Jim Rapoza

Click to see screenshotsZoneAlarm ForceField An often-discussed technique for protecting systems from Internet-based malware is the concept of a sandbox. In the sandbox model, Web-based applications run in a protected shell that prevents them from accessing operating system resources and from adding programs or making changes to the host system. While it isn’t a perfect […]

If you pay any attention whatsoever to technology issues, than you know that the United States has a serious problem when it comes to broadband. Compared with most other countries, we in the States have fewer options, pay more and get slower connections when it comes to broadband. However, the discussions about the failures of […]

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 […]