Wayne Rash

The BlackBerry Z10 and its soon-to-emerge sibling, the Q10, need to be a home run for parent company BlackBerry. While a failure of the new BlackBerry 10 phones won’t necessarily bring down the company, it would certainly be much diminished. So is it a home run? Not yet, but the ball is still in flight, […]

BlackBerry Z10—Another Dark Monolith The BlackBerry is simply a black rectangle when the screen isn’t on. There’s nothing flashy here. But there is that red LED in the upper right corner. Yes, BlackBerry still includes its famous message LED. Home Screen Displays Basic Info at a Glance The home screen on the BlackBerry shows you […]

It’s not often in Washington, D.C., when a government official manages to annoy and sometimes infuriate people from all across the political spectrum. But that’s exactly what Julius Genachowski did, and he achieved that distinction by making his best effort to do his job as he saw fit. When he took office, Genachowski said that […]

Even the reasonably recent Digital Millennium Copyright Act is so out of date that it never anticipated things such as cell phone unlocking or people selling licensed software without the permission of the copyright owner when they traded cars. Maria Pallante, testifying before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, […]

T-Mobile has taken its first public step in launching its LTE network as the carrier rushes to get the service ready for its launch of the BlackBerry 10 by the end of March. As of March 18, T-Mobile announced that it had released an over-the-air upgrade for the Samsung Galaxy Note II that will enable […]

It’s no secret that political campaigns made millions of automated calls during the run-up to the 2012 elections. Many individuals received dozens of such calls every day. Being on the do-not-call list didn’t help. Sadly, political robocalls are legal to landline phones as long as the caller is properly identified at the beginning of the […]

There was some brief rejoicing around Washington, D.C., on March 11, when Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) announced legislation that would order the Librarian of Congress to reconsider the decision that makes it a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to unlock a cell phone without the permission of the carrier. Previously, the Librarian had […]

After my story about the MakerBot 3D printer appeared in eWEEK a few days ago, I received a few emails from friends and colleagues about this rapidly developing technology. A couple thought that the fact that I watched one churn out everything from turbine wheels to Lego blocks at CeBIT was incredibly cool. But there […]

You really can’t tell much about an event like CeBIT when it opens. The opening press party was as crazed as ever; the buffet was as sumptuous as ever; and the drinks flowed as freely as ever. Likewise, the opening ceremony was just like it always is with a downtown arena filled with people waiting […]

The crowds at CeBIT in Hannover, Germany couldn’t get enough of the MakerBot 3D printer, watching raptly as the machine churned out plastic objects in heavy, durable PLA (Polylactic Acid) plastic. The MakerBot 2 and 2X printers are the leading edge in desktop 3D printing, and can create virtually anything that can be described with […]

The ReTimer Claims to Beat Jet Lag The device looks like an odd pair of glasses with green lights that point at your eyes and promise to beat body-clock problems. Exactly how the ReTimer works is unclear, but those green LEDs are really pulsing at a frequency your brain can’t detect (but which drives the […]

The MakerBot 3D Printer Draws a Crowd The MakerBot is a 3D printer made in the U.S., and it breaks new ground in affordability and ease of use. Here, the MakerBot is printing a turbine wheel in this photo, but the device can print nearly anything working from AutoCad drawings as well as from a […]