Wayne Rash

NEW YORK—The advent of Windows 10 took the press room at the Interop trade show here by storm. Partly because the show had reached an all-time level of boring, and partly because the news out of Microsoft was actually pretty important. But of course serious discussions didn’t start until we had our way with Microsoft. […]

AUSTIN, Texas—The concept of fun isn’t usually what comes to mind when you think about help desk software. But then again, it is if you are talking about Spiceworks, and you are in Austin, where the unofficial motto is “Keep Austin Weird.” Perhaps that explains why the most prominent object in the exhibition hall at […]

AUSTIN, Texas—Spiceworks has added a significant new enterprise management application to its program of providing IT tools for free. Following an announcement at the SpiceWorld show here, Spiceworks CEO Scott Abel told eWEEK that the Windows Network Monitor application is available for download for free from the Spiceworks App Center to anyone who wants it. […]

The idea behind the BlackBerry Passport is to provide a device aimed specifically at users who need more screen real estate than is usually found on a smartphone to get optimized views of important data. In addition, BlackBerry seems to be aiming the device at people who aren’t normally heavy users of smartphones and thus […]

BlackBerry Passport Seeks Status as Smartphone for C-Level Executives By Wayne Rash The BlackBerry Passport Poses With a Real Passport The BlackBerry Passport is approximately the same size as a passport, which may be a familiar form factor for the intended audience, who may not be big users of smartphones. The screen is square, and […]

As a result of the massive cyber-attack on its point-of-sale (POS) systems, Home Depot is accelerating its move to EMV chip and PIN cards. The company said all stores will be equipped with such terminals by the end of 2014. The imposition of chip-and-PIN terminals will reduce Home Depot’s exposure in the future, but is […]

A couple of weeks after the news broke that some celebrities’ intimate photos had been stolen from their iCloud accounts, Apple has provided a real fix. Now, those celebrities along with anyone else who doesn’t want their personal data pilfered can set up two-factor authentication (Apple calls this two-step verification) for their iCloud data. This […]

WASHINGTON—When a prestigious organization such as the Brookings Institution here in the nation’s capital decides to study civilian robotics, you know that at the very least the organization will present some thought-provoking views. In that sense, Brookings delivered. Unfortunately, the analysts who were delivering the results of their studies on the Future of Civilian Robotics […]

Apple is finding out that its soon-to-be-shipped iPhone 6 Plus is in even higher demand than the company thought it might be. The new phone, which is being offered at a higher price than the standard iPhone 6, has still sold out well in advance. Reports are coming in from all over the United States […]

WASHINGTON—I was having coffee with Angela Gunn, an old friend who is working as a security researcher these days. She was explaining some of the problems with traditional approaches to thinking about security. But she is focused on Hewlett-Packard’s latest push, which is to think like a bad guy trying to break into computer networks […]

To absolutely no one’s surprise, Apple announced the iPhone 6 on Sept. 9 in the usual over-the-top event, complete with a short concert by legendary rock band U2. There are actually two versions of the iPhone 6, the standard one and the 6 Plus, which has a larger screen, better battery life, and some features […]

After I wrote about the problem with Apple’s iCloud in which photos of some celebrities were compromised and stolen from their accounts, I received a number of suggestions as to what Apple should do about it. I’ll forget about the suggestions that are unprintable, but there were plenty of people who think Apple should do […]