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home entertainment and educational as well as the medical series. Corel holds a minority interest in the company,

Corp., has introduced a 17-inch monitor that takes up about the same depth as 14-inch units. The GS771 is the fust in what the company calls its 5-class design, which uses a 100-

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

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ner thaxx other 17-inch monitors. Like other ViewSonic monitors, this model includes OnView screen adjustment controls and mob the TCO 95 specification for emis-

degree cathode my tube (CRT) instead of the sions and energy consumption. Also included ti on u t i l ity called ViewMatch. more comxnon %Megree tube. The wider is a colora deflection allows the tube to be shorter, which The GS771 has a suggested retail price of in turn means the monitor can be shallower. $849.— DT

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

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the phrases into 60 different topics, induding

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

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The Berlitz Phrasebook for the Series 5 is daimed to be suitable for 4 MB and 8 MB vari-

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

Gonhct Psion's Intemafionel distributor delails, Web site: htlp Jtwww.psion.comil nhmahonat.

Canada adopts digital tehsvtslon standard • 01TAWA fNB) — Industry Canada has announced that Canada will adopt the ATSC A/53 standard for digital television. This is the same standard adopted by the United States,

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

replaced by the digital technology. DEC to analyze translation uses • NEW YORK,N.Y. (NB) — A few days into Alta Vista's

release of the first free language translation on

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emerging as the most popular language-tolanguage pair, according to Louis Monier, dhector of technology for Digital Equipment Corp.'s Alta Vista Seat!eh service.

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

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

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'Convergence' has been a buzz word in the computer Md for years. It refers to the trend of modern media evolving into a digital format, ':;-.- which can be eas' Qy manipulated with lowest computing 'appliances.' The TV, the phone, and the computer will become as one, according to this vision. Asevery mass medium goes digital, will the PC become the focal point of daily life in the 21st century? Or will the future be more complicated, and maybe more interesting, than that?

---you typically needed fairly exiiensive produc- The fntzfactor:there ain't tion equipment (movie cameras,recording stu- no such thing as a free lunch roughou 'm o human tustory,:peo- dios, video editing suites). To be a consumer, The price you pay for trying to achieve a conpie have reIIed on facs, to-face=contact you had to fill your house with gadgets: TVs, vergence of TV and phone functions on a PC

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

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

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video framegrabbers), and output devices, (such as printers and speakers). It would have

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

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1998, offers a tantalizing sense of being

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

The road to floisville TVs are great for watching TV (obviously) and

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

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

voice phone and answering machine, with

bells and whistles such asspeakerphone, fax, low-cost long distance voice access via the

with a convergerice device to tell it what to do goad some software, surf through pages on the Web, send an email). To navigate through

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

a host of options, you need a pointing device

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

fax hooked up, you need to be close enough

Internet and business LANs or even home net-

such as a mouse, and a text input device such

as a keyboard (even with voice recognition, a mouse and keyboard are essential for making corrections, additions and menu choices effi-

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

videotape, you lose a significant amount of that. File your taxes and pay your bills elec- works), and allow the user to enter text, do to operate thesedevices, putting in and taking the original information. Analog media are t ronically? A PC can do that too. Want to email, and edit a variety of different kinds of out sheets of paper. Finally, it's likely that impredse, and "leaky": they lose quality when reserve an airline ticket, look for a prospective fiies. you' ll need to frequently change disks or carthey are transmitted or reproduced. mate, start a business, or take a college course? The perfect convergence appliance would tridges (CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, removable To be a commercial quality media creator, A PC can be used for any of those things. come with connections to all souKes of media: Continuedon page 26

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Multimedia Sate l lit e Tech n ology will demonstrate the wide availability and Development and Trials Program, and is spon- cost effectiveness of satellite communications

sored by the federal governm ent through to urban, rural and remote (users]. This industry Canada. Some 75 percent of the project's $10-million budget will come out of the Canadian Space Agency's budget, with the remaining 2S percent to come from the participating companies. In addition to Telesat

According to Telesat president and chief lesat Canada, the company that executive officer Larry Boisvert in the Dec. 16 designed, launched and o perated Canada's network of telecommunica- announcement, "Today, Telesat's satellites tions satellites for over a quarter of a century, offer Canadian businesses and consumers has announcei a major research and develop- exceptional capacity and speed for the transment program to create a space-basedmulti- rnission of video, voice and data. With new media delivery platform for Canadians.

multimedia applications on the horixon,

becomes especially bnportant in the context of the future, ~here broadband communications solutions wN become more and more mainstream in connecting our country from coast to coast.'" Telesat doesn't daim its proposed digital Canada, several of Canada's other leading high-tech enterprises will participate, includ- satellite multimedia service will be the total ing Northern Telecom (Nortel), Spar solution to the demand for high-speed conAerospace (the creators of the Space Shuttle's verged media. Instead, satellite delivery seems to have a bright potential to be part of a rainCanadArm), Bell, and SED. Using satellites as a multimedia delivery bow of options that also includes wireless and system neatly sidesteps the major limitation land=based telecom and networking systems. of land-based information networks, which is Telesat is also not limiting its vision to the limited data transmission speed, or band- Canadian market. The company has a history width, to the end users' PCs. With the help of of providing technology and consulting sera small and inexpensive satellite receiving vices to other g overnm ent agencies and codish, extremely high-speed transmissions of porations around the world. Any fruits of this all kinds of digital media can be received and Canadian project are likely to have an immeinteracted with by corporate, educational or diate global dimension as weII. 0 home PC users, The kinds of real world applications ContactTelesatCanada that satellite multimedia would be well Tel: 613-748-0123. suited t o m i gh t i n c lude h i gh-speed Web site: htlp// www.telesatca

