VRML Becomes ISO/IEC International Standard VRML97 specification ratifies VRML 2.0 functionality as an official ISO standard; ISO standardization guarantees stability for VRML specification and encourages the adoption of VRML in other ISO/IEC standards San Ramon, CA - January 26, 1998 - The VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) Consortium today announced that VRML has been approved as an International Standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). The VRML97 specification, also known as ISO/IEC 14772, was published by ISO/IEC in December 1997 as a result of a close collaboration with the VRML Consortium. VRML 97 defines the complete functionality of the VRML Consortium's VRML 2.0 specification as International Standard ISO/IEC 14772-1. As an ISO/IEC standard, VRML has gained international endorsement and provides a guarantee of specification stability, which will promote content compatibility to drive the...

ANNOUNCING THE ASSOCIATION OF MACINTOSH TRAINERS (Newport News, VA) - We are pleased to announce the re-establishment of The Association of Macintosh Trainers (AMT). The association is an international network of Apple Macintosh computer trainers, instructors and educators that provide Macintosh computer support. The purpose of the organization is to make Macintosh computer support easily accessible and available to anyone anywhere in the world, while working to improve upon the quality of Macintosh training. Assistance from the membership is easily accessible to computer users through the AMT web site; http://www.cyphernet.com/amt. Re-established in September 1997, AMT can already boast of a membership of over 200 members representing 11 nations and has received over 3,500 inquiries from all over the world. AMT also provides resources for obtaining training materials, a speakers bureau where Macintosh experts can be found for conferences and workshops, contact information to become "...

A free information resource is now available to system analysts and software designers at http://www.excelsoftware.com. The newly designed web site contains over a hundred pages of information on software models, design methods and software engineering tools for Macintosh and Windows 95/NT computers. The Software Models area includes descriptions and examples of class, data, object, process, state, structure, screen and task models. Related information includes data dictionary, requirements, specifications, code browsing and CRC cards. The Design Methods area includes an outline and book references for methods and notations on Structured Analysis & Design, Data & Information Modeling, UML, Shlaer/Mellor, Coad/Yourdon, OMT, Booch, Fusion, Jacobson and CRC Cards. The Macintosh and Windows Products area includes product descriptions and screen examples. Excel Software Ph: (515) 752-5359 Fax: (515) 752-2435 Web: http://www.excelsoftware.com Email: info@excelsoftware.com Excel...

Visual MacStandardBasic $ 29.95 special offer extended through May 31st INDIANAPOLIS, IN, January 22nd, 1998 : ZCurve Software has announced that it has extended its special offer of $29.95 for Visual MacStandardBasic through May 31st, 1998. Visual MacStandardBasic normally has a retail price of $ 99. Professional Macintosh applications can be visually created in minutes.Visual MacStandardBasic uses and extends BASIC's easy to learn format to utilize the power of the Macintosh. It is easy for users to integrate sound, speech, color graphics, sprite animation, movies into their applications. Users can purchase and download the complete Visual MacStandardBasic package from the ZCurve Software website (www.zcurve.com). Currently, Macintosh users anywhere in the world can get Visual MacStandardBasic within minutes over the Internet. Visual MacStandardBasic is also available from DevDepot. Developer Depot is a leader in providing software products to Macintosh users around the world....

SAN FRANCISCO -- Jan. 19, 1998 -- Attendees Rally Around Apple's Announcement of a Profit and Microsoft's Release of Office 98 for the Mac Attendees to this year's MACWORLD Expo San Francisco saw a diversity of new Mac-based products, participated in a first-of-its kind technical conference and heard from some of the best-known names in the graphic arts and entertainment communities confessing their loyalty to the Macintosh platform. "You could feel the excitement in the air at this year's MACWORLD Expo San Francisco," said David B. Egan, president of IDG Expo Management Co. "As a result of a number of new products, a stellar lineup of keynotes and the brand new Macworld/Pro technical conference, our exhibitors, attendees and business partners told us firsthand that the show was a rousing success." Throughout the five-day show, held Jan. 5 - 9 at the Moscone Convention Center, a number of surprising - and welcomed - announcements were made. Attendees clearly rallied around Apple...

