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But PC Vendors Still Remain Mute to Users' Real Needs Sound isn't just for games anymore. More than 3 million PCs are now equipped for audio, and by the end […]

Although the PC industry has registered advances in MIPS, screen resolution, digital communication, and disk capacity, computer-processed sound remains a distant frontier. For years, we associated audio squeaks and shrills […]

Atto Technology's Celerity FC-84EN, FC-82EN, and FC-81EN Fibre Channel host adapters have been verified by Brocade as compatible with Brocade-based SAN-based infrastructure, according to the testing requirements of the Brocade […]

Atto Technology's 4Gbps Celerity FC host adapters have been qualified for use with IBM's SAN Volume Controller (SVC). Separately, Atto will integrate its ExpressSAS R348 SAS RAID adapter with Harris' […]

Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems has introduced expansion cards that will enable MADI and EtherSound input and output connectivity. The Yamaha MY16-MD64 card (pictured) adds 16 channels of MADI input and [...]

Keeping pace with modern technology, Shoestring Astronomy now produces a series of adapters to connect your computer to your telescope mount. Their new GPUSB adapter ($60) converts your computer's USB [...]

Flash Drive Max, from Kanguru (www.kanguru.com): Line of USB 2.0 flash drives comes in capacities ranging from 16GB to 64GB ($800 to $2,800). mini SATADock, from WiebeTech (www.wiebetech.com): Device connects […]

The KDC-8 eight-door concentrator allows the mounting of up to four PXL-500 Tiger controllers and four SB-593 expansion boards for access control in a single cabinet. Individual controllers are connected [...]

BITS & PCs HARDWARE Backup & Storage * Elkey 4 * Tekware * (0562) 882 125 An internal short card that is designed to prevent unauthorized access to data held […]

Oyster Bay, N.Y. -- Printed circuit board manufacturing and assembly is taking a breather from 1997's torrid pace. So concluded a report of Allied Business Intelligence Inc. (ABI). The market- […]

There are two questions VARs really need to ask about a sound card: Does it install easily, and does it work with standard software? In the case of the SoundWave […]

One constant in the mobile-computing world is the desire to save power. A major trend toward that end has been to reduce power by lowering the operating voltages of key […]

PCMCIA, the Personal Computer Memory Card Interface Association, is on track to fulfilling its promise: Jump-start the mobile computing market by creating a standard for credit card-size, plug-in components--all interchangeable […]

AUSTIN, Texas -- The sign in front of the ECAT facility here says 'IBM.' But when you step inside, it's 'ECAT Inc.,' an example of the newly empowered and competitive […]

DEC Announces Sale Of Wiring-Board Plant As part of its continued cost-cutting efforts, Digital Equipment Corp. last week sold its Greenville, S.C., wiring-board manufacturing facility to AMP-AKZO Corp. of Hauppauge, […]

IBM Considers Alliance With Board Maker Solectron As part of its drive to cut costs, IBM is considering an alliance with Solectron Corp., a custom manufacturer of boards based in […]

AST Research Revives Enhancement Products Unit IRVINE, Calif. -- AST Research Inc. moved to revive its flagging board-level business last week by re-establishing its Enhancement Products division and assigning it […]

MILPITAS, CA--A newcomer to the PC add-on marketplace is combining, on one short-slot card, all of the principal graphics formats supported by IBM PCs, plus 256K bytes of RAM. Video […]

NEW YORK--After months of anticipation and speculation, IBM is expected to announce the crucial PC component of its comprehensive token-passing-ring networking plan here this week, according to several sources familiar […]

The current generation of multifunction boards is fast turning into a commodity marketplace, but a new generation of boards using very large-scale integration (VLSI) and custom chips may be on […]

BINGHAMTON, N.Y.--At a General Electric plant here, employees talk to their computers, and the computers can talk back--with some help from Votan, a maker of voice products for the IBM […]

FRAMINGHAM, MA--Alloy Computer Products Inc. has announced an enhancement to its Formula/One software program and a new add-on board for the AT&T 7300. To beef up Formula/One, Alloy's first venture […]

RYE BROOK, NY -- IBM last week brought the power of the Series/1 minicomputer to users' desktops by introducing two Series/1 rpocessor cards that fit inside a PC AT, a […]

FREMONT, CA--Orchid Technology last week created two product divisions, High Performance and network; both announced new products. The High Performance Division introduced a trio of new software and hardware for […]

IBM threw down the gauntlet to graphics-card makers when it introduced its own line of high-resolution graphics boards last week. Expansion-board companies such as Tecmar, Hercules and Quadram, once content […]

LOS ANGELES--Quadram Corp. this week inroduced a voice/data transmission card for the IBM PC and an expansion chassis for the PCjr that gives it another disk drive and communications port. […]