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All together now Continued from page 22 storage cartridges or floppy disks), which would mean getting up from the comfy couch all the time. Ergonomically, a full-function, interactive convergence device seems to demand that the user be within arm's reach in order to get the most simple and productive use from it. All this makes the traditional big TV only a partly adequate solution for converged applications. A large numbers -af vendors of set-top box/CD-ROM player products (Commodore's CDTV and CD-32, Tandy's VIS, Philips CD-l, and

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Convergence to go Notebook PCs have acquired most of the features of multimedia desktop PCs, and their Continued on page29

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embedded computers buried in other devices. It may be that a PC will be anything running

How to get therefrom here At the end of the day, the best road map to

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

ital cameras, and t h e ATI All-In-Wonder graphics card, are all price examples of how awareness of convergence is driving manufacturers to supply the necessary building blocks

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

use as a regular desktop PC. The small size and clever multimedia integration of notebooks do place them on t h e l eading edge of ergonomic design and efficient use of space. At Fall Comdex '97 in Las Vegas, IBM treated the public to the sight of a N etwork Vehicle, a family van wired to the gills with satellite communications gear, display screens III utig

in front of every passenger seat, voice activated email for the driver, and a host of other high-end capabilities. This, however, was "conceptcar," blue sky stuff . In the short term, we are likely to see many of the most interesting moves towards convergence happen in the mobile computing field in the form of less ambitious, less complete solutions, embodied in tiny handheld PCs. Devices such as the 3Com Palm Pilot, and new versions of the Windows CE platform are attempting to cram as many functions as possible into the tiniest and lightest form factors. Wireless modems, digital camera cards, voice input options, multimedia business presentation capabilities, are all sprouting up on handheld devices on a daily basis. It will be difficult to come up with a handheld that offers all the functions of PC/TV/ phone in the near future. It will be possible to make handheld devices that offer a wide

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

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puter — at least not yet. However, the goal of digitally integrating all media is guiding hundreds of hardware and software developer's efforts, resulting in a flow of new products to the computer market that, to some degree, satisfy the needs of end users for more flexible multimedia computing. The end result of this progress, some years hence, will be true convergence appliances. In the meantime, here are some of the newest, most noteworthy, or simply most interesting stepping stones on the road to converged digital media paradise:

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using a single Internet service provider (ISP) account, and single IP address. The WebShare device is an external peripheral that connects to up to three PCs via serial cables, and,

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

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

o11Ipucon® Superoraph 3D Workstation will bring a new dimension to your designs. The SuperGraph-252S,our high-end workstation, isequipped with superb graphics power'. 3Dlabs GlintMX graphic processor, 8MB VRAM frame buffer and 16MB EDO local buffer graphic memory to accelerate all rendering operations of Open GL under both Microsoft® Windows NTo and Windows 95®. Ideal for CAD/CAM and animation production,the SuperGraph 252S provides ultra-fast professional graphics performance. If you need to work in any of the following professional CAD/CAM and graphics applications like Pro/Engineer. I-DEAS Master Series, SolidWorks, AVS/Express, GameGen II, Sommage 3D, LightWave 3D, Lightscape Visualization System, OpenInventer, WorldToolkit and WorldUp, 3D Studio Max, the Compucon SuperGraph

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CONVERCENCE

Nnv variations on TV-computer convergence B Y GEOF W H E ELWRIG H T

t's all coming together. And "it", in this case, is TV, telephone, Internet access, Web-browsing, email, faxing, videoconfer-

media marvels or simply big TVs for home entertainment enthusiasts who want a bit of computer power in their living rooms.

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

American telecommunications giant MCI to

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

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

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

"full Internet capabilities and Enhanced TV services via open standards." Oracle says Navigator will allow network

an ISP can receive the BeyondTV service for

shopping and TV Chat. "The introduction of

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

v iding th e I n t ernet set-top b oxes f o r bringing the Internet to televisions for as little as ViewCall's BeyondTV service. The WebSurfer US$14.95 per month. The service will be available in areas covered by MCI's national network.

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

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

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

recently worked together to produce some-

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

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

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

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

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

All-In-one comm solution from 01 Communique

As the final numbers come in for the Christmas of 1997, it will be interesting to see

how the sales numbers for these products stack up — and whether there really is interest and demand for this hnd of convergence. 0 Pentium PC, with a headset equipped with a

head mounted display in place of the usual computer monitor, a mike for voice input and control, an IrDa-standard infrared data link, and a pointing device to control menu options. Xybernaut systems are aimed at

Canada's 01 Communique Laboratory Inc. has

announced an all-inane computer/telephony integration solution. Communicate! Pro allows users of Windows PCs to combine a host of common computing and telephone

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

functions on a Windows PC using a single software program. Featuring a natural, intuitive user interface, Communicate! Pro gives an onscreen visual display that mimics several

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

solutions, PC systems that have been engi- Contact: Xybemaut,Tel:888-992-3?7?. neered to allow hands-free mobility for

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Xybernaut users. Basically, a Xybernaut sys-

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

Digital video products from VCR Inc.

customizable features, including contact data-

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

basemanagement, faxwn4emand, and pager dispatching. With Communicatel Pro, any PCbased home office can acquire high-level business fax and phone capabilities with minimal investment of money and training time.

