PC indude: http: //www.digidesign.corn for FAQs and compat Terratec EWS64XL Pros: Analog and dig- ibility information.
ital I/O, induding a module with digital
In general, we'd recommend getting a card
and analog outputs, plus two MIDI ins that comes highly recommended by sqmeone
and two MIDI outs on a card that fits into using it for the same kind of task you have in
a 5.25-inch drive bay. Although the
mind. The Event Darla, for example, doesn' t
Terratec card requires three IRQs when aB have a MIDI interface on it, nor does it support
its functions are enabled under version 1.3 Windows MIDI audio playback. Thus, a person
of the driver softwareversion 2.0 can be requiring these features must get a separate
configured for IRQless operation, and will card or interface. Fortunately, it is easy to add
use only one IRQ when all its functions a Darla, Gina or Layla card to a system with an
are enabled. S~, the company Web site for existing Sound Blaster or other MME audio
more info, and read our review at the TCP card or MIDI interface.

Web site at htlp J/www.tcp.ca/gsb/net/terratecews64.html. Cons: Fairly complicated software routing. Windows 95 only (with limited NT 4.0 support). Some software components, such as the ED!ISON instrument
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Because there have been several generations
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models. Logic Audio, as mentioned earlier,
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correspondingly poor signal-to-noise ratio.
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bolts it to the floor. The product obviously
works. The only down side is the inaccessibility of the machine should you need to get at
it.
Then there was Cyberlock. Mike
Poirier came to my home office and

saw to it. The little wires of the cable make

hacksawing more and more difficult. It could
be done but would probably take 20 minutes
of hard work and if the cable is positioned
correctly it would be very difflcuft. I tried to
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to leverage the glued nut. Secondly, Poirier
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make that might have worked. I could have
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wall. A number of really hard yanks would
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2x4 stud behind the drywall. It probably
would have destroyed my computer as well. I
like this system and recommend it. You have
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here is what he did. He made a hole

in the back of my computer, in the

frame just below the power supply
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cable comes equipped with a large nut in one
end. From the inside of the case a specially
coated, Allen-key style bolt is screwed in. The
-special coating is a high-quality glue that
becomes active under pressure. The other end
of the cable goes into a solid steel lock box
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as large as a man's leg. The man was
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Laptop owner Gwen Harris, for example, c o st? Boyd estimated between $300 and
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months, and one trip across the Seven Seas

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Each ht includes a bottle of the soluuon,

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number.
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you say. Not if he {or she) couldn't find it. I marks you' ve made, a manual, and the first
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Absolute has an American client that they incurred in the event that your marked equiptold me about only on condition that I didn' t ment is found and needs to be tested.
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firm, one that you would all recognize, lost a for the S0 ml kit, $1SOfor the 200 ml kit, and
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easily. Digital PCS is quite simply a better
phone at a better price."
In addition to all the nifty features, going
digital allows service providers to guarantee
your calls because digital transmissions are so
much more reliable than analog. Also, digital
networks carry a much larger number of signals so the proportion of potential customers and profit is virtually unlimited.
That will be a pleasant ancillary for us consumers too because we're assured that larger
markets will mean smaller bills.
More salient right now, however, is that
digital phones are so much more energy efficient. They' re able to stand-by for up to 70
hours while providing up to six hours of talktime on a single charge. Those who have
never had a cell phone just can't appreciate
what this means (and we' ll pause here for a
moment so the rest of us can dry our eyes)...
I'oliticians, paranoids and secret agents
will be equally grateful that call security is
guaranteed because it just isn't possible for
normal people (read: journalists, et al) to scan
digital signals. While digital scanners do exist,
the variety of technologies employed by the
various carriers ensure no scanner can address
them all. And, even if that weren't the case,
the availability of existing scanner technology
is very closely controlled by law enforcement
agencies in North America... at least so far.
Another benefit to digital is that calls are
timed to the nearest second, which means,
ostensibly, more talk time for the same price.
Where an analog call of, say, three minutes
and one second is billed at four minutes, the
same call on a digital network accurately registers only the time used. Not a dramatic saving on that single hypothetical call, but the
collective impact on regular use will be most
appealing to many pocketbooks; "...our studies indicate an immediate savings of 20-25
percent..." says Cleamet's Langton.
Further to the battery issue, Neil Harker,
director of strategic planning at BC Tel, anticipates extended battery life as a driving force
toward a PCS world: "In the past, 90 percent
of all calls on cell phones were outbound
because nobody gave out their number. They
didn't want to leave their phone on all day
and drain the battery. The dynamic now,
though," he continues, "is that people will be
able to leave their phones on all day to both
make and receive calls. That will lead to a
trend where the mobile phone becomes the
primary communication tool."
Clearnet's Mark Langton is far more
adamant when it comes to the analog versus
digital issue: FPCS has reached point where it
offers all the services of a landline. Eventually
people may get a landline solely for Internet
access and use their wireless for everything
else. In my opinion, analog handsets are obsolete. No one should now be signing a contract
for an analogphone. They don't have the
functionality. They don't have the call clarity.
They don't have a future!"
The catch
However, as with all things technomagical
these days, there's a bit of a codicil to sour all
this largess. As it happens, three'different and
non-compatible PCS standards have been
adopted by the different carriers with we hapless consumers serving as cannon fodder in
yet another Beta versus VHS or Mac versus PC
style of warfare.

