Jim Rapoza

Here are the emerging technology stories for the week of August 13th. New Airport Security Stratgies – Interesting look at some new technologies that will supposedly improve airport security screening. AMD to Ease Multicore Development – Since so many apps don’t take advantage of multicore processors it’s nice to see that AMD is trying to […]

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! What’s that? State governments, and government agencies in general, don’t tend to be generally fearless or forward thinking when it comes to innovative and […]

Click to view imageSageTV Mac Like many other people, when I first saw the Mac mini, one of my immediate thoughts was, “I bet that would make a great media center system.” However, while the Mac had great hardware for a media center, the software was pretty much lacking, especially when compared to the more […]

Click the image to see the listInnovative Technologies “You get what you pay for.” It’s an old saying, one that typically means that if something is free, then it probably isn’t worth much. But in the world of technology, the exact opposite is often the case. Over the last 20 years many of the most […]

Click here for our full special report on the XO Laptop, which includes additional information plus many photos of the XO and screenshots of the Sugar interface. When you first see the XO, the thought that immediately jumps to mind is “kids toy.” With its bright green color, built-in carrying handle, funny rabbit ears and […]

Here are the emerging technology stories for the week of August 6th. BitTorrent goes closed source – The company that makes the main client tools for the revolutionary file sharing platform has decided to move their latest versions to a closed source model. Older versions will remain open source but will be interesting to see […]

Today I had the opportunity to attend a panel at the National Conference of State Legislatures, which was being held in Boston. No, I’m not planning on running for state office. I attended this panel because it was about open document standards, and in particular ODF, the OpenDocument Format that has become a hot button […]

In recent months, an increasing number of technology analysts and pundits have started to sound the alarm that we are on the cusp of another technology bubble burst—in this case, the Web 2.0 bubble. If you expect me to disagree with these pundits, guess again. Of course another bubble burst is coming. All of this […]

In recent months more and more technology analysts and pundits have started to sound the alarm that we are on the cusp of another technology bubble bursting, in this case it being the Web 2.0 bubble burst, with the most recent alarm coming from PC Magazine’s John Dvorak. And if you expect me to disagree […]

As I’ve mentioned before, my love affair with RSS has been pretty short and not very sweet. After an initial phase where I loved subscribing to and reading multiple news feeds, I’ve taken to ignoring most of my different feed reading tools and now mainly browse only the sites I use on a regular basis […]

Jimmy Wales is taking on search giants such as Google with his open-source/community-based Search Wikia project In the last few years, many technology markets have felt the effect of open-source and community-based systems. From collaboration to Web services to social networking, the open-source and community-based systems have changed the expectations of users and the business […]

Here are the emerging technology stories for the week of July 30th. Microsoft Moves On Software Modeling – Microsoft has been talking about model driven architectures for application development for a long time. Still not sure if we’re that much closer. And from a security standpoint it still scares me. Super Efficient Solar Cells – […]