Jim Rapoza

As prices for DVD burners have dropped through the floor and compelling features such as dual-layer recording (which can store as much as 8.5GB on a single DVD) have become available, many people are taking the plunge and adding these burners to their systems. If, like eWEEK Labs, you decide to take advantage of low […]

I have some very important information about a major security problem that could hit the Internet soon. If I were to give you this information, you would be able to protect yourself and your company from falling victim to this problem. Now, Im completely willing to provide this information—eventually. However, Ive realized that, on the […]

As the National Football League season was set to get under way, the defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots were basking in overwhelmingly favorable coverage, with many pundits and experts claiming that this years team is even better than last years and predicting that the Pats will repeat as league champion. Patriots Coach Bill […]

When it comes to managing a company Web site or intranet, the choices can be daunting and confusing for businesses, which must choose from a wide range of Web content management options or opt for standard Web development and authoring tools. Click here to read the full review of Macromedias Web Publishing System. 2 When […]

In my Aug. 23 column, I stated that Windows XP Service Pack 2 was improving security for only 10 percent of Windows users while leaving the vast majority out in the cold. I urged Microsoft to step up and serve the majority of its users, as well as improve overall Internet security, by offering a […]

In my review last year of Tenon Intersystems iTools 7 for Mac OS X, I found the product had some value for Mac OS X users, with its ability to ease management of the Apache Web server and its inclusion of useful server add-ons such as DNS, an e-mail server, an FTP server and secure […]

In eWEEK Labs—as in any IT environment where systems need to be constantly copied, upgraded and repaired—any tool that makes these tasks easier is greatly appreciated. Recently, when attempting to resize partitions on a Labs system and not being able to find any of our commercial products for doing so, I came across SystemRescueCD, a […]

In some of my previous columns, I was hard on enterprise software vendors, bashing them for everything from poorly designed, bug-ridden code to unfair licensing contracts and activation schemes to misleading pricing plans. But theres a new development for which Id like to praise some of these vendors. Im talking about the increasing availability of […]

Art Technology Group Inc.s ATG Commerce 6.4 may not be the first name that comes to mind when thinking of high-end e-commerce platforms, but the product provides all the capabilities required to operate any companys online commerce presence—whether its for business-to-business needs or business-to-consumer tasks or for both categories. Click here to read the full […]

The recent release of Netscape 7.2 contains some welcome improvements that will please users who prefer the Netscape browser. The latest Netscape browser is based on the Mozilla browser suite. The Netscape and Mozilla browsers are nearly identical in many respects. /zimages/5/28571.gifClick here to read eWEEK Labs Mozilla review. However, there are differences in Netscape […]

IT security. Could there be a better field to be in? I mean, do IT security problems ever stop? In recent weeks, weve seen a report stating that it takes more time to patch a system than it does for a system to become infected with a worm or virus; seemingly impenetrable encryption systems have […]

With the release of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, Microsoft has taken a significant step toward removing the security holes and insecure configurations that have made Windows such an easy target for malicious hackers and scammers—but only for 10 percent of Windows users. /zimages/4/28571.gifClick here to read eWEEK Labs review of Service Pack 2. […]