Wayne Rash

The National Association of Broadcasters has filed suit in federal court in an effort to force the Federal Communications Commission to revise the rules for the 2015 spectrum auction. That auction would transfer access to some portions of the radio spectrum currently used for television broadcasts to wireless service providers. The spectrum auction includes two […]

Balance is BlackBerry’s secure mobile container application that’s both easy to implement and highly secure, while also allowing users to have access to a full range of smartphone features for personal use. In effect, BlackBerry Balance gives your smartphone a dual personality that’s easy to use but keeps work data and personal data totally separate. […]

There’s little doubt that the news from IDC on global smartphone sales was less than thrilling for smartphone operating system developers besides Google. The IDC quarterly report on smartphone shipments revealed that Android phones now make up nearly 85 percent of total global smartphone shipments as of the second quarter of 2014. Shipments of Apple […]

Sprint is in trouble. Customers are abandoning the nation’s third-largest carrier in droves. Efforts to grow by swallowing T-Mobile have been rebuffed. While the company has plenty of support from its new owners in Japan, much of its recent history has been a story of dysfunction. What’s worse, other CEOs are taunting the hapless company, […]

You know the honeymoon is over in any relationship when the taunts begin. You know it’s really over when those taunts are made public on Twitter. If there was ever any question whether T-Mobile’s brash CEO John Legere was getting over Sprint, that ended when he Tweeted, “If you needed just one more reason to […]

A European Commission spokesperson told eWEEK that the body is extremely concerned about a court decision in New York that orders Microsoft to turn over the contents of email contained on a server in Ireland to federal prosecutors. That decision would appear to place Microsoft in direct violation of Irish and European Union data protection […]

Sprint on Aug. 6 quietly shelved its plans to buy most of competitor T-Mobile two days after an announcement by the Federal Communication Commission that it was opposed to the two companies joining forces to bid on wireless spectrum in a 2015 auction. While the FCC’s position was a surprise to no one other than […]

In what may be the first of many blows to plans by T-Mobile and Sprint to merge, the Federal Communications Commission is saying that it is probably going to oppose the current plans by the two wireless providers to buy more spectrum together. In addition, in an official FCC blog entry, Roger C. Sherman, the […]

Lawyers for Microsoft say they will appeal a federal judge’s order that they turn over the contents of a customer’s email that’s stored on a server in Ireland. But if Microsoft were to comply with the order, it appears that the company would be in violation of both Irish and European laws. “It’s the business […]

WASHINGTON—A panel of legal experts says that a case in which federal prosecutors are demanding email data from Microsoft that resides on a server in Ireland could result in violations of the U.S. Constitution as well as international law and a variety of treaties. The case, in which the Department of Justice is trying to […]