Wayne Rash

CEO Tim Cook announced record revenues and record profits for the most recent quarter, but you could hardly tell that from the resulting hand wringing by market analysts. Pundits wailed warnings of a market sea change. The sky is falling, Apple has hit a wall. The iPhone era is over. Nonsense. While it’s true that […]

The woman on the videoconference screen looked at me in astonishment. “I didn’t think we had a call scheduled,” she said in alarm. The surprise was understandable, as she and another person seemed to be just lounging in the conference room. I disconnected the videoconferencing call immediately, and then checked my notes. I’d transposed a […]

The Microsoft executive attending the CeBIT Press Preview in Hannover, Germany, let the global press representatives there know that his company was taking action to forestall any additional efforts by the U.S. Department of Justice to access information in European data centers. The company, he said, was in the process of building a new data […]

HANNOVER, Germany—Security is always an important part of the CeBIT technology trade show here, but this year, new concerns are on the rise for businesses in Europe and beyond. Adding to those concerns are the continuing disclosures of classified documents describing U.S. cyber-surveillance activities by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Also of concern […]

IT Security, Drones Dominate Exhibits at CeBIT 2016 Media Preview This year’s focus will be on securing systems, including IoT, cloud and telecomm technology, which are of rapidly rising importance to enterprises. Skye Drone Gets a Lift From Helium The new commercial drone from Skye is designed to overcome some of the more significant challenges […]

STUTTGART, Germany—I was transfixed as the huge yellow robot swung the front portion of a car’s chassis around as if it weighed nothing. Then, the robot stopped and with the future car held steady, two big electrodes came together and sparks flew, and as the smoke cleared, the robot moved the part a few inches, […]

The Obama administration announced Jan. 14 that it is proposing to spend nearly $4 billion over 10 years in an effort to fund a series of pilot projects that are intended to jump-start the autonomous car efforts in the United States. Standing with senior executives from major carmakers and leading-edge developers, Anthony Foxx, U.S. Secretary […]

To borrow an idea from the late legendary cartoonist Walt Kelly and his beloved possum Pogo, Friday the 13th came on a Wednesday for Volkswagen this month. Jan. 13, 2016, was the day when Volkswagen CEO Matthias Müller was planning to reveal the car maker’s plans to fix its diesel emissions problem to U.S. Environmental […]

The plan by AT&T has made sense from the beginning. The company agreed to buy DirecTV in June 2015 as a way to provide more compelling offerings to its customers. AT&T was already contending, on one hand, with Verizon, which was attracting customers with its triple play offerings of cable, phone and wireless. On the […]

Here it is nearly a year after the disclosure that former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, currently seeking a new job, had violated a series of regulations about the use of government email and we’re still seeing more damaging revelations. Compounding the issue are recent reports that current U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter […]

You could be excused if you’d wandered into the CES 2016 in Las Vegas and momentarily thought you had stumbled into an auto show. By all accounts, this year’s CES has been all about the biggest consumer purchase that most people make —the automobile. That should be no surprise now that cars are becoming more […]

The WiFi Alliance has released a new standard for wireless communications that acknowledges some basic facts about radio communications that have frustrated users for years. Those basic facts involve the distance and building penetration capabilities of 2.4GHz WiFi and, to an even greater extent, 5GHz WiFi. The bottom line is that WiFi has some pretty […]