Jim Rapoza

Click here to see screenshotsMicrosoft Expression Studio Expression Studio is Microsoft’s competitor to Adobe’s Creative Suite, but in terms of features, functionality and maturity of tool sets, there’s really no competition: Adobe trounces the Microsoft design and Web development suite across the board. But just because Microsoft Expression Studio can’t currently take down the reigning […]

Recently, I had a meeting with a technology worker and we were discussing the state of the enterprise testing tools market. We remarked on how many of the major players, such as Mercury Interactive, had been acquired by large companies such as Hewlett-Packard. We also discussed the tough road that the few small independent testing […]

With the release of the videogame “Grand Theft Auto 4” we are starting to see a wave of media and politicians condemning the game as an amoral destroyer of our culture, and in many cases calling for a ban of the game. And aside from their hatred of the game and any game like it, […]

Click here to see screenshotsBrowsers & SaaS Yours is a typical modern company. You have sales and customer management systems, advanced project management tools, extensive network and system security infrastructures, collaboration tools, and a heavily customized enterprise content management system. What’s not so typical now–but will be in the near future–is that none of these […]

Click here to see the slideshowflopphases.jpg Get a group of people together to talk about technology and inevitably the conversation will turn to classic technology flops. Whether it was a technology that disappointed, failed to deliver or was just out-and-out hated, people like to talk about technologies that failed as much, or maybe even more, […]

When it comes to defending technology assets against malicious hackers and other bad guys, I’ve always been a firm believer in understanding and even using the tools and tactics of the enemy. In most cases, this means having familiarity and even a working knowledge of the tools and methods that are used to scan and […]

Click here to see screenshotsZoho CRM The recent release of Zoho CRM Enterprise Edition is a step toward making the software-as-a-service application a good choice for handling sales and customers for a business. A few of the key features added in this release include SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) security, the ability to manage access and […]

The Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society is about to celebrate its 10th anniversary. What, you don’t know about the Berkman Center? Well, if you don’t know about the Berkman Center itself, you almost certainly know about some of the major technology initiatives that have sprung from the center, such as Creative […]

Click here to see screenshotsWordPress 2.5 With the recent release of WordPress 2.5, the popular open-source blogging application has greatly improved its already good administration and blogging management interface and has made it much easier for bloggers to add widgets and do extensive customizations of their blogs. That’s right, the best blogging platform just got […]

There’s a saying in baseball circles that a good manager doesn’t win games, but a bad manager can lose games. The idea being that a good manager lays the groundwork to give the players the chance to win, but a bad manager’s poor decisions can lead directly to a loss. Whether you believe this or […]

Click here to see screenshotsRIAs There’s a war brewing on the Web today–a war to decide how Web applications and content will be developed and how users will consume the content of the future Web. But this isn’t the latest round in the browser wars. No, the war I’m talking about is over the RIA […]

Click here for screenshotsAdobe Media Player If I had to make a list of things that the Internet doesn’t need right now, more media players would be high on the list. So when I heard that Adobe had released their very own media player, I have to admit that I was pretty far from being […]