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Lists 100 events, technologies and products that were the most important to the advancement of computing during the second millennium. Includes William Oughtred's invention of the slide rule in 1621; George Boole's creation of Boolean algebra in 1845; Sun Microsystems' introduction of Java in 1996.

Presents a chart related to `PC Week' periodical's 1999 Fast@Track 500 companies.

Reports on the efforts of the US government to extend its control over the computer industry. How new regulations could impact the way software is produced and sold; The role that the antitrust investigations against Microsoft are playing; Comments from US Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein, the man charged with proving Microsoft's monopoly; Changes in business which have occurred since the drafting of the existing antitrust laws in the 19th century.

Profiles three women executives in the computer industry. Chris Cournoyer, chief information officer and vice president of Information Services at Lotus Development; Ellen Knapp, vice chairman and chief knowledge officer at Coopers & Lybrand LLP; Cinda Hallman, global vice president of Integrated Processes and Systems at DuPont; Education; Background; Affiliations; Professional data.

Features a calendar of events in the computer industry from March 25 to April 26, 1996. Includes NetWorld+Interop Computer Trade Show; Wireless 96; Video & Image Compression Conference; Web World; Database & Client/Server World; UNITE Solutions Conference; DB Expo; Mobile Electronics 96.

Presents 1993 milestones in the computer industry. Monthly breakdown of events; Banyan's VINES 5.5; Release of color Powerbook; Collaboration between Borland and WordPerfect over software suite; Microsoft's release of Windows NT; Resignation of John Sculley as Apple chief executive officer (CEO); Apple's third-quarter loss and debut of Newton MessagePad; IBM's PowerPCs and ThinkPad systems; More.

Focuses on Cisco Systems Inc.'s efforts to convince its data networking customers that it is the right vendor to help them bridge their data and voice networks. Third-party voice expertise; Firm's need to balance enterprise customers' desire for hands-on support with its own need to partner with telecommunications resellers and service providers. INSET: Cisco reloads for another rapid-fire round of buyouts, by R. O'R.

Focuses on technological issues that hinder the development of the storage area networks (SAN) market. Emergence of applications tailored for Fibre Channel back-up application space; Lack of interoperability; Management utilities for SAN.

Reports on Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Internet vision called e-services, replacing its earlier E-World initiative. Battle with other computer companies remaking themselves as providers of solutions for the Internet economy; Lessons from the mistakes of E-World; Past software breakdowns possibly stalling e-services. INSETS: HP reaches out to new partners to build revenue stream.;PhotoLoft feeling overexposed.;After a rocky start under HP, VeriFone looks to the future..

Reports on the technology patents of International Business Machines Corp. Role of the company to its partners; Types of patents registered by the company; Enforcement of the patents of the company. INSETS: ITG shopping list: Communications, consumer electronics.;OEM business becomes both a blessing and a curse to other IBM....

Discusses the efforts of companies in creating new management titles such as chief resource officer to create stronger ties to critical information technology (IT) partners in early 1999. Changes in Coors Brewing Co.'s approach to outsourcing information technology and other corporate tasks; Chart of the United States market for outsourcing services. INSET: Build your own.

Highlights 16 companies that have been identified by `PC Week' magazine as having the greatest impact on the high-technology industry as of March 1999. 3Com Corp.; Adobe Systems Inc.; Apple Computer Inc.; Cisco Systems Inc.; Compaq Computer Corp.; CompuServe Interactive Services Inc.; Dell Computer Corp.; Hayes Corp.; Hewlett-Packard Co.; IBM; Intel Corp.; Lotus Development Corp.; Microsoft Corp.; Netscape Communications Corp.; More; Brief details about each; Contact information.

Highlights 15 trends in the computer industry that have the power to reshape computing as of March 1999. Truly mobile devices; The euro; Information technology labor crunch; Security technologies; Merger and acquisition activity; Movement to virtual private networks (VPN); RISC technology; Rapid application development (RAD); More; Brief details about each.

Presents the top ten computer technologies to watch in 1999, according to `PC Week.' Network operating systems like Solaris and NetWare; Functional year 2000 date conversion tools; Electronic commerce; Application servers; Extensible Markup Language (XML); Server hardware; Desktop and portable computers; Automatic speech recognition; Internet multimedia; Enterprise resource planning (ERP) products for small and medium companies.

Looks at the top ten news items in the computer industry for 1998. The antitrust trial of Microsoft Corp.; The Java programming language; Extensible Markup Language (XML); Open source rules; Megamergers; Portals; Comebacks of companies like Novell Inc. and Apple Computer Inc.; Windows 98 and Windows NT; Electronic commerce; Price cuts; Year 2000 date conversion.

Focuses on RosettaNet, a computer industry organization set up to define the terms of the languages used in electronic commerce transactions. Companies including Ingram Micro Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. who are involved in RosettaNet; What RosettaNet hopes to define; Benefits that standard definitions will offer information technology departments; Why standard definitions are so important in business to business electronic commerce with multiple supply chain members. INSET: Ingram Web e-commerce system's at your service.

