Wayne Rash

The little good news that came out of Boston in the wake of the April 15 Patriots’ Day marathon bombing—beside the apprehension of the suspects—was that crowd-sourcing was a huge success in helping to identify the suspects. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Boston Police started what might reasonably be called the biggest crowd-sourced […]

Apple’s revelation to Wired that it stores for two years the voice clips for the questions that Siri users ask the automated assistant at least clarifies some details about Siri that Apple hasn’t revealed previously. While Apple has made it clear that Siri actually works by digitizing your voice when you ask Siri a question […]

One of the most consistent reports to come out of Boston in the aftermath of the terrorist bombings in the crowds of spectators during the Boston Marathon is that their cell phones wouldn’t work. Immediately a few reporters in the media speculated that the authorities had ordered the cell phone networks to be shut down, […]

In a series of offers that grows more complex and more perplexing with time, Sprint Nextel now finds itself the most sought-after company in the wireless industry. Unfortunately, for Sprint, most of the potential outcomes don’t include Sprint as a valued part of the transaction. Even SoftBank, which thought it had a deal to acquire […]

Warnings about threats to U.S. critical infrastructure are a constant drumbeat here in Washington, D.C. We have Congressional hearings, we have endless talk in agencies, but it has begun to seem that while there’s plenty of hand-wringing about the perils that could befall the critical infrastructure, solutions don’t seem to be at hand. But that […]

The woman at the Manassas, Va., T-Mobile store sounded frazzled. “We’re slammed,” she said, and suggested that if I wanted to buy an iPhone 5 from T-Mobile in the DC area, it might make sense to make an appointment. A salesperson at another T-Mobile store in the Washington suburbs said that the store had to […]

I have to admit that when I read Michelle Maisto’s story in eWEEK about Apple’s fight with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to get a trademark for iPad Mini, my first thoughts weren’t about Apple but instead about Austin Powers. I kept wondering if this was an attempt to prevent Dr. Evil’s even more […]

I was having lunch with a Verizon Wireless executive in the Washington, D.C., suburbs in early April, when I took out the BlackBerry Z10 I’d used for my eWEEK review and noticed that T-Mobile’s LTE had arrived in the area. “That’s not really LTE,” my lunch companion said. But indeed it was, and a few […]

The rumors that circulated before the April 4 announcement of Facebook Home were frightening. It would be a new social networking device for developing nations, said the rumormongers. It would introduce the third-world to the wonders of social networking. I imagined what it would be like to have the entire world’s net productivity drop by […]

A service that lets you record live television programs in the cloud for later replay does not infringe on copyrights and should not be shut down. That’s the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York in a case that pitted the major broadcasters against a tiny startup company […]

To say that government officials in Washington, D.C., are paranoid about Chinese spies would be incorrect. After all, as the saying goes, it’s not paranoia if they really are out to get you. This is very much the situation in Washington, and it explains a lot about why a number of government agencies and members […]

During the time that I was testing the BlackBerry Z10, one thing struck me as I was putting it through its paces. This device was better in many ways compared to the Apple iPhone 5 I’d used a couple of months ago. The photos I use for checking screen resolution were at least as clear […]