Jim Rapoza

Over the last few weeks Google has been busy launching some new applications and gadgets as part of its Google Labs. The Labs is where Google tries out new ideas and applications and everything from Google Maps to Google Docs has gotten its start as a Google Labs project. Over the last couple of weeks […]

Ahhh. Breathe the fresh air of freedom. Bask in the invigorating glow of open choices, options and of course, source. Why all the excitement? Haven’t you heard? The open source and free software movement is coming to the mobile market. Yep, finally the most locked down and proprietary of technology arenas will open up to […]

Meet Bill. At first glance, Bill appears to be an ordinary man. But he is anything but ordinary. In his time, Bill helped spur the PC revolution that has changed how people work and live. And he built one of the most powerful and influential companies that the world has ever seen. But today is […]

Many new and interesting technology companies were recognized at the recent Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange Awards, or MITX Awards. These awards recognize technological innovation from a number of companies in the New England area, ranging from small startups to established tech giants. At the awards I had the opportunity to speak to some of […]

Click here to see screenshotsOpera 9.5REVIEW: At first glance, it doesn’t look that different from previous versions of the browser. And while there are nice improvements from a usability standpoint, there’s nothing radically different for Web users. But appearances can be deceiving. And with its release today, Firefox 3 is poised to usher in a […]

As a company IT manager your job is plenty hectic enough as it is, and the last thing you need to deal with are threats and legal notices from movie studios and record companies. So you’ve put in place strict usage policies that all employees must follow, policies that forbid the use of file-sharing applications […]

Click here to see screenshotsOpera 9.5REVIEW: It has a tiny percentage of market share compared with the bigger players such as Microsoft and Mozilla. And if you ask your non-techie friends if they’ve every heard of it they’ll probably say that they don’t like opera music. But one can easily make a very good case […]

Click here to see the listMicrosoft Innovation Back during Microsoft’s antitrust battles, one of the arguments that the company made to defend itself was that antitrust penalties would stifle Microsoft’s ability to innovate. At the time this drew more than a few chuckles from onlookers who struggled to find much in the way of innovations […]

The Web is a mess; it’s an unsound and broken hodgepodge of standards, tools and browsers that all kinda work together, except of course when they don’t. This isn’t an uncommon position. Everyone from major software vendors to government figures to standards bodies has at one time or another held this opinion. In Daryl Taft’s […]

Click here to watch the videoBerkman Interviews At the Berkman@10 conference at Harvard, I had a chance to speak to some of the many attendees and speakers at the conference about the challenges facing the internet today and in the near future. Phillip Hallam-Baker, author of the dotCrime Manifesto, says stability is the missing ingredient […]