Wayne Rash

The US Department of Transportation has announced that a laptop computer containing names, addresses and social security numbers of 133,000 Florida residents was stolen two weeks ago. According to a letter sent to Congress on August 9, the theft of the laptop happened on July 27 in Doral, Fla., a suburb of Miami. The theft […]

Firetide, the Los Gatos, Calif., maker of mesh networking infrastructure, has announced that the company has started shipping new Wi-Fi access points designed to work in conjunction with its mesh networking hardware and management software. The new line of HotPoint APs are designed for enterprise and municipal networks, and are offered in both an indoor […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs is hiring ID Analytics to perform data breach analysis to ensure that information on 26.5 million veterans contained on a stolen laptop was not compromised. The laptop has since been recovered. According to a release from the VA, ID Analytics will look for patterns of misuse and suspicious activity related […]

Sprint Nextel will begin offering a high-bandwidth wireless service to customers by the end of 2007 that will use WiMax technology and operate in the 2.5GHz band, where Sprint has extensive spectrum holdings. The company expects the 4G service to reach 100 million people in the United States in 2008, according to a Sprint spokesperson. […]

WASHINGTON—FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell met with reporters Aug. 8 to explain his thoughts and concerns regarding issues he expects to come before the Federal Communications Commission over the next several years. During a press conference, the commissioner said that he believes strongly in the power of the marketplace, and that he believes that consumers have […]

Wavion of San Jose is announcing a new spatially adaptive, beam forming Wi-Fi access point aimed at the municipal and metro wireless markets. The new Wavion WS410 is designed to use its ability to direct RF (radio frequency) energy on a packet by packet basis to double the range of standard Wi-Fi APs, as well […]

WASHINGTON—Officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs announced this afternoon that a VA contractor has discovered that a computer containing information on as many as 38,000 veterans is missing. Matthew Burns, spokesman for the department, said the contractor, Unisys, told the VA that the computer was missing from its Reston, Va., offices on Thursday, Aug. […]

Its hard to imagine a company with less to worry about in the net neutrality debate than Siemens. With $75 billion in annual revenue, the global industrial giant has the pricing power to keep any Internet carrier in line. A move to charge more for some services, or to restrict access in any way, would […]

Tom McInerneys Guba is one of those companies that AT&T said is getting a “free ride.” Guba has deals with Sony and Warner Bros. to deliver movies to customers over the Internet and, as a result, demands a lot of bandwidth. Its companies such as his that AT&T would like to charge extra to serve. […]

Kimberly Johnson, a Washington social studies teacher, views the net neutrality debate through the prism of tiered services. If—and for now its a big if—carriers could put search engines such as Google and Yahoo on a more expensive service tier, its unlikely Johnsons school would foot the bill. Johnsons school is Roosevelt High School in […]

Dr. René Alvarez lives and works in Homer, Alaska, a small city on a scenic bay in the southwest part of the state. Getting Internet access in Homer isnt a problem. In fact, this city is the jumping-off point for a new fiber-optic link to Kodiak Island that went into operation in late July. Unfortunately, […]

For Dr. René Alvarez, a surgeon from Homer, Alaska, the debate surrounding network neutrality isnt about the digital minutia of speeds and tiered services; it could be about life and death. For his patients in Alaskas interior, the Internet isnt a link to movies and games. “The Internet,” he said during a recent meeting in […]