Wayne Rash

The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Intelligence is recommending that U.S. companies not buy communications equipment from two major Chinese manufacturers, Huawei and ZTE, branding them long-term security risks. While most people know these companies as vendors of cell phones and wireless hotspots, they are major vendors of core infrastructure equipment including telephone […]

When executives from Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS announced on Oct. 3 that the U.S. arm of T-Mobile and MetroPCS would accomplish a complex merger in 2013, there was little if any of the usual gnashing of teeth by public interest groups worried about concentration of market power in the mobile carrier market. Instead, […]

I spent a year following presidential candidates around the U.S. in 1996 to learn how well politicians were using the Internet to get their messages across to voters. I also spent time with other campaigns at all levels of government and I got to know a wide variety of pressure groups from all segments of […]

Regional carrier nTelos, which serves Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley and some portions of Central Virginia near Charlottesville and Richmond, started selling Apple’s iPhone 5 on Sept. 28, just a week after the three major U.S. carriers started selling it. But there are a couple of important differences: the nTelos iPhone 5 costs $50 dollars less than […]

I don’t think we’d ever have seen anything like Apple CEO Tim Cook’s letter of apology to his customers in the past. In this extraordinary letter, Cook tells Apple’s customers he’s sorry that the Maps app for iOS 6 didn’t work out as well as it should have. Then Cook did something even more striking–he […]

When you see BlackBerry 10 being demonstrated, it doesn’t look all that revolutionary, at least until you look a little closer. Then you realize that you’re able to do things on this new touch-screen device you can’t do with other smartphones. You have an always-available unified messaging app that’s user-configurable. There’s a new on-screen keyboard […]

I’m pondering a map of Washington, DC, looking for the Washington Monument. For those of you who aren’t from here, it’s that tall, pointy obelisk at the end of the National Mall. But if you believe Apple’s map app for iOS 6, the location of perhaps the most famous point of interest in the U.S. […]

iPhone 5 Draws Endless Lines of Buyers on First Day of Sales iPhone Buyers Queued Up Outside Verizon Stores Too As shown by the line outside the Verizon store, Apple wasn’t the only place with lines of buyers waiting to buy the iPhone 5. A lot of people showed up at the Verizon store where […]

I started my quest to get iOS 6 running on my third-generation iPad shortly after midnight Sept.19. However, I was perplexed when I got the message that my software was up-to-date when I selected the Software Update choice on the settings menu. I tried a couple more times with the same results. This didn’t seem […]

Chuck Goldman thinks that Apple’s new iPhone 5 is a great phone for the enterprise, and he’s in a position to know. Goldman, who was Apple’s director of enterprise field engineering, was the guy who launched the original iPhone for the enterprise. “I launched the original iPhone in 2007 in Apple’s enterprise data program,” Goldman […]