Wayne Rash

One of the few sensible things to come out of the public debate on net neutrality over the past few weeks that doesn’t seem self-serving is Federal Communications Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel’s suggestion that the commission put off further discussion of its Open Internet order for at least a month. Unfortunately, the whole discussion of what […]

First of all, don’t run out and cancel your anti-malware subscriptions just because you heard that antivirus software is dead. It’s not dead. Instead, what got picked up in some of the headlines is only part of the truth. In reality, you still need your endpoint-security software just as much as you always did. So […]

I remember the decided lack of excitement when I walked into the T-Mobile store in Fairfax, Va., to buy my iPad Air back in November. I wanted the new version partly because I needed T-Mobile’s ability to work anywhere in the world and partly because I feel the need to stay up-to-date with the technology […]

To say that I was surprised when I saw the WiFi logo as I boarded the old United Airlines Airbus A319 that would take me from San Francisco to Seattle would be an understatement. I was astonished. While airlines everywhere are putting wireless network connections on airplanes, mostly it’s been installed when the aircraft are […]

A new vulnerability reported by Microsoft that allows an attacker to install malware and then execute it while bypassing the user’s security is the best reason yet to move away from Windows XP if you’re still among the millions of users who haven’t moved to something newer. But the remote code execution vulnerability affects every […]

Before the Federal Communications Commission even had a chance to look at the revised Open Internet rules being proposed by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, the agency was already being slammed by advocacy groups on what they thought he might propose. In fact Common Cause was calling the proposal “a major step backward.” Those rules would […]

There’s no question that other smartphone vendors are trying to kick BlackBerry when it’s down. Nothing highlights this more than a new how-to video appearing on Nokia’s official UK blog that demonstrates how to move your information from a BlackBerry device to a Nokia Lumia mobile handset running Windows Phone 8. The video demonstrates the […]

In the same week that wireless carriers and the CTIA wireless association announced an agreement to support the inclusion of a smartphone “Kill Switch,” a major consumer advocacy group reported that a record number of phones had been stolen the previous year. A number of critics have suggested that the CTIA agreement is too little, […]

Google’s announcement to developers that it would introduce the Ara, a new modular smartphone that would cost $50 in its most basic form has grabbed the blogosphere’s attention in a huge way. There’s a good reason. The idea of being able to swap out phone modules is incredibly cool for all of us geeks. There […]

I was reading Michelle Maisto’s well-researched and well-written story about how enterprises are slowly moving away from BlackBerry as the standard for secure mobile communications. While I was doing this, I was waiting for the new BlackBerry Z30 GSM phone to restart—a process that was taking far longer than it should. This device that I’m […]