AA software maps UK

News Mapping software specialist Kingswood has updated its AA Automap of Great Britain data set. [02 Oct 1996]

Corel sees suite price about £780 per server

News Corel this week said its Office Professional suite would be priced at around £780 per Windows NT 4.0 server in the UK. [01 Oct 1996]

AA software maps UK

News Mapping software specialist Kingswood has updated its AA Automap of Great Britain data set. [01 Oct 1996]

UK firm 's LCD monitors priced to move

News Microvitec has introduced a 31cm SVGA LCD monitor that it expects to sell for under £1,300 on the street. [01 Oct 1996]

Dr Solomon to sell Lotus Notes virus scanner

News UK anti-virus software vendor Dr Solomon's is to produce a virus scanner for Lotus Notes. [30 Sep 1996]

Alliance acts on risky software

News The Business Software Alliance (BSA) today launched a UK initiative aimed at stemming the rise of pirated software being sold through the channel. [30 Sep 1996]

Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary

News Monday [28 Sep 1996]

Live 96: Consumers meet Olivetti Xana

News Olivetti today debuted its Xana range of consumer PCs at the Live 96 exhibition. [26 Sep 1996]

Maxtor E-IDE drives go up to 3.5Gb

News US hard drive maker Maxtor has released a new line. The firm's CyrstalMax range succeeds the 7000 Series and offers between 875Mb and 3.5Gb capacities. [26 Sep 1996]

Optician's site stops eyestrain

News Dolland & Aitchison, the UK's longest established optician, today launched a Web page designed to reduce eyestrain for PC users. [24 Sep 1996]

PB-NEC cuts quarter off Versa prices

News Packard Bell NEC this week cut prices by up to a quarter on its high-end notebooks. [24 Sep 1996]

Court blocks UK phone numbers disk

News BT has won an injunction preventing distribution of the British telephone directory on CD-ROM. [23 Sep 1996]

NT, 95 make ground in corporate UK

News [23 Sep 1996]

Guy Kewney's Weekend Diary

News Monday

Deadlines, deadlines. I ought to be in Paris, listening to Bill Gates tell the IDC audience that "we don't always get it right, but we keep trying". Instead, I'm writing about it in London. [21 Sep 1996]

Anti-virus vendors swap jabs

News Symantec and McAfee have become embroiled in a nasty slanging match over the former's claims for its Norton AntiVirus (NAV) software. [20 Sep 1996]

Quarterdeck floats utilities

News Quarterdeck's trickle of recent product releases will become a flood with the release of a tranche of new troubleshooting, memory management and Web searching utilities. [18 Sep 1996]

UK forms package priced to move

News Toplevel Computing, one of the UK's few remaining successful PC software companies, will early next month release an electronic forms package priced to undercut market leader JetForm. [16 Sep 1996]

Q&A: Software Warehouse's Steve Bennett

News [16 Sep 1996]

Traveling intros Web OLR

News Traveling Software today showed off WebEx, a utility for offline access to World Wide Web pages. [13 Sep 1996]

PCP puts 10/100 Mbits/sec on PC Card

News PPCP has become the first UK distributor to offer Ethernet and Fast Ethernet on a single PC Card. [12 Sep 1996]

MapInfo maps out new version

News Mapping software leader MapInfo today released version 4.1 of MapInfo Professional for Windows 95, 3.x and NT. [12 Sep 1996]

Panther cuts its PowerPC teeth

News Herts.-based direct sales PC vendor Panther Computers has set ballpark pricing pricing for its PowerPC-based desktops, available towards the end of this month. [11 Sep 1996]

Tekdata drives 4x CD-R

News Tekdata has picked up UK distribution for what it claims are the first internal quad-speed CD-R systems, delivering read/write performance up to 600Kbps. [10 Sep 1996]

Digital counts to three NT PCs

News Digital today pushed out three Windows NT 4.0-optimised PCs, the Venturis GL, the Celebris FX and the Celebris GL 6000. [10 Sep 1996]

Bay docks into SoHo

News Bay Networks today launched a three-prong attack on the SoHo market with NetGear, a series of hubs, switches and ISDN routers. [10 Sep 1996]