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  • Messaging, Calendar Apps Boost Firefox

    Firefox is a stand-alone browser, but the Mozilla Foundation is developing messaging and calendaring applications that can be used with Firefox. eWEEK Labs’ ongoing tests of the Thunderbird messaging client and Mozilla Calendar extension show that these applications are shaping up to provide healthy competition in their respective markets. Thunderbird and Mozilla Calendar are still…

  • Browser Wars Back On

    The Mozilla Foundation’s release of Firefox 1.0 earlier this month reignited the browser wars on consumer desktops. But on corporate machines, the free open-source browser faces an uphill battle in its effort to challenge Microsoft Corp.’s dominant Internet Explorer. eWEEK Labs spoke with a number of IT managers who applaud Firefox 1.0 as a viable…

  • DIY PC with an Intel BTX Motherboard and BTX Case

    BTX: The Next Form Factor Standard? Over the past year, Intel has been pressing forward with BTX (balanced technology extended) in an attempt to make it the next universal form factor for motherboards. Certainly Intel’s past success with the ATX standard bodes well for BTX, but the company isn’t quite as dominant as it was…

  • Building a Better Blade Rack

    One of the current buzzwords of the server world is “consolidation.” Depending on who you talk to, this means anything from using really big servers running virtualization software (such as VMware) pretending to be lots of smaller servers, to lots of smaller servers packed into small spaces (blade servers, et al.) that can be used…

  • Intel’s Stealth Release

    AMD has been steadily marching up the processor performance curve, while Intel has been scrambling for a new strategy, having to face up to the fact that scaling to 4GHz and beyond simply may not be possible with this chip architecture. Scaling up the frequency was critical to Intel’s plans, as the deeper pipeline in…

  • ‘Fixed Wireless’ Brings Cell Service to Analog Jacks

    With all of the advances in computer and wireless technology over the past 20 years, you’d think that landline telephone systems—sometimes referred to as the “Plain Old Telephone System” (POTS)—would have vanished by now. But despite the uptake in cell phone users, the vast majority of homes and businesses depend on copper wire for telephone…

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