Jim Rapoza

Click here to see screenshotsIE 8 Beta 1 With the release this week of the first beta of Internet Explorer 8, we are finally getting a good look at the next step in Microsoft’s Web strategy. And we also can finally start to put the next generation of the Browser Wars into focus with a […]

It’s impossible to underestimate the impact that SOA, or service-oriented architectures, has had on enterprises and business integration. Whether or not a business has implemented a full-fledged SOA platform, there is still a very good chance that a large portion of their business and partner integration is based on core SOA technologies such as XML. […]

Click the image to see screenshotsLiquidPlanner “Bob, when can your team deliver the prototype of the new product?” “March 22,” says Bob. Bob’s response to this question is based on lots of hard information, from his knowledge of the task at hand to his experience with his team to performance on similar projects in the […]

eWEEK’s Emerging Technology Looks at Next-Generation Technologies in Project Management LiquidPlanner Helps Manage Project Uncertainty — LiquidPlanner is designed to take into account the changing aspect of project timelines and deliverables. Lunarr Turns a New Page for Task Collaboration — Though not really a project management product, Lunarr offers a radical new approach to task […]

Click here to see the screenshotsLunarr Have you ever walked into a meeting or presentation and been given a printed handout? And during the meeting, did you flip the handout over and start taking notes on the back of the document, maybe even passing it to a co-worker who added notes of his or her […]

While the Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo is still up in the air, that hasn’t stopped many from speculating on what will happen to the many Yahoo assets and applications if the company gets taken over by Microsoft. But to me the most interesting area of potential conflict is Yahoo’s Zimbra Collaboration Suite, which I recently […]

Click to see screenshotsZimbra Desktop The recent release of Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0 provides a look into the future of enterprise applications, as the Zimbra suite does an admirable job of combining the strengths of classic enterprise applications with the cutting-edge features that are now possible from Web 2.0 technologies. But most importantly, Zimbra is […]

Click here to see the screenshotsFirefox 3 Beta 3 With the release today of Beta 3 of Firefox 3, we are definitely getting closer to the final release of Mozilla’s open-source Web browser. But for a third beta, this version of Firefox 3 includes some fairly significant changes from the previous betas, including changes to […]

Here are the emerging technologies stories for the week of February 11th. More Android Sightings – At the World Mobile Congress in one of my favorite cities, Barcelona, there have been several interesting demos of the Google-based Android mobile operating system. Speeding up Secure Connections – Interesting white paper on research into improving the performance […]

There has been a lot of talk recently about how most computing usage will move into the Internet cloud. In this vision of the future of computing, people won’t even carry personal computers around, they’ll just access their data from any system that has access to the Internet. Now, for some people this may not […]

Click the image to see the slideshowOverhyped Tech In the world of technology, hype is like the sun. A little bit of hype can be a good thing, especially for emerging technologies, by bringing attention and light to unknown technologies and products and helping them grow. But like the sun, too much hype can be […]

A startup called Blist is aiming to bring improved usability and functionality to Web-based databases. Most people who have used Web-based office applications will readily admit that they don’t offer anywhere near the functionality or even ease of use of desktop office suites, but they do meet the most common everyday needs for these applications. […]