Wayne Rash

From all accounts, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins is enjoying himself at this year’s BlackBerry Live. This should be no surprise, especially compared with last year when the then-new CEO found himself at a conference filled with questions, but no answers. Then we got to see a prototype of a new BlackBerry phone. This year, Heins […]

Figured out how many minutes or megabytes of data you need for your smartphone every month? Neither has anyone else, meaning most people overpay, except for those who get throttled when they least expect it. When eWEEK’s Michelle Maisto alerted me to ItsOn’s Zact, the first thing I did was go to my mobile phone […]

Samsung bills its new Galaxy S 4 smartphone as a Life Companion. According to the company’s publicity material, this phone will give you a “richer, simpler and fuller life.” Samsung also claims that this phone has a camera so good that it yields professional results and touts its effortless experience. Folks, this is a smartphone, […]

Samsung Galaxy S 4: Taking a Close Look at the Next iPhone Challenger by Wayne Rash Galaxy S 4 Fits Easily in the Hand The white case on this Samsung Galaxy S 4 shows off how slim the borders on the screen actually are. Despite the 5-inch screen, this phone is only marginally larger than […]

“The Chinese would have a lot less trouble in the U.S. if they would just release their source code,” David Burgess told me over breakfast in the quiet Palm Court restaurant near Washington, D.C. “But they can’t do that,” he said, explaining that if cellular equipment provider Huawei were to release their source code, they’d […]

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any more complicated in Sprint’s three-way merger drama between the wireless carrier, Japanese wireless carrier Softbank and satellite television company Dish Network, they got even more tangled. Two things happened in rapid succession on May 6 that at first seemed at odds. First, Clearwire announced that the company […]

Even if it accomplished nothing else, the Middle Eastern governments’ crackdowns on communications during the Arab Spring movement two years ago demonstrated how much governments, in general, and repressive governments, in particular, hate encryption—particularly in the hands of private citizens. This is why governments from Egypt to Oman to India have tried to ban BlackBerry […]

When T-Mobile CEO John Legere rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on May 1, he signified more than a new listing—TMUS on the NYSE. Legere’s bell ringing also opened up a new period of competition by a company that had always been the fourth-largest in the United States and by many […]

Every spring about this time, you see teens in strangely colored formal wear, stretch limos the size of ocean liners and couples who are too young to order wine in fancy restaurants. Yes, it’s prom season again. And right in the thick of prom season is Sprint, trying to decide which of two serious “promposals” […]

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson took T-Mobile to court because he believed the wireless service provider’s calling plans that are clearly different from standard practices of the biggest wireless service providers in the United States were somehow “deceptive.” On April 25, Ferguson entered into a court-ordered agreement with T-Mobile that requires the wireless carrier […]

BlackBerry Q10 Contains New and Comfortably Familiar Features by Wayne Rash The Bold Face of the BlackBerry Q10 If this smartphone looks familiar to you, that’s because it closely resembles its predecessor, the BlackBerry Bold 9900. The biggest differences are that the Q10’s screen is larger, and the top row of the keyboard—which held the […]

When BlackBerry launched its much anticipated Z10 smartphone, the company also broke new ground by introducing its first touch-screen device that lacked the iconic BlackBerry physical keyboard. For those millions of BlackBerry users who were used to that keyboard, this was a rude awakening and not one that all BlackBerry users liked. While eWEEK found […]