Jason Brooks

This week we re-launched labs.eweek.com to serve as a home base eWEEK Labs team, and as a place to test out some of the products and services we cover in more “real world” setting than what we get within the confines of our San Francisco lab. To that end, we’ve set up shop in the […]

Turnkey Linux Hub 1.0 is a Web-based service that sits atop Amazon’s Web Services to provide cloud hosting and backup capabilities for the line of Web application software appliances offered by the Turnkey Linux open-source project. The software-appliance-plus-cloud-services combination is similar to the Bitnami Cloud Hosting product that I recently reviewed, except that where Bitnami’s […]

OpenSUSE 11.4 is a modest new release in the line of community-oriented Linux-based operating systems from Novell and the openSUSE community, marked by a raft of newly updated open-source applications and components. As with previous openSUSE releases, this distribution can serve in roles ranging from desktop to server. However, where openSUSE (and its SUSE Linux […]

As a speedy, modern, cross-platform Web browser, Firefox 4 is well worth evaluating for any organization, particularly those with a heterogeneous mix of client operating systems. On this multiplatform front, however, organizations should also keep an eye on Google’s Chrome, which tends to match Firefox in features and performance, and offers Group Policy-based management support […]

Firefox 4, the first full point release of Mozilla’s popular open-source Web browser in nearly three years, combines user-interface, performance and Web-standards support enhancements with new provisions for making user data both more and less accessible across the network. On one hand, the browser ships with a newly integrated Firefox Sync feature, which enables users […]

In this week’s cover story, P. J. Connolly examines the way that the popularity and staying power of Apple’s iOS platform is forcing IT organizations and vendors alike to adjust their mobile device management game plans. For both groups, the changes brought about by Apple’s mobile ascendancy have amounted to a mixed bag. There’s no […]

In its BitNami Cloud Hosting service, Bitrock Inc. combines its catalog of integrated open-source Web-application stacks with Amazon Web Services features to provide organizations and developers with a simple means of setting up and hosting these applications. I’ve used BitNami’s stacks in the past to get up and running quickly with popular open-source Web applications. […]

BitNami Cloud Hosting service combines its catalog of integrated open-source Web-application stacks with Amazon Web Services features. Read my full review at eweek.com.

This week’s issue of eWEEK has me thinking about the desktop—about where it’s been, where it’s headed, and about what sorts of client devices are vying to knock our familiar desktops and notebooks off from their computing pedestals. First, there’s Cameron Sturdevant’s review of Microsoft’s System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3, and his accompanying commentary […]

As I write this column, I’m working through what I hope are the final throes of an email migration process here at eWEEK. I’m up and running on the new system from my desktop and from the Web, and with the help of my friendly neighborhood IT admin, I trust that restored Blackberry access isn’t […]

It’s been a week of copycat allegations, with Google accusing Microsoft of cribbing Google search engine results by monitoring and acting on the browsing habits of Bing toolbar users. To my mind, it’s a fairly boring flareup, but one which, when combined with the Salesforce.com Chatter tests that my fellow labsman Cameron Sturdevant has been […]

Back around the turn of the millennium, I had the great fortune of watching the Windows XP, aka Whistler, development cycle unfold. I had so much fun tracking the procession of development releases topped by the shiny gold master copy of Windows XP, that I sought after, and found, an operating system to track that […]