Wayne Rash

Secretary of Veterans Affairs R. James Nicholson has revealed that the data stolen from an employees home in Maryland in May included personal information on over 1 million active duty, reserve and National Guard personnel. Nicholson said the new information came to light when the Department of Defense compared electronic files. In a statement issued […]

WASHINGTON—Claiming that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs “flagrantly disregarded the privacy rights of essentially every man or woman to have worn a United States military uniform,” veterans groups filed a massive class-action lawsuit June 6 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The lawsuit, which comes days after the VA reported […]

WASHINGTON—Calling robots a “disruptive technology,” iRobot Chairman and Founder Helen Greiner said that robots made by her company have already saved the lives of dozens of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. She said that robotics will be as important in some ways as the invention of fire, and that when used in the real world, […]

Wireless users in the United States are adopting advanced applications, but the level of adoption is far behind the rest of the world, according to a survey of wireless usage habits conducted by Siemens, AG. The survey, which was released June 5, found that users outside the United States were furthest ahead in their use […]

Networking gear maker Cisco Systems is taking the first steps of what could be a major initiative aimed at expanding its business into the growing market for products that integrate IT and physical security technologies. The companys Linksys consumer and small business division has launched a new wireless camera system aimed at helping customers marry […]

Calling its new product the “first commercialized voice optimized dual-mode handset,” Paragon Wireless has begun selling its Wi-Fi/cellular dual-mode phone in the United States, starting the week of May 29. Previously, the phone had been available as a test product in China. “Its ready to go to market,” said Ilkka Pouttu, vice president of sales […]

Mobile Armor is now supplying wireless security solutions to the U.S. Secretary of Defense, said Chief Technology Officer and co-founder Bryan Glancey. According to Glancey, the Office of the Secretary of Defense is the companys biggest customer for wireless security solutions. “The Wireless Suite is a comprehensive security solution that Mobile Armor has developed for […]

Sprint Nextel has begun shipping a new version of Research In Motions popular BlackBerry device, designed to take advantage of its Power Vision mobile broadband network. The company will also upgrade an earlier version of the BlackBerry to take advantage of the network later in 2006. The BlackBerry 7130e, as delivered by Sprint, will be […]

Toshiba America will start selling wireless voice-over-IP phones and a wireless PDA to work with its Strata CIX series of IP PBX equipment, the company said. The products, two wireless phones and a wireless combination phone/PDA using Windows Mobile, are available through Toshiba dealers starting May 18. The company did not release pricing for the […]

IBM has begun making Lotus applications available for BlackBerry device users, allowing companies that have developed applications for other Lotus platforms with Notes and Domino to run those applications on the BlackBerry wireless handheld device. “We already have integration between BlackBerry and Notes users for e-mail, calendar and PIM,” said IBM vice president of business […]

A BellSouth spokesperson has denied reports that the company had agreed to turn over phone call records to the National Security Agency. “We have no contract with the NSA and we have not turned over any customer information to the NSA,” said Jeff Battcher, BellSouths vice president of corporate communications, in an interview with eWEEK […]

For the second time May 16, a major phone company named in a USA Today story about records being sent to the National Security Agency is denying that any such records were sent. Earlier on May 16, BellSouth issued a very strong denial that the company was even contacted by the NSA, much less asked […]