Wayne Rash

Several people have written about Apple’s new iOS 7 interface as being something like Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8, with the flat, simplified icons being similar to the tiles on Windows. But they’re not. The new iOS 7 screen looks more like the BlackBerry Z10. As with the new BlackBerry devices, the latest new version of […]

WASHINGTON, DC—The revelations by The Washington Post about two big data analysis operations named PRISM and Blarney dropped like a bombshell on the Washington intelligence and security communities. But I’d already heard about PRISM a day earlier and was trying to put it into context when the story broke. What’s surprising was that a few […]

The good news in the telephone records revelations that blew up on June 5 and 6 when the Guardian newspaper revealed that Verizon was handing over records of every call made by every customer to the National Security Agency is that they are just the basic call records. This means that the phone numbers on […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. —”Times have changed,” warned security consultant Mischel Kwon, former director of US-CERT. “We can’t afford to wait for an antivirus warning or to have malware trip a firewall.” Kwon was kicking off a high-level seminar of government cyber-security experts gathered by FedInsider, a management publication for federal government executives. The panel Kwon was […]

Apple appears to be fighting an uphill battle against the U.S. Department of Justice in a price-fixing case stemming from the introduction of the iPad in competition with a variety of e-readers. The DOJ’s complaint against Apple and several book publishers alleges that Apple and the book publishers wanted higher profit and conspired to raise […]

The good news is that there’s finally a refresh of Windows 8 coming down the pike, as eWEEK’s Pedro Hernandez explains. The bad news is that the changes you almost certainly want won’t be there. Yes, Microsoft is bringing back the Start Button, but the Start Menu that lives behind it on all previous versions […]

Dish Networks is going to have some tough sledding in its efforts to squelch the planned acquisition by SoftBank of 70 percent of Sprint. Sprint and SoftBank announced on May 29 in an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that their merger had received approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in […]

The imagery couldn’t be more blatant in the full-page ad that Dish Networks is running in The Washington Post. In the ad, a picture of container cranes at a seaport is positioned above the image of an Ethernet router, with the port marked “Internet” pointedly left empty. The ad says that the security of the […]

PALO ALTO, Calif.—There in front of me were the first boxy Ethernet transceivers that Dave Boggs built by hand 40 years ago when he and Bob Metcalfe invented Ethernet. One of them was attached to a length of RG-8 coaxial cable using a vampire tap, a type of connector that pierced the insulation on the […]

“So, are you still over at eWEEK, causing trouble?” Bob Metcalfe was chuckling as he shook my hand at the reception before the two days of sessions heralding the 40th anniversary of Ethernet at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. I’d been covering Ethernet since around 1980, when 3Com, a company Metcalfe helped […]

The Chinese Army suddenly stopped their cyber-attacks on the U.S. almost immediately after their actions became public in February. Then, a Pentagon report revealed that a People’s Liberation Army unit on the outskirts of Shanghai and known as Unit 61398—which works out of a fortified, heavily guarded 12-story white building—was behind the broad series of […]

Suppose you were at a cocktail party, and someone approached you wearing a strange-looking pair of glasses, one side of which had a thick aluminum frame. Then you notice there were no lenses on those glasses. Would you know from the outset that the person approaching was wearing Google Glass? Perhaps more important, would you […]