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Microsoft's influence on personal ersused to be known by their brand names: barge for Microsoft, a business-ta-business
antitrust case, you already
computer deve
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know that the U.S. Department of
conclude that the company's know that their device uses the Palm OS; HP
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biggest achievement was to make Jornada users know that they have a Windows tant
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late April to split the company up.
users care about an operating sys- device.
ad campaigns mounted by Cisco and Nortel
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tem as a thing in itself. Before
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resulting companieswould be the
Windows, the operating system this OS-centric era. The coming proliferation a strong public imageeven though their prodoperating system developer, and
was an inddental. albeit essential, of computing devices that aren't personal ucts are largely hidden from public view.
the otherwould handleeverything
part of personal computing. The computers in the traditional sense, along with Today. few people know or care to knowI s'
else that M icrosoft currently
OS was relevant to the user expe- the rich content accessible on the Internet will whether Cisco or Nortel routers played a part
develops.
rience only to the extent that it change what users want and that doesn' t in their Web surfing session. Neither do they
Microsot't's competitors have generally helped or hindered a user's ability run the include details about the operating system. You care which operating system whether
hailed both the guilty verdict andthe proposed applications, which provided the true value of probably won't care whether yow smart cegu- Windows or Unix or Isnux is running on the
remedy asgood for the industry and goad for the personal computer. By arguing for the lar phone or your set-top bax uses Windowssewers that host their favourite Web sites.
consumers. But, as my colleague, Jeff Evans, power and superiority of Windows, Microsoft it's a meaningless issue. You' ll only care about
As far as we end-users are concerned,
likes to point out on his more cynical days, made the OS a central part of the discussion whether or not it allows you to go on the Windows will still be the main operating a?sthey are happy mainly because weakening about personal computers. Doing this changed Internet and make that key bid at the eleventh tem on our personal computers. But personal
Microsoft simply serves their own agendas for the competitive environment in a way the DOJ hour on egay, or give your broker a buy or seU computerswiU be just one of several devices
total world domination. It's not for any altru- didn't evenconsider: it forcedother d
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Microsoft's competitors would like to see it the merits of their products.
our lives, utility becomes the important vari- future devices will use a Windows interface
taken down afew pegs.
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about the operating system is a relatively operating system? Probably not. You just want Windows that you won't and some will use
recent occurrence. It used to be that Mac to get your money and scram.
something entirely different.
lovers would point to the graphical user interDoes this mean Windows wig cease to be
face as its unique and superior feature. Then important? Not at aU. As one of the compoInteresting times ahead,
the dialoguechanged to System 6,and now we nents in an information utility grid, Enterprise
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One of the issues missed in the May 2000 issue

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where people could change the caller ID that
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servicepmviders must ensure that data packets entering their network have source

ISPs can show their support (or the Internet

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addressesthat make sense.For example if their

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A few monthsago the media reported the

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by a technician who was repairing the compilter.

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clients' computer files when their computers
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I noted with some disappointment that you
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received by i t s own server
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the hrs! to launch commerCialty
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back on reviews of Web authoring
tools from 1996. Of the tive major
products we review in this roundup, only
two Microsoft FrontPage and SoftQuad
HoTMetaL Pro were among the 24 programs reviewed just four yearsago.
Back then, the buzz was about the visual
editing that FrontPage was pioneering to the
chagrin of hard-core, text-based HTML

GoLive,FrontPage,Dreamweaver,Drumbeat, and

layout grid positioning (Drumbeat has a similar feature) allowed for precise placement of
buttons, text and images. Even targeting for
version 3.0 browsers was not a problem, as
GoLive converted non-overlapping layouts to
tables. However, a word of caution: some
unusualicons lurk on the borders of the variousviews and GoLive windows. So make sure
Adobe Gokive 5
you read thevery good manual and go through
Fiom: AdobeInc
the product tour. These aids simplify tasks
hltp llwww adobecom
suh assetting guides oreditor preferences.
Runs oa Mac ard Windows
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Street (vice $305
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Pres:Strongest suppon for coding in Javagcript,
Java tools, I especially liked the rich selection
VBScnpt, andHTMLwan great naval editor
of GoLive's Toolbox and the context-sensitive
Cons:Roughedges e iateitace as every little icon does Object Inspector. If you highlight an image
something.
with the Object Inspector, for example, it
Out ef the bax:Easyinstall. Verygoodmanuals aad
changes its tabs and underlying dialogue to
tour al rich, coinplex program.
those required for setting image attributes and
Overall ragnB4 3 oatoi 5
events. Highlight a line of text and vol)4 it
transforms into a Text Inspector with its
I)e ta z ile revs 3 e us xsaat ea~
unique properties/attributes and action set.zil
tings. Coupled with right-mouse clickswhich also pop up context-sensitive menusyou can start to work very efficiently in
GoLive. But be warned: you need all of the
power of the 200 MHz Pentium processor and
64 MB of memory that Adobe recommends.
Of the common features of the current generation of Web authoring tools noted in the
preface,GoLive was less attractive than some
of the other programs on two fronts. First it
er
only has small-scale improvements in XML
Adobe GoLive is a programmer's Web devel- support. GoLive will recognize and therefore
opment tool with property sheets, strong sup- leave alone (not mangle) XML tags, and will
port for both editing and debugging of allow source code edits of XML tags, assuming
javaScript, VBScript, and Active Server Pages that the end user knows what to do. However,
(ASP) in a Dynamic Link feature that allows it still does not have a validating XML parser
connection to any ODBC-ompliant (open or layout tool.to preview XML documents.
database connectivity-compliant) database. In
Second, many of the imageand multimedia
addition, GoLive lets the user set the target handling features are geared exclusively to
browser and scripting language, then cus- Adobe products. For example, the Tracing
tom izesaBwizard s, generators,debuggers.and Image feature only works with Adobe
validity checks to respect specific browser and Photoshop's proprietary PSD File format,
script constraints. Others approximate but meaning that to use the feature, images in the
no tool matchesthe thoroughnessof GoLive Web's defacto standard formats )PEG, GIF,
in helping to relieve programmers of some the and PNG have to Erst be saved in FSD fortedious tasks of resolving incompatibilities mat. This smacks of the same myopit vision
resulting f ro m t h e c o unterproductive that characterizes some equally proprietary
Microsoft and Netscape browser war.
aspects of Microsoft's FrontPage.
Even with this considerable power, the
Nonetheless,GoLive can be a very Iroduc-

HoTMetaLPro can create greatHTNL pages,butcan they

meetthe Web development requirementsofthefuture?

features to Web authoring tools:

scripting help as wdl as a text edi(or for
lavaScript, VBScript, Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS), plus Java and XML (extensible
markup language)interfaces;
(hypertext markup language) editors andWeb smart syntax checkers that validate HTML,
masters). SoftQuad also created quite a stir by
lavaScript, VBScript and CSS against variwrapping up an SGML-based (standard generous versions of Internet Explorer and
alized markup language-based) visual editor
Netscape Web browsers;
similar to Frontpage with a tag view. But the asset display and management facilities to
ruling Web tools were primarily text-based,
keep ever-sprouting images, audio, video
with some added features like on-board FTP
and otherWeb resources in control;
delivery to a Web site or validity checking of all site-management facilities that not only
links on a Web site.
move Web pages and assets to/from Web
It is interesting to compare these "old" feasites but also run validity checks;
tures with the price of admission for today' s team development capabilities, including
Web development tools as shown in Table I.
check-in,checkout, and backup with verThe Five tools we examine Adobe GoLive 4.0,
sion control;
Macromedia Dreamweaver 3.0, Macromedia
hdp, tutorials, wizards and coaching to help
Drumbeat 2000, Microsoft FrontPage 2000,
users with the syntax of all the various Web
Sof(Quad HoTMetaL Pro 6.0 are ag adept at
languagesand tools;
delivering Web pages. However, Web develop- and database connectivity fordynamic Web
ment now emphasizes dynamic, databasecontent, transaction data, and Web site

driven pagesthat are finished on the Ry. The

P
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resourcemanagement.

Web server determines who you (the Web site

visitor) are and what you want, then delivers
pagecontent that draws on your saved preference settings or past ations/pages visited. In
short, page content is moving from static, predefined layouts to dynamic content.

And you can see in Table I, all five products

reviewed deliver pretty solidly on most of
these baseline features. We conducted a simple
test with all the review products, by creating a
five-page Web site with a consistent colour and
All five of the Web development programs style theme, navigation buttons, and tables of
reviewed here are very competent in develop- images that linked to detail pages, which in
ing static Web pages, but vary in their ability to turn linked back to a home page or other entry

develop dynamic sites. However, it is impor- page.Some animation and dynamic colour
tant to point out that even dynamic Web pages changeswere made depending on the path
often have a substantial static core that is often
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base access.
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site.
Common feeturea
We were able to create the test site in about
As noted above, visual editing of Web pages an hour with all live tools. Each tool has its
was a novelty four years ago. Now, in addition strengthsand we used thisexercise asa means
GoLive visual editor matched HoTMetaL Pro tive Web authoring environ and we Imk forto delivering a visual HTML editor. software of comparing them and highlighting the indi- andFmnt Page foreaseofdeve
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developers are expected to add the following vidualfeaturesofeach program.
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equal to those in GoLive and HoTMetal Pro.
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changeyour Website to meet the needsof cus- 2000 convenienceslike the template generator,
tomers and match competitors' ofFerings is tabbed views, and right-mouse dicks for speFirst, speed to market is the critical factor also critical.
cigc object menus, that I miscalculated by a
for e-business and traditional bricks-andfull day the amount of work required using
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It should come as no surprise that the tools breakthrough in its day. Vermeer's use of a
and tricks of Web development itself are also toolbox, visual layout, and site views were the
moving at Web warp speed. For example, I key innovations that attracted Microsoft's
recently hadoccasion to goback to prehistoric auentionmany Web sons ago.
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ASP by numbering them. ASP' Ndera to
application san/ice provider, and ASIN to

Active ServerPages.

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business-to-business (B28) activity and busi-

ness-to-consumer (B2C) activity. To respond

to these, companies are realigning their business practice along four main streams: customer relationship management (CRM).

enterprise information systems (EIP). enterprise resource planning (ERP), and supply
chain management (SCM).
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prior to its acquisition by Microsoa. This circa The following is an abbreviated equation of
Application service provider (ASP') is the
1996 programwasthe only tool I had accessto what's happening around the Internet and e- new model companies are using to energize
when I desperately needed to create a multi- business:
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modeL let's look at these elements more dosdy.

growth rate in the B2B market is expected.

based systems. The savings are so substantial

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schema or instructions on how a data file,

table or document is defined and laid out.

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groups forbetween two and four years, so

Fireworks. purchased Elemental's Drumbeat

2000, it went almost unnoticed. The deal didn't seem to make sense, as there appeared to
be alotofoverlap between Dreamweaver and
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it will be replacing Drumbeat with a product
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released later t h i s y ear), M a cromedia

Dreamweaver 3.0, Microsoft FrontPage 2000

development software on three fronts, two of

also supports two of the most popular meth-

which are complementary to Dreamweaver.

First, Drumbeat's GUI provides new convenience for Web developers.Every Web
authoringprogram out there has adopted a
multi-windowpane interface with tabbed
views of the main edit window. Drumbeat
has taken this a step further by making the
sizing of the secondary supporting windows.
such as Site Tree, Asset Centre and Properties,
much more convenient. To the ag important
Asset Centre, Drumbeat adds a convenient
data need to becommunicated, XML isquite window to view images, animations, and
effective. However, when very large quantities videos in a very useful thumbnail format.
are involved high volume data interchange
But even more importantly, Drumbeat

ods for Web database connectivity: Active

Server Pages (ASP) from Microsoft and Java

or more stylesheets. (Standard has been

way to Extract Transform and Load software.

adopted.)

But for so many applications, only small mar-

cases, users will want to add two different sets

of derived features which is where the template tree comes in. The lower templates
inherit ag the objects, text and features from
the template above in addition to adding
theirown. Some of those features can be
made read only; other features and objects
can be marked as not-to-be-overlapped.
Attach a Web page to any template and it in
turn inherits all of that template's features.
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dard procedures for describing. transforming

and interchanging data between two systems.
Here is a list of the most important XML stan-

this gives an idea of how slowly XML stan-

dards, and their status with the regulatory

body:
XML I.0: The basic standard for XML
markup and function. (Standard has been
adopted.)
XSLTi Extensible stylesheets transforma-

tomer relationship management (CRM), and

supply chain management (SCM) software

tions. It determines how to transform one

XML doc into another. (Standard has been
adopted.)
NameSpaces:How to apply more than one
DTD to an XML document. (Standard has

or Softquad's XMetaL, one would be taken

aback by t h e verbosity and d uplication
required to specify XML data. That is the
strength and weakness of XML It is great for
standard description and interchange of data
but much less attractive for permanent/persistent storage of data.
XML data often occupies three to seven
times the storage required for a relational
database that contains the same information.
So when small to intermediate amounts of

been adopted.)
XSL 2.0: The other half of XSL for formatting and layout of XM L documents. (In

working group phase.)

