Wayne Rash

The Obama administration is preparing legislation that would require messaging providers to make wiretap capabilities available to federal agencies with court orders, according to a story in the New York Times Sept. 27. The Times report says that the proposed legislation would require companies such as BlackBerry maker Research In Motion to make it technically […]

When the Federal Communications Commission issued its press release about the approval of additional unlicensed spectrum in what are called “white spaces,” it referred to the coming technologies as “Super WiFi.” In reality, it’s not clear that this previously unavailable set of unused frequencies will necessarily become anything that resembles WiFi. As the FCC points […]

AeroHive Plans WiFi Networks for Free by Wayne Rash Test Floor Plan This is the floor plan of the imaginary office created for testing the AeroHive WiFi Planner. Obviously, it’s imaginary because no real office would have that many windows. To start the planning process, upload a PNG or JPG file to the Planner. Mark […]

When Clint Boulton wrote about the competition for the cloud services proposals that have gone to the General Services Administration, he correctly pointed out that Google, IBM and Microsoft all have products that are essentially similar. The three companies are proposing to provide Web mail and other office applications in a cloud-based environment. All of […]

WiFi network design has become a lot easier lately. Aerohive Networks, a company that sells a line of access points, is now offering a free, easy-to-use, Web-based WiFi Planner that is available to anyone. During testing I found that I could tell the Web-based software the characteristics of the office environment I was planning to […]

I’m sure that at one time or another, pretty much everyone who uses computers has had the sinking feeling that greeted me when I came back to the office one evening to finish some work on a review for eWEEK. The primary workstation in the lab, the one that had test results, notes and the […]

A few days ago I reported on Verizon Wireless and its plans to start deploying its 4G LTE service to 30 cities in the United States by the end of 2010. Recently, I also talked about T-Mobile’s interest in either investing in Sprint’s Clear 4G WiMax system or simply buying Sprint with Deutsche Telekom. T-Mobile […]

BETHESDA, MD.-Verizon Wireless told enterprise IT managers at a meeting here Sept. 15 that it plans to light up 30 “National Football League Cities” in the United States with its 4G LTE wireless network by the end of 2010. The remainder of the country will get this 4G service in stages until the entire nation […]

The announcement that the Federal Communications Commission was prepared to approve unlicensed digital operations in slices of frequency spectrum occupied by television guard bands is being greeted eagerly by many, including Google and Microsoft. Ultimately it will probably be a good idea, but it’s by no means clear that it will be the panacea to […]

I suppose that it’s just as well that Apple’s Steve Jobs is used to being at the bottom in terms of market share, because it’s about to happen again. According to Gartner research it will happen by the end of 2010, when the Android mobile OS will have surpassed both Apple’s iOS and Research In […]

As eWEEK reported back in early June, it appears that T-Mobile will be getting Apple’s previously exclusive iPhone later this year. The new ruckus that’s making the rounds now appeared because Wired Editor in Chief Chris Anderson sent out a tweet reporting that he’d been told by a manager at T-Mobile that the carrier will […]

Unified Communications, as a concept, is broadly supported by enterprises at nearly all levels. The idea of somehow integrating aspects of e-mail, voice mail, instant messaging and other communication methods sounds like a good idea to nearly everyone. But putting UC (Unified Communications) into practice varies widely in its level of integration and its level […]