Macworld San Francisco Conference & Expo 2001 Exhibitor Profiles A to Z; Conference & Expo Opens Jan. 9 in San Francisco.Business/Technology Writers Macworld This article is about a technology publication. For the tradeshow, see Macworld Conference & Expo.
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For additional information about Macworld, go to http://www.macworldexpo.com/media.html on the Web. Listed below are profiles from companies exhibiting at Macworld San Francisco. These profiles and exhibitor news releases, advisories and photos are available on the Web at www.tradeshownews.com. Business Wire is the official news service for the 2001 Macworld events. Company: ACD Systems Booth: 433 Contact: Dianne Escude Phone: 250-544-6700 E-mail: Descude@acdsystems.com Web: www.acdsystems.com ACD Systems has produced high quality digital-imaging software since 1993. At Macworld we will showcase ACDSee 1.5 for Mac, our latest high-speed image viewer and browser for Macintosh computers. ACDSee 1.5 for Mac offers fast viewing and playing of 40+ image and multimedia file formats including MPEGs and MP3s. It also includes batch file functions, offline thumbnail viewing, saving to HTML, a video play list, and more. We will also showcase our PC software products, including ACDSee 3.1 (SR-1), FotoCanvas, FotoAngelo, and FotoVac. Visit us at Hall A, Booth 433 for product demos and information from our friendly sales professionals. Company: AEC Software Booth: 943 Contact: Ryan Kish Phone: 703-450-1980 E-mail: rkish@aecsoft.com Web: www.aecsoft.com AEC Software of Sterling, VA has been developing and publishing business productivity software for the Macintosh for over ten years. The recently released version 7.0 of their premiere product, FastTrack Schedule, includes new calendar and resource views, assignment tracking, critical path identification, and real-time collaboration, among other enhancements. The simultaneous release of FastTrack Schedule 7.0 for Palm OS, a compatible handheld version of the project manager, enables users to add and edit project information on the go, sync with desktop files, and beam schedules to other users. Industry leaders use AEC Software solutions to manage project information, increase productivity, and achieve project goals. Company: Aladdin Systems, Inc. Booth: 1707 Contact: Jennifer Lyng Phone: 831-761-6200 x630 E-mail: pr@aladdinsys.com Web: www.aladdinsys.com Aladdin Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Aladdin Systems Holdings, Inc. (OTC BB: ALHI) was founded in 1988. Aladdin is a developer and publisher of Windows and Macintosh software products that are designed to assist users with the Transmission, Access and Organization (TAO) of information. Aladdin's software offers a range of solutions to increase user efficiency in the areas of information access, removal, recovery, security and Internet distribution. Aladdin will be showing off a BRAND NEW product as well as other recent releases, like StuffIt Deluxe and iClean. Company: a lowly apprentice production, inc. Booth: 3851 Contact: Greg Hatem Phone: 760-438-5790 Web: www.alap.com A Lowly Apprentice Production, Inc., is a leading developer of extended technology for the publishing industry. Additional features and enhancements to QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign will allow for increased user productivity. Award winning products from alap are ShadowCaster and XPert Tools for QuarkXPress. Recently released plug-ins available for Adobe InDesign are ShadowCaster, InBooklet and StarBurst, InPrint, and ItemMarks. Be sure to stop by to see what's new. Company: Anthro Corp Booth: 2007 Contact: Kim Faks Phone: 800-325-3841 Web: www.anthro.com AnthroCarts! Incredibly strong, flexible, mobile computer furniture. Use for your personal computers and multimedia equipment. Lots of shapes and sizes to choose from. Over 75 accessories to customize your AnthroCarts. Stop by and see our new Laptop Storage Carts for iBooks or PC Laptops and iCarts for iMacs. Anthro products ship out next business day. Come with Lifetime Warranty. Educational Discounts Available. Company: Ashlar Incorporated Booth: 4700 (Special Interest Boulevard Area) Contact: Amanda Knepley Phone: 512.250.2186 E-mail: info@ashlar.com Web: www.ashlar.com Ashlar Incorporated captured the design community's attention with the release of Ashlar Vellum in 1988. Featuring the Drafting Assistant, Vellum's unparalleled user interface changed CAD forever. Today, Ashlar continues to build world-class 2D and 3D tools for conceptual designers who want the freedom to concentrate on creation. The award winning Vellum Solids 2000 brings high-end surface and solid modeling to the desktop. This unique hybrid modeler combines the power of wireframe, surface and solids modeling Vellum Solids features seamless translation between your favorite CAD products. In addition Vellum Solids 2000 offers a full featured rendering engine and animation options. Company: Belkin Components Booth: 1448 Contact: James Little Phone: 310-604-2292 E-mail: jamesl@belkin.com Web: www.belkin.com Belkin Components is the leading manufacturer of computer cables, Universal Serial