Wayne Rash

The latest revelation in the never-ending WikiLeaks scandal is a claim by the lawyer for the organization’s founder, Julian Assange, that the U.S. Attorney General has empanelled a secret grand jury in the Federal Court in Alexandria, Va., to investigate the disclosure of thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic messages on the WikiLeaks Web site. The […]

The problem of which tablet to choose has grown significantly beyond the once default choice-the Apple iPad. Now there are a number of Android tablets on the market, and there are more tablet choices coming. Viewsonic is starting to offer a tablet that works with either Android or Microsoft Windows 7.Research In Motion has announced […]

It was during the course of reviewing an Acer Veriton N282G that I realized that the company had included all of the security tools necessary to prevent exactly the kind of data theft that eventually led to the WikiLeaks scandal. If the base in Iraq where PFC Bradley Manning worked had been using these computers […]

Sprint Nextel, in an initiative it calls “Network Vision,” will be replacing the existing wireless infrastructure it currently uses to provide voice and 3G services, and perhaps even its 4G service, over the next three to five years. Currently, Sprint uses separate cell sites for its 800MHz, 1.9GHz and 2.5GHz wireless bands. The 1.9GHz portion […]

At first glance, the pricing plan that Verizon Wireless announced for its 4G LTE service on Dec. 1 didn’t seem like a bad deal. For $50 you get 5 GB of data, and you pay $10 for every gigabyte over that. Alternatively, you can pay $80 for 10 GB of data per month, and then […]

Verizon Wireless will start offering LTE service, as well as a couple of LTE-capable USB sticks, Dec. 5. The service will begin in 38 major metropolitan areas and 60 major commercial airports, as has previously been reported in eWEEK. By announcing the Dec. 5 launch, Verizon Wireless beat its own deadline, which was originally the […]

I’ve just returned from nearly a week traveling by train around Germany, noting, among other things, the different smartphones that I saw people using. I also stopped by some phone stores to ask about iPhone availability and use in Germany, among other things. What I found was that iPhone penetration, at least in Germany, seems […]

Acer’s announcement that the company would begin selling a line of tablet computers as well as a large-screen smartphone is another indication that Apple is going to find itself under ever increasing pressure to deliver more and charge less. According to Nick Kolakowski’s story in eWEEK, two of these will be Android devices similar in […]

The start of the second decade of the 21st century found a world with an economy frozen in the depths of recession, with tech companies struggling to stay afloat, and with the IT business facing too much supply and not enough demand. But even as the snows of the east melted, products and technologies that […]

Verizon Wireless has begun advertising its deployment of LTE to 38 U.S. cities by the end of 2010, as originally reported by eWEEK nearly two months ago. The fact that Verizon Wireless was building out its LTE (long-term evolution) network hasn’t been a secret for a while, but this is the first time that the […]

The price of smartphones plays a major role in adoption according to study by mobile advertising company Adzookie.com. Smartphone penetration is greatest where the people who need the devices can afford to buy them, and can also afford the monthly subscription charges, concluded the study, which was compiled by Adzookie’s Tiffany Trias. I suggested that […]

When a large amount of global Internet traffic was briefly rerouted through a small Chinese ISP back in April, there was likely little impact on the U.S. government addresses that were affected. However, the fact that a Chinese ISP could do this should be a significant warning that simple trust isn’t adequate for the security […]