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If you haven't used your computer to organize your personal finances, this is a great time to jump in. Today's finandal software, is amazing in its simplicity and features. By adding Internet and online banking connectivity to the multimedia capabilities of CD-ROMs â&#x20AC;&#x201D;plus the power of new CPUsthis category of software won't disappoint. Products revlevred: Quicken 98 Money 98 FinancialSuite Financial Tools Canplan Money Guide Financial Competency f you' ve used financial software in the past and found it lacking, you' ll find these new programs are real productivity enhancernent tools. They may be pretty, but they also allow you to make important life decisions. Personal financial software can be divided into two types: programs that give you tools for understanding and calculating your.

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

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

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

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Quicken site! This is good. The site is well built and has considerable content. The com-

accounts, investments, your mortgagewhatever you do with money can be recorded, calculated, tracked, totaled and printed. Want to plan for your son's university education? How about that boat? Want to track how much you spent on GST this year? Thinking about retirement? Another feature that really makes this a great program is the multimedia content. Having a voice with graphics walk you through a procedure is a such a nice way of accomplish a mundane task There are more featuresâ&#x20AC;&#x17E;wizards, accounts, explanations and hints than can be mentioned here. If it has to do with your money, and it is not businessrelated, you can do it in Quicken. Quicken makes money tracking enjoyable. But what if you do have a,business? Well, then you should choose another program such as Intuit's QuickBooks or QuickBooks Pro. These are small business programs that use the same interface style and features as Quicken but with an emphasis on reports, time and cost tracking, payroll, and complex invoicing. Intuit has also introduced a new version of Quicken this year called, Quicken Home and Business. This $79.95 product is a souped-up version of Quicken 98 Deluxe. It contains everything that Deluxe does as well as features that allow invoicing, tracking receivables, and m ore business content. This i s n o t QuickBooks but aimed at a small and home office user who is the sole proprietor of a business. Also available, is Quicken Basic for $49.95. This version comes on disc and wi0 not run o n Windows NT but does come in a Macintosh version. Much of the multimedia content is missing of course, but the program's core functionality is maintained.

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

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

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

does not add anything to the program's usability. Intuit's integration of the Internet is better. Money 98 has one area where it surpasses Quicken: Canadian content. The disc contains 175 Canadian personal fmancial articles from Canadian financial experts including TCPs

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PERSONAL FINANCES Tools to keep an eye on your money

The Canadian content of the CD-ROM and Web page are also reflected in the pro-

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Financial Suite is a mature and wellwngi-

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

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

Quicken. Like its competition, Microsoft Money 98

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

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

bring more institutions on-board, but at this time the feature is not in the same league as Quicken 98. Money 98 Financial Suite needs Windows 95 or NT and a multimedia PC with Internet connectivity for full use. With. a real value in Canadian content

based reference information to help answer Microsoft Money 98 Financial Suite is a very good program and closer than ever to stealing the crown from Quicken.

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

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

happen if a criminal accessed ane of their cus-

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

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

development in this area that makes it likely that all financial institutions will saon offer a consistent set of features:

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

Nickel and dime-ed to death With all the major banks reporting record prof)ts in 1997, it might not be a bad idea to take

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

Strategis (hllp Jls(ra(69)s.ic.gc.c8 ), and advertised as "the web site that means business," also h as a n eat l i ttle application called the Service Charges Calculator. Go t e http J/strategis.ic.gc.ca/886/ca00669e.html and fill out the forms. Yeu will be asked to enter the cost of using your ATM, someone else's ATM, walking up to th» teller, tele-banking or online

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wires, t ransistors ed the processor, the more work it can handle and microchips. in a given period of time. The same holds true One set of terms for today's video cards. The more sophisticatthat people may ed their onboard graphic controllers are, the find confusing is more quickly they can crunch the numbers the di f f erence required to produce the graphics you see on

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selves goingfrom a contender to a forgotten player. This is great for consumers, because now we' re all faced with two choices when it

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

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

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

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

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

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

ing from 66 to 100 MHz. Since it's not as expensive to manufacture as WRAM or VRAM, it offers a good balance between price and performance. Both ATI and Matrox have adopted this type of RAM for their latest generation of cards aimed at the home user.

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

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garners, Based on the MGA-1164SG chip, the Mystique 220 comes equipped with 4 MB of SGRAM, expandable to a total of 8 MB. The 220 MHz RAMDAC will ensure your display will be clear and flicker free no matter-what resolution you' re in. With vertical refresh rates up to 200 Hz, this is an excellent product suitable for any home PC. A software bundle is also induded, and consists of the following titles: Moto Racer, Toy Story, Ka('s Power Goo, CompCore SoftPEG MPEG player, and the WIRL 3D browser. For an average street price

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

6MB of 40ns EDORAM 4MB for 3D, and 2 MB for 2D). Like theothers mentioned here, it adds on to your video card. It sells for around US$175. The extra MB will help in games with many texture maps (or large textures), which includes most recent games..The P3D also has a built-in SVHS TV output. Pure 3D is expected to be available by the

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

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

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

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ideally equipped for 3D garners. Similarly, high-end 3D cards such as those based on the GLINT chipset are better-suited to CAD and rendering apps like 3D Studio MAX than entertainment. As always, you need hardware acceleration drivers optimized for the environment you are in: Direct3D for Win95, OpenGL for NT, HEIDI for 3D Studio 'MAX, and so on. 0

