Jim Rapoza

Typically, an external hard drive wouldnt qualify as an emerging technology, nor would adding the capability to move files and personal settings from that external drive to other computers transform the device into something new enough to merit that designation. However, the Seagate Technologys FreeAgent Go drive adds a new twist that intrigued us enough […]

Click the image to see the slide showScratch Do you want to teach kids how to program or do you want them to learn how to build graphically rich dynamic applications, simulations, games and animations? If you chose the first option, then Scratch, from the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab may not […]

Click the image to see the slide showThe Alienware MJ-12 8550i Workstation 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 same gaming expertise and applies it to the creation of very powerful workstation […]

Click the image to see the slide showSeagate’s FreeAgents Typically an external hard drive wouldn’t qualify as an emerging technology. And even when one adds the ability to use an external USB drive to move files and some personal settings to other computers, it hardly transforms an external drive into something new. But the Seagate […]

If you have a friend, family member or colleague who is a brilliant scientist, researcher or developer, there is a good chance that youve seen the interesting dichotomy that is sometimes true for these brilliant minds. That is, it isnt uncommon for these geniuses to be super-smart in their specific field of knowledge but hopelessly […]

Whether it is called on demand, software as a service or application service provider, the ability for businesses to purchase and deploy complex enterprise applications through hosted services has greatly eased the burden of managing and running these often complex systems. And just as on-demand services have taken over the world of CRM (customer relationship […]

Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend a unique symposium held by the MIT Media Lab. The title of the symposium was h2.0, but it had nothing to do with water. That’s because the “h” stands for humans. Right off the bat I knew this would be different than many other MIT events that I […]

Every Wednesday here at eWEEK’s Emerging Technology we’ll provide links and insights into the latest news that’s breaking anywhere about new technologies and products. Here are the emerging technology stories for the week of May 7th. Sun Tries to Outshine Silverlight, Flash; Targets Mobile – You could make a good argument that Java was the […]

When it comes to information technology workers, there’s one thing we definitely need to survive. And that’s new emerging technologies. For IT, emerging technologies are our food, our Sun, air, water, you name it. Without new and disruptive technologies we would truly have the boring, never changing jobs that the “IT doesn’t matter” types have […]

How does one define emerging technologies? Are they simply technologies that are new? Does it include products and tools that enhance and alter established technologies? To be an emerging technology does a technology need to be innovative and ground-breaking? The answer is of course, yes (for all of these questions), and that would be true […]