Jim Rapoza

eWEEK Labs’ Tests of Microsoft IE 8 Show Web Browser Is a Must-Upgrade Color-Coded Tabs One of the better new features in IE 8 is its ability to color-code tabs launched from a Website to help users visually manage the many tabs they may have open. Better Add-on Management Much-improved management for add-ons, including plug-ins […]

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is a big improvement over previous versions of the Web browser. It’s a must-upgrade for any current IE user–with improved usability, security and stability–but it likely won’t entice users of competing browsers. Based on tests of the final IE 8 code, along with previous tests of release candidate and late-beta versions […]

IBM is in talks to acquire Sun. This could be one of the biggest deals (in more ways than one) in our industry, or it could go the way of Microsoft/Yahoo. In any case, it’s important for enterprise customers of both companies to think about what such a deal could mean for the products and […]

According to a recent series of tests done by Microsoft, Internet Explorer 8 is the fastest browser available today. Of course, it doesn’t take a lot of searching to find similar studies claiming that Google Chrome or Firefox or Safari or Opera or WebKit is the fastest browser available today. So what do I think […]

Citrix GoView Recording Service Is Easy to Use, but Has Limitations, eWEEK Labs Says by Jim Rapoza Installation GoView installs a Windows executable that runs from the Windows tray. To record an application session, users simply click on the GoView icon in the tray. Accessing the Recordings Once content is recorded, it is automatically uploaded […]

Click here to see screenshotsgoview3.pngWhen it comes to demoing a new piece of software, training users on a new application or teaching employees how to follow a business process, there’s no substitute for showing them how to do these things directly. But it isn’t always feasible to be face to face in all of these […]

My colleague Joe Wilcox recently posted on the Microsoft Watch blog an interesting article entitled “The Problem with Netbooks”. In this article he puts forth a compelling argument why netbooks won’t last as a significant segment and will become subsumed into laptops or disappear altogether. If I had read Joe’s article a week before he […]

eWEEK Labs Finds the Best of Demo 09 by Jim Rapoza Avaak Vue Avaak Vue is a powerful and easy-to-deploy video monitoring system for the home or office. Always Innovating Touch Book The Touch Book, by Always Innovating, is one of the more innovative netbook designs to date, combining the features of a netbook and […]

Xandros has long been a major player when it comes to taking Linux and open-source technologies and making them easy for non-techie people to use. With Presto, they are taking a stealth approach to work with Windows systems but to make it more attractive to boot into Presto as opposed to Windows. When installed on […]

The second day of Demo got off to a much better start than Day 1, with a couple of promising semantic Web applications starting off the vendor presentations. Ensembli is a simple but potentially effective Web site for finding news stories across the Web on specific topics of interest. Even more powerful was Evri, a […]

Setting up a video monitoring system in your home, office or business can be a tedious and sometimes expensive task, often involving permanent server systems. Avvak’s Vue attempts to solve this problem through an inexpensive solution that uses small, easily mounted and deployed cameras, a central video router that requires no PC or server, and […]

eWEEK Labs at Demo: The Touch Book by Jim Rapoza Deceiving Look In its default configuration, the Touch Book looks like a standard generic netbook. Detachable However, users of the Touch Book can easily detach the main display and system guts from the keyboard. Now a Touch-Pad Separated from its keyboard, the Touch Book becomes […]