This Week In Emerging Technology – August 9th

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Jim Rapoza
Jim Rapoza
Published: Aug 9, 2007
Updated: Feb 2, 2021
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Here are the emerging technology stories for the week of August 6th.

BitTorrent goes closed source – The company that makes the main client tools for the revolutionary file sharing platform has decided to move their latest versions to a closed source model. Older versions will remain open source but will be interesting to see what effects this has on the community.

Second Life Banking Crisis – The virtual world of Second Life is seeing a very real problem with users making a run on the banking systems in the virtual world. Interesting as an experiement. Almost looks like old school banking crises from a hundred years ago.

DARPATech Roundup – This Wired blog has a nice link roundup of stories from the DARPATech conference. News includes everything from war robots to healing systems.

Jim Rapoza

Jim Rapoza

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Jim Rapoza, Chief Technology Analyst, eWEEK.For nearly fifteen years, Jim Rapoza has evaluated products and technologies in almost every technology category for eWEEK. Mr Rapoza's current technology focus is on all categories of emerging information technology though he continues to focus on core technology areas that include: content management systems, portal applications, Web publishing tools and security. Mr. Rapoza has coordinated several evaluations at enterprise organizations, including USA Today and The Prudential, to measure the capability of products and services under real-world conditions and against real-world criteria. Jim Rapoza's award-winning weekly column, Tech Directions, delves into all areas of technologies and the challenges of managing and deploying technology today.

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