excite for web servers found documents about: (Query-By-Example) - higher confidence, - lower confidence; click icons to find similar documents 100% CD-R study disproves negative market perceptio Summary: CD-R study disproves. By Judith Lamont and Dhaval Joshi A new study provides encouraging results regarding CD-R media compatibility. The purpose of the test by Doculabs (Chicago) and the Special Interest Group on CD Applications and Technology Foundation (SIGCAT, Reston, VA) was to prove or disprove a market perception of incompatibility among CD readers, writers and media. Early users of CD-R... 96% CD-R media a global solution; read, write and ... Summary: If the system doesn't work, is it the hard drive, the recording software or the media? The same set of test files and the same procedures were used in recording each disc. All the files recorded successfully, and the test set of files also was readable. Not only did all the recorders work on all the media, but surprisingly, the discs were readable in all the CD-ROM drives used. Even for those... 94% Why attend SIGCAT Summary: CD technology has come to the rescue through innovative companies that have created "connected" CD products in conjunction with the growth of the Web. An even newer development is emerging in which the connected CD is taken one step further and becomes a Web site on a disc. Document management systems based on CD-R technology are extremely scalable. All we need are the discs. That's where CD-R... 94% CD-ROM and 'nets converging Summary: CD-ROM and 'nets converging. Recent examples of convergence are hybrid CD-ROM/Internet products and the integration of CD technology with document management and publishing. "With IW we can really get the message out that CD technology and systems are the synergistic partners with inter- and intranet document-centric information management." CD technology is at the heart of many converging and... 93% CDR Software & Hardware Shopping Guide Summary: duplication time. The Trans/Corder was developed because of operator dissatisfaction with the time-consuming process of duplicating CD-ROM discs. CD-R duplication. and NT support. New CD-R writer software. 92% SIGCAT gets CD gift from NSM, Smart Storage NS... Summary: SIGCAT gets CD gift from NSM, Smart Storage. NSM Jukebox (Bensenville, IL), and Smart Storage (Andover, MA) have presented a networked read/write CD solution to the SIGCAT Foundation (Special Interest Group on CD Applications & Technology, Chantilly, VA). "We're pleased to have these leading technologies from both NSM and Smart Storage on display at CIRC," said Jerry McFaul, president and... 92% CD-R's bright future Summary: Very soon ISO will release ISO 13346, the standard for incremental writing ("packet writing") of CD-R discs. The OSTA standard.osta. New products, possibilities. When fully implemented, imaging, COLD and new CD-R technologies could revolutionize this process. 91% Floppy space saver Summary: Floppy space saver. The company's variable packet-writing approach allows a compliant CD-Recorder to write thousands of "sessions" while producing a CD that can be read in current and next-generation CD drives. The caching scheme removes the need for additional hardware or excessive hard disk space, the company says. Fully backward-compatible, Floppy CD allows a CD-R disc to be used in the same... 91% SIGCAT a review and a preview The upcoming SI... Summary: Imaging World, May 5th, 1997 SIGCAT: a review and a preview. THE UPCOMING SIGCAT CONFERENCE PROMISES TO CLARIFY VARIOUS. CD TECHNOLOGIES THAT CONTINUE TO CHANGE AT A DIZZYING PACE. The conference will try to make sense of the dizzying recent growth in CD technology. SIGCAT's history. 91% Packet writing Making desktop recording a re... Summary: Packet writing defined.) FloppyCD records under Windows 95, Windows 3.1x and DOS. In that strategy, the cache size is equal to the packet size, and a packet is written when the user-defined cache is full. Then, when the disc is put into a Windows 95 system that does not have a UDF reader, the system advises the user that the disc is in UDF, and the user has the option of installing the UDF reader... 91% Doculabs ranks Interleaf best of seven Summary: (Posted: Monday, April 21, 1997, 8:18 AM) Doculabs study examines document management products from Interleaf, Documentum, EZPower, InterTech Information Management, NetRight, PC Docs and Saros. 90% Electronic delivery trend Hybrid, connected Summary: In its simplest form, the strategy might just mean exporting information developed in a CD-ROM into the hypertext markup language (HTML) code read by Web browsers. The only viewer that is needed for the CD-ROM is a standard Web browser. Opportunities for hybrid CDs. Textbooks may include a CD-ROM that allows Web access. If the information that was put on the CD-ROM portion of the CD/Web duo needs... 90% CD-ROM Storage What next By Judith Lamont... Summary: CD-ROM meets the Web. Securing Web-based data. Taking a lead role in exploring how CD-ROM servers can provide secure Web sites for the federal government is SMS Data Products (McLean, VA). Some agencies will be selected for a study and will become test sites for CD-ROM Web server technology. Also, CD-ROMs of the Web site can be used as another distribution channel for the site information. 90% Where we answer all your CD-R questions Summary: What is CD-Recordable? Part II refers to CD-Recordable. For a CD-ROM player or CD recorder, a 1X speed translates to 153,600 bytes per second. Therefore, a "1X" recorder writes 150 KB per second to the CD-R media. Likewise, a "2X" recorder records at 300 KB per second, a "4X" records at 600 KB per second and a "6X" records at 900 KB per second. 89% Air Force hopes to grow document management ten Summary: Paper documents were then routed to the service's administrative office that distributed them. How SCATS works. Discs from the federal government are more numerous and more sophisticated than ever before and a good bargain as well.sigcat.org General Services Administration, copies of the GSA study are available from SIGCAT. 88% CDR Making CD-Recordable as useful as magnetic Summary: When disc writing is complete the disc can be finalized in the 13490 file system, or (software permitting) it can be converted to comply with the ISO 9660 file system. If a file or several files are smaller than a fixed-length packet we can always pad the packet before writing it. Standard players can not read Level 3 ISO 9660 discs. Writing the packets can be a very slow process. If the files... 86% New and noteworthy at SIGCAT MarketScape adds ... Summary: New and noteworthy at SIGCAT. MARKETSCAPE ADDS MULTIMEDIA SUPPORT TO WEBCD SOFTWARE. The hybrid Web/CD product lets users search the Web with the speed, portability and capacity of a CD-ROM, the company says. Once in the user's CD-ROM drive, WebCD facilitates visits to specified locations on the Web for updates and transactions. MarketScape also enhanced WebCD Live-Links, which Microsoft is... 85% Ricoh shows CD-RW hardware Summary: Ricoh shows CD-RW hardware. Quickly adopting the new CD-Rewritable (CD-RW) media that can be re-recorded thousands of times, Ricoh (San Jose) has introduced the first CD-RW-capable CD-Recordable (CD-R) drive. Using both standard CD-R and the new CD-RW media, the MP6200S ($599) drive is the first on the market to have the rewritable capability and a SCSI-2 interface. Used as a CD-R drive, the... 85% A look ahead Impact of CD-R CDs become a dom... Summary: CDs become a dominate force. An even newer development is emerging in which the connected CD becomes a Web site on a disc. Companies such as Folio and Marketscape are providing the tools and services for this very exciting "marriage" of the Web and CD technology.g. COLD), but the traditional storage media of 9-track tape and magnetic DASDs still dominate. Another development is the explosion of... 84% DVD arrives The advent of DVD-Video signals th... Summary: The advent of DVD-Video signals that DVD-ROM discs are just around the corner. DVD-Video drives are out, and DVD-ROM drives appear to be close to release. Encyclopedia Electronica will be bundled with DVD-ROM drives when the drives begin shipping. A number of CD-ROM replicators have established DVD production lines (See box "DVD Replicators." * DVD-R will have a smaller capacity than DVD-ROM.
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