Jim Rapoza

Click here for screenshotsMicrosoft Silverlight With the release today of Silverlight 1.0, Microsoft has taken its first serious step into the world of rich Internet applications and also its first step toward competing with Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash platform. However, when one looks at Silverlight, all the attention and hype seems to fade away with the […]

Click the image to see the listTop Web Developer Mistakes For most businesses today, the face that they show to customers, partners and the world, isn’t their CEO or founder or spokesperson, it’s their website. Often the first impression that a person will form about your company will come when they visit your website. Given […]

In the classic song “Radio Radio,” Elvis Costello sang the words, “They say you better listen to the voice of reason. But they don’t give you any choice because they think that it’s treason.” Of course that song is nearly thirty years old so I doubt that Elvis Costello and the Attractions were talking about […]

As the Web was born and grew in importance in the early 1990’s, it immediately changed the way the world connected, communicated and gained knowledge. And while the Web has had a major impact on all aspects of society, it has had a very large effect on businesses. Pretty much from the launch of the […]

Here are the emerging technology stories for the week of August 27th. No Muni WiFi for Chicago – The dream of cities offering WiFi Internet service to citizens took another hit as Chicago just announced that they are stepping back from their own Muni WiFi plans. Super Aerogels – Interesting little Wired post on the […]

Five Steps to Next -Generation Web Applications”> As the Web was born and grew in importance in the early 1990s, it immediately changed the way the world connected, communicated and gained knowledge. And while the Web has had a major impact on all aspects of society, it has had an especially big effect on businesses. […]

Today, I come to give praise and honor to a group that is fearless in its abilities to choose and deploy cutting-edge technologies. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you state governments! Whats that? State governments dont tend to be fearless when it comes to innovative technologies? They tend to deal with layers of bureaucracy that […]

Click here for screenshotsGoogle Sky While I never got the full-on amateur astronomist bug, as a kid I was always fascinated by the stars, the planets and space in general. And if Google Sky, the new addition to the free Google Earth application, had existed back then, it might have been impossible for my parents […]

Zoho Writer OfflineThe move to enable Web applications and services with offline capabilities continues with the Aug. 21 release of an updated version of Zoho Writer that includes offline support. Probably the most interesting thing about this release is that Zoho is using the Google Gears beta (which I wrote about in the post “Google […]

Here are the emerging technology stories for the week of August 20th. Collective Search Is Next Focus, Ask.com CEO Says – The idea of collective search isn’t a bad one, though not sure if Ask.com will be able to pull it off. Silicon Nanoparticles Enhance Performance Of Solar Cells – There’s been lots of news […]

Click here to download the Tech Rising podcast or click here to listen to it using the integrated eWEEK podcast player. Emerging technologies can have a dramatic effect on many aspects of society, from how business gets done to how people interact with each other. But what about one of the most important issues of […]

Are e-mail attachments the bane of your existence? Do you hate having to download files from e-mail in order to view them? Do you lack the necessary applications to view some files? If you answered yes to any of these questions then Zoho, the maker of a popular suite of Web-based office applications, thinks it […]