Wayne Rash

The blog entry by Google’s Stephan Somogyi announcing Google’s new End-to-End encryption tool gives some reason for hope that useful encryption may be within reach of nontechnical emailers. But assertions that End-to-End will somehow protect you from the National Security Agency snooping are overblown. In fairness, Somogyi doesn’t actually claim that his tool will exclude […]

During the June 2 keynote at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Apple Vice President Greg Joswick uttered the word rarely heard in public by an Apple executive: “enterprise.” Joswick wasn’t talking about the nuclear aircraft carrier or the starship of television fame, but rather he was talking about large businesses. Apple, […]

The other shoe has dropped. A series of news reports leaking out of Japan and Germany indicate that Deutsche Telekom has reached at least a tentative agreement to sell most of T-Mobile US to the Softbank and merge it with Sprint. This likely explains the appearance of Masayoshi Son, the billionaire owner of Japanese telecommunications […]

The iOS ransom attacks that started in Australia and have since spread to the U.S. and Europe may be annoying or even frightening, but you don’t need to panic. You can kick the bad guys out and get your device back fairly easily. Here’s how. At this point, nobody knows for sure how hackers got […]

BlackBerry’s plans for the future include finding ways to grow closer to its existing customers and to build on the company’s existing strengths, according to a senior BlackBerry executive. In a wide-ranging interview, John Sims, president of Global Enterprise Solutions for BlackBerry, told eWEEK that the company’s strength and its future growth depend on four […]

When Microsoft launched the Surface Pro 3 tablet in New York on May 20, it made one thing abundantly clear. The new Surface is not an iPad killer—but then it’s not intended to be one at all. Instead, Microsoft is aiming squarely at the MacBook Air, Apple’s ultra thin and ultra light Ultrabook. In fact, […]

To say that the feds have been busy would be an understatement. On the same day that the Department of Justice announced indictments against five Chinese officials for hacking into U.S. companies’ computers and stealing secrets, the FBI unsealed the arrests of around 100 other hackers for using the BlackShades malware to steal information from […]

By now you’ve heard the alarmist stories by various groups claiming that the FCC meeting on May 15 ended network neutrality forever. You’ve likely heard the gnashing of teeth by groups with a point of view that FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler was somehow violating his trust as chairman and violating the trust placed in his […]

There’s been a lot of comment about the coming Internet of things as the marketing hype from companies that would provide the relevant equipment gears up. The predictions about the potential impact made largely by academics seem pretty accurate. But perhaps we should look at what it’s likely to mean to you, especially when you […]

The good news about the status of the proposal by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler and his plans for allowing priority on the Internet is that it shows that he’s paying attention to the backlash from pretty much everywhere. The bad news is that it still seems that he’s rushing things. When I suggested […]