Anne Chen

About

As a senior writer for eWEEK Labs, Anne writes articles pertaining to IT professionals and the best practices for technology implementation. Anne covers the deployment issues and the business drivers related to technologies including databases, wireless, security and network operating systems. Anne joined eWeek in 1999 as a writer for eWeek's eBiz Strategies section before moving over to Labs in 2001. Prior to eWeek, she covered business and technology at the San Jose Mercury News and at the Contra Costa Times.

Tablet PCs Pass Inspection

While corporate response to Tablet PCs has been cool for the most part, Dennis Board introduced 200 convertible Tablet PCs into his computing infrastructure and, in the process, saw productivity among mobile workers more than double. Board is a technical specialist at Inspection Solution, a division of Remarketing Solutions Inc., based in Nashville, Tenn. Inspection […]

OneNote Showcases Tablet PCs Tighter Integration With Office

Microsoft Corp.s Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 features tighter integration with Microsoft applications, and nowhere is this more apparent than when using Microsoft Office OneNote 2003. /zimages/1/28571.gifClick here to read eWEEK Labs review of Windows XP Tablet Edition 2005. Microsoft plans to introduce OneNote Service Pack 1 shortly after the release of Microsoft Office […]

Tablet OS Makes Progress

Microsoft Corp.s Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005—the first major upgrade to the Tablet PC operating system—provides enough enhancements to entice some new converts. The update also will tide over current fans and developers until the release of a “Longhorn” version for Tablet PCs—or whatever Microsoft has planned for the Tablet operating system on the […]

Tablets Struggle for Position

When Microsoft Corp. launched Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates declared the platform would change computing forever. Gates may be proved correct eventually, but, two years later, Tablet PC sales remain disappointing, and tests of the forthcoming operating system update by eWEEK Labs dont indicate that horizontal usage will increase […]

Berners-Lee Takes Shot at .Mobi Domain

NEW YORK—Tim Berners-Lee, the man who created the Web 15 years ago, opened the 13th annual International World Wide Web Conference here on Wednesday by voicing his concerns over 10 new top-level domains being considered by ICANN, including .mobi, a top-level domain for mobile content. Besides .mobi, the domains .asia, .cat, .jobs, .mail, .mobi, .post, […]

IBMs T42 Taps Pentium M Chips

/zimages/5/76095.jpg Organizations looking for a workhorse laptop thats powerful and lightweight should consider IBMs T42. IBMs latest upgrade to its T Series line is armed with Intels new 90-nanometer Pentium M processor, code-named Dothan. Released earlier this month, Dothan is the successor to Intels original Banias core and will be a component of Intels eventual […]

Firetide Routers Automatically Form Mesh LANs

Firetides HotPoint 1000S wireless mesh routers provide a cost-effective, efficient solution for enterprises looking to unwire their LANs. When deployed, Firetides HotPoint wireless mesh routers ($799 each) automatically form a mesh network, enabling an enterprise to avoid costly standard LAN cabling. Each HotPoint router includes three standard 10/100M-bps Ethernet ports for connecting access points and […]

SSL VPN Trumps IPSec at Alexza

Alexza Molecular Delivery Corp.s Tom Miller needed to provide an increasing number of his organizations road warriors with remote access to monitoring experiments and mission-critical applications in a flexible and cost-effective way. At the same time, he needed to build a foundation for the exchange of information with future business partners. His solution: Replace the […]

Cool C Voice Recognition Software Gets Lost in Translation

Cool Conversations LLCs first release of its Cool C Talking Computer software is a good demonstration of how far speech recognition has come—and how far it still has to go. Click here to read the full review of Cool C Talking Computer. 2 Cool Conversations LLCs first release of its Cool C Talking Computer software […]

Office Suites: How We Tested

The intent of eWEEK Labs office productivity suite eValuation was to determine what types of training issues and costs organizations will likely face as their users make the transition from older versions of Microsoft Corp.s Office to Office 2003 or to an open-source alternative (namely, OpenOffice.orgs OpenOffice.org 1.1.1). /zimages/3/8721.jpg /zimages/3/28571.gifClick here to read the results […]