Jason Brooks

Earlier this week, I spoke with Eric Lundquist about the tablet and smartphone landscape in the wake of HP’s WebOS device kill-off and Google’s Motorola pickup on the CIO Insight show: [youtube id=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDaA4Eg6uvI]

Software Plus Services Microsoft may have deprecated this motto in favor of more cloud-centric terms, but “Software Plus Services” is the slogan that best sums up Microsoft’s cloud applications approach. Every component that comprises Office 365 is available in both Microsoft-hosted and on-premises editions, and the organizations poised to extract the most value from Office […]

Over the past several weeks since Google launched its Google Plus social networking tool, I’ve been beating the federation drum. As Google Plus designer Joseph Smarr has explained it, email has its @ symbol, which enables us to communicate with users on different domains, but social networking still lacks equivalent functionality. I’ve pointed out that […]

Over the past several years, one of the most-watched, and yet least substantial, business application rivalries has been that between Microsoft and Google. In one corner, we’ve had Microsoft, with its lineup of ubiquitous, category-defining on-premises server and thick-client productivity applications, and in the other corner, we’ve had Google, with its popular Webmail service and […]

Yesterday I spoke with Eric Lundquist about Apple’s MacBook Air on the CIO Insight show: [vimeo id=27863851] Labs’ own Cameron Sturdevant was impressed enough with the system to buy one for himself. If you’ve tested out one of these new MacBooks, we’d love to hear your take on it.

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Back in April, I blogged about how my eWEEK Labs comrades and I had thrown up this WordPress blog on an Amazon Web Services EC2 instance in search of cloud testing adventure. Fortunately for us thrill-seekers, we got a big old lump of adventure early on, when our newsletter distribution sent a concentrated burst of […]

It’s been about a month since Google opened up its new social networking service, Google Plus. In that time, the membership of the service (now around 20 million users) has grown at a healthy clip. Google Plus has also stacked up a few mini-controversies, led by a flap over whether and how Google ought to […]

Several weeks ago, Oracle donated the OpenOffice.org productivity suite to the Apache Foundation, but at the time it seemed like IBM was doing the donating — at least, it was IBM that did most of the talking. The communications gap made sense: where Oracle was happy enough just to get the open source project, which […]

[WP_IMAGE] Two weeks ago today, Google launched Google+, the Web giant’s latest entrant in the world of social networking services. Thanks to an early invite to the service, courtesy of my colleague Clint Bolton, I’ve been testing out the service for most of the time it’s been live. Based on the time I’ve spent with […]