Wayne Rash

The new Samsung Galaxy S8 is more than just a smartphone. This is also the phone that Samsung needs to get its good name back. Samsung also needs to show it can bring more features to the table than Apple has with the iPhone 7. The task that may be hardest to accomplish may be […]

NEWS ANALYSIS: The Federal Communications Commission had already voted to withdraw data privacy rules for Internet Service Providers well before Congress voted to overturn them. The frantic reports in the general news media about a U.S. House of Representatives vote on March 28 to terminate Federal Communications Commission rules concerning internet users’ data privacy nearly […]

For what may be the first time ever, Apple has released an updated device, and did it quietly. The new Apple iPad was announced in press release on March 21, but the company didn’t hold the usual massive on-state media briefing. For most Apple customers it just showed up on the company’s website as a […]

BERLIN—I felt as if I were part of a John le Carré novel as I approached the old East German power station in what was once a dismal part of this city. The feeling grew stronger as I climbed the metal stairs in the cold drizzle. Everything around me was gray, cold and dripping. The […]

Hannover, Germany—I spoke with Dr. Jürgen Krämer, senior vice president for product management and marketing at Software AG in the massive trade show building at CeBIT 2017. As we talked, I watched a tiny assembly line model move a component from one place where it had been in storage to another where it was placed […]

Innovation at CeBIT Leans Heavily Toward the Internet of Things Hannover, Germany—The CeBIT technology show has launched as a somewhat smaller business-to-business event compared to its heights of a few years ago, when it filled 26 event halls, each the size of a major convention center. Today, it’s about half that. However, the focus now […]

The outrage at the press conference was palpable. Two Russian officials who are responsible for working as a liaison between Russian and American law enforcement were now indicted with facilitating a criminal act against the United States. Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev and Igor Anatolyevich Sushchin, both members of the Russian FSB, formerly known during the Soviet […]

There’s a growing consensus among security professionals here in Washington, DC that the single most likely spot for President Donald Trump to have had his phone tapped isn’t at Trump Tower. Instead it’s his unsecured Android phone that he uses to access Twitter. In fact, due to the ease with which mobile devices can be […]

Depending on who you believe, the signs are right for a debut of Apple’s latest versions of the iPad tablet. The last iPad introduction was a year ago, when the iPad Pro 9.7 arrived. Before that the original 12.9-inch iPad Pro arrived in late November 2015 and the iPad Air 2 a year before that. […]

Now that the technology industry has had a chance to see the CIA files that showed up on WikiLeaks on March 7, founder Julian Assange is offering the companies affected a chance to see the complete dumps of the information that’s been revealed. Until now the material posted on the WikiLeaks site in what’s called […]

The U.S. Government’s response to the publication by WikiLeaks of about 8,000 pages of secret methods used by the Central Intelligence Agency to penetrate everything from cell phones to televisions has been varied. On one hand, Congress is in a panic. It’s setting up investigations and predicting the end of the world. Intelligence professionals, on […]

It’s been a tough few weeks for ride-sharing company Uber what with company CEO Travis Kalanik seen arguing over fares with one of his drivers, a former engineer accused of sexual harassment and now there’s allegations in the New York Times that Uber is deceiving regulators. The Times report suggested that Uber might be violating […]