Originally Published in 1992 (Computer jagat) IBM is busy building Arabic solutions into OS/2. It has developed an Arabic Toolkit for OS/2 Presentation Manager that provides Arabic services on both the user and the programmer level. With the help of Arabic Toolkit, Arabic users will be able to enter, edit and display bilingual text through [...]

Originally Published in 1992 (Computer Jagat) ALR’s Powerpro/MC systems are being launched in direct competition to IBM’s PS/2 Model 95 system. The Powerpro/MC system microprocessor is upgradeable. Unlike the IBM PS/2 Model 95 system, the Powerpro/MC is designed to be dual processor– ready to satisfy future high performance computing requirements,” said Gregory Hauw, vice president [...]

Originally Published in 1992 (Computer jagat) The growing demand for facsimiles suitable for homes and small offices has led to an upsurge in production of low-end j machines. New manufacturers arc ‘ emerging all the time in Taiwan and Hong Kong. The intensifying competition has resulted in price cuts in Taiwan of $ 20 to [...]

Originally Published in 1992 (Computer Jagat) The latent pen-based computer market will remain grounded until at least the middle of the year, its lift-off hampered by a lack of deliverable hardware and further delays in the release of two key pen-based operating environments. Several developers claimed a series of bugs will delay the arrival of [...]

Originally published in 1992 (Computer Jagat) Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus Development and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), used the keynote address at the Winter ’92 Usenix technical conference to hammer home the EFF’s vision of a civilized network world, with networking for everyone. Kapor was of the opinion that Integrated Services Digital Network  (ISDN)—a [...]

originally published in 1992 (Computer Jagat) A Zatnan Subhani When an organization or a person go to computerize their organization and if there is no computer specialist, in that case, it’s wise to hire a computer consultant to do the job smoothly. But, sometimes the volume of business of the organization is small or medium [...]

ICAAP regulations if implemented in letter and spirit would fundamentally change the way banks plan and strategize their business “All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively.”  Niccolo Machiavelli As bankers across the world go back to their strategy tables to rework [...]

Stephen Slade, Senior Director, Manufacturing and Supply Chain Marketing, Oracle Since the first computers were introduced on the factory floor in the late 1960s, manufacturing automation has undergone an unrecognizable transformation. Today, automated processes create mountains of valuable data, but all too often, only a small percentage is ‘actionable’.  With the amount of data being [...]