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Gold/Mining/Energy : PKS-PeakSoft Multinet Corp. (was PeakSoft Corp.) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dave Warner who wrote (1044)	1/11/1998 9:04:00 PM
From: Steve	Respond to of 1470

Here is a nice little article. It is good to see some recognition for NetMagnet. But the refer to PeakJet as "NetPeak", what the hell is that? Are we changing the name again? Trip Report: Fall Comdex '97, The 'Webizing' of Computing Part 2 01/01/98 The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing Other approaches to improving speed "The Web isn't waiting, why should you?" So asks Diamond Multimedia Systems with respect to its Shotgun modem, scheduled for shipment in early 1998. The Shotgun SupraSonic II bonds two 56-Kbps modems on a single board, with a single IRQ. This technique doubles the speed to 112 Kbps when you have two analog phone lines. Diamond adopts the ISDN method, whereby Shotgun can release the line for a detected incoming voice call or fax, but otherwise use the extra capacity for data communication. An internal SupraSonic modem will cost $199. Other products seek to speed up Web access through the read-ahead technology first developed in PeakSoft's NetPeak. NetPeak anticipates where the user is likely to go next and fetches the information in the background. Kiss Software's Speed Surfer is one example of this technique; another is Blaze from Ascent Solutions, Inc. (see next post) Both products list for $50. PeakSoft's new product, NetMagnet ($99, with a $79.95 introductory price), incorporates NetJet and four additional modules. PageTracer keeps a log of everywhere the user has been, while PageFolio organizes hits and updates them. Collage creates pages with the collected information. PagePresenter communicates the research as an E-mail attachment or as an online slide show. According to CEO Doug Foster, NetMagnet combines a browser accelerator, offline browser, and session manager that lets you save, edit and merge sessions. The session manager automatically logs sites that you've visited so that you can easily retrieve them. Foster believes that the session manager can replace the back-button. One of the interesting features of NetMagnet is the ability to switch between Internet Explorer 4.0 and Communicator without losing the session. You may find that Web pages look better with one browser or the other, especially with Microsoft's Channel Definition Format, Foster notes. Another good feature is the ability to add notes to a link.