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Communications dominates this issue with articles from Mark
   Anbinder about the new Global Village PowerPort/Mercury modem
   for the Duo and the Global Village OneWorld ARA and fax
   server. We also muse about what might have caused Apple to
   cancel the tablet-sized Newton and lay off many of the Newton
   hardware engineers, and discuss the problem of information
   piracy on the Internet.

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Topics:
    MailBITS/27-Jun-94
    Death of a Newton?
    Duo Owners Get Modem Choice
    Internet Information Piracy
    One World, Two OneWorlds
    Reviews/27-Jun-94

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MailBITS/27-Jun-94
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  If you regularly visit our FTP site at <ftp.tidbits.com> for
  Macintosh Internet software, be aware that we're moving files and
  directories around. Things may be rather difficult to find for the
  next week or so. I'll write more about the reorganization once
  it's complete. [ACE]


**eWorld Rate Correction** -- OK, so I blew the eWorld rates last
  issue. Here's the scoop, straight from the horse's press release.
  "The basic monthly subscription to the service is $8.95, which
  includes two free hours of evening or weekend usage. Each
  subsequent hour of usage is $4.95. In the U.S. and Canada only,
  there is an hourly surcharge of $2.95 during business hours (6
  a.m. to 6 p.m. local time). Access from outside the U.S. carries a
  $7.95 per hour surcharge (24 hours per day), but no business hour
  surcharge. There is no extra charge for the use of the Internet
  mail gateway or for 9,600 bps access." [ACE]


**Scott Storkel** <[e-mail]> writes:
  Whoops! As several people have already pointed out, my comments
  about ETO pricing in TidBITS-231_ weren't complete. ETO is $1,295
  per year for the first year and $395 for each additional year
  rather than $1,295 every year as my comments implied.


**Phil Ryan** <[e-mail]> writes in regard to
  the new PC emulator for the Power Macs that we mentioned in
  TidBITS-231_:

  I have had some experience with Utilities Unlimited and their
  product Emplant, a Mac emulator for the Amiga. Emplant has been in
  "developmental release" for quite a while. Utilities Unlimited
  (mainly in the person of Jim Drew, the chief
  programmer/engineer/president) does support its product strongly
  via the Internet and the various appropriate newsgroups.

  Despite starting from behind in the Mac emulation game (behind
  Redisoft's Amax Mac emulator) Emplant is clearly the better
  product, having come out with a Mac-II class machine when Amax was
  really a souped-up Mac Plus-class machine. Emplant works, in
  colour, with System 7. It allows active switching between the
  Amiga and the Mac environments and supports various Amiga screen
  resolutions as well as standard Mac resolutions. It follows fairly
  well the CPU power of the particular Amiga that it is on (so a 33
  MHz 68040 Amiga performs almost as fast as a 33 MHz 68040 Mac),
  while maintaining the multitasking of the Amiga.

  However, Emplant was not supposed to be just a Mac emulator. It
  was supposed to be a multi-operating system emulator providing for
  easy addition of various modules for emulating other operating
  systems, including DOS/Windows.

  I would not be at all surprised if the PC emulator for the Power
  Mac would be a very good product, be very cheap, and require less
  of your Power Mac than SoftWindows. I would be surprised if the
  first release was bug-free, but, like the Mac emulator for the PC
  (Executor by ARDI) would probably settle down after a while.


**Ric Ford** <[e-mail]> writes:
  It seemed odd to mention MacUser in TidBITS-231_ and ignore
  MacWEEK, when MacWEEK has had Internet email addresses for a long
  time. You can send email to MacWEEK via the Internet for letters
  at <[e-mail]>, for Mac the Knife at
  <[e-mail]> and for individual staff members
  at <[e-mail]>, such as my address,
 <[e-mail]>, and <[e-mail]>.

