Jason Brooks

It’s roughly mid-December, which means it’s time eWEEK Labs to name our 2008 Stupid Tech Tricks. You can read the list in the pages of eWEEK print on Monday, or head right over to our Stupid Tech Tricks slideshow. Elsewhere this week, Andrew Garcia reviewed the Blackberry Bold, and found the device impressive, but not […]

“Do more with less” has been the official mandate for IT departments every where for some time now, and considering our economic climate, that refrain will ring more loudly than ever in the year to come. However, before we return from the holiday break and set ourselves to work busily doing more of the same, […]

Last week, Jim Rapoza wrote a great columnabout the results of the MySpace bullying trial, which ended in a criminal conviction based on a terms of service violation. As Jim points out, if violations of Web site terms of service equate to hacking crimes, then many of us are clicking our way to the big […]

Fedora 10 is the latest version of the community-supported, Linux-based operating system that serves as the proving ground for future Red Hat software products. As a result, Fedora offers organizations and individuals early access to the state of the art in the Linux and open-source world. For instance, Fedora 10 boasts what may be the […]

Canonical’s Ubuntu 8.10, the latest version of the popular Linux-based operating system for desktops and servers, hit the Internet in early November bearing a modest assortment of updates to the open-source software components that compose it. Based on my tests of Ubuntu 8.10-which is more fancifully known as the Intrepid Ibex-I maintain that Ubuntu is, […]

The past two weeks have been busy ones here at eWEEK Labs, with reviews, analysis and commentary on topics ranging from virtualization to fixed-mobile convergence, with an IT gadget roundup thrown in for good measure. Cameron led the virtualization charge with a review and slideshow of VMware’s Workstation 6.5 (which once again earned an eWEEK […]

Microsoft recently announced plans to discontinue OneCare, the company’s consumer-oriented, subscription-based anti-malware product. Instead, Microsoft will offer a free-of-charge anti-malware offering called Morro. I know that conventional wisdom, certain government and industry regulations, and Windows’ “Danger, Will Robinson” Security Center alert shield all disagree with me, but I’m not convinced that anti-virus products (as we […]

Earlier this month, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made blogosphere headlines by mentioning that Microsoft might look at embracing Webkit, the open-source Web browser rendering engine that powers Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome. I think that a Microsoft move to Webkit—not only for the company’s mobile platforms but for the full-size version of Internet Explorer—makes great […]

The BlackBerry Storm 9530 is Research In Motion’s first smartphone to dispense with a physical keyboard in favor of touch-sensitive display. As with other keyboardless devices, such as Apple’s popular iPhone 3G, the absence of a physical keyboard in the Storm means more in the way of display space and less in the way of […]

Andrew Garcia started us off this week with an examination of the WPA cracking talk that Erik Tews and Martin Beck were set to give at the PacSec conference in Tokyo: Cracking the WPA Security Standard. Meanwhile, I took the new LinkedIn Apps Platform for a spin, grabbing many screen shots along the way, and […]