Bus (USB) connectivity products, FireWire digital video editing devices, surge protectors and Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS), input devices, and Keyboard/Video/Mouse (KVM) switches. While at MacWorld Expo, visit Belkin at Booth 1448. Come see new innovations in FireWire and USB that are sure to excite the senses! For more information, call 1-800-2BELKIN, or visit the company's website at www.belkin.com. Company: Blue World Communications, Inc. Booth: 4135 Phone: 425-646-0288 x400 Web: www.blueworld.com The Lasso product line consists of authoring and serving tools that allow Web designers and Web developers to quickly build and serve powerful data-driven Web sites. The product line includes Lasso Studio and Lasso Web Data Engine. Lasso's innovative architecture provides an industry first multi-platform, database-independent and open standards approach to building database-driven Web sites firmly positioning Lasso technology within the rapidly evolving server-side Web tools market. Company: BOPJET Media Inc. Booth: 3331 Contact: Leesha Sabine Phone: 604 682 3297 E-mail: leesha@bopjet.net Web: www.bopjet.net BOPJET Media (formerly Bitmovers Networks) is a driven, focussed provider of QuickTime Streaming services, high-end web hosting, and server co-location. Our knowledge and experience with QuickTime and other current Internet technologies assures you with high quality service and customer care. BOPJET is proud to announce free QuickTime Expert Tutorials. The first of these tutorials will be available at Macworld, with more to follow in the coming months. These tutorials will highlight and demonstrate QuickTime streaming features, and give the viewer easy-to-follow guides in creating compelling QuickTime streaming content. Company: Busybox.com Booth: 4044 Phone: 310-556-4616 or 888-289-9638 E-mail: info@busybox.com Web: www.busyboxpro.com Busyboxpro.com has the largest royalty-free, downloadable, digital video collection in the world. For film & video producers, web designers or any creative professional working across all media platforms and Web applications. Search, view, purchase and download digital video from thousands of ready-to-edit broadcast or multimedia size clips, carefully catalogued for easy access. DOWNLOADABLE: From $29 for a multimedia size download to $149 for a broadcast size download. CD-ROMs: The Busybox Video Clip CD Collections are priced more affordably than ever. Only $399 per CD Collection containing up to 22 of the most versatile video clips in both broadcast and multimedia sizes. Busybox now offers four new CD volumes in DV format. Visit www.busybox.com for a FREE clip! Company: CD CyClone, LLC. Booth: 1449 Contact: Mike Osorio or Heather Barger Phone: 714-247-0099 Web: www.cdcyclone.com CD Cyclone is an innovative developer of software and hardware products for the growing CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, duplication and replication markets. CD Cyclone will be announcing the fastest, easy-to-use CD burner available for Mac - 16X (16xwrite, 10x rewrite and 40x read) Remarkable style at an affordable price, users can burn a full CD in just a few short minutes. CDRevo is proven excellent for audio users providing a top-notch CD-RW solution. Packed with dynamic features like convenient handle and easy plug-in, users have everything needed to start recording CDs with the ease of USB or the speed of Firewire. Company: Charismac Engineering, Inc. Booth: 4127 Contact: Tony Overbay Phone: 530-885-4420 E-mail: tonyo@charismac.com Web: www.charismac.com Charismac Engineering will introduce a new version of their popular CD mastering software Discribe at Macworld. Discribe V4.0 features a brand new interface which literally walks users through the process of creating CDs. Discribe V4.0 supports virtually all Firewire, USB, SCSI and ATAPI CD-RW drives. Discribe includes Charismac's new direct-to-disk recording application AudioScribe. AudioScribe lets users record audio from vinyl records, tapes or voice. AudioScribe records files in standard AIFF format which can then be burned to CD using Discribe. Charismac will also show the latest versions of the Charismac RAID and Anubis software packages, both which have recently added Firewire support. Charismac will also give users a sneak peak of their new backup utility Backup Mastery. Company: Citrix Systems, Inc. Booth: 1249 Contact: Sandra Humphrey Phone: 954-267-2976 E-mail: sandra.humphrey@citrix.com Web: www.citrix.com Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS), headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, is a global leader in application server software and services that offer "Digital Independence(tm)" - the ability to run any application on any device over any connection, wireless to Web. Citrix solutions enable organizations of all types, from enterprises to application service providers (ASPs), to reach more users with more applications, and achieve this with greater speed, predictability and cost-effectiveness. Citrix offerings include MetaFrame(tm) application server software, NFuse(tm) application portal software, Management Services products, and Independent Computing