Wayne Rash is a content writer and editor with a 35-year history covering technology. He’s a frequent speaker on business, technology issues and enterprise computing. He is the author of five books, including his most recent, "Politics on the Nets." Rash is a former Executive Editor of eWEEK and a former analyst in the eWEEK Test Center. He was also an analyst in the InfoWorld Test Center and editor of InternetWeek. He's a retired naval officer, a former principal at American Management Systems and a long-time columnist for Byte Magazine.
At first glance, using the cloud-based storage you’ve already got as your business continuity solution makes perfect sense. Your corporate data is already going somewhere offsite for storage, the people at your cloud provider automatically back up files, and you can get to your data when you need it. What’s not to like? Actually, there […]
Apple’s June 7 announcement of the new fourth generation of the iPhone marks Apple’s effort to catch up in the smartphone space after being bested by a succession of Android-based devices that have more features, larger screens and things like multitasking that Apple has avoided. The new iPhone 4 attempts to make up that ground […]
Sprint’s June 4 launch of its HTC Evo 4G smartphone is attended by more than the usual hype because it’s the first 4G device to be introduced in the United States. This Android 2.1-based phone uses Sprint’s new, and still incomplete, 4G network as well as its widely available 3G network. The device comes with […]
In one sense, the laptop computer has been a remarkably stable platform. The first laptop I ever used, the Data General One, was in 1984, and it was the prototype for all that followed. Yes, it ran MS-DOS on the command line, and it weighed 9 pounds, but with its LCD screen, flat keyboard and […]
Accellion’s managed file transfer solution is designed to support the needs of enterprises at all levels. It’s highly scalable, appropriately priced and worked quite well during our tests. The primary differentiator between Accellion’s product and similar products such as YouSendIt is that Accellion is designed specifically for the performance, security and compliance needs of the […]
The Android 2.1-based Verizon Droid Incredible, set to be released on April 29, at first glance looks to be the closest thing yet to Apple’s iPhone. It’s about the same size, uses a similar capacitance-based touch screen and has a menu screen that’s a lot like the iPhone’s. And yet, the Droid Incredible is quite […]
Verizon Droid Boasts Google Android 2.1 by Wayne Rash Home Screen This is the home screen for the Verizon Droid. You’ll see your most commonly used icons here if you copy them from the main menu screen, a task that’s intuitive. Menu Options If you flick open the tab at the bottom of the home […]
Droid Incredible Swaps Its Keyboard for a Better Touch Screen, More Horsepower by Wayne Rash Droid Incredible The HTC Droid Incredible from Verizon Wireless is a touch-screen-only device that runs Android 2.1. Unlike its older brother, the Motorola Droid, it does not have a slide-out keyboard, depending instead entirely on the one that appears on […]
With the release of its Droid smartphone at the end of the year, Verizon Wireless entered into the world of open-source software in an effort to compete with archrival AT&T, which offers the iPhone. The Droid runs Android 2.1, which is the latest version of Google’s operating system that has already been adopted by the […]
YouSendIt Corporate Suite Provides Secure, Easy Managed File Transfer By Wayne Rash YSI Web The most basic means of using YouSendIt is through its Website. This requires nothing of the user beyond a browser and Internet access, but you lose some features such as the ability to send entire folders, and it’s somewhat slower. YSI […]