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eWEEK Labs Names the Top Products of 2010 By eWEEK Labs Product of the Year: Apple iPad It was the hottest thing in computing since the original Apple Macintosh. It was an evergreen topic of conversation, from its unveiling in the first week of January 2010 to holiday dinners at year’s end. It is already […]

Each year, eWEEK Labs singles out the products that stood out in our testing in the past 12 months. We focus on the offerings that had the biggest impact in their spaces and that did the most to move enterprise technology forward. Product of the Year: Apple iPad It was the hottest thing in computing […]

At the end of each year, eWEEK Labs turns its gaze not only upon the products we tested that most impressed us by their quality, innovation or overall importance, but on the technology gaffes that left us scratching our heads. With that, we present our Stupid Tech Tricks of 2010. More IP FolliesIn eWEEK Labs’ […]

Embarcadero RAD Studio XE Embarcadero Technologies RAD Studio XE is designed to be a comprehensive application-development suite that allows the user to visually build GUI-intensive, data-driven applications for Windows, .NET, PHP and the Web. RAD Studio includes Delphi, C++Builder, Delphi Prism,and RadPHP, enabling developers to deliver applications up to five times faster across multiple Windows, […]

Several factors will play a role in determining the questions IT managers should ask when assessing Web-based collaborative applications, including the level of data security required, the need to collaborate in real time, and the need for customization options. Here are factors to consider when evaluating applications that allow users to share documents, tasks and […]

Cisco, Skype Merger Could Improve Enterprise and Consumer VOIP, Video by eWEEK Labs Video Calls Invade the Living Room Adding an Ethernet jack and a couple of usable USB ports to Scientific Atlanta cable boxes for an add-on Web camera and a room microphone (along with some code, of course) could allow people to make […]

Mozillas Firefox 4 Web Browser Gets an Overhaul, Inside and Out by eWEEK Labs Tabs on Top Tabs are now on top by default. For now, the change is visible on Windows builds only, with new themes for OSX and Linux to come soon. The Firefox Button On Windows Vista and Windows 7, the menu […]

Red Hat’s Fedora Linux: 13 Releases of Cutting-Edge Open Source No Title Fedora Core 1, code-named Yarrow, shipped on Nov. 5, 2003, running version 2.4.19 of the Linux kernel, and including the Mozilla 1.4.1 Web browser, version 1.1.0 of the OpenOffice.org productivity suite and version 2.4.0 of the GNOME desktop environment. This was the last […]

Microsofts Flagging Smartphone OS Efforts Contrast with ActiveSync Success by eWEEK Labs Windows Phone Not surprisingly, Microsoft’s own smartphone platform supports Exchange ActiveSync. Nokia Nokia’s Mail for Exchange application provides synchronization via ActiveSync. Palm Pre The WebOS platform that powers Palm’s Pre allows for Exchange synchronization via ActiveSync. BlackBerry & NotifySync RIM’s BlackBerry devices don’t […]

Gigamon’s GigaVUE-212 The GigaVUE-212 is a modular packet-aware data access switch that aggregates, replicates, filters and load-divides traffic flows across multiple passive monitoring tools. This switch is said to provide much of the same functionality as Gigamons GigaVUE-420 and GigaVUE-2404 platforms, but at a much lower cost. It will work for implementations in which fewer […]