A new program, called Access to Opportunities , is expected to start this fall. It developed out of conferences between the University of Waterloo, University of Toronto and a major industrial partner. While it provides major government funding in an effort o keep Canada competitive in the high-tech industry, the Colleges involved are scrambling to comply. The latest chapter in the Apple renaissance story was written just last month as the much-ballyhooed iMac was finally shipped worldwide. News Margie Semilof Adobe Demos PGML Application Adobe has unveiled a new technology that displays Web graphics in a far richer way than is currently available using html.
Users can then view the site laid out in a sequence of pages.
Publishing99 Launched Trying to grab a stronger foothold on the desktop publishing market, Microsoft has recently launched Microsoft Graphics Studio Home Publishing 99 designed for home consumers. Microsoft also plans to ship Publisher 2000 in the first quarter of 1999 targeted toward small businesses. With the release of the two new products, Microsoft hopes to cut into TLC's hefty market-share in desktop publishing sales. So naturally, the competition drove Intel to introduce a cheaper processor. The rapid pace of technological innovation has spawned an outburst of verbal gymnastics on how to cope with rapid changes.