FREE CONNECTIVITY for PowerTalk users is now available from Apple, which is distributing gateways that provide a bridge between the messaging software and other mail-system software. Apple will distribute the Mail*Link gateways, which it acquired from StarNine Technologies, via the World Wide Web (at http://www.info .apple.com/dev/evangelism/powertalk/gateways.html) and as part of future system-software releases. With the gateways, PowerTalk users can receive mail from the Internet, StarNine Mail (formerly Microsoft Mail for AppleTalk), and CE Software's QuickMail. ] If free mail gateways can't tempt you to use PowerTalk, how about an all-purpose communications application? JABRA (800-327-2230 or 619-622-0764) has released DOC*TEL, an e-mail, fax, and telephony package that manages messages and documents and -- with a GeoPort and the JABRA Ear PHONE -- lets you use the Mac as a hands-free telephone. DOC*TEL Personal sells for $99 or for $49 if you upgrade the Lite version that comes with the Ear PHONE. A multiuser version is planned for early 1996.
