Wayne Rash

The Mobile Marketing Association is announcing an updated set of guidelines that govern how advertising is delivered to wireless and mobile devices. The new guidelines, announced Nov. 13 by the Boulder, Colo., organization, are part of the MMAs list of best practices. Those best practices range from technical standards on banner ads to the requirement […]

Cingular Wireless is announcing Nov. 13 that it will start selling a new 3G smart phone called the BlackJack. The device is designed to compete with Motorolas Q smart device, which is sold in the United States by Verizon Wireless. The new device features a QWERTY keyboard, a music player with access to Cingular Music […]

Motorola has agreed to acquire Good Technology, the companies jointly announced Nov. 10. The terms of the deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, were not announced. The acquisition puts Motorola in direct competition with Research In Motion, makers of the BlackBerry device. Motorola has been selling the Q, which offers BlackBerry-like capabilities and can […]

WASHINGTON—By all indications, the Nov. 8 midterm elections went off with few hitches that could be blamed on electronic voting, despite the dire predictions of some activists who oppose e-voting. According to many observers, the number of problems was smaller, and the impact on the election less significant than nearly anyone predicted. “The headline is: […]

Palm is disputing that it has violated any of the patents of NTP. NTP, a patent holding company in Virginia, filed suit on Nov. 6 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia claiming that Palm had violated seven of its patents relating to the transmission of electronic mail by wireless communications. […]

Cingular Wireless will begin selling a new broadband PDA on Nov. 16, a company executive told eWEEK. The new HSDPA/UMTS enabled Cingular 8525 includes a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, a wide screen, and it also supports quad-band EDGE, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. The device will sell for $399.00 with a two-year agreement. It supports tri-band HSDPA, so […]

On Nov. 7, a third of all U.S. voters will encounter electronic voting machines for the first time. As is the case in nearly any human enterprise that goes through a massive change, there will be problems. There will be people who cant vote when they wish because poll workers werent properly trained, or because […]

Imagine an upgrade that calls for untrained people with inadequate leadership to roll out a critical new technology under crushing deadlines. Then they must perform the upgrade under intense public scrutiny and cut the already-short timeline for completion in half while fostering ever-growing expectations for the projects impact. The truth is, you dont even need […]

The Wi-Fi Alliance announced Oct. 31 that Americans like their Wi-Fi more than they like Starbucks. The organization, reporting on a study it carried out with Kelton Research, uncovered a number of interesting facts about U.S. Wi-Fi users. For example, 89 percent of the 549 American Wi-Fi users surveyed said they would do without Starbucks […]

FAIRFAX, Va.—AirWave Wireless, of San Mateo, Calif., announced Nov. 2 that the company has joined forces with Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia to develop a new version of its wireless management suite that includes a new executive portal. The Fairfax County school system has one of the largest Wi-Fi networks in the United States, […]