Wayne Rash

For the third quarter of 2011, worldwide sales of Samsung Android phones have outpaced sales of Apple iPhones, according to this Reuters report on market research from Strategic Analytics. Samsung’s sales strength may help explain Apple’s frantic attempts to attack Samsung in court, but this should be no surprise to anyone. Samsung, quite simply, is […]

We’ve been hearing the stories for years about how Apple’s Macintosh is immune to malware. For years I’ve heard the smug claims from Mac owners about how it’s too bad that Windows users have to load their computers with antivirus software to be safe, but Mac owners don’t. For years I’ve known it was only […]

WhenShawn Henry, FBI executive assistant director, suggested during a conference in Baltimore that a second, secure Internet be created to protect critical infrastructure against increasingly sophisticated attacks, he made a good point. A separate secure network could help reduce serious attacks. However, he’s wrong when he suggests that this mightsomehow insulate this infrastructure from attacks. […]

One of the many revelations in the biography of Steve Jobs from author Walter Isaacson is Jobs’ assertion that Android was a “stolen product.” According to Hayley Tsukayama’s report in The Washington Post, Jobs was furious about Android and vowed to spend all of Apple’s cash to destroy it. The problem is Jobs was wrong […]

Google announced its latest version of the Android mobile operating system in Hong Kong this week, and in the process might have left more questions than answers. The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which runs the Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” operating system, will have new features such as the ability to unlock itself by looking at […]

The agreement that the CTIA and Consumers Union put together with the Federal Communications Commission to alert customers when they’re about to run up a huge bill will help protect against what the groups call “bill shock.” This phenomenon occurs when you exceed the limits on calling minutes, text messages or data use, and as […]

Organized cyber-criminals have taken what used to be a minor domestic crime and turned it into a global ID trafficking ring. In these cases, the data that’s so valuable are the Social Security numbers of young children because they can easily be matched with any name and date of birth and used to create fraudulent […]

I woke up Wednesday morning feeling like I was living inside a bad country music song. A cold rain was falling and my BlackBerry had stopped getting messages sometime around midnight.At least, I thought, I could entertain myself by trying out the new version of iOS on my iPad. I thought about that as I […]

In a well-researched and wonderfully written story on the role of the media in the making of Apple and its CEO Steve Jobs,Paul Farhi of the Washington Post suggests that it was the media over the years that ultimately put Jobs into the center of his own creation at Apple. Farhi suggests that the technology […]

I don’t exactly remember the first time I metSteve Jobs, but it was sometime in the very early ’80s, around the time that I first started to write for Byte, the great magazine of the early personal computer age, which is nothing like its pallid successor. In those days, Byte was the Bible of personal […]

There is no Apple iPhone 5. At least not yet. The much-hyped announcement on Oct. 4 revealed that there will be a new version of iOS and an improved iPhone called the iPhone 4S. But the much-anticipated iPhone 5 was never mentioned. Perhaps the biggest news was that Sprint will finally get an iPhone. But […]

Yes, I know that there’s a lot of talk out there about how the Kindle Fire is an iPad killer or that it will at least drastically cut into the sales of the iPad. Suchspeculation is basically hooey. So you can laugh dismissively when you read articles. After all you know better. The Kindle Fire […]