The three PCS "standards" are called GSM

(global systems for mobile communications),
TDMA (time division multiple access) and
CDMA (code division multiple access), and.
each excludes the other to the point that carriers and their customers must commit to
one because neither the phones nor the networks can be converted to accommodate the
others.
Which in and of itself isn't particularly
bad except that many insiders expect two of
the technologies to fail i n C anada, not
because they' re not good, but because we just
don't have a customer base large enough to
support the economics of building and operating three separate PCS networks.
. The four companies granted PCS licences
by the CRTC are: Cantel, the "Bells" (regional
carriers operating under the Mobility brand),
Microcell Telecom and Clearnet. And, at the
starting gate, this technological race looks like
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by chopping 'specific frequencies up into
pieces that are sequenced in time so calls are
lined up one behind the other sort of like cars
on a highway. TDMA chops each radio frequency channel into three blocks. When a
call is made, an algorithm is generated that
assigns the signal one time slot within that
dedicated channel.
GSM, strangely enough, actually works
like TDMA but uses different algorithms and
upgraded technology to achieve the same
result in much the same way but with the difference that GSM chops the radio frequency
channel into eight distinct blocks.
CDMA, on the other hand, works entirely
differently. Instead of being based on time
divisions, this technology assigns a unique
digital algorithmic code to the signal, which
can be expanded or compressed and moved
about within a wide frequency range. The
receiver scans and matches that algorithm so
that the call becomes exclusive. And, since
CDMA isn't time dependent, the same signal
can be used on multiple cell sites.
It should be pointed out, though, that the
differences between these technologies are
virtually transparent to the consumer. When
we use our PCS phones we will all have access
to the same features though some services'
are ahead of others in what they can offer at
any given time as the networks grow and the
technology develops.

The argument
This may be why BC Tel Mobility's Harker
anticipates that the upcoming battles won' t
be won or lost in the technological arena, but
decided instead by marketing and service
strategies: eI don't think tliis is a Beta versus
VHS type of war,a he says. aAII three technologies are very good and the carriers are all
capable. I think the survival of the participants is going to be based on the level of customer service,. keeping costs down and,
. through those factors, attracting a large customer base by offering the best value."
Non-business consumer use is the fastest
growing segment of the mobile phone market, Harker explains, referring to studies show-

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lower the cost of doing business with our customers but at the same time provide service
and support to them. I'eople have to be able. to
do more talking for less money and companies that can achieve that are going to be successful."
Harker says BC Tel Mobility went with
CDMA "because it's the most dominant in
North America and the latest generation of
digital standards. It clearly provides superior
voice quality and that's something everybody
wants out of digital. Part of the reason too is
that CDMA is the most successful digital stan-

dard selected throughout the United States by

PCS players and history has shown that the
American standard invariably becomes the
world standard where technology is concerned."
Harker's munificence toward all PCS technologies is admittedly afforded by BC Tel's
comfortable position as provider of PCS, landline, analog cellular, and even satellite com-'
munications. However, Clearnet's Langton is
far more adamant about CDMA as befits the
posture of a PCS only company:
"I'm far from an engineer," Langton says,
"but I do know that the flexibility of what can
be done with code division allows for greater
efficiency and greater security. CDMA actually

started out as a military standard on those

very criteria and it has evolved into the consumer product we have now.
"CDMA is becoming the standard," he
confidently echoes Harker, "It's going to be
the standard here in Canada because two of
the four providers have picked it so more
Canadians will use CDMA than any other
technology. It will be the dominant standard
in the United States too, because Sprint and
PrimeCo and others have chosen it there.
There are already more licences for CDMA in
the U.S. than for the other technologies."
Langton anticipates the argument that
GSM currently serves more customers in the
U.S. and, indeed, worldwide, but notes that' s

because, as a technology established in Europe

over the past decade, it has a head start on getting up and running. However, once all the
CDMA licencees get their networks going,
they' ll become the standard by having much
larger coverage throughout the continent.
" When it c o mes right down t o i t , "
Langton reflects, "this is not so much a Beta
vs. VHS argument it won't turn out that 10
years from now GSM will be crushed or TDMA
will be blown away. GSM and TDMA are both
well established. But CDMA will predominate
because two of the four companies in Canada
and two of t h e to p t h ree companies in
America are using it."
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are lazy. Most of us rarely back up our computers, and those who do back up frequently rarely
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NT Compatible: No
McAfee's Viruscan is one of the oldest and
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scanner, an on-demand scanner and a scanner
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supported by some pretty strong roaming
partners in the U.S. ATILT Wireless, Bell
South and Southwestern Bell."
MacKenzie doesn't agree with the rumors
that one of these technologies will have to
emerge supreme atsome point because he
anticipates the mobile phone market virtually
tripling in Canada through the next few years
and that will be enough to support them all:
"Ail three technologies are solid. We believe
that TDMA has got some early advantages in
the areas of handsets, roaming and coverage
and in the dual-mode area. But I think over
time they' ll be three great technologies and,
certainly if the market grows to the extent
that the analysts suggest, carriers will have to
differentiate in customer service, innovative
marketing and enhanced services.
"Those are technology independent. I
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utility of the phone is really what matters, not
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"I see this as really as almost the beginning
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analog right now and we think that, for the

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Handy Unix commands: Part II
BY KEI fH SCHENGI L I - RGBERTS
n the last articie, we looked into one way
of transfemng files fxem one machine to
another using Unix commands. There is a
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ftp command
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the target system that is live" on the Web. If
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of the mnete source directory when you are

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the default name, but you still want to "cap- Permissioas are se t u s in g t h e c l l nisi
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sion belonging to a file or directory refers

te the to type of access you and other peo-

ic link". A symbolic link creates a separate

file whose sole tob is to point towards the
intended target file. A hard link works in
much the mne fashion, but the link file
becomes a copy of t h e t arget file, and
changes wheaever the o r iginal f i l e i s
changed. Symbolic hnks are generafiy pre-

to change or write new i n formation to

Together, these thxee sets of commands

can be very handy to transfer files between

ple have to a file. For example, you may

souxe aad target inachines quickly and easi- command, You can make two different want other people to read and view the
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them In some cases you may not even

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using the shmil command.