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$6,999. Contact :Seanlx,Tel:604-303-2932 IDC reports year of record growth in IT service Industries A new study released by Torontobased IDC Canada estimates that the information. technology (IT) services industry is in excellent health with consumer and corporate external spending up 8.2 per cent worldwide. The growth boosts worldwide spending to yet another record level of US$252 billion. In the 1997 Worldwide and Canadian IT Services Overview Report,IDC estimates IT services in Canada grew over 11 percent last year, a rate almost three percent higher than the global average. Canadian IT services revenues reached $11.5 billion in 1996. The report investigates some of the high-level industry drivers that are shaping the IT services industry, and presents the top 25 global services firms as well as the top 10 Canadian firms. IDC observed that the growth of systems integration spending finished the year below expectations, growing at 10.1 percent, rather than the 15.3 percent expected. In contrast, contract

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

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

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Scenario 1: Nokia 90001 The ultimate in handheld data communications these days does not

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

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

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

to provide the same data-transfer functionality as the Internet. • Email and Vmail: Electronic mail

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use it to send and receive faxes transmissions, email and short messages as well as access Internet services and corporate and public databases. Other applications indude an electronic calendar, address book, notepad and calcula-

when it's the only one in a crowded room to be playing Smoke on the Water. And you don't have to rely on using the phone line to get i nformation from the

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computer to overwrite the "deleted" data. Until that happens, however, the data can be munications. Email can be used to quickly retrieved. A lso, email may be routinely and effortlessly transmit all types of data cepied in a backup system and then archived across private or public computer networks, ients, and possibly on external computers for long-term storage. And, of course, printed including the Internet. Voice mail (veice rnes- used to facilitate the email transmissian. versions of email can be filed like other docusage recording) is now commonplace for busi"Deleting" email or other computer data ments. Email is not private. It is subject to ness and private telephone lines. usually does not remove the data from the unauthorized access at each computer ~here computer memory, It simply permitsthe an electronic copy of the email resides, and

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

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

gruntled employees, and 87 percent of Canadian respondents feel security risks have increased over the last two years. Canadian respondents to the Ernst Er

Ibung/CIOCanada Information Seciafty Sravzy showed a higher than average level of concern for their companies' security than respon-

Canadian companies are much more willing than their interrrational colleagues to allow third-party access to their networks. They see the benefits of ~ granting network access to customers, suppliers, and consultants

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

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

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

employee awareness,38 percent said lack of human resources, and 27 percent cited lack of budget. The most significant difference for C anadian respondents was i n hu m a n resources, identified by 61 percent as the greatest obstacle, indicating "brain drain"the lass of Canadian information technology talent to other countries — is indeed a serious

challenge for most Canadian companies.

4,322 respondents fram 29 countries. There were 153 Canadian survey participants,

Krnst gr Young is an accountancy and con-

Securing the Net for commerce

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

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

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

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

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

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compared to 42 peasant globally. The survey was conducted last sununer.

manner in which firewalls have been set up dents have Internet email with attachments on the firm's Web site in Adobe Acrobat forand configured. available, compared to only 56 percent glob- mat at bttp//www.ey.coin/piiblicate/aabs/isaaspdi Kriel says companies with firewalls may ally. IFF0148.pdf. 0 feel there is no need to monitor their systems „ but he warns that even networks protected by firewalls require diligent monitoring "When

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dents from the other 28 countries included in dents felt their organizations were vulnerable to external attack, while 59 percent globally felt unprepared to respond to threats froin within the organization.

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t wo AA batteries that are built into t h e modem). On Windows CE systems that use PC Card modems, the batteries within the'CE device must also power the modem, meaning power can drain from them pretty quickly. recognition (by using Graffiti shorthand) and All in all, Psion's Series 3c with PsiMail .will also allow you to tap text into it using an and the Psion Travel Modem (or its Series 5 on<creen keyboard. Neither would be great with free messaging and browsing software for iong documents, but they are quite adeand the same modem) is a good solution to quate if you just want to dash off a few email use with a standard analog cellular phone. replies that can be sent when you get back to The software is pretty solid, the applications . your desktop or notebook computer. are very capable and the system actually seems to work — unlike many wireless solu- Scersarlo 4: InfoWeve wireless tions that seem a good deal more "flaky" than If you want to go wireless in a more organized many people would generally be comfortable and corporate fashion, then you may want to with. look at an option incorporating Burnaby, B.C.-based Infowave's technology. It is a wireScenario 3: Polmp'llot serrli-wireless less data communications system that relies

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', HARDWARE Prevalent among these extras are keys for direct control over your multimedia — onebutton launching of the CD-ROM and Video players plus the standard controls for FF, REW, PLAY, PAUSE, and STOP. Separate keys control VOLUME (up and down) and MUTE, as well as closing down the whole multimedia operation. In addition, one button automatically launches your Web browser, wliile another accesses a programmable utility for customizing the other buttons, The Airboard software will also project a

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

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

embedded.

