Jim Rapoza

UPDATED 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 […]

There are plenty of shortages of things in the world today. Right now parents are out there desperately trying to get their hands on the hot gifts like the Nintendo Wii. But there is one thing that we (unfortunately) aren’t running out of. And that’s people who don’t put any thought into how they use […]

With the release this week of the second beta version of Firefox 3, one thing is certain: We definitely won’t see an official release of the latest version of the open-source browser from Mozilla in 2007. But from my tests of this second beta, it does look like we are getting awfully close to a […]

If you’re looking for the download of the calendar of 12 Ways to Be A Security Idiot, I’m still waiting on the final approved copy from our production department. I’ve been told it should be ready no later than Wednesday morning. Sorry for the delay.

All things considered, from a strict technology aspect, 2007 was a pretty good year. We saw the launch of several very good products and technologies and, while there were some negatives, they were outweighed by the positives. However, there were still plenty of negative forces out there trying to slow or even stop some technology […]

Click here to download the Tech Rising podcast or click here to listen to it using the integrated eWEEK podcast player. Over the course of this year, virtual worlds got a lot of attention. More than a few businesses spent serious money trying to build presences in virtual worlds such as Second Life. But most […]

Here are the emerging technology stories for the week of December 10th. Facebook Apps Running on Other Sites – Social networking site Facebook continues to open up development options on their platform with the latest moves making it possible to run applications designed for Facebook on external websites. New Intel Chips to do WiMax – […]

There are lots of things that people like to do on the Internet; read news and blogs, watch videos, shop, you name it. But the one activity that people do more than almost anything else is search. You need to use a search engine to find most of the content that you’re interested in. But […]

All things considered, from a strict technology aspect, 2007 was a pretty good year. We saw the launch of several very good products and technologies and, while there were some negatives, they were outweighed by the positives. However, there were still plenty of negative forces out there trying to slow or even stop some technology […]

One of the many interesting and simultaneously confusing things about Windows Vista is that more than a few features and capabilities of the Microsoft operating system are designed for hardware and systems that didn’t exist when Vista was launched. One such feature that users probably run across and wonder, “what’s that for?” is the Connect […]