Jim Rapoza

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 […]

Click the image to see screenshots of Search Wikia in actionSearch Wikia Logo Just what the world needs, another search engine. Well, come to think of it, maybe that’s exactly what the world needs. Face it, there hasn’t been a whole lot of innovation and change going on in the search world for the last […]

Here are the emerging technology stories for the week of January 7th. Presentations Everywhere – One upping last week’s news about an iPod sized projector, 3M is demoing an LED projector that fits inside of mobile phones. We’re All Backseat Drivers – Lots of people have been reporting on the driverless cars being demoed at […]

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 target. In […]

The calendar has switched over to 2008 and so far it has been anything but a happy new year for the One Laptop Per Child Project. First, OLPC Chief Technology Officer (and the first employee of the OLPC) Mary Lou Jepsen announced that she was stepping down as CTO in order to start a new […]

Internet Explorer 8 is coming! Yay! And it will be standards compliant! Woo hoo! I can’t wait to get my hands on it! But just when will that be? Looks like there will be an initial beta sometime in the first half of 2008 (which probably means May or June). Okay, so I guess I […]

The calendar has switched over to 2008 and so far it has been anything but a happy new year for the One Laptop Per Child Project. First, OLPC Chief Technology Officer (and the first employee of the OLPC) Mary Lou Jepsen announced that she was stepping down as CTO in order to start a new […]

Here are the emerging technology stories for the week of December 31st. Lots of Laptop Storage – Following on a recent announcement from Hitachi about new 500Gbyte laptop hard-drives, Asus recently announced that they will be releasing a laptop using two of these drives to provide a terabyte of disk space. Pocket Presentations – A […]

The Legacy of the Netscape Browser Web cookies have often been derided as invaders of Web surfers’ privacy, but this Netscape technology made it possible for sites to track visitor movements and helped enable key e-commerce capabilities such as shopping carts. The Legacy of the Netscape Browser – Easy Web Editing For many early Web […]