PLUGGED IN : NEWS BYTES.MACFAIR MOVES IN: Macintosh lovers, unite. The seventh annual MacFair, Southern California's version of the Apple conference/lovefest MacWorld, is set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Burbank Hilton Hotel and Convention Center. More than 120 companies - including Adobe, Claris and Macromedia - will be exhibiting their hardware, software and multimedia products. Admission for all three days is $10 for Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Macintosh Group members and $25 for the general public. For more information, call (310) 319-1824 or check out the group's Web site at http://www.macfair.com. TUNE IN TO ZDTV ZDTV Ziff Davis Television : Hoping to lure PC users back to their TVs, media group Ziff-Davis announced the launch of a 24-hour computer users' network. Dubbed ZDTV: Your Computer Channel, the fledgling cable outlet will offer information about buying PCs, investing in high-tech stocks, a nightly show about computer games and reports on interesting Web sites and the people who use them. Officials say the network will launch by March 1998. MORE PC SECURITY: Last week, researchers at IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) announced the release of a new encryption system designed to convince wary consumers that on-line shopping and banking is safe. With the system, a computer scrambles an outgoing electronic communication, and the recipient decodes the message using a private key. IBMmakes each key equally difficult, a step IBM says makes it virtually impossible to decipher. Still being tested, the system won't be ready for commercial use until later this year, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. an IBM spokesman. WEB LINKS ELECTRONIC EXCHANGE: Adding to the already crowded world of on-line stock information, the Pacific Exchange, or PCX (1) A bitmapped graphics file format that handles monochrome, 2-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit and 24-bit color and uses RLE to achieve compression ratios of approximately 1.1:1 to 1.5:1. Images with large blocks of solid colors compress best under the RLE method. See PC Paintbrush. , recently launched a fact-packed Web site at http://www.pacificex.com. The site gives computer users free access to price quote and company background on the 2,600 stocks and 600 equity options traded on the PCX. Learn how to become a member, ways to list a company on the PCX and ways to work the exchange's electronic trading  This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.Please help recruit one or [ improve this article] yourself. See the talk page for details. systems. GREAT EXPECTATIONS: Boggled by baby stuff? The Stork stork, common name for members of a family of long-legged wading birds. The storks are related to the herons and ibises and are found in most of the warmer parts of the world. Site - http://www.storksite.com - offers an on-line library filled with information about kids. Check out the personalized BabyGrams, which update visitors on how moms and their babies are doing. A registered nurse answers questions on pregnancy and childbirth, while the Name Nest lists thousands of baby names, their origins and meanings. RANDOM ACCESS CRACK OPEN E-MAIL e-mail: see electronic mail. in full electronic mail Messages and other data exchanged between individuals using computers in a network. : The Panasonic EggCam promises to add video to everyone's e-mail. The $199 camera, which sits on top of a PC monitor, has a built-in microphone and an adjustable-focus lens that can film objects as close as 3.9 inches away. Each file is compressed, so a two-minute video clip A short video presentation. can be squeezed into a one-megabyte file. Bundled with CU-SeeMe software, the camera can also be used for videoconferencing with dial-up connections, Internet links or over local area networks. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (1--Color) No caption (Panasonic EggCam) |
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