Jim Rapoza

In the world of low-end content management, Ektron is king. For years now, the company has offered a wide assortment of affordable content management products that are perfectly geared toward easing the creation and management of simple informational Web sites and intranets. But the companys reach often extends outside these areas, and its eWebEditPro rich-text […]

Formerly known as Merant Collage (before Merant was acquired earlier this year by Serena), Serenas Collage 4.5 is an intriguing application that provides many of the benefits of lower-end products without sacrificing the features and scalability of higher-end systems. Click here to read the full review of Serenas Collage 4.5. 2 Formerly known as Merant […]

Interwoven has long been one of the leaders in Web content management, and its TeamSite product shows that wealth of experience. However, maturity is often accompanied by a lot of baggage: Vendors of enterprise applications have to weigh the value of adding new features and improving processes against the need and ability to maintain backward […]

In a May 2003 column, I advocated for the formation of an organized group that would speak for the needs of information workers and companies, as well as lobby against bad laws, policies and general technology ignorance. I received many positive responses to the column, which also generated some discussion on bulletin boards and in […]

When the Mozilla Foundation recently announced its one-year anniversary, I thought, “Wait a minute! Hasnt Mozilla been around for many years?” I then realized that the anniversary referred not to the Mozilla browser but to when the browser was freed from its corporate entanglements with Netscape/AOL and the Mozilla Foundation itself was formed as an […]

Getting Office documents published on the Web is usually a breeze. Word files can be saved directly as HTML, and PowerPoint presentations can be easily converted into online slide shows. But things arent that easy for Excel spreadsheets, which are typically converted into static and unsuitable tables or, worse, image files. This can be especially […]

Thunderstone Software LLCs release of its Thunderstone Search Appliance 5.0 last month makes it much easier for companies to deploy Thunderstone search technologies on their Web site or intranet. The 1U (1.75-inch) rack-mounted appliance provides plenty of power to index even very large sites quickly and uses powerful features to keep searches accurate and up-to-date. […]

Definitive Solutions BHODemon, a free utility that makes it possible to discover and remove Internet Explorer BHOs (Browser Helper Objects), got a lot of attention recently, after a Trojan was discovered that could steal information from online banking customers by secretly installing itself as an IE BHO. Several leading security organizations even recommended using BHODemon. […]

Like a lot of technology geeks, I like to build my own systems. Theres a real sense of satisfaction from using a system that youve built yourself, component by component. And aside from that sense of satisfaction and accomplishment, there are a lot of efficiencies and cost benefits that come from having a do-it-yourself computer […]

I dont know anything about biomedicine and biochemistry. Sure, I read about them in emerging-technology magazines and get a surface-level understanding of them—enough to get by in a conversation at a cocktail party. But when I talk to a friend of mine who really is a biochemist, I feel the same way some of my […]