Andrew Garcia

eWEEK Labs Tests Skype for iPhone by Andrew Garcia Home Screen The Skype application will indicate unviewed chats or messages. Boot the App Skype for iPhone generally took less than 5 seconds to boot on my Gen 1 iPhone. Login Skype prompts for credentials the first time you log in from the iPhone. The application […]

At CTIA in Las Vegas March 31, Skype continued to make good on its pledge from earlier in the year to deliver the Skype application to a wide selection of mobile smartphone platforms-this time releasing Skype 1.0.1 for Apple iPhone. Despite some limitations in the current iPhone platform, Skype worked well on the device in […]

Anyone still hoping Newber will make it through Apple’s maze of certification can kiss that hope goodbye and should now start longing for Google to open up subscriptions to Google Voice nee GrandCentral soon instead. From the e-mail just sent to beta users like myself: ““As you may be aware, Newber first applied for acceptance […]

Buried deep within the bowels of IBM’s Website is a December 2008 paper from the IBM Institute for Business Value, called “Go mobile, grow … Should mobile Internet services be the next big growth gamble for mobile device makers?” The gist of the IBM paper is that as mobile device hardware becomes commoditized and differentiation […]

In the run-up to Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 unveiling, I found myself less interested in the specific details of what would or would not come with the actual release, but rather in whether my first generation iPhone would be party to the new features at all. I expected the worst, anticipating Apple trying to force […]

With its new Savi Office line of wireless desktop headsets, Plantronics looks to solve the last 10 feet of unified communications deployments, providing users with an easy way to blend and bridge the audio from both the PC and the desktop phone. At its heart, Savi Office is just a wireless headset solution that can […]

Aside from the attention-grabbing new features in the forthcoming Apple iPhone 3.0 software release-such as the Spotlight search and push notifications–a lot of what would be interesting to an enterprise audience went unaddressed in Apple’s March 17 premiere event. But there does appear to be much more under the covers that will be worthy of […]

I’ve been waiting with baited breath all week for Google to upgrade my GrandCentral account to the rebranded Google Voice service. Hopefully with this upgrade, GrandCentral will finally be usable given my particular set of needs and devices – only a full year after I first tried putting the service to work. I joined GrandCentral […]

Plantronics Savi Office UC Products Offer Flexibility, Quality, eWEEK Labs Finds by Andrew Garcia Savi Office WO100 The Savi Office uses DECT 6.0 for transmission to the base station. Shown here, the WO100 earpiece has a slender earpiece and wider boom microphone. Savi Office WO200 The wireless connections support wideband audio for high-defintion audio from […]

A few weeks ago, I attended a Microsoft-hosted workshop extolling the benefits the forthcoming Windows 7 operating system would provide for Microsoft’s enterprise customers. With that audience focus in mind, the workshop kicked off with a brief discussion of the five trends in client computing as Microsoft currently sees them: consumerization, carbon-neutrality, contingency, cost and […]

For application developers and IT administrators, virtual testbeds are crucial tools in determining how applications perform and how well they will fit within an enterprise’s IT environment. Building such a testbed doesn’t have to cost a lot of money, a key concern at a time when IT budgets are taking a hit while demand on […]