XLINK/XPOINTER: Provides for robust

and scalable hyper linking in diverse environs. (In working group phase.)
XMLQuery:Provides for Aexible querying
I'rom real and virtual documents on the

dards are set. But with so much B2B, cus-

awaiting a complete XML standard set. the

heat is on to get things resolved.
Yet if one were to look at an XML database

using a product like Bluestone's Visual XML

or proprietary solutions.
In contrast, Drumbeat has incorporated
database connections directly into the products with w izards, templates and Smart
Elements that speed up the development of
Drumbeat represents a breakthrough in Web database Web applications. Drumbeat 2000

Web. (In working group phase.)

forumssuch as data warehouses and some supplies at least a dozen ways of doing singleStyle Sheet Linking Allows for linking one online transaction systems XML often gives click filtering and sorting of the fdes/assets in
XML Schema Provides more functionality

to current DTD schemes.(In working group

phase nearing recommendation.)
As onecan see, only four of eight key
working groups have reached the standards
stage. In addition, a number of other stan-

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ished for a new product. It redefines the state

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online and the number who actually open their
will be created for Web sites with Cult3D. Cult3D
wafiets to buy.
Cycore hopes that its recently released allows designers to create fully rendered 3D
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download. Web merchants can create 3D
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products. such as ils GRDBDDU digital video
camera and FS-SD7 stereo. Potential buyers
can rotate both products and play with same of
their features.
Sites are reporting more sales
and the amount of time people are
staying at a site has more than
doubled because people start
playing with the image," says
lannuzzi.
He says that the strength of
Cult3D is the small size of both the
downloadable engine and image
files. The engine itself is about
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important as many people do not yet have highspeed connections to the fntdmet, so would likely leave a site rather than wail for a large image to
download completely. According to lannuzzi, as
soon as an image file starts to download it is
viewable, and gets sharper and more detailed as
the downloading and rendering finishes.
"The plug-in is the core of the whole system,"
he continues. "In order to move high-quality
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ware to help speeddelivery of robust and reliable Websystems.

ny, the ASP', has appeared in the past three

years.Suchcompaniesprovide customerswith
turnkey Websystemsvery quiddy and in the
exact bundle requhed.
Companies induding Concentric, Corio,
Interliant, IBM/GS, Questral, USWeband othersoKer packagesofthree typesofservices.
First, ASP's provide Web hosting either at
your site or Ihehs, but manage ag the hardware and software required to deliver Web

WebDev
In Fact, ASP's use the samecore of development tools as Web developers (WebDevs).
Inevitably, organizationshave awhole range of
very spedfic Web requirements that can't be
CKmtlve(y met by external application service
provider
s or packaged programs. Their sites

are develops and tuned byWebmasters and

developers whose core knowledge is HTMI

but increasingly aided bya whole array of Web
software suchas:
ASF: The first use of ASP was with
Microsoh's ASPs (to link databases to
HTML).
' MACT Thewhole range of Macro languages
Igw Javagciipt, )Script, or VBScript used ia
Web development.
JSP. Wigr selvhxs,JSPsme rapidly rephcing
dower,lessseemsCGI and MIPythm scripts

JSEE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition): Provides

glgovcr,security and robust eaterprise-calibre Webapplications.
EJB (Enterpris Java Beeas)l Provide outof-the-can, sophisticated distributed proccsslngscrvlccs.
' XML Breektluough data identilicstion and
interchangestandanL 0
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services.

Second, ASP's also offer to develop Web

applicationseither jointly with you or
entirely with their own development staffto
illcct yoaf spcclgca'tlolis.

Finally, ASP's also pmvide ongoing technical support to either maintain your Web presence with the all-important stream of new features and additional services, or to bring your

own staK up tospeedasquickly aspossible. Of

c'ourse, application service providers use SCM,
CRM, EIP, ERP snd other Web generator soft-

New tools rudegnn Web development

Continuedfrom page27

Drag and drop a Web page from one templateto another and you have changed the
page'scomplete layout and formatbut in a
standard way.
As is the case in Dreamweaver. some
objects can be marked for no overlap in

Drumbeat. This means that any attempt to

overlay that object in a Webpageor lower or

derived template will be rejected by
Drumbeat's visual editor. The inheritance

tree modd is very rih. for example, other

derived objects that are not marked readonly could be overridden. Say the basetemplate has an image labeled logabig.jpg. In a
lower template we' ll call templ4, logobig.jpg
needs to be substituted by another image.
Just insert templ4.logobig.jpg and Drumbeat
knows to replace the inherited image logobig.jpg with templ4.logobig.jpg.
Drumbeat's template system is sovery rich
that the visual programming possibilities are

stunning. Ci

Calender full of gadgetn

NB-Los Angehm-based eCSI, which provides o n line c a lender t e chnology
Webnusuers can add to their sites far

free, ie adding some new widpets ta its

communal oig8fllzelloA technology. Now
Web sites can add eCal's "My Own
Event" buttons anywhere they mey pres-

entdate.sensluveInfemabon,such asan
upcoming event. When cfkked, the buttons cen pe-fib the spplOpliate date on 8
user'S Cenlrazy hasted eCsl calendar. The
company also announced a second
98dget. called CCSI RSYP, an inviteuon
system providing Web sulfws wbh an
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Dell captain stays Internet course

By Btefan Dubowski
company Owt built ils fortune online is
bstfing ils fuhse on the Nst. During 8

keyrele speech befcm theCanadian Otrisin

early April, Oefi C
omputerCmprsco-founderand
chl8f exacukve cfrtcar said Oie compUter mtmU.
fackser is changing direcfion, but not ils spots.

Michael Oefi started his company in lgfia,

building customized computers. Since then the
ccrpomuon foUrld sUcc8ss wnh tha salus distribution model, albeit on a Iwger scale. Dell
Compuler sells directly to the public.
But on this early spring day, two overhead
p rojections w i t h th e wo r d s "Internet
I asstrtLurs Company" flanked Dell as he

spoke. The words indicated8 nsw line of servers

for internet service pnividers (ISPs), dot-corn

firms and "click-and-moriar" companies.
According to Dell, his company has no plans
to abandon the consumer market.
"Today, Dell is number two worldwide, number one in the U.S. and number three in
Canada," Dell said. "We' re also the industry

O'.%PI COO .

leader in gmwth snd profitability."

Dell attributed his company'8 success to its
direct saute paradigm.
"Consider the guy at tlw computer stow
whose job it is to guess what you want to buy,"
Dell said. It's very hard for them [the compelition) to develop 8 relabonship with the customer."

There are a lot of ideas

outthere and notallof
them will work... [But]
there are significant
opportunities if you're
willing to go after them.
itfichoel Dele DellComp
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It's true.Thecouple enjoyingthe sandisactually madefrom it. Asaretheir clothes,

With such success, why is Dell Computer

making8 move into the Internet infrastruclum

gi's and bookEventhe blanketthey'relyingon.It's all sand.Meticulously sculpted,

Irlsrket I
Dell said I tsmstkxN Data Carp., a Irigh-tech

painted andphotographed to fool the eye.Sowhen the artists who createdthis

difficult illusionwanted to reproduce it for a brochure,therewasonly oneprinter
they could trust with the job. AnEpson.Asyou canseehere, it captured not just
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turned what could havebeen anightmare of a project into a day at the beach.

indusby analyst firm, estimstcwths Inksnet

infrashuctwa economy will grow 32 percwnt to
US$370billion by 2003.And Boston Cosufiing
Cstuup, another high-tech think tank, pnxlicts
the business-to-busmess market will grow by8
factor of sight in the next Ouse years.

Business-to-business lS2B) is, in itself, big

business for ISIPSand 8-ccmmafce fir
m s.
"lhwe We a lot of ideas out thee and notsl cf
Owm will work," Ml swd. ")Btri) fiwe we signilicant ~
if yo u'm willing to go altw them.
He pointed to Canada ss 8 prime place for

Internet success.
"I think Canada has great potential to take

advantage of the Internet," Dell said. "Canada is

wired... FtftyMght percent of Canadians have

Inte
rnet access athome,atworkoratschool."
But, in msponse to 8 question from the fkxx,
Oefi said the digital divide if&oh separates richer countries fium pouter ones with teriattve technology wss not Ow fault of high-tech firms.
Itb nct a part cf the digital divide," hs said,
putsng the blame on an "industrial divide"
instead. "Ihe pnririem is. thee am teal-fife
economies hwe,n
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in cars. It maybetne, but they goat dilfwsnt uses."

And ss for Dell Computers Internet infraskuctum fi
fisctkxh he said the company'8 success

depends ontwothings: headband connect

andinvestment.Themvesknentcame (andsome
ssy we, given Owpoor efannanm cf tschndogy sucks lately); meanwhile, ~
connecfions we pOpplng up sll over North America.
Ths company coukl no longer afford to ignore
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Getting personal with security

Ifyou believe whatyou read,the mostcommon corporatesecuritythreats
are external. But, recent researchshowssecurity breaches originating within
a companyare a bigger problem. Companiesare responding with personal
identification schemesthat include smart cards andbiometrics.
By Tom Venetie

typing in a password, then uses it (or

unauthorized access.

very week it seems, there is another

S 6
d
news story about a hacker breaking
A variety of companies. from computer
into a orporate computer system
makersto third-party manu(acturers, are
to steal credit card numbers, deface a
r
Web site or access sensitive company
developing ways to address internal secuinformation. Companies are spending
rity problems. Recently, Hewlett-Pakard
miUions of dollars each year to protect
Canada released the H P Vectra VL 600, a
;tt rn
businessPC with several built-in internal
themselves from such outside attacks.
security solutions to prevent tampering
There's no disputing the damage an
and unauthorized access.
external attack can wreak, but the fact is,
"We are the first vendor to introduce
companies are more likely to experience
the IP jinteaectual propertyj security
security breaches that originate from
interf
ace card in a system," says Mike
within. The most recent Computer Crime
Oreskovic, product manager for desktop
and Sen>rily Survey conducted by San
and mobile computing at HP Canada's
Francisco-based Computer Security
institute ICSI) and the San Francisco
M issis
sauga headquarters. "What that
branch of the Federal Bureau of
enables jyou to doj is to take your intranet
and make it an extranet without having to worry
investigation (FBI) found that in I999,
about someone penetrating your system and taking your
55 percentof companies surveyed reported
intellectual property."
unauthorized acess by someone inside their company. Only 30
The VectraVL 600's other security features include an external
percent reported serious security breaches from outside the company during the same period.
smart card reader that can be used lo authorize access to the system.
Internalsecurity breaches can come from a variety ofsources:a dis- A smart card looks like a debit or credit ard but has a built-in
gruntled employee who has accessand wants revenge; a thief who gains microchip. Thechip can beprogrammed sothat someone logging onto
access to a system because the password is leii on a sticky note attached a system must first swipe the card through the reader. then key in apassto an employee's monitor; or a curious employee who eyes someone
Conriaaedon page 38

E-commerce
fights poor security image
When consumershear reports of thousands of credit card numbersbeing lifted
from online commercesites, they' re understandably nervous. Companies
are working to fix the reality and perception of secureonline shopping
By Tom Venese

merce site,then hidden them on a U.S. government database. The theft apparently happened in 1999 but only came to light recently
when details were leaked.
In a similar case this year, it was reported
thata hacker accessed CD Universe and made
oif with the credit card numbers of its cus-

for marketing at Citibank Payment services in

Toronto says while such stories certainly grab
headlines, people shouldn't feel they have to
stop shopping online.
"It is no different from someone breaking

tomers.And to prove noone issafe, authorities

in the U.K. arrested a Welsh teenager for
chasing is. In what somearecalling one of the allegedly hacking into an e-commercesite and
largest cases of cyber theR ever reported, an getting the details of Microsoft head Bill
intruder is alleged to have stolen nearly Gates'4 credit card.

credit card transactions," Thompson adds. "I

don't think that by itself, it should sendalarm

E-

commerce companies and analystshave

been assuring consumers that giving out
our credit card information to an online
business is assafe as giving it to the waiter at a
restaurant.
Several recent events, however, have raised
questions about just how secure online pur-

500,000creditcard numbers from an e-com-

David Thompson, assistant vice-president

34 JUNEZnan THE COMPUTER PAPER GREATER TORONTO EDIUON www.a ~ v

s.cern

into a brick-and-mortar store, cracking open

the safe and walking out with paper records of

bells that sayssecurity is not of any concern in

the industry. There were billions of dollars of

credit card transactions done online over the
Continued an page 40

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stantly but need access to their data wherever

they are.
This kind of technologyhasimplications for

word or number to gain access. The Vectra VL consumers as well. Sommer sees a time when
600 can be configured so the machine won' t suchtokens could be used by consumers for
even pmperly boot up past the BIOS unless the secure Internet banking.

"We aredeveloping a system of e-banking

person keys in the right password or number.
not
only for people to havesecure accessjto
If someone has stolen the card and tries to randomly guessthe accesscode, the card wifi be their accounts), but alsodirez accesssiam we
wiped and made usdess af'ter a third wrong can burn the URL onto the key,"Sommer adds.

ter of which offers a USB fingerprint scanner.

American Express is now starting to mll out
smart card technology in some of its credit
ards. In the future, theacards might contain
a person's fingerprint that would need to be
provided in order to complete a transaction.

incorporate biometrics in a v ariety of

devices,some of which are portable. Instead

online business confirm the identity of the

forger or artist cannot do is mimic the way a

of relying on an individual's unique fingerprint or iris scan, Cyber-Sign uses handwriting but not merely signature identification.

As anyoneknows, a skilled artist or forger can

The advantage issuch a system would reduce repmduce a signature that, to the naked eye,
the incidenm of credit card fraud and help an is indistinguishable from the original. What a

cardholder. And, as with all smart cards, the person actually produces that signature, the
"So you insert the key and you are automati- information on thecard would bedestroyed if subtle pressure hanges, pauses, and pen
cally loggedonto the Web site. This would be someone tries to tmnper with or access the strokesused.
Cyber-Si
gnhasdeveloped an algorithm that
very goodfor people whojust don't like or fed information.
And just in caseanyone hasany ideas, most recognizeshow someone actually produces
comfortable usingcomputers."
Using such technology to secure online fingerprint and thwnbprint scanners can tdl if thdr signature, noting pressurechange, timing
and vdodty. The algorithm can then be incorbanking is what Safiink Corp. in Redmond, the finger being scanned is dad or afiv~

gll est.

"Also, youcan't pufi the information off the

card since it will bedmtroyed," addsOreskovic.
The Vectra VL 600 also comes with a master

passkeysystem the locksthe chassisof the system, thus preventing anyone from geNng
inside. A common problem many companies
have had is theft of internal computer components such as RAM or processors. The Vectra
VL 600 stores an inventory of its components,
and will alert the MIS manager if its lock is
tampered with. If RAM is stolen, the MIS
manager will find out instantly.
In Europe,smart cards are popular whh
both consumers and corporations. In North
America, they have taken a bit longer to catch

cutting off someone's digit to get at their information or acounts isn't an option.
Marlton, N.J.-based Irigcan is also looking
at biometrics to offer better security to conBiometifcm your genes can't Be
SafLink provides a number of biometric tech- sumers, in this case using iris-scanning technologies and solutions that companies can use nology. Much like a fingerprint. every iris is
to secure data or systems internally. Biometrics unique a fact recogtuzed as far back as the
essentially rely on a unique physical trait that l800s. IriScan technology allow computer syscan act as a security key in place of a password tems to rmd someone's iris in order to allow
or number. The physical traits canindude fin- them access to a system or data. Recently,

many have shown to smart cards, the company

devdoped a USB token that is similar to a

ing. The EyeD mouse is a thumbprint sensor

integrated into a standard PC mouse.

porated into a variety of devices that have

some Mnd of handwriting-recognition system
Ibis can indude PDAs [personal digital
assistants such as the Palm Pilot or Pocket PC
devicesj, smart cards, PCs, and even the litic
pads that are built into laptops to move the
mouse around," saysDennis Quiggle, director of
for Cyber-Sign. "We worked on the
algoridun so that it is hanbrm independent."

