Wayne Rash

Someday soon you won’t see Microsoft’s Windows XP as an option on new computers. A little less soon, and Windows XP won’t even be available as a special order item. In three and a half years, all support for XP will stop. By then, everyone using Windows will presumably have moved up to Windows 7 […]

Wireless carriers are marshalling their forces at a series of mostly undisclosed locations in the mid-Atlantic as Hurricane Earl works its way up the East Coast. They’re on standby with trucks, mobile cell towers, generators, fuel and portable switching equipment staged to go anywhere the storm may take out service. So far, however, it’s mostly […]

A growing coziness between T-Mobile USA and Sprint Nextel has been rumored for months. At one point there were rumors that T-Mobile’s parent company, European communications goliath Deutsche Telekom, was preparing to buy Sprint and make it part of T-Mobile. So far, nothing had come of it-until now. The Wall Street Journal reported that Sprint’s […]

With a mixture of enterprise- and consumer-oriented features and a target audience of small and remote branch offices, Iomega’s StorCenter ix4-200d network-attached storage device has something of a dual personality. The device turns in solid performances in each of its roles, and as a result can be useful in ways that other products aren’t. On […]

India and Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, have reached a compromise in the demands by that government to have unencumbered access to the messages sent by users. RIM, meanwhile, is trying to find ways to ensure that its business customers have the level of confidentiality required by today’s connected businesses. The two […]

As the bidding for storage company 3PAR ratchets higher, so does one question-why are Dell and HP willing to spend this much money for one fairly small company? My first thought was that maybe the two companies just hate each other. I was having visions of a face-off under the hot Texas sun as the […]

Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle are effectively two sides of the same coin. They are highly portable in their own right, and they are well-connected, meaning the information they need to make them useful is highly portable as well. Of course, tablets and e-readers are different devices-they are aimed at different markets, have differing capabilities […]

A Hewlett-Packard tablet device is coming in early 2011. This should be no surprise to anyone since HP already sells a tablet device. But the difference is there will be more than one such device, and one of them will be running Palm’s webOS. It’s important to remember that HP has been selling tablet PCs […]

To most observers, McAfee means antivirus software. It’s one of the big AV companies that have been around since the birth of malware, and it competes well against market leader Symantec. For people who think computer security is really just about this topic, the acquisition of McAfee by Intel doesn’t make a lot of sense. […]

Chip making giant Intel’s purchase of security software producer McAfee is more than just the merger of two companies to make one larger company. It’s also a strong sign that Intel has decided to take security to another level throughout its product line. In addition, it also shows that Intel is quietly preparing to take […]

There’s no question that Oracle just hates the very idea of open-source software. The suit against Google over its use of Java in the open-source Android mobile operating system is really just part of a pattern. If you look at what’s happened already, the pattern has become clear. Oracle has already killed Open Solaris, sending […]

Oracle has long held a unique position in California’s Silicon Valley. It is to some the most reviled company in the valley. The lawsuit against Google for its use of Java technology in its Android smartphone software is just the latest example of Oracle’s determination to crush any company it believes is intruding on its […]