Jim Rapoza

Panel sessions at conferences are usually pretty bland, sparsely attended affairs. But the standing-room-only panel on XML databases that took place at the Tenth International World Wide Web Conference proved to be a lot more interesting than might have been expected. The panel consisted of researchers from IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and XYZFind (maker of a […]

With the upcoming death of Clippy, the happy, animated paper clip in Microsoft Office that helped a few and annoyed millions, usability issues are on my mind again. Coming up with tools that help novices use a product or a Web site without becoming a needless bother to most other users is an extremely difficult […]

Someone at Lockstep Systems must have had one of those classic moments when a light bulb clicks on. Lockstep makes the product Webagain, which protects against Web site defacement by maintaining a backup of the site that can replace the live site if it is altered or defaced. Someone must have realized that most of […]

XML schema, released last week as a World Wide Web Consortium recommendation, is the most important new standard from the W3C since XML itself, making it much simpler for applications, data repositories and business partners to exchange and integrate data based on Extensible Markup Language. Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web and director of the […]

Earlier this year, during eWeeks OpenHack III, we stated that the most promising method for beating Argus Systems Group Inc.s PitBull was a direct attack on the operating system kernel. Last week, that is exactly how a group of Polish hackers got around the trusted operating system protection of PitBull and compromised a Solaris x86 […]

The thunderous performance of Zeus Technology Ltd.s namesake Web server may be what attracts the most attention, but Zeus Web Server 3.3.8 also provides a host of other strong features that make it one of the top enterprise-level Web servers eWeek Labs has seen. Zeus 3.3.8, released last month, proved to be a very flexible […]

Im not sure what the word “Oingo” means, but the unique namesake search technology from Oingo Inc. can figure out the meaning of pretty much anything else. Most standard search engines simply index text and metatags from Web pages, and queries of these engines will return any pages that contain the same words, meaning that […]

Internet appliances that provide network and Internet capabilities for small or regional offices come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from the distinctive Cobalt Qube to familiar tower shapes to rack-mountable units. Coming in on the smaller side of these devices is Celestix Networks Aries appliance, which is close to the size of most […]

Microsoft Corp.s Internet Explorer 5.0 was released in March 1999. Now, with the release of the beta of IE 6.0 two years later, its hard not to think, “Is that it?” IE 6.0 sure doesnt look like a major upgrade, especially when compared with how much of a difference there is between Windows XP and […]

Im losing my memory. Well, not mine personally, but I am losing stored information in two areas that are important to me. Recently, the IT administrators here decided to implement a new policy for our Notes servers. They will automatically delete any memos more than 3 months old from all mail databases. I can see […]