Architecture (ICA), a core application server technology. See the Citrix Web site at: www.citrix.com. Company: Creation Engine, LLC Booth: 2246 Contact: Tamara Weinstein Phone: 800-831-8713 E-mail: tweinstein@creationengine.com Web: www.creationengine.com Creation Engine provides academic discounts on software to the K-12 and higher education markets. Creation Engine maintains close relationships with leading software vendors, including Adobe, Autodesk/Discreet, Hash, Macromedia, and Microsoft. The only academic retailer specializing in creative digital tools, Creation Engine fosters customer satisfaction and loyalty through unparalleled customer service including: personal assistance, in-depth product knowledge, accurate site licensing, and efficient delivery. Creation Engine also devotes a Web site to Mac enthusiasts at MadAboutMac.com that profiles a variety of creative digital tools that work best on the Mac! Company: Extensis Products Group Booth: 2317 Contact: Patrick Kimball Phone: 503-274-2020 x198 E-mail: pkimball@extensis.com Web: www.extensis.com Extensis Products Group develops and supports software and Internet-based services for design and marketing professionals. From design through output, Extensis products and services make the process of creating, editing and managing branded communication materials for print and electronic publishing more productive and efficient. Extensis' award-winning products include Suitcase, the font management solution that helps users find the right font quickly; Portfolio, the digital asset management solution that allows users to efficiently organize and access digital media files; and Preflight Online, the Web-based service that allows users to check files for potential printing and prepress errors before submitting them for output. Company: eZedia Inc. Booth: 4700 (Education area, Special Interest Boulevard) Contact: Lori Walder E-mail: 204-984-9214 E-mail: lori.walder@ezedia.com Web: www.ezedia.com Founded in 1994, by Stefan Embleton, eZedia Inc. has grown from a full-service interactive digital media development organization to a leader in digital media software technology. The companies derives its name from the phrase "easy media" which underscores its corporate focus on the delivery of easy-to-use and learn digital media creation, authoring, and development products. eZediaMX 2.0 provides a robust media integration environment within a "drag-and-drop" user paradigm that easily enables any computer user to receive, generate, modify, edit, recreate, reformat, and re-present any and all digital media to create compelling and innovative digital media presentations. Company: FrontBase, Inc. Booth: 1443 and Small Business Special Interest Boulevard Contact: Patrick Dunne Phone: 949-455-9387 E-mail: pddunne@frontbase.com Web: www.frontbase.com FRONTBASE is a transactional scalable relational database server created in the Internet age by Internet specialists for deployment on the Internet. FRONTBASE is a robust, fully scalable, stable and easy to use relational database server that not only requires zero-administration, but also is very affordable and has a 2 MB footprint. FRONTBASE is cross platform and runs on both Mac OS X Server and Public Beta. It contains all the necessary drivers and adapters for Apple's WebObjects, PHP3/4, Perl, ODBC, JDBC, EOF, FBAccess and FBCAccess. It is the only robust database server that is fully compliant with the UNICODE, SQL 92 and TCP/IP international standards. Company: GCC Printers Booth: 1743 Contact: Laurie Freitas Phone: 781-276-8674 E-mail: lfreitas@gccprinters.com Web: www.gccprinters.com GCC Technologies is now GCC Printers! Same high quality products - just a new name. GCC is a direct seller of high-speed, monochrome laser printers that are cross-platform and network-ready, offering advanced paper handling, oversized output and duplex printing. GCC products are available direct at 1-800-422-7777, or through GCC's Web Store www.gccprinters.com. GCC proudly introduces its fastest printer family ever: the Elite 21 Series. With true 1200 dpi resolution, duplex printing and speeds up to 21 ppm, these printers provide the ultimate in printing flexibility. Exceptional paper handling, memory up to 256MB and options galore! Available in three models. Company: Hoodman Corporation Booth : 4700 Contact: Lou Schmidt Phone 310.379.6391 E-mail: lou@hoodmanusa.com Web: www.hoodmanusa.com Hoodman Corporation is the pioneer and leader in glare free outdoor monitor hood design and technology. Featured at Macworld Expo 2001: --The Eclipse 2000 Lap Top Computer Hood designed for glare free laptop computing in the great outdoors. --The E2001 graphic designer 21-inch monitor Hood designed for glare free computing in the office. --The E157 Hood designed for 15 to 17 inch office monitors. --The digital camera / camcorder line of 4 LCD screen Hoods designed for glare free outdoor camera viewing. Company: Intego Booth: 635 Contact: Olivier Depoorter Phone: 305-868-7920 E-mail: odepoorter@intego.com Web: www.intego.com Intego is a leading provider of Macintosh Internet security solutions. Intego's software has won international accolades from