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

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

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

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

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

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

ably faster than the Mac in screen redraws and general responsiveness. However, on closer same programs — Cubase VST and Logic Audio examination, we found the PC version sufon machines of comparable CPU performance fered from serious timing problems: the on both platforms. We used a Power PC 603e- metronome was quite erratic when playing based PowerBook 5300 as one of our test back MIDI files with several channels, or Macs, and a 90 MHz Pentium-based Compaq MIDI-plus-audio combinations. Interestingly, LTE 5100 for our PC. Both machines had 24 the older Cubase 3.05 for 16-bit Windows MB of RAM. Subjectively, the application per- (which works under Win95 or NT), also less readily available than the PCI alternatives. formance was much better on the PC —noticeshipped on the Cubase VST CD-ROM, did not exhibit these timing problems. Steinberg's technical support page has infd' on timingrelated issues, but nevertheiess, it shows that e e the greater functionality of VST requires a a • I' mor«powerful processor. We experienced no timing problems on Pentium Pro or Pentium 4 8 s • II systems, The Windows MME (multimedia extension) driver for your sound card (and several other issues detailed at http: //www.steinbergI

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Many musicians find the idea of a portable computer at tractive. Indeed, a portable PC is a solution for the musician on the go. However, be aware that you will have to deal with more • limited choices in MIDI interfaces and internal sound capabilities. Unfortunately, the PowerBook series of portable Macs are a poor choice for musical ' applications. Many PowerBook models lack what is known as asynchronous SCSI. This

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

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

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

Bear in mind, also, that because the AWE64 is a newer card, you ar'e more likely to

tems do not need to manually configure memory allocations; the OS does it automati-

cally. However, some applications, st:h as Steinberg's Cubase VST 3.5, inay provide an option to further optimize cache settings.) Because several popular Mac music titles use

copy-protected disks, and Mac OS 8 does not support this form of disk protection, we do

not recommend that OS for use with titles such as CubaseVST.and older Steinberg applications, DigiDesign SoundDesigner 2.82 or earlier, etc. See Apple's Tech Info Library arti-

cle 30149 at http://Ill.info, apple.corn/ for more info on problems with Mac OS 8 and copyprotected music applications. Overall, we'd characterize the Mac as somewhat better for high-end users due to its broad support for "device profiles" courtesy of Opcode's OMS software, which has become the standard for that platform. Indeed, the majority of the "Studio Pro" books on the racks at music stores tend to feature Mac software and hardware solutions in their examples — a tribute to the affinity many professional creative people have for the Mac. you'll find Macs in many professional studio environments, where a sound card with digital I/O and a high-end Power Mac is an investment that pays off, an d s o ftware tools t i ke Steinberg's Cubase VST, Emagic's Logic Audio

its Windows sibling). However, we find

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

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

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

sound cards.) ln general, we' ve seen better timing accuracy and fewer hardware-related

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

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

complex MIDI and audio hardware setups. Also, because Macs have been popular with musicians longer than PCs have, some titles, such as Pro Tools and Logic, continue to b«

We' ve had good results with our Maxtor DiamondMax, an irrexpensive S.I GB EIDE drive. Those buying a new PC system should

t he S t e inberg m e ssage s e ction of CompuServe's MIDI Vendor Forum C, a thread of messages describes some solutions to compatibility problems with the AWE64 and Cubase Audio. Although the problems are solvable, one user wrote, "...I previously had

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

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

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Web site at htlp J/www.tcp.ca/gsb/net/terratecews64.html. Cons: Fairly complicated software routing. Windows 95 only (with limited NT 4.0 support). Some software components, such as the ED!ISON instrument editor, were not yet shipping at this writing. For the latest info, see the EWS info

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Sound cards for Riac Because there have been several generations of rAV" Macs, several of the software packages mentioned here provide support for the builtin audio hardware on AV or Power Macintosh models. Logic Audio, as mentioned earlier, provides up to 16 audio tracks on a Power Mac, but only eight on a high-end PC. M ost M a c pr o s re c ommend t h e DigiDesign lin e o f c a r ds: t h e 4 - t rack

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saw to it. The little wires of the cable make hacksawing more and more difficult. It could be done but would probably take 20 minutes of hard work and if the cable is positioned correctly it would be very difflcuft. I tried to unscrew the bolt but there were two problems: first, an Allen key is not strong enough to leverage the glued nut. Secondly, Poirier had replaced the case's screws with specially made pin-style screws. Without the specially slotted screw driver head included with the package,you can't get them off. There was one other test that I didn' t I make that might have worked. I could have grabbed the machine and yanked if from the wall. A number of really hard yanks would probably have pulled the screws out of the 2x4 stud behind the drywall. It probably would have destroyed my computer as well. I like this system and recommend it. You have complete access to your computer and if you need to move it simply unlock the locking box.

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Toronto and the co-author of the Web-based you' re probably getting a tempered glass or The Internet Guide, spends her holidays on plastic solar panel. At the top range of the I an unwired island. in Lake Huron, depending scale, you might be acquiring the new flexientirely on solar power for all her electrical b l e, paper-thin solar array.

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RCMP walked in and retrieved the stolen property 45 minutes after the laptop had been connected to a telephone line. Welcome to the world of Absolute Software. I met the creators and owners of Absolute Software at their booth during Comdex PacRim a few years back (the iinage of

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months, and one trip across the Seven Seas later the product was still there. The

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Each ht includes a bottle of the soluuon, stickers to post on your premises (to make thieves aware that your equipment is number. But any thief would erase the psograrn, marked), an ultraviolet lamp to check the you say. Not if he {or she) couldn't find it. I marks you' ve made, a manual, and the first can't say more except that the program will year of r egistration on t h e d a tabase. survive a hard drive format! Registration includes any lab analysis costs Absolute has an American client that they incurred in the event that your marked equiptold me about only on condition that I didn' t ment is found and needs to be tested. tell you the company's name. That large U.S. Subsequent annual registration costs are $50

