Jim Rapoza

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]