Recent Articles
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D-Link Gear Is a Mixed Bag
D-Link has long provided affordable, relatively consumer-friendly network devices. That’s not necessarily the case with its new VOIP products aimed at the small-business market: The products can be confusing, and, when fully licensed, are not as inexpensive as they seem at first glance. Indeed, D-Link will rely on its network of resellers to promote, sell…
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Cheap VOIP Beckons for SMBs
Open-source telephony technologies have recently blown open the VOIP market, creating a fertile breeding ground for new solutions built from the ground up for small businesses. Indeed, with a vast number of choices, falling prices and improving applications, IT managers at small and midsize businesses may struggle to identify the right voice over IP solution…
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Microsoft Research Builds ‘BrowserShield’
Microsoft researchers are experimenting with an automatic code zapper for the company’s Internet Explorer Web browser. Researchers at the Redmond, Wash., company have completed work on a prototype framework called BrowserShield that promises to allow IE to intercept and remove, on the fly, malicious code hidden on Web pages, instead showing users safe equivalents of…
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Vista RC1 Tests Show That the Migration Path May Be Rocky
We’ve seen a bevy of Vista builds lately, and each has made some improvement over the other. But, now that the day of reckoning for Vista is drawing near, eWEEK Labs wanted to put the operating system to a real-world test—that is, what will it be like to upgrade a Windows XP machine to Vista?…
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What Is the Business Case for Upgrading to Vista?
With Windows Vista, Microsoft needs to please at least two constituencies with very different sets of requirements. The Redmondians need to pack the next version of Windows with lots of bells and whistles that will appeal to consumers whom it is hoping to convince to upgrade. And it must do the same for business customers.…
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A New Breed of Laptops: The Intel Core 2 Duos
If you’re a student planning to take a new laptop back to school with you this fall, you’ve probably bought it already. But for those of you who’ve held out until now, a whole new breed of laptops is starting to ship. This year, there’s a new kid in town—and by new kid, I mean…