Discusses the various LAN fax server options. Personal computer dedicated to fax service; Specialized hardware unit; Printer with fax hardware; Pros and cons; Purchased of fax board and server software; Castelle Inc.'s FaxPress; Expansion capabilities; Direct inward dialing; Dual-tone-multifrequency; Optical character recognition; Pros and cons. INSET: Get the facts (on LAN fax servers)..

Reports on the changes in the Windows and OS/2 industry. Spotting the changes; Choosing from a variety of tools for tasks; Tool and approach selection; Systems-automation tools; Stand-alone programming tools.

Reveals that technology vendors are starting to focus on mid- and small-sized business in 1998. Questions about the ability of top-tier vendors to provide the service needed at lower levels; Why many mid- and small-sized companies should continue to work with value-added resellers and computer consultants; Expected growth in the small business market; Types of products in development to reach small businesses.

Highlights the computer trends of 1997 that will have the greatest impact on 1998. Managed personal computers (PC); Multitiered client/server development; Java development; Component development; Cryptography; Open messaging; Chips; Biometrics; Layer 3 switching/Gigabit Ethernet; 56K-bps modem technology; Statistics.

Highlights several of the computer products given awards at the Fall 1997 Best of Comdex awards. Products in several categories, including Best application; Connectivity solution; Desktop system; Development tool; Digital media; Internet software; Peripheral; Best Portable or handheld; Server; Utility software; Features; Price. INSET: Cyberstick: Best toy of the show, by Jim Louderback et al..

States that black-box systems make quality-of-service guarantees by asynchronous transfer mode and Resource Reservation Protocol a reality. The benefit of black-box traffic management systems; The suggestion that the black-box system will disappear; Features of Packet Shaper; Chart of cross-platform systems management software.

Focuses on the burgeoning computer industry in South Africa in the 1990s. Entrepreneurial fervor of South Africa's formerly disenfranchised blacks; How the fast-growing number of small businesses, half or more black-owned, creates opportunities for American computer industries; Soweto's coming to life economically; Computer training as an industry; Why South Africa's market is worth the gamble to an information technology vendor.

Talks about the extinction theory of personal computing in the United States in relation to the growth of the Internet. Theory advanced by George Gilder and other deep technothinkers; Implications of the theory; Paleo paradigm as bad science; Sun Microsystem's Java Technology; Response of Microsoft and Intel to the extinction scenario.

Reports on the trend toward the shift of personal computer (PC) manufacturers in Europe into retailers. Success story of Vobis Microcomputer AG of Aachen, Germany; Growth of the PC industry in the region; Hardware companies' deals with upstart PC makers; Emergence of down-market phenomenon. INSET: Here's how Vobis struts its stuff..

Reports on the competition between traditional mainframe software vendors and desktop software companies (downsizers v. upsizers) for the client/server market. Strengths and weaknesses in terms of technology, prices, relationships, sales forces, ease of use and agility; Major players. INSET: Hell hath no fury like a CIO burned..

Examines the competition among enterprise management product vendors in the United States and the major characteristics and trends occurring in the enterprise management arena. Definition of enterprise management; Mainframe and Unix players; Personal computer and local area network players; Management platforms.

Reports on the performance of the computer industry in Europe. Increase in European corporations' information technology budget; Increase in the value of computer shipments in the first and second quarters of 1994; Findings of CI/InfoCorp.'s survey on corporate customers in Germany and France.

Presents lessons on when to end a product line in the computer industry. Facing up to facts; Importance of synergy; Competition from a major company; Commitment to endeavors; Realization that death of product as inevitable.

Presents computer products. Microsoft Inc.'s UnInstaller Version 2.0 for Windows for removing Windows software; Token Technology Inc.'s RemoteVision software dial-up bridge remote access device; Borland International's Inc.'s dBASE compiler Version 2.0; Ziff-Davis Labs benchmark suites.

Reports on news and development concerning the computer industry. Princeton Softech Inc.'s version of the Archive software that will enable information technology departments to move data into and out of tape archives; Hummingbird Communications Ltd.'s Genio Miner software which extracts data from flat files and multiple heterogenous sources; Informix Corp.'s Ardent DataStage 4.0, an upgrade to its data movement suite.

Explains preliminary statistics released by market research firm, Dataquest Inc. concerning worldwide shipments of personal computers (PC). Compaq Computer Corp.'s retention of its title as the world's leading PC maker; Increase in PC sales of Hewlett-Packard Co. for the first quarter of 2000; Percentage increase in the overall worldwide shipments of PC.

Presents news on infrastructure providers in the computer industry in the United States for the week of April 10, 2000. Launching of a NAS device by Land-5 Corp.; Price cut by Microsoft Corp. for its BackOffice Server 4.5 software.

