The Road-Warrior's Checklist
If you often travel with a laptop, here are some tops that can make youtr life easier and more productive.
by Thomas Caldwell
Portable Computers: Taking Your Office With You
Portable computers have become an essential business tool for many. This month, Computing Japan technical writer John Boyd talks with four Tokyo-based businessmen who rely on their laptops.
by John Boyd
Airlines and Hotel -- What Should the Business
Traveler Expect?
What international airlines have in-flight phones so that you
don't have to be incommunicado during your 12-hour flight? Are Japanese
hotels laptop-friendly? Computing Japan surveys a
sampling of major airlines and hotels in search of answers.
by Wm. Auckerman and Rutsu Karimata
On the Road in the Asia-Pacific
Looking for some tips on how to stay in touch from far-off lands?
Regular Computing Japan contributor John Savageau has
carried his virtual office to more than a dozen Asian cities, but always
manages to stay in close contact with his Tokyo office.
by John Savageau
A Writer's Best Friend
You can't pet it, and it won't lick yout hand, but the typewriter had qualities that endeared it to generations of writers. Roving journalist Thomas Caldwell extols the virtues of using a typewriter in the computer age.
by Thomas Caldwell
The Internet: "So I'm Connected -- Now What?"
Introducing the first installment of a new monthly column devoted to the Internet, and its potential as a personal resouurce and business tool.
by Forest Linton
Data Storage Devices: Are Hard Disks Obsolete?
Technology marches relentlessly on -- and with every step it becomes harder for the average user to choose the best data storage option. Choose wrong, and you'll find that this year's cutting-edge solution is tomorrow's white elephant.
by Simon Mansfield
Data Storage Devices:Plan Before you Purchase
With the proliferation of new data storage media, it is more
important than ever to analyze your needs -- and the capabilities of the
various storage options -- before you buy.
by Wm. Auckermann
Teaching
Your Macs to Talk Business
Have you given up on connecting your Old Faithful, a legacy Mac,
to the company's WAN? With the right equipment, getting your Mac physically on the network is easy.
by R.A. Lemos
Interview: The TCP/IP Pathway to Open Systems
This month, Computing Japan talks with David
Langlais and Dan Ladermann, vice presidents of the Wollongong Group,
about the meaning of open systems, the realities of networking, the
peculiarities of the Japanese market, and the future of the Internet.
by Wm. Auckerman
The Query Column (12/94): Thomas Caldwell
