America is voting no on Idols Live! The annual American Idol summer concert tour, featuring the Top 10 finalists — Aaron Kelly, Andrew Garcia, Casey James, Crystal Bowersox, Didi Benami, Katie Stevens, Lee DeWyze, Michael Lynche, Siobhan Magnus, and Tim Urban — from the critically-panned ninth season of Idol, will end two weeks early following [...]
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“American Idol†Tour Cancelled: “Idols Live!†Scrapped Two Weeks Early
July 8th, 2010 |
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“American Idol†Season 9 Top 12 Revealed
March 12th, 2010 |
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American Idol unveiled the Top 12 on Thursday night after sending four more contenders packing, including two shocking eliminations. Last night’s Top 16 eliminations saw contestants Katelyn Epperly, Todrick Hall, Alex Lambert, and Lilly Scott sent packing.
The final 12 will perform next week — singing the songs of The Rolling Stones.
This season, we will [...]
“American Idol†Top 24 Revealed
February 18th, 2010 |
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Meet your American Idol semifinalists. The nation’s favorite TV talent show unveiled the 24 aspiring crooners who will be singing their hearts out for America next week. However, at least two standouts were among the vocalists left standing on the sidelines. Thaddeus Johnson — the 17-year-old who impressed at Hollywood Week with his “Man In [...]
OpenSUSE Corrals Community Software Efforts
December 28th, 2009 |
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eWEEK Labs’ Jason Brooks and Andrew Garcia discuss Novell’s latest community-oriented Linux OS, OpenSUSE 11.2, which is packed with official OpenSUSE versions of the latest and greatest of what the open-source software world has to offer. Where OpenSUSE 11.2 sets itself apart from its Linux rivals is its focus on highlighting community software contributions alongside the official distribution-provided packages. This community software focus, combined with the long time power user orientation of SUSE distributions, makes OpenSUSE 11.2 a very configurable–but potentially confusing–Linux-based operating system option.
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Windows Was My Idea?
November 19th, 2009 |
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Microsoft’s “Windows is My Idea” billboard campaign reminds eWEEK Labs’ Andrew Garcia that annoying things about Windows are still present in Version 7–and that new annoyances been added to the list. Here’s what Garcia would add to the OS to make Windows truly his idea.
– Its been three months since I installed 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate on my primary work system. Windows 7 runs without crashing much, starts and shuts down faster than Vista did on the same machine, and has a lot of pretty slideshow backgrounds to stare at. However, I would not say the new OS has revol…
eWEEK at 25: Wi-Fi Has Gone from Extravagance to Mission-Critical Enabler
November 6th, 2009 |
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As eWEEK looks back at its 25 year history, eWEEK Labs analysts considered the most important innovations in their respective coverage areas. For Senior Analyst Andrew Garcia, the choice was a no-brainer: Wi-Fi, a gargantuan success story.
– On Christmas Day 2000, I had to tear myself away from family festivities to get back to the Foster City, Calif., the then-home of both eWEEK Labs and PC Magazine Labs (I worked for PCMag at the time). I needed to untangle–in time for publication–the mysteries that kept popping up during my first 8…
Up Close and Technical
October 23rd, 2009 |
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eWEEK Labs Chief Technology Analyst Andrew Garcia attended the Motorola Cliq launch party, where he got a first hand view of the newest smartphone. The Motorola Cliq is a social networkers best friend. It has a customizable home screen that’s as unique as you are. Your Facebook, MySpace and Twitter happenings are right there, along with your emails, messages, news and favorite apps and widgets. All just the way you like them. Your texts, emails and social network messages arrive together on MOTOBLUR’s unique Messages widget. All with your friends’ profile pics.
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LABS GALLERY: What Does Windows 7 Have That Linux Doesn’t?
October 21st, 2009 |
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How well do popular Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE stack up against Microsoft’s new desktop flagship, Windows 7? eWEEK Labs identified 10 features new in Windows 7 and put them head-to-head with popular Linux distros to see how the platforms compete. Labs Analysts Jason Brooks and Andrew Garcia found that Version 7 makes big strides on the Windows front with its new features, but that Linux is competitive by most counts.
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LABS GALLERY: iPhone OS 3.1 with iTunes 9 Adds Enterprise Allure
September 10th, 2009 |
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Apple’s iPhone OS 3.1 (along with the new iTunes 9) adds functionality to the iPhone that could be of interest to enterprise users. Of particular note, users can rearrange on-screen application placement from within iTunes; calendar synchronization with Microsoft Exchange Server is improved; and Voice Control now works with Bluetooth headsets.
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LABS GALLERY: MyTouch 3G with Google and Touch Pro2 Bolster T-Mobile’s Stable of Smartphones
September 3rd, 2009 |
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T-Mobile, once devoid of many compelling 3G smartphones, is now awash with new alternatives: Mobile hardware maker HTC launched both the Android-based MyTouch 3G with Google and the Windows Mobile 6.1-based Touch Pro2 for the T-Mobile network in August. eWEEK Labs checks out both devices in this slide show.
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Apple’s Rejection of Google Voice Points to Just One Thing
August 4th, 2009 |
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Why would Apple deny customers the Google Voice functionality and risk the ire of the FCC? eWEEK Labs’ Andrew Garcia suspects it’s because Apple is building a similar service for MobileMe.
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The flap between Google and Apple over the latter’s rejection of the Google Voice application for the App Store has devolved to the point where the FCC has started poking around. I’ve been asking myself exactly why Apple or AT amp;T would stir up the hornet’s nest to deny the technology and risk t…
LABS GALLERY: RIM’s BlackBerry Tour 9630 Doesn’t Break New Ground
July 23rd, 2009 |
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Research in Motions latest smartphone #151the BlackBerry Tour 9630 #151fits sizewise between the BlackBerry Bold and the Curve. While not breaking any new ground in smartphone technology, the Tour features many features consumers want and slides easily into enterprise BlackBerry deployments. Available on the Verizon and Sprint networks, the Tour talks CMDA/EVDO Rev A. at home and GSM/EDGE/HSPA in international locations. Unfortunately, Wi-Fi connectivity was sacrificed for world coverage.
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