Wayne Rash

Google and Verizon hadn’t even finished their press conference about net neutrality before the anguished accusations started. Google, the complainers said, had abandoned its principles. The company had turned to the Dark Side. The plan was a threat to liberty, a free Internet, and all that’s good and wholesome in the world. Now that the […]

Google and Verizon announced Aug. 9 their much-anticipated plan for implementing their view of net neutrality. The CEOs of both companies, Eric Schmidt of Google and Ivan Seidenberg of Verizon, announced a plan that sticks closely to a statement of principles issued jointly in October 2009. The primary principle as stated by both companies is […]

It’s true that there’s something going on between Google and Verizon regarding net neutrality, but it’s not a business deal. While neither company is commenting specifically on what their discussions have been about, the information Google and Verizon provided makes the direction pretty clear. The bottom line is this: Google would like to see network […]

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion had last ditch talks with the government of Saudi Arabia today in an effort to forestall an order to shut down parts of the BlackBerry wireless service, particularly its text messaging. But at this point, neither side has given an inch. In fact, RIM has sent a letter to its […]

You’ve seen it happen dozens of times. One of your business buddies shows up with the latest gadget from the Best Buy ad over the weekend, and now he wants to use it at work. It might be a new smartphone, an external hard disk or even a personal wireless access point, but whatever it […]

The Motorola Droid is about to get Android 2.2, a big step in the Android universe. With the new version of the operating system will come support for Flash, better security and presumably more stable operation. The automatic update, which will start for the original Droid the week of Aug. 2, has been eagerly anticipated, […]

So what’s an iPhone 4X4? If you’re at Verizon Wireless, it’s not the latest SUV, but instead is the iPhone 4 with 4G data communications. Verizon has been building out its 4G LTE test network for some time now, and is reportedly already testing a version of the iPhone in its test environment. What’s more […]

When European Union regulators announced an investigation into IBM’s business practices in Europe, it was reacting to complaints from two companies that produce mainframe emulators for Intel platforms. The two companies, T3T and Turbo-Hercules, claim that they are being cut out of the market because IBM won’t sell its mainframe software to them for use […]

One of the nice things about the net neutrality debate is that just when you think you’ve figured out all of the positions, everything changes. In this case, a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals that the Federal Communications Commission did not have the authority to regulate net neutrality has thrown the usual players […]

The flagging U.S. economy is a major reason why nearly 40,000 H-1B visa application slots are currently unused, and an additional 9,000 slots in the Masters Exemption program are still open. This is a significant drop in applications from previous years, according to immigration attorney Kellie Lego, managing attorney of the MVP Law Group in […]

I have to confess that I hadn’t actually heard about the problems with the iPhone 4 and Microsoft Exchange until I was answering questions on NPR’s Kojo Nnamdi show, where Rob Pegoraro from The Washington Post and I were the in-studio guests for TechTuesday. Toward the end of the show a caller asked about a […]

The announcement by Nokia Siemens Networks that it will buy Motorola’s wireless network infrastructure business for $1.2 billion will free the wireless product maker from its struggle to compete with larger competitors, while also giving it the cash it needs to carry out its plans to split the company into two independent and publicly traded […]