Google last fall announced Project 10100 to invite users to submit ideas that help humanity. Google also pledged to commit $10 million to help implement these projects. During the last several months, Google narrowed down 154,000 submissions to 16 top ideas. Users can vote on them here through Oct. 8. eWEEK believes these issues are important enough to merit celebrating them in this slide show. Please read through them and vote!
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At this year’s DEMOfall conference, a number of new products and new companies launched, covering a wide area of technology, from enterprise applications to consumer products, from tools designed to serve large corporate needs to mobile apps designed to help commuters get to work. eWEEK Chief Technology Analyst Jim Rapoza got to take a first-hand look while at DEMOfall and has made his list of the most promising products to debut at this year’s show.
By Jim Rapoza
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Forty years ago, a new operating system called Unix was created, and a new revolution in computing began. Today, Unix-based operating systems still run many of the biggest and most important computing systems in the world. In fact, the core of Unix can be found in every major operating system in use today, from Apple’s Mac OS X to Linux to, yes, even Windows. If Unix itself hadn’t forked into many different versions, it might very well be the dominant OS in use today. In honor of the 40th anniversary of Unix, we’re taking a look at some of the many different iterations of Unix operating systems.
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Research In Motion’s new smartphone, the BlackBerry Curve 8520, is designed to straddle both the business and consumer worlds. In addition to providing traditional BlackBerry functionality, the device puts a heavy emphasis on music, instant messaging and games. However, enough benefits exist on both the hardware and software sides for IT administrators and procurement managers to give the device a hard look during their next tech refresh.
– If the Aug. 5 release of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone
is any indication, Research
In Motion has decided to devote more of its energies to the consumer market:
the review device that eWEEK has looked at
puts as much emphasis on music, videos and games as it does
business-related tasks. N…
eWEEK Labs finds Eclipse has greatly matured from its early, much slower days. Today, the application development platform can aptly be described as powerful and feature-rich.
– The recent 3.5 release of Eclipse, code-named Galileo, brings loads of new
features that will help developers become even more productive
In this review, I evaluate the new Eclipse IDE
(integrated development environment), but there have been changes made to the
entire Eclipse platform, as well….
When Google unveiled its Google Wave communication and collaboration prototype application at the Google I/I event in May, many people applauded. These instant fans realized they were seeing something that they so desperately needed to help manage their own lives. It’s no secret that we as a society of knowledge workers suffer from information overload. eWEEK discusses how Wave can change the way we as a society collaborate in the digital world.
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Join eWEEK Labs Executive Editor, Jason Brooks as he provides a review and analysis of Nokias N97. As a member of the companys N series, this smart-phone is very smart. But is it too smart for its own good? Jason discusses its features, such as the hand writing recognition option and FM radio and receiver. Also discussed is how this bad boy compares to Apples iPhone.
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It’s a busy time for botnets.
According to Marshal8e6, spam levels are up 60 percent between January and June. The vast majority of that spam comes from massive botnets such as Cutwail and Mega-D.
Today, eWEEK is focusing on just one of those botnets Rustock which has been spamming users for the past few years. In its latest biannual report, TRACELabs Marshal8e6 noted Rustock uses rootkit functionality to hide itself, and changes spam templates often. It typically uses HTML templates from legitimate newsletters and inserts its own images and links to give Rustock spam a mask of respectability. This also allows it to dodge spam filters.
In this slideshow, eWEEK has gathered images of Rustock in action to help illustrate a day in the life a prolific botnet. (Images courtesy of SecureWorks, Symantec, Marshal8e6 and FireEye)
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Yahoo has new look, feel and user experience. Programmers basically turned the left-hand rail into an RSS feed of many of Web users’ favorite Web services and destinations, such as Facebook, Gmail, Twitter and MySpace. And whats more is that there are no installations or application searching required. Microsoft is planning to release Windows 7 to developers on Aug. 6th. They will also be offering a family pack version of Windows 7, Home Premium which will allow installation on up to 3 PCs. Apple is all over recent headlines. Apple is reporting quarterly profits and revenue exceeding Wall Street analyst predictions, however Apple is coming clean with reports that they have not been able to meet the demand of the iPhone 3GS. For BlackBerry-toting Apple users, a BlackBerry Desktop for Mac Software will be available this September. Anyone interested in being alerted to the softwares availability can head to blackberry.com and register to be updated. On July 21st, Zoho integrated its Zoho Mail application and Zoho CRM business application in an effort to improve productivity for users of the SAAS provider’s collaboration and enterprise applications. Security researchers have their eyes on the electric grid at the upcoming Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. In separate talks, researchers will highlight some of the threats and concerns facing plans to deploy smart grid technology.
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The 5.0 version of rBuilder boasts several major new features. eWEEK Labs’ tests of the platform, through Version 5.2.1, shows that rBuilder makes it easier to churn out virtual machine images for immediate deployment, and that the Web-based management interface that rBuilder pairs with the appliances it creates is handy. However, Labs did run into some configuration issues, as well as some issues with the new Flash-based Web front end.
– With its rBuilder 5.2.1, rPath aims to streamline the deployment and maintenance of application workloads by providing IT organizations with the tools to roll their applications into Linux-based software appliances that are ready to deploy on popular server virtualization platforms, cloud computing …
Microsoft’s Office 2010, which eWEEK Labs tested in a Technical Preview release, offers welcome enhancements to core Office capabilities, but also breaks significant new ground by pushing Office apps beyond the bounds of the Windows desktop into rich, Web-based versions that perform as well on Firefox and Safari browsers as on Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer.
– Microsoft’s Office 2010, which eWEEK Labs tested in a Technical
Preview release, has quite a bit in common with the past several new
Office upgrades–namely, the new suite is brimming with enhancements to
core Office capabilities, many of which center around exposing the
apocryphal 80 percent of…
Would you rather fight than switch from VMware vSphere to Hyper-V or Xen-based implementations? eWEEK Labs compares the benefits and drawbacks of current virtualization platforms.
– When I reviewed VMware vSphere
4 in June, I gave it an eWEEK Labs Analysts Choice. I clearly think the platform,
formerly called VMware Infrastructure, is solid, and so do the many
organizations out there that have implemented it.
Recently, eWEEK Labs Executive Editor Jason Brooks
asked me what…
Analysis: Google’s introduction of its Chrome Operating System is causing a lot of debate in the high-tech sector, with some pundits mulling whether Google has taken its free software model to the edge in its attempt to battle Microsoft. eWEEK asks readers what they would pay for Google’s Web services.
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Google’s introduction of Chrome OS, its Linux-based operating system for netbooks, sparked no shortage
of questions by reporters and bloggers. You can easily tick off a list of 20
questions and that wouldn’t begin to cover the minutiae and the what-ifs.
Long term: Will Chrome OS be…
