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Firefox Gets Social
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-04-04
Recently, I've been playing around with a new extension to Firefox called The Coop. Scratch that. I can't really call it a new extension. I can't even call it beta or alpha. What I have on my Firefox browser is a prototype of Coop that I loaded from
Everdream Using Automatic Updates
By Andrew Garcia | Posted: 2007-04-04
Some folks from Everdream stopped by the other day to fill me in on the changes in their Patch and Asset Management services since I last looked at the service, and I was quite intrigued by the way they have adopted existing Microsoft technologies to enhance specifically their patch capabilities.
Connecting with IBM Labs
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-03-30
I recently attended a special media day at the IBM Research Labs. The point of the day was to showcase some of the new technologies being worked on at their labs both in products that are nearing releases and in new technologies that aren't that close to showing up in
Connecting with IBM Labs
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-03-30
I recently attended a special media day at the IBM Research Labs. The point of the day was to showcase some of the new technologies being worked on at their labs both in products that are nearing releases and in new technologies that aren't that close to showing up in
Keystroke Biometric Password
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2007-03-28
Back in the foggy past when eWEEK was PC Week, I remember some buzz in the Lab about user authentication based on keystroke cadence. It sounded cool but didn't seem to take off. On March 28, 2007, I talked with Jared Pfost, a vice president at BioPassword. It turns out
More App Virtualization
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2007-03-26
Thinstall uses virtual application technology to enable IT administrators to run products such as Microsoft Word and Excel on users' systems without actually installing the software and without making any changes to the
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Netgear Update and Upgrades
By Andrew Garcia | Posted: 2007-03-26
A little Netgear news on a couple fronts... The other day, Netgear representatives stopped by to fill me in on some changes Netgear is implementing to its small business reseller channel. Reseller news is not normally my cup of tea, but I was nonetheless compelled by what they had to
Closing Thoughts on Spring VON
By Andrew Garcia | Posted: 2007-03-23
Some closing thoughts on this year's Spring VON in San Jose. Coolest Product: Developed in partnership with Adobe, CommuniGate's Pronto is a Flash-based rich media platform that promises to integrate a user's
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Should You Shutdown on Shutdown Day?
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-03-23
Tomorrow, March 24, is Shutdown Day. Just what is Shutdown Day? Well, to put it simply, Shutdown Day is an experiment to see how many people will agree to not use a computer for one whole day, and what, if any effects will be seen by this initiative. As of
The Year of OpenSolaris
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-03-23
At the end of 2006, ZDnet blogger Paul Murphy made what I thought at the time to be a poor prediction: That 2007 will see Sun's OpenSolaris eclipse Linux in the size and activity of its developer community, and all OS development projects, save Windows, will adopt OpenSolaris' organizational structure
Red Hat Needs to Lighten Up
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-03-22
When I learned that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, which is a big release for Red Hat to which I've been looking forward for some time, was coming out on March 14, one of the first thoughts that crossed my mind was, "Great, when's CentOS 5 coming out?" Even though
ZENworks Configuration Management
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2007-03-21
ZENworks Configuration Manager, now in beta, is Novell's "next big thing" for desktop management. I mean Windows desktop management.
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Spring VON: Polycom
By Andrew Garcia | Posted: 2007-03-20
At VON today, Polycom announced a few products to help beef up the low end of its stable of IP phones. The SoundPoint IP 330 and 320 are both two-line phones with full duplex speakerphones and integrated power-over-Ethernet support. Prices start at $179 for the IP 330 and $129 for
Pondering Linux Preloads
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-03-19
In recent weeks, there's been quite a bit of buzz surrounding Linux and its chances for earning a spot as a preloaded option on the client PCs sold by major computer OEMs. Buzzing most loudly has been Dell's IdeaStorm customer suggestions site, which has turned up a ton of support
FlipStart microPC Hits the Road
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-03-15
A week ago I reviewed the new FlipStart micro-PC from the Paul Allen-backed FlipStart Labs. In that review, while I found the FlipStart to be cool, I was pretty down on it both for its high price (just about $2,000) and its size and clunkiness. But I have till
