Wayne Rash

The Federal Communications Commission has launched an effort to help U.S. travelers cope with the cost and complexity of traveling outside the United States with their wireless devices. To do this, the FCC has designated the week of June 21 as “Wireless World Travel Week,” and has issued a set of suggestions to help travelers […]

The Federal Communications Commission has kicked off the next step to its search for new radio spectrum for broadband users today by announcing that it would release a portion of the 2 GHz S-band now used for mobile satellite communications. The new frequencies would be available for use in terrestrial broadband applications in addition to […]

When Hewlett-Packard launched its Software Universe event June 15 with a presentation on cloud computing, it was just the start of a day about clouds. HP kicked things off with its announcement at a massive event held at the Gaylord National conference center at Washington’s National Harbor, and featured Bill Veghte, who recently arrived at […]

WASHINGTON-The introduction of a version of the Apple iPhone for the Verizon Wireless network is not only possible, it is “inevitable,” according to a Verizon regional president. In an interview with eWEEK at the National Press Club on June 14, Michael Maiorana, Verizon president for the Washington-Baltimore-Virginia region, said it was a matter of when, […]

WASHINGTON-In May the backers of net neutrality rules thought they’d finally found salvation. After being told by a federal appeals court that the agency didn’t have the authority to regulate broadband communications, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it would reclassify broadband as a telephone service, which it could regulate. Unfortunately, later in the month, […]

If you believe the hype from Apple, the June 7 introduction of the iPhone 4 was roughly equivalent to the Second Coming. Steve Jobs, the high priest of technology, stood on the dais and presented his latest gift to the faithful. He explained to all who would listen just how cool it was, and then, […]

At first glance, using the cloud-based storage you’ve already got as your business continuity solution makes perfect sense. Your corporate data is already going somewhere offsite for storage, the people at your cloud provider automatically back up files, and you can get to your data when you need it. What’s not to like? Actually, there […]

Apple’s June 7 announcement of the new fourth generation of the iPhone marks Apple’s effort to catch up in the smartphone space after being bested by a succession of Android-based devices that have more features, larger screens and things like multitasking that Apple has avoided. The new iPhone 4 attempts to make up that ground […]

Sprint’s June 4 launch of its HTC Evo 4G smartphone is attended by more than the usual hype because it’s the first 4G device to be introduced in the United States. This Android 2.1-based phone uses Sprint’s new, and still incomplete, 4G network as well as its widely available 3G network. The device comes with […]

In one sense, the laptop computer has been a remarkably stable platform. The first laptop I ever used, the Data General One, was in 1984, and it was the prototype for all that followed. Yes, it ran MS-DOS on the command line, and it weighed 9 pounds, but with its LCD screen, flat keyboard and […]

Accellion’s managed file transfer solution is designed to support the needs of enterprises at all levels. It’s highly scalable, appropriately priced and worked quite well during our tests. The primary differentiator between Accellion’s product and similar products such as YouSendIt is that Accellion is designed specifically for the performance, security and compliance needs of the […]

The Android 2.1-based Verizon Droid Incredible, set to be released on April 29, at first glance looks to be the closest thing yet to Apple’s iPhone. It’s about the same size, uses a similar capacitance-based touch screen and has a menu screen that’s a lot like the iPhone’s. And yet, the Droid Incredible is quite […]