Wayne Rash

The fact that Apple decided to eliminate the time-honored 3.5 millimeter headphone jack from the design of the iPhone 7 wasn’t a surprise, if only because for months rumors had been saying this would happen. But the advance warning didn’t make the reality of the decision any less controversial, nor did it help make dubious […]

Apple has made some bold changes to the latest iteration of the iPhone, but, to the relief of most business users, it has retained a pathway to their legacy infrastructure. Of course, the new iPhone 7 is faster than earlier iPhones models, has more memory and it includes important improvements users have wanted for years. […]

The video on YouTube was hauntingly familiar. A charred case and broken glass on what was once a smartphone made it clear that something terrible had happened. The video narrator explained that the charred phone was once a Samsung Galaxy Note7, which had spontaneously burned while the owner wasn’t looking. Samsung executives saw that video […]

The White House has ordered a little-known investigative group to examine the implications of a series of cyber-attacks by suspected Russian hackers against U.S. election data systems. The attacks include breaches of a voter database used by the Democratic National Committee and voter registration sites in Illinois and Arizona. The group, known as the Foreign […]

A variety of press reports indicate that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into intrusions at the voter registration offices of two states during July and August. The two states are Illinois, where the voter registration system was taken offline for two weeks in July, and Arizona, where the voter registration network was down […]

Two weeks from now, you’ll know what Apple has in mind for its next iPhone. If current media reports hold true, you’ll be able to plan for the slightly thinner case, the improved processor power and the fact that some important business accessories may not work with it. Of course, we don’t know what the […]

Everyone seems happy about the launch of the Robocall Strike Force, which AT&T is facilitating at the behest of the Federal Communications Commission. They should be. While robocalls have been a growing problem for years, only now has the FCC managed to convince the major carriers, the major internet providers and the rest of the […]

Just when we boldly announced that self-driving cars would be making their appearance on city streets in the United States by 2021, it turns out we weren’t bold enough. The very next day, Uber announced a very ambitious plan to begin fielding self-driving cars in Pittsburgh before the end of August. Initially, the self-driving cars […]

The Ford Motor Company is making a major step into autonomous vehicles, but it’s moving carefully into this automotive technology. The company announced on August 16 that it will begin high-volume production of fully autonomous vehicles in 2021 and will market them for ride sharing. Ford also announced that it has locked up agreements with […]

The public release by a previously unknown group called the Shadow Brokers of information purportedly stolen from a server run by the National Security Agency’s hacking team is providing a lot of fodder for conspiracy theorists, but hard facts are in short supply. Shadow Brokers announced in a Tweet that the group was auctioning the […]

When the Federal Communications Commission issued its rule preempting state laws that limited local governments’ authority to build broadband networks, the commissioners’ comments were all about why broadband deployment is good for all concerned. Now that the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down that attempt, the complaints from those same commissioners are a […]

The chances are, you’ve never heard of Business Data Services, probably because it’s a new name recently coined by the Federal Communications Commission in place of what was previously called “special access.” The chances are you’ve probably not heard of special access either. While it hasn’t received much attention, it’s one of the last remnants […]