Jim Rapoza

Ask businesspeople what the best and most useful product made by Microsoft is, and you may be surprised to hear many skip past the more obvious choices-such as Windows and Office-and go right to SharePoint. Introduced as a modest set of online extensions for a variety of online and collaborative tasks, SharePoint is arguably the […]

LABS GALLERY: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Beta Shows Platform Joining Modern Web Age by Jim Rapoza Office Ribbon Interface Like most other new Microsoft applications, SharePoint 2010 has adopted the Office ribbon interface throughout much of its user interface. Personal User Pages The personal user pages in SharePoint 2010 have been updated to reflect modern aspects […]

Click here to see screenshotszombie.pngOne of the common things that computers are used for is statistical simulations. All around the world computers are being used to simulate everything from weather patterns to commuter traffic. So I was glad to see that technology was being put to use to simulate another important area of research, namely, […]

I just might have to give up. For years now I’ve been waiting for people to get savvy about security on their computers and using the Internet. I’ve always figured that eventually people would recognize the threats of being online and avoid the most obvious ones. Sort of like knowing not to run across a […]

“Are you Madame Sinclair, the fortune teller? I really need your help. I have to write a column looking ahead to technology in 2010, and my predictions are coming up empty.” “Yes, I am Madame Sinclair, and I can help you with your predictions. But first I would like to let you know that I […]

One of the most talked about recent releases of late 2009 was the early developer build of Chrome OS. To many observers, Chrome OS was clearly Google’s attempt to take on Microsoft Windows (and offer a little payback for Microsoft’s release of the Bing search engine). But while Chrome OS may eventually have the ability […]

Almost like the seasons, every few months some public person, usually someone in government or from a company that profits from the use of customer information, makes a statement attacking privacy rights. These statements can take many forms. One popular option is to state that given how people share information online now that it’s clear […]

Click here to see the slideshowetech09logo.jpgDuring the last two years it has been easy to get into a heads-down mode, where one is inclined to just do their job, stay the course as best as possible and not spend too much time thinking about new stuff. Fortunately for all of us, plenty of technology companies, […]

Now that Google has released the initial developers build of Chrome OS, we have a basic idea of what Google is doing with its concept of an operating system built around a Web browser and Web-based content. And if you want to know what I think about that developers release you can read my review […]

In its short lifetime the Flip video camcorder has set a very high standard for usability and simplicity. The Flip took something that was traditionally expensive and difficult, namely shooting and delivering video, and made it easier than point-and-shoot still photo shooting. So when representatives of the maker of the Flip, which is now part […]

Back in the mid-1990s, Microsoft took on Netscape not to dominate the Web browser market but because Microsoft was afraid that the Netscape browser could become a threat to Windows–that the Web browser itself could become an operating system. Now, more than 10 years later, we are finally getting a look at what it would […]