Wayne Rash

Clearwire announced Jan. 8 that wireless industry pioneer John W. Stanton, already a member of Clearwire’s board, will be its new chairman. Stanton succeeds another industry pioneer, Craig McCaw, in that position. Stanton already owns a wireless holding company based in Kirkland, Wash., (which is where Clearwire is based) that runs wireless systems in Latin […]

The announcement by Verizon Wireless that the company soon would be selling a CDMA/EVDO version of Apple’s popular iPhone has an impact that goes far beyond customers who want an iPhone but don’t want AT&T. Verizon Wireless is expected to sell millions of iPhones once they become available on Feb. 10. According to a number […]

Smartphone shoppers in the United States finally have what they’ve been dreaming of for the past three years, the ability to buy an Apple iPhone for a wireless carrier other than AT&T. As predicted since mid-2010, the iPhone 4 is indeed coming to Verizon. Verizon President and COO Lowell McAdam and Apple COO Tim Cook […]

With Apple’s iPhone market share threatened by Android’s growing popularity and by the steadily deteriorating service of AT&T’s overburdened 3G system, Verizon Wireless will finally get a chance to show what the iPhone can do on its network. The iPhone that the carrier is expected to introduce Jan. 11 in New York after months of […]

In a video released at the beginning of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Clearwire clearly demonstrates that it is very close to achieving the 100M-bps download speeds required by the ITU definition of 4G wireless communications. The company released a YouTube video of the tests, which are being conducted in Phoenix on an […]

AT&T, playing catch-up to Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile, announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that it will begin rolling out its 4G LTE network sometime in mid-2011 and in the meantime will continue to finish its existing 3G HSPA+ network. The carrier, still struggling under its iPhone-driven traffic load, has started referring […]

As the opening of the Consumer Electronics Show approaches on Jan. 6 in Las Vegas, word is leaking out that dozens of new tablets will be shown at the trade show. Some of them are simply new versions of existing tablets; some are new versions of existing platforms (there will be a lot of new […]

A Federal Communications Commission published report on its network neutrality order shows it was true to its word that it would codify and require open Internet access for all wired Internet providers. The FCC’s Report and Order 10-201 also revealed that wireless providers will get slightly looser rules. Finally, the order revealed that the FCC […]

The Federal Communications Commission published its “Open Internet” decision on Dec. 23 just two days after the 3-2 party line vote to impose network neutrality rules on Internet service providers. The FCC rarely publishes its decisions this quickly. After the rule has been published there is usually a 60-day delay before the rule appears in […]

The new Federal Communications Commission rule approved Dec. 21 on a 3-2 party line vote imposing limited network neutrality on Internet service providers dissatisfied even its supporters and is likely to be nullified by lawsuits and congressional action before it has a chance to take practical effect. However, its strongest supporter, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, […]

When Deborah Plunkett, the head of the National Security Agency’s Information Assurance Directorate, said at a security conference that systems must be built with the assumption that adversaries will get in, her statement wasn’t exactly a revelation. True security is multilayered, and it’s designed from the top down to assume that there will be breaches. […]

Now that Mark Zuckerberg has been given the rare honor of being named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, perhaps it’s time to reflect on how this young man moved from creating a Website to help college students connect to building Facebook into a global social and cultural phenomenon. According to some analysts, Zuckerberg’s Facebook […]