Presents news on outsourcing trends in the computer industry in the United States for the week of April 10, 2000. Launching of the Global SiteReliance suite of Freshwater Software Inc.; Creation of a series of repackaged electronic business tools by Micromuse Inc.

Presents news items concerning the infrastructure segment of the computer industry as of April 3, 2000. Includes the debut of Aironet 340 series of wireless local area network offerings from Cisco Systems Inc.; Launch of VA Linux Systems 1000, the slimmed-down version of its Linux servers for Internet and Web serving from VA Linux Systems Inc.; Double data rate (DDR) module from International Business Machines Corp.

Reports on developments in business computing industry as of April 4, 2000. Includes Salutation Consortium's launching of version 2.1 of its service discovery architecture which allows devices to recognize one another's capabilities; Man & Machine Inc.'s debut of a durable keyboard called Flexboard.

Reports on developments in the computer industry in the United States, as of March 27, 2000. Includes Computing Edge's introduction of its Baseline+Plus 3.3 for Windows 2000; Extended Systems Inc.'s partnership with dBASE Inc.; IBM Corp.'s introduction of its Deskstar 75GXP disk drive.

Presents computer industry-related news items, compiled in the week of March 13, 2000. Includes SCO Inc.'s extension of the Tarantella line of Web-based terminal emulation software; IBM Corp.'s rollout of an AS/400 hardware and software bundle; Procom Technology Inc.'s DataForce network-attached storage devices.

Presents two computer industry-related news items, compiled in the week of March 13, 2000. CoSine Communications Inc.'s $20-million contract with AduroNet; Nortel Networks Corp.'s enhancement of its Shasta Broadband Service Node 5000, a subscriber management system for value-added Internet Protocol services.

Presents three computer industry-related news items, compiled in the week of March 13, 2000. Collaboration between Tivoli Systems Inc. and Palm Inc. to make it easier to manage 3Com Palm devices; Regulatory approval for IBM Corp.'s 256-bit digital key decryption; DoDots Inc.'s software for repackaging Web sites into content.

Presents three computer industry-related news items, compiled in the week of March 6, 2000. Includes F5 Networks Inc.'s plans to expand its range of traffic management tools; Failure of the year 2000 computer bug to slow down server sales; Introduction of NovaStor Corp.'s NovaNet8 network backup software.

Reports on wireless communication systems introduced at the February 2000 Computer Technology Industry Association (CTIA) Wireless show. Solutions giving users access to corporate data; International Business Machines' (IBM) packaged product using transcoding technology; Xerox Mobile Solutions' MobileDoc product. INSETS: Beating the drum for wireless, by Mark Hammond.;Partnerships spur wireless instant..., by Dennis Fisher..

Presents news items concerning the United States computer industry as of February 21, 2000. Perle Systems Ltd.'s debut of a controller that will come with Hi/fn Inc.'s IPSecure compression and encryption software integrated into it; TimesTen Performance Software Inc.'s launch of Front-Tier 1.2 data caching software; Oracle Corp.'s plan to ship Release 2 of its Oracle8i database for Windows 2000 and Linux operating systems.

Presents infrastructure news relevant to the personal computer industry in the United States for the week of February 14, 2000. Includes the acquisition of Visible Decisions Inc. by Visual Insights Inc.; Shipment of a plug-in tool query by Metagon Technologies LLC.

Focuses on gigahertz-capable microchips introduced by personal computer makers at the 2000 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco, California. Details about the Itanium chip of Intel; Demonstrations of the Athlon chip by Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Presents news relevant to outsourcing and services in the personal computer industry in the United States for the week of February 14, 2000. Includes the agreement by Digex Inc. to provide services and support for Lotus Development Corp. Domino software; Announcement of the Windows 2000 consulting and implementation services by Amdahl Corp.

Focuses on the business-to-business electronic commerce standard for the computer industry of RosettaNet tested for the supply-chain system of 3Com Corp. Business activities targeted by the RosettaNet Partner Interface Process; Strategies to remedy the operational inefficiencies of the RosettaNet.

Presents news items related to the computer industry in the United States as of January 10, 2000. Includes Ardent Software Inc.'s DataStage Packaged Application Connection Kit for R/3; Gentia Software Inc.'s Linux-based software; Overland Data Inc. and Tecmar Technologies Inc.'s codevelopment of data tape drives.

Presents a compendium of news items concerning the computer industry. Includes Broadband Access Systems Inc.'s launched of Cuda Provisioning Manager software to help cable operators add IP-based voice and data services; Cisco Systems Inc.'s launched of its IP/Telephony Specialization strategy to help partners plan, design and deploy data, voice and video applications.

Presents a compendium of news items concerning the computer industry. Includes EXP Computer Inc.'s USB DirectLink, its first Universal Serial Bus mobile computing product; Be Inc. and Opera Software A/S' agreement to integrate the latter's Web browser with the former's Internet appliance software platform, Stinger and its desktop operating system, BeOS; Research In Motion Ltd.'s family of wireless handheld devices.