Wash., is focusing on. particularly with

Tomnto-based cyberbank, ING Direct.

Sharp Electronicshasput Cyber-Sign'salgorithm

into its Power ZaurusPDAs. Sharp usm
Irigcan
worked
with
Bank
United
in
Houston,
on but they arebeginning to make headway in gerprints,voiceprints, retinal scans, or scansof
the
Cyber-Sign
systemto provide pre-OS secuTex.
to
incorporate
iris-scanning
technology
fadal
features

all
of
which
can't
be
duplicatthe corporate environment.
rity
for
the
device,
requiring input of a signainto
the
automated
tdler
machines
(ATMs)
at
ed.
Montreal-based E-Z Lock PC lnc. hasbmn
SafLink is working with ING Direct to threeofits branches.To acessan account,a ture in order to boot the system. If the signapioneeringsmart card technology onthiscone SeuGen'sEyeD mouse into asys- person simply walks up to the machine and ture is rejected the device does not boot up,
tinent since the late '90s, particularly for cor- incorporat
locking tbe personout.
porate environments. Because of the resistance tem that would allow for secure Internet bank- has a picture taken of his or her iris. If that iris
"ING Bank of Canada [ING Direct j is avir-

smart card.
"It is basically the same as a smart card but
wrapped into a USB token about the size of

tual bank with little in the way of brick-andmortar I'acilities," says Walter Hamilton, vice-

Quiggle says that in the future, Sharp wants

matchesone the bank has on record, the perto have its PDAsconnect to the Internet or a
son is allowd to acesstheir account.

Bill Voltmer, senior vice-president of sales network When that happens, the Cyber-Sign
and marketingforIrigcan,sayssuch iris-scan- system ould be used for such things aselectronic transactions, since a person could then

ning technology could also be used to secure

online transactions.
"Imagine going to a Web site to buy a book,"
"Transactions today are done either using
telephoov or the internet. And for the Internet. Voltmer adds. "You could ose your iris so you
they have decided to use fingerprint technolo- don't have to put in any credit card informati n. You iris code could be matched by somegy from SeuGen."
With dui system, the mouse scans a cus- one, like a certificate authority, that would
tomer's thumb to confirm their identity before confirm your identity and acknowledge that
granting themacessto their online accounts. you have good financial credit."
But a problem thai some people see with
Currently, INC Diret hasdeployed themouse
to some 500 customers in Toronto on a trial biometric technologies is that they tie a person
basis to get feedback on the system. If the cus- to a particular machine or network While it
tomers like it, ING plans to offer it to afi of its may work in a corporate environment where

provide an online merchant with a signature

one's pinky and can be plugged right into the president of salesand marketing for SafLink
USB port on a c omputer," says Daniel

Sommer, general manager for E-Z Lock

Much like the smart card system that comes
with HP's Vectra V1600, E-Z Lock's token system an be used tauthorize access to systems
and information. In order to operate a
machine, a person must insert their token into
the reader, then input the necessary accesscode,

The token isalso Hashupgradable, allowing a

company to manage passwords.For example,
the company could implement a policy that
requirespeople changetheir passwords weekly banking customersas an option for additional
to add ao extra levd of security to systems. The security when theybank online.

Biometric technology will become more

cards can also be used to authorize acess to
common
in consumer devices and systems
certain kinds o( information or servers. No
matter where a person might go in a company, according to Dan Reio, vice-president of salm
that token would only allow them to access and marketing for Simple Technology in
what the company wants them to, whether they Mississauga, Ont. His company distributes a
variety of biornetric solutions, such as secure
are at their desk or in another department
Sommer says this is particularly popular in keyboards and desktop scanners &om Key
hospitals where doctors move about con- Tronic, Pro, NEC, and Digital Personathe lat-

thatcan be chmked agabut what a creditcard

authonty has on file.
Biomctric portability is also an issue IBM is
looking dosely at. Last year, it launched its
Client Security Solution that used an embedded chip on a motherboard that would perform key encryption and produce digital signatures for authentication of users and

machines.
Shortly after unveiling the technology, IBM
formed the Trusted Client Platform Alliance
(TCPA) with Intel, Microsoft, Compaq and
HP. The alliance's mandate is to look into
incorporating embedded security tehnology

people mostoften work at a single machine all

day, the average consumer likes the Internet

because it ofFers the fiexibility to log in anywhere, at any time, and through a variety of into a variety of devices and come up with an
machines. With biometrics as it is now, one is industry standard. The TCPA hopes to have
tied to either one machine with the biometric such a standard available for review by various
technology or to places where biometric tech- standards bodies later this year, and by 200l
the first products wifi begin rolling out with
nology isalready in place.
In recognizing this issue, San Jose, Calif.- that technology built in, induding portable,
basedCyber-Sign Inc. hasdeveloped a way to Internet-ready devices. 0

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asmuch information aboutyou astheycan in

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a nice feeling to be able to go to a site and they
already know your shipping address, credit
card numbers and preferences. It's a fantastic
service. But at the same time, people just don' t

seem to realize there is a problem doing that."

Hino's recommendation is that companies
and Control FoNndation found that there was
should
avoid storing such sensitive informaa high degree of satisfaction among e-commerce business executives in charge of online tion on easily accessible servers. Any business
security that private information such as cred- thinking of going online should seek outside,
it cards are safe on e-commerce sites.The professional help in sening up their systems.
study was based on l50 personal interviews The reason is simple. Most businessessimply
with managers and executives in l4 countries do not have the expertise to either put the necand induded additional respon
ses fromexecu- essary systems into place, or to make sure they
are set up properly.
tives in Asia, Europe and Africa.
Still, the scale of recent security breaches

"Also, have somebody look at the site after it

should cause many to ask if enough is being is finished to find any security holes," Hino
done to make sure financial and private information of consumers is being protected.

Honte makes holes

adds. "It is best to do that before it goes live in

order to fix them. And after it goes live, have
someone check again to see if anything was
missed in order to protect information. The
main thing is to make sure your server is set up

According to some analysts, part of the security problem is that in the mad dash to get by security experts."
online and reap cyber pmfits, many companies

Sendoee available
One company that makes a point of keeping
credit card information secure is TorontobasedVain-net Corp. Its Cpac Secure Universal
Payment System is a multi-platform payment
gateway that allows credit card transactions to
be conducted in a real-time bank-endorsed

are making fundamental mistakes in how they

store sensitive, private information. One common error is to store credit card numbers on
the same server that hosts the Web site, or on
anotherserver that can be accessed easily
through the Internet.
Paul Hino, president of Sundex Information
Systems Inc. in Tomato says that kind of lapse manner, but without the business having to
makes it very easy for a hacker to get at the actually store the credit card numbers.
information. But he also understands why a

"What we do is act as the cash rely'ster for

our dients," says Dave Lucatch, chief executive
officer of Valu-net. "When the transaction

business would want to keep that information

easily accessible.
"What companies would like to do is store comes in, it is automatically moved offline to

hit Amazon.corn and the lock comes on, then

that take credit cards use. So when we move it you are pretty sure that is the site you are suposine and we get an authorization (from the posed to be at."
Banks are now also starting to get into the
bank) aff we send back (to the business) is the
the credit card clearance faciTity that all stores

act of providing businesses with secure online

authorizat
ion number. The card number never

transaction solutions. The banks see this as a

stays resident on any part of the Internet."
The Cpac system also uses the Secure natural extension of the services they already
E)ectronic Transaction (SET) protocol that provide to businesses, which need to work
encrypts information that is transmitted dec-

with the banks to set up merchant accounts

and credit card payment methods for their

regular brick-and-mortar storefronts.
Citibank Canada has been offering businesses secure means of transmitting credit
useless to them.
Va(u-net stipulates that a merchant must cardinformation forsome time and hasbeen
have a valid merchant account in order to certifying merchants so consumers can feel
comfortable doing business with them.
accept credit card payments.
"The lines benveen us and the retailer the
Ottawa-based Entrust Technologies inc. has
tronicagy. Even if anyone were to get accessto

such a transmission, all they would find is the

authorization number, which is essentially

also been working to make online transactions

physical transmission of the credit card infor-

more secure by using solufions based around mation is very secure," says Citibank's
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), of which it is
one of the world's experts. Entrust helps a
company manage and securely transmit the
digital certificates that businesses use to identify themselves to a potential buyer online.
These certificates also are necessary in creat-

ing the Secure Sockets layer (SSL) session

whereby sensitive information can be sent by a
customer safely to au online business. A customer can know if such a secure session is taking place because the little lock symbol on
their Web browser will damp shut. Users can
dick on that lock to confirm whose site they
are on. And once an SSL session is activated, it
is very difficul for someone to break into it to
steal private information.

"It is like reversecaller ID," says lan Gordon,

senior marketing manager for business to cus-

Thompson."We use encrypted technology, SSL,

and there has bmn no reported cases of people
taking credit card transactions mid-fight."
Still, some businesses complain that banks
are not doing enough to help them get and

implement the necessary security measures

theyneed foronline commerce. They say the
fees banks require to securely take credit card
transactions online are prohibitive to many
smaller businesses or onlioe startups. In some
instancesmerchant fees can range between
$10,000 and $100,000 pretty steep if a business is just starting out and watching every

penny.
These fees may cause some businesses to
compmmise on the security as they look for
less expensive solutions.

This was a problem Richard Pelzer, presiConrinunf on page48

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M a Sin tos h L i n B x Windows Pat m Emerging

Pocket PC
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Palm Computing.
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PC at Mississauga, tint,-hosed Microsoft these devices to be personCanada, says International Ihtta Corp.'s IIDC) al entenainment centres as
numbers tell him the Pocket PC could capture well as business tools. He
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2003.
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MP3 music and videos.
HPJornada640 andCompaqipaqPocket PC
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where," he adds.
early adopters of technology that have rolling out the platform on a variety of handWhat should make t h
shown a lot of interest and [havel pur- held contigurations.
Pocket PC platform appealing
chased these devices," Katz continues.
Thornhill, Ont.-based Casio Canada showto h andheld computing
"And the addition of the Media Player, cased its Cassiopeia line of Pocket PCs.
device users is its user interthe e-book reader and the ability to play Featuring full-colour displays. the line also
face, revamped from the origgames makes it an interesting device to offers full multimedia support for movies, still
inal Windows CE, and addithose users. But what we havealso learned images and music. The Cassiopeia E-I I5
tional support for Web browsis that the mobile professional and c omes with 3 2 h f B o f R A M a n d a
ing and multimedia capabilienthusiast overlap, snd the professional CampamFlash II card slot that can be used to
ties. Devices that incorpamte
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tem will offer improved verSy mholPPT
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camera or a modem. Casio's EM-500 is aimed
sions of Outlook, Ward,ind
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Excel, as well as a Foci et Internet Explorer. Toronto m late April, Microsoft introduced and supports the MMC/SD l multimedia card
Windows Media Player znJ .i hlicrosoft several of its hardware partners who will be
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Darwin 1.0
source code
released online
pple has announced the avaitabdky of
the source cade for the core of Mac
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for USS20, from http.//wwwapple corn/developer.
Apple announced the release of Darwin
1.0 at the Internet World show in Los
Angeles in early April. In a statement at the
event. Apple vice-president of marketing,
Phil Schiller, said. "The core of Mac OS X is
the only mainstream operating system following an open-source model.The new
Darwin 1.0 posting includes some of the
most advanced operating system technology available, and it's open to our customers
and developers so that we may collaborate
on the future of the Mac OS."
Darwin is based on Mach 3.0 kernel technologies. and is pracessor-independent,
allowing software development to take
place on Intel x66 or Power PC-based computing plafforms. Darwin doesn't represent
a total open-source access to the forthcoming Mac OS X, but according to Apple, it
will allow developers "to enhance the feature set, performance and quatity of Mac
OS X products in partnership with Apple
engineers."
Also announced at Internet World was an
open-source Darwin Streaming Server software, to allow for streaming media distribution via the Internet. Expected for release in
May, Darwin Streaming Server is aimed at
attracting developer support on a vanety of
computer platforms. including Ltnux,
Windows NT and Solaria, as well as the forthcoming Mac OS X.

Palm versus Pocket PC

Slim platforms offer different results
By Issie nabinovitch
ecently, I' ve spent a lot of time using
small devices running the Palm 05 and
he new Pocket PC 05 from Microsoh.
I think I' ve proved that you don't really know
how something will work until ynu try it yourself over an extended period of time. In other
words. I learned a lot.
I found that the active matrix colour screen on
the new Palm lllc is more than a frill. Although
few applications for the Palm use colour e)nensively asyet, the ones I have used seem to benefit
from it. That's not a scientific observation, or
even a very objective one, but I' vestumbled onto
some strong anecdotalevidenceofthe benefitsof
colour and bright screens.
I' ve played hundreds of games of SubHunt

on both s Palm Vx and s Palm lllc. My scores

usinr the brighter, more colourful screen of
the Palm I llc average about 30 percent higher.
I' ve played enough games to rule out this difference as astatistical anomaly. I doubt that an
improvement of this magnitude extends to
other applications, but I'm confident that the
new cnlour Palm lllc makes everything at least
a little better battery life excepted.
I'm quite satisfied with the Palm platform.
but that doesn't mean that I'm not receptive to
the advantages of the Pocket PC. Quite the
contrary. Fnr the past month (prior to its official release), I' ve been working with a late beta
version af Pocket PC OS, running on hardwaredesigned for an older version of the platform. The shipping version running on a new
generation of sleeker and more powerful

hardware will obviously be more impressive,

but not so different as to invalidate my current
impressions. The Pocket PC is a more powerful platform than Palm. It leads to devices that
are more like very small computers than
enhanced organizers.
Although Microsofi hss done a lot of work
to make the interface easier to understand and
navigate, it still falls short of what the Palm
hasaccomplished.After dozens of hours with
two Pocket PC computers, I still find myself
annoyed by the long sequence of steps
requiredto do some basic tasks.However, as a
result of my Windows experience, I' ve never
been confused about what to do. The logic of
the Pocket PC is similar to other Windows
OSes.
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Free iMovie download for Gqs

Apple has announced that owners of

Poweraook andPower Mac Gdscan now

download IMovie for free.
The wdeo-editing software. which was
introduced in October, comes preinstalled on
all iMac Dt/ and iMac DV SE systems. With
iMovie. users can imp
ort faotage from a digital video camcorder directly into their
FireWire-enabled system to edit it and add
special effects. Completed IMavles can be
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they would be incorporating ncw features and
manory systan) standard, which caa hold up functions into their populer product. One of those
to 64 MB of information.
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Pocket PCs, which come with Yahoo
Messenger. HP's Home Menu and Task general manager of Palm
Switcher, an applicatinn callel PeaceMakcr for Canada in Mississauga,
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which the company says will be shipping in
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processor. it comes standard with 52 MB of
RAM and with a set of slide-on apansion
packs for additional funaionality. A PC Card
expaasion packwill let customas of the iPAQ

upcoming Palm devicesor

through add-on wireless

addition of extra storagecards and durd-paty

options,suchasa modem or bar code reader.

device," Moskowitz continues.

