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By: John Dodge The MiFi 2200 “mobile hot spot” from Verizon is a nifty device. To summarize, MiFi is mobile broadband in the back end and Wi-Fi out the front, giving up to five users/devices access to the Internet from anywhere. Here’s how it works. The user simply switches on the MiFi to establish the […]

By: John Dodge The advantages of connecting to the Internet from virtually anywhere are obvious. So it was with great enthusiasm that I put the new HP Mini 1000 Model 1151NR netbook bundled with Verizon mobile broadband service through its paces. The Verizon service works reasonably well, but it is clearly a newer technology in […]

By: eChannelLine Westcon Group is looking to help its customers take advantage of the opportunities presented by the Federal Stimulus Package with the launch of a new program, which includes vertical-specific Web sites stocked with information, tools and resources. The New Start America program was developed after a series of Webinars Westcon held in April […]

By: eChannelLine Sage North America appointed two of its executives to new posts within the company while forging a new Business Solutions Division. The news was made public at the company’s annual Insights partner conference, held this year in Nashville, Tenn. The Business Solutions Division is the end result of combining Sage’s Business Management and […]

By: Eric Zuspan Eric Zuspan, senior system administrator, SAN/Unix, at MultiCare Health System, is responsible for systems in four data centers and 500TB of data supporting 10,000 employees. He ensures that patients and employees have continuous access to patient files, appointment schedules and life-saving medical information. He’s also tasked with ensuring that the data is […]

By: John Dodge When I first started testing netbooks, I thought they were not really a substitute for full notebooks. However, after four weeks of using three of them, I’m not so sure. Netbooks let me do everything I need to do-e-mail, Twitter, word processing, Web surfing and blogging/content management. And I’ve adapted to the […]

By: John Dodge There’s a lot to like about the Eee PC line of netbooks from Asus-a netbook pioneer-but I found the keyboard to be a deal breaker. Asus, part of Taiwan computer giant ASUSTek Computer, is credited with igniting the netbook boom in 2007, following in the footsteps of the Psion and One Laptop […]

By: John Dodge I had a chance to really put the Lenovo IdeaPad S10 through its paces by using it on two flights and during a week away from home. The IdeaPad S10 includes Wi-Fi connectivity and an Express Card slot for optional high-speed mobile broadband connectivity. The Windows XP-based system has a built-in Web […]

By: John Dodge Hewlett Packard’s HP Mini series of netbooks stands out for its keyboards-one of the key evaluation criteria in this category of systems. In fact, the keyboard makes the HP Mini the Cadillac of the netbooks I’ve tested so far. However, when I say “Cadillac,” that’s in the context of portable computers whose […]

By: John Hazard Between Jan. 1 and Dec. 7, 2008, eWEEK published 5,208 stories on the events, trends, news and moments of enterprise IT. Choosing the 10 most significant among them involved a little more than checking the most popular reads on eWEEK.com. First we had to decide “what is a story.” A story, we […]

/images/stories/70×50/bug_knowledgecenter_70x70_%282%29.jpgThe Internet evolved from its academic and research environment origins to become an ubiquitous infrastructure used daily by the global economy. Most businesses today, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to ISPs, are partially or fully-dependent on Internet connectivity (as are most consumers). While spending on Information Technologies represents a cost often limited as much as […]

By: Eric Brown Xirrus, a vendor of Linux-based Wi-Fi arrays, is releasing a version of its Wi-Fi Monitor utility for Linux desktops. The open-source, widgetlike Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor for Linux enables users to monitor, secure and troubleshoot Wi-Fi networks, according to company officials.Wi-Fi Monitor has been available as a free utility for Windows Vista, Windows […]