Wayne Rash

Industry group USTelecom along with CTIA are asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to grant a rehearing of their petition challenging the Federal Communications Commission over its Open Internet order, which was decided June 15. A three-judge panel upheld the FCC’s decision to regulate all internet carriers as common carriers […]

I was sitting at my kitchen table having lunch with my wife, when I got the call on my cell phone. I looked at the number on the screen, and it seemed that I was being called by Microsoft. The thickly accented voice on the other end said the caller was from Microsoft’s security department, […]

Amazon and British aviation authorities have reached agreement on a series of tests of drones designed to deliver packages to customers. The new drone tests will include operations beyond the line-of-sight of the operator, which currently is prohibited in the United States. Other tests will include sensor performance to test whether the drones can see […]

As this is written, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, has resigned under pressure and effectively been forced off the stage of her party’s convention. But the release of thousands of emails from the DNC showing how the party leadership conspired to keep Sen. Bernie Sanders from winning the presidential nomination is […]

By now you’ve heard the chaos that accompanies Nintendo’s wildly popular augmented-reality game, Pokémon Go. You’ve heard about people who walk into immovable objects or off cliffs. You’ve heard about the Maryland driver so caught up in his game while behind the wheel that he slammed into a parked police car. The game is so […]

The day the Department of Justice lost its case before the U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, in which it was seeking to force Microsoft to turn over email content stored on a server in Ireland, it presented a plan to sidestep those limits with new legislation. The DOJ revealed its […]

Long ago in another life, I was taken into a laboratory run by the Department of Defense to see the future of data processing, which is what IT was called back then. Inside a room in that lab was a device that looked something like a washing machine. My guide said that I should be […]

Microsoft won a significant legal victory when the U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York found on July 15 that the company was right to refuse to turn over the contents of an email account to investigators from the U.S. Department of Justice. But it was also a win for every other […]

WASHINGTON—There already are signs at the National Holocaust Museum and at Arlington National Cemetery asking visitors not to play the Pokémon Go mobile augmented reality game while they are there. There are reports that some of our nation’s lawmakers were seen playing Pokémon Go on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. There have […]

Parking management has become a serious issue for cities that already are struggling with seemingly perpetual traffic congestion in their urban cores. Traffic tie-ups waste time, hurt commerce and produce air pollution. Most cities would welcome an efficient way to reduce that traffic congestion if they could. And they can. Cities have been experimenting with […]