Wayne Rash

It’s no secret that Microsoft’s share of the mobile phone business is tiny. Most estimates I’ve seen put it at around 4 percent, which is by far the smallest market share of any of the major companies with phone operating systems. Even beleaguered Research in Motion is running around 17 percent. The big dogs these […]

If the jury verdict in a California federal court accomplished anything beyond spending millions of your tax dollars needlessly, it also served to sow confusion. Worse, the confusion started with the jury itself, which was so bewildered about its own verdict that it awarded damages for things that the jury itself had decided didn’t infringe […]

For some companies, the coming of Windows 8 is a non-event. They’re still running Windows XP, regardless of the lack of support, security issues and the never-ending stability problems. But for many companies, security is important and so is performance. And not every company plans to keep using its ancient XP machines forever because they’re […]

The Windows 8 Tile Interface This is the famous (or infamous) tile interface that you’ve heard about. It looks and works just like the user interface on the Windows Phone. You’ll notice partial tiles on the right side of the screen. If you scroll the screen that way, you’ll see tiles for individual applications. You’ll […]

On Oct. 26, your IT department will have its hands full. In many ways, when Windows 8 arrives, the technological transformation will be far greater than it was when smartphones became popular or when people started showing up at the office with iPads. The reason is that for most companies, Windows is the only operating […]

The Federal Communications Commission has approved the sale of previously unused wireless spectrum owned by a group of cable companies to Verizon. The FCC also approved the sale of a portion of the spectrum to T-Mobile and Leap Wireless in a complex deal that involved a consent agreement between the cable companies and the U.S. […]

It’s not surprising that Apple’s CEO Tim Cook doesn’t remember Ashton-Tate. He was hardly out of graduate school when the company crashed and burned as the result of a series of misguided and ultimately tragic lawsuits, the final one of which showed that the company didn’t own the technology upon which it depended. The chances […]

The latest predictions are that Apple’s Sept. 12 launch of the iPhone 5 will be the biggest in history, at least according to Peter Misek from Jefferies research. The firm is predicting that Apple will have about 15 million iPhone 5 devices in inventory by mid-September, enough to satisfy at least the initial demand. The […]

The Federal Communications Commission will approve the sale of spectrum by a group of cable companies to Verizon Wireless, according to a statement released Aug. 16 by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. The announcement follows the completion of an antitrust review by the U.S. Justice Department and a consent agreement by Verizon and the cable companies […]

The latest PC market news that Microsoft might sell the eagerly anticipated Surface for Windows RT for $199 sounds crazy. In fact, it might be crazy. But then it might not be as crazy as it sounds. The shockingly low price that’s circulating around the Internet news sites was first announced by Engadget, which claims […]

Despite the histrionics on Aug. 5 by Acer chairman J.T. Wang regarding Microsoft’s plans to produce its Surface tablet to run Windows RT and Windows 8, other OEMs are moving ahead with plans to introduce their own models on the same day that Microsoft announces Windows 8 and releases the Surface tablet. According to an […]

A number of things are known about the Gauss Trojan first discovered by the folks at Kaspersky Lab in the fall of 2011. We know that it’s closely related to Flame which was allegedly created by U.S. intelligence interests to attack Iran. We know that Gauss isn’t attacking Iran, but instead seems to be snooping […]