Wayne Rash

As part of its run-up to nationwide 5G communications, T-Mobile has launched narrowband IoT, a series of bands intended specifically for sensors and other devices that communicate only small amounts of data at any one time, but which need a dedicated band in which to do it. To do this, T-Mobile has utilized the guard […]

The indictment filed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday the 13th reads in places like a crime novel. The story explains step-by-step how a group of Russian operatives who are part of the Internet Research Agency targeted the Democratic Party and the Hillary Clinton campaign, hacked into their computers and then stole vast quantities […]

Now that we’ve outfitted our old HP Z620 Professional Workstation with more memory and solid-state drives configured in a RAID data storage system, one of the few things remaining that can be done is to replace the CPU that came with the machine with one that’s faster.  But before you start searching on Amazon for […]

When it comes to speeding up your older workstation, replacing the existing hard disks with solid state drives is probably the first step you should consider. Your workstation depends on its mass storage devices for more than just storing data and programs. Those swap files I mentioned in my previous column about workstation memory can […]

Before you rush out and buy a new workstation class computer, it’s worth taking a look at your existing machines to see if it’s possible to update them to improve their performance.  That’s what I’m doing with the HP Z-620 workstation I mentioned in my previous column. It’s a real workhorse and was part of […]

Professional workstations are creatures of the enterprise, because they can perform computing and visualization tasks beyond what’s reasonable for other computers. As the name implies, professional workstations exist for work. They are not computers that ordinary users buy at a big box store for their gaming needs, nor are they devices that most people would […]

Two minutes after the glass door of the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, was blasted by a shotgun round, and five newspaper employees were killed, police had the alleged shooter in custody.  But they had a problem when they took him in for questioning. He had no identification, he would not talk to police […]

The European Parliament voted on July 5 against a proposal from the European Commission to adopt a strong copyright law that would dramatically affect how the internet is used in the EU. Because of the Web’s global nature the proposed laws would have impacted internet use and content access everywhere.  Had the proposed law been […]

To some, an article in the Wall Street Journal about “Tech’s Dirty Secret” was a revelation. How is it that Google could allow developers from hundreds of companies to spend their days “sifting” though your email messages? The answer, it seems, is a lot more complicated that the article suggested.  Here’s what’s actually happening. Google, […]

BEDFORD HILLS, Va. — The new data privacy law passed in California on June 28 is that state’s attempt to rectify the excesses revealed by Cambridge Analytica and other organizations lately in which consumer information was used, sold and frequently ravaged without consent. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 imposes some requirements on companies […]

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has named David Lawrence, a former Justice Department antitrust lawyer, to head the task force that will coordinate the agency’s review of the T-Mobile–Sprint merger. Lawrence previously served as the counsel to the assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice Antitrust division. He focused on telecommunications and transportation […]

The Wi-Fi Alliance has begun certifying wireless devices that meet the new WPA3 standard in a move that will make wireless communications more secure and easier to manage, but it’ll be awhile before you can incorporate the new standard into your organization’s network. However, you can buy devices that are able to be upgraded to […]