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WebEx WebOffice Walkthrough WebOffice serves up its shared calendar, contacts, tasks and document folders through a customizable start page. WebEx WebOffice Walkthrough – New Event The WebOffice calendar made it easy to set up new events including using lists of eWEEK Labs members to invite attendees and check availability. WebEx WebOffice Walkthrough – Contacts Contacts […]

Seven ‘Outside the Box’ Solutions from the Channel From Post-it Notes that let you scan and archive in a single shot to BI and Mapping in one application, some VARs are making some cool solutions using standard technologies. Seven ‘Outside the Box’ Solutions from the Channel – Post-it Note Archiving KwikTag, a document management company, […]

Fleet Week: Office of Naval Research Technology The USS Wasp (LHD 1), docked in the Hudson River, participates in Fleet Week. Photo: Najlah Feanny/eWEEK Fleet Week: Office of Naval Research Technology – DVTE (Deployable Virtual Training Environment) Master Chief Steve French demonstrated the DVTE (Deployable Virtual Training Environment), a laptop-based system that trains Marines from […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Adobe Acrobat 8 Acrobat 8 Professional was released in November 2006 in versions for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Acrobat Professional costs $449, while an upgrade from a previous version is priced at $159. Acrobat 8 Standard costs $299, with an upgrade priced at $99. eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Adobe Acrobat 8 […]

Tough Talk: Microsofts Patent Path in Words A timeline of Microsofts tough talk on patents, open source and free software from those on both sides of the fight. Tough Talk: Microsofts Patent Path in Words – Feb. 1976 One thing you do is prevent good software from being written. Who can afford to do professional […]

Google Hot Trends Google Trends, though still in labs beta, now shows hot queries that are frequently updated throughout the day. Google Hot Trends – Hot Item Hot Trends shows a hotness level score for these queries, the hottest is volcanic, followed by on fire, spicy, medium and mild. Google Hot Trends – Hot 100 […]

Unified Communications: The Next-Generation of Workplace Phones and Devices The Polycom CX700 is a stand-alone IP Phone with wideband voice quality and a touch-screen color display for call manegement. It features a fully embedded Office Communicator 2007 client, providing direct, on-device access to the features and capabilities Unified Communications: The Next-Generation of Workplace Phones and […]

SF Giants High-Tech Park Photos by San Francisco Giants, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, Reuters, and Chris Preimesberger/eWEEK; captions by Chris Preimesberger SF Giants High-Tech Park – AT&T Park An aerial view of the San Francisco Giants AT&T Park shows how it is situated right on San Francisco Bay, with boat dock access (lower right). […]

Interop Las Vegas 2007 Xirrus was showing a prototype of the new 802.11n module for its high-capacity, high-speed, long-distance access point. The new modules, which will install into existing Xirrus access points, will handle traffic up to 300M bps per radio. The new MIMO ante Interop Las Vegas 2007 – Power over GbE Xirrus also […]

Spencer F. Katts Star Wars Kattoon Gallery Spencer F. Katts Star Wars Kattoon Gallery – A Linux geeks nightmare: Star Wars, Doritos & Torvalds-Oh my! Spencer F. Katts Star Wars Kattoon Gallery – When events collide Spencer F. Katts Star Wars Kattoon Gallery – Microsoft finally releases Windows Server 2003 R2 Spencer F. Katts Star […]

Test Driving the $100 Laptops Interface The main interface of Sugar includes a circular metaphor for access to applications. Test Driving the $100 Laptops Interface – Games Included Sugar includes several games, including a block game. Test Driving the $100 Laptops Interface – Painting with Sugar The drawing program in Sugar works in a similar […]

Sprints New Dual-Protocol Phones Sprints Blend phone will make calls on the companys CDMA network and use Nextels iDEN service for push-to-talk. The Blend is aimed at consumers and is smaller and lighter than its other family members. Photo: Sprint Nextel Sprints New Dual-Protocol Phones – Using the Blend Sprint executives say that they expect […]