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with the Palm Vll can
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Tbc PPT 2700 isa ruggedizcd device that

comes with a hu code scanner and wireless
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Microsoft's Katz said the variety of Pocket PC

Bluetooth chip, allowing the Palm to connea

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hanhree conggumtionswill give consumes a

greater choice in 6nding adevice that more Bts
the kind of tasks and Beeliility they rtquha.
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had to jettison a lot in order to become lmn

and emcient.
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the other has colour, but not active matrix. The

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between the two systems. I have made it a ritu-

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of its ThinkPad notebook computer lines their own.
The new UltraPort expansion port is locatinto two and given them new names. The
successful ThinkPad 600 series (IBM expects ed on the front (top) edge of the screen.
to sefl more than two million units by the time Electrically, it is a USB port, although the
the model is phased out) is being replaced mechanical connector is different than a stanwith a slightly larger but lighter T series, while dard USB port. IBM envisions that it, and
the workhorse 390 and 770 are being com- third-party developers, will create a range of
bined into a line cafled the A series.
accessories to fit the UltraPort. Munster
Along with product simplification. IBM showed an UltraPort video camera, and saysa
hopes to accomplish a few other goals with the Bluetooth module is also under development.
line refresh, according to Greg Munster, direc- Other potential UltraPort devices include
tor of marketing operations for IBM's Mobile high-quality speakers.
The A and T lines include the ThinkLight,
Systems Group, which is based in Research
Triangle Park, N.C. The A and T lines wifl which was first introduced on the i series. It is
sharecommon features including power sup- a small (and energy eflicient, IBM assuresus)
ply, memory, docking station and expansion light built into the top portion of the lid above
the screen, that casts a pale light on the keyperipherals.
Models in both lines will use a common boarcL It is intended to make it easier to take
UltraBay 2000 expansion bay, along with a notes or do work in a darkened lecture hall or
new device connector called the UltraPort. boardroom.
T he outer
case of the T and some of the A
The UltraBay will allow users to share infrequently used items like DVD-ROlvl or CD- modelsis made of a titanium composite
RW drives, which will be a money-saver for material that IBM says is stronger, lighter and
says Munster. In fact, the only less susceptible to flexing (a common cause of
removable component that differs between damage to components like the screen).
the models is the primary battery.
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IBM says the ThinkPad T is the lightest notemented AccessThinkPad, an electronic multimedia user manual that incorporates a mix of book with a 14.1-inch screen. It weighs 2.25
Web-based and locally stored information. kg (5 lb.) with'the CD-ROM drive or 2.07 kg
One animationsequence. for example,shows (4.6 lb.) if the Vltraflay is empty. It is a twousers how to install extra memory. The new spindle design, with the floppy and CD-ROM
ThinkPad models will h ave a s pecial drives hot-swappable from the UltraBay. The
ThinkPad button that invokes the Access two models in the line are differentiated by
ThinkPad main help srreen at any time. p rocessor speed (650 MHz or 700 M H z
Munster said the directory lists on the main Pentium III), hard disk size (6 GB or 12 GB),
screen and also be customized. For example, if and display size (13.3-inrh or 14.l-inch TFT
a corporation wanted its online policy and screen).
At 3.42 kg (7.6 lb.) the A series is the lightprocedures manuals to be available, it could
createa hyperlink from the help screen to that est notebook with a 15-inch screen. says IBM.
Within the line, there are four models with
datastore.
processorsranging I'rom a 500 MHz Celeron
tssoduct dltfesenflators
to a 700 MHz Pentium III, screen sizes rangThe ThinkPad brand is now seven years old, ing from 12.1 to 15 inches, and hard drives
and IBM says it sold its 10 millionth ThinkPad ranging from 6 GB to 18 GB.
Prices range from 54,699 to $6,199 for the T
in the first quarter of 2000. The brand has
been associated with some interesting design series,and 52,749 to $6,099 forthe A series.

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sale at this site. (The actual photos are on display at Meireon in San Francisco.) The 75 pictures hara represent the best from among I 7 million images in the Betunann archive, its creators say.
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Gizmos: cool design,

DupliDisk
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uneven execution
Suite of utilities, enhancements includes flashes of brilliance,
butnot elegance and robust utility expected from Play
Sy Jack and Nathan Suvveyev

A note on the ratings: a double-plus (++)

was awarded to features or implementations

lay Inc.is oneof those software compa-

we felt were excellent; a single-plus (+) for

nies that are interesting to watch. You

have to stop and take note of what it is
doing,because its software is never dufiand
sometimes quite excellent. Play is the company responsible for the Video Toaster, which
prolonged the life of the Amiga computer
and provided a price/perf
ormance break-

those we deemed good; a tilde (-) represent-

through in PC-basedvideo editing. Play also

lack of anention to detail that normally

marks Play software. This is indicated by
poor ratings on the first two aspects we
looked at installation and overall perform-

delivered the Snappy device and software,

which together are stifi the standard for PC
video capture.And a more recent Play product, Amorphium, has shaken the PC 3D
video world with its innovations in that
arena.

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Esdmatsdprke: $74.95 (basedonUS849.95)

Play's Gizmos is a bundle of utilities
wrapped in some auractive user interfaces.

W hen the
review copyarrived,everybody had
to take a look at the goodies it contained.

ed a neutral rating; a single-minus sign (-)

indicates feature or implementation was
poor; and a double-minus ( ) was given to
what we felt were very poor features or

imp
lementations.
We were initially a bit taken aback by the

ance, andbasic userinterface. Nonethelesswe

Did not install the optional250 MB of files

(basic install took 300-plus MB).
Installation i n structions r efer to
[ADVANCED) button, which we could
not find.
Must read user manual to determine how
to operate most of the Gizmos.
Online Help pages don't have any links to
the various Gizmos, only explanations and
images.
No screen tips (hint pop-ups) for the bewildering array ofbuttons/icons on the Gizmos.

inally, a mousefor sinister people (also

known as port siders, lefties, and so on).

Microsoft has followed up on the success of its IntelliMouse Explorer by producing a mouse based on the same optical technology, but with a shape that doesn't handicap lehies.

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USBport, CD-ROMdrive.
Estimated street price: 365
It's an ambidextrous mouse whose symm etricshape is a far cry from the radically

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Tek 800-458-f 666, 954-925-2688.

Has no screen tips for the wide variety of

buttons and icons, which made the whole
experiencevery frustrating.
Steep learn
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Nice graphics.

Continued en page 52

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Street price:3330
Overvfaur.PCIcard connects motherboardand up
to fourdisks(twopairs) for veryeffectivedisk mirioilllp.

Pros:Cost is a fraction of the price of SCSf-basso

svstemsfor seenpup a redundant mirror disk.
Connhfoautomatic fatover pnnision
Overall rings4.8out of 5
DupliDisk is a PCI card that is connected between your motherboard ribbon

cable andyour hard drives.When installed

and configured, it proceeds to write everything to a second disk for disk mirroring

and back up purposes.

A number of our clients are starting to
operate on the Internet and, thus, want to
make sure their Web sites and services are

available 24 hours a day, seven days a

week which is the norm online. Having

an effectiveway to backup their PCI-based

copied by almost everyoneelse. Also, some

systems has been a growing concern. Enter

DupEDisk as an alternative to the disrup-

ergonomic mo dels, in cluding th e

IntelliMouse Explorer, were unsuitable for

tion and cost of replacing IDE disk drives

people with smaller-than-averagehands. But

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DupliDisk is a dever and simple system

Dupl)Dhk

arcedergonomic designs ofrecent yearsproduced by Microsoft and Logitech and

lefties and small-handed computer users

alike will find much to like in this mouse. It is
sure to be a major step up from the mouse
they currently use.
The IntelliEye optical tracking technology
was introduced almost a year ago and has
really caught on. It replaces the mechanical
mouse ball with an optical sensor and onboard digital signal processor that tracks
movement on most surfaces without requiring a mouse pad. The only surfacesthat need
to be avoided are glassand mirrors (although
some mouse pads also seem to confuse the

disk copy software, like

PowerQutut's Drivelmage or Symantec's

Ghost. But we were pleasantly surprised.

launch Pnd interface (-)

IntelliMouse Optical
a boon for lefties
Sy Issle Sahtnovltch

hen we firs
t heard about
DupliDisk we thought it was

In addition, the overall Gizmos Launch

Pad was a bit over designed.

Inshdlauon and ovevauperfonnance (-)

Gizmos Mega-Pak 98 made Windows 95
(OSR2) slightly unstable (while writing this
review it made Word 97 lock up or run so
slowly that it became impossible to continue
and forced a reboot).
Installed on a 233 MHz Pentium MMX PC
with l28 MB of RAM and a 2 GB hard
drive.

Sy Jacques and Nathan Sunieyev

For mirroring IDE disks a task that is

normally the domain of much more
expensive (and sometimes more complex
to install and operate) SCSI disk drives.

pressed on and fortunately clicked on some

good modules.

Arco offers elegant basic

data security
at attractive price

with more expensive SCSI drives. And

with hard disk prices plunging faster than
an out-of-favour Internet stock, using
DupliDisk as a backup system has some
real auractions (with some caveats).
optical technology). I found performance
was excellent on any hard; flat surface. The
absence of mechanical moving parts means
the optical mouse doesn't need regular deaning to maintain its precise tracking, and
should last longer than a conventional
mouse.
Continued on page 57

Setup easy

DupliDisk '
iseasyto setup. Things did go
awry when we first attached the primary
drive (we'd have picked a difFerent naming
convention for the drive ports on the
DupliDisk controger unit), but DupliDisk
worked justfine afterthe connectors were
Continued ou page 58

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most people had a us t'or, let alone something
peoplewould pay good money for.
What a difference halt'a decade makes! That
same basic technology has been refined to the
point where text is even finer than the laserprinted text it was originally trying to emulate.
The addition of colour ink to the technology,
originaUy(or basic graphics,now allows even
the lowest-priced models to print photographic images. And the more you' re willing to pay,
the better the quality of the photographic
reproduction.

happen. On standard bond paper, the ink will

hit the page and soal in, causing it to spread
out abit.This can cause text to appear fuzzy
and images to lose much of their fine detail.
Special grades of paper designed specifically
for inkiet printers are available to combat this
bleeding. The papers are similar in weight to
standard bond, but have a special coatmg that
allows ink to soak in only so far. keepmg most
of the ink on the surface and preventing

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Print selectively. One of the main advantages of digital photography is that you
don't have to develop every image. By printing only what you need, you' ll save nnie,
ink... and money
spreading.
If you' re a first-time buyer, immediately set
For this reason, we recommend you spend a
aside enough money to cover the cost of
bit extra and purchase inkjet paper, especially
replacement cartridges. or just buy extras at
ifthe pagesare to be used (orprofessional purthe time of purchase it will give you a bit
posesfor a report or resume, for example.
of time to experiment with the rapabilities
Although the smaller size of ink droplets on
of the printer.
newer inkjet printers allows you to get excelThe cost of inkjet cartridges for low-end
lent quality even on lower grades of paper, the
models is often almost the sante as for highresults are invariably hetter on higher grade~.
er-end models, so it's usually a better value
Similarly, because each manufacturer
to buy 4 model that has all the capabilities
?tow does It work?
tweaks inkiet performance to a certain type ot'
you need up lmnt.
Although there are slight variations from nian- paper, the highest quality of output is almost
u(acturer to manufacturer, the basic idea is the always obtained by using that printer's recomThat said, it's OR if you wince every time
same. An ink tank is coupled with a printhead mended brand and type of paper.
you buy a new setofcartridges;itcan be a fairthat causes ink to shoot at the page in clusters
ly expensive trip to the store. In general, expect
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Yes, hnt at what Gast?
the cost of cartridges to outstrip the cost of the
The most common method is known as If we told you that ink was cheap, we'd be hardware over the lit'etmie ot' the printer.
drop-on-demand thernial inkjet (also known lying. It's 4 not-so-well kept secret of inkjet
Some printers are designed with individual
as "bubble iet" in Canon printers). Inside the printing that photo printing goes through car- ink cartridges for each colour. Instead of havprinthead. ink ffows into a series of tiny reser- tridges like crazy, and that replacing cartridges ing to replace an entire three-colour cartridge
voirs. Upon receiving a signal &om the PC, a can be quite expensive. In fact, it's one of the when iust one colour is used up, this design
heat pulse is sent to that tiny compartment, biggest complaints we hear every time wdo allows you to replace individual cartridges
which causes the ink to violently eject outward an inkjet printer Lab Test report.
when required. This is less wasteful. However,
through a Bne nozzle towards the page.
When you get a machine capable of amaz- this tends to be implemented only on higherThis is done manv times each second and on ing resolution, there's a temptation to use that end professional models such as Hewlettmani successive passes ofthe printhead across capability for absolutely everything photos, Packard's?000 series and Epson's 3000 units.
the page. When the process is complete, the graphics, and plain ol' text. Anyone who's done
tiny dots are grouped together by your eye to this knows the cartridges will run out alarm- tiiving tt the business
form seemingly seamless text or photography. ingly quickly, so we'd like to offer 4 hit of Prohssional models are everything you' d
Although Epson's "micro-piezo" technology is advice ahead of the game:
expect: high-quality, with laster output, and
similar in many ways, it uses electrical pulses
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perinh !dpi).and even thedraftmode on designed for home use. Business inkjet printIs(eh your paper properly
many inkjets is perfeixly presentable for ers come in models that range all the way from
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small-business to those suited for a graphicdesign shop. Networking capabilities are available for many of these models. but many are
also designed for use with a single PC.
In the world of business, in kjet printers are
not designed to replace laser printers, but
rather to supplement them. It's very important to note that businesses requiring highvolume text output will find inkjets to be both
5 time and money sinkhole. At present, laser
printers still have a big advantage over inkjets
in terms of cost per page, and output speed.
Where the inkjet does excel in a business environment is wherever full-colour output is not
only nice, but necessary. This indudes design
shops, publishing houses, and other business
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with inkjet printers is that they never seem to
live up to the speed expectations. Part of the
blame (or this lays squarely on the shoulders
of the manufacturers, becauseof the way
speed is rated. On laser printers, the quality
of the print has very little impact on the output speed. With inkjets, on the other hand,
the higher the quality, the longer it takes to
print out.
L)nfortunately, inkjet speed is typically
rated using drafi mode prints, and minimal
pagecoverage.Bcause ofthat,w hen someone
prints out a photograph (or even a sheet of
presentation-mode text), the cpeed isn't anywhere near the rating on the box. Because
inkiet printers spool from the host PC, an
older P(. can also cause the print to be slower,
When you print something on your inkjet
printer, therefore, adjust your expecxations to the
type of print job. You' re not going to get anywhere near the speed listed on the outside of the
box when you do higher-quality prints. During
tmting this month, we timed each printer with a
photograph printed on a letter-sized sheet at that
printer's highest resolution, on photo paper. Our
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certainly mbust. You can use IDE, EIDE, and
DMA-33 drives. Arco recommends matching
drive types, and suggests the secondary drive
at least match the primary in disk capacity.
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less than $2,000. This is fantastic considering

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drive,and the speed of the bus and CPU, this
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floppy.

