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eWEEK Labs OpenOffice.org 3.0 Walk-Through eWEEK Labs OpenOffice.org 3.0 Walk-Through – Native OS X Version New in OOo Version 3 is native support for Apple’s OS X. Previous OOo iterations required the X11 server to run, which made OOo a bit of a misfit on the OS X desktop. eWEEK Labs OpenOffice.org 3.0 Walk-Through – […]

Building the Best Smart Phone Building the Best Smart Phone – Display The perfect smart phone needs a display that’s large enough to render Web pages well and to give application developers enough space to innovate. Also, touch sensitivity is key for the input and control options it enables. Building the Best Smart Phone – […]

Anti-virus Suite Features for 2009 Anti-virus Suite Features for 2009 – BitDefender Total Security 2009 The BitDefender suite sports a much-improved new interface, which places the most pressing security issue front and center. Anti-virus Suite Features for 2009 – BitDefender Total Security 2009 (cont.) BitDefender’s new Family Network Protection capability provides a central point from […]

Product Walk-Through: Nokia E71 Shines in eWEEK Labs Tests Click to see a series of photos, or read our eWEEK Labs Nokia E71 review. BY: eWEEK Labs Product Walk-Through: Nokia E71 Shines in eWEEK Labs Tests – Symbian-Powered The Nokia E71 ships with Version 3.1 of the firm’s S60 interface, and runs atop Symbian OS […]

Nine Cloud Storage Providers Nine Cloud Storage Providers – Jungle Disk Workgroup Edition Jungle Disk Workgroup Edition is a file storage and backup service that’s priced starting at $2 per month per user, plus $0.15 per GB per month of storage used, $0.10 per GB of data uploaded and $0.17 per GB of data downloaded. […]

Seven Client OSes That Could Replace Windows Microsoft’s Windows is the undisputed king of the desktop, and, for a long time now, it’s seemed as though Windows would reign forever more. However, with customer uptake of Vista still limp- Seven Client OSes That Could Replace Windows – Mac OS X 1. Mac OS XIn terms […]

In the comments section below, we would be happy to see your own suggestions for squeezing more out of the iPhone-and if you have handy tips for other mobile devices, we would love to learn about those, as well.Capture iPhone ScreenshotsAs product reviewers, we at eWEEK Labs find frequent occasion to grab screen shots in […]

The Best and Worst Microsoft Products By eWEEK Labs The Best and Worst Microsoft Products – Best Products The Best and Worst Microsoft Products – Active Server Pages 1. Active Server PagesThough Microsoft was, in some ways, late to the Web party, Active Server Pages was a strong entrant into the server-side scripting arena that […]

Measuring Office Format Compatibility with Acrobat 9 By Jason Brooks Compare Documents Acrobat’s new Compare Documents feature analyzes two PDF documents and identifies all of the inconsistencies between them. I opened the same Word document in Office 2007 and OpenOffice.org, converted both documents to PDFs, and turned Acrobat 9 on the pair. Measuring Office Format […]

There’s no shortage of tough problems that jump right in the faces of IT administrators, but some of the worst IT problems facing companies are the ones they don’t know they have. In this story, eWEEK Labs identifies 10 cost- and productivity-robbing problems that might be lurking in your infrastructure and offers IT admins guidance […]

In my May 5, 2008, story package on Cisco’s 4900M 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch, I listed some of the drivers that I thought would make this high-bandwidth, direct-connect networking necessary. Among the things I listed were application consolidation, large format media files and compute-intensive applications. May 14, Network Instruments will release survey results that looks […]

From Ma Bell to Wintel, the IT sector tends to be defined by its 800-pound gorillas-the massive companies that have positioned themselves to grab a share of the daily computing activities of most every organization and individual. These are the companies that many of us love to hate. On one hand, tech’s largest vendors provide […]