Macworld, MacHome, MacNN, MacAddict, Univers Macworld and many others. New products to be introduced at Macworld include ContentBarrier and Internet Security Barrier. Internet Security Barrier 1.0 is a full security suite that protects Macs from all Internet dangers. ContentBarrier 1.0 helps parents protect their children and businesses optimize employee productivity by monitoring Internet usage. VirusBarrier 1.5 provides protection against all known Macintosh viruses. NetBarrier 2.0 is the new version of the first personal Firewall for Macintosh. Intego, 6301 Collins Ave, Miami, FL 33141 Tel: (305) 868-7920 Fax: (305) 868-7938 http://www.intego.com info@intego.com Company: ITCwireless.com Booth: 432 Contact: Mike Hwei Phone: 301-838-9088 Web: www.ITCwireless.com ITCwireless.com, the provider of integrated wireless products & services. We offer a large selection of latest digital phones and accessories for every budget and needs, personal or business. We also offer high quality high capacity PowerBook batteries at the most competitive prices. Please give us a call or check out our secured website at www.ITCwireless.com. ITC, we are your one-stop shopping for all your wireless products & services. Company: Kagi Booth: 4700, Small Business Area Contact: Kee Nethery Phone: 510-450-1171 E-mail: kee@kagi.com Web: www.kagi.com "The 9th fastest growing privately held company in the San Francisco area" (San Francisco Business Times). Growing faster than other local companies, Kagi outgrew; Red Herring Communications, Jamba Juice, Clif Bar, and Fenwick & West LLP. Kagi was recently awarded two Internet e-commerce patents. Kagi handles all aspects of software licensing and content sales for thousands of product vendors worldwide, including collection of purchaser information, generation of software activation keys, payment processing in multiple currencies, and payment confirmations producing detailed accounting records. Unlike many other famous e-commerce Internet companies, such as digitalriver.com and amazon.com, Kagi is profitable. Company: Kusuma Enterprises Inc. Booth: 4346 Contact: Arif Kusuma Phone: 760-602-0807 E-mail: arif@kusuma.com Web: www.jambags.com Welcome to the home of the world's famous JAM MacCase for iBook. JAM MacCase is a perfect companion to your iBook. Its innovative window concept displays the luscious Apple logo. Its cornerless design perfectly fit your iBook. Besides the MacCase for iBook, JAM, a division of Kusuma Enterprises Inc., also carries other computer cases and backpacks; such as MacPack, Notebook Case, Laptop Case and Computer Duffel. Company: MacAddict Magazine Booth: 2411 Contact: Susan Meredith Phone: 415-468-4684 x2110 E-mail: sue@macaddict.com Web: www.macaddict.com MacAddict magazine is the ultimate hands-on guide to anything and everything Macintosh. It is the only magazine for Mac enthusiasts written by Mac enthusiasts offering all subscribers and newsstand buyers a complete multimedia experience: a monthly print magazine; a companion CD-ROM packed with software, demos and updates; and the MacAddict.com Web site. MacAddict has received numerous accolades including: Folio's 1998 Editorial Excellence Award for Best Consumer Computer Publication, the 1996 CPA Award for Best Overall Computer Magazine, and the 1999 Circulation Management Silver Medal Award for Circulation Excellence. Company: MacSoft Booth: 4341 Contact: Dan Harnett or Cindy Swanson Phone: 212-883-6242 or 612-249-7600 E-mail: dan@highwatergroup.com or cswanson@us.infogrames.com Web: www.wizardworks.com/macsoft MacSoft, an Infogrames, Inc. label (Nasdaq: IFGM) is the leading publisher of entertainment software for the Macintosh. Games on display at the MacSoft booth include: Links LS 2000, Rogue Spear, Monopoly, Scrabble, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, Risk II, Beach Head 2000, Unreal Tournament, Driver and Monopoly Casino. Additionally, MacSoft will provide members of the press (by appointment only) a sneak peek at 2001 titles currently under development. Al Schilling, Product Manager for MacSoft, will join MacWorld Magazine for their games discussion panel on December 11th from 12:00 - 12:45. Company: MacTreasures Booth: 1049 South Hall Contact: Carole Holcomb Phone: 408-360-8951 E-mail: caroleh@mactreasures.com Web: www.mactreasures.com MacTreasures specializes in Macintosh and Apple II software and hardware not found on retail shelves. Currently MacTreasures lists approximately 4,000 products in our Main catalog. Categories include Games, Business, Home, Science, and Publishing. Our Oldies but Goodies is a listing of titles that are often hard to find. In addition, the Education Site lists almost 5,000 titles for teachers and schools. MacTreasures also manages a computer donation program for schools. Links to the Oldies but Goodies and the Education Site are located in the lower right-hand corner of our Home Page. Company: Marathon Computer, Inc. Booth: 4134 Contact: Sara Trapp Phone: 615-242-9700 E-mail: sara@marathoncomputer.com Web: www.marathoncomputer.com Marathon Computer pioneered the design and manufacture of 19-inch rackmount enclosures for the Macintosh platform. Marathon rackmount solutions