Wayne Rash

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va.—The massive moon rocket was off like a shot. The five-stage Minotaur V rocket didn’t rise majestically and gather speed like those liquid-fueled rockets you see on television. Instead, the rocket leaped into the sky with an urgency that made your skin tingle with excitement. This was the first deep-space mission from NASA’s […]

Thanks to NSA leaker Edward Snowden, we now know that most of the communications pathways you thought were secure can’t be relied on. Most of the secure cloud storage, almost all of the online encryption to Websites, the 4G wireless communications you use and your WiFi encryption have been compromised by the U.S. National Security […]

Sony Xperia Z a Sleek Android Phone That Withstands Hard Knocks by Wayne Rash Yes It Does Have a Pretty Face The Sony Xperia Z has a typical Android opening screen that displays the primary icons along with the search bar and notifications. Instead of a generic camera icon, the Xperia uses an icon showing […]

The announcement by Microsoft that the company would buy Nokia’s cell phone division made plenty of headlines, but surprised almost no one. Such a move had been speculated about for months, and Nokia has been struggling for years. In fact, it seems clear that if Microsoft really wanted Nokia to keep making Windows phones, it […]

Sometime during the long Labor Day weekend you may start hearing a series of ads by an unlikely group of trade associations pressing members of Congress to put patent reform legislation at the top of their priority list. The associations, including the National Retail Federation, the National Restaurant Association, the Food Marketing Institute and the […]

T-Mobile Nokia Lumia 925 Delivers LTE, WiFi Calling in Slim Frame by Wayne Rash Here Are the Two Lumia Models Side-by-Side Not quite identical twins, the Lumia 925 (right) is slightly more than a millimeter shorter and less than a millimeter narrower than the 1020. The screens are the same size. Both phones in this […]

The headlines would have you believe that BlackBerry is doomed and should be sold off as quickly as possible. The company, some observers say, can never return to the level of popularity and profitability it enjoyed in the early days of smartphones. To some extent they’re right, but that’s not the whole story. That’s because […]

SunGard Mobile Recovery Trailer Ready to Respond to Disasters by Wayne Rash Mobile Data Recovery Unit Takes Over the Parking Lot SunGard’s Mobile MetroCenter mobile recovery unit is big when it’s fully deployed. There are push-out extenders on both sides of the trailer. Access stairs extend to the side and back, and the unit includes […]

One of the many remedies available to patent holders when a company is found to be infringing on a patent is to restrict trade by the infringer. The idea is that you shouldn’t allow a company to sell products illegally. Samsung has been found to hold a number of valid patents covering communications technology used […]

The U.S. Department of Justice is proposing to come down hard on Apple after the company was found guilty of price fixing charges in July after a trial in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. U.S. Judge Denise Cote found that Apple had conspired with five book publishers to fix prices […]