Wayne Rash

Windows 8.1 Enterprise is focused specifically on the needs of corporate users and brings with it a host of features that target exactly what corporate IT managers have been asking for–not just from Microsoft, but from other OS vendors as well. This new version of Microsoft Windows includes security enhancements, management tools and new features […]

A blinding light crossed the Texas sky shortly after dawn on Feb. 1, 2003. Those who knew what it was gasped in horror as the Space Shuttle Columbia burned during re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere, leaving a trail of debris that stretched from central Texas into Louisiana. In that debris was a Seagate hard drive […]

Kroll-Ontrack Rescues Data From RAID 5 Disks After Server Failure by Wayne Rash Taking a First Look Before Digging In Kroll-Ontrack senior clean room engineer Peter Brown takes a first look at Drive 1 of the RAID 5 array from my failed Buffalo LinkStation Quad NAS server. Brown does an initial physical inspection of the […]

Perhaps you remember how things were with wireless carriers back in the mists of time when every company had a two-year contract and cell phones were paid for by subsidies to your plan? You know—back in January 2013. Since then there’s been an upheaval in the way wireless companies sell their plans and their phones. […]

A bipartisan bill introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives July 22 would give technology users relief from the lawsuits of patent trolls when they go after companies and individuals who do something as simple as buying products from an electronics store. The legislation, called the “Stopping Offensive Use of Patents Act” (H.R. 2766), is […]

Very few events illustrate Apple’s outlook on the world more clearly than the failure of its Apple Maps, which enraged iPhone and iPad users around the world with the release of iOS 6. Under Steve Jobs, Apple’s view of the world was that the company defined cool and excellence. As Jobs indicated time after time, […]

The European Commission has warned Google that it needs to make stronger concessions in its offer to settle a pending antitrust action that’s based on the way it presents search results. The European Commission heads the Executive Branch of the European Union. The antitrust investigation stems from Google’s 90 percent search market in the EU. […]

When AT&T announced on July 12 that it had reached an agreement to acquire San Diego-based Leap Wireless, it marked the consummation of a very long series of discussions with the small prepaid carrier. The agreement, which would include all of Leap’s facilities, licenses and spectrum as well as the customer base, would cost AT&T […]

Microsoft has trumpeted its Great Reorg of 2013 with more than the usual hype. This time the shake-up included a press and analyst briefing, a company town hall and a speech from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The good news is that Ballmer and other top Microsoft executives realize that the company has to change. The […]

HP’s new ProLiant Microserver Gen 8 is designed to fit into an office environment, not a data center, but it’s still powerful, fully manageable and ready to bring big-server capabilities to smaller businesses or remote offices. Oh—and it comes in multiple colors. The HP ProLiant Microserver Gen8 rests quietly on its table, a blue glow […]

HP Crafts ProLiant MicroServer Cube for Small Business by Wayne Rash The ProLiant MicroServer Is HP’s Server in a Cube The HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen 8 comes out of the box with a pair of USB connectors in the front and a silver door that conceals up to four hard disks. When the unit is […]

Clearwire’s minority shareholders have approved the final step in the merger between Sprint Nextel and Softbank, Japan’s third-largest mobile carrier. The merger is expected to close Wednesday, July 10, after the markets in the U.S. shut down for the day. The agreement finishes what had turned out to be the diciest part of the complicated […]