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that can link to a target directory instead of

file. These characters reveal the permission

a file, and liaks can be made across systems. values for that file. These nine characters
Say yeuhave a fi
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people who will be viewing the files from

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sions for other' (i.e. anybody else). Each of

up a local directory level oa the machine yeu

axe on, you would uses5 aad type al ..

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tired awfufiy last. Instead usetspst, which does a

these three characters set the execute, write

and read permissions for owner, group and

other respectively.

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Te really understand how this works and

What if you' re not sure you' ve changed manygalforyeu.Forexam ple,to moveaHef Index. html is an actual file on your systo the correct directory? Use the lite (return your HIML files, yeu type the folhwing:
texnand if you do a full directory listing
w orking directory name) to fiad out t h e

name of the target directory you are currently at, and!Fsnl to find the name of the
source directory. In each case, they return
the full name of the directory yeu are working on both on the target drive and the
source drive.
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for at the source dixectory is actually there?
Use the Hs command, which is the remote

hew to properly read and set permissions,

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(Is -I) of the directory it will appear as follows:

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permissions are specified numerical by

is working. To create a hard link, simply

leave off the -s switch. As a final note, make
sure when creating a Hnk file that you do it
on your Web server there's no guarantee it

predefined default page, like "index. html, so will work if you create it locally oa your
source twin of the Is command discussed ear- the user actually goes to hHp
J/rwwsejwkyweb- computer and then move it t o t he Web
lier. To find out what the full directory listing site.
corn/index.htmL However, there are cases server.

using an octal base value, which uses the

base 8. Each of the three perinissioa characters take on different octal values. The first
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PCS explained
TCP looks at the new digital cellular phone technologies
BY G R A E M E

while the PCS band comprises about 30 MHz

at around 1900 MHz. In other words, D-AMPS
s you' ve probably heard, cellular ser- phones operate on 850 MHz frequency
vices from providers such as Cantel and (descriptions are sometimes rounded off to
Mobility Canada have some new com- "800 phones") and PCS phones operate on
petition. Indeed, with the recent introduction the new 1900 MHz frequencies.
of digital systems, the wireless phone equaWhat does this mean to joe Consumer?
tion just got a little more complicated.
Practically nothing. You get the same features,
Today, most people are relatively familiar call quality and services on 850 MHz that you
with cellular phones and how they work. But do on 1900 MHz, when comparing the same
few are as familiar with the newer PCS (per- type of service. Unfortunately, there are seversonal communications services) phones. In al different flavors of PCS, with the main ones
this artide, we' ll describe the main difference in Canada being TDMA (Cantel/ATRT), GSM
bet'ween PCS and analog systems and look at (Microcell Fido) and CDMA (Cleamet and the
some of the computer-friendly data capabili- regional phone carriers'"Mobility" services).
ties that PCS enables.
These services use different methods to
The main issue, of course, is the coverage transcode the digital signal and, as a consearea. Microcell Solutions, for examplecur- quence, offer varying voice quality. As always,
rently offers digital PCS in several areas of the there's a tradeoff.
country, with PCS service in greater Quebec
Cantel ATILT's TDMA service, is currently
City, M o ntreal, Ot tawa-Hull, O shawa, the most widely used in North America. It is
Toronto, Hamilton and Vancouver. Its Fido popular in many parts of the United States
service in the Vancouver area, however, is cur- and Canada, bui it offers relatively low voice
rently limited to that city. Other areas (and quality. (In some areas, it is worse than others
other I'CS providers) offer limited coverage, due to technology-imposed limitations. In Los
too, as they balance the twin goals of prof- Angeles, for example, the voice quality of a
itability and expanded service.
TDMA PCS systems sounds a bit like Darth
Fortunately, new phones will help to Vader because of fewer bands in the vocoder.
eliminate these limitations. Dual mode In Canada, CDMA is considered to offer the
phones, as they are called, will support best voice quality, with GSM not far behind.
both digital PCS and older analog cellular Both offer "near land line quality" a welservices. In other words, if a region does not come improvement over most cellular conhave a PCS tower, but does have a BC Tel nections.)
Mobility one, then BC Tel's services become
In Canada, TDMA is the oldest and most
available. And, by the way, you do NOT widely established service and consequently
have to pay extra for this roaming service offers the widest coverage. GSM (an
Telecommunication companies, such as acronym for global system for mobile comClearNET, offer it as a standard feature of munications) is growing rapidly in populartbeir "dual-mode" p h on e s e r vices. ity, due to aggressive pricing from Microcell
ClearNET currently offers a dual-mode and the next-generation features of phones
phone with CDMA/Cell roaming; Fido's like the Nokia 9000 Communicator that
GSM/Cell roaming, u nti l D ec . 1 9 9 7, combine phone functions with email, fax,
required two p hones. In s ome cases, messaging, caller ID and even Web browsupgrades from single-mode phones are ingf The high price of the phone ($1,500), of
available.
course, is a drawback. In Dec. 1997, Nokia
announced that the 9000i would be availThe spectrum
able with 1900 band GSM service on the
Microcell, the company that offers the service Pacific Bell network in California. There are
called Fido, advertises that it is the "first true more than 500 cities in North America now
PCS" service in Canada. However, ATRT was offering GSM service.
offering PCS services prior to Fido's arrival.
CDMA is the new kid on the block. It
How can that be?
offers what many consider to be the best techIn fact, Fido's ads are pointing out the fact nology, and its phones boast the longest batthat ATILT service doesn't use the part of the tery life.
microwave spectrum normally associated
As you might have deduced from the
with PCS services. ATgrT owns blocks of spec- p receding paragraphs, d ifferent P C S
trum in both the 850 and 1900 ranges and providers use different (and unfortunately,
markets "digital advanced mobile phone ser- sometimes incompatible) standards. Some
vices" (D-AMPS) as PCS to its customers. use CDMA (code division multiple access),
However, the company primarily sells cus- while the majority use GSM. Simply put,
tomers access in the 850 Mhz bandwidths today's phones require that if you live in a
where, it is offered, and defaults customers GSM area (as much of Europe is), you have
over to the 1900 MHz range only when the to use a GSM phone, and if you live in a
850 bind is filled. Thus, some people consid- CDMA area, people visiting from less develer ATRT's use of the "cellular" band as PCS oped areas won't be able to use their cellular
controversial. If D-AMPS offers the digital phones. It is widely believed that in the
functionality of "true" PCS services, what is next few months, phones capable of supthe difference?
porting multiple protocols (via software?)
. The first difference is the frequency the will become available at competitive prices.
phone operates on. The cellular band comFido operators, for example, say that
prises about 25 MHz at around 850 MHz, company will allow you to trade your old

