Wayne Rash

Security and privacy researcher Samy Kamkar told eWEEK exactly how easy it is to take over a small drone while it’s in flight and then turn the device to your own ends. In effect, he says, it’s not only possible to steal a drone, it’s easy and cheap, especially when the system was designed without […]

The word is all over the blogosphere and Internet news sites that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the sales tax case between Amazon.com, Overstock.com and the state of New York somehow gives the go-ahead for Internet taxation. It does not. In fact, the Supreme Court chose to do nothing, reinforcing its earlier […]

Flying into a big-city airport is a complex task under the best of circumstances. Pilots approaching an airfield must make a constant series of decisions. They’re glancing at an approach chart (perhaps displayed on an iPad or other tablet) that’s strapped to a leg. They carry on a steady conversation with the airport’s tower. At […]

The good news about the multiday period of time that was formerly known as Black Friday is that you don’t need to worry much about how it will affect your IT department. After all, you buy your hardware on corporate contracts, and over the long run your pricing is almost certainly better than what retailers […]

The revelations in The Washington Post that Microsoft was working to encrypt all the traffic the company moves around the world because of National Security Agency (NSA) spying should only be a surprise because it wasn’t already being done. Chances are (although we can’t prove this) that anything Microsoft or any other large company with […]

Chances are you never look at the detail in those small charges that show up on the cell phone bills your employees submit as part of your company’s bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program. But those charges are there if you look, and while they may be small, taken together “cramming” can really add up. For most people, […]

The good news is that industry and public officials are paying attention to the serious problem of smartphone thefts. It’s no exaggeration to say that people are getting injured and killed while smartphone makers and politicians dither about what can actually be done about it. The Attorney General of New York Eric Schneiderman and the […]

Nokia has tossed its hat into the tablet ring alongside its soon-to-be corporate partner, Microsoft, by introducing its 2520 tablet based on Windows RT 8.1. But despite being nearly the same size, the 2520 is different from Microsoft’s Surface—enough so to make it a strong alternative in the small world of Windows tablets. The most […]

Nokia’s Lumia 1520 is a phone with a 6-inch display, a high-end camera and accessories that seem intended for use as much as a tablet as a phone. To put the device in perspective, it’s larger than the smaller models of Samsung’s Galaxy Note “phablets,” and its larger screen includes an extra row of live […]

Three of the four major wireless carriers in the United States are supporting the release of the new Isis mobile-payment app, and in the process are enabling NFC-based payments on a wide scale to many wireless phones. The three carriers are Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. Currently, the Isis Mobile Wallet supports most Chase and American […]