Jim Rapoza

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 […]

As someone who mainly goes to technology conferences focused on traditional software and hardware, I found the recent CTIA show was a good reminder of how different the mobile world is from the PC and server world, especially when it comes to applications. For example, say I go to a traditional PC software show, such […]

To most people in the technology community “hacker” is a dirty word. Say hacker and most people instantly think of bad guys spreading viruses or breaking into corporate systems and stealing data. Of course this is completely wrong. In fact, hacker should be a term of respect. But even more importantly, you should be careful […]

Click here for large imagePhotoshop Express With the release this week of the beta of Photoshop Express, many amateur photographers will be excited about the possibility of having access to a free, Web-based version of the powerful and popular photo-editing tool from Adobe. But once they try the beta they may find themselves a little […]

Click here for screenshotFacebook Privacy While I was an early adopter of many social networks, over the last year I’ve found myself using them less and less, and this has applied especially to Facebook. One of the big problems I’ve run into with Facebook is that, while my early use was pretty much limited to […]