Wayne Rash

On Oct. 26, your IT department will have its hands full. In many ways, when Windows 8 arrives, the technological transformation will be far greater than it was when smartphones became popular or when people started showing up at the office with iPads. The reason is that for most companies, Windows is the only operating […]

The Federal Communications Commission has approved the sale of previously unused wireless spectrum owned by a group of cable companies to Verizon. The FCC also approved the sale of a portion of the spectrum to T-Mobile and Leap Wireless in a complex deal that involved a consent agreement between the cable companies and the U.S. […]

It’s not surprising that Apple’s CEO Tim Cook doesn’t remember Ashton-Tate. He was hardly out of graduate school when the company crashed and burned as the result of a series of misguided and ultimately tragic lawsuits, the final one of which showed that the company didn’t own the technology upon which it depended. The chances […]

The latest predictions are that Apple’s Sept. 12 launch of the iPhone 5 will be the biggest in history, at least according to Peter Misek from Jefferies research. The firm is predicting that Apple will have about 15 million iPhone 5 devices in inventory by mid-September, enough to satisfy at least the initial demand. The […]

The Federal Communications Commission will approve the sale of spectrum by a group of cable companies to Verizon Wireless, according to a statement released Aug. 16 by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. The announcement follows the completion of an antitrust review by the U.S. Justice Department and a consent agreement by Verizon and the cable companies […]

The latest PC market news that Microsoft might sell the eagerly anticipated Surface for Windows RT for $199 sounds crazy. In fact, it might be crazy. But then it might not be as crazy as it sounds. The shockingly low price that’s circulating around the Internet news sites was first announced by Engadget, which claims […]

Despite the histrionics on Aug. 5 by Acer chairman J.T. Wang regarding Microsoft’s plans to produce its Surface tablet to run Windows RT and Windows 8, other OEMs are moving ahead with plans to introduce their own models on the same day that Microsoft announces Windows 8 and releases the Surface tablet. According to an […]

A number of things are known about the Gauss Trojan first discovered by the folks at Kaspersky Lab in the fall of 2011. We know that it’s closely related to Flame which was allegedly created by U.S. intelligence interests to attack Iran. We know that Gauss isn’t attacking Iran, but instead seems to be snooping […]

Verizon Wireless has begun selling Microsoft Office 365 as a part of the company€™s Small Business Essentials portfolio. The package is designed for businesses ranging in size from one to 50 employees, and supports collaboration, voice and video conferencing, document sharing and instant messaging. The Verizon Wireless package will cost $6 per month, which can […]

In a pair of moves over the past two days, telecom giant AT&T has taken steps to gather the necessary spectrum to build out the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network it needs over the next five years. On Aug. 2, AT&T agreed to acquire NextWave Wireless, a failing carrier with spectrum that the Federal Communications Commission […]