are available for a wide range of Apple computers and related peripherals. Marathon's products have been tested by Apple, and are in use by thousands of professionals all over the world. Company: Matias Corporation, The Booth: 1748 Contact: Edgar Matias Phone: 905-265-8844 E-mail: info@halfkeyboard.com Web: www.halfkeyboard.com Matias will debut its USB Half Keyboard for Macintosh at Macworld Expo in San Francisco, as well as showing its Half Keyboard for Palm and Handspring. The Palm-sized dimensions of the Half Keyboard make it ideal for use on an airplane or other cramped quarters, without sacrificing comfort or typing speed. Its patented skill transfer design allows users to touch type with one hand, using their existing skills, at speeds almost as fast as with both hands (up to 88 percent of normal typing rates). It is enabling technology for handheld word processing, wearable computing, and cell phone e-mail. Company: Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc. Booth: 1648 Contact: Darla Achey Phone: 949-465-6435 E-mail: dachey@mdea.mea.com Web: www.mitsubishi-presentations.com Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc. is proud to be showing the newest technology in presentation displays. The MegaView Pro 55 is a compact rear-projection LCD monitor using DLPTM technology. The monitor engine is equipped with a DMDTM chip that provides full clarity XGA imagery, delivering the utmost in brightness and contrast. Also on display will be the complete line of ColorViewTM projectors. Mitsubishi's exclusive, award-winning ColorViewTM Natural Color Matrix provides rich, vivid colors and is revolutionizing the world of color reproduction. Stop by our booth and see how ColorViewTM can truly make your next presentation something special. Company: NEATO Booth: 544 Contact: David Kennaugh Phone: 800-984-9800 Web: www.neato.com NEATO labeling and packaging supplies for all types of media including CD, DVD, Business Card CD, Video and more. Design, print and apply custom CD labels using the NEATO 2000 CD Labeler Kit and NEATO cd labels in a variety of high quality finishes - High Gloss, PhotoMatte and EconoMatte. Create your own jewel case booklets and tray liners using NEATO jewel case insert products in High Gloss, PhotoMatte and EconoMatte finishes. With the NEATO HandiCD Labeler Kit you can create your own multimedia CD business cards then label and package them using NEATO HandiCD Labels and HandiCD Sleeves. Company: Nemetschek North America Booth: 2139 Contact: Deirdre Kidd Phone: 410-290-5114 E-mail: deirdre@nemetschek.net Web: www.nemetschek.net A global leader in design technologies, Nemetschek North America is the creator of VectorWorks and its Industry Series. Offering specific market solutions for the architecture, entertainment design and landscaping industries, the series features ARCHITECT, SPOTLIGHT and LANDMARK. VectorWorks ARCHITECT streamlines every phase of the design building process from project-setup to programming, schematic design through to design development and construction documents. VectorWorks SPOTLIGHT is the CAD standard in Entertainment and Lighting Design software by making it easy to quickly create light plots, stage/set and scenic elements, automate paperwork, and visualize design concepts in 3D. Company: Neon Software Inc. Booth: 2435 Contact: Sharon Doi Phone: 925-283-9771 E-mail: doi@neon.com Web: www.neon.com Neon Software develops intelligent software tools in the Neon Network Management Series which improve computer network design and operation. Neon Software network management products include LANsurveyor, the network mapping, managing and reporting application, NetMinder Ethernet, a software-only protocol analyzer, CyberGauge, an Internet Bandwidth Management application and RouterCheck, an AppleTalk router management application. Michael Swan, Chief Technical Officer, will be presenting "On the Trail of Network Problems" at the Macworld Pro Conference. This session will examine several issues which can severely decrease network performance and how to troubleshoot and solve these issues. Company: New Riders Publishing Booth: 4340 Contact: Susan Nixon or Kathy Malmloff (at show) Phone: 317-817-7344 E-mail: susan.nixon@newriders.com Web: www.newriders.com New Riders is dedicated to being the premier computer graphics book publisher. We work to create the perfect marriage of author and content, in order to craft the books and resources that will save time, instruct, hone skills and expand creativity. New Riders prides itself on the fact that we don't publish push-button manuals, rather, our books are about people and their technologies. Company: Nikon Booth: 2249 Contact: Tamara Turse Phone: 201-460-2847 E-mail: tturse@mww.com Web: www.NikonUSA.com Nikon Inc. is the U.S. distributor of world renowned Nikon digital still cameras, film scanners, Nikon professional 35mm photography systems, compact automatic 35mm and Advanced Photo Systems cameras, the Nikon speedlight system, interchangeable Nikkor lenses, Nikonos underwater photographic systems and Nikon sports and recreation optics. This year at Macworld, Nikon will be launching a suite of revolutionary products