Perl is the duct tape of the Internet. - Hassan Schroeder (Sun's first w,ebmaster) Or maybe it's a Swiss Army Chainsaw! In any case, MacPerl is Perl 5, tuned to the needs of Macintosh developers and adventurous users. A new version (5.1.9r4) has been released, along with a MacPerl CD-ROM. For more information, please visit: http://www.ptf.com/macperl

Quadrivio Ships New File Tool for Developers General Edit 1.0 has Built-in Compiler, Edits Data with Complex Formats Berkeley, CA-January 19, 1998-Quadrivio Corporation announces General Edit 1.0, a new file utility for MacOS. The tool will help those who need to view or edit data files with complex binary formats. General Edit is a powerful alternative to simple hex or ASCII file editors. The user types familiar, C-like statements to specify the file format. The format is checked and compiled interactively and the tool immediately displays the file's contents in one or more formats. Users who can particularly benefit from using General Edit are those who: * develop or test applications that read or write files in a custom format * use tools such as MPW's dumpfile tool to analyze files * debug problems such as a program failing when it reads certain files * repair or analyze files that have been corrupted * need to analyze the structure of files of unknown origin The tool is designed...

Apple Reports First Fiscal Quarter Results CUPERTINO, California--Jan. 14, 1998--Apple Computer, Inc. today announced financial results for its fiscal 1998 first quarter which ended Dec. 26, 1997. For the quarter, the Company generated revenues of $1.6 billion and unit sales of 635,000. The Company recorded a quarterly net profit of $47 million, resulting in basic and diluted earnings per share of $.37 and $.33, respectively. Apple recorded a net loss of $161 million, or $(1.26) per share, in the September quarter, and recorded a net loss of $120 million, or $(.96) per share, in the year-ago quarter. The Company achieved gross margins of 22 percent during the quarter, compared to 20 percent in the September quarter and 19 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 50 percent of the Company's quarterly revenues. The profitable results were buoyed by the successful introduction of the Company's Power Macintosh G3 computers on November 10. Over 133,000 units of...

At Apple's MRJ Pre-Release Page (http://applejava.apple.com/text/prerelease.html), there's a pre-release version of MRJ SDK 2.0.1. MRJ SDK 2.0.1 Early Access 1 Now available is an SDK containing tools, sample code, documentation, etc. to assist you in your work with MRJ 2.0. You can download it in either of the following formats: MRJ SDK 2.0.1ea1 (BinHex format) (http://devtools.apple.com/mrj/MRJSDK2.0.1EarlyAccess1.hqx) MRJ SDK 2.0.1ea1 (MacBinary II format) (http://devtools.apple.com/mrj/MRJSDK2.0.1EarlyAccess1.bin) You will need Apple's Disk Copy 6.1.3 utility to mount the SDK disk images. If you don't already have Disk Copy, you can download it from ftp://ftp.apple.com/devworld/Utilities/. Send Feature Requests and Feedback about MRJ to: mailto:mrj_feedback@apple.com Send Bug reports about MRJ to: mailto:mrj_bugs@apple.com

Press Contact: John O'Fallon Phone: (630) 830-1113 Fax: (630) 830-1262 E-Mail: john@maxum.com Maxum Development Announces PageSentry 2.5 Update Internet Monitoring Tool Tests More Servers, Simplifies Early Warning Notices January 13, 1998 -- Maxum Development Corporation, a leading developer of Macintosh Web server tools, today announced PageSentry 2.5, a major revision to the Internet server monitoring package. PageSentry is the "virtual assistant" that periodically performs real Internet client activity to verify that every aspect of an Internet site is functioning perfectly. If any test ever fails, PageSentry can take a number of actions to warn the site manager, or correct the problem itself. The new version is currently available as a public beta test version from Maxum's Web site, and the product is scheduled to ship in February. PageSentry 2.5 can now monitor more server types, automates the most popular warning messages, and offers numerous enhancements that have been...

