Wayne Rash

Research in Motion’s rather low-key announcement of its OS7 devices belied the importance of the new BlackBerry devices to RIM’s recovery. The new devices include an all-touch-screen version of the Torch, a touch-screen version of the Torch with a slide-out keyboard and a new, super-thin version of the Bold. At least three major carriers in […]

The Aug. 3 report by McAfee security researchers that revealed the U.N., the United States government, multiple foreign governments and defense contractors were hit by a chilling, five-year cyber-spying campaign called Operation Shady Rat treads lightly on the question of who actually inspired the attacks. But like previously disclosed attacks, all the indications point to […]

The mobile phone market is changing. Depending on how you slice that market, the biggest winner in the last year was either Apple or Google. Apple is the largest maker of smartphone handsets, but Google’s Android smartphone OS is the top seller while Apple’s iOS is No. 2. But for the top handset market share, […]

The FBI and Scotland Yard should be praised in their ability to track down, identify and arrest members of the related hacking organizations Anonymous and LulzSec. The cyber-sleuthing they did is not easy. When you have to do it well enough for the arrest to hold up in court, it’s harder still. Unfortunately, it’s not […]

AT&T customers are being sought by the New York law firm of Bursor & Fisher to help fight the merger with T-Mobile. The basis for the fight is loss of competition, possible higher prices and a return to the Ma Bell monopoly. To accomplish this, the law firm is using the arbitration clause in AT&T […]

Early in the predawn Florida darkness, the Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down on Earth for the last time and braked to a stop. After a while, the crew of Atlantis boarded their bus back to their quarters, said a few words, and left America’s last Shuttle to the museum curators. Eventually, Atlantis will join other […]

The chairman of the powerful Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, Herbert Kohl, D-Wis., sent a strongly worded letter opposingthe AT&T-T-Mobile merger to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski. Kohl’s subcommittee is part of the Committee on the Judiciary, which effectively oversees the Department of Justice, the federal department that must ultimately […]

One of the things you see frequently here in Washington is infighting among senior members of the same department in the executive branch. What you don’t see very often is a subordinate in the military chain of command trying his best to publicly derail a proposal put forth by a superior. Usually the junior person […]

The U.S. military will work with private companies to protect critical infrastructure, a senior Department of Defense official told an audience at theNational Defense University in Washington July 14. During his speech, Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn said that U.S. military systems have been repeatedly attacked by foreign interests looking for information on technology, […]

By now you’ve heard about the scandal in the U.K. in which employees of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, Sunday Times and other publications obtained illegal access to a wide variety ofpeople’s voice mail accounts. Some of those affected were former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, a wide variety of celebrities, a kidnapped teen and […]

Let’s see if we can get all of the players and the moves straight. Apple is suing HTC, claiming patent violations. HTC is suing Apple claiming the same thing. Microsoft is joining Apple in suing Motorola. Microsoft has already extracted a $15 per phone licensing fee from HTC for use of its patents. Apple is […]

I watched the final space shuttle launch just as I did the first one-on television. There were differences. When Columbia launched, I was watching the television mounted on the bulkhead of the wardroom of a U.S. Navy Perry-class frigate. Right afterward, I walked out on deck to see the tiny, bright speck followed by an […]