Scoping Out Apples Safari
Maybe the browser wars arent over, after all.Last June, Netscapes expedition into the land of open source bore fruit in the form of Mozilla 1.0, a Web browser that arguably unseated Microsoft Corp.s Internet Explorer—certainly not in popularity, but in overall excellence. At this weeks MacWorld Expo, however, Apple Computer Inc. launched a Web browsing salvo of its own,...
Ubuntu 6.06 Is Current Desktop Linux Champ
Canonicals Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is an excellent Linux-based operating system—so excellent, in fact, that it not only earned eWEEK Labs Analysts Choice designation but has also become our clear favorite among Linux desktop distributions.This latest Ubuntu release, which became available in June, has won our ardor with a tight focus on desktop usability; an extremely active, helpful and organized...
Fedora Core 5: Shape-Shifter
Red Hats Fedora Core 5, which hit the Internet in late March, shines in the server and developer roles with which Linux has come to be identified. Also, for many scenarios, Fedora has matured enough to perform well as a mainstream corporate desktop.In tests, eWEEK Labs was impressed with the fast-moving Red Hat distributions updated SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) and...
Toshiba e740: Pocket PC Sweet Spot
Toshiba Corp.s $599 Pocket PC e740 boasts integrated support for 802.11b wireless networking and a speedy new 400MHz Intel Corp. Xscale processor—without added cost or size, compared with similarly equipped Pocket PC rivals.Although the e740s new chip and built-in wireless functionality caught our attention, we were just as impressed with the devices dual expansion slots, removable battery and excellent...
Vista Trains Just May Run on Time
As Mary Jo Foleys reporting reveals, theres renewed doubt as to whether Microsoft can manage to ship Vista—the companys long-delayed Windows client refresh—in time to make the product available for corporate customers before the start of 2007.
I havent yet run the Vista build that Microsoft will release the week of May 22 at WinHEC and brand Beta 2.
But unless...
Enterprise Collaboration & Messaging
This years crop of entries in the Enterprise Collaboration & Messaging category ranged from groupware servers and spam filters to presentation and collaboration products—from both peer-to-peer and centralized camps. The ability to effect collaboration was extremely important to the judges in this category, as seen in the focus of the products that made it to the finalist and winner...