Jim Rapoza

High-end PC maker Alienware is probably best known as a producer of screamingly fast gaming machines. However, the company also has a more businesslike side that takes much of this gaming expertise and applies it to the creation of powerful workstation systems for tasks such as CAD, extreme data crunching and high-end graphics. One of […]

Click the image to see the examplesjoostsmall.jpg Descriptions and discussions about the Semantic Web can quickly get very esoteric, leaving even the Web technology savvy often feeling lost and confused. And that’s before the many tongue-twisting acronyms and words like ontology start to get thrown around. That’s why when it comes to the Semantic Web […]

Here are the emerging technology stories for the week of May 28th. Microsoft Skims the Marketing Surface – OK, I have to admit that when I saw the video of Gates demoing the Microsoft Surface, all I could think of was all the times as a young man that I played Pac-Man on a table […]

eWEEK’s Emerging Technology Looks at the Semantic Web Semantic Web Technology Gains Steam – eWEEK Labs tests out tools for building the Semantic Web Using the Semantic Web in the Real World – A visual look at several real-world deployments of Semantic Web technology and how they compare to current methods Podcast: The Challenges of […]

Check out eWEEKs full report on the Semantic Web, including an interview with Tim Berners-Lee and real-world examples of Semantic Web technologies, at eWEEKs Emerging Technology site. 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. This […]

Click here to listen to the podcast Tech Rising is a new eWEEK podcast that delves into emerging technologies and their impact on businesses and workers today. In this podcast, eWEEK’s Chief Technology Analyst Jim Rapoza speaks to Valerie Williamson of The Electric Sheep Company, a firm that helps companies create a business environment in […]

In Neal Stephensons seminal 1992 cyberpunk novel “Snow Crash,” Hiro Protagonist, the, uh, protagonist of the story, is a struggling pizza delivery guy. He is also a well-known, powerful celebrity with killer samurai sword capabilities. How is he both of these things at the same time? Easy. In the real world, Hiro is a pizza […]

When news came out that Microsoft was claiming that open-source technologies violate 235 Microsoft patents, it sparked a predictable firestorm of responses. Most of these, both here at eWEEK and across the Web, have correctly identified this as a classic Microsoft campaign of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt). Points have also been made about the […]

Last night 60 Minutes aired a story on Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child project, source of the famous $100 laptop. An interesting aspect of the story was the focus on some of the tactics that Intel is using to promote its similar product, the Classmate PC. Similarly to the OLPC’s $100 laptop, the Classmate […]

Over at our Ziff Davis sibling site Extreme Tech, Loyd Case has done an interesting review of a new terabyte hard drive. That’s right, it’s a regular hard drive that holds one terabyte (or 1,000 gigabytes if you prefer to look at it that way. And I thought I was cool for recently picking up […]