B E N N ET T .

phone in for the new type, so at least you

won't be stuck with a useless "single mode"
phone, once dual mode phones become

commonplace and eliminate this dichotorny.

Until then, remember: a PCS phone can
only use a PCS- network unless the provider
supplies a "dual mode" phone. ClearNET was
ahead of Fido in offering this capability. Until
Dec. 1997, Fido required you to carry two
phones. 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 1900 MHz
Qualcomm/Sony 1900/600 phone, can't roam
on an analog system like a system using an
8 00 MHz d igital phone, such as t h e
Qualcomm/Sony 800/500 model. However, if
you believe the telcos, 95 percent of the
United States will be covered by CDMA and
GSM within two years.

Another interesting capability is intemational roaming. Common in Europe, where

GSM is king, you simply carry a "smart card"
around with you and rent a "dumb" GSM
phone. When you insert the smart card into
it, the phone can be used to dial out and
billing is added to your account. In Canada,
Fido offers this capability. The company says
it also allows customers to use their old analog
(cellular) handset, which can be reprogrammed at-no cost, to work in tandem with
a Fido handset outside the digital coverage
area.

What's coming up
According to Fido's Kathy Mciaughlin, the
next wave of devices will be multiband compatible, addressing some of the geographic
incompatibility issues that plague current
GSM devices in North America
which can' t,
for example, be used on GSM phones in
Europe or Asia. As a workaround, Microcell's
The computer connection
phones have a chip that you can simply take
Email with a phone? You bet and it works
with you and insert into a European phone.
remarkably well. The ClearNET phone we Companies such as Rent Express aresetting
up
tested received email less than two seconds rental programs to service this need.
after we sent it from our desktop PC system.
In early 1998, Microcell expects to offer a
The five-line LCD of the phone (a Nokia) dual mode (PCS and Cellular) phone that also
allowed us to easily scroll through the mes- offers dual-band (1800 and 1900 MHz) supsage, which can be up to 280 characters in port. So, why are the bandwidth allocations
length.And the Nokia 9000i, a GSM phone
different around the world? This happened
available on the Fido network, is even more when the licensing of the microwave specimpressive. Its data capabilities include trum was defined years ago. It is said that, in
wireless POP3 and IMAP email, Web brows- the future, the plan is to consolidate them all
ing and Internet access, file transfer, Telnet into a single, global system using much highand more. It can even be used as a faxmo- er frequendes. i3
dem for a laptop via an infrared link! More
info on the 9000i is on our Web site at For further reading,seeGeorge Gilder's book,
http://www.tcp.ca/gsb/net/nokia9000i.html.
Telecosm,published bySimonand Schuster in 1997.

6IOIII y OlIlililmltelePhOnytermS
CDPDr Cellular digital packetdata.
AIIIPSr AdvancedMobilephoneservice. This isthe cUrrent cellular technologyoffered byCantel AT&Tand
Mobility Canada.AMPSis an analog system that lacks dataca'pabilities. It has the shortest battery life
and the lowestsoundquality.
D-AIIIPS: See TDMA
CDMAr Code division multiple access. It is also known as IS-95. Sprint PCSUsesthis system, as do
Mobility CanadaandClearNET.CDMAoffers greater capacity thanits competitors TDMAor GSM.To consumers, this meanspotentially lower rates. COMAalso offers slightly better voicequality than TOMAor
GSM. CDNIAis popular in HongKong, South Koreaandparts of the U.S. andCanada. Like other digital
systems, it ottersdata capabgities.
CSRI: Global systemfor mobilecommunications. This is themost commoncellular systeminEurope, supported in at least 109 countries.GSM istechnically a variant of TOMA.GSMand CDMAare completely
incompatible, unless
you havea not-yet-available, dual-modephone. GSMcurrently hasthewidest selection of phones,butfewer roamingoptionsthan CDMA
ISO NIIar This part of themicrowavespectrum is the cellular band, althoughAMT runssome (bat not
ail) of its PCSoperations in this range.Analogservices use800 MHz inNorth Americaand 900 MHzin
Europe, Asiaand Australia.
TONA: Time divisionmultiple access. This isalso knownas 0-AMP. It has datacapabilities andmoderate
sound quality. It is offered inNorth America byCantel AT&T. TDMAisn'1considered a very robust tech-

