Wayne Rash

The United States Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit Aug. 31 that seeks to prevent the merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA, a division of Deutsche Telekom. The proposed $39 billion merger would reduce competition for mobile wireless communications services across the United States, according to a statement provided by the Justice Department. The […]

The filing of an antitrust lawsuit against AT&T and Deutsche Telekom isn’t shocking in the fact that it happened so much as in its timing. Most observers didn’t expect the antitrust action to happen so soon. But the U.S. Department of Justice did file a lawsuit Aug. 31, charging that the merger would be bad […]

For most of us, waiting forHurricane Irene to pass was more than an annoyance, but not really a crisis. For a few, the storm was deadly; it uprooted lives along with ancient trees, caused widespread flooding and destroyed its share of homes. It also uprooted businesses that were without power Aug. 29, in some cases […]

With Hurricane Irene on a course that could wreak havoc on buildings and infrastructure on the U.S. East Coast from South Carolina to Maine, businesses should be rushing to complete any last minute preparation to protect computer systems and data. Some of us, including those in New York City and people on Long Island in […]

The earthquake that struck the U.S. East Coast Aug. 23 was a real surprise for nearly everyone. First of all, the East Coast rarely gets earthquakes that are big enough to feel. Furthermore, this one was big enough to cause property damage. The result of this was that anyone with a phone on the East […]

The recently revealeddiscussions between Sprint Nextel, Clearwire and a handful of cable operators are leading inexorably to a foregone conclusion. Sprint will have to buy Clearwire. Exactly how the purchase will be structured is still up for discussion, but in reality, Sprint has no choice except to buy the 4G provider in which it already […]

HP’s Aug. 18 announcement that it was getting out of the consumer business by simply shutting down its newly built-up mobile division and trying to sell its consumer PC business makes one wonder just how carefully management considered this action. This sudden announcement smacks of a panicked reaction to what should be short-term market setbacks.The […]

Imagine the world a year from now-August 2012-and the attempt by AT&T to buy T-Mobile is clearly doomed. The FCC still hasn’t decided toapprove the license transfer, the DOJ is still askingdifficult antitrust questions, lawsuit after lawsuit is piling up, and AT&T shareholders are getting restless. T-Mobile, meanwhile is still hanging in there in merger […]

Google’s $12.5 billion offer to buy Motorola Mobility was a huge coup for the Android developer. Not only was Motorola the company that brought Google into the big time with its Droid smartphone, it’s also a key player in the lineup of Verizon Wireless LTE (Long-Term Evolution) 4G phones. Motorola also developed the first real […]

When IBM-PC pioneer Mark Dean said that we’re entering the Post-PC era, a lot of people were surprised. After all, here’s a guy who is IBM’s CTO for the Middle East and Africa, one of the actual developers of the original IBM-PC, saying that its glory days are over. Who’d a thunk it?But of course […]

AT&T was sadly mistaken if it was counting on the FCC to just quietly approve the deal to buy 700 MHz spectrum from Qualcomm for $1.9 billion before it separately reviewed its proposal to buy all of T-Mobile for $39 billon. Why did this prove a forlorn hope? Because AT&T’s primary rationale for buying T-Mobile […]

Between Aug. 3 and Aug. 8, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than a thousand points, prompting many investors and analysts to ponder what effect this will have on the IT industry growth for the rest of 2012. Many market analysts predicted that the sharp declines in the Dow would continue for a day […]