Wayne Rash

The new Roomba 560s roots go much deeper than floor cleaning. The device comes from iRobot, a company with a long history of military and industrial robots. In fact, iRobot is the company that made many of the robots that searched the World Trade Center ruins in 2001. It also makes robots that patrol modern […]

The idea behind Corsairs Padlock USB storage device seems obvious: Find a way to control access to sensitive data by controlling the device itself rather than depending on special software. In eWEEK Labs testing, the low-cost Corsair Padlock was easy to use, secure and worked with most of the computers youre likely to need it […]

My views of Net neutrality first started to be formulated when I found myself at the bar of the Holiday Inn near the Boston airport a little over a year ago. Sitting next to me was Dr. Rene Alvarez, a surgeon who lives and works in Homer, Alaska. Dr. Alvarez treats a variety of patients, […]

Welcome to Wireless In some ways, the mind-set around municipal wireless technology is much like that around net neutrality: Most people think its a good thing, but almost no one can agree on what it actually means. Thats not stopping muni wireless from wending its way into cities across the United States, each of which […]

AT&T is providing the city of Riverside, Calif., with free wireless access, supported by advertising. But there are still costs involved, said Michael Beck, assistant city manager. “It doesnt come free, but it can be very cost-effective,” Beck said. “That is where a community can get caught with a surprise. You have to make sure […]

Dells new PowerVault MD3000i SAN isnt the first time Dell has shipped a storage area network. In fact, its not the first time the company has shipped an iSCSI SAN. Whats new about the MD3000i is that its the first time the company has shipped one without the name of its partner EMC. The PowerVault […]

The recent mine collapse in Huntington, Utah, seems like an unlikely topic of conversation between technology journalists. After all, before the tragedy, that mine was a brute-force operation in which men physically wrested coal from the bowels of the earth. There were no electronic niceties here. But as it happened, eWEEK Editor Deb Donston and […]

Now that Im reviewing storage products for eWEEK Labs, Ive noticed that at least a couple of the same myths I saw in other product areas are also infesting the world of storage. The most common is that you can solve all your storage needs by simply plugging everything into the company Ethernet. Why would […]

While its great fun as a reviewer to look at the latest smart phone or PDA, the fact is that in most enterprises, its not the BlackBerrys or Treos that do the heavy lifting. In fact, the real work in industries that involve everything from manufacturing to the movement of goods takes place in the […]

The quad wars, the fight between Intel and AMD over which company has the “best” quad-core processor, has entered the next phase. Like all wars, there are initial posturings and skirmishes, followed by an attack, then followed by some significant moves by one party against the other. The quad wars have entered the strategic bombing […]

As the hype for the Democratic Party YouTube/CNN debate built last week, I kept remembering a quote from George Orwells Animal Farm: “All animals are equal,” the head pig Napoleon tells the farmyard, “but some animals are more equal than others.” The reason that I kept thinking about this is because the debate, sponsored by […]

It almost seems as if T-Mobile wanted to make sure no undue attention was drawn to its revolutionary HotSpot @Home converged wireless system. The system was announced just before Apples iPhone (but well after iPhone hype had taken over the media) and positioned as a consumer-only product. Even the name screams “consumer-only.” This is, of […]