  [No slight to MacWEEK was intended of course - we were simply
  responding to the announcement of the MacUser address. To be fair,
  then, if other Macintosh or Internet publications (since those are
  our main topics) wish to send us Internet addresses where readers
  can reach them, we'll be happy to compose a list for a future
  issue. -Adam]


**Aldus ChartMaker** may not print, but that doesn't make it an
  applet. Jason Stephenson <[e-mail]> wrote in response
  to the TidBITS-230_ mention of ChartMaker: "How can anyone call a
  program that requires 8 MB of hard disk space and wants 4 MB of
  RAM an 'applet?' Everyone complains about Word's disk requirements
  but it is less bloated than this thing from Aldus. ChartMaker may
  provide plenty of functionality in making charts but is not what I
  consider an applet."

  I had assumed that the full 8 MB disk requirement included a small
  application and various extras (online help, templates, fonts,
  clip art, and so on). Word requires more hard disk space to
  install than it actually takes up, and I had assumed that
  ChartMaker installs similarly. I called Aldus to find out if
  ChartMaker consumes 8 MB of disk space for the typical user, and
  found that if you tweak it a bit you can knock it down to 5 MB. I
  also found that unless you have an installation problem, you must
  pay $2 per minute for ChartMaker support. Ouch. Overall, I'm not
  impressed. If we are going to have small, integrated applications,
  they'd better start out smaller than ChartMaker, and such a goal
  isn't unrealistic. [TJE]


Death of a Newton?
------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  Perhaps I overstate the Newton's status in the title of this
  article, but it appears that the Newton is being, shall we say,
  "de-emphasized" at Apple. Rumor has it that the Bic Newton, the
  tablet-sized Newton device, has been cancelled, and Apple has laid
  off a number of the Newton folks, mostly the hardware designers.
  It seems clear that there won't be much in the way of new Newton
  devices from Apple in the near future, at least until the market
  is ready for them again, at which point Apple will no doubt have
  Microsoft to compete with in some form or fashion.

  One possibility is that Apple is cutting back on its own hardware
  efforts to bolster the efforts of third-party developers who have
  licensed the Newton technologies. Sharp's ExpertPad was such a
  close Newton clone that there wasn't much of a reason to buy it
  over Apple's MessagePad, but if Sharp suddenly released a tablet-
  sized Newton, it would be alone in the market and would help
  legitimize the market. Apple hopes that strategy will work for the
  Mac, since software developers are more likely to bet on a
  platform if the health of the platform isn't tied to a single
  company. Toward that end, Apple has licensed System 7 to Acer, a
  Taiwanese PC-clone maker, and Acer is reportedly slated to release
  the first official Macintosh clone by the end of the year.

  All but two of the Newton software people remain and are
  apparently hard at work on version 2.0 of the Newton operating
  system which will be both a step forward and a step back.
  Apparently, the Newton OS 2.0 adds a hierarchical filing structure
  to replace the data soup that existed previously. This both makes
  it easier for users to find their data (since files can be stored
  in specific hierarchical folders, just as on the Mac) and more
  difficult since every time you want a file you must navigate to
  find it.

  All is not entirely downbeat though, and Apple France just
  released the Newton in France with a French operating system for
  FF5,490. Apple France claims that the delay was due to problem in
  translating the operating system into French, but by the end of
  1994, there should be 50 French applications for the French
  Newton.

  Despite the problems that the Newton faces, postings in the
  comp.sys.newton.misc newsgroup seem enthusiastic and upbeat about
  the Newton. That's good because if the current Newton users and
  developers can continue to support the product sufficiently,
  perhaps it will only go into a dormancy at Apple, rather than
  being completely killed.

  It's possible that the Newton has some serious problems, or it may
  be languishing in the "chasm," a marketing term I learned about in
  The High-Tech Marketing Companion (ISBN #0-201-62666-7, Addison-
  Wesley), an excellent book developed and edited by Dee Kiamy. In a
  chapter entitled "Breaking into the Mainstream," Geoff Moore
  outlines a more realistic technology adoption curve than the one
  you might expect. Normally, you'd think that a product would start
  slow with the innovators and the early adopters, then pick up
  steam as the majority of the audience started buying it. The curve
  drops back down toward the end as the laggards finally buy in.
  However, Moore's revised curve puts technical enthusiasts and
  visionaries at the early part of the curve since these are the
  people who will buy anything new or who recognize greatness. But
  before moving on to the next large part of the curve, which he
  fills with pragmatists and conservatives, Moore chops a section
  out of the curve entirely and calls this the chasm. During the
  chasm phase of the curve, basically no one buys the product. All
  the folks who buy things early already have one, and the people
  who wait until the product can do something specific for them
  haven't yet started to buy.

