Jim Rapoza

Click here to see the screenshotsRealDVD In the last few days there has been a lot of news about the legal battle between RealNetworks and the movie industry over RealDVD, RealNetwork’s new DVD player and backup application. But the big question outside of the legal battle itself (and for the record I don’t think the […]

I tend to have very little patience with people who don’t take their computer security seriously. In my opinion, a large amount of the security problems on the Internet today would go away if most people simply avoided obviously dangerous attachments and Web sites, and followed basic security practices (such as keeping up with patching, […]

At MIT’s Emerging Technology conference, I had the opportunity to speak to Matt Glotzbach, Product Management Director for Google Enterprise. Chief among the new enterprise capabilities we spoke about were the new video features for business that have been added to Google Apps. We also spoke about the potential effect of Android phones on Google […]

Yesterday I attended the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT (also known as Technology Review EmTech 08). This conference looks at many of the new technologies and the issues surrounding them today and in the near future. The first day of the conference was heavy on discussion panels, which were impressive for the luminaries from across […]

Click here to watch the videoUnified Communications Video Among emerging technologies for the enterprise, few have received as much attention and hype as Unified Communications. Unified communications offers the promise of bringing all of a company’s communications under control and making it possible to integrate these communications with enterprise applications. But UC hasn’t been growing […]

At first glance, the Maxtor Central Axis NAS (network-attached storage) device seems like a godsend for small businesses. Providing 1 terabyte of plug-and-play storage for $319, the Maxtor Central Axis from Seagate Technology goes a long way towards meeting the storage needs of most small businesses. However, inconsistencies in the provided backup and management software, […]

Of all of the presentations at the recent DemoFall conference, easily the coolest was for an application from a company that wasn’t a presenter at the conference. When representatives from The Echo Nest presented their Musical Brain developer API for analyzing, mixing and mashing audio, one of the developer apps they used to showcase their […]

Click here to see the gallerybrowser wars The browser wars are back, and bigger then ever. That’s right. While the original browser war was basically a two part affair between Microsoft and Netscape, we now have several players releasing new browsers, innovating on web features, and in general pushing the browser market forward. As I’ve […]

The New Browser Wars in Pictures The New Browser Wars in Pictures – Private Browsing The latest rage in new Web browsers is private browsing, offering users the ability to surf the Web without having the browser store cookies and other evidence of their browsing session. One of the first to implement this type of […]

Click here to watch the videoDEMOfall 08 Here’s my final installment from DEMOfall 08. In this video we wrap up some of the sights and sounds of the recent DEMOfall 08 conference. Will some of the participants turn out to be the next big companies of tomorrow? You never know. But many at least are […]