Wayne Rash

Lenovo X1 Yoga Gen 2 Business Laptop Delivers the Right Improvements The second generation of Lenovo’s two-in-one business ultrabook, the ThinkPad X1 Yoga is an improved version of last year’s original. The company’s other business ultrabook, the X1 Carbon, remains in production and shares a lot of DNA with the Yoga. The 3-pound Yoga is […]

When I reviewed Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Yoga last fall, I found little to complain about, but clearly Lenovo thought there was room for improvement. Then in January, 2017, Lenovo began showing the X1 Yoga Gen 2 at CES and other events. The new version of the X1 Yoga featured seventh generation   as you’d expect, but […]

When the Petya malware arrived in Europe this week, it seemed at least at first like a repeat the WannaCry cyber-attacks in May. The victims were running Microsoft Windows computers that had not been patched to close a vulnerability in the SMBv1 protocol. Microsoft issued the patch in mid-March, and since that time the company […]

When Apple’s new iPhone burst onto the mobile market ten years ago this week, I was happily checking my email with a shiny new BlackBerry Bold that my editors at eWEEK had provided. I’d watched the introduction of this new device and wondered why anyone would want to use a device where the only input […]

Last week, a Honda plant in Japan was forced to shut down for a day while managers cleared it of the WannaCry ransomware worm that had infected its unpatched Windows computers. A similar event took out some 50 traffic cameras in Australia. And they’re not alone as the WannaCry ransomware worm continues to attack and […]

A lesson for Uber, and for the startup culture in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, is that you need more than one kind of manager at different times to make a company a success. Travis Kalanick’s decision to leave the company he co-founded and ran as CEO was necessary. Kalanick himself realized this, which is a […]

It’s difficult to characterize the data breach of a consulting firm that worked for the Republican National Committee. Deep Root Analytics of Arlington, Va., was paid approximately $1 million by the RNC to amass a storehouse of information on nearly every voter in the United States. As one might expect, the data files included the […]

Amazon has been trying to conquer the grocery business for a decade. At first, Amazon Fresh was only available in a few places, primarily in spots where the company already had a major presence, such as Seattle. But eventually it grew, and now you can get fresh groceries from Amazon in major metro areas, including […]

The management disorder at Uber showed few signs of abating this week, even as the ride sharing company’s board of directors decided to adopt 10 recommendations for improving corporate governance that was drafted by an investigative team lead by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Uber board member David Bonderman resigned on June 13 reportedly […]

A series of law suits, criminal investigations, executive departures and employee firings present a general picture of management disarray that calls into question whether once high-flying ride sharing startup Uber can survive as an independent business. Lately it seems more bad news emerges from Uber almost every day. A number of observers have put the […]