Wayne Rash

HANNOVER, Germany—The European economy is weak, especially when compared to the recovering U.S. economy. The difference is so great that it’s beginning to negatively affect the earnings of multinational companies. In fact, those weak earnings, brought on in part by a strong U.S. dollar, caused a 300-point drop in the New York Stock Exchange on […]

You know how annoying it is when you arrive at a business that advertises WiFi for its customers or visitors, but when you try to connect, you can’t, despite a strong signal. Or, perhaps even worse, you can connect, but the connection keeps failing. Just imagine what it’s like when you work in that same […]

Microsoft will release the next full version of Microsoft Office in the second half of 2015, according to a blog entry by Julia White, general manager of product marketing for Office and who is also part of the Office 365 team. This release keeps to Microsoft’s practice of issuing a new version of Office every […]

There’s no question that Microsoft has learned from the pain of getting customers to upgrade from Windows XP and later from Windows 7 to 8. From now on, it never wants to be in the position of having to convince people to buy the next version of Windows. While Microsoft Vice President for Operating Systems […]

I was on the phone with a customer service representative at Bank of America asking about one of their Visa cards with an EMV chip. I knew I was going to Germany in January, and I wanted to have the proper cards for when I went. Sadly, the conversation wasn’t encouraging. “Those aren’t available in […]

There are a lot of reasons an acquisition of BlackBerry by Korean tech giant Samsung makes good sense, as my colleague Todd Weiss has pointed out. BlackBerry has the loyalty of business and government customers worldwide, for one thing. The company also has patents covering security, encryption, the Internet of things (IoT) and even wearable […]

The U.S. Supreme Court has leveled a blow to state and local governments that attempt to limit the expansion of wireless companies because they don’t like their towers. The decision upholds the requirements of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which requires that companies whose zoning applications for cell towers are denied be provided with the […]

The latest proposal from President Barack Obama regarding legislation that the White House plans to introduce during the current session of Congress is generally welcomed by observers, but just about everyone with an oar in that water wishes it had been somehow different. Predictably, the Republication-led Congress wants to use its own bill (which varies, […]

The idea of a post-PC era has been around long enough now that most people think it’s a given that sales of desktop and laptop computers are in a permanent, spiraling decline. The belief is that we’ll eventually reach a point where those dinosaurs of yesteryear will quietly vanish, except perhaps for some in quaint […]

The Federal Communications Commission will vote on rules that will govern the activities of Internet service providers by imposing net neutrality rules under Title II of the Communications Act. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler told an audience at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 8 that the new rules will be circulated to […]

At first glance, the BlackBerry Classic seems to be just like its much-loved predecessor, the BlackBerry Bold 9900. But, of course, it’s not. Held side-by-side, the Classic is larger in every dimension except thickness. But the larger dimensions improves what BlackBerry already does best, which is to handle text-intensive tasks such as email. The Classic […]

HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 Server Delivers Versatile Data Center Service by Wayne Rash Meet the DL380 Gen9 The most obvious feature of the DL380 Gen9 is the space for storage drive bays. There are three, of which only one in this server is populated. The bays on the left of the photo and in the […]