Category: News

It's been an interesting month! First let me tell you about new developments on the Internet. We've gotten ourselves hooked up to the Internet and have been excitedly browsing the World Wide Web (WWW). And, we've registered our own domain name (www.infonetx.com) and hope to soon launch our own home …

Springtime in central Ohio means another season of long distance bicycle rides has begun. It starts with a 50 mile ride last weekend, then a 100 mile ride this weekend, and culminates with the 210 mile Tour Of the Scioto River Valley (TOSRV) ride on Mothers Day weekend. It may …

A new shipper form design has been developed which some INFONETICS customers feel more closely meets the requirements of their state authorities. The changes are to the placement of the part information columns. In the new format, the "Product/Hazard Class/HMID" is positioned furthest to the left followed, left to right, …

Greetings. Last month, we leaked the word that we're starting on a new major software release. Now for a peek at some of the things we're thinking about; First up is an attempt to port our software to SCO's latest (and theoretically greatest) version of the UNIX operating system; Release …

The first NWSA Spring Management Conference was held in Atlanta, Georgia, February 18-20. Jim Conlin, Dale Gleghorn, and I attended and had a wonderful time. At the NWSA National Convention last October in Orlando, Florida, I only attended the contact booth portion and did not get the full effect of …

This month, a couple of housekeeping items. First, spring is soon to be on us (I hope), and as with every year it will bring thunderstorms and lightning strikes. Now may be the time for an overall hardware review to check out your surge protectors, both electrical (ISOBAR's) and communications …

THEY'RE HERE!!!!! The long awaited, and highly anticipated Iomega JAZ removable cartridge disk drives have arrived! This new device finally showed up in our office last week, and initial testing and benchmarking is very promising. At 1000 megabytes, or 1 gigabyte (1GB) in techno-speak, this removable cartridge disk drive is …

Well, tradition has it that the first newsletter of each year has us charting the course for the coming years' projects. So as not to disappoint, I'll lay out for you some of the projects on my mind for the coming months. High on the agenda will be improvements/enhancements to …