Wayne Rash

Apple’s Steve Jobs, in a hastily called news conference, announced July 16 that the iPhone 4 really doesn’t have any problems. The issues with the external antenna are a product of the imagination of the media. The complaints of dropped calls are minimal and no worse than any other phone. Then he conceded that Apple […]

WASHINGTON – When Steve Ballmer said at the World Wide Partner Conference here on July 14 that he believes that the future of cloud computing includes rich clients, he may have been echoing the concerns of technology executives in industries where access to computing resources is critical. The problem with the cloud as a place […]

I can only assume that life for Steve Jobs is getting worse by the day. At least it must be if he cares about the image of Apple as a provider of quality products, or if he cares about treating his customers openly and fairly. But it’s also possible that he doesn’t care at all […]

Wireless networking in the enterprise is all about getting work done. And work may not always mean e-mail or messaging, or those other nice features you’re finding on your iPhone or Android device. Instead, the work reflects the nature of the enterprise: Whether it’s Sandburg’s hog butchers, tool makers, stackers of wheat, railroad or freight […]

The United States is under attack. Right now most of the attacks are against the commercial interests of the United States, much like the attacks against Google earlier this year in which the Chinese government attempted to breach the company’s security to steal source code and to learn the identities of human rights activists. But […]

In the week preceding July 4, Microsoft killed the Kin and T-Mobile killed the Sidekick. And sometime soon, other well-known smartphones will fade away, such as the iPhone 3GS and the original Motorola Droid. This in itself isn’t surprising. After all, smartphones have stepped onto a treadmill of constant change as a way to keep […]

In his article in eWEEK’s sister publication, Smarter Technology, Dennis McCafferty reports on the results of a study that shows that White House efforts at consolidating federal data centers to save money and improve operational and energy efficiency will be a tough nut to crack. As McCafferty points out, the agencies are territorial, they don’t […]

Hewlett-Packard’s completion of its Palm acquisition July 1 means that the smartphone business has a new, highly important player that could change the landscape in ways that matter to enterprise users. By buying Palm, HP gets access to its current devices, the Pre and Pixi in both regular (for Sprint) and Plus (for Verizon Wireless) […]

The House Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations voted June 29 to withhold all funding for the Obama administration’s manned space plans, and to refer the problem to the House Committee on Science and Technology. The White House’s plans for NASA’s manned space program have been encountering strong objections from both Democrats […]

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided that lower courts and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office were correct in rejecting a patent for a method for handling energy hedge funds in its long-awaited decision in the case of Bilski v. Kappos. The Court ruled that the Bilski claim was based on an abstract idea, and […]

Imagine, if you will, a day when the term “wireless” had a lot to do with Morse code. In those days if you wanted to transmit signals, you had to get a license from your national regulatory authority, which in the United States is the Federal Communications Commission. One of the areas where you had […]

Imagine if you will that it’s 1984, and Apple’s Sledgehammer Gal has just faded away. Then the Macintosh was Apple Computer’s big promise for the future. It would change everything. Now flash forward to some incidents that are less memorable in their visual impact, but perhaps more important to today’s computing environment. Steve Jobs introducing […]