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drive, which caused a problem during bootup
as the drive and the DupliDisk controller were
not recognized. The alarm sounded on the
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PC and the "mirrored" drive took over. Very
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Backup soushlsrapous
Our failure simulation, however, did raise
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DupliDisk does not have automatic failover,

requiring the operating system to manage a

sofl reboot. The second issue is that after the
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without mirroring as the disabled drive is out

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Draft taxi speed is rated at up to 12 ppm in black.
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we usedPhotoREt III insteail ol 2,400x1,200 dpi.)
150-sheet input tray.
Duplexing module is included for automatic two.
sided prinhng (spenfied from pnnt dialoguebox),
andcan be detached to keep pnntermorecompact.
46 decibel noise level is moderate.
Can be used
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Compatible with Windows
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Printer ships intact, with all pieces ahached except
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text printing. Cartridges are also available in higheryield versions (which are moreexpennve).
I -year warranty.
Although a few other manufacturers have
introduced inkiet printers that accept digital
camera media directly (rather than having to
access it through a PC), Lexmark was the lirst
out of the gate with this model. Based on the
older 5700 model, the 5770 offers excellent
photographic output as well as crisp and
speedy text printing.
We did have a few quibbles with this unit.
First, the default colour is skewed a bit too
heavil
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may be an issue if you don't adjust the colour
ratios in the printer driver. Secondly, the LCD
m enu on thefront of the printer forces the
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Support all Computer monitors & MultiScan MAC
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The 970Cse was the first model in HP's 900-

pushing when printing directly from the

printer.
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those issues were more than offset
by the benefits the 5770 offers: the ability to
print digdtal camera images without the need
for a PC, the ability to upload and oftload

series Deskjet printer line that we had a

images by using a Zip drive, and the high-

chance to test. It holds up beautifully despite

the same minor concerns we had about
2,400x),200 dpi mode with the 952C. The
photographic output is exec)lani, and presentation text is crisp and fast. The Mac compatibiTity I through LISB) is also a nice touch.
What really sells this model, however, is the
full automatic page-duplexing ability with the
included duplex attachment. Combined with
the high-quality output, the duplexing feature
makes the Deskjet 970Cse the ideal machine

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, 1,200x1.200 dpi fesolution,
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: Our test photographic image took 7:12 min.
100-sheet top-loading input tray.
Users can attach a Zip drive to the parallel port to
upload andoffload images from the photo cards, for
storage evenwhen no PCis attached.
. Accu-Feed technology virtually eliminates misleads
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Users muat attach a few pieces on the 5770. but
setup is relatwely easy.
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papergrade
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100-sheet top-loading input tray folds into the print.
er when not In use, to prevent dust fram getting into
the machine.
All pieces, except the cables, come
attached.
CompahbtewithW indows 3x/9x/NT,and MacOS.
Accu-Feed technology virtually eliminates misfeeds

and paperlama.
Ships with one black and one
colour carlndge.
which are both available in higher-yield versions

(whicharemoreexpensive).
1-year warranty.
Note: Z52 will not be in stores unhl June.
The Z series was a reinvention of Lexmark's
consumer inkiet line, bringing technology
from the higher end down to users at the
budget end. The Z5I was at the highest end of
that line... until now. Maintaining the same
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resolution bar to 2,400xi,200 dpi.
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Usa Cam-euarag

Plug 8 PlayUSBconnectivity; High resolution video capture

12.5 frames/sec (VGA:
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Video motion detection technology, programmable

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Remote monitoring through modem, internet (LAN) and internet (TCP / IP)

Conhnuously 8 alarm tnggerfor eachcamera; Conhgurable alarmtrigger for camera

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and drawbacks. On the plus side, it accommo-

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cards to )3xl9-in. sheets
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paper guides. On the downside, it has just the
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Note: Networking does not come standard

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end notebooks from several manufacturers.When we asked for the loan of device and insert another device while the comtest machines, our minimum requirements puter is powered on and running. Warm swapwere 450 MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM, 8 MB ping means the notebook must first bc plaed
video RAM, an 8 GB hard drive, 13-inch or in some type of powered-down or standby
larger thin-film-transistor (TFTI active- mode be)ore thc devices can be swapped.
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matrix display, and three-spindle (hard drive,
floppv drive, optical drive) or hot-swappable be tumed off completely before any devices
can beremoved or swapped. Fixed means the
CD-ROM and tloppy drives.
device is not intended for constant swapping,
but does not necessarily mean it can't be
changed. Sometimes turning off thc power to
RAM makes a difference
the system and removing a srew or panel is
During our benchmark testing the relation- aflthatis required to change a device.
ship between system RAM and CPU speed
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became apparent.Notebooks with 650 MHz
utilities software. Before removing a device
CPUs and 64 MB RAM rated almost equally and inserting another into a multi-funcuon
to notebooks with 500 MHz processors and drive bay, a user should bc familiar with the
)28 MB RA(vl.
hot-swap utility for that particular notebook.
This indicates that if price is a concern, Natteay lite
users should spend the money on more RAM Many users complain about notebook bauery
instead of a faster processor if the price differ- life, or more accurately, the lark thereof. Must
ence between a 500 MHz and 650 MHz CPU manufacturers state that average battery life in
isgreater than the difference between 64 MB
a notebook is between two and three hours.
and 128 MB ofRAM.
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Spinning sptndtes
mechanical drives, your battery wifl be depletNotebook makers often distinguish basic ed more quickly.
designs acrording to the number of drives or
Some notebook models aflow an additional
"spindles" a unit contains; the variations battery to be inserted in a drive bay, whih
heing one, two and three-cpindles. A three- should come close to doubling the time
spindle design contains three drives. Usually benveen recharges.
these are the ).44 MB floppy or Imation's 120 pointing detdces
MB SuperDisk drive, a hard disk drive, and an Most notebooks come with either a trackpad
optical drive surh as C D-ROM, C D-R or a trackpoint devie. A few come with both.
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memory) drives.
located diretly below the space bar. You move
If DYD software was induded we tested the the cursor or mouse pointer by drawing your
notebook's ability to play a DVD movie. This linger or thumb over the pad surface.
featureis good for frequent fl
yers who want
The trackpoint is a small stub re~embling a
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sitting near the user.
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in and out of the computer. T)yiafly,the hard feature.
drive stays resident, and the floppy and CDCon(issued on page 86
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Voodoo lii 3000, 16MAGF................ 169
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HP M820E SCSI Ext ...................... 99
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Six surfer types

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habits, industry-consulting firms Media

Matrix Inc. and McKinsey and Co, have
you pegged in their study of "Netizen'

types.
In their joint-publication, All Visitors Are
Not Crested Equal, Media Metdix and
McKinsey set out the following categories:
Sfmplglers: Users in this category
"need 'end-to-snd' convenience,'
according to the study. They tend to
sud with a purpose: to make a purchase or seek specific information.
Though they don'tspend much time
online (only seven hours a month),
49 percent have used Ihe Net for
more than five years. They account
for half of the gnanciai transactions
online. and want fabulouscustomer
service to accompany a purchase.
Surlers: This group seeks new
experiences. Only eight percent of
Netizens fall into this category but
"they account for 32 percent of
online lime far more than any other
segment in this study." They read
more. move fast, and are attracted to
cuNng.edge"sites with new and
changing information.
Connectms:Thisgroup indudss
nswbiss "sesklilg reasons to us8 ths
Internet" They comprise a large group
(36 peiceiit of Nie onllrle populagon)
ouiMm thanhag have made purchases. They can prefer sites with cons.
sponding bricks-and-mortar stoma.

Campuskiss.corn brings Canadian students together

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quickly became something much larger. "We
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tservice for students," says Nos Gurza, presi-

course.egay'
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music discussion groups. to forums in which

dent of campusaccess.corn (htip;I/www.campusaccsss.corn), aToronto-based company that

provides online infommtion and services for

"People are coming because theyaresee-

Canadian university students.

The proj
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(hgfx//wsw.caraposkiss.com)was supposed to be
justanotheroneofcampusaccess.corn's
online services, which include providing infor-

mation on topics ranging from career planning,

graduate and professional schools, teaching
overseas, and internships. Ths site also has
argcles from experts on a variety of subjeus
such as health and employment.
Campuskiss.
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students to meet each other online. possibly as
8 prelude to future dates. However, soon after

Many are using Ihe site to form clubs or to

use the instant massaging services to keep
in touch with friends at other campuses. The
groups nmge hom religious dubs, movie and
students discuss issues surrounding sexuality
and datiilg.

its Peb. I 4 launch, it grew into its own community, which currently logs some t I,000 hits per
day,according to ths company.
Gurzasays campuskiss.corn is now a meeting place for students from across Canada.

ing it as an innovative service," Gurza says.

"There was nothing to date that was linking
the student community in Canada together.
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freely with other students across the nation.
They are no longer limited to their campuses
or geographic boundanes
Jordan Ravka, president of Toronto-based
Visual Expressions Digital Media, which
designed campuskiss.corn, says the distinguishing feature of the site is the variety of
ways it allows students to communicate with
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auction site junkies, who sift the Web
for a good deal. They represent eight
percent of Netizsns and don't spend
much time online. Nonetheless, eBay
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percent of the veteran auction site's
visitors are we bargainers. Of

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Io belong.
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gme to read content, but don't buy
much. They tend to stick to a handful
of Web sitesparticularly those with
news and financial content,
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the sense they are getting 'something special."
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entertainment and sports info. They
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viewing the same page," he said. For Web sites, CrowdBurst opens a new window in
which they can interact with their customers."
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forced slot for a security cable lock, docking

This was the only Windows PC we tested that

included a FireWire port. Windows 98, Corel
WordPerfect Suite 2000. a L ucent V.90
data/faxmadem, and a carrying case are standard. Windows 95, NT 4.0, and 2000 are avail-

ports, inl'rared ports, 8 MB of video RAM, and

Fujitsu has an unusual device called the

ErgoTrac, which is a dished button about the

external VGA monitor ports. Most had mini

audio jacks for headphones, line-in, and

microphones. With the exception of the Apple

same diameter as adime. The button works like notebook, all had serial ports and enhanced
a omnidirectional rocker switch, so pushing the parallel ports.
button in any given direction results in the
All benchmarking tests were performed
with each unit plugged into 120-volt AC available at the testbench outlets. When configured
with either power management soAware or in
the BIOS some 650 MHz notebook processors
ErgoTrac device that plugs into a PS/2 port.
are capable of processing commands at 500
MHz to conserve battery life. By using AC wall
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and plug-in devices are dilferent (usually
shorter) than the notebook warranty. For retail prices; others estimated street prices.
example, some notebook batteries are covered Retail prices are suggestions; street prices are
estimations. At the risk of sounding like a
for as few as 90 days.
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warranties as options.
Our benchmark testing was condumed with
International travelers should also consider
what service is available in countries in which BAPco SysMark98 and SysMark2000. These
programs install cannnan word processing,
they expect to travel.
Special security features are available on spreadsheet,graphics, and other programs,
most ofthe notebooks we tested.These may be open these programs and run tests, then uninimportant to users concerned about security stall them. A rating is provided that is the averissues. Space considerations prevent us from age of two sperdlic tests: content creation (or
listing the individual security attributes of Internet content creation in SysMark2000)
each model, so please consult manufacturers and ofAce production.
for further information.

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although the company also makes an external

site allows users to choose the options they

want in a notebook. Warranty period is one
year, with a three-year option available.

Acer Time Machine software will restore your

data to the last time it was uncorrupted.
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Tal: 800-263-3394. http://www.apple.ca

Suggested retail price: $5,199
This is a great notebook with lots of features,
especially the two USB and two FireWire ports.
It is essentially a Mac that can be tucked under
one arm. Apple advertises that users can now
make and edit movies anywhere, and from our
experience with this unit, it's a realistic claim.
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which was a treat. It was difficult keeping
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movie wasplaying.

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Estimatedstreet price; $3.498
The magnesium alloy chassis on this unit is
eye-catching. There are two USB ports. Two
different bags were included, one typical notebook bag and another insert, or protector.
This model was shipped to us with only 64
MB RAM, and therefore didn't do as welt on
the benchmarking. It is possible to upgrade
system RAM to a maximum of 256 MB. The
Global Service Member warranty is designed
for users who travel internationally.

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Tel: 800-838-5487. hitp://www.tujitsu.ca
Suggestedretail price: $4,518
Our evaluation unit came with 128 MB RAM,
but this notebook comes standard with 64
MB, which retails for $4,199. Fujitsu's Flexible
Bay can accommodate SuperDisk, an additional hard disk, DVD, CD-ROM, CD-RW
(rewritable), and floppy drives, a lithium-ion
battery, or the included weight-saver spacer
thatserves as a cover (or the entpty bay.
Instead of track point, it uses a 1.9 cm button pointing device called the ErgoTrac. It
takesgettingusedto, and like most new devices
is annoying at first to those who have touchpad, pointing stick, trackball, or mouse experience. A touchpad is available as an option. An
LCD Status Display window provides slightly
more information than traditional LEDs,
which are the notebook equivalent of automobile dashboard "idiot lights." The one-year
warranty can be extended to three years and is
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This was one of two systems we tested that
conte with Windows 2000 installed. A V90 PC
card data/faxmodem is standard, as is a carrying case. Parts and labour are covered under
the one-year warranty.

