Wayne Rash

Windows 10 Preview Shows What Windows 8 Should Have Looked Like By Wayne Rash Shades of the Past Loom in Windows 10 Preview Windows 10, labeled here as the Windows Technical Preview, boots into the Windows Desktop when it’s installed on a machine without a touch screen. If this looks a lot like the Windows […]

If there was one really dumb move by AT&T in its history of placing unauthorized charges on customers’ cell phone bills, it may have been to charge the official cell phone of the Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell with a premium text message service. Sorrell was one of the people who took part in a […]

Open Garden’s FireChat may be the most popular mobile social networking app that you’ve never heard of. That is, it’s unlikely you’ve heard of it unless you’re a political protester in Hong Kong or Iraq, or you recently attended the Burning Man art and entertainment festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. In those places, participants […]

My biggest complaint about the Apple iPhone during my previous brief periods of ownership was that the screen was too small to use. Specifically, I couldn’t type on the crowded buttons without a substantial error rate that was frequently exacerbated by Apple’s idiosyncratic auto-correct feature. Worse, the tiny screen made reading Websites and other online […]

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 […]