For immediate release: Document Express makes it easy to bring your newsletter to the Internet. Document Express, a San Diego based Internet software developer, has released a new Macintosh product called E-Document Express, a general-purpose document distribution system ideal for newsletter publishers who need tools to help create, manage, and distribute an email based publication. E-Document Express combines contact management, word processing and electronic mail (email), with an application programming interface (API) and Module Class Library (MCL) into a single program, offering ease-of-use, extendibility, power and flexibility. Use the Contact module to maintain your recipient list, with options for sorting, searching, selecting, keywording, marking and printing. Also supports envelope and mailing label printing for standard U.S.Post recipients. Use the Documents module to create, edit, maintain and distribute your documents via electronic mail. Includes drag and drop editing,...

PowerGlot Software Releases PowerGlot 1.1 Premier Localization Tool for Macintosh Adds New Features For Immediate Release (Paris, France) January 11, 1998 - PowerGlot Software announced today the release of PowerGlot 1.1, a new version of its premier localization tool for Macintosh software. PowerGlot enables developers to make their products available worldwide in the native language of their choice, including 2-byte languages like Japanese, Chinese and Korean. PowerGlot 1.1 extracts text from applications, helps perform the translations and then builds the localized applications, with an easy to use, fast and powerful interface. PowerGlot 1.1 adds more than 20 new features and improvements, along with a handful of bug fixes, mostly for non-roman languages users. Retail price is US$99.00, with discounts for multiple copies. Site licenses are available. Upgrades are free for current users. Information and a demo version are available at: (http://www.powerglot.com/). PowerGlot 1.1...

Due a power failure that prevented several news sources from getting this release, StarNine is re-releasing this announcement. ------ For Immediate Release Media Contact: Naomi Pearce Pearce Communications 510/528-0824 naomi@well.com STARNINE TO INCLUDE LIVE SOFTWARE'S JRUN WITH WEBSTAR 3.0 -- Java(tm) Servlet Runner Adds JavaSoft Java Servlet API Support To WebSTAR Web Server -- BERKELEY, Calif., December 6, 1998 -- StarNine Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Quarterdeck Corporation, today announced that JRun(tm) 2.0, created by Live Software, Inc., will be bundled with the upcoming WebSTAR 3.0 release scheduled for January. JRun adds support for the Java(tm) Servlet API to WebSTAR. A beta version of WebSTAR 3.0, including JRun 2.0, is now available for free download from http://www.starnine.com (see related press release dated 12.6.98). "We're excited about including JRun with WebSTAR 3.0," said Eric Zelenka, product manager for WebSTAR. "Live Software is a leader in server-side...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO -- Matterform Media has updated its popular HTML utility, the HTML Grinder, to version 3.34. The new version contains bug fixes to the Auto Indexer and other plug-in tools. It is free to registered users and can be downloaded from http://www.matterform.com. The Grinder is a collection of 18 Web site management tools which can build tables of contents and keyword indexes, create next/previous page links, find and replace on filenames, and lots more. And as always, the powerful Find and Replace tool is absolutely free! Release date: January 8, 1998 Price: HTML Grinder $89 Requires: 8MB RAM, System 7, Hard Drive, 16MB or more RAM recommended, Mac OS 8 compatible Contact: Michael Herrick info@matterform.com http://www.matterform.com/ 505/747-1220 505/747-1769 fax 500 N. Guadalupe, Suite G333 Santa Fe, NM 87501

MacTech Magazine and Macworld awarded the winners of the coveted Eddy Award last night. This is just a quick note to list the Joint MacTech/Macworld Eddy Award winners. The full Eddy Award list is at: http://macworld.zdnet.com/expo/ecwinners98.html Congratulations to all of the winners -- and the finalists! Best Developer Tool Winner: Voodoo 1.8, Uni Software Plus Finalist: Spotlight DR2, Onyx Technology Finalist: Installer Vise 4.6.1, MindVision Software Best Development Environment Winner: CodeWarrior Professional Release 2, Metrowerks Finalist: FutureBASIC II, Staz Software Finalist: BBEdit 4.5.1, Bare Bones Software Best Rapid-Devlopment Tool Winner: 4th Dimension 6, ACI US Finalist: Tools Plus 3.3, Water's Edge Software Finalist: MCL 4.1, Digitool Best Tool for New Technologies Winner: CodeWarrior Latitude, Metrowerks Finalist: Joy, AAA+ Software F&E Finalist: Visual Cafe for Macintosh 1.0.2, Symantec