that are a digital bridge between the traditional photo world and the digital imaging future. Media members are invited to stop by booth 2249 to speak with our technology experts and see a demonstration of this new product line. Company: OpenLink Software, Inc. Booth: 2428 Contact: Andrew Hill Phone: 781-273-0900 E-mail: ahill@openlinksw.com Web: www.openlinksw.com OpenLink Software announces Virtuoso, the eBusiness Integration Server for OSX. Mac users can now access Relational Databases across multiple platforms and generate live XML and SQL data from local and remote relational data. Virtuoso is the first cross-platform integration server to implement Native XML Storage, XSL Transformation, SQL-XML Transformation, SQL-92 Support, WebDAV Content Management, SOAP Messaging, Free Text Indexing, HTTP 1.1 Web Server, SMTP, NNTP, Transactional Replication and Heterogeneous access to disparate databases in a single server solution. OpenLink Software is an Industry leading provider of eBusiness infrastructure technology. Products includes, E-Business Integration Server, Data Access Middleware, and Database Engines. Company: Pacific Image Electronics Booth: 1446 Contact: Wendy Trujillo Phone: 310-618-8100 x131 E-mail: wendy@scanace.com Web: www.scanace.com The PrimeFilm 1800 Series is the first affordable USB film scanner on the market, under $200.00, providing you the most economical way to digitize your 35mm slides and filmstrips, It offers true 1800Dpi resolution and 36-bit scanning capabilities, it is able to distinguish 68.7-billion colors, and captures up to 4.2-mega pixels, which provides an impressive improvement in both, shadow and highlight details. Even a top-notch digital camera costing 4 times as much can't compare. Simply insert your filmstrip or mounted slide into the film frame. The proprietary backlit-viewing window allows you to view your media before scanning. This unit offers a TWAIN-compliant (plug-in for Mac) CyberView driver that has many diverse levels of custom controls. Company: Pay&Play Software Booth: 2150 Contact: Stephen Reiss Phone: 888-420-9808 E-mail: WineGuy@BandC.com Web: www.payplaysoftware.com Pay&Play's earliest products were designed for the Apple II market, all the way back in 1984. Times change, and so have our offerings. Since 1996 we have been selling our software exclusively over the Internet. This greatly reduces the cost of the product to the consumer. Instead of paying $50 plus shipping, only to wait days to finally end up with more packing materials and garbage than they know what to do with, we sell them high quality programs for $25 or less, delivered electronically, no wait, no waste. Company: PowerFile Booth: 2528 South Hall Contact: Carole Holcomb Phone: 408-360-8951 E-mail: msu.mkt@mindspring.com Web: www.dvdchanger.com Changer is an easy and affordable solution for safely storing, managing and sharing discs over your network. This IEEE-1394/FireWire peripheral includes two DVD-ROM drives and provides about a terabyte of digital storage space for a suggested retail price of $1,799. The C200 includes client/server library management software for both Macintosh(tm) or Windows(tm) at no additional cost (unlimited client licenses!). Company: PowerLogix R&D, Inc. Booth: 407 Contact: Robin Sharp-Howdershelt Phone: 512-795-2978 E-mail: info@powerlogix.com Web: www.powerlogix.com PowerLogix was among the first companies to offer G3 and G4 upgrades for the PowerMac market and the first to announce a total G4 solution for the Blue&White machines. Their unique approach to the upgrade market has allowed them to continue to blow past the competition with the introduction of such innovative products as the BlueChip G3 upgrade for the PowerBook G3's and the iForce G3 and G4 upgrades for Apple's iMac series. PowerLogix strives to offer the consumer a variety of new and exciting products at a price to fit nearly every budget. Company: Proteron LLC Booth: 4336 Contact: Mat Caughron Phone: 402-932-3894 E-mail: macworldexpo@proteron.com Web: www.proteron.com Proteron LLC has been around since late 1996 with the creation of GoMac, the Mac's answer to the Windows task bar. Since then, the focus of the company has shifted to bringing the hifi MP3 software onto the Mac. Company: Quantified Systems, Inc. Booth: 447 Contact: Joahna Rocchio Phone: 619-235-2677 E-mail: jrocchio@quantified.com Web: www.urchin.com Quantified's Urchin is the fastest, most scalable website/webserver visitor-reporting package on the market. It provides users with complete, intuitive and easy-to-read reports on a wide spectrum of information that are indispensable to anyone interested in the design, marketing or hosting of a website. There are a variety of Urchin products to meet a wide range of reporting needs and website/webhosting/network configurations. Developed from a host's perspective, Urchin has minimal system requirements, incredible back-end performance and allows datacenters to centrally monitor load balancing and other important network traffic factors. Plus, the e-Urchin e-commerce component correlates all reported visitor parameters with actual dollars spent on a site, so web merchants know which marketing