nologycomparedtothedigital alternatives.
1800 BIHz range: The 1800 MHzGSIII standard isUsedin Europe. Thisunfortunately meansthat 1900
MHz phonessold in NorthAmerica can't beused inEurope.
190OMHx: The portion of themicrowavespectrumallocated in NarthAmerica for PCS. The 1900 band
{alsa referred to as1.9 GHz) is called "DCS"inEuropeand "PCS" in iliorth America.
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A rural economy in the information age

BY RALP H

D E C O S TE

Batdorf said that "business is being asked

Phil MacDonald, the executive director of opportunity to leam new computer-based
to drive the development and change at a the Strait-Highlands Regional Development skills. He established an internet server in
wo hundred people representing com- time when business people have "enough Agency, presented the results of a technology Canso, and has completed digitization promunity economic development, educa- trouble driving their own business.
survey of this Strait-Highlands area, which he jects on the co-operative movement and the
tion, the IT iinformation technology)
notedcould be used as a benchmark formea- Sable Offshore Gas project.
industries and government converged on llae U.S. exisevfeuce
suring the development of information techDon Campbell of Graphics Factory, says
Baddeck, Cape Breton in late 1997 to discuss
Florine P. Raitano, a nology in the region.
"you can operate a successful business anythe impact on rural areas of the impact of
veterinarian
an d
MacDonald said 37 percent of businesses where in Nova Scotia." Graphics Factory proswitching from a resource- to service-based
executive director of susveyed did not use a computer and that 84 vides high-quality, specialized service to
economy now that the Information Age is
the Colorado Rural percent were not on the Internet, and the graphic artists and other customers Campbell
nigh.
D e v e l o p m e n t most common use ofcomp
uters- 83 percent says that being able to keep pace with technos,:+
While the focus of the conference was on
Council, shared U.S. of the business that used computers
was for logical developments will be important in the
harnessing the promise of technology to
examples of where IT accounting.
long term. "Having access to high bandwidth
shape a strong economy for rural Nova Scotia,
had worked and
in rural areas of the province will be the key,"
the problemsdiscussed and advice given was
failed in rural eco- Successsteppes
according to Campbell.
apphcable to rural areas across Canada.
nomic development. Some of the people and companies taking
, ss':;
One fai l u r e D r . advantage of new technolgies were showcased Sanctwi4th is here
s9
llrban satellites
Flo (as she pret'ers to during the conference, including Arms like Ed Bottrell, the managing director of IWAN
D avid Amirault, an economist with t h e
be called) described TACS Software Programming, Novacan, TGIS (integrated wide area network) Nova Scotia
Atlantic Provinces Fconomic Council, and a was how a fibre optic cable was mn into Lusk., Consulting, Graphics Factory and Progeny says bandwidth is here. Bottrell said fibre
panel member at the conference, told the Wyo. before the town had any reason to use Software.
optics can now provide data transfer at 80 bil. group that as economies shift toward a service l' t.
T ACS is l ocated i n t h e v i l l age o f lion bits per second, and IWAN is "working on
base, it is the rural areas that usually suffer.
She said that the lesson to be learned from Johnstown, Cape Breton, and specializes in examples of trillions of bits per second" which
However, "I'I' has the ability to create tentacles the Lusk experiment was to "invest m people financial software support, the Year 2000 we will see in the future.
into the rural area."
first jwhen you'rej starting from ground zero." problem and transferring data from mainBottrell said that one fibre can handle
Amirault suggested rural communities try Education is the key, she said, when "people frames to PCs. From johnstown, owner Tom simultaneously "the entire population of
to cash in on the knowledge economy by think that a mouse is something you catch in Campbell works for clients in Boston, Los Nova Scotia speaking on the telephone,'* and
becoming urban satellites. For this to happen, a trap."
Angeles and North Carolina. "We are only at each cable has from 12 to 144 flbres.
communities need a ccess t o f a c i lities,
In many areas, Dr. Ho said, "the school has the tip of the iceberg in what can be done,"
telecommunications and transportation Infra- a Tl line, the medical centre has a TI, and the Campbeg said.
Mtfheee te fr'urri heret
structure, as well as social infrastructure like governme
Novacan i s o p e rated b y E l i sabeth Steve Stairs, chair of th e NovaKnowledge
nt is saying 'T-what?'"
schools and health care, he said.
ln Silverton, Col. a town whose popu- Schwarzer, who moved from Germany to
Council, said the objective of the conference
A pitfall, Amirault pointed out, is "a clash lation dropped to 350 from 4,000 when Nova Scotia's astern Shore in 1995. Novacan was to understand rural economic developbetween rural developtnent and q u aint mining ceased community leaders used offers programming, training, and Web-site ment, where the opportunities are, and to get
lifestyle." Amirauit suggested rural areas focus information technology to save the town design to local and international clients. an action plan to make it happen.
on using 11' to sustain existing sectors such as from disappearing completely. The process Schwarzer is also involved in a project called
