Wayne Rash

TYSONS CORNER, Va.—Travel and event planning is, for the most part, woefully inefficient. In most companies it’s a totally manual process, often performed by staff that has little if any training and where the most automated part of the process might be a static Excel spreadsheet. Mistakes are frequent, costs are higher than they need […]

The advent of the holiday season isn’t looking great for brick-and-mortar retailers. Many of the biggest are so worried about sales that they’ve launched Black Friday, the traditional start of holiday gift buying, a month early—on Halloween. Retail market analysts are reporting that initial rosy sales predictions are probably wrong, according to reports in Bloomberg […]

Advertisers on the Internet know who you are; they know where you are with your mobile phone; and they can track your interests and send you advertising despite efforts on your part to avoid their attention. The good news is you can find out fairly easily if this tracking is taking place. The better news […]

As security breaches go, the attack on CurrentC was small potatoes. According to an email sent out by the payment card service, someone broke into their email system and stole a bunch of email addresses. CurrentC followed standard practices and notified anyone who might be affected that the breach had taken place. CurrentC is the […]

Two national drug store chains, CVS and Rite Aid, have turned off their near-field communication terminals to block the use of Apple Pay just a week after the contactless payment system went into operation on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. But this action not only blocks Apple Pay, but also Google Wallet, which the […]

Microsoft’s move to Windows 10 continues with a release of a new build of the operating system and announcements of what the company has planned to make Windows more secure and easier to administer. In addition, Microsoft has released a new build of its Windows 10 Technical Preview, making good on its promise to keep […]

Apple Pay may be the first widely successful electronic payment system using near-field communications (NFC), despite the feature being available on phones for the last few years. The difference between Apple Pay and other similar phone-based payment systems is that Apple has managed to build a significant level of buy-in from merchants and credit card […]

There were surprises at Apple’s introduction of the iPad Air 2, but for the most part, they weren’t about the tablet itself, nor were there many surprises in regards to OSX Yosemite, the new iMac or even the iPad Mini 3. While there were new details that we learned for the first time, most of […]

There’s no question that the institution of automatic encryption by Apple and Google for their respective mobile devices has the intelligence community on edge. Senior officials from a variety of agencies in Washington, D.C., have been complaining since Apple announced that it was instituting encryption for mobile devices that even Apple can’t break. Not fair, […]

Microsoft, clearly stung by the rejection of Windows 8 by enterprise users and eager to repair the damage, has taken the step of releasing the next version of its Windows operating system very early. The idea is to allow users at all levels, but especially enterprise IT users and managers, a chance to try out […]