moves are paying off and which aren't. Company: RealTimeImage Booth: 2333 Contact: Yehuda Messinger Phone: 650-616-4676 E-mail: yehuda@rtimage.com Web: www.realtimeimage.com RealTimeImage Inc., a leading Internet infrastructure company providing imaging products and services for the graphic arts and medical communities, is showcasing RealTimeProof(TM), the latest revolution in online proofing of high resolution images for creative professionals and their colleagues. RealTimeProof is a suite of online proofing solutions that offer unsurpassed imaging quality for Web-based remote soft and hard proofing. With RealTimeProof, gigabytes of original production data can be securely transferred, reviewed and annotated in full resolution and color fidelity with a Web browser, even over a dial-up connection. RealTimeProof.com and RealTimeProof Classic deliver unsurpassed imaging quality and reliable collaboration in real time. Company: Riverdeep Interactive Learning Booth: 4700 Contact: Kerri Reich Phone: 425-556-8492 E-mail: kerrir@edmark.com Web: www.riverdeep.net Riverdeep is a leading provider of comprehensive K-12 eLearning solutions offering courseware over the Internet in math, science, and language arts, supplemental curricula, early learning products, and special needs resources. Riverdeep provides content-rich, interactive curricula, innovative management tools, a powerful assessment system, professional development resources, Ed Consultant support, and an Internet delivery system that makes all components accessible anytime, anywhere. Riverdeep curriculum-based online and CD-ROM products feature problem-solving approaches and real-world applications that contribute to the depth of conceptual understanding to ensure student mastery and achievement. The Riverdeep family includes Destination MATH, Logal Science, Riverdeep Language Arts, and Edmark elementary and special needs. Company: SMART Technologies Inc. Booth: 2517 Contact: Sarah Rawlinson Phone: 403.245.0333ext325 E-mail: sarahrawlinson@smarttech.com Web: www.smarttech.com SMART Roomware(tm) products facilitate group information sharing, whether you're in the same office or located around the world. By pressing the touch-sensitive surface of the SMART Board(tm), you can directly control projected software applications. Write over top of any application and then save your notes. Use SMART software to manage your meetings and training sessions. SMART Expression(tm), a mobile multimedia cabinet, seamlessly integrates your choice of presentation tools into one unit. With Hawkeye(tm), an optical whiteboard capture system, you simply press a button to save a digitally enhanced photo of your whiteboard notes. Print these notes or view them from a Web browser. Company: Sonic Desktop Software, Inc. Booth: 1248 Contact: Kevin Klingler Phone: 818-718-9999 E-mail: kevin@sonicdesktop.com Web: www.smartsound.com Sonic Desktop Software, the leader in soundtrack creation technology, will be debuting and demonstrating their new product, Sonicfire Pro, at booth 1248. Sonicfire Pro is the latest in the award-winning line of soundtrack creation software based on patented SmartSound technology, which allows users to score concise, professional soundtracks in minutes. Sonic Desktop Software, founded in 1995, is based in Northridge, Calif., and can be reached by phone at 818-718-9999; by fax at 818-718-9990; or via their website, http://www.smartsound.com. Please contact Kevin Klingler (kevin@sonicdesktop.com) or Trace Wilson (tracew@rolling-thunder.com) for more information. Company: Sophisticated Circuits, Inc. Booth: 3251 Contact: Beverlee Heiszler Phone: 425-485-7979 E-mail: info@sophisticated.com Web: www.sophisticated.com Sophisticated Circuits, Inc. develops elegant, highly integrated hardware/software tools which make the lives of computer professionals easier by enhancing the reliability, remote access and automation capabilities of servers and personal computers. Sophisticated Circuits products include: --Kick-off! --iDo Script Scheduler --Rebound! --PowerKey Pro Model 600 --Server Restart Option --PowerKey Pro Model 200 --Desktop Dialer --PowerPad --PowerKey Founded in 1984, Sophisticated Circuits, Inc. is a privately held corporation located in Woodinville, WA. Further information may be obtained by accessing the web at www.sophisticated.com, calling 800-769-3773, faxing 425-485-7172, or sending e-mail to info@sophisticated.com. Company: SPSS Inc. Booth: 4700 (Special Interests Boulevard) Contact: Kristin Jenkins Phone: 312-651-3277 E-mail: kjenkins@spss.com Web: www.spss.com SPSS Inc. enables organizations to develop more profitable customer relationships by providing analytical solutions that discover what customers want and predict what they will do. The company delivers analytical solutions at the intersection of customer relationship management and business intelligence. SPSS analytical solutions integrate and analyze market, customer and operational data in key vertical markets worldwide including: telecommunications, health care, banking, finance, insurance, manufacturing, retail, consumer packaged goods, market research and the public sector. Headquartered in