Jason Brooks

PDA Defense Enterprise While its fair to label personal digital assistants as the lightweights of enterprise computing, theres little doubt that heavy-duty corporate data often finds its way into these highly mobile—and therefore easily misplaced or stolen—business devices. With their heritage so deeply rooted in the home and casual business user community, weve seen convenience […]

Just a few years ago, one could expect little more from a handheld computer than a convenient means of storing and retrieving data such as phone numbers and to-do-list items. Today, these devices have evolved greatly in terms of power, functionality and network connectivity, but as handheld computers and the mobile operating systems that drive […]

The electromagnetic spectrum is one of our most important and valuable natural resources. However, until wireless technologies and regulatory schemes can evolve to find places for each of us to transmit and receive freely across the airwaves, the spectrum will remain an awfully scarce resource as well. As a result, were faced with a situation […]

A new beta release of Red Hat Linux, code-named Limbo, hit FTP servers earlier this month, giving users a first look at what is likely to become Version 8.0 of Red Hat Inc.s most popular Linux distribution. eWEEK Labs gave Limbo, also known as Red Hat Linux 7.3.92, a thorough run-through, and we were most […]

Computing without broadband connectivity is steerage-class computing, a reality thats driven home each time Im forced to accomplish something productive while on the road, dialed up at 20K bps—the fastest link that most hotel phone lines can muster. In the two-week DSL drought that I endured the last time I switched residences, I scarcely touched […]

If youve brought together your employees and partners for a meeting of the minds, why shouldnt those not in attendance benefit from the productivity-packed proceedings? For one thing, employees who initially didnt have the time to attend the meetings might not have the time to sit through a canned version of them, either. Recently, Ive […]

Rewritten around a new graphical interface tool kit, Version 2.0 of GNOME stands as an attractive and important upgrade for sites that have standardized on GNOME as their desktop environment for Linux- and Unix-based systems. However, although GNU Network Object Model Environment 2.0 boasts many improvements over Version 1.4, such as support for font anti-aliasing […]

Rewritten around a new graphical interface toolkit, Version 2.0 of GNOME stands as an attractive and important upgrade for sites that have standardized on GNOME as their desktop environment for Linux and Unix-based systems. However, although GNU Network Object Model Environment 2.0 boasts many improvements over Version 1.4, such as support for font anti-aliasing and […]

While carrying out testing for the virtual meeting eVal extravaganza that appears in the July 1 issue of eWEEK, one of the product features that most appealed to our Corporate Partner judges was the capacity for recording meetings—presentation slides, whiteboard doodles, audio comments and all. It makes great sense—if youve brought together your employees and […]

I dont think the Tablet PC is going anywhere—at least, not anywhere it hasnt already been. There are certainly some environments in which a tablet-based computer makes sense, such as nursing stations or warehouses or in the hands of roving poll takers at the mall, and tablet-based devices already exist in those spaces. Anyway, the […]