Jim Rapoza

Click the image to see the listioDrive Over the years new products launched at the DEMO show have gone on to become huge sensations that changed the way people used technology (some of the hits have included Tivo, the Palm Pilot and Salesforce.com). Of course, the hits at DEMO have been greatly outnumbered by the […]

Read eWEEK’s case study on how the city of Albuquerque integrated search and BI to improve their information management eWEEK’s Jim Rapoza takes an in-depth look at the growing integration between business intelligence and search products. Click here to download the Tech Rising podcast or click here to listen to it using the integrated eWEEK […]

Everybody loves lists. Magazines love lists; TV shows love lists; Web sites really like lists. But possibly no one loves lists more than security vendors. When you break down a lot of the core elements of security products, it often comes down to big lists. Lists of known viruses and spyware, lists of vulnerabilities, lists […]

For more on eWEEK’s look at the integration of search and business intelligence, read Search and BI Make a Great Team. Listen to the Tech Rising podcast as Jim Rapoza talks to Brian Osterloh and Chris Framel, of the city of Albuquerque, about the city’s project to combine business intelligence with search. Most businesses think […]

Click to see screenshotsSearch and BIRead eWEEK’s case study on how the city of Albuquerque integrated search and BI to improve their information management. Listen to the Tech Rising podcast as Jim Rapoza talks to Brian Osterloh and Chris Framel, of the city of Albuquerque, about the city’s project to combine business intelligence with search. […]

Click here to download the Tech Rising podcast or click here to listen to it using the integrated eWEEK podcast player. When conversations turn to exciting emerging technologies, one of the last topics that people will expect to come up is toner. When most people think of toner, they think of messy black powder. However, […]

Now that the U.S. Congress is in session, we are once again seeing a push by the major technology companies to get an expansion to the H-1B visa program. As always, we are hearing the same complaint that America isn’t producing enough qualified engineers and computer scientists to fill the needs of major American companies. […]

I usually get a little suspicious when the term HD, or high-definition, starts getting tossed around. Sometimes it merits the term by truly providing a superior experience over older alternatives. But sometimes it seems like HD gets attached to an older technology mainly because the vendors of that technology are afraid that people don’t really […]

A commonly quoted statistic, based on various usability studies, is that the majority of people tend to use only 5 percent of an office suite’s capabilities. Vendors offering products that compete with Microsoft Office are especially quick to jump on this “common wisdom,” with the reasoning being something like, “If we can do that 5 […]

Click here to download the Tech Rising podcast or click here to listen to it using the integrated eWEEK podcast player. Most people don’t think too much about the format that they are saving documents in, that is, until they receive a document that they can’t open or they send one that the recipient can’t […]

In the world of the Batman comics, one of the more interesting villains that the Caped Crusader has to contend with is Two-Face. You see, Two-Face wasn’t always a bad guy. He was originally Batman ally and Gotham District Attorney Harvey Dent, but after a criminal disfigures half his face with a vial of acid, […]

Pretty much everyone in the security world agrees that two-factor authentication is the way to go when it comes to protecting access to corporate resources such as VPNs, Web mail, and sensitive Web applications and data. Basing access on something a user knows (such as a user name and password) and something the user has […]