Jason Brooks

By the time these words are published, the Bluetooth Developers Conference will have come and gone. After three days of vendors predicting a bright wire-free future while conducting jaw-dropping demos with circuit boards in clear plastic enclosures, the persistent Bluetooth question will remain: Is this stuff ever going to break out of show-floor captivity and […]

Release 2.2.2 of KDE brings Linux and the other Unix-family operating systems another step closer to parity with Windows and Mac OS in the desktop space. The update, available for free at www.kde.org, comprises primarily performance and security upgrades, many of which benefit KDEs all-purpose file manager and Web browser, Konqueror. Most striking in this […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The third annual Bluetooth Developers Conference is less about what the nascent cable replacement technology can do than about what remains to be done. The sorts of products on display on the expo floor—Bluetooth modules packaged in CompactFlash and PC Cards, USB dongles and headsets—have for the most part made their debuts at previous […]

With transmission speeds that rival digital subscriber line and cable modem connections, third-generation wireless data networks are intended to bring mobile users the same rich multimedia applications now available across wired links. However, while many of the details of 3G and beyond remain unclear, U.S. carriers are beginning to offer wireless data services that deliver […]

When Bostons transportation department set out to create a video database of the citys assets, they found in Xiotech Corp.s Magnitude SAN product the reliable, low-maintenance storage system they needed to house the 600GB of footage. eWeek Labs recently toured the project—called the Virtual City of Boston System—with Technology and Transportation Planner Tom Kadzis and […]

Ive been critical of Windows XPs dumbed-down design, but Microsofts just-released suite of PowerToys for Windows XP goes a long way toward giving me a desktop I can look forward to using. Microsoft has released sets of freely downloadable but unsupported Windows-tweaking utilities for every version of Windows since 95, but the XP version is […]

Intava Corp.s Gravity 1.0, a graphical mobile Web development tool, enables companies to target multiple device platforms without investing in costly transcoding server software. In eWeek Labs tests of Gravity, which shipped last month, we could drag and drop our way to mobile Web pages, from which Gravity would generate Palm Inc. and WAP (Wireless […]

The thrilling reign of Windows XP is barely a month old, so why am I spending all my time fiddling with a desktop box running Red Hat 7.2? For one thing, the launch of Redmonds newest PC conquistador just happened to coincide with an initiative here at Ziff Davis to provide server-based access to messaging […]

Two new devices, Toshiba America Inc.s Pocket PC e570 and Casio Computer Co. Ltd.s Cassiopeia BE-300, are based on Microsoft Corp.s Windows CE 3.0 operating system and priced to hit the high and low ends of the handheld market, respectively. In tests, eWEEK Labs found that (surprise, surprise) you get what you pay for. The […]

The compressed folders utility that began shipping with Windows ME gets the job done, but many users will want more-muscular file compression options. One such application is PentaZip 5.0, a file viewing and compression utility from PentaWare. PentaZip supports 13 file compression formats and allows users to convert formats such as CAB, JAR and TAR […]