  Getting through the chasm is the tough part, since there's no
  money coming in, and the future looks bleak. Moore recommends
  going vertical - that is, concentrating all resources on a very
  specific market segment, and once success comes in that segment,
  moving on to another. It strikes me that the Newton is deep in
  this chasm phase right now, since everyone who wants one, has one,
  and Apple wasn't able to prove that a $500+ pen-based PDA is
  necessary for everyone. Thus, Apple's regrouping moves make a
  certain amount of sense - they must sit tight on the Newton until
  they can bring the price down and push it into specific markets
  where it makes sense, such as for doctors or delivery people. Only
  then can the Newton pull itself back out of the chasm.

  I do feel that it's important for the Newton to hang on, not so
  much for the sake of the Newton itself, but for the sake of the
  technology embodied in it. I can do without handwriting
  recognition, but some of the intelligent assistance capabilities
  would be incredibly useful in the Macintosh environment as well.
  If the Newton dies, I fear that those technologies would die with
  it, and that would be a bad thing for us all.


Duo Owners Get Modem Choice
---------------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor <[e-mail]>
     Director of Technical Services, Baka Industries Inc.

  After waiting more than a year and a half, PowerBook Duo owners
  now have a third-party modem option, the PowerPort/Mercury for the
  PowerBook Duo from Global Village Communication. The new modem
  fills in the top of Global Village's product lineup, offering
  19,200 bps data communications and 14,400 bps send and receive fax
  capabilities.

  At a suggested retail price of $399, the PowerPort/Mercury for the
  Duo will probably be a bit more expensive than Apple's Express
  Modem, the only competing product available at this time. Early
  reliability problems with the Duo Express Modem (most of which
  have reportedly been fixed through software updates) and Apple's
  less-functional fax software make the extra expense worthwhile for
  serious telecommunicators.

  Even though Apple's 1991 introduction of the original PowerBook
  model was followed by a string of third-party modem offerings,
  none of these developers stepped forward with a model for the Duo
  210 and 230 when they arrived about a year later. Manufacturers
  cited difficulties in getting hardware and software specifications
  from Apple. Since the Duo design incorporated more circuitry in
  less space, Apple was not able to use the same modem design they'd
  created for the 100-series PowerBooks. Apple claimed delays in
  producing appropriate developer documentation as the reason third
  parties were not able to develop their own modems for the Duos.

  In the meantime, Global Village offered a special version of its
  GlobalFax software for use with the Duo Express Modem. This served
  to tide over impatient Duo owners who really wanted a Global
  Village modem. The company reportedly plans a special reduced-
  price offer for owners of GlobalFax who wish to purchase a
  PowerPort/Mercury for their Duo, but details were not available at
  press time.

  One important advance in Global Village's modem design is of
  course the faster data throughput. The "v.32terbo" modem's 19,200
  bps performance is one third faster in raw data speeds, and the
  fact that many data transfer protocols have a finite overhead
  means that for most users, the perceived increase in speed will be
  even larger.

  Like the other Mercury models in Global Village's TelePort and
  PowerPort families, the new PowerPort/Mercury for the PowerBook
  Duo includes the powerful and flexible GlobalFax software for
  sending and receiving faxes, as well as GlobalFax OCR for
  converting received faxes into editable text or word processor
  files. The package also includes Dave Alverson's popular ZTerm
  terminal emulation shareware program, which Global Village buyers
  need not purchase separately.