At an easy-to-carry 2.7 kg, thiswasthe second

lightest (by 200 g) notebook in our test this
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disks for Windows 95and 98 are included.
The floppy drive is an external parallel unit,
but a floppy drive can also be inserted in the
Multiflay. The Multiflay also supports CDROM or DVD-ROM drives, a second battery,
a second hard drive, a SuperDisk LS-120
drive, or a weight-saver. An integrated 561Cbps
V90 modem and 10/100 network interface

card combo isprovided. The Compaq modem

cord was the only one with an interferencereducing coil.

Suggestedretail price: $5.299

This was the other system we received that
arne with Windows 2000 installed. At 2. 5 kg it
was the lightest model we tested, yet is very
solidly built. IBM's keyboard was our favourite.
Storage devices can be warm-swapped in the
Uhragay. A floppy drive can be inserted internally into the UltraBay, or attached externally.

SysMark98 ratingswould havebeenhigher had

they not been draggeddown by sluggish performance in Word and ExceL The FasyServ
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ed. Windows98. Coral Office Suite 2000,

and Norton System Works are included, as
is a carrying case. The floppy drive bay is

interchangeable with an LS-120 Superdisk

drive or another battery. Ultint's Web site
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earing advice
Playing with the latest hardware is the hest part
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Without networking onboard, thisprinter is
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nice addition to an oSce with more moderate
printing needs.

built-in networking, making it an ideal proofing tool in a production environment.

However, thosewith limited space should really think before buying this unit, because it is
quite a largedevice, especially when the lower
drawer is extended. Wherespace isn't a problem, however, the features and quality make
the 2500CM worth every penny.

Editor' s
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bond paper. Second, the Accu-Peedtechnology handlespaper better than almost anyother

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of the devices are the nunc, and the transmit-

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ters and receivers are similar in design and

construction. The difierence is in the X10

hedigital revolution has proven to be a

wonderful p)aygmund for us media touch.
polyglots.I love that I can put most of
That touch includes easeof installation.
my musiccogection on my computer and play Aside from the receiver and transmitter, the
saying I want with a fewmousedicks. It' s only other hookup is a small radio receiver,
the height of coolnessthat I can put a shiny which connects to a free serial port. The XIO
DVD lessthan one tenth the size of a video- Boom 2000 software setup is similarly hasslecassette into my computer and watch
free. The XIO signature also includeseaseof
movieswith crystal clarity that won't degrade use. Boom 2000 is really just a central control
over time.
Intel for your existing MP3, CD, and DVD
software, relayingcommandsfrom the indudDVD Anywhnm 8000
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Mpg 4ng/srtwnw$000
player.Boom 2000 automatically maintains a
From:X10
list of your installed players (it even updates
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the list when newsoftware is installed), so it's
Price:$109 gly0 Aaywhsie). $75 RIP3Anywhere)
just a matter of selecting the player for a er-

There is a prnble, though, summed up in

an old mantra: location, location, location. All

this multimedia stuff is great, but the idea of

watchingContact in my home ofiice is not
appealing, and I don't have a DVD player for
my television. Furthermore, while I like having
thousandsof songsat my fingertips while I'm
working,I'd appreciate thesame convenience
even morewhen I'm elsewhere in the house.
I know, I know. I could just buy aDVD player and a200-CD jukebox. But I'd rather spend
the $800 or so on the moviesand the music. I
already have the gadgetryit's just spread
betweentwo rooms.
X10 feelsmy pain. For the uninitiated, XI 0's
main business is the selling and licensing of
inexpensive and easy-to-use products that
enable you to remotely control the electric
devices inyour house. In short, it has yearsof
experience when it comes to creating devices
for peoplewhojust have to haveabsolute control over everything electric in their homes.
Two of XIO's recent products, MP3
Anywhere 2000 and DVD Anywhere 2000, are
a bit of a departure from its usual fare, but
they fit in with the company's twin themesof
remote control and easysetup.
The basics are fairly simple: if you have a
DVD Anywhere kit, connect the audio and
video outputs from your computer to the
cool-looking transmitter, and connect the
cool-Ioohng receiver to any television and/or
sound system within 30 m (100 ft.). The end
result: any NTSC video from the DVD drive
and any audio from the sound card will be
transmitted wirelessly to the receiver, which
will happily pipe the signals to the aforementioned television and stereo. The MP3
Anywhere kit is almost identical: it just lacks
video jacks.
If you' re alongtime reader of The Computer
paper,this setup might sound familiar. I wrote
about a similar gadget, AITech's PC/TV
Airlink, about three yearsago. The principles

tain format.
So let's say everything's set up and I want to
listen to my MP3s from somewhere else in the

house.All I would have to do isstart the Boom

2000 software, then press the PC, MP3, and
power buttons on the MP3 Remote. This

launchesthe selected MP3 player, which I can

then control kom the wirelessremote, which
uses radio frequency instead of infrared to
transmit commands, soline-of-sight is not an
issue. (If yow horne is like oursthat is, duttered with remotesfor various electronic dooda~ t ake heart; the MP3 Remote can be
programmed to recognize most VCRs, televisions, cable boxes, DVD players, satellite
receivers, and, of course, XIO modules.)
The problems start when you decide to
watch a movie. The transmitter and receiver
do a good job of beaming video to your TV,
but bear in mind that the output is only as
good as your computer's video out. When I
used the ATI All-in-Wonder AGP card, I had
to fiddle extensively with the brightness,contrast, and color controls to get my unage to
look just right. It's doubly aggravating that
DVD Anywherecan't handle S-Video.
The real fiaw lies in theBoom 2000 software
which, despite its daims, doesn't acknowledge
any DVD player software except the XIO
Media Player (Windows Media Player, by any
other name), which with my DVD-ROM
setup dutifully played the disc'saudio but displayed no video. After spending aconsiderable
amount of time with XIO technical support, a
representative finally acknowledgedthat this is
an issue that needs resolving and that a
revamp of the software ispromised to arrive
soon. However, given the five weeks that
elapsedbetween my first phone call reporting
this problem (with the previous iteration of
the Boomsoftware) and this promise, I'm not
terribly encouraged.
There is a similar problem with playing
CDs: only the X10 Media Player is acknowl-

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Tektronix Phaser 850 colour a solid hit

Sy Dave Chappelle

ektronix has long championed the

advantages of solid ink colour printers
over colour lasers. It claims solid ink

colour lasers, which take part of their technology heritage from monochrome priinting.

claims the inks. which sre actusgy edible (but

Among the advantages cited by the comps-

friendly.

The Phaser 850 uses ColorStix solid ink

refill sticks. Them am no cartridges to 08,

n~ hi c h was'recently acquired by Xeroxare faster print times, more uniform dots for

Tektronlx Phaser 850DX

printers were conceived and designed as better colour, and s simpler design that From:Xerox
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colour printers from the ground up, unlike requires less maintenance. Tektronix also Tek877-662-9338.hgpyhrtm.l

Prus: $4.195 to $7,195 (dspending on congguiadcn)

probably not too tasty), am envimnmentsgy

change. or throw away. The ColorSgx sticks

aregke large crayons,mughly 3.8x2.5x2.5 cm
(1.5xt x1 in.). The slicks come in four colours:
cyan, magenta. yellow, and black. Each stick
has a diff
erent shape, so they can be
"keyed"-each colour can only be inserted
into ils corset compartment. Since black ink
is used most, Tektronix has implemented an
incentive program in which black sticks are
free for the life of the printer. The company
expects this will make the ccmt of prinbng
black and white comparable to that of a laser
printer.

Another characteristic of solid ink printers is

that pages do not requim a dr)ring period. as
is ths esse with ink)ets. Attempts to smear or

smudge a print )ob immediately after it

emerged from the printer were unsuccessful.
Solid ink users won't have to rush to the print-

er to rescue ther pages before someone

movesand smudges them.

If scratched with a fingernail, however, gm

printed ink. which hss a wax-like consistency,

csn be lifted from paper, much like a scratchand-win ticket. And, it a page printed with
solid ink is left near something warm, the ink
can melt snd smear.

We printed several photographs, and ths

print quality was excellent, even on standanl
bond paper. Quality would probably have
been even more impmssive if we had used
Tektmnix brand paper.
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Out of the box

The review unit we received was the 850DX,

the top-end model that sells for more than

$7.000. Other models are available from
$4.195.
Full-colour diagrams in the setup guide sre

easy to

u nderstand in any language.

Installation by a licensed Tekuonix technician

is avallabls.
A CD-ROM contains setup instructions,

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software drivers, user manuals and videos.

colour connection and technical support Web
links, online registration, Acrobat Reader for
viewing the manuals, and Quicktime Player for
the videos.
A display on the top of the printer indicates
ths operating status and allows users to
change printer setbngs. With the touch of a

button. a full-colour menu msp csn be printed

(which can be posted near the printer or distributed to users).

The pri
ntercan be connected to both Msc
and Windows systems, and has paragel,USS,
and Ethernet ports.

Maximum output in Fast Color mode is 14

pages per minute (ppm) on paper and 6.5 ppm
on tr
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3.5 pp m w i t h t r ansparencies. High
Resoludon/Photo mode provides 1,200x600
dpi resolution on paper at a speed of 2 pprn.

Options include high-capacity paper tray

assembly, additional memory in 64 MS or 128

MS DIMM conEgurations, up to a 256 MS

maximum. An internal IDE hard drive extends
font capacity and is required for collation. In
addition to double-sided printing on paper, ths

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Impaq notebook clocks 750 MHz

t the end of April, Intel announced
the release of its fastest Mobile
Pentium III processor, which clocked
in at 700 MHz. Yet two weeks earlier, we
had mceived a notebook in the Test Lab
that was running a 750 MHz Intel processor.
How this could be'7 Ttm notebook in question, from Vancouver-based Impaq
Technology Inc., is powered by a CPU
designed for desktop PC.
Imfmq iNote 6120

From:ImpeqTechnology Ixc.
Tek800-663-9272.hdpyllewW.impeqiech.corn
Suggesled releil price: $4,329
In the days when the speed of mobile
CPUs lagged far behind what was available
for desktop machines, this practice was
mors common. The trade-off then for using
0 faster desktop processor was higher
power consumption and more heat 9enera-

Tektrerrix Phaser 850 colour 0 solid hit

Continuedfrom poge 92
Phaser 850 is capable of printing transparencies, letters, envelopes, labels, and cards.
Tektronix is targedng sales of this enterprise
printer to small- and medium-size businesses.
The Phaser 850 is avalable in thme models:

overag on theyshhtakge test suite, but the unit

could only be operated fcr 70 minutes before
the the battery was depleted. Sel, uses desiring maximum CPU pericrmarce .sxl wtm are

System details
Our evaluation unit had Windows 98
instaged, but the iNote 6120 is also avaiiatrie
with Windows 2000 or Red Hst Linux. II features a 14.1-inch screen, 128 MB RAM
expandable to 256 MB, a 12 GB hard drive.
touchpad with two buttorw, 6x OVD-ROM
drive, built-in floppy drive, two PC Card
ports, a USB port. infrared port, port replicator port, external mlmitor port, audio ports,
and a hardware volume controL A carrying
case is included.
An entry-level model is also available with
e 533 MH2 Caieron CPU,64 MB RAM,6GB
hard drive. 24x CO-ROM drive. and the same
ports and accessories as the desktop
replacement model for a suggest@ retail
price of $2,949. Adding a 56Kbps V90
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Phaser 850N: Comes with 32 MB SDRAM.

136 fonts. and a s uggested price of
$4,195.
Phaser850DP: Ups the RAM to64 MB and
olfers two-sided printing for $5.495.
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"There hadbeenmany discussionswith others agepeopletobuythealbum, eventhough CBC

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Still, this continuing convergence of reportword, and sefi a few of them, too. In
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April, Chapta Online (httfxlhwnv.chapters.ca) content for books, and people come to us to media critics.
and the new media branch of the CBC read about books. Now, they can proceed to
"Any time there is the appearance of a quid
(htlp:lhww.tbc.ca) announced a general agree- buy the books. It's basically an addedvalue for pro quo, it's a dicey case." said Vince Carlin,
ment that would tie the uvo sites doser togeth- our users.
head of the j
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Under the deal, visitors to the CBC section
of the Chapters site will find the latest literary
news an d r e views f ro m t h e C B C's
InfoCulture Web site, which is devoted to

ournalismp

She also noted that a similar arrangement

Polytechnic University in Toronto."The test is

made with CDPlus.corn in January has been whether the review is tuned into the marketing
"very excellent" for both the online music or if there's any influence from the meketing
retailer and the public broadcaster.She played side of things.
"It's come up quite a bit especially with the
down any suggestion that such deals between
covering Canadian and international arts and mediaoutletsand retailerscarried adangerof online stufE Who is doing the review that
culture. I n r e turn, al l t h e stories on biased reporting.
appears? Were they independent or were the

InfoCulture that mention books and authors

"The panner comes to us because of our
wifi contain links back to the corresponding journalistic integrity," she said. "It's important
Chapters pages that will allow users to pur-

reviews written by marketers?"

Whi! e he's concerned about the implications

to us [at the CBCI to stick to our integrity. of such deals, he says he's not surprised the
chase the books reviewed or discussed in the There hasn't been any concern, and there' s CBC is involved in them.
CBC Online sr tides.
"Their budgets have been cut, so the re
absolutely no relationship between the agreeLucia Lalumifre, the director of new media ment and the editorial content."
forced to make some deals," he said. "But
partner
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Indeed, as any visitor to the CBC site can they have to look at every arrangement to see
was a natural fit between two companies that tdl, its reviewers do not seem to be con- if it flts their policy."
were each strong in their respective fields.
strained in their opinions. A recent negative
Barrie Zwicker, a publisher and broadcaster
"We wantI an e-commerce partner, and review of the Smashing Pumpkins' latest CD, who keeps a dose eye on issues related to
they wanted a content partner," she said. for instance, was dearly not written to enoour- media ethics, is also a little skeptical about the

inherent "added value" of such agreements

between retailers and media outlets.
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operating in the interests of the consumer," hc
said."And undeniably,in some casesthey are.
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the corporate shareholders.

