Andrew Garcia

Microsoft’s Small Business Server Aurora beta is polished and provides core server functions well, but its positioning and options for customer growth cause concern. Read my full review at eweek.com.

Rove Mobile today announced Rove Gateway + Apps, new server and client side software designed to lower the upfront price point in order to attract more customers to Rove Mobile’s outstanding set of enterprise management tools for mobile devices. As I pointed out in my Rove Mobile Admin review back in May, licensing for Rove […]

BlackBerry Protect Beta: Enterprise Security in Your Hand by Andrew Garcia BlackBerry Protect The beta of BlackBerry Protect can be installed on most new BlackBerryOS 5.0-enabled devices—I used a Bold 9700. BlackBerry Protect Config To get setup, I needed to input my BlackBerryID which is tied to an email address used with the device. BackUp […]

In June, security research firm Secunia released a report entitled “DEP/ASLR Implementation Progress In Popular Third-party Windows Applications,” examining adoption rates among third-party application developers of the exploit avoidance technologies built into Windows. Not surprisingly, adoption was fairly low given the stated ease of their implementation. The report (PDF) looked at 16 popular third-party Windows […]

AirWave 7.0 builds upon Aruba Networks’ WiFi and RF management prowess, adding management and monitoring for some switches and endpoints. Read my full review at eweek.com.

A couple days ago, Apple released a configuration change for iOS 4-equipped iPhones to help speed up synchronization actions with Exchange Servers. Apparently, the problem was not only causing slow syncs from the user’s perspective but was causing significant load on the server side as well. According to the article, “… users should install a […]

Motorola and Verizon Unleash Droid X No Title Motorola Droid X Motorola’s Droid X for Verizon Wireless features a large 4.3-inch WVGA multitouch screen. No Title Droid X Size Despite the large screen, the device is mostly thin and not too heavy, measuring 2.6 by 5.0 by 0.4 inches and 5.47 ounces. However, the device […]

Motorola and Verizon today announced their next big Android smartphone, this one dubbed the Droid X. I’ll be testing the device and should have the review up in a couple of days, along with a slide show. In the meantime, here’s a little video demonstration of the unique three-microphone configuration on the Droid X, as […]

The funniest thing I heard at TechEd 2010 was uttered by an earnest Microsoft employee who took other mobile operating systems to task for their user interface designs held back by their adherence to old models. Paul Bryan, Microsoft’s senior director of Business Experience Product Management, said, “We are taking a different approach, not the […]

The venerable Windows 2000 operating system is coming to the end of its extended support lifecycle next month on July 13, meaning no more fixes or security patches. At the 2010 TechEd conference in New Orleans, I sat down with Ward Ralston, Microsoft’s Group Product Manager for Windows Server, to talk about the implications for […]

At TechEd 2010, Justin Graham, Microsoft ‘s senior product manager for the Windows Server Group, sat down with eWEEK Labs to discuss some of the new features coming online with the first Service Pack for Windows Server 2008 R2. The beta version of the service pack should be available in July.

Kicking off Microsoft’s 2010 TechEd conference in New Orleans is Bob Muglia, Microsoft’s President of the Server and Tools Business, delivering a keynote address on Microsoft’s continued push towards the cloud. eWEEK Labs is front and center for a little live blogging. We’re also alpha testing Google Wave as a live blogging platform, so bear […]