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eWEEK Labs: The Evolution of the Smartphone by eWEEK Labs 1. Kyocera QCP 6035 Smartphone and Handspring VisorPhone Feb. 19, 2001: Two of the earliest devices to merge cell phone and PDA capabilities, the Kyocera QCP 6035 Smartphone and Handspring VisorPhone required buyers to decide whether they wanted more emphasis on the phone (the QCP […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: OpenSolaris 2008.11 by eWEEK Labs Time Slider The new Time Slider tool wraps the snapshotting capabilities of Sun’s ZFS file system in an elegant and useful tool for accessing previous versions of files and directories on one’s system. Nautilus Time Travel The Time Slider is accessible through GNOME’s Nautilus file manager. Hit […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Dabble DB SAAS Database by eWEEK Labs Creating a New Category In Dabble DB parlance, tables are known as “categories.” You begin your category building through cut and paste, importing from a Web source, or creating and populating fields by hand. The Data Set I tested Dabble DB with NBA stats for […]

At the end of each year, eWEEK Labs analysts look back on the products they have reviewed and pick the ones that stand out for their innovation and ability to meet the ever-changing-and increasingly challenging-needs of the enterprise. Combined, the products on this year’s list form the foundation of the next-gen enterprise. Stupid technology tricks: […]

Stupid Technology Tricks of 2008 by eWEEK Labs MobileMe—Not To make iPhone 2.0s new e-mail capabilities more attractive to non-corporate users, Apple morphed its MAC service into the subscription-based MobileMe-an e-mail, calendar, photo sharing and online storage site that was supposed to work seamlessly as a Microsoft Exchange alternative. Unfortunately, Apple pushed MobileMe out the […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Upgrading to Fedora 10 by eWEEK Labs In-Place Upgrades Fedora picked up the capacity for conducting in-place upgrades (without the hit-or-miss results of previous in-place upgrade workarounds) during the Fedora 9 release. The 9-to-10 upgrade marked our first exposure to the tool. Pick Your Poison The preupgrade tool, which we installed by […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10, the Intrepid Ibex by eWEEK Labs To LTS or Not to LTS Ubuntu 8.04 was a Long Term Support release, so before the system would offer us the option of upgrading to 8.10, we had to tell it to inform us of “normal” releases, as well as LTS […]

Best Gadgets and Apps for IT Pros Best Gadgets and Apps for IT Prosby eWEEK Labs 7-Zip On Windows systems, dealing with a wide variety of file types has usually meant dealing with a wide variety of installed programs. This was how I operated until I found 7-Zip (www.7-zip.org), a free, open-source Windows program that […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: BlackBerry Storm 9530 Smartphone eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: BlackBerry Storm 9530 Smartphoneby eWEEK Labs Touch Away By going without the thumb keyboard of its other BlackBerry siblings, the Storm can boast a large, touch-sensitive 480 by 360 pixel display. Web Browser One of the best uses of the BlackBerry Storm’s new display space […]

Google Mobile App for iPhone Brings Voice Search Google Mobile App for iPhone Brings Voice Searchby eWEEK Labs Google Voice Search Google Mobile App for iPhone integrates voice search, which can be activated by pressing the microphone symbol on-screen—or simply moving the phone to your ear and waiting for the tone. Intro Video The application […]