Jim Rapoza

One of the big announcements out of this week’s Lotusphere show was about how IBM’s Lotus division is now adding social networking capabilities. Wow, this is big news! So now Lotus is joining the Web 2.0, or more specifically, Enterprise 2.0, wave and adding the most hyped capabilities of the day, which on top of […]

When a product attempts to combine the functionality of many applications into one overarching platform, its inevitable that clichés about kitchen sinks and Swiss Army knives will emerge. And youll usually hear that these products can do many things but no one thing well. With Microsofts Office SharePoint Server 2007, many of the Swiss Army […]

Im a dog person, and throughout my entire life, its been mutts—from the dogs my family had when I was a kid to the two dogs that are now part of my family. Which has been just fine by me. Now, I understand the arguments that proponents of purebred dogs typically put forth: that there […]

Boy, you really have to hand it to Digital Rights Management. Has any security measure ever been this effective? No wonder the pirates are all running away with their tails between their legs. Oh wait, that’s not what’s happening at all. It actually seems as if each new DRM and anti-piracy measure gets cracked by […]

In todays Web 2.0 world, learning how to hand-code an RSS file can often seem as necessary as learning how to create and edit the code behind a PDF document. Thats because businesses that want to use RSS will quickly find there are a whole host of applications happy to automatically create RSS feeds of […]

When a product attempts to combine the functionality of many applications into one overarching platform, its inevitable that clichés about kitchen sinks and Swiss Army knives will pop up. And youll usually hear that these products can do many things but no one thing well. With Microsofts Office SharePoint Server 2007, many of the Swiss […]

Sixteen years ago technology luminaries Mitch Kapor, John Gilmore and John Perry Barlow met on the Well and decided to form a new group dedicated to protecting technology freedoms against misguided federal laws and massive corporations determined to protect their aging business models against the incursions of progress. The group that they founded was the […]

When a person departs from a company, its inevitable that he or she will leave something behind. When that person is an IT worker, whats left behind is a lot more than tchotchkes and forgotten lunches in the break-room refrigerator. Often, a part of departed IT workers continues working at their old companies. Maybe its […]

Lost in the commotion surrounding the arrival of Microsofts Windows Vista and Office 2007 was the release of a product that may end up being more important than either of those two platforms, especially on the enterprise side: SharePoint Server 2007. Microsoft considers SharePoint Server 2007 a component of Office, but its actually much more. […]

I can bend time and space!” said the funny Japanese man who suddenly appeared seemingly out of nowhere. “Whoa,” I said. “Who are you, and where did you come from?” “Oh, Im a hero, and I have traveled to you from one year in the future.” “Wait a second. I know you—youre from that new […]

I recently attended a conference in Boston that was titled “Software Patents: A Time For Change?” I found it to be an extremely informative and engaging conference, full of diverse opinions representing some of the top minds in technology, academia, patent law and business. Somewhat interesting, though, is that the entire conference could be broken […]

On Dec. 4, Microsoft released Expression Web, a robust Web design tool and part of the Expression Suite. Also released at that time was a beta of Expression Blend, an application originally announced under the code name Sparkle and later called Interactive Designer. Whatever the moniker, the app was touted by some in the technology […]