Jim Rapoza

OK, I have a great idea for a new business method patent. It’s a system by which customers can select among a prebuilt list of goods or products, and then choose how they would like these products customized and enhanced. The system is extremely flexible and can be applied to everything from computers to hamburgers. […]

Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska was recently found guilty of corruption, and seeing him in the news brought back the memory of the senator describing the Internet as a “series of tubes.” For technology experts, this is one of the funniest misunderstandings of technology ever uttered publicly. I mean, could he have been more clueless? […]

Many people in the business world think there is only one answer to the question, “What is your e-mail and collaboration system?” Microsoft Exchange Server. However, despite its dominance, there are plenty of options out there for companies looking for a robust and dynamic messaging platform that isn’t Exchange. These options range from massive enterprise-class […]

We all have some kind of free hosted e-mail account, whether it’s Gmail, Yahoo mail, the mail from your ISP or all of the above. Many people rely on these mail systems to handle their day-to-day personal communications. And businesses recognize this. It’s a common practice at many companies to maintain a list of “external” […]

Click here to see screenshotsflock2.jpgYou’re a social networking junkie. You can’t stand not to know what the status of your friends is, what photos and videos are being uploaded, who is blogging about what, and what your friends are tweeting about right now. Being this type of person means that you often have to have […]

Green–nearly everyone wants to be green. Lots of people who would hardly consider themselves “tree huggers” have realized that investing in green products and technologies can pay dividends in both personal and global ways. But there’s one problem: To be green, you often have to have green (as in money). In almost all product areas, […]

Hang on just a few more minutes. I know that you’re waiting for me to write this article, but it’s taking me quite a bit of time to do the online research for it. Why? Well, I’m taking the time to read the privacy policy on every Web site I visit. Don’t you? I’m pretty […]

Click here to see the screenshots & photosAndroid In the eWEEK special report “Technology in 2009“, I look at many of the new product and company announcements of recent months and use this information to predict some of the key emerging technology trends that we should expect to see for 2009. To go along with […]

In the article “Technology in 2009″, I look at some of the emerging technology trends that I think will be important and will get a lot of attention in 2009. But along with these technology trends, there are also going to be important technologies that should receive attention in 2009 that are likely to be […]

The last several weeks have seen a large number of conferences, trade shows and seminars dedicated to emerging technologies and new products, with the two biggest and most prominent being DEMOfall and TechCrunch50. Often after a wave of new products and companies debut, the initial reaction is to try to predict which of these new […]

Back in 2002 I wrote a column titled “It’s time for next Internet.” In that column I bemoaned the fact that we were still stuck with an aging Internet infrastructure and urged more progress in next-generation Internet initiatives such as IPv6 and Internet2. At that time, while I was unhappy with the progress of these […]