Jim Rapoza

Although document and content management applications maintained a high profile last year, the market saw a lot of change, with several mergers and acquisitions among vendors. In large part, this was in answer to enterprises demand for interoperability among document, content and digital rights management systems. The products in this category also reflect an acknowledgment […]

Data cant be stolen from a network that no one can access. Thats the absurd principle that many IT managers are following when they install wireless networks. On the one hand, they want to bring wireless ease of access to employees, partners and clients. On the other hand, they face such strict security requirements for […]

Once, authentication simply meant controlling user access to company networks; then it changed to include resources on Web sites, portals and intranets; now it can include authentication into Web services and wireless networking devices. With this much change, excellence can mean doing all these things well or doing one of these things very well. WINNER […]

Portals and knowledge management systems have proved their worth to enterprises through their ability to find and centralize all the important applications, data stores and knowledge within an organization. The focus of portals and knowledge management systems has, until recently, been on finding and centralizing knowledge an organization knew it had. The welcome trend now—and […]

Not surprisingly for an application that is intended mainly as a development platform, the Mozilla Web browser continues its seemingly constant upgrade cycle. Version 1.3 of the browser gains many useful new features, including some effective anti-spam features in the mail client. Other new features in Mozilla 1.3, which was released by The Mozilla Organization […]

In the world of search technologies, theres usually a world of difference between desktop search tools and powerful search engines. DtSearchs dtSearch 6.0 bridges that gap with a suite of products that provide advanced desktop search tools and powerful Web-based engines for searching across lots of data. I found dtSearch Developer 6.0—which includes the Desktop […]

As many Mozilla users know, the Mozilla Organization states that the open-source browser is a developers tool, not an end-user application. Because of this, several side projects are under way to create end-user browsers that employ Mozillas Gecko browser engine. One that recently underwent a name change is the Camino browser (formerly Chimera). Camino, which […]

Not surprisingly for an application that is intended mainly as a development platform, the Mozilla Web browser continues its seemingly constant upgrade cycle. Version 1.3 of the browser adds many useful new features, including some effective anti-spam features in the mail client. Other new features in Mozilla 1.3, which was released by the Mozilla Organization […]

It seems that nothing—not even war—is sacred to IT vendors looking for a new hook on which to hang their products. During the past few days, Ive received several product pitches that use the conflict with Iraq for leverage. These pitches, not surprisingly, include several from security firms warning about potential cyber attacks. I guess […]

With the release of FreeHand MX last month, Macromedia completed the upgrade of its product line to the new MX platform and has the best-integrated development, authoring and graphics-building products Ive seen in quite a while. Of course, FreeHand MX is a stand-alone product in its own right and is a very good vector graphics […]

New peer-to-peer technology called Six/Four System will raise anonymous Internet use higher on the list of security concerns for enterprise IT managers. eWeek Labs evaluated a beta version of the developers edition of Six/Four, released last week by Hacktivismo, an offshoot of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker group. Hacktivismo, which is dedicated to […]

The Six/Four System is peer-to-peer technology that makes it possible to carry out almost any Internet activity securely and—more importantly, for all sorts of reasons—anonymously. The Hacktivismo system, or anything based on it, just may become the Internets next killer app. Many who will be affected by Six/Four might use the term “killer” in another […]