Wayne Rash

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 […]

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, […]