  Global Village says that industry estimates place the installed
  base of modem-less PowerBook Duos at over 50,000 in the U.S.
  alone, and thousands more Duos are sold each month. If this is
  accurate, the first batch of new modems may vanish quickly, but
  Global Village hopes production will catch up with demand before
  too long.

  Is there anything to talk to at 19,200 bps? You bet - starting
  with Global Village's OneWorld Remote Access servers, which
  incorporate internal PowerPort/Mercury modems to provide
  performance that feels considerably faster than 14,400 bps ARA
  service. No commercial online services like America Online and
  eWorld have 19,200 bps access lines yet, but many local bulletin
  boards do. SLIP and PPP protocols, providing dialup Internet
  access, also feel much smoother at 19,200 bps than at 14,400.

  Certainly Global Village's new modem makes the Duo itself a more
  viable alternative to the all-in-one PowerBook 100 and 500
  families. The much lighter Duo models are attractive to users who
  want the lightest possible notebook computer, and who don't need a
  floppy drive available at all times. (Many PowerBook owners find
  the floppy drive less critical than they expected it to be.) Of
  course, the new 500 series PowerBooks have their own advantages,
  such as the Trackpad pointing device with no moving parts, and the
  dual battery compartments.

    Global Village -- 800/736-4821 -- 415/390-8200
      415/390-8282 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>

  Information from:
    Global Village propaganda


Internet Information Piracy
---------------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  If you've grown accustomed to reading Dave Barry's humor columns
  in ClariNet, the fee-based news service that appears in the
  clari.* Usenet hierarchy, you may have noticed that Dave Barry's
  columns are no longer posted (apparently the same is true of Mike
  Royko's columns).

  Brad Templeton, who started both rec.humor.funny and ClariNet,
  posted a message 17-Jun-94 saying, "We regret to announce that on
  the orders of Knight-Ridder Tribune and its Tribune Media Services
  Division, we will cease publishing the Dave Barry column and the
  Mike Royko column effective June 23, 1994."

  It appears that Knight-Ridder became concerned about the level of
  information piracy on the Internet. Although the details remain
  unknown, reportedly a subscriber to Dave Barry's columns over
  ClariNet sent a copy of a column to a mailing list of people who
  weren't ClariNet subscribers, thus breaking ClariNet's
  distribution rules and basic copyright law. From that mailing
  list, the pirated column made its way to a Knight-Ridder employee,
  who reported it on up the line to the executives who made the
  decision to remove the columns from ClariNet.

  I question whether Knight-Ridder's move was in fact the correct
  one to make if they wish to avoid pirated columns from flying
  around the nets. When Dave Barry's columns were available via
  ClariNet, at least there was a legitimate source for them for some
  people (anyone actually, since you could subscribe via email as
  well). I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised to see columns
  being typed in and sent around in informal mailing lists, or even
  posted, perhaps via an anonymous posting service, in groups like
  alt.fan.dave_barry (where even Dave himself is rumored to hang
  out)

  The feel of the entire fiasco is one of grade school, when someone
  breaks a rule and the teacher punishes the entire class. Knight-
  Ridder presumably knew who had pirated the column and sent it to
  the mailing list; why didn't they simply sue that person for
  copyright violation? Or even easier, why didn't they let ClariNet
  do it for them? Brad Templeton has set up a mailbox at
  <[e-mail]> where ClariNet copyright violations may be
  reported, although I've never heard if ClariNet has actually gone
  after anyone legally. ClariNet has always pushed hard to encourage
  people to respect copyright online, and it's a shame to see their
  efforts wasted like this.

  I wonder why Knight-Ridder hasn't removed Dave Barry's column from
  all of the commercial online services as well. After all, it's no
  more difficult to copy a column from an AOL text window and send
  it to a mailing list on the Internet as it is to copy it from a
  Usenet newsreader and send it to a mailing list. The conspiracy
  theorist here would say that Knight-Ridder wasn't earning enough
  from the ClariNet distribution of those columns and wanted an out
  so that it could provide them over the Internet again later,
  presumably in such a fashion as to make more money.

