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By John Battelle West Des Moines, Iowa -- Next to CE Software Inc.'s offices here is a wooded creek bed that, according to company President Dick Skeie, lures deer, fox […]

By John Battelle Bellevue, Wash. -- Software testers beware: The Macintosh Consultants Network is gunning for your jobs. MCN last month announced the Vendor Product Awareness program, designed to create […]

By John Battelle and John Webster Santa Clara, Calif. -- As early users of 32-bit QuickDraw video boards can attest, running true color is painfully slow even on fast Macs. […]

By John Battelle San Francisco -- Microsoft Corp. will incorporate Macintosh support into its OS/2 LAN Manager networking software by fall, according to CEO Bill Gates. In response to questions […]

By John Battelle Cupertino, Calif. -- For all the energy Apple evangelists devoted to touting the benefits of System 7.0 to developers attending this month's Worldwide Developers Conference, how well […]

By John Battelle Cupertino, Calif. -- The vow by top Apple executives to ship lower-cost Macs in high volumes within the next 12 months may have sounded like a harbinger […]

By John Battelle San Jose, Calif. -- The next 24 months will be a test of Apple's continued success in the personal computer market, according to CEO John Sculley, who […]

Q&A, dBASE IV for Mac previewed By Carolyn Said and John Battelle San Diego -- The Macintosh Consultants Network has found that developers are taking it seriously -- to the […]

By John Battelle New York -- Those who would argue that the 31-month gestation period of the Apple-Digital Equipment Corp. alliance is not elephantine would nevertheless agree that the delivery […]

By John Battelle Cupertino, Calif. -- Access to information will never be the same if Apple can convince its developers to support System 7.0's Database Access Manager, or DAM. Apple, […]

By John Battelle San Francisco -- Although Lotus Development Corp. and Novell Inc. announced their intent to merge two weeks ago, it might be a while before customers notice any […]

Marketing to feds is Falcon's specialty By John Battelle Landover, Md. -- Apple's only authorized federal re-seller is on a tight deadline to make an RFP to the DOD. The […]

Manager's Pack links admin tools By John Battelle Emeryville, Calif. -- Only weeks after inking a licensing agreement that will allow it to market Novell Inc.'s Ethernet cards, Farallon Computing […]

By John Battelle Cupertino, Calif. -- In January 1988, Apple and Digital Equipment Corp. shook hands in a joint agreement to integrate the Macintosh with DEC's VAX minicomputers. This May […]

By John Battelle Santa Clara, Calif. -- While its competitors ready the challengers, Claris Corp. will roll out a robust new version of its top-selling FileMaker database manager here this […]

By John Battelle Provo, Utah -- Networking giant Novell Inc., which last March swallowed San Jose, Calif.-based Excelan Inc. only months after Excelan had gobbled up Kinetics Inc., has reorganized […]

IIfx upgrade sets off chain reaction By John Battelle Cupertino, Calif. -- If you bought any kind of accelerator for your Macintosh last month, go ahead and kick yourself. Apple's […]

By John Battelle San Jose, Calif. -- Apple last week proved that you can teach an old box new tricks, unveiling the most powerful Macintosh to date in a familiar […]

Big developers turn to ClearAccess DA By John Battelle Fairfield, Iowa -- Fly to Des Moines, Iowa's capital, rent a car and drive southeast. If you flick on your car […]

By John Battelle San Jose, Calif. -- Apple hopes that the introduction of the Macintosh IIfx, new video display cards and A/UX 2.0 here this week will prove unequivocally that […]

By John Battelle San Jose, Calif. -- With the introduction of its new color video cards here this week, Apple wants to give customers the chance to get 24 bits […]

By John Battelle Cupertino, Calif. -- The forthcoming Mac IIfx, rife with features aimed at the high-end personal computer and workstation market, marks Apple's first serious assault on what has […]

But delays could shake confidence By John Battelle Cupertino, Calif. -- A non-stop barrage of news about Apple's travails has left Mac managers worried but confident about the company's future […]

MacWEEK examines how network managers deal with less-than-ideal situations. 1990: multivendor connectivity The introduction of the Macintosh SE/30, IIcx, IIci and Portable may have made 1989 the year of the […]

Six companies compete in distributed file sharing segment By John Battelle One year ago, the only company offering distributed file serving -- which allows file sharing without a dedicated computer […]

Exec Query Tool fronts host data By John Battelle Santa Clara, Calif. -- Continuing its high-tech spending spree, Claris Corp. this week will announce the acquisition of database access technology […]

By Connie Guglielmo and John Battelle Santa Clara, Calif. -- RasterOps Corp. last week broke new ground in the desktop color market with a pair of video products that take […]

By John Battelle Washington -- Once a cryptic operating system reserved for government and university engineers, Unix was heralded as the open computing environment of the future by a throng […]

