Jim Rapoza

When some people travel to a new country, they immerse themselves in the culture and live much as the locals do. However, other travelers try to make their new locale as much like back home as possible. And if it were a traveler, Apples beta of its Safari Web browser for Windows would definitely fit […]

Click the image to see the slide showTen Most Wanted Future Technologies Every day here at eWEEK’s Emerging Technology site we look at the newest and most disruptive technologies effecting the technology market today. And we’ve also taken some time to look back at past emerging technologies, including those that we deemed to be flops. […]

Everywhere you look, it seems as if more and more core applications are moving from the desktop to the Web, but for all the advantages of Web applications, this emerging class of software carries a major liability when compared with its desktop-bound brethren: Without the Web, theres no application. Enter Google Gears, a new tool […]

Can something that is really stupid be converted into something intelligent? With people, Im not so sure that can be done. The only example I can think of is in the television cartoon “Futurama,” where the dimwitted Fry eats a bad sandwich and is infected by parasites that improve his bodily system, making him smarter. […]

Click here to download the podcast or Click here to listen to it using the integrated eWEEK podcast player. In this Tech Rising podcast, the entire interview session between eWEEK Chief Technology Analyst Jim Rapoza and Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web and head of the World Wide Web Consortium. Berners-Lee goes into depth about […]

Finished editing really long podcast file, need to take a break. About 17 hours ago. Drove to band practice, listened to Minutemen CD in the car. “Tour spiel!” About 14 hours ago. Gotta write my column. But what to write about? Wait, I know! Less than 20 seconds ago. Well thats enough Twittering for now. […]

Click here to download the podcast or Click here to listen to it using the integrated eWEEK podcast player. In this Tech Rising podcast, eWEEK Chief Technology Analyst Jim Rapoza speaks to Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web and head of the World Wide Web Consortium, about the current status of the Semantic Web, the […]

Here are the emerging technology stories for the week of June 4th. Via Unveils ‘NanoBook’ Tiny Modular PC – Yet another micro-PC, though the price point looks to be much better than similar options. Talking paper made by scientists – Talking digital paper. I’m already in fear on how advertisers will decide to use that. […]

Click the image to see the slide showsemtool.JPG As is the case with many web technologies today, nearly every core piece of the Semantic Web is based on XML, from RDF to OWL to SPARQL. That means that, for the most part, all it takes to build things for the Semantic Web is a good […]

Click the image to see the slideshowGoogle Gears There’s no underestimating the current impact of web-based applications. Everywhere you look it seems as if more and more core applications are moving to the web from the desktop and the 800-pound gorilla in this whole shift is clearly Google. But there is one big weakness that […]