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

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

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

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while the PCS band comprises about 30 MHz at around 1900 MHz. In other words, D-AMPS s you' ve probably heard, cellular ser- phones operate on 850 MHz frequency vices from providers such as Cantel and (descriptions are sometimes rounded off to Mobility Canada have some new com- "800 phones") and PCS phones operate on petition. Indeed, with the recent introduction the new 1900 MHz frequencies. of digital systems, the wireless phone equaWhat does this mean to joe Consumer? tion just got a little more complicated. Practically nothing. You get the same features, Today, most people are relatively familiar call quality and services on 850 MHz that you with cellular phones and how they work. But do on 1900 MHz, when comparing the same few are as familiar with the newer PCS (per- type of service. Unfortunately, there are seversonal communications services) phones. In al different flavors of PCS, with the main ones this artide, we' ll describe the main difference in Canada being TDMA (Cantel/ATRT), GSM bet'ween PCS and analog systems and look at (Microcell Fido) and CDMA (Cleamet and the some of the computer-friendly data capabili- regional phone carriers'"Mobility" services). ties that PCS enables. These services use different methods to The main issue, of course, is the coverage transcode the digital signal and, as a consearea. Microcell Solutions, for example„cur- quence, offer varying voice quality. As always, rently offers digital PCS in several areas of the there's a tradeoff. country, with PCS service in greater Quebec Cantel ATILT's TDMA service, is currently City, M o ntreal, Ot tawa-Hull, O shawa, the most widely used in North America. It is Toronto, Hamilton and Vancouver. Its Fido popular in many parts of the United States service in the Vancouver area, however, is cur- and Canada, bui it offers relatively low voice rently limited to that city. Other areas (and quality. (In some areas, it is worse than others other I'CS providers) offer limited coverage, due to technology-imposed limitations. In Los too, as they balance the twin goals of prof- Angeles, for example, the voice quality of a itability and expanded service. TDMA PCS systems sounds a bit like Darth Fortunately, new phones will help to Vader because of fewer bands in the vocoder. eliminate these limitations. Dual mode In Canada, CDMA is considered to offer the phones, as they are called, will support best voice quality, with GSM not far behind. both digital PCS and older analog cellular Both offer "near land line quality" — a welservices. In other words, if a region does not come improvement over most cellular conhave a PCS tower, but does have a BC Tel nections.) Mobility one, then BC Tel's services become In Canada, TDMA is the oldest and most available. And, by the way, you do NOT widely established service and consequently have to pay extra for this roaming service offers the widest coverage. GSM (an Telecommunication companies, such as acronym for global system for mobile comClearNET, offer it as a standard feature of munications) is growing rapidly in populartbeir "dual-mode" p h on e s e r vices. ity, due to aggressive pricing from Microcell ClearNET currently offers a dual-mode and the next-generation features of phones phone with CDMA/Cell roaming; Fido's like the Nokia 9000 Communicator that GSM/Cell roaming, u nti l D ec . 1 9 9 7, combine phone functions with email, fax, required two p hones. In s ome cases, messaging, caller ID and even Web browsupgrades from single-mode phones are ingf The high price of the phone ($1,500), of available. course, is a drawback. In Dec. 1997, Nokia announced that the 9000i would be availThe spectrum able with 1900 band GSM service on the Microcell, the company that offers the service Pacific Bell network in California. There are called Fido, advertises that it is the "first true more than 500 cities in North America now PCS" service in Canada. However, ATRT was offering GSM service. offering PCS services prior to Fido's arrival. CDMA is the new kid on the block. It How can that be? offers what many consider to be the best techIn fact, Fido's ads are pointing out the fact nology, and its phones boast the longest batthat ATILT service doesn't use the part of the tery life. microwave spectrum normally associated As you might have deduced from the with PCS services. ATgrT owns blocks of spec- p receding paragraphs, d ifferent P C S trum in both the 850 and 1900 ranges and providers use different (and unfortunately, markets "digital advanced mobile phone ser- sometimes incompatible) standards. Some vices" (D-AMPS) as PCS to its customers. use CDMA (code division multiple access), However, the company primarily sells cus- while the majority use GSM. Simply put, tomers access in the 850 Mhz bandwidths today's phones require that if you live in a where, it is offered, and defaults customers GSM area (as much of Europe is), you have over to the 1900 MHz range only when the to use a GSM phone, and if you live in a 850 bind is filled. Thus, some people consid- CDMA area, people visiting from less develer ATRT's use of the "cellular" band as PCS oped areas won't be able to use their cellular controversial. If D-AMPS offers the digital phones. It is widely believed that in the functionality of "true" PCS services, what is next few months, phones capable of supthe difference? porting multiple protocols (via software?) . The first difference is the frequency the will become available at competitive prices. phone operates on. The cellular band comFido operators, for example, say that prises about 25 MHz at around 850 MHz, company will allow you to trade your old

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phone in for the new type, so at least you won't be stuck with a useless "single mode" phone, once dual mode phones become

