Jim Rapoza

When the announcement came down a few years ago that Adobe Systems was acquiring Macromedia, many questions centered on the competing and complementary products in each companys portfolio. How would the two major suites be combined? Would some products be merged into single products? And would other products be discontinued completely? Finally, with the release […]

Ding dong! The witch is dead! Digital Rights Management has taken shot after shot, and the recent agreement between Apple and EMI is the killing blow. Like a villain in an old-time western, DRM is down on one knee, saying, “You got me, marshall.” Or maybe not. Come to think of it, DRM is actually […]

Recently, I’ve been playing around with a new extension to Firefox called The Coop. Scratch that. I can’t really call it a new extension. I can’t even call it beta or alpha. What I have on my Firefox browser is a prototype of Coop that I loaded from the bleeding-edge sandbox area of Mozilla add-ons. […]

I recently attended a special media day at the IBM Research Labs. The point of the day was to showcase some of the new technologies being worked on at their labs both in products that are nearing releases and in new technologies that aren’t that close to showing up in products. Along with researchers from […]

Tomorrow, March 24, is Shutdown Day. Just what is Shutdown Day? Well, to put it simply, Shutdown Day is an experiment to see how many people will agree to not use a computer for one whole day, and what, if any effects will be seen by this initiative. As of 1:30 EST on the 23rd, […]

Im weak. Weak, weak, weak. Im a sucker whos been played like a fiddle by savvy advertising types. Sure, I like to think that Im this über-savvy technologist who is immune to the tactics that can make people run out and buy things that they wouldnt have if they had never been exposed to the […]

There are bugs, malware and evildoers out there trying to take over your systems and steal your vital corporate data. Its your job to keep these systems healthy and protected against these threats that are trying to bring them down. To fight against these problems, you employ the most cutting-edge security tools and products, such […]

There are bugs, malware and evildoers out there trying to take over your systems and steal your vital corporate data. Its your job to keep these systems healthy and protected against these threats that are trying to bring them down. To fight against these problems, you employ the most cutting-edge security tools and products, such […]

A week ago I reviewed the new FlipStart micro-PC from the Paul Allen-backed FlipStart Labs. In that review, while I found the FlipStart to be cool, I was pretty down on it both for its high price (just about $2,000) and its size and clunkiness. But I have till the end of the month before […]

In 2002 the Mozilla Foundation released Mozilla 1.0, finally delivering on the promise of an open-source browser descended from the original Netscape Navigator browser code. But while Mozilla 1.0 received many kudos from reviewers (including eWEEK Labs), it failed to make much of a dent in the 96 percent market share that Microsofts Internet Explorer […]