Jim Rapoza

Jim Rapozas 12 Ways to Be A Security Idiot illustrated by Brian Moore Jim Rapozas 12 Ways to Be A Security Idiot – Come On In That stupid firewall thing is so annoying. Its constantly making it hard to use important software, like online games and file-sharing networks. Life is so much easier with the […]

Jim Rapoza Picks the Top Web Technologies of All Time XML While HTML was the core of the original Web, XML is the present and the future. Everything from Web services to Web 2.0 to the semantic Web is based on an XML core. Jim Rapoza Picks the Top Web Technologies of All Time HTML […]

MIT Energy Conference The MIT Energy Conference provides a first look at many new technologies-such as this pluggable hybrid-aimed at cutting energy costs and providing greener alternatives to current power technologies. MIT Energy Conference – New Breed of Battery A123 Systems uses nanoscale technology to create highly efficient and green lithium-ion batteries that have very […]

eWEEK Labs: Jim Rapoza’s Top Five Web Application Developments of the Year Maintaining its tradition as the most innovative Web browser of recent years, Opera 9 has once again set the bar high when it comes to new capabilities and improving and extending the experience of using the Web and the Internet. eWEEK Labs: Jim […]

Jim Rapoza Names the Worst Tech-Related Bills of All Time Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Ala.) recently reintroduced his Deleting Online Predators Act. The bill is designed to protect children in social networks such as MySpace, but it is so poorly and broadly conceived that it could apply to any site that includes user fe Jim Rapoza […]

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Although Internet Explorer 7 has been out for several weeks now, users of the Microsoft Web browser have yet to see all its new features. Thats because the version of IE 7 included with Microsofts Windows Vista operating system has a few capabilities that arent found in the version that runs on Windows XP. The […]

As we here at eWEEK Labs evaluate the next generation of Web browsers, operating systems, collaboration tools and other interactive applications, one feature keeps popping up again and again—namely, integration with RSS feeds. RSS integration has already pretty much become a must-have feature for a whole host of products. Not having RSS integration is almost […]

So now we’ve seen the most hyped and anticipated product of the new year. There, finally, was Steve Jobs, showing off the new Apple iPad amid claims that the future of computing would never be the same. I’m not quite sure just how revolutionary the iPad will be. I am of two minds when it […]

The newly released Firefox 3.6 may be just a point upgrade, but it does offer some welcome new capabilities and improvements over Version 3.5 that make it worthwhile. The most noticeable new feature in the new Mozilla browser is Personas, previously available only through an extension. Essentially simple themes for the browser, Personas allow users […]