Dr. Flo, said rural Nova Scotia should be
forestry, manufacturing and tourism, and
began with a technology awareness work- Highway 7, which is an electronic magazine prosperous, because it has the basic building
develop technological expertise in these estab- shop that addressed the question, "What is featuring small business, tourist attractions blocks of the economy. She did caution Nova
lished industries.
the World W ide Web, anyway?" Local and scenery along Highway 7 on Nova Scotia's Scotians to "hang on to their values" as they
An oft-cited barrier to growth among teachersand students developed Web pages EasternShore. Schwarzer said tourists from
begin to piece the blocks together. In her final
high-knowledge companies is "the availabili- and p
Silverton as a tourist destina- Texas have walked into an Eastern Shore remarks, she also encouraged communities to
romoted
ty of skilled people," something that would tion. Now tourists travel to the town on a restaurant with a c opy o f a p age from take action while accepting some of the shortbe especially true for rural areas. "The educa- narrow gauge railway that used to serve the Highway 7, which demonstrates the success comings of rural living: "You chose to live in
tion system is the most significant determi- mine.
and breadth of this approach.
rural places; quit your bitching." 0
nant of where the IT i ndustry will go,"
Partnerships are critical, Dr. Flo says. It' s
TGIS Consulting is operating in j o bArnirault said, reinforcing the need to focus got to come from the bottom up ...the civic starved Canso, which is suffering from a
Ralph 0eCoste is a computer traillerlcansultantarid
on education.
infrastructure has to change. Citizens have to downturn in the fishery that has been the freelancejournalist based
in Eastern NovaScotia. He
Robert Proctor, of the Strait East Nova take things in their own hands."
mainstay of the community for over 400 can be corltacted at rdecoste@fox.nstlt.ca This article
Scotia Community Fnterprise Network, also
She said t h e m a verick at titude of years.'I'roy Greencorn of TGIS started a train- was writteh in a home allies in the rural hamlet ol East
stressed the need for rural Nova Scotians to Coloradans ls suited tn this tactic. Their atti- ing centre offering displaced fishers the
Tracadie, MavaScotia.
be comfortable with technology. "If we can' t tude includes approaches such as, "If it ain' t
use the technologies available now, how are broke, break it; the federai government is irrelwe going to s eize new o pportunities?" evant, and it's better to ask forgiveness than
Proctor asked, adding that "education is the pe fAllssl0 n.
key."
Dr. Flo said communities have to do a seriTeresa MacNeil, an educator and leader ous self examination, find out what the comB Y M A R T Y N W'I L L I A M 5 =-,:-:,-=::=-'.=--=-.::-.-'..--=,=:-"::,'=';.',.-,,;=,::-~=-~ -"-
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Participants also have to be "committed to
TOKYO {NH) Sorry Corporatiots ~
reer and chief advisor, Masaru Ibuka died in mid"lumping education together." She said the place." She referred again to the success in
December of heart failure at hfs bornein:Tokyo. He was 89 and is survived by one son and '
term, "education is the key" was not very Silverton, and the commitment of the people.
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. Ibuka was born' In'1908 ates,5'eg'ai'."kfs~
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otochemical Laboratory,
a
modem or becoming very capable with a
town.
company that processed moffat:picture film. frt:May'1946, he founded Tokyo'Tsushin
colllputef?
Kogyo K.K. with Akio Morfta The.cxt'ttzp'atty-carried out research Into magnetic powder
MacNeil stressed the i m portance of
Netulorhtng
and tape base materiaI aitd devel@pe'd:tfte:magnetic i@cording tape in 1949. A year tater,
being specific: "Are we talking about degree T he c o n ference w a s s p o nsored b y
the company developed,and sold the:5@t tape'fecorder lu JaparL;- M~~
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programs or an awareness-raising after- NovaKnowledge, a non-profit organization ~~ j,ln the folfowing 'year'i."fh'e'ctiiiipa~:tfevefop'ed'Jayi'a's erst' transistor radio and Grit
noon?"
with mandate to p romote a sustainable
t'ransistor televisioti; fii 1958,'the":6mipiauy becime Sony. Corporation. From 1967, Ibuka:
Proctor said that all facets of education are knowledge-basedeconomy in Nova Scotia.
managed the reseaieh:,att'tf dereIrrpimxf,':,teart:that'~loped the Tjrfttftron televisfoa sys-",
important, and that "educational institutions
One of the anticipated benefits of the
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to the needs of the community.
participants. Tiiu Poder of the Q. Francis
'products that-5roJti,". fiottI the )~ u se-:.,:4xr~rite:.:&dittoit of copying technofbgy.and'
Luke Batdorf, of Teresa MacNeil Associates, Xavier University Enterprise Centre said "netideas from- the "~,'The': c'oritjraig,'::mid,'=
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is attitude. Attitudes have to change before edu- than any other industry because it is chang-K~
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world's first electronic monthly publication devoted to the art, craft and industry of animation." The site has a wealth
of information and links devoted to anirnation, including career choices for

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send a Laoney Tunes
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http J/bluejay.cleighten.edul-jduchel
duckmen.html