"Independence and diversity are positives,
in my books. This does not mean that independent players beit inbusiness, politics, the
arts or whatever should not form afflnity
groups, alliances or partnerships. But when
diversity is undermined by too many alliances,
then that is where the real trouble sets in. And

it has set in. The question is, how far is this

trend going to gof"
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other places.
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see the CBC not rushing pell-mell into business arrangements," he said. "Can we be as
sure, after this dml is consummated, that Peter
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an extensiblemarkuplanguage (XMLj specilicafion they say will make it easier to exchange

businessinformation ektctronically.
The spec(fication, called extensible business
repefing language (XBRL). is a newly named
incarnation of what had been called extensible
financia reporting markup language (XFRMLj.
The XBRL Project Committee that is steering the
specifi
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reflects the fact that it will be used for a variety
of business information other than financial
statements.
Mom than 30 companies and organizations
have joined ffm xBRL Project committee, Includ-

ing accounting firms such as Arthur Andersen

and Emsl SYoung, professionalassociations for
accountants in NorthAmeriica and Eumpe, softwes companiessuch as Mieosoft and Oracle,
and electnmicpublisherssuchas Reuters Group,
Standmd & Poor's, and ECGAR Online.
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CertiTied P ublic A c countants (AICPA)
announced that sn implementation on XSRL
deffigned specificafiy for financial statements
will be the committee's first product when it

Efiiot. chairman of the AICPA. "Costs to implement XSRL will be minimal for CPA firms and
their clients since it will be built into software
technology and operating pmcedures, allowing
incmesed fiexibility to prepare and extract statements according to the accounting principles of

XBRLsolvestwo significant
problemsfor users and preparer
soffinancialstatements by providing eNcient
preparation and reliable
extraction of financial data
across all technology formats, including the
Internet.
Robert Etliot, AICPA

exchange information have to agree to mark up

ther documents using a commonly named set
of XML tags, which they devise.
The AICPA spearheaded the original development of XFRML Much of that work will appear
in the first XBRL implementation, to be known
as XSRL for Rnsncial Statements. On tap will be
XBRL products for marking up infonnafion prepared for securities regulators, tax filings, and
such business missives as press releases.
The AICPA said a benefit of XBRL is that,
onoe business information is marked up using
its tags. the same data can be rendered in many
formsas a printed financial statement, an Web
document, or a mgulatory filing for the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission.
Said Barry Melencon, president and chief

different geographies and jurisdictions."

The XML specification, which is itself a

expected to end in July.

XBRL solves two significant problems for

streamlined implementation of the massive

standed generalized markuplanguage (SGMlj,

providing efficient preparation and reliable

extraction of financial data across afi technology

the contents of electronic documents in a way

that idenfifies the nature of each element. To be
formals, including the Internet," said Robert useful, however, organizations intending to

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Net, thereby reducing the need for desktop stor-

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were "modeled" duringMaloney's presentation

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wss all Ouse, as he spoke about his vlwion of the

My job is chief technology

officer for IBijji's Internet
activities. Somepeople call
me the strategist, somecall
me avisionary,and some
call me chief dreamer.

Hstoricslly, Internet usage, to say nothingof

Inte
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finely, sincethe ~
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ck says the change in Internet behavior phone as a Wbb bnnvser.
will be similar to the change people expwienced
Patrick's Internet of the fubxe will become
no kmger have to dial up to get access to the

just begun; and he made this point by mminding

the assembled Interri
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consumers that Ow pwcentage of the world's
populafion that is online at sny given time is virtually zem.
We are, Patrick said, only st the beginning of

when they no longer had to ring up an operator

to place a kriephces cell.
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sees as becoming pkmgful as compefition ytbb-enatried dwrices begin to flood the rmuketbetween cable and kri
ephone companies iraen- place, Patrick says he expects that number to
w'fice and the dgfsmnce 'vl servkxm txring pfo. decmase to 50 pwcent in two years.
vldedby each dissppews. In fact.Pslri
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futwe of the haemaL

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mme nahsal as instwri massaging coupled with

VOICG mcoglllbon, text-to SpGGCh collvsfSkxl
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the Internet e 'muhilingual intenxxn."

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be the tshvision. pager. PCAPsssoosri digital that pmsengy exist. thee 8421 be specialized
portrris where peopk7 who stuim a common
appreciate the 'poww of the click.'
interest orprofessioncancongmgste. There will
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s been fwIed by Ow advamages appliances. and he cites what N ~
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enhancement of Unux. will make accessing

Internet contentmuch easier.

Patrick makes no bones about his feelings for
Llnux,which he also eats a gameehsngec
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cksaid,based 50penent an a
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a
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"levels the playing geld."
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whsl he speaks,Patri
ck mminded everyone
that. "Only the greatest sinners know how to
really repent.
For the lest component of the Internet af
ths filiate, Psinck sale that we need to develop
a digital ID far evuyons, which wit be able to

euthen5cale, as well as receive a orization.

This will allow for the confidence that a transaction cannot be repudiated by saying that it was

unaugerizsd.
According to Patrick. digital iden55carion is
not something to be feared, but something that
shouldbe embraced." Not to be embraced
would be government regulation, except that

was necessary to make 8 digital signahae as

valid as a fsw dnxfs of ink on paper."
As for an overail view, Patrick said that the

next generation Internal wit host millions of new

businesses.
Buthewarned.some ofthesenew
b~
woul d tail... and so they should,
becausetheysre not85cwater equal.
Patrick believes that consumers are not being

linseed to enough by businesses that transact

cammerce online. butthatthis will change as the
business relationship transforms kam being
essenti
sty people-to.sNV sr,tO Server-to-server.
Hs ckeed his remarks with four thoughts for e-

mtallus. He told hisaudience to "think outside in,"

for thatwas whee the peaple am. Hs said Sut we
shouki Nnk big," but alert simple and grow fast
Patrickadvised the buikfing of a framework snd
design for scaiurility, so that we won't be the viCtim ol aur own success.AndSnaty. Pakick told tfs

audience to get a taste of Internet cukum."

Anyane who did not Imow what that meant, he

said, shard get their Wsb site appeved by8 tgysw rid to see if it madeany sense.
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wte has been s malacontributor ta'linix and co-authared Java.
Joy was ce Se kjctum circuit in early Msy with8 cautianary rneasage OiSe dangers of
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Bo o k Re v i e w s T u t o r i a l s

Mail merge magic

M

ost people and you specifywhereeach piece ofinforma- add a new field, type its name in the Field name
tion will appear in your letter.
box.andclickAdd Field Name.When youhave
a lly ha ve To complete the process.yourword proces- all the fields you need,dickOK, typeaname for
will eventu-

occasion to send a letter to more than one

person at a t ime. I r
might be an invitation
to a birthday party, a
club announcement or
a letter to ustomers.
Whatever the reason.
your word processor's mail merge tool is there

sor merges the list o( names and addresses

with the letter and creates individual leners for
each person on your list. You can then print
email, or fax the letters. And anytime you need
to repeat the process, you simply create another letter or alter the existing one, then run the
merge again. Very quick and easy.
There are many ways to perform a mail
m erge andyou can do iteven if you don't
have a hst of contacts or customers. In Word
97/2000 you can create a list and proess a

your address list, then dick Save.

From the dialogue of options that appear on
the scrmn. choose Edit Data Source and type
the details of the first person in your list. Click
Add New and continue entering details for each
person until you are finished, then clickOK.

Creases the meme letter

You' ll now be returned to your document. If

to help with the task

you already had a letter open you' ll see this, if
If you' re tempted to bypass mail merge and
not, you' ll have a blank document so you' ll
create a separate letter for each person you' ll mail merge from inside the program itself. I' ll need to type in the text of the letter or messoon realize what a cumbersome process it is. show you how this is done, then show you sage you want to send. Leave the areas in
In addition. if you need to repeat the task in how to use your Outlook contacts or Excel which you' ll be inserting data firom your custhe future, you' ll have to repeat the process of

data instead of creating a new list.

creating individual letters.

An easier way is to use mail merge. which Cmafine the addmss list
simplifies the task of sending the same letter
to a number of different customers, club

tomer list blank.

To add the merge fields that will link the

Bey'n in Word, by creating a new document

name and addrem data to this letter, position

the insertion point where the first field will

using File, then New, or by opening the file appear. Click the Insert Merge Field button
members, (lends, or family. Mail merge containing a prepared letter you want to send on the Merge toolbar, and fmm the dropinvolves creating two documents, the first is to members of a group. Choose Tools, Mail down list, select the merge field you want to
the letter or invitation itself, the seond docu-

ment contains the namesand addressesof the

recipients.I(you have one, you an use an
existing ontact list an address book or list
of contactsyou keep in another program,
such as Outlook for this second document.
Once you have your letter and list, you have
to link the two documents. In this way, you

identify each piee of information in your list

of names and addresses that you want to use,

Merge, select Create, Form Letters, then

Active Window.

insert. Repeat this for each piece of data you

want in your letter. Typically you'B add Title,
You' ll be put bak in the Mail Merge Helper FirstName, and LastName on one l ine;
dialogue. Choose the Get Data buuon, then Addressl on a second line; and then City,
pidCreate Data Source to create your name Province, and PostalCode on the last line to
and address list. In the Create Data Soure dia- reste the address details.
logue,anumber offi
eldshavealreadybeenueTo see how the data will look when merged.
ated for you. Scroll through them, remove any click the View Merged Data button on the
fields you don't want by clicking on the field Merge Toolbar, then click the Next Record butname. then clicking Remove Field Name. To
Continued on page/05

Regular expressions
Sy Gene Wilburn

shortened to "regex" or "regexp" pmvide

powerful pattern matching and text manipu~ n this
beginner's series, lation capabilities.

gb

Regular expressions are integrated into

6.0, we' ve progressed grep, Perl, Tcl, awk, ~hen, vi, Emacs, sed
through a set of building and Expect, to name a few popular Unix problocks designed to make grams that use them. Regex's am also inludyou more comfortable ed in several Windoup programming prodwith your new Linux ucts, including Delphi and Visual C++. The
environment. In the reason for the popularity of regular expreslast installment we sions is that they provide a logical tool for

Let'ssay you've transferred some HTML

(des from a Windows environment to a
Linux-based Apache server. Due to eccentricities of Windows operating systems, you may

have a mixed bag of upper and lower case fiienames when the (des arrive. Furthermore, you

m ayhavesome filesonyourWeb sitethatend

manipulating text and data. They an make

in .html and some that end in .atm because

some of the pages were created with Windows
products that retrofit filenames back to DOS
8.3 limitations.
So let's assume that, i ni ti ally, you' re looking

locate things on a GNU/Linux system. Some complex tasks simple. Learning how to for-

for a transferred tile called defaax.atm, except

explored the various ways to

of the examples in the installment used wild-

mulate regular expressions is an important

ards familiar to most Windows, OS/2 and step on the way to becoming a Linux power
DOS users, such as .httal to match all files that user.
end in .htmL
In this instsBment we' ll take wildcards and simple regular expressions
their ilk to another level. Linux programs and Let's start with some simple examples and

that it might be Ds/suit.htm To do a listing that

would atch either variant of the filename,

you can type the following:

work our way up. As you know by now, Linux

The (0d) is a Unix-style wildcard. meaning
is a case-sensitive operating system. This that for the first character in the fi)ename,

applicability. Regular expressions often

completely different files.

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match any character in this character set

Continued an page /08

s.c o m

By Jaoques Surveyer
'sual Basic for Applications (VBA) is
slowly becoming the maro language
for Windows. Slowly, because unlike
CShell in Unix, Rexx in OS/2, or .bat files in
DOS and Netware, VBA does not come with
W indows.Rather, software vendors have to
pay a licensing fee to add VBA capabilities to
their products so AutoDesk, Corel, Visio

and 147 others pay a (ee (up to $30 per copy)

to include VBA macro capabilities in their
pfogmllls.

In addition, there have been technical (actors slowing the acceptance of VBA. Microsofi
really had four editions of the language, which
varied more than slightly between the Word,
Excel, Powerpoint. and standard VBA editions. This has been somewhat rectified with
Office 97. OBIe 2000 and Visual Studio 6 (see

the upcoming VB Tutorial 12 for details).

Finally, VBA macros have been used by
hackers as an infecting agent for their viruses,
like the infamous Melissa Virus that spread

like wildfire through Outlook and Word in the

spring and summer of 1999. Again, Microsofi
has moved to partially close the door by

assigning user approval as a default behavior

f or m acros, w hich m ust a l so b e
signed/authenticated to run (we shall also
look at this in a later tutorial). This allows
organizations to control, in a password-like
system,what macros are allowed to be used on
their networks.
Despite these financial constraints and
technical impediments, VBA has continued to
garner interest. The reason for that is simple:
VBA allows users to draw upon the vast functionality of Olrice 2000, Corel Office 2000,
AutoDesk AutoCAD, Micrografx Flowbarter,
Peachtree Accounting, SAP ERP (enterprise

resourceplanning),and dozens ofotherprograms through VBA macros and add-ons

while developing their own applications. This
meansmajor chunks ofcodedo nothaveto be
developed. Instead developerscandirectly use
Excel's charting routines or Word's formatting

capabilities. With speed of development being

a critical factor in so many systems, many
organizations are trying to leverage more
from their existing software assets. VBA allows
them to develop with Corel, Microsofi. Visio

and other commerial software aspart of their

softwareteam.

VBA edirect subset o( VB

Fig. I shows VBA from Word. As you an see,
it looks a lot like Visual Basic. In part, VBA is

S la -I [Bdlafaultkbu

utilities normally provide a feature ca!Ied regular expressions, a mild-sounding term for
something that is rich in scope and deep in

means that Index,html and index.html are two

Visual Basic for

Applications

a diret subset of VB. All the tools and command syntax of VBA work in VB.
However, there are distinct differences.

Each application program that VBA is adapted to brings its own distinctive semantics. For
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merge megie

Send Document As An Attachment

Limigng malpierls
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Merge dialogue. It is better to send the mail mergeyoumay havemore pmple on your
text of the letter in the body of theemail list than you actually want to send the mail
message rather than as an attachment merge letter to. Youcan select only thosepeobecause it would require that all of the ple you want ta send the letter to by using a
recipientshaveacopy of Word (or what- Query. To do this, with the mergemessageon
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addressbook, right click an the GuestList
folder, select Properties and the Outlook
AddressBook tab. Select the Show This
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checkbox, select Apply, then OK. Now
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create your mail mergedocument.

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for creating and merging the letter.
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Job title: game producer

Sy Ross MaoDonald

In terms of choosing courses, be aware that

the producer is never involved in writing code.

s millions of garners wreck their

wrists in pursuit of that elusive high

score, computer game makers are

firmlyaware than many of these same consumers smugly believe they could make their
own games and better ones too if given

half a chance. But it may surprise those armchair experts to learn that producing games
has little to do with how well you woggle

your joystick and a lot to do with the application of management, business and market-

ing skills.
Butifyou're convinced your dream carmr
path leads to the world of computer gamesand our little warning hasn't put you off-

idea. We want to acquire that from you. Let' s

work together to build it.'" he says.
Pmgrammers would never let a producer near
"Instead, a lot of the best game ideas that are

years, I' ve grown into the producer role."

