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Peter Coffees 25 Killer Apps of All Time People who never wanted a computer still wanted the perfect typewriter, and Electric Pencil for CP/M machines (cloned as EasyWriter for IBM PCs) made that a reality. Peter Coffees 25 Killer Apps of All Time – 1978: WordStar For users who became imprinted on its unintuitive but […]

eWEEK Labs Staffers Reveal – ‘The Products That Turned Me On To Technology’ Texas Instruments TI-99/4A My parents got me this home computer when I was teenager. It let me write programs in Basic and save them to a cassette recorder. It also came with some pretty cool games. eWEEK Labs Staffers Reveal – ‘The […]

The Open-Source Apps That Missed Our List eWEEK recently named the most important open-source applications of all time. At the end of our list we asked, What did we miss? Well, according to some, w The Open-Source Apps That Missed Our List – GCC GCC: The GNU Compiler Collection. (And, by far, the app named […]

The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time The Apache Web server is the only open-source app not only to lead but to dominate in market share (and that includes domination over Microsofts offering in this area, Internet Information Se The Most Important Open-Source Apps of All Time – Linux Kernel The Linux kernel project […]

eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools Each year, eWEEK Labs evaluates hundreds of enterprise-class products on test beds that mimic real-world environments. To maintain the systems that comprise these environments, and to properly put products through their paces, the analysts rely on a c eWEEK Labs Must-Have Tools – Audacity Whether were combining audio streams, editing long […]

The Most Famous (or Infamous) Viruses and Worms of All Time The first sign of computer worm activity dates back to 1982, when a program called Elk Cloner squirmed through Apple II systems. The SCA virus and Brain, written for IBM PC compatibles and Amigas, would pop up in the late 1980s, followed by the […]

25 More Top Technologies eWEEK Labs Top 25 Most Influential Technologies of the Last 25Years–The entries we wish we could have included in our original list When eWEEK Labs dubbed 25 products as the most influential of the /images/slide/188350_2.jpg Although it may be hard to remember today, this Internet search site set the bar for […]

Carrier IQ What should have been a simple diagnostic tool that would securely anonymize customer information is turning into the years last big cause c??«l???bre, as the FBI has all but admitted that its using the software in its investigations. Ive watched enough episodes of The Wire that Im not surprised by that news, but […]

Each year, eWEEK Labs looks back at the products we’ve tested to highlight those that particularly impressed us with their excellence and innovation. This year, we’ve chosen five such products and services, spanning from the data center to the cloud. Microsoft Office 365 With the public release of Office 365 in June, Microsoft took a […]

eWEEK Labs Picks the Stupid Tech Tricks of 2010 by eWEEK Labs More IP Follies We’ve cited software patent madness in previous years’ Stupid Tech Tricks, and this year turned out to be more of the same: Smartphone vendors and adjacent players remain locked in a web of lawsuits; Paul Allen’s Interval Licensing laid claim […]