  In any event, it's a shame that one person's disregard of
  copyright law has led Knight-Ridder to ruin it for the thousands
  of other people who played by the rules and paid ClariNet for the
  Dave Barry columns in some form or fashion. I guess I'll have to
  go back to getting my Dave Barry fix from clippings from my
  mother, although I've started to wonder after reading in
  alt.fan.dave_barry that some newspapers cut Dave Barry's columns,
  presumably to make them fit, both in terms of space and
  occasionally, subject matter. Humph.


One World, Two OneWorlds
-------------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor <[e-mail]>

  The global village grows closer every day, and one of the
  companies making it happen is Global Village Communications. The
  company's new OneWorld server products, introduced earlier this
  year, are perfectly suited to providing communications services on
  small, medium, and large networks. Different versions offer
  remote-access network dial-in, or outgoing network fax
  capabilities, and prices vary based on hardware configurations and
  number of network users.


**The hardware** -- Each OneWorld box is a small, stackable unit
  with a design reminiscent of the company's angular TelePort
  modems, but a bit bigger (the size of a hardcover novel) and
  curved in front. A OneWorld box has room inside for up to two
  PowerPort modems, the same ones used in 100-series PowerBooks. The
  hardware supports any PowerPort model - past, present, or future -
  to provide an easy upgrade path.

  Different OneWorld versions offer either a lone LocalTalk port, or
  both LocalTalk and 10baseT EtherTalk ports. You can't attach a
  OneWorld server to both networks at once, so if the server has
  both ports, it determines on power-up which network types to use.
  If the server is on an Ethernet segment, you can also tell it
  which AppleTalk zone to consider home. (LocalTalk doesn't
  currently support zone selection.)


**Remote Access server** -- The internal modems are
  PowerPort/Mercury modems, providing AppleTalk Remote Access (ARA)
  users with connections to the network at up to 19,200 bps. The
  server fully supports ARA client software versions 1.0 and 2.0;
  there's no need to set the ARA 2.0 client in its less-functional
  1.0-compatible mode.

  Beyond that, there's not much to say. The OneWorld Remote Access
  server acts just like ARA server software running on a Mac, as far
  as the user can tell.


**Fax server** -- Have you ever used Global Village's GlobalFax
  software on a TelePort or PowerPort modem? If so, you already know
  how to send a fax using the OneWorld. An updated version of the
  software lets you send faxes from either a OneWorld or your own
  modem, a feature imperative for those roving PowerBook users.

  Carried over from the previous GlobalFax versions are such
  features as multiple address books (collections of recipients'
  names and fax numbers), easily modifiable cover sheets, importing
  and exporting of phone numbers, detailed activity logs, delayed
  transmission, and fax recipient grouping.

  The import/export feature allows easy transfer of names and fax
  numbers to and from Address Book Plus, Dynodex, and TouchBase file
  formats, as well as text files.


**Security** -- Global Village's OneWorld security features are
  based on "passports," or privilege definitions for individual
  users or groups of users. A group passport defined for multiple
  users can mean a single change updates each user's access
  capabilities. The passports apply to both fax and remote access
  features, which means the security levels can be installed on both
  types of devices today - and can apply to both features of a
  hypothetical upcoming device that handles both fax and remote
  access services. Users can have different levels of access to your
  network with the remote access servers, and different faxing
  capabilities with the fax servers.

  Some corporate network administrators will be pleased that the
  OneWorld Remote Access servers offer the hardware-based callback
  capability their security policies demand. ARA's own callback
  feature, which enables the server to call back a user only at a
  pre-determined telephone number to make password theft
  meaningless, is software-based and therefore not acceptable at
  some companies where network security is a critical manner. (We
  haven't heard of cases in which ARA's callback security was
  compromised, but the software configuration might seem less
  bulletproof.) Naturally, the OneWorld callback feature works
  precisely the same way, but is based in hardware rather than
  software.


