Wayne Rash

SARATOGA, Calif.—There’s a saying that’s been making its way around the IT business for a long time that asserts that “when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” This saying was proven true at the NetEvents Cloud Innovation Summit in Saratoga, Calif., where a number of vendors presented what […]

Your days with Windows XP are numbered. They are so numbered that we warned you in these pages nearly four years ago that the time had come to move away from Microsoft’s then aging OS to Windows 7. But here it is, two weeks away from the XP support cutoff date, including security updates. So […]

The White House Communications Agency, a Pentagon unit responsible for the secure communications used by President Barack Obama and his staff, has begun testing Android phones from two manufacturers, Samsung and LG. The report, from the Wall Street Journal, says that the testing is in its earliest stages. A White House spokesperson declined to comment […]

When the latest leak by former National Security Agency contract employee Edward Snowden hit the news channels on March 18, it failed to make much of a stir. According to the story, the NSA has been able to record all of the telephone conversations in one (presumably unfriendly) country using MYSTIC, and, what’s more, can […]

The first time I actually had to interact with a meeting robot was at a cocktail reception at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. I was sipping a glass of red wine and talking with Ethernet pioneer Bob Metcalfe at the Ethernet 40th Anniversary event in May 2013 when a robot bearing a […]

Over the years that I’ve been covering computer technology, a lot of trade shows have come and gone. The greatest of the bunch eventually collapsed under their own weight and then vanished. The biggest of these, Comdex, was the flagship computer industry trade show of the ’80s and early ’90s that was held every fall […]

HANNOVER, Germany—Actively seeking out real innovators, especially at a massive trade show such as CeBIT 2014, can leave one feeling a little like Diogenes seeking an honest man. But perhaps it’s better to remember Diogenes as the cynic that he was. When I encounter companies claiming to be real innovators, I too want to find […]

CeBIT Shows How Big Data Is Being Put to Work Around the World by Wayne Rash Future of Travel According to Deutsche Telekom and Airbus Deutsche Telekom, the company that owns most of T-Mobile in the U.S., sees travel in terms of the data that represents the process of moving people and things from point […]

HANNOVER, Germany—Walk into CeBIT’s Halle 16 on the massive grounds of the former Hannover World’s Fair and you’ll find yourself surrounded by what is perhaps the largest visualization of big data ever created. There printed on a membrane that surrounds the interior of the 5,000-square-meter space (that’s just under 54,000 square feet) are visualizations of […]

Ask Verizon Wireless Regional President Marquett Smith why his company came out on top for overall performance for a wireless company in a recent RootMetrics report, and he cites the continuous build-out of the Verizon LTE network. In fact, Verizon was also the winner in the subcategories of reliability, data, call and text performance, according […]

Two subcommittees of the House Science Committee determined to find out in a joint meeting whether there were any clear technology ways to reduce theft or illegal access of personal data by international cyber-criminals. The Oversight and Research and Technology subcommittees called together a disparate collection of experts in an effort to get guidance for […]

The Nokia Lumia Icon, a Verizon-only Windows 8 phone, looks a lot like pretty much any other Windows phone. It has the same tiled screen and the same buttons in the same places on the right side of the device, and there are cameras on the front and back. But it’s not these basic phone […]