Milwaukee, WI Ð The electronic address-book market, long dominated by Sarrus Software's SBook, heated up in October with the release of InTouch from SmartSoft. Beyond organizing address information, InTouch tracks and manages correspondence. From a listing of contact information, users can directly access any correspondence they send, according to the company.
InTouch also allows a user to group addresses and send a mass e-mail or fax message. "I have to confess, I see it as a work-in-progress," one beta user said. "Some features need to work better, but it's 95 percent there." He added that he preferred InTouch over SBook.
InTouch can import from SBook's ASCII format and export to WriteNow and WordPerfect for mail merging. InTouch also provides customization options.
A single-user copy costs $99.
SmartSoft can be contacted at 414/964-8864; smartsoft@parsec. mixcom.com.