Jason Brooks

If you believe what you read on slashdot, were rapidly approaching a desktop Linux revolution. But whether or not Linux some day shatters our desktop Windows, you need only glance into any school, home or workplace to see that the day of Linux mascot Tux the Penguins desktop dominion is not today—and wont be tomorrow, […]

Microsoft Corp. is billing Office XP as the most significant version of Office ever released. In eWeek Labs tests of the Corporate Preview version of Office XP, we found the suites usability, management and collaboration gains are indeed great enough to solidify Microsofts grip on the productivity software market and will tempt some companies to […]

IBMs new ThinkPad TransNote combines a laptop PC with an electronic notepad in a unique folderlike form factor that represents a fresh take on clamshell laptop design and offers users who take extensive notes a way to better manage their work. In eWeek Labs tests, the biggest drawback to the TransNote, which shipped last month, […]

With this weeks release of the Sun Blade 100, Sun Microsystems Inc. delivers an entry-level Unix workstation at an unprecedented low price —the Sun Blade 100 starts at $995. Also shipping this week is Suns Expert 3D-Lite graphics card, which we tested along with the Sun Blade 100. Offered by Sun as a lower-cost alternative […]

Nearly every method for inputting data in a handheld computer requires users to learn a new way to enter the letters and numbers with which they fill their personal digital assistants, but a new Palm OS-based add-on from Matias at least tries to meet them halfway. The Matias Half Keyboard saves space by dumping the […]

Following divergent paths to wireless voice and data convergence, Kyocera Corp.s QCP 6035 Smartphone and Handspring Corp.s VisorPhone Springboard module each do a good job of bringing cellular phone functionality to the Palm OS handheld platform. Both units performed well in eWeek Labs tests. However, we recommend that users evaluating these products decide first whether […]

FileMaker Inc.s FileMaker Mobile, an add-on for that companys popular database application, enables businesses to extend the availability of their data smoothly to employees with Palm OS-based handheld devices. However, although FileMaker Mobile integrates tightly with FileMaker databases on both Windows- and Mac OS-powered desktop PCs, its Palm client application lacks the range of functionality […]

With last months release of mozilla 0.7 for the be operating system—or Bezilla, as its called in the BeOS community—aficionados of the counter-culture operating system are getting a taste of full-featured Web browsing and mail support on their platform of choice. Bezilla 0.7 is the first milestone release of the Mozilla port in more than […]

Part of what has slowed the deployment of Windows 2000 has been the preference of IT managers, many of whose shops still run Windows 9x, to bear operating system ills they have rather than fly to others they know not of. In Whistler, the code name for Microsoft Corp.s next Windows client, eWeek Labs found […]

Recently, while navigating my way through the exhibit halls at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I caught sight of a large banner for the Infrared Data Association pavilion. Now, Im no master of trade show taxonomy, but the five or so IR companies I found exhibiting on a modest patch of floor space […]