New Design Tool Brings PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Colors to World Wide Web Pages Pantone Increases Internet Color Control Macworld Expo (Booth 1947), San Francisco, Calif. - January 5, 1998 - Pantone, Inc., today began shipping PANTONE ColorWeb Pro, an upgrade to PANTONE ColorWeb, which provides Web authors with an easy way to select the 216 "Internet-safe" colors for their Web page designs. ColorWeb Pro is a set of tools for designing and accurately managing solid colors for publishing and viewing over the Internet. ColorWeb Pro adds the ability to incorporate PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Colors into popular Web authoring software applications. In addition to Web page design applications such as PageMill and Home Page, ColorWeb Pro can be used to add PANTONE Colors for corporate identity and logos, to any software that takes advantage of Apple's Extensible Color Picker feature, including presentation software and HTML editors. Designers now have a simple way to specify color for Web pages...

LightWork Design Introduces New Family of LightWorks Rendering and Utility Plug-ins for QuickDraw 3D LightWorks Advanced Photo-Realistic Rendering and QTVR Movies Showing at MACWORLD Expo SHEFFIELD, UK -- LightWork Design, the leading supplier of rendering engines for 3D design applications, is introducing its new family of LightWorks(R) rendering and utility plug-ins for QuickDraw(TM) 3D at the MACWORLD Expo, Apple Developer Central, in San Francisco, January 6-9. The six new LightWorks plug-ins offer a wide range of features, including ray-tracing, hidden-line drawing, printing and QuickTime VR movie output. "Apple and LightWork Design have been working together for the past four years to provide the Apple community with high-quality 3D rendering," said Gordon Oliver, Managing Director, LightWork Design. "Our flagship product, the LightWorks rendering toolkit, is available for the Macintosh system, and these new LightWorks plug-ins extend our commitment to the wider Apple community...

AppMaker Supports the Appearance Manager Grantham, NH - January 2, 1998 - Bowers Development announced that it is now shipping AppMaker CD #9. This latest release of AppMaker generates source code and resources for Apple's Appearance Manager. Other new features include an enhanced programming model that does more of the programming job automatically and the addition of Pascal to AppMaker's languages. "Apple's Appearance Manager makes your program look better and it also makes your code simpler," said Spec Bowers, President of Bowers Development. "One of the nice things about Appearance is that it works not only on Mac OS 8 but also on System 7.x thanks to Apple's Appearance Extension. Developers don't have to worry that they might limit their market to Mac OS 8 customers." AppMaker's generated code helps programmers separate user interface code from data engine code. Users define their data structures, define the user interface, then connect user interface items to data items....

Santa Barbara, CA, Jan. 5, 1998. Tenon Intersystems today announced WebTen 2.0, an upgrade to its industrial-strength, high-performance Apache Web server for Power Macs. A new Tenon "supercache" feature boosts the Macintosh Web server performance leader by more than 400%! WebTen, based on the latest Apache 1.2.4, continues as the fastest Web server on Power Macintosh, sustaining over 700 hits per second, or over 60 million connections a day. In addition to its improved performance, WebTen 2.0 adds significant new features to Tenon's unique and top-performing Web server - multihoming SSL 3.0, multihoming FTP, NFS and DNS "The Macintosh is widely accepted as the platform of choice for internet content development. Despite its ease of use, poor Macintosh Web performance and an eclectic array of "required" Web options have hampered acceptance of the Macintosh as an internet delivery system. Tenon's goal is to make the Macintosh a world-class networking engine, with performance...

