Wayne Rash

As you can tell from my colleague Chris Preimesberger’s analysis article, Google’s rationale for creating the Alphabet holding company included providing greater transparency for investors. Google, after all, has been taking an eclectic approach to technology research and development, from creating the world’s top search engine to testing driverless cars. It’s pretty clear that investors […]

Two years after the then-smallest national wireless carrier in the United States announced that it was doing away with contracts, the largest, Verizon Wireless, has now followed suit, bringing T-Mobile’s “Un-Carrier” approach to the major carriers in the industry. Verizon made the announcement as part of a move to change its data plans, which are […]

T-Mobile has finally achieved the third-place status that CEO John Legere promised would happen in 2015. The quarterly performance numbers issued by both companies showed that T-Mobile had about 1 million more subscribers in the second quarter of 2015 than the previous No. 3company, Sprint. This means that Sprint now drops to fourth place among […]

My opportunity to take advantage of the free upgrade to Windows 10 happened when I least expected it. I had retired to an undisclosed location to work on my perpetually unfinished novel. By Saturday afternoon I’d entered the advanced stages of procrastination, but Microsoft came to my rescue. A window opened in the lower right […]

It’s no secret that in a matter of hours Microsoft will start distributing Windows 10 upgrades with the goal of getting to dump older versions in favor the latest edition. While it will send out the upgrade automatically, corporate IT managers have control over which of your computers will get the new version of Windows […]

The hacking and remote takeover of a 2014 Jeep Cherokee by a pair of security researchers working with Wired Magazine has resulted in a recall of the affected vehicles. As my colleague Sean Michael Kerner points out, this vulnerability has been known by Fiat Chrysler, the company that makes Jeep automobiles, for a while and […]

Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler has recommended that the commission vote to approve AT&T’s $49 billion acquisition of satellite television service provider DirecTV with some conditions. “The proposed order outlines a number of conditions that will directly benefit consumers by bringing more competition to the broadband marketplace,” Wheeler said in his July 22 announcement. […]

No doubt the revelation of a data breach at the online dating site, Ashley Madison has 37 million people looking over their shoulder about now. Unlike some dating sites where singles are put in touch with each other, Ashley Madison exists to facilitate affairs between people who are already attached to someone else. The site’s […]

Your phone almost certainly has a SIM card located in a slot on the side or top of the device. It’s under a tiny hatch that you open with a special tool that came with your phone, or once you’ve lost that tool, it’s opened using a paper clip. The SIM itself looks a lot […]

I didn’t realize it at the time, but during what would normally have been a routine phone call to discuss an editorial assignment, I was given a look at the future. Back in the late ’90s, I was the editor of a technology supplement for The Washington Post. I had asked a number of people […]

Go to the Microsoft Website starting on July 13, and the message is clear. Upgrade time is near, and the company wants you to think about upgrading everything about your world, not just your copy of Windows. The Upgrade Your World link takes you to a list of nine extremely worthwhile charities, all of which […]

The news from the Office of Personnel Management on July 10 was something most people in Washington were looking for. The director of the office, Katherine Archuleta, announced that she was stepping aside in the wake of a series of increasingly dismaying revelations of breaches into OPM’s data systems. Initially the agency announced that as […]