Jason Brooks

Among the challenges that enterprise administrators face when attempting to properly lock down the Windows machines in their care, managing the laundry list of operating system functions that require elevated privileges is a chore that looms large. Making matters even worse are Windows anemic facilities for allowing rights-limited users who are out of reach of […]

Research In Motion Ltd.s BlackBerry 8700c Wireless Handheld device improves upon the previous model with a higher-resolution display—240 by 320 pixels versus 240 by 160 pixels—and a speedier EDGE (Enhanced Data for Global Evolution) radio, replacing the GPRS (General Packet Radio Service)radio in the BlackBerry 7100 we reviewed last year. /zimages/4/28571.gifClick here to read eWEEK […]

Microsoft Corp.s Group Policy provides enterprises using Windows with base-line functionality for running managed, locked-down client machines—as long as the target systems live within an Active Directory environment. GPAnywhere 2.0 is an ingenious product from FullArmor Corp. that bridges the Group Policy coverage gap. Click here to read the full review of GPAnywhere 2.0. 2 […]

I read a blog entry today by Shai Agassi, president of the product and technology group at SAP, in which he sought to set the record straight concerning his opinions toward open source. Last week, Agassi made some comments about open source software and development that some interpreted as negative. So, let us duly note, […]

As part of our issuewide reflection on the Windows that Microsoft has produced during the past 20 years, we thought itd be interesting to consider the Windows we wish we had as well. If we had a magic, Windows-morphing wand, heres how wed wave it to remake Windows. Software packaging Along with managing hardware, which […]

While operating system virtualization isnt a new concept—big-iron vendors such as IBM have offered hardware partitioning for some time now—interest in this sort of virtualization has heated up in recent months. Driving this interest is a proliferation of new virtualization products and technologies that promise to bring security, consolidation and testing benefits to a wider […]

If youve been keeping tabs on virtualization news during the past several months, theres a good chance youve heard about Xen. Xen, an open-source software project that began its life at the University of Cambridge, aims to virtualize operating system instances and to do so better than current options such as VMware Inc.s products. Rather […]

You may not be ready to welcome Linux onto your organizations desktops, but that doesnt mean that desktop Linux isnt ready for you. eWEEK Labs reviewed Canonical Ltd.s Ubuntu 5.10 and Novell Inc.s SUSE Linux 10.0, both of which began shipping in October, and we were impressed by the maturity, polish and, yes, innovation that […]

You may not be ready to welcome Linux onto your organizations desktops, but that doesnt mean that desktop Linux isnt ready for you. eWEEK Labs reviewed Canonical Ltd.s Ubuntu 5.10 and Novell Inc.s SUSE Linux 10.0, both of which began shipping in October, and we were impressed by the maturity, polish and, yes, innovation that […]

You may not be ready to welcome Linux onto your organizations desktops, but that doesnt mean that desktop Linux isnt ready for you. eWEEK Labs reviewed Canonical Ltd.s Ubuntu 5.10 and Novell Inc.s SUSE Linux 10.0, both of which began shipping in October, and we were impressed by the maturity, polish and, yes, innovation that […]