Wayne Rash

Calling the results of the earthquake and resulting tsunami that happened in Japan a catastrophe would be to understate the seriousness of the event. It was Japan’s worst earthquake ever. It was one of the worst in recorded world history. A vast portion of the northeastern part of Japan’s main island was virtually swept clean […]

Out in the open ocean across the Pacific there are devices called DART, or Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis, buoys. If you saw one, it wouldn’t look like much, just a round device painted orange and white with a short mast bearing a wind gauge and a couple of satellite antennas. On the […]

When Apple’s iPad 2 launches on March 11, it’ll be the beginning of a huge growth in the tablet market. At the recent CeBIT technology show in Germany, there were at least 39 companies showing tablets just at that single show. Many of these companies were showing more than one type of tablet. Asus, for […]

The news that Google is remotely removing 58 malicious applications from Android devices shows that opening up the supply of software to a variety of sources has its risks, including malware similar to what has been infecting Windows for years. To many, it’s good news that Google is able to remove this malware by remote […]

HANNOVER, Germany-Cloud computing was the theme of this year’s CeBIT show. So it was a little strange when the most lucid description of what cloud computing is all about and how it affects Germany along with the rest of Europe came not from the assembled technologists, nor even from the CEO of IBM, but rather […]

HANNOVER, Germany – When Apple launches its eagerly anticipated iPad 2 March 2 (note that this is Apple’s gift to me on my birthday – it gives me a sure-fire story to write), the new product will be entering a world transformed from a year ago when the iPad made its debut. The original iPad […]

HANNOVER, Germany-Fujitsu will be offering an iPad competitor that includes the features that nearly everyone wants in a tablet, plus features that business IT departments wish were already available in tablets today. The new tablet, dubbed the Fujitsu Stylistic Q550, will run Windows 7 Professional, but will offer a radically different interface that allows full […]

When I first wrote about a space shuttle in a technology publication, it was 26 years ago, and in the first paragraph, I wrote the words, “… and Discovery Clears the Tower.” Time changes all things. Discovery was making its first flight, and I was watching the video on a computer monitor using something new […]

The announcement by Verizon Wireless that the Xoom will ship on Feb. 24 was followed almost immediately by an invitation by Apple to a press announcement in San Francisco on March 2. Considering the splash that the Xoom is making in the tablet market before it has even been launched, this is no surprise. The […]

Verizon Wireless will be making the Motorola Xoom tablet available for sale in Verizon stores and online on Feb. 24. The new tablets, which were announced in a Super Bowl TV commercial that harked back to Apple’s famed 1984 Macintosh advertisement, also demonstrated features that aren’t available on the Xoom’s direct competition, the Apple iPad. […]

As you learn to expect when a segment of the U.S. government produces something that involves technology more advanced than a light bulb and also is visible if not tangible, we got a lot of hoopla about the National Broadband Map. This is a service that is supposed to let you search for broadband in […]

This story starts at the Washington, D.C., Auto Show, which is held at the end of January each year. While I was at the show, one of the people at the Land Rover display handed me a USB memory stick. I assumed that it contained a brochure or something similar, so I put it into […]