Wayne Rash

Microsoft’s stunning announcement that it was acquiring Skype for about $8.5 billion was initially derided by some as being a blunder. I suppose it might seem that way if you only look at Skype in its current form. But that’s not really relevant to Microsoft’s long-term plans. Think about what you get when you integrate […]

By now you’re probably aware that nearly every Website you visit keeps track of at least some of your activities while you’re on that site. Even this site, eWEEK.com, will keep track of whether you voted to rate an article, and if you have, will prevent you from voting again. Some tracking is both obvious […]

In an unusual announcement on May 5, Apple announced that it was issuing an update to iOS that will reduce the information kept in the location cache on iPhones and iPads and that it will eliminate the backup of the information when the device is synced with iTunes. The company also said that turning off […]

Symantec took over the U.S. Capitol visitor’s center in Washington May 4 to announce the launch of the Norton Cybersecurity Institute. The launch of the new program, which is intended to fight cyber-crime through education of law enforcement, the courts and investigators, is the culmination of a year’s worth of planning. Adam Palmer, who heads […]

Sprint Communications has filed a petition for intervention with the West Virginia Public Service Commission, which would allow it to formally present its arguments against AT&T’s proposed $39 billion buyout of T-Mobile. In a copy of the petition made available to eWEEK, Sprint lays out the arguments that company insiders say will likely make up […]

Verizon Wireless has returned its 4G network to service, at least in most places. The super-fast network went down on April 27 in the wee hours of the morning, and stayed down for at least 24 hours. The company communicated the existence of the outage through a single message on Twitter. It eventually reported the […]

Sometime in the wee hours of April 27, the unthinkable happened. The Verizon Wireless 4G LTE nationwide data network crashed, taking all of the company’s 4G devices with it. Who’d have thought that this brand-spanking new network boasting the latest in communications technology would simply, well … stop. But it did. By sunrise customers were […]

The latest revelation about Apple’s apparent practice of recording your iPhone’s location periodically and then sending the information to the Apple mother ship has a lot of people disturbed. For some reason, nobody seems as disturbed that Google is doing the same thing with its Android phones, perhaps because most people knew that Google was […]

The Federal Communications Commission announced April 21 that it had received a request from AT&T and Deutsche Telekom to transfer the licenses currently used by T-Mobile to AT&T. This is a necessary step in moving forward with its $39 billion bid to take over its smaller competitor. Predictably, Sprint Nextel objected strongly. Sprint’s strongly worded […]

My colleagues in the media have been piling on the BlackBerry PlayBook lately. The primary shortcoming that’s been found by the writers and bloggers involved is the nearly unpardonable sin of not being an iPad. This failure to pay homage to Vision of Steve Jobs and his belief in what should constitute a great tablet […]

A pair of 60-pound military robots originally designed for such tasks as disarming bombs and combat zone surveillance have entered reactor buildings at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant in Sendai, Japan. The PackBot robots, provided by iRobot, are already reporting that the radiation levels in the power plants are too high for humans to […]

Things have been tough recently at the Waterloo, Ontario, headquarters of Research In Motion. At the start of the week of April 10, RIM co-CEO Mike Lazardis got into a tiff with a reporter from the BBC, and eventually walked out of an interview complaining that the reporter’s questions were unfair. Later that week, RIM’s […]