**Management** -- A product family with such flexibility and
  convenience at the user end must be a nightmare to administer,
  right? No. Global Village's new OneWorld Manager software draws
  interface elements from the Finder and the Chooser, and quite
  cleanly enables the administrator to change the configuration of
  any OneWorld device on the network.

  If you already have an ARA server running, or even a Shiva
  LanRover (another hardware ARA server device), you'll be thrilled
  to hear the OneWorld Manager application will happily import your
  existing user information either from AppleShare-style Users &
  Groups files or from user lists exported from Shiva's Net Manager.


**Missing in action** -- Some features that would seem obvious
  aren't here, at least not yet. For example, the OneWorld Remote
  Access box doesn't double as a shared outgoing network modem, as
  the competing LanRover from Shiva does. Shiva has virtually
  cornered this market for years, but Global Village certainly has
  the communications expertise to develop the necessary workstation
  software that should be the biggest hurdle. Using the
  Communications Toolbox (CTB) would be the easiest approach; the
  software could register the network device as a CTB port, so it
  would be unnecessary to fool the Mac into thinking it was talking
  to the modem port or printer port. The drawback? Plenty of
  software still lacks CTB-awareness, even the easy-to-implement CTB
  port handling.

  Also, the OneWorld Fax products won't be able to replace the
  standard office fax machine until they can receive faxes as well
  as send them. According to Nick Chinn, senior customer
  satisfaction representative at Global Village, Global Village must
  work out several technical and interface issues that before a
  stand-alone network device could receive faxes. For example: Where
  does it put them? Whom does it notify? There are solutions, of
  course, but the company's engineers want to make sure the
  solutions are palatable and intuitive before they ship a product
  that incorporates them.

  I'd also like to see the GlobalFax software better handle long
  distance access numbers and credit card numbers. It's possible to
  add these items, either to the prefix field that's dialed before
  every call (usually used to dial a "9" to get an outside line), or
  to each destination phone number, up to a total of 64 digits, but
  this gets cumbersome. What's worse than cumbersome is that credit
  card digits added at the end of the phone number show up on fax
  cover sheets. You can avoid this by keeping the phone number field
  on the cover page too small to show the extra digits, but we're
  still not talking about a clean solution.


**OneWorld Future** -- The hypothetical future "combo" OneWorld
  mentioned above, offering both Remote Access and Fax features
  (both send and receive, naturally), is one product we're likely to
  see. Even if the first version must have specific modems in the
  device each dedicated to a specific task, it'll be a start, but we
  expect somewhere down the line to see a OneWorld whose internal
  modems can perform any or all OneWorld tasks when called upon.
  That will provide the most network flexibility without wasting
  hardware.

  What else? I wouldn't be surprised to see a multi-protocol
  OneWorld Remote Access at some point, offering not just ARA
  protocols, but SLIP and PPP capability to provide TCP/IP
  connectivity. (In fact, I'd be extremely pleased to see such a
  product.)

  Some first-generation products, such as the original Newton
  MessagePad and the Macintosh Portable, and even the original
  Macintosh, are more exciting for the promise they evidence for the
  future than for what they provide right now. Global Village avoids
  this trap by offering a suite of products that make us drool over
  future possibilities while making us drool over the here-and-now
  as well.

    Global Village -- 800/736-4821 -- 415/390-8200
      415/390-8282 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>

  Information from:
    Global Village propaganda
    Global Village tech support
    Pythaeus


Reviews/27-Jun-94
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 20-Jun-94, Vol. 8, #25
    TextBridge 2.0 -- pg. 33
    Maple V Release 3 -- pg. 34
    TextureScape 1.0 -- pg. 36
    Cron Manager 1.0.2 -- pg. 36
    Desktop Projector 2800 -- pg. 38
    MovieWorks 2.02 -- pg. 40
    LogoCorrector 2.1 -- pg. 41

* InfoWorld -- 20-Jun-94, Vol. 16, #25
    Image Editing Programs -- pg. 74
      Photoshop 2.5.1
      Painter/X2 2.0
    Power Macintosh Upgrade Card -- pg. 112
    Adobe Dimensions 2.0 -- pg. 113


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