Chicago, SPSS has more than 40 offices, over 900 employees and 1999 revenues of $142 million. Company: Synthetik Software Booth: 3650 Contact: John Binkov Phone: 415-864-6582 x10 E-mail: jb@synthetik.com Web: www.synthetik.com Synthetik Software will be demonstrating new enhancements to its award winning graphics software Studio Artist. A unique hybrid imaging model allows individual paint strokes to have the visual richness of raster paint with the editability of vector paths. Dynamic expressive paint tools or custom art processes can easily be constructed and applied to still images or motion sequences. The new features of Studio Artist are; keyframe time animation, the Texture Synthesizer, improved image and movie morphing capabilities, 3D Paint Lighting Effects, intelligent auto-regionization, full support for pen tilt recording in paint action sequences, Real-time Warping and Morphing, Intelligent-Assisted Auto-Rotoscoping, and Resolution Independence. Company: TechWorks Booth: 743 Contact: Bruce Reilly Phone: 512-349-1315 E-mail: brucer@techworks.com Web: www.techworks.com TechWorks, Inc., a longtime industry leader in computer memory and the first to offer a lifetime warranty for memory, will be exhibiting the Buffalo AirStation series of wireless LANs at MacWorld San Francisco in booth 743. The AirStation series of access points are Wi-Fi certified and transmit on the 2.4GHz band, as specified in the IEEE802.11b standard. Priced at $279 and $299 for the various models, the AirStation gives Mac and PC users a broader choice for creating or expanding wireless connectivity at home or in the office. In addition, TechWorks will be showing its new extended-range external antenna. Company: ThinkFree Corp. Booth: 4700 Contact: Andrea Corry Phone: 925-833-8172 E-mail: press@thinkfree.com Web: www.thinkfree.com ThinkFree is the leader in web-based office productivity solutions that enable true anywhere, anytime computing with Microsoft Office compatibility and cross-platform support. ThinkFree's patent-pending technology is designed and optimized from the ground-up for use on the Internet. The company's solutions are usable both online and offline with end-to-end security and are compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux or Unix platforms. The ThinkFree Office applications are automatically installed and upgraded over the web from the company's web site, www.thinkfree.com, at user login. ThinkFree will be previewing the beta version of ThinkFree Office for the Mac Classic at their booth. Company: Virtual Ink Corporation Booth: 4027 Contact: Louise Domenitz Phone: 617-574-4235 E-mail: ldomenitz@mimio.com Web: www.mimo.com Virtual Ink is a leading developer of natural, intuitive collaboration technology for traditional business, education and government applications as well as for e-business and e-learning. Virtual Ink's mimio is the first portable digital technology that seamlessly captures, manages and shares information as it is generated on a whiteboard or flip chart. The mimio family of products improves the productivity and creativity of any meeting, training or collaboration session by capturing notes directly onto a computer. Virutal Ink has received funding from private investors including Bear Stearns Merchant Banking, CMG @Ventures, IDG Ventures and Intel Capital. Privately held, Virtual Ink is based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and can be reached at 617.623-8387 or on the Web at www.mimio.com. The company distributes its products worldwide and has offices in London and Tokyo. Company: Virtual Training Company Booth: 1950 Phone: 540-667-6021 E-mail: paul@vtco.com Web: www.vtco.com Virtual Training Company makes learning the most challenging software easier. Open the program you want to learn. Open your VTC training CD. A friendly expert takes you smoothly from the basics of the program through every single feature. It's simple to apply what your learning as you go. Need help in the middle of a project? Use the CD's search function, and within seconds an expert is showing exactly what you need to know. VTC makes it possible for you to become an expert in far less time, at a much lower cost, than any other form of training. Company: zapwerk, Inc. Booth: 2417 Contact: Sheri Najafi Phone: 650-289-4719 E-mail: contact@zapwerk.com Web: www.zapwerk.com zapwerk produces easy-to-use, flexible web communication tools through American ingenuity and German engineering excellence. The company develops simple, state-of-the-art browser-based software solutions for intranets, extranets and the Internet. zapwerk's products are platform-independent, and can be integrated into virtually any environment with minimal effort and expenditure. Products include siteyard, the simplest, most affordable tool to keep web content current. This dynamic web-based system allows easy content creation and management on a Web site. With siteyard, employees, contractors, customers or business partners can keep web site content up-to-date with no HTML expertise, design skills, or special software required. For more info, visit http://www.zapwerk.com. |
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