Jim Rapoza

A commonly quoted statistic, based on various usability studies, is that the majority of people tend to use only 5 percent of an office suite’s capabilities. Vendors offering products that compete with Microsoft Office are especially quick to jump on this “common wisdom,” with the reasoning being something like, “If we can do that 5 […]

Click here to download the Tech Rising podcast or click here to listen to it using the integrated eWEEK podcast player. Most people don’t think too much about the format that they are saving documents in, that is, until they receive a document that they can’t open or they send one that the recipient can’t […]

In the world of the Batman comics, one of the more interesting villains that the Caped Crusader has to contend with is Two-Face. You see, Two-Face wasn’t always a bad guy. He was originally Batman ally and Gotham District Attorney Harvey Dent, but after a criminal disfigures half his face with a vial of acid, […]

Pretty much everyone in the security world agrees that two-factor authentication is the way to go when it comes to protecting access to corporate resources such as VPNs, Web mail, and sensitive Web applications and data. Basing access on something a user knows (such as a user name and password) and something the user has […]

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. […]