Andrew Garcia

Ruckus Wireless’ new wireless LAN solution offers cost-conscious businesses good performance in hostile airspace. Read my full review at eweek.com.

On the surface, Cisco Secure Borderless Network appears to address many shortcomings in Microsoft’s competing DirectAccess. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Google Apps Premier and Education editions offer limited security and policy controls over some ActiveSync-enabled mobile devices, allowing companies that standardize on Google’s mail services to enforce a little bit of control over devices in the field. The management control is limited in scope and function, but it works adequately and the features are available […]

Boxtone, a mobile device management vendor, recently announced five enterprise mobility management predictions for the year 2015. Among their prognostications, they recommended that enterprises must prepare for the continued influx of a diverse mix of employee-owned mobile devices, and that IT must plan to actively support multiple mobile platforms and devices in the future rather […]

BoxTone User Self-Service aims to let users troubleshoot some of their BlackBerry support problems without involving the support desk, although the system’s occasionally unhelpful guidance may thwart that lofty goal.The BoxTone USS module is an add-on to BoxTone’s mobile ecosystem troubleshooting platform. BoxTone specializes in enterprise BlackBerry integrations, looking deep within BlackBerry Enterprise Server and […]

Jabra’s PRO 9470 wireless headset is a fine alternative for heavy callers looking for a single headset that supports every phone in the arsenal, but the gimmicky touch screen on the unit base station enhances the device’s cost more than user productivity. With the PRO 9470, Jabra solves the problem of how to simultaneously connect […]

BlackBerry Presenter Does PowerPoint Without the PC BlackBerry Presenter Does PowerPoint Without the PCBy Andrew Garcia BlackBerry Presenter The BlackBerry Presenter lets users stream a PowerPoint slide deck from their BlackBerry to an external display or projector via Bluetooth. Connectors The Presenter supports VGA and S-Video output, although the maximum resolution possible varies by connection. […]

Six months ago, when I started using Windows 7 full time on my primary system, I wanted to take better advantage of the new operating system’s baked-in security features. I had already been running as a limited-rights user that needed a separate administrator password to affect system changes throughout my time with Windows Vista and […]

Microsoft’s Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 addresses many of the enterprise networking shortcomings of DirectAccess, providing sorely needed performance and availability scaling, global management, and backward compatibility. UAG will also interoperate with third-party solutions to further extend the reach and scale of DirectAccess. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Research In Motion’s BlackBerry Presenter lets smartphone users stream PowerPoint slide decks from their BlackBerry phones to an external monitor or projector via a wireless connection. While the BlackBerry Presenter in eWEEK Labs’ tests typically worked for presentations of all sizes, including those with embedded animations and transitions, early generation glitches and inconsistencies make it […]