Wayne Rash

About

Wayne Rash is a content writer and editor with a 35-year history covering technology. He’s a frequent speaker on business, technology issues and enterprise computing. He is the author of five books, including his most recent, "Politics on the Nets." Rash is a former Executive Editor of eWEEK and a former analyst in the eWEEK Test Center. He was also an analyst in the InfoWorld Test Center and editor of InternetWeek. He's a retired naval officer, a former principal at American Management Systems and a long-time columnist for Byte Magazine.

DNS Changer Malware Could Lock Unwary Users Out of the Internet on July 9

The DNS Changer malware has been all over the news during the last couple of days, and with good reason. If you haven€™t checked that your computers are malware-free and fixed an apparent DNS Changer infection, you won€™t be able to use the Internet very easily come Monday, July 9. Monday is the day that […]

Higgs Boson Discovery: Why It’s Important to All of Us

It€™s impossible to overstate the importance of the Higgs Boson, the discovery of which was announced at CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire). Without this particle, you wouldn€™t exist. For that matter, the universe wouldn€™t exist. That€™s because the Higgs Boson creates a field that gives other particles mass, giving weight and shape to […]

Data Center Disaster Preparedness Sometimes Requires a Dose of Robert Burns

Calamity descended from the skies around Washington on June 29 in the form of a derecho, a type of weather system so rare most people have never even heard of it. This unusual complex of extremely severe weather had never been known to cross a range of mountains such as the Alleghenies. But this time […]

RIM Can Survive Only by Making Tough Decisions Quickly

Research In Motion€™s earnings call showing huge losses by the Waterloo, Ontario-based company was not a huge surprise. Hardly anyone was expecting good results. But what followed was a series of surprises that went off like depth charges around a sinking submarine. BlackBerry 10 wouldn€™t arrive until the first quarter of 2013, and there will […]

Google Nexus 7 Takes Aim at Amazon Kindle, All 7-Inch Tablets

Neither the hype nor the secrecy was quite the same at Google I/O in San Francisco as it was for Apple€™s World Wide Developers Conference or Microsoft€™s announcement of the Surface tablet, but it was still what we€™ve all come to expect at a tablet-related announcement these days. This time, Google product managers teamed up […]

Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile Spectrum Deal Fails to Curb Critics’ Concerns

The joint announcement by Verizon and T-Mobile that both companies had agreed to a complex spectrum purchase and swap arrangement will apparently eliminate T-Mobile€™s objections to the purchase by Verizon of Advanced Wireless Services spectrum from a group of cable companies. Statements made by T-Mobile to eWEEK indicate that the deal is contingent on regulatory […]

iPhone Turns 5 as Enterprises Struggle With the BYOD Chaos It Launched

Five years ago, at the end of June 2007, the world of mobile IT changed forever, although few realized it at the time. Who could have guessed that the sales of the first iPhone would ultimately lead to significant productivity gains, new lines of business and new headaches for IT? At first all that the […]

Windows Phone 8 Improvements Are Hidden Inside the Mobile OS

If you€™ve used a smartphone running Windows Phone 7.5, then the latest version of the Microsoft mobile operating system, Windows Phone 8, won€™t be a huge surprise. The tiled interface will cover the entire screen, instead of about two-thirds of it. There will be more live tiles so that you can see what€™s going on […]

Microsoft Surface Tablets Are a True iPad Alternative for Enterprises

Here at eWEEK, we knew it would happen. Microsoft was going to announce a new tablet June 18, and it would be something that Apple couldn€™t really compete against. But the Microsoft Surface is much more than just a tablet, and it€™s much more than just another iPad clone. Microsoft, in what had to be […]

Microsoft Windows 8 Tablet Introduction to Be Technology Preview

When Microsoft introduces its new Windows 8 tablet on Monday, June 18 at a media briefing in Los Angeles, the device it presents will be a technology preview device, not a finished product, said Craig Mathias, principal analyst for Farpoint Group. The new device will run Windows RT, which is a version of Windows 8 […]