Wayne Rash

The approval of the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint by U.S. District Court Judge Victor Marrero on Feb. 11, 2020 removed the last major hurdle to the massive telecom buy. In his decision, Judge Marrero found that the merger is lawful. Attorneys general for 14 states had sued to stop the merger, claiming that it […]

By now you know about the chaos caused by the Iowa Democratic Party’s decision to use a mobile app to tabulate the results of that state’s caucuses. The caucus method of choosing nominees for delegates to the party’s national convention has long been viewed as complex and difficult to manage, but it worked for Iowans […]

The concept behind Cisco’s Meraki line of networking products is to manage everything in the cloud. That line consists of the regular Meraki line of products which are much like other enterprise networking products, but cloud managed. The other line is Meraki Go, which is intended to be used in small businesses without any IT […]

When you get as many 5G-oriented press releases as I do, especially around the time of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, you’ll hear all sorts of claims, many dubious. Those claims are frequently absurd, often wrong and sometimes propose violations of the laws of physics. Mostly, though, they’re simply self-serving marketing blather. Unfortunately, some of […]

By now you’ve seen a lot of predictions for the wonderful things that will happen in the year 2020. This is partly because we’ve reached the point where technology changes are compounding by building on each other. But it’s also partly because the idea of “2020” grabs the imagination because it sounds cool. The challenge […]

My first encounter with McLaren took place at a racetrack north of Atlanta a few days before I covered a CanAm race in 1970. Like all race cars, this McLaren was a little rough around the edges, but when the engine was started it was as if the sound of glory had opened the heavens. […]

At first glance, the Iridium 9575 Extreme isn’t particularly impressive. In fact, it resembles the earliest handheld cell phones of 20 years ago, what with its black finish, the large external antenna and the relatively small screen. But looks can be deceiving. In reality, this Iridium phone can reach the company’s 66 satellites circling nearly […]

Beginning Dec. 2, T-Mobile began lighting up its nationwide 5G network. The company said that its 5G network will reach more than 200 million people in over 5,000 cities and towns in the United States. According to the company, the initial launch will cover over 1 million square miles. The company was able to switch […]

If you’ve been anywhere near a television over the last month and a half, you know what to expect from the iPhone 11 Pro when you pick it up. There on the back is a cluster of three cameras arranged in a triangle. This is similar in concept to the lens arrangement on the Bell […]

The audience at the recent NetEvents conference in San Jose snapped to alertness when Ted Ross, CEO of Spycloud, told them to stop changing their passwords so often. In fact, Ross said, passwords should be left alone unless you know that they’ve been breached. The reason, he explained, is because people tend to pick passwords […]

You’ve seen the 5G hype. It’s hard to escape, what with TV commercials, radio spots and email ads pitching it, and with too many articles in too many places making it sound like this wonderful new form of high-speed communication is on your doorstep. And to some extent it is, provided you’re located in one […]

AUSTIN, Texas – I walked through the exhibit space at the SpiceWorld conference here, and in booths scattered about, I saw appliance after appliance promising a solution to one security problem after another. One would trap phishing emails, according to the people there. Another would solve your authentication problems. Still another would look for malware of […]