RISC-based color card in the pipeline By John Battelle and Daniel Farber Cupertino, Calif. -- Apple is on course for a late March delivery of next-generation Mac IIx and color […]

By John Battelle Cupertino, Calif. -- Proprietary information is as good as gold to a computer company, and Apple last week sent a strong signal to its developers and users […]

By John Battelle Santa Clara, Calif. -- TOPS Inc. ended months of speculation last week when it unveiled not only new versions of its networking and electronic-mail software but also […]

By John Battelle and Edwin Garcia San Francisco -- Introducing a suite of new database and connectivity products, Informix Software Inc. last week moved to position its Wingz spreadsheet as […]

By John Battelle Santa Clara, Calif. -- Claris Corp. last month signed an agreement with Informix Software Inc. to acquire key spreadsheet and graphics technology from the Lenexa, Kan.-based company, […]

By John Battelle Cupertino, Calif. -- A more detailed view of System 7.0 is emerging as Apple seeds prototypes of its dramatically new system software to key Macintosh developers. As […]

IDEALLY, commercial media would consist of equal partnerships between three parties: publishers, the audience, and advertisers. In reality, advertisers, the group with the most money, hold all the cards. Publishers […]

By John Battelle Cupertino, Calif. -- Ask anyone familiar with the Macintosh in mainframe and minicomputer environments about CL/1, and they are likely to rave about its ability to scoop […]

A wealth of information resides in innumerable databases. But there's still no smooth transition from database to page layout. By John Battelle Database publishing sounds like a contradiction in terms; […]

This article presents an interview with David Dorman, CEO of AT&T. When Dorman joined AT&T in late 2000, then-CEO Michael Armstrong held a grand vision for integrating what Dorman calls the "magic five," local, long distance, high-speed data, wireless, and video. But things didn't turn out as planned. Factor in a recent regulatory decision that Dorman claims left him no choice but to abandon AT&T's residential phone business which represents about 25 percent of the company's revenue, and it's no wonder Wall Street is tepid about AT&T's prospects. Dorman responds by pointing out that AT&T is the clear leader in providing networking to Fortune 500 companies, and, he says, his competitors are in shambles. Add it all up, the old long-distance and high-speed data businesses, CallVantage, a new wireless play, maybe even video and Dorman may be rebuilding AT&T into the company he once thought he would lead, one magic-five application at a time. On being asked whether AT&T sell off wireless and cable, he replied that by the summer of 2000, Chuck Noski, the CFO, had pretty much pegged it.

This article asserts that businessman Erik Blachford controls half of the online travel market and the firm InterActiveCorp's owner Barry Diller's Net ambitions are riding on his shoulders. Within Diller's online empire, InterActiveCorp, there is no business more vital than IAC Travel, which makes Erik Blachford his most important lieutenant. Overseeing Expedia Inc., Hotels.com, Hotwire, and other travel properties, Blachford is responsible for 37 percent of IAC's revenue and more than two-thirds of its profits. To keep growth going, Blachford is expanding into Europe and Asia and has dived into the$ 100 billion corporate travel market. I understand that more than 20 percent of the travel business is now booked online. By the time people get to 2010 or 2011, we think between one-half and three-quarters of leisure and unmanaged business travel, everything not handled by corporate travel agencies, that is, should be online. People are not that happy with the old models, which haven't adapted to fit the way people want to travel today. About 10 percent of people will take a package vacation across the industry, but online it. could go north of 30 percent.

System 7 makes it easier to access sensitive information. Users need to rethink their computing environments and take new steps to protect data. By John Battelle Imagine this: You are […]

By John Battelle Cannes, France -- The French Riviera's most famous seaside resort had barely recovered from its star-studded tribute to cinema when 400 heavyweights of the European software industry […]

By John Battelle Amsterdam -- The fifth annual Macworld Europe here gave Europeans their first taste of System 7.0, but as with most things with Macintosh, they face waits of […]

Apple likes to use the metaphor of printing to explain how the Data Access Manager, or DAM, will work. Its purpose is to give the user a simple interface to […]

Mac's at head of the class at Texas campus By John Battelle Like its home state, the University of Texas at Austin thinks big. Not only is the 60,000-person campus […]

By John Battelle Rochester, N.Y. -- As if keeping track of 135,000 employees weren't enough, the personnel managers at Eastman Kodak Corp. also are responsible for identifying key prospects within […]

IS&T's CADET converts data types By John Battelle While not officially designated as a hotbed of product development, Apple's Information Systems & Technology group, responsible for the company's worldwide melange […]

By John Battelle Snowbird, Utah -- More than 150 Mac consultants and vendors mixed snowy scenery with serious business at the fifth Macintosh Consultants Network Conference held here earlier this […]

Handoff of national accounts raises concerns By John Battelle Cupertino, Calif. -- Apple's recent decision to turn its 55 national sales accounts over to its reseller and dealer base has […]