Jason Brooks

No matter how full-featured the interface or how fast the video frame rate, its really tough to collaborate virtually without voice. For this, the telephone is the most natural tool. Weve been collaborating virtually over our phones for more than a hundred years now, so almost everyone has a phone and knows how to use […]

It was three years ago that eWeek Labs last rounded up a large group of Web-based meeting products for comparative review. In the years since that roundup, the space has seen significant changes, but the more things change, the more they stay the same. Although virtual meeting products have become more capable and easier to […]

Toshiba Corp.s $599 Pocket PC e740 boasts both integrated support for 802.11b wireless networking and a speedy new 400Mhz Intel Corp. Xscale processor—without added cost or size compared to its otherwise comparably-equipped Pocket PC rivals. Although the e740s new chip and built-in wireless functionality certainly caught our attention, we were just as impressed with the […]

The cost and technology benefits of voice over IP are sufficiently attractive to keep me tuned in, and Im not alone. Japan recently announced plans to gradually shift to a VOIP-based phone system over the next decade or so. Ive been testing the $79.95 Claritel i750, a USB VOIP handset from Clarisys (www.clarisys.net). The affordable […]

Microsoft has agreed to start playing nice(er) when it comes to middleware—a term thats come to comprise applications like Web browsers, instant messaging programs, media players and Java virtual machines. The principal instrument for making this new friendliness a fact is the Set Program Access and Defaults dialog that Windows XP Service Pack 1 adds […]

Wireless Knowledge Inc.s Workstyle Desktop Edition, which shipped this month, helps handhelds be all they can be by providing them with flexible access to corporate mail and data stored on Microsoft Corp. Exchange servers. Workstyle Desktop Edition supports e-mail, contacts and calendar synchronization for Palm OS, Windows CE and Research In Motion Ltd. (BlackBerry 957 […]

Handspring Inc.s Treo 90 is the first handheld device in the Treo product line to lack integrated cell phone functionality—an omission that lends the Treo 90 the slimmest, most pleasant form factor of any handheld organizer that eWeek Labs has seen. Beyond its slimness, the most exciting attribute of the 90 is its SD (Secure […]

LCD projectors keep getting smaller—shrinkage thats certain to spur new growth in the market for portable projectors. Keen to grab a piece of the action, Hewlett-Packard has thrown its lens cap into the ring with two new portable digital projectors, the smaller of which I had the opportunity to test. HPs Digital Projector Sb21 weighs […]

Its been a big buzz week for open-source software in government. First, there was Mondays announcement from the German government of its plans to standardize on Linux and open source across that nations entire IT organization with help from IBM. And yesterday, Ralph Naders Consumer Project on Technology issued an open letter to the US […]

When Handspring launched its Treo 180 communicator in March, the release marked some significant departures from the Visor devices that had preceded it. Gone were the Visors Springboard expansion slot and Graffiti input area, in favor of integrated cell phone functionality and a RIM-style thumb keyboard. Id never been a particularly big fan of the […]