6. Toon Tradrer's Anisnatlon Units

leads and loads of animation l i nks,
induding the history of 'toon series that
haven't aired in decades. The site even

includes a link for the animated opening

to I Lnste Llicy.
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Quickl"one 3.0, which incorporates a newly
QuickTime 3.Obli, now available in beta for- finally import AVI,WAV,TIFF,Targe and BMP QuickTime's standard export function,' such as developed successor to Cinepak, dubbed the
mat for the Macintosh and Windows PCs, files into standard QuickTime apps. Flic files MoviePIayez A beta version for PPC Macs is cur- Apple-Sorenson Codec, as well as QDesign's
brings feature parity and the authoring APIs of are also supported,
r ently d o w nloadable f o r fre e fro m inusic technology and Qualcomm PureVoice
Apple's multimedia environment to the PC for
Our tests of QuickTime 3.0 on a Mac http: //www.astarte.de/mpeg exporter/index.ht (also found in some new digital phones).
the Srst time. The company has announced revealed no compatility pmblems with lead- mL You' ll stifi need a thiml party player such as With its streaming capabilities, the software
p for MP3 audio files.
could even prove to be a competitor to
that a QuickTime 3.0 Pro version" will soon be ing apphcations such as Adobe Premiere or the excellent ~
After Effects. Although Premiere 4.2 cannot
The Macintouch website (www.macin- RealNetworks' Real Audio.
on sale for US$30 from Apple. This version wiII
provide authoring and other advanced features. exploit its AVI import feature, we simply t ouch.corn) also notes that A p ple h a s
QuickTime 3.0's most notable features are opened the AVI in Apple's MoviePlayer and iicensed Roland's Sound Canvas synthesizer Get 0idckTime3.0at
the new translators it provides to import AVI saved the file in MOV format to work around sound library and General MIDI extensions ffpy/ffpjnfoappfe.corn/Apple.SuppoitArea/Apple SW Upd
files and save movies in DVC (digital video this issue. We also noted that Premiere expects for QuickTime 3. At his Jan. 6 keynote, Apple ates/US/Macintosh/Unsufnxfted/QT 3.0b11img.hqx
Gunera) format.
the QuickTime extension to be named the way
Web site executable, and allows you to test
A full d scription of its capallties is at
Apple ships it. We had renamed the new exten- Weaving your own Web site
them out and change them if you need to.
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three characters are set to "on" they equal the following value to a file: -rw-r-r-.
cross-platform QuickTune release Gm import a until we reverted to the standard convention.
This says that you have read and write
7. If the Sist and third are on, they equal 5, if
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access
to the file, and everybody else gets to
ally anti-aliased text. Or, you can import a MIDI AVI movies (this is particularly useful on the only the second value is set it equals 2, and soon.
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stuff. Perhaps the coolest new feature, though, capability), however many AVls (typically, which is specified at the Unix prompt in the typical Web page.
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is found in the MoviePlayer Export dialog. those created using recent Indeo codecs) dis- following manner:
file
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ure the permissions to set to your Web iles. 0
as Slm grain (complete with animated dust and MoviePlayer that ships with Quicktime 3.0. chmod 755[Slenarne]
brings feature parity to the Windows version,
but Mac users benefit more from the ability to

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8, QuickTime 3.0 supports MPKG, too, allow- active, AVls play wonderfully!
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movies. Ironically, this is the first version that solution. Astarte MPEG exporter is an extension

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I!Or all the concern over humln rights and democratic
process (a)id thev;)re justifial>le concerns), nlost Hong koi)g
(.hinese se(ill williilg to illake the llew relatioilship work.
YVhat is most remarkable to me, however, writiiig this article
from the Chinese city of Shen Zhen, is that it is the I'eoplL s
Republic of (.hina that is undergoing the nloSt profo(i)id
changes, in large measure from the infliience of its overseas
Chil'Ics(.' t>i'othe)'s Bncl sistcfs, Blld io ;i n Bnll zillg Iegi'ee llso

due to the influence of computer technology.

Technology is making China part

of the modern world, and making
Canada a part of China's world

To create a city, just add international trade

Shen Zhenis acity with;) population of over 2.3 million, equal

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the saind;iy th;lt illade me think about computers )lot
just Bs il(lv t(>ys to st(idy Bnd write about, but as ihe cataIvsts
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(>t iilforinaiiil ie(hnology. I:irs(, I read in the daily nelvspaper
I hi>i (.iinii(IB'1 (:hiilesC I>ot)ul<liion has Ilearly doubled in only
a few years, Io 73(<,()()() (Bt>out 2.3 percent of the Canadian

Io ihc ntw illCgBClt1' Of loroilto. Ii hBS SPf(lllg up Ifoill COaStal

farmland and villages iil little nlor(. than B single decade.

Nearly 30 percent of the economy oi this instant metropolis
depends on high (ech, maiilly conlp()ter and telecom mailuQl)l's parent conlp;iily, the I.egen(t 4roup, which 'Ivils
fornled in 1 tiily cottage ill lieijiilg iil 1984 l>v 11 techiliciai)s
tron) the (,hinese Academy o( Sciences, is now a (JS$3.S-billioi)
International computer conglomerate. Qlll, which is best
knolv I'or designiilg a)id I)lail()tact()ring I'(. Inotherl>oards, has

iis II)ajor I'C research and development labs in Shen Zhen, and
B IBI'g(' fact('>ll' ill Ileill'by It(II Ylilg.

