Jim Rapoza

Click for larger screenshotFlock 1.2 The makers of the Web browser Flock like to refer to their product as “the social Web browser.” And it’s probably a fair description, as the main focus of the free Firefox-based browser is to make it easy for users to follow and use social networking and media-sharing Web sites. […]

Most people understand that if there is information visible on the Web, then Google knows about it. But what about the information that many people think is invisible? Chances are, Google knows about that too. That’s because many Web sites, including big corporate sites, expose much more information than they realize. Everything from customer credit […]

Stop using anti-virus and patch management systems! They don’t work and they are a waste of time and, worse, a waste of money. OK, I’m kidding. I would never say that. But John Stewart, Cisco’s chief security officer, would. At the AusCERT (Australian Computer Emergency Response Team) conference in Australia May 19 to 23, Stewart […]

Click here to watch the videoPalfrey InterviewAt last week’s Berkman@10 conference I had the chance to sit down with John Palfrey, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. In this interview we spoke about the conference itself, some of the changes happening now at the Berkman Center, and about the future of […]

Click here to see images of the XO 2.0The XO 2.0 At a special One Laptop Per Child event held today, May 20, at MIT, OLPC Chairman Nicholas Negroponte provided a first glimpse at the next generation of the XO laptop. The XO 2.0 takes a radically different approach from the current version of the […]

Click here to see the slideshowflopphases.jpg Get a group of technology workers together and it is pretty much a certainty that if you ask if innovation is the life blood of technology, everyone will agree. After all, innovation is what keeps our jobs interesting and challenging and is what creates the new and exciting companies […]

Just starting to wrap up day one here at the Berkman@10 Conference. The second session of the day was hosted by center Executive Director John Palfrey and focused on politics and the Internet. John brought in lots of the distinguished members of the audience to talk about the effect of the blogosphere on politics and […]

Here I am live at the Berkman@10 conference at Harvard, an event that celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and also is looking at some of the key issues facing the Internet today. Jonathan Zittrain, a co-founder of the Center, just finished a talk on the future of the […]

It’s good to know that when our country is threatened that our lawmakers will jump into action to protect us, leveraging resources and spending money to form giant new bureaucracies and establish White House-level positions to combat this major threat. What is this threat that Congress has put such a high priority on? Is it […]

Small Web applications, or widgets, have become a kind of gateway tool for Web content creators who want to add simple graphical applications to their Web sites, blogs or social network pages. These tools let regular users with no or limited developer skills build mashup applications that combine rich media and popular Web-based services such […]