Jason Brooks

Rewritten around a new graphical interface tool kit, Version 2.0 of GNOME stands as an attractive and important upgrade for sites that have standardized on GNOME as their desktop environment for Linux- and Unix-based systems. However, although GNU Network Object Model Environment 2.0 boasts many improvements over Version 1.4, such as support for font anti-aliasing […]

Rewritten around a new graphical interface toolkit, Version 2.0 of GNOME stands as an attractive and important upgrade for sites that have standardized on GNOME as their desktop environment for Linux and Unix-based systems. However, although GNU Network Object Model Environment 2.0 boasts many improvements over Version 1.4, such as support for font anti-aliasing and […]

While carrying out testing for the virtual meeting eVal extravaganza that appears in the July 1 issue of eWEEK, one of the product features that most appealed to our Corporate Partner judges was the capacity for recording meetings—presentation slides, whiteboard doodles, audio comments and all. It makes great sense—if youve brought together your employees and […]

I dont think the Tablet PC is going anywhere—at least, not anywhere it hasnt already been. There are certainly some environments in which a tablet-based computer makes sense, such as nursing stations or warehouses or in the hands of roving poll takers at the mall, and tablet-based devices already exist in those spaces. Anyway, the […]

No matter how full-featured the interface or how fast the video frame rate, its really tough to collaborate virtually without voice. For this, the telephone is the most natural tool. Weve been collaborating virtually over our phones for more than a hundred years now, so almost everyone has a phone and knows how to use […]

It was three years ago that eWeek Labs last rounded up a large group of Web-based meeting products for comparative review. In the years since that roundup, the space has seen significant changes, but the more things change, the more they stay the same. Although virtual meeting products have become more capable and easier to […]

Toshiba Corp.s $599 Pocket PC e740 boasts both integrated support for 802.11b wireless networking and a speedy new 400Mhz Intel Corp. Xscale processor—without added cost or size compared to its otherwise comparably-equipped Pocket PC rivals. Although the e740s new chip and built-in wireless functionality certainly caught our attention, we were just as impressed with the […]

The cost and technology benefits of voice over IP are sufficiently attractive to keep me tuned in, and Im not alone. Japan recently announced plans to gradually shift to a VOIP-based phone system over the next decade or so. Ive been testing the $79.95 Claritel i750, a USB VOIP handset from Clarisys (www.clarisys.net). The affordable […]

Microsoft has agreed to start playing nice(er) when it comes to middleware—a term thats come to comprise applications like Web browsers, instant messaging programs, media players and Java virtual machines. The principal instrument for making this new friendliness a fact is the Set Program Access and Defaults dialog that Windows XP Service Pack 1 adds […]

Wireless Knowledge Inc.s Workstyle Desktop Edition, which shipped this month, helps handhelds be all they can be by providing them with flexible access to corporate mail and data stored on Microsoft Corp. Exchange servers. Workstyle Desktop Edition supports e-mail, contacts and calendar synchronization for Palm OS, Windows CE and Research In Motion Ltd. (BlackBerry 957 […]

Handspring Inc.s Treo 90 is the first handheld device in the Treo product line to lack integrated cell phone functionality—an omission that lends the Treo 90 the slimmest, most pleasant form factor of any handheld organizer that eWeek Labs has seen. Beyond its slimness, the most exciting attribute of the 90 is its SD (Secure […]

LCD projectors keep getting smaller—shrinkage thats certain to spur new growth in the market for portable projectors. Keen to grab a piece of the action, Hewlett-Packard has thrown its lens cap into the ring with two new portable digital projectors, the smaller of which I had the opportunity to test. HPs Digital Projector Sb21 weighs […]