eCommerce software (WebClerk) worth $6.5 million is being given away free by James Integrated Technologies (JITCorp). The first 10,000 users to register at its web site, www.webclerk.com, receive a no cost license to use WebClerk. WebClerk's regular price is $649. WebClerk is a commercial data base, prefabricated web site and server. Users simply import their data and graphics, and begin taking orders on the web. An experienced webmaster, Jason Bright, www.brightech.net, notes, "WebClerk is a straightforward and extensive way to get a commerce site up and running overnight." "Our objective is to increase our customer's profitable sales," says JIT Corp President Bill James. "In the near future, eCommerce will replace FAXing, just as FAXing replaced telex. We have removed the technical complexities of commercial web site implementation, made it powerful enough for big business, and priced WebClerk so that even the smallest business can afford to safely provide service and sales on the...

sLab finalizes acquisition of dtF/SQL for Macintosh, introduces Rhapsody-version and internet integration of dtF/SQL at MacWorld SF '98. BOEBLINGEN, GERMANY. January 2, 1998 -- sLab announced today that it has finalized the acquisition of the dtF/SQL for Macintosh product from theta group. With the aquisition of dtF/SQL for Macintosh, sLab reinforces its committment to the MacOS and Rhapsody market. At MacWorld SF'98, sLab will make available its first developer releases of dtF/SQL for Rhapsody. sLab will also demonstrate dtF/HTML, its new web-server integration of dtF/SQL. With dtF/HTML, dtF/SQL access can be directly linked with Apache and other Web-Servers, which provides developers with a high- performance, low-overhead database connectivity solution. Client access to dtF/HTML can be provided both via JDBC or server-based, HTML-integrated scripting languages like PHP/FI or heitml. Full versions of all dtF products can be downloaded free of charge from http://www.slab.de. dtF/SQL...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Susan Whitney marketing@mactech.com 805-494-9797 x104 MacTech Magazine Announces New Editorial Staff Additions Westlake Village, CA -- December 26, 1997 -- Xplain Corporation, the publisher of MacTech(r) Magazine, announced today its new editorial staff additions. MacTech has evolved into the primary news and information vehicle for over 40,000 Mac programmers and developers in 64+ countries. The magazine has established an eminent reputation within the Macintosh developer community. To that end, these editorial additions come at a great time for the magazine while it is enjoying its continued growth and success. "The Mac developer industry is at a point today where now, more than ever, developers are looking for information, direction and news." said Neil Ticktin, Publisher of MacTech. "MacTech has continued to grow, even in the past year, providing a variety of services in a variety of formats. Our new staff line up will help us accomplish even more...

From: "Rick Myllenbeck" (RickM@creaf.com) Subject: Re: Creative Labs Forces Goo to Close As you know, there has been a great deal of discussion in the last couple of days claiming that Creative Labs forced Goo Software out of business by filing a trademark action against it. This is untrue. Creative has filed no lawsuit against Goo. Creative has taken no steps that could conceivably have forced Goo out of business. Goo's claims to the contrary on its Website are false. All Creative has done to date with respect to Goo is to send correspondence to Goo's management objecting to Goo's use of the terms "Spam Blaster" and "Cache Blaster." Such correspondence is routine and in good faith. Creative owns a family of trademarks (thirty two registered in the U.S. alone) containing the word "Blaster." Our concern is that Goo is using the goodwill associated with our family of marks. In addition we are concerned that Goo is creating potential consumer confusion and, independently, diluting the...

Free Apple Guide-to-WinHelp Translator, FAQ DALLAS, Texas -- DECEMBER 22, 1997 -- StepUp Software announces the availability of guideWorks Translator and the Apple Guide FAQ, assets of the former guideWorks, LLC. guideWorks Translator is a utility which converts Apple Guide source code files to WinHelp files. Combined with StepUp Software's $99 Guide Composer (recently upgraded to version 1.2.1), this free utility provides an inexpensive cross-platform active assistance/help solution for Macintosh software developers. guideWorks Translator previously retailed for $199. Also now available at the StepUp Software website is the Apple Guide FAQ. This web-formatted FAQ was developed by and is provided for the Apple Guide development community. The site was designed by guideWorks. StepUp Software warns that guideWorks Translator is provided to the public 'as-is' and is no longer supported. "We wish to thank the former owners and management of guideWorks LLC for providing this useful tool to...