Jim Rapoza

Here are the emerging technology stories for the week of February 4th. The State of the FCC Spectrum Auction – Here’s an update on the wireless airwave auction that the FCC is carrying out right now. This thing can’t end soon enough for me. Body Powered Chips – Very interesting article about MIT research into […]

Click here to download the Tech Rising podcast or click here to listen to it using the integrated eWEEK podcast player. While emerging technologies can come from anywhere, one event that has seen its fair share of new products and technologies emerge is the DEMO conference. Over the year everything from the Palm PDA to […]

Another broad and obvious patent rears its ugly head, with every major new smart phone, including Apple’s iPhone, facing lawsuits from the patent holding company. In recent months there has been a lot of talk about patent reform. And on top of that last year saw a major Supreme Court decision that clearly should make […]

Speech recognition technology has made advances in the past few years, but has that growth been enough to call it a success? Early last year I launched the eWEEK Emerging Technology site with a list of 10 emerging technologies that flopped. While the list included some technologies that no one argued with–hi there, Microsoft Bob […]

Click here to see more photosRobot vision Robotics technology has seen some impressive improvements in recent years, whether it was in cars that (sort of) drive themselves or in advanced remote-controlled robots deployed in military and emergency situations. But whether it was an advanced AI-controlled vehicle moving through the desert in the DARPA Challenge or […]

10 Years of Mozilla 10 Years of MozillaThis week marks the 10th anniversary of the Mozilla browser, the most successful open-source product created from a previous commercial product. For this anniversary, we’re taking a look back at some of the key moments in Mozilla’s history.By Jim Rapoza 10 Years of Mozilla – Netscape Goes Open […]

This week the World Wide Web Consortium released the first working draft of the HTML 5 standard. Of course this has received lots of attention because, well, it’s the next version of HTML, which is for many people the core standard of the World Wide Web. And this release of the working draft of HTML […]

At an MIT event the director and star of the film Jumper team up with physicists to discuss the science and fiction of teleportation. Most people understand that MIT is not your average place. But at a special media panel held there last night some of the differences really stood out. After all, there aren’t […]

Many IT departments have probably started to feel comfortable with the Web 2.0 technologies they have deployed within their businesses. Finally, they’ve figured out how to effectively implement, manage and use tools such as blogs, wikis and rich application development platforms within their company’s Web infrastructure. But they shouldn’t get too comfortable: Social networking, a […]

Making predictions is always a tough racket, I know that I have more than my fair share of prognostications that after a couple of years pass end up being way off the mark. But there is one prediction that I made a couple of years ago that is looking to be right on the target. […]

After the recent CES show more and more pundits and analysts are predicting that 2008 will be a big year for solid state of flash drives. And it’s hard to argue with these predictions. Just look at some of the biggest products announced or released in the last few months. Both the OLPC’s XO laptop […]

While the main release from Mozilla that most people are expecting is the Firefox 3.0 Web browser, there are groups within Mozilla that are already working on the next generation of Web browsing tools and capabilities. One interesting project being worked on by the labs at Mozilla is called Weave. What is Weave? It seems […]