'I'he old Chinas the ancient (.hina of unnlechanized rural

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lalx>r,,ind the revolutionary (.hi)i;I of ui)iiormity, subsidized
'I'hen I hal>pened to re(<eive an in(iitatinn to visit Qlll,
industries Bnd tleavy handed state control undoubtedly still
('oil)I)ili('I' n)<1)11IIBct(ll'L'I' with l>lants in H(>ng K(>ilg iitld the
xisi;icross inay parts of China. Iiut Ii(re, initially hy governI'eople's l(epuhlic ot (.bin <i. Ql)l, <I sul>sidiilfy oi lieijillg-l><ls(.'('I nletlt decret.', Bnd increasingly ls ii result ot success in the globI.(gend (iroup, is B inajor inai)ufaciiirer;in(i distribut(>r of I'(.
al ecoi)oiny, is B city thai is l>used oi) the imperative that inforI)loth('Ib(>i)i'ds to (.'Illa(ilail I ( . Il)akers, i))id !ionl(.' conlpui('.fs
nlation (echnotog} is I'ey to economic survival.
based on their motherlx>ards have woil 7(,'1' I(ditof's (.h(>ice
'Ihe I.egcnd (<I'oup hBs t>ccollie China's largest I'C maker,
awards i past 'lest IBb s(irveys, I was very interested in getting (vith over 10 percent of the domestic Chinese I'(. market, and
snine first-hand exl>eric))c( of ih( (.hinese comp(i(er indust ry, so with divisions that provide system integration and other corI began fuslliilg li'ouild io gct B Il('(v l>asst>ort III(t 1 visa. A te'(v p(>rate computing services, Bs (veil as <icting Bs distributors for
diiys later, Bnd here I a)11 in (,hi)la, >Chere I nl lvriting this article.
inany overseas computer vendors.
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sion compared. I'he design talent at Ql)t is of the highest

order, coinprising over 80 engineers, and Qlll's technical innovations include the first workable "jumperless" I'C motherboards. 'I'he QDI facility manufactures niultilayer (up to six
layer) motherboards, claiming a failure/return rate of under
t'ive per 1,0()0 (0.S percent). Ql')I ships all its boards overseas by
air freight (an expense that is often higher than the cost to
nianufacture the boards), and can only maintain a profit margin in the competitive international market if its return rates
are very low. 'I'he manufacturing processes and quality control
were as good as any I' ve seen elsewhere in the world.
I talked to Chinese computer journalists during my stay,
and they were very curious about con)puting in Canada, and
surprised at the percentage of Canadian households with computers. (.:anada is well regarded by most Chinese, and Qt>t and
other Chinese technology fir)us regard (.anada as an importailt illarket. despite our relatively nlodest population.
Chinese domestic sales of PCs are increasing rapidly, from
Bbo(it five million this year, to perhaps eight nlil lion next year.
However, in a country with 1.2 t>illion people, most of them
too poor to aft'ord a I'C yet, it Illay be many years before I'Cs
are as pervasive in Chinese daily life as they are in Canada.
However, a hungry and rapidly expanding Chinese domestic
I'C market is likely to balance the export market as the other
great opportunity for Chinese computer makers, and provide a
greater degree of stability to Chinese high-tech vendors, 'I'he
Chinese computer market should also be regarded as a great
opportunity for CBOBdian technology I'irms.

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(;hinese iininigrants I(> ('.Bnada have started up computerrelated businesses or (v(>rhe(t in the technology Iiekl, contribuiiilg gfcaily to every iisp('c( 0( colllpiitiilg Ill Catlada, a)id

helping to make the (".anadian I'(. market one of the world' s

inost etticient and prie( conlpetitive.
At the same iiine, the (.:hii)ese in Cailada, in common with
inany other in)migrant gr(>ups iil t his country, have a (omplicated relatioshit> w)th (heir ailcestral hoineland. Many
Chinese (.anadians ire retugees froiil the wars and revolutions
of 2()th cent(in China, or th( children of refugees. Yet, the

Again, it may be Hong Kong that serves as a useful example for China in terms of active adoption of new t
Hong Kong has first rate computer and telecom networks, and
the business sector makes excellent use of high tech to give it
an edge in international business operations. Tile Holiday lnn
Golden Mile in Kowloon where I stayed had a fully equipped
business centre from where I emailed this article. 'I'he centre
was even equipped with a portable voltage converter so I could
recharge the batteries on my North American 110-volt notebook power supply from Asia's 220-volt electrical service.
I will leave China with lingering concerns: for the pollution and sacrifice of priine farmland to urban-industrial sprawl
that I saw, and for the unknowable prospects for a truly open,
democratic and cosmopolitan Chinese society. When I consider the progress that I saw being made, both economically and
in terms of the people's bright hopes for the future, and the
blossoming educational and cultural opportunities, I cannot
help but think that the opening of a prosperous and optimistic
China to the outside world will be of benefit to both China
and Canada. J

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Qllt has very close connections with the largest chip makers such as Intel Bnd National Semiconductor. In fart, Ql)l is

one of Intel's four beta test partners for new chipsets and
motherboard tcchnotot~. At QDI's space age scientific industrial park in the beautiful countryside near Shen Zhen, I saw a
highly automated facility that designs and manufactures over
three million circuit boards per year (expected to rise to five
million in the next year or so).
Having toured I'CB (printed circuit hoard) plants in Canada
and the U.S., I was interested in seeing how the Chinese ver~< < <

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ChineseCanadians that I know personally are invariably proud
oi' their Chinese heritage, and concerned for the development
of China, where they usually still have family relations.
'lhc communities of "overseas Chinese." the island of
laiwan, ihe city-state of Singapore, all share a great historv o('
economic success arising from their involvement in the computer industry. 'I'hey also share increasing economic links with
China, in spite of persistent political difficulties, Hong Kong,
which has just been re(un)ed to Chinese rule, is a major hightech manufacturing aild trading< centre, a bastion of enthusiastic capitalism, and a city populated by millions of refugees

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