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

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

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

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

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

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Batdorf said that "business is being asked Phil MacDonald, the executive director of opportunity to leam new computer-based to drive the development and change at a the Strait-Highlands Regional Development skills. He established an internet server in wo hundred people representing com- time when business people have "enough Agency, presented the results of a technology Canso, and has completed digitization promunity economic development, educa- trouble driving their own business. survey of this Strait-Highlands area, which he jects on the co-operative movement and the tion, the IT iinformation technology) notedcould be used as a benchmark formea- Sable Offshore Gas project. industries and government converged on llae U.S. exisevfeuce suring the development of information techDon Campbell of Graphics Factory, says Baddeck, Cape Breton in late 1997 to discuss Florine P. Raitano, a nology in the region. "you can operate a successful business anythe impact on rural areas of the impact of veterinarian an d MacDonald said 37 percent of businesses where in Nova Scotia." Graphics Factory proswitching from a resource- to service-based executive director of susveyed did not use a computer and that 84 vides high-quality, specialized service to economy now that the Information Age is the Colorado Rural percent were not on the Internet, and the graphic artists and other customers Campbell nigh. D e v e l o p m e n t most common use ofcomp uters- 83 percent says that being able to keep pace with technos,:+ While the focus of the conference was on Council, shared U.S. of the business that used computers — was for logical developments will be important in the harnessing the promise of technology to examples of where IT accounting. long term. "Having access to high bandwidth shape a strong economy for rural Nova Scotia, had worked and in rural areas of the province will be the key," the problemsdiscussed and advice given was failed in rural eco- Successsteppes according to Campbell. apphcable to rural areas across Canada. nomic development. Some of the people and companies taking , ss':; One fai l u r e D r . advantage of new technolgies were showcased Sanctwi4th is here s9 llrban satellites Flo (as she pret'ers to during the conference, including Arms like Ed Bottrell, the managing director of IWAN D avid Amirault, an economist with t h e be called) described TACS Software Programming, Novacan, TGIS (integrated wide area network) Nova Scotia Atlantic Provinces Fconomic Council, and a was how a fibre optic cable was mn into Lusk., Consulting, Graphics Factory and Progeny says bandwidth is here. Bottrell said fibre panel member at the conference, told the Wyo. before the town had any reason to use Software. optics can now provide data transfer at 80 bil. group that as economies shift toward a service l' t. T ACS is l ocated i n t h e v i l l age o f lion bits per second, and IWAN is "working on base, it is the rural areas that usually suffer. She said that the lesson to be learned from Johnstown, Cape Breton, and specializes in examples of trillions of bits per second" which However, "I'I' has the ability to create tentacles the Lusk experiment was to "invest m people financial software support, the Year 2000 we will see in the future. into the rural area." first jwhen you'rej starting from ground zero." problem and transferring data from mainBottrell said that one fibre can handle Amirault suggested rural communities try Education is the key, she said, when "people frames to PCs. From johnstown, owner Tom simultaneously "the entire population of to cash in on the knowledge economy by think that a mouse is something you catch in Campbell works for clients in Boston, Los Nova Scotia speaking on the telephone,'* and becoming urban satellites. For this to happen, a trap." Angeles and North Carolina. "We are only at each cable has from 12 to 144 flbres. communities need a ccess t o f a c i lities, In many areas, Dr. Ho said, "the school has the tip of the iceberg in what can be done," telecommunications and transportation Infra- a Tl line, the medical centre has a TI, and the Campbeg said. Mtfheee te fr'urri heret structure, as well as social infrastructure like governme Novacan i s o p e rated b y E l i sabeth Steve Stairs, chair of th e NovaKnowledge nt is saying 'T-what?'" schools and health care, he said. ln Silverton, Col.— a town whose popu- Schwarzer, who moved from Germany to Council, said the objective of the conference A pitfall, Amirault pointed out, is "a clash lation dropped to 350 from 4,000 when Nova Scotia's astern Shore in 1995. Novacan was to understand rural economic developbetween rural developtnent and q u aint mining ceased — community leaders used offers programming, training, and Web-site ment, where the opportunities are, and to get lifestyle." Amirauit suggested rural areas focus information technology to save the town design to local and international clients. an action plan to make it happen. on using 11' to sustain existing sectors such as from disappearing completely. The process Schwarzer is also involved in a project called Dr. Flo, said rural Nova Scotia should be forestry, manufacturing and tourism, and began with a technology awareness work- Highway 7, which is an electronic magazine prosperous, because it has the basic building develop technological expertise in these estab- shop that addressed the question, "What is featuring small business, tourist attractions blocks of the economy. She did caution Nova lished industries. the World W ide Web, anyway?" Local and scenery along Highway 7 on Nova Scotia's Scotians to "hang on to their values" as they An oft-cited barrier to growth among teachersand students developed Web pages EasternShore. Schwarzer said tourists from begin to piece the blocks together. In her final high-knowledge companies is "the availabili- and p Silverton as a tourist destina- Texas have walked into an Eastern Shore remarks, she also encouraged communities to romoted ty of skilled people," something that would tion. Now tourists travel to the town on a restaurant with a c opy o f a p age from take action while accepting some of the shortbe especially true for rural areas. "The educa- narrow gauge railway that used to serve the Highway 7, which demonstrates the success comings of rural living: "You chose to live in tion system is the most significant determi- mine. and breadth of this approach. rural places; quit your bitching." 