Jim Rapoza

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 […]

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 – […]

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 […]

Click here to download the Tech Rising podcast or click here to listen to it using the integrated eWEEK podcast player. Few technologies in recent years have inspired as much interest or discussion as the One Laptop Per Child’s effort to provide what has been called the $100 laptop to the developing world. When it […]

Click here to see photos of the XO laptopThe OLPC’s XO laptop eWEEK’s Emerging Technology Looks at the OLPC’s XO laptop See the XO’s Sugar Interface in Action. Get a first hand look at Sugar features such as the Mesh and see some of the applications bundled with the XO’s Linux-based operating system The Hardware […]