Whit Andrews

Eloquent, Inc. announced Demonstrator!, a feature of the vendor’s Presenter! package designed for capturing and streaming software demonstrations via the World Wide Web. Uniquely, it includes the new ScreenTracks datatype, allowing speakers to incorporate software demonstrations into their Eloquent presentations. “In the technology industry, nearly every new product launch or sales training event includes a […]

Caere Corporation announced PageKeeper Standard, a new document software package that enables users to organize both scanned pages and electronic documents—such as Word, Excel, and Web pages–in a single desktop. The product is offered at what the vendor is billing as an “unprecedented” price of $39. With PageKeeper Standard, Caere said scanner users can manage […]

DHL Worldwide Express announced the release of a new software application that the company said is designed to streamline the international shipping process. Called DHL Connect, the product uses a point-and-click environment to simplify the sometimes daunting tasking of sending goods overseas, DHL said. Patrick Foley, chairman and CEO of DHL Airways, commented: “DHL Connect […]

Track Data Corporation, which earlier this month launched myTrack–a free Internet-based personal investment tool–said the service is already gaining large numbers of users. More than 6,000 people signed up for the service in the first week of its operation, according to Track Data. Unlike most online investment services, myTrack has streaming technology that posts continually […]

Tripod today announced the launch of a personal home page directory that will employ WiseWire directory-building technology to navigate through its reported 2.7 million members’ home pages. Tripod’s parent company, Lycos Inc., bought Pittsburgh, PA-based WiseWire on April 30 for approximately $39.75 million. Tripod is billing its Internet community as the only one of its […]

Excite, Inc. today announced an upgrade to its Excite Search directory that the company said is designed to deliver targeted content to users along with results. The Web media guide said Excite Search, which will employ Jango technology acquired from NetBot last year, now incorporates details such as company and product information, up-to-date news articles, […]

InterCAP Graphics Systems announced a new version of its ActiveCGM Browser for viewing, navigating and printing of Computer Graphics Metafiles (CGMs). A free version of the viewer will be available later in the summer in addition to a commercial version. John Gebhardt, Chief Technical Officer at InterCAP, said: “We’ve been continually enhancing our CGM viewing […]

Micrografx, Inc. unveiled Webtricity 2, a powerful suite of software for creating graphics and animation for the Web. It offers three professional-level applications, Internet functionality, and 80,000 different pieces of clip art. The main applications in Webtricity 2 are: Picture Publisher 8, which enables users to produce animations and complex graphics indexes; Simply3D 3, a […]

VoCAL Technologies announced VoVoIP, a software suite designed to provide a complete solution for voice over IP networks, including LANs, intranets, and the Internet. VoVoIP consists of a fully integrated speech/audio processing system with routines for voice coding, line echo cancellation, DTMF detection and generation, call progress detection/generation, and more. “Our solution is distinctive on […]

Infoseek Corp. today launched its new Extra Search Precision (ESP) search engine technology which the company said is designed to automatically anticipate user information and provide more specific search results. Infoseek said the service is especially geared for those users performing one- or two-word keyword searches because E.S.P. anticipates the services and information that will […]

SPS Technologies Corp. of Ft. Lauderdale, FL introduced MIRAS Lite, a tracking system that allows anyone with a PC and an Internet connection to track commercial vehicles or even family members – and identify their precise GPS location on a detailed street map. To track vechicles, MIRAS needs to be installed in the car, and […]

Bellingham, WA-based PeakSoft upgraded its PeakJet web browsing accelerator by adding new features plus a Java Runtime Environment which includes Symantec’s JIT compiler. The new product, called PeakJet 2000, also has an enhanced graphical user interface and additional user configuration options. “Although ADSL and ISDN high speed connections are high on the end-user’s ‘wish list’, […]