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eWEEK Labs Picks the Stupid Tech Tricks of 2009 eWEEK Labs Picks the Stupid Tech Tricks of 2009 Big Brother Amazon In July, e-tailing giant Amazon provided its Kindle customers—and everyone else—with a stark illustration of potential pitfalls that accompany the conveniences of electronically distributed goods. After learning that it had sold copies of George […]

LABS GALLERY: eWEEK Labs’ 2009 Products of the Year 2009 Products of the YearBy eWEEK Labs AWS Toolkit for Eclipse Programming for Amazon Web Services got easier with AWS Toolkit for Eclipse. Bing It’s not often that Microsoft products are associated with the words “surprising” and innovative.” But the unexpected release of Microsoft’s Bing search […]

eWEEK Labs’ Holiday Wish List 2009 eWEEK Labs Holiday Wish List 2009By eWEEK Labs Staff OS X on the Hardware of My Choice I love the Mac OS X operating system. But Apple hardware? Meh—its nice, but not worth the premium Apple charges for it. So what Id really like this holiday season is a […]

LABS GALLERY: What Does Windows 7 Have That Linux Doesn’t? Bitlocker By default, Bitlocker hard-drive encryption needs a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chip to store encryption keys, although administrators can, via Group Policy, use a removable USB stick for that purpose instead. Windows 7 makes Bitlocker easier to use, by automatically creating boot and OS […]

Labs Gallery: Putting VMware vSphere 4 Host Profiles to the Test by Cameron Sturdevant Host Profiles In VMware vSphere 4, a host profile captures the configuration of a physical ESX host that you have perfected, including network, storage and security settings. The Host Profile View—shown here—is where host profiles are created and managed. In the […]

Labs Gallery: Verizon MiFi 2200 Keeps Users Connected—Anywhere by John Dodge MiFi Access Manager The MiFi Verizon Access Manager looks different than its incarnation in the HP Mini netbook bundled with Verizon mobile broadband. MiFi Test Suite I tested with three netbooks connected via the MiFi’s Wi-Fi. MiFi Battery The MiFi’s battery installs like the […]

Verizon Broadband/HP Netbook Bundle Shows Promise but Needs Refinement Mobile Broadband Bundle Verizon offers its mobile broadband service bundled with the HP Mini 1000 1151NR. Powering On The mobile radio must be powered on from the VZAccess Manager. Try, Try Again Occasionally, multiple attempts must be made to power on the mobile radio especially in […]

Product Synergies and Overlaps of a Combined Oracle-Sun by eWEEK Labs Sun xVM Server Still in beta, Sun’s xVM Server is, like Oracle’s shipping Oracle VM, based on the Xen hypervisor engine. This similarity should make it easier for Oracle to integrate the two product offerings. Oracle VM Diagram Oracle has a manager for its […]

The Lenovo IdeaPad May Change Minds About the Viability of Netbooks, eWEEK Labs Finds br />by eWEEK Labs No Title The Lenovo IdeaPad S10’s display was crisp and bright. No Title The IdeaPad S10 is 7.75 inches across and 7.25 inches deep. The unit is a hair under an inch thick. No Title Lenovo is […]

eWEEK Labs Finds HP Mini the Cadillac of Netbooks by eWEEK Labs No Title On the right side of the Mini are an SD card reader, a USB port and an HP port. No Title The HP Mini has the best keyboard of the netbooks eWEEK Labs has tested. Its unique, flush-set keys give a […]