Jim Rapoza

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 […]

The Mozilla Foundation recently released the first alpha of Firefox 3.0, and when people refer to this release of the browser as a developer version, they arent kidding. In fact, the only difference that a regular Firefox user will notice between this alpha and the current shipping version of Firefox 2.0 is that the top […]

In the wake of the massive releases of Microsoft Windows Vista and Office 2007, it will be easy for people to overlook the release of a Microsoft product with an unfamiliar name. But in the modern world, where Web applications and service-oriented architectures are becoming as important—or even more important—than desktop-based products, the release of […]

Along with the release Dec. 4 of Expression Web, Microsoft is also releasing a beta of another component of the Expression Suite. Called Expression Blend, the application was originally announced under the code name “Sparkle” and then was called Interactive Designer and was widely touted by some in the technology community to be a Flash-killer. […]

Ten months ago: Finally, a bit of free time. Is there anything I can do to save time for later on? I know! A new version of Microsoft Office is due out at the end of the year. Since nothing is ever truly new in Office, I can pull lines from my past Office columns […]