Jim Rapoza

IT managers and executives have a wide range of applications at their disposal to manage projects and figure out what projects need to be done. But what about figuring out the costs, resources and time that the project will require? Many of these capabilities are included in project management, portfolio management and budgeting products, but […]

Anyone who watches the VH1 show “Best Week Ever” knows that it basically follows the format of VH1s “I Love the 70s/80s/90s.” The latter consists of C- and D-list celebrities commenting (usually wryly) on a particular decade (“Remember He-Man? What was up with him?!”), while the former does the same, but for the most recent […]

Calling Firefox 1.5 a major new release is probably overstating things a bit, but the latest version of the popular open-source Web browser does have some fairly significant new features and improvements. Click here to read the full review of Firefox 1.5.

Once upon a time, the World Wide Web was all about the pages, back when HTML and good page design were the primary concerns. Then it became all about the applications, as Web developers moved to robust Web development languages and the powerful application servers that drove them. Nowadays, its all about the services. So […]

Little blurry things are infesting the Web. Youve seen them online if you shop, bank, travel, post comments to blogs or even just respond to e-mail. Im talking about those little bit-mapped images that show a blurred or distorted term and ask the user to type what they see into a text field. This technology […]

Everybody loves to search. I know I do my fair share of Web searching every day. And Im not alone. Search is, after all, the No. 2 activity on the Internet, according to a recent study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Web searching was just behind e-mailing on the list of top […]

Calling Firefox 1.5 a major new release is probably overstating things a bit, but the latest version of the popular open-source Web browser does have some fairly significant new features and improvements. Among the new features in Firefox 1.5, which was released by the Mozilla Foundation at the end of November, are improved privacy functionality, […]

I hope everyone out there had a great Thanksgiving, a holiday that has always been one of my favorites. I like Thanksgiving so much because it doesnt demand that we go out and buy gifts or flowers or candy or anything like that. Your main obligations are simply to make and consume a fantastic spread […]

Back in the Spring of 2003, I wrote a column discussing Microsofts Trusted Computing initiative (the name of which had just been changed from Palladium to Next-Generation Secure Computing Base). In that column, I talked about the need to be wary whenever Microsoft used the word “security” in conjunction with “trusted computing.” If one looked […]

I know they say you shouldnt do it, but for the last few weeks Ive been living in the past. And I have to say that, for the most part, Ive enjoyed it. Its been a lot of fun reading through old issues of PC Week and eWEEK, working with former mentors and colleagues, and, […]