0 nant of where the IT i ndustry will go," Partnerships are critical, Dr. Flo says. It' s TGIS Consulting is operating in j o bArnirault said, reinforcing the need to focus got to come from the bottom up ...the civic starved Canso, which is suffering from a Ralph 0eCoste is a computer traillerlcansultantarid on education. infrastructure has to change. Citizens have to downturn in the fishery that has been the freelancejournalist based in Eastern NovaScotia. He Robert Proctor, of the Strait East Nova take things in their own hands." mainstay of the community for over 400 can be corltacted at rdecoste@fox.nstlt.ca This article Scotia Community Fnterprise Network, also She said t h e m a verick at titude of years.'I'roy Greencorn of TGIS started a train- was writteh in a home allies in the rural hamlet ol East stressed the need for rural Nova Scotians to Coloradans ls suited tn this tactic. Their atti- ing centre offering displaced fishers the Tracadie, MavaScotia. be comfortable with technology. "If we can' t tude includes approaches such as, "If it ain' t use the technologies available now, how are broke, break it; the federai government is irrelwe going to s eize new o pportunities?" evant, and it's better to ask forgiveness than Proctor asked, adding that "education is the pe fAllssl0 n. key." Dr. Flo said communities have to do a seriTeresa MacNeil, an educator and leader ous self examination, find out what the comB Y M A R T Y N W'I L L I A M 5 =-,:-:,-=::=-'.=--=-.—::-.-'..--=,=:-"::,'=';.',.-,,;=,::-~=-~ -"-„ in communityeconomic d in munity's strengths are and play to them. xiii %4; e astern Nova Scotia took exception t o Participants also have to be "committed to TOKYO {NH) — Sorry Corporatiots ~ reer and chief advisor, Masaru Ibuka died in mid"lumping education together." She said the place." She referred again to the success in December of heart failure at hfs bornein:Tokyo. He was 89 and is survived by one son and ' term, "education is the key" was not very Silverton, and the commitment of the people. ~ ~ , "=-:=.-.' -',:::,;~-:=":==":==.: j'::-':~-:-',~..:- ,=~ : -~ two daughters ~ 4:.~~ helpful. "What does that mean — using a fax- "They will not let Silverton become a ghost . Ibuka was born' In'1908 ates,5'eg'ai'."kfs~ % n g l i f e at Ph otochemical Laboratory, a modem or becoming very capable with a town. company that processed moffat:picture film. frt:May'1946, he founded Tokyo'Tsushin colllputef? Kogyo K.K. with Akio Morfta The.cxt'ttzp'atty-carried out research Into magnetic powder» MacNeil stressed the i m portance of Netulorhtng and tape base materiaI aitd devel@pe'd:tfte:magnetic i@cording tape in 1949. A year tater, being specific: "Are we talking about degree T he c o n ference w a s s p o nsored b y the company developed,and sold the:5@t tape'fecorder lu JaparL;- M~~ ~ ~ ~~ programs or an awareness-raising after- NovaKnowledge, a non-profit organization ~~ j,ln the folfowing 'year'i."fh'e'ctiiiipa~:tfevefop'ed'Jayi'a's erst' transistor radio and Grit noon?" with mandate to p romote a sustainable t'ransistor televisioti; fii 1958,'the":6mipiauy becime Sony. Corporation. From 1967, Ibuka: Proctor said that all facets of education are knowledge-basedeconomy in Nova Scotia. managed the reseaieh:,att'tf dereIrrpimxf,':,teart:that'~loped the Tjrfttftron televisfoa sys-", important, and that "educational institutions One of the anticipated benefits of the tem, still trsed in Sorry.Mid.zo.,8ifs:4i j."=='-;-;" -— ~=.'-> .'::~"j~<+~-.;-~~f~g have to become more dynamic" in responding conference was the networking among the 4":9 Sony credIted Ibt'r'ka-ss&esttttjivatermhol&~ C ot t tpany'to create hew and ttttfqtte. to the needs of the community. participants. Tiiu Poder of the Q. Francis 'products that-5roJti,". fiottI the )~ u se-:.,:4xr~rite:.:&dittoit of copying technofbgy.and' Luke Batdorf, of Teresa MacNeil Associates, Xavier University Enterprise Centre said "netideas from- the "~,'The': c'oritjraig,'::mid,'„= ":Qadi'.:+jftg":@ 5~Is ~u said that "themajor barrier to rural development working is more important in the IT industry is attitude. 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sion compared. I'he design talent at Ql)t is of the highest order, coinprising over 80 engineers, and Qlll's technical innovations include the first workable "jumperless" I'C motherboards. 'I'he QDI facility manufactures niultilayer (up to six layer) motherboards, claiming a failure/return rate of under t'ive per 1,0()0 (0.S percent). Ql')I ships all its boards overseas by air freight (an expense that is often higher than the cost to nianufacture the boards), and can only maintain a profit margin in the competitive international market if its return rates are very low. 'I'he manufacturing processes and quality control were as good as any I' ve seen elsewhere in the world. I talked to Chinese computer journalists during my stay, and they were very curious about con)puting in Canada, and surprised at the percentage of Canadian households with computers. (.:anada is well regarded by most Chinese, and Qt>t and other Chinese technology fir)us regard (.anada as an importailt illarket. despite our relatively nlodest population. Chinese domestic sales of PCs are increasing rapidly, from Bbo(it five million this year, to perhaps eight nlil lion next year. However, in a country with 1.2 t>illion people, most of them too poor to aft'ord a I'C yet, it Illay be many years before I'Cs are as pervasive in Chinese daily life as they are in Canada. However, a hungry and rapidly expanding Chinese domestic I'C market is likely to balance the export market as the other great opportunity for Chinese computer makers, and provide a greater degree of stability to Chinese high-tech vendors, 'I'he Chinese computer market should also be regarded as a great opportunity for CBOBdian technology I'irms.

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helping to make the (".anadian I'(. market one of the world' s inost etticient and prie( conlpetitive. At the same iiine, the (.:hii)ese in Cailada, in common with inany other in)migrant gr(>ups iil t his country, have a (omplicated relatio»shit> w)th (heir ailcestral hoineland. Many Chinese (.anadians ire retugees froiil the wars and revolutions of 2()th cent(in China, or th( children of refugees. Yet, the

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

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

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