Wayne Rash

When Google announced that it was coming out with a competitor to Amazon’s Echo device at the I/O conference on Wednesday May 18, most of the discussion was about the capabilities, and whether it would be able to overcome the frustrations of other digital assistants, including Amazon’s Alexa. At this point, most of the discussion […]

I had just sat down to have my first cup of coffee for the day when my cell phone rang. Normally I’d think twice before answering the phone before office hours, but the caller ID showed it was a close friend. She told me she had heard that Facebook had been hacked, and the hackers […]

I was talking with my old friend Jock Gill, who had called me late on a Sunday evening to rekindle a discussion we’d had years ago about how to leverage the Internet in the political process. Gill, a retired White House staffer and now a part-time political consultant, had been a major source of inspiration […]

President Barack Obama signed a new federal law on May 11 that’s designed to help the nation protect its intellectual property by giving the federal courts broader jurisdiction in civil cases involving the loss of trade secrets. The new law, titled the “Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016” also adds some new powers to the […]

Once again, the U.S. federal government has run into a roadblock with the technology industry. This time Twitter is preventing government agencies from using the service to augment their intelligence-gathering activities. On May 9, The Wall Street Journal reported that Twitter is no longer allowing partner Dataminr to provide feeds of Twitter activity to government […]

By now you already know that passwords are problematic. Getting your employees to create passwords that are even slightly secure is hard. Getting them to change to new passwords is even harder. Getting them to actually remember passwords instead of writing them on sticky notes and attaching them to their monitor is nearly impossible. This […]

Ransomware attacks on businesses in the U.S. are growing faster than ever and few businesses are ready to handle them, according to a bulletin from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Cyber criminals are also attacking a much broader range of businesses, including attacks on health care facilities and critical infrastructure as well as launching attacks […]

I was sitting next to Catherine Blieka, product and client services manager for Optii Solutions, as we watched Donna Gallyon schedule the housekeeping staff for the day. Gallyon, who is operations manager for the Rocky Gap Casino and Resort in Cumberland, Md., was discussing the schedule with housekeeping supervisor Becky Bunnell as she made a […]

After six years of wrangling with European antitrust regulators, it appears that Google is about to be fined for its insistence that Android phone makers include its Chrome browser and because of how it handles shopping inquiries for hotels and flights, among other items. Adding to the problem, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, was charged a […]

At first glance, it seems like a case of turnabout being fair play when the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced on April 27 that it would not tell Apple how it got into terrorist Syed Farook’s iPhone 5C, which was recovered by authorities following Farook’s December killing rampage in San Bernardino, Calif. After all, […]

When the new Apple 9.7-inch iPad Pro arrived I quickly found myself in a quandary. I placed it next to the 12.9-inch iPad Pro I bought back in November and I liked them both. Once I’d loaded my apps and other content on to the new iPad, my quandary intensified. Which iPad would prove to […]

TYSONS, Va.—Federal Communications Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel told a group of industry representatives that the 5.9GHz band is “our best near shot for having more WiFi” and called for tests to ensure that it can be effectively used for this purpose. Rosenworcel was speaking at the WiFi Now conference held at the Sheraton Hotel here. The […]