Despite the varied paths that are possible
toward this j ob, Mozefi emphasizes the
their work so learning programming would applicable to our development process come importance of having a love for games: "Even
not advance your ambitions. On the other from individuals within the company. So though I came from finance, I always had a
band, the ability to work comfortably with there's definitely an opportunity for somebody passion for product. I really love the sofiware
applications such as Adobe Photoshop and who has great game ideas to become a produc- industry and specifically entertainment softMicrosoft F r ontPage, and t o s t r ucture er, but there's a process within the company ware. We' ve spoken to many people in the
intranets are tools for communicating your that they would have to go through."
past who may have had great organizational
ideas to the rest of the production team when
Mozefi says the generally accepted path skills and understanding of IT but, if you
the time comes.
toward the position of game producer at EA don't have the desire and passion to want to
"The technologies that people want to be starts in the quality assurance department. become part of a product, you' ll find it very
learning in order to get into the gaming envi- "That's really the foot in the door. You' re in a difiicult."
ronment should address multimedia... specific team atmosphere, testing product and really
To address this important qualification, one

software for GUI [graphic user inter face] technology, object oriented programming and Perl
technology," adds Santini.

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need and steps you'B have to take to land that

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ly about the concept.

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of time working with the development

paths that can lead to this dream job, Mozefi

sums up what qualities and skills will get you
closer to your goal: "If you took an individual

groups which include software engineers

and artists aswell as with the different levels
of producers, from assistants and associates to

executives.
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toward his job, simply that the above scenario
is most likely: "I'm actually a finance graduate
from Simon Fraser University who came to
Electronic Arts to work in the finance depart-

who was a university graduate with a dual

major in business and in computer science

and had an absolute passion for games, they
would b e a v e r y a t tractive candidate.
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amazing communication skills in terms of

how to deal with people, because you have to

ment. But after a year of working in finance, be able to talk with your development team
but spending a lot of my own time with the

and make better decisions because of that.

people who make the games, I decided that' s We' re looking for people who fit. You could
where I wanted to be and so I jumped the fence have the best credentials ever, but finding
from finance to production and became an people who fit well into a team environment
assistant producer. Then, over the past five

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job of pmducing your passion.
refined ability to present, communicate and
managewhich are equally, if not more
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important than technical ability for successas
Game producersareresponsibleforthebroad- a game producer, because creating games and
er vision of each game. They put together the supervising their development to a final prodteam of artists, programmers, product man- uct is very much a team effort.
agers, and designers whose combined talents
Santini suggests that in preparing for a
create that final vision.
career as a game producer, you should enswe
The game producer enswes that afi design that the schools you' re considering have proand creative dedsions made about any aspect grams that include regardless of the techniof the game fit the overafi vision. More specif- cal calendar a solid grounding and genuine
icafiy, the producer helps direct design, ensures training io the soft skills.
quality standards are maintained, studies
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staff, negotiates contracts with independent skills, and the ability to make presentations in
developers, etc. It's a very busy day and joy- a group setting.
sticks rarely come into it.
On the job
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typically what someone needs to get into pro- Canada, publishers of the popular NBA Live,
gramming and the design of multimedia proj- NHL 2000, and Triple Play Baseball games
ects," says Lorenm Santini. vice-president and among many others. His description of his job
general manager of the Institute for Computer is much more intricate than armchair experts
Studies, which has five campuses across might immediately suspect.
Canada. "People with those attributes have
If you think you can simply pitch yow brilmore of a crmtive approach to application liant idea for a new game directly to a compadesign. When it comes to the technical aspects, ny, you' re wrong, Mozefi says.
there are fundamental skills required, but to
produce games it is essential that they have

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Liberating higher learning

While people with disabilities make up 15percent of Canada's overall population, they represent only about
one percent of university students. To improveaccessibility, someuniversities are turning to technology.
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to help those with disabilities take part in uni-

f the nearly 850,000 students enrolled

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up Rom the nearly 6,000 students with moderateto severe disabilities who were enrolled in

1995, at roughly 1.2 percent, it is still far from

regecting the percentage of disabled people in

versity life.
For approximately four years, Toronto's York
University has been experimenting with dilferent kinds of distributed learning methods in an
effort to help those with various hnds of physical disabilities take part in lectures and classes.

Recently, York has focusedsome of its efforts on

the Canadian population overag about 15

using Lotus's LearningSpace solution to offer

dasses over the internet.

percent. In an effort to change that imbalance,

This summer, York plans to offer some 20

some universities are using technologies such

as the Internet and voice-recognition software

courses that will be solely Internet-based, says

The student does not have

tocome up to the campus

exceptto write an exam.
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Atkinson College, the main York University
campus in Toronto. He says the university has

been looking at using the Internet to deliver

courses to students for some time.
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the campus except to write an exam," da Silva

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philosophy, sociology and nursing. By the
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and the Internet. With LearningSpace running

on top of Domino, the university can create
programs that can be delivered to students'

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"That is something that is useful for students with mobility and motor impairments,
or with sensory impairments such as myself,"
she says.

Halifax. BLS.

online process for students taking courses over

the Internet. A Schedule section informs students about course requirements, assignments,
and how they will be graded. A Media Centre

For some 20 years, the Saint Mary's Atlantic

Centrefor Research, Access and Support for
Students with DisabiTities has been exploring
various solutions to help people with disabili-

allows access to the course materials, while a

Course Roomprovides a forum for discussion
and comment. A Profiles section will hold
background information about the students,

ties become part of the university community.

Its most recent work is the Liberated Learning
Pmject, which, in partnership with IBM. used

adds. "The rest of the time, they are behind their interests and is intended to help students
their terminals at home."
and professors get to know each other.
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Learninggpacebecauseof the extensive experience the college already had using Lotus Notes
and Domino. LearningSpace is an application
development platform that runs on top of
Domino and can be usedacrossboth intranets

The speechrecognition
soft
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professor is saying into
text,and thetextisthen
proj
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screen in real time.

ViaVoice speech-recognition software in the

classmom. A professor is Btted with a wireless

microphone and mnducts his or her lecture.

The speech-recognition sofhvare converts what
the professor is saying into text, and the text is
projected onto a video screen in real time. This

allows students with hearing or learning diIBculties to follow the lecture with the rest of the

dass. AI'terwards, the lecture can be edited to

mrrect errors or to add additional material, and
can be madeavailable to ag students.
"We became the Erst university in the world
to put this into tluee classrooms in the fall of
I998," saysKeith Bain, project manager for the
Liberated Learning Project. "The soffware is
designed to capture natural spoken language.
If you were to sit in the classroom and dose
interest also coming from other pmfessors." da yow eyes, you would not notice anything difSilva says. "Many are starting to see the pro- ferent. The lecture is delivered as it would be in
gram as away of augmenting and adding value any other class at any university."
Dr. David Leitch, director of the Liberatel
to their existing classes. Wehave three courses
online now that are traditional classes which Learning Project. says this system means stuuse the Net to add addinonal material, and dents with lntrning or physical disabilities no
that is going to rise to about nine courses in longer have to rely on note takers. Even the best

Sep
tem
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Susan Vide, who is studying for her master' s

note takers can't tahe down everything said

during a lectwe, which can result in important

degree in communications at Montreal's information being unintentionally lost.
ConcordiaUniversity,and who counts herself
The ViaVoice software has also been modiamong Canada's disabled student population, Bedso unusualwordsare highlighted and can
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than a pager. Despite its small size, the device

GSM is almost a global standard for net-

along to promising wireless projects.

works. It's used in North America, Europe and

The CCMC is an I I-year-old organization
is sported bymany tech industry executives.
anada's wireless industry got a double
RIM has plans for Blackberry namely. in some parts of' Asia. By comparison, code dedicated "to the technical and commercial
shot in the arm in early May asmobile high-speed connection via Microcell's cross- division multiple access(CDMA) networks are development of marine products and servicused in North America alone.
es... in co-operation with industry and governnetwork builders, device nwnufacturers Canadaglobal systemfor mobility (GSM) net-

and service pmviders made major announce- work.

ments.
At the top of the list, chronologically,
Montreal-based wireless access provider
Microcell Connexions Inc. announced it is
teaming up w it h W aterloo, Ont.-based
Research In Motion Ltd. to test a super-fast

version of RIM's mobile email messenger, the

BlackBerry.

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information available on
theInternetand you're
starting to see it being

"Think about all of the information avail-

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ableon the internet and you're starting to see

power of the user.

it being brought down to the power of the

user," said Claude Brisson, Microcell's vicepresident of business development.
The standard Blackgerry ic slightly larger

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RIM's pocket-sized device will get a boost

from Microcdl's General Packet Radio
Services (GPRS) technology. This could mean
connection speeds of up to I ISKbps, com-

pared to dialup modemsrunning at 50Kbps.

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connected" device.
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function. In time, however, "you can think
about synchronizing your schedules instantly."
The GPRS-enabled BlackBerry starts its trial
phase soon in Waterloo, with participation by
I(IM employees.
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storeshelves? Brisson said,"We're notgoing to
be specific about that. We'd like to keep that
information to ourselves at this point."

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project rather than a company."
Although Cater said this money could help
foster a growing industry in Eastern Canada,
its purpose isn't purely altruistic. According to
Industry Canada guidelines large wireless
companies must oKer a portion of their revconsumers are dropping. Canada already has enuesfor research and development.
In other words, Aliant had no choice but to
the second-lowest cost for wireless service in
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"They can do it themselves, they can do it
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phones smaller and lighter, and to build more certilied research and development centre,"
services into them," he said.
Cater said. "ThCCMC falls into that third
To that end, Aliant Inc., the alliance of four category."
In the end, the CCMC and Aliant hope to
previously separate East Coast telcos, plans to
drop $) million on a wireless industry research stem the tide of university graduates who head
and development initiative. On May 4, the west to find their fortunes in Canada's eleccompany announcedthat it would work with tronics industry.
the Canadian Centre for M arine "If we can come up with the next Research
Communications (CCMC) to pass the bucks In Motion, my job will be done," Cater said. 2
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the wireless community in Canada. garnes is
the president and chief executive officer of the
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with wires," he said. "We like to move around
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tronic book display enhanced by morph into different configurations greater proportion of humanity will
MIrosoft's ClearType technology. (for networking or MP3 music play- have access to the Internet. By the
harsh saying goes, the The basic Pocket PC systems have back, for example) by adding end ofthe decade,the number of
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digital assistant" back in
m ediocre, and b y t h e ther if necessary). enough to manage Cassiopeia Pocket PC features extra(994, and coming away
third or fourth version, it m ajor g r aphics, s o und, an d long battery l if e w it h L i t hium
shaking my head. It was
no longer sucks. The Microsoft Office files, and the OS Polymer batteries, and a video capa nice technology exerPocket PC; though it bills delivers a strong slice of a real PC's ture and conferencing capability via
cise, I thought, but what
a Iip-on digital video camera. The
itself as being "windows usefulfeatures.
could it do for me that
Powered" rather than a
All I can say is that 3Com was new devices have list prices ranging
really needed doing?
Windows CE device, is in smart to launch the initial public from $729to $899 (modems, expanThe answer was nothing. No keyboard. no colour, no fact Microsoft's fourth kick at the CE ofiering (IPO) of shares in Palm sion packs and added memory modmusic, no modem. Plus the user can, and it's a huge improvement. beforethe release of the Pocket PC. ules are all extras).
Its rare m the omputer mdustry
interface was remarkably mysterious More than that, I'd say it's the best If they had waited, the competition
for an Apple product, and the hand- handheldoperating system l've ever posed by Pocket PC might have had thesedays to experience any single
a dampening effet on investor event that seems to mark a r eal
writing recognition didn't work. seen.
inflection point, o r s ignificant
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industry. However, I believe the
went to the Canadian launch of ware was only occasionally compati- The Big Thine
releaseof the Pocket PC isjust such
ble with its full-sized PC equivalents, of pocket-sized computing
Microsoft'
s Pocket PC and came
Microsoft has partnered with some a catalytic event in computing. The
away with a very different opinion of and the CE hardware form factorthe gadget du jour. As I watched tiny keyboard, faint grey screen, heavy hitters to deliver the first gen- appearance of the Pocket PC will
eration of Pocket PC devices. At the mark the point where the vision for
Pocket PCs from HP, Compaq and crowded onscreen user interfaceCasio being put through their paces, didn't win many converts. In partic- April 19 launch, Compaq,Casioand the next generation of omputing
I kept thinking, "what a difference. ular, when stacked u p a gainst Hewlett-Packard all showed new finally became clear from an endThey'vactually got it right. I can 3Com's elegantly simple Palm line of handheld coniputers, which should user perspective.
I predict that the most important
handheldpersonalorganizers,orthe be shipping by the time this Last
use this."
trend in computing for the rest of
The niain Pocket PC features I friendly and efficient Psion, the first Byreseesprint.
HP, historically the most success- thedecade willbe pervasive conneliked were the built-in Web browser generation of Windows CE devices
ful of the Windows CE deidce mak- tion to the Internet via non-tradiand email client, h igh resolution, came off a poor third.
With the Pocket PC, Microsofi ers,is offering the Jornada 540 tional computers. There will be a
l 6-bit ( 6 5,000+ c o lours) T P T
has,
as is its way,carefully studied the serien with software such as Yahoo! rapid proliferation of hundreds of
screen,two varieties of good pen
input for entering text, excellent competition, listened to its own cus- M essengerand PeaceMaker,a utility millions of m u ltimedia Internet
audio output, easy expandability tomers, and combined some original that allows data to be exchanged devicesofallshapes and sizes,many
and networking options, and the thinking with a lot of smart copy- with Palm handhelds via infrared of them wireless and pocketable or
embedded in vehicles or other applivery simple user interface for ing-while-iniproving to come up beaming.
Compaq's iPaq Pocket PC offers ances.As the cost of the hardware
aceasing a full suite of application with a potential world beater.
The infiuence of the Palm line is an almost unlimited ability to and Internet services drops. a far
software. The clincher for me was
that with an optional modem or obvious in the shape of the Pocket
LAN card, the Pocket PC appeared PCsi comfortable in the hand, small
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feature set.
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thought, especially coming from the
company that released the underwhelming Windows CE 1,0 operating system in 1996.

trolbunons, and a cradle to synchronizedata between a Pocket PC'

deviceand a full-size PC. However.
the Pocket PC trumps the Palm,
evn the new colour Palm lllc, at
every opportunity.
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computers are capable of doing. The

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may mean skimpy profits from making the actual handheld computer
hardware. If I were a betting man, I'd

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and the companies providing the
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