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This Week In Emerging Tech
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-05-09
Every Wednesday here at eWEEK's Emerging Technology we'll provide links and insights into the latest news that's breaking anywhere about new technologies and products.
Here are the emerging technology stories for
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Opening the Door to Emerging Technology
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-05-08
When it comes to information technology workers, there's one thing we definitely need to survive. And that's new emerging technologies.
For IT, emerging technologies are our food, our Sun, air, water,
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Dell Joins Axis of FUD
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-05-07
Dell has joined the Microsoft-Novell Axis of Patent FUD. However, if Dell truly takes seriously Microsoft's disingenuous patent fear campaign against Linux, why would Dell open its customers to the threat of litigation
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Longhorn Falls Short of its Virtual Promise
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-05-07
This week, Microsoft set loose "Longhorn" Server Beta 3, and the release is brimming with evidence of the hard work Microsoft has put into polishing the configuration wizards that work to abstract
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What is an Emerging Technology?
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-05-07
How does one define emerging technologies? Are they simply technologies that are new? Does it include products and tools that enhance and alter established technologies? To be an emerging technology does a
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How Micro is a Micro-PC?
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-05-01
Depending on how one looks at it, the new FlipStart micro-PC from the Paul Allen-backed FlipStart Labs is either a very small laptop or a really big Blackberry. Want to know just how small (or big) the FlipStart really is? Take a look at these images of the FlipStart as
Big Win in the War Against Patents
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-04-30
When it comes to technology patents and the effect they have on innovation and the ability to use and create technology, the news is usually on the bad side (for example some company crushing a competitor using a patent, or a troll attacking real innovators with a questionable patent).
Clearing Space for Innovation
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-04-30
My Microsoft Watch colleague Joe Wilcox recently blogged about a Microsoft advertising campaign for its beginning developer-oriented Visual Studio Express Edition, in which a picture of a young Bill Gates sits
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Video of the Google-Sponsored Link Hack
By Andrew Garcia | Posted: 2007-04-27
Exploit Prevention Labs recently found that a few of Google's sponsored links -- for organizations like the Better Business Bureau -- were redirecting to a Russian Web site attempting to load
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Was I Too Tough on RHEL?
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-04-20
In my recent review of Red Hat's Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and its brand-new Xen virtualization features a bit of a hard time with regard to the limitations of its management tools. Relative to the products of VMware, the current market/mind share leader in x86 server virtualization, Red Hat's
What Makes a Security Idiot?
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-04-20
I recently posted a list of my 12 Ways to Be A Security Idiot. This list was inspired by an older column (OK, rant) of mine where I bemoaned the stupid things that people do that cause most of the security problems that companies have to deal with.
Latest GPL Draft Is a Step in the Right Direction
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-04-16
After a few months' delay--during which the Free Software Foundation mulled over how to make the world safe for GNU-manity in the face of Microsoft and Novell's patent, collaboration and
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Test Driving the $100 Laptop's Interface
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-04-12
As the One Laptop Per Child project works toward a release this year of what is commonly called the $100 laptop, work has continued on the operating system and the new interface for the radical new laptop design. This interface is called Sugar and is based on a lightweight version
Verizon-Vonage Patent Fight Hits Home
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-04-10
While I always follow the big patent battles, the recent ugly fight between Verizon and Vonage has been of interest to me for more than just its implications in the broader patent fight. That's because for a while now I've been a very happy customer of Vonage's VOIP
Firefox Gets Social
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-04-04
Recently, I've been playing around with a new extension to Firefox called The Coop. Scratch that. I can't really call it a new extension. I can't even call it beta or alpha. What I have on my Firefox browser is a prototype of Coop that I loaded from
