Jim Rapoza

When it comes to Internet search, Google is the undisputed champion. In fact, Google is so dominant that the appearance of any new challenger is typically received with doubt and even scorn. But while Google clearly rules search, it does have some weaknesses. Talk to any regular user of the Web and you’ll likely hear […]

Traditional thinking tends to always favor in-person meetings and training over virtual Web-based replacements. Most people would say that while Web-based meetings and conferences have their place, especially when travel is difficult or too expensive, in most areas they fall behind a face-to-face meeting. But anyone who has used Web-based conferencing extensively knows that there […]

Here are the emerging technologies stories for the week of July 21st. Put the CPU in the Fridge – An interesting project at Purdue University where researchers are working on a terchnique to use micro components to refrigerate PC processors. Highly Predictive Security – The folks over at SANS and SRI will be presenting a […]

Nowadays businesses spend a lot of time thinking about search and how it relates to their Web sites and a lot of money trying to come up with ways to improve how their sites relate to search. But for many businesses this takes the form of an almost exclusive focus on improving their visibility to […]

Click here to watch the videoUnified Communications Video Unified communications has become a very hot topic for enterprise IT operations. The ability to combine and easily manage all forms of voice and digital communications within a company clearly offers huge cost and time savings benefits. The importance of this field can be seen by the […]

When it comes to Web-based video, Adobe’s Flash format dominates. From YouTube to MySpace to eWEEK video, the majority of video on the Web is Flash. But while Flash has lots of benefits for developers and content producers, consumers often find it an unfriendly format when it comes to using video outside of the Web. […]

It’s a familiar story line. Whenever travel becomes too expensive or difficult, there’s a deluge of stories about how business travel will become a thing of the past and how everyone will be meeting and doing face-to-face sit-downs via videoconferencing. Whenever this happens, there’s a rush to invest in videoconferencing systems, which see heavy use […]

Summer is one of my favorite times of year. And one of my favorite things to do is take long walks or hang out at the beach while listening to good tunes on my MP3 player. However, I also like to take walks or hang out at the beach with friends. And unless I want […]

Three-dimensional virtual-reality-based social networking! Just saying it can make you want to cringe. Didn’t we already go through this with “Second Life” and its ilk? We all know the problems. Most of these programs like “Second Life” are big fat applications, essentially video games. They have a high learning curve that discourages casual users. And […]

REVIEW: Just about a week after Adobe released version 9 of Acrobat, the latest version of the tool that most people use to read PDF files was also released. For most users, Adobe Reader 9 won’t seem like a major departure from the previous versions of the free PDF reading tool. The interface has been […]

Click here to see screenshotsAcrobat 9REVIEW: When it comes to document collaboration and sharing, there can be little argument that most of this activity is moving to the Web. But there can also be little argument that the current slate of Web-based tools comes up short in features and capabilities when compared to desktop tools. […]

Isn’t nostalgia great! Nowadays, it seems like any old trend, TV show or celebrity is coming back—hula hoops, Transformers, Battlestar Galactica, heck, there’s even a Smurfs movie coming out. And based on some recent news, it looks like another fun, old trend will be making a return performance in coming years. Remember the heyday of […]