Wayne Rash

The DNS Changer malware has been all over the news during the last couple of days, and with good reason. If you haven€™t checked that your computers are malware-free and fixed an apparent DNS Changer infection, you won€™t be able to use the Internet very easily come Monday, July 9. Monday is the day that […]

It€™s impossible to overstate the importance of the Higgs Boson, the discovery of which was announced at CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire). Without this particle, you wouldn€™t exist. For that matter, the universe wouldn€™t exist. That€™s because the Higgs Boson creates a field that gives other particles mass, giving weight and shape to […]

Calamity descended from the skies around Washington on June 29 in the form of a derecho, a type of weather system so rare most people have never even heard of it. This unusual complex of extremely severe weather had never been known to cross a range of mountains such as the Alleghenies. But this time […]

Research In Motion€™s earnings call showing huge losses by the Waterloo, Ontario-based company was not a huge surprise. Hardly anyone was expecting good results. But what followed was a series of surprises that went off like depth charges around a sinking submarine. BlackBerry 10 wouldn€™t arrive until the first quarter of 2013, and there will […]

Neither the hype nor the secrecy was quite the same at Google I/O in San Francisco as it was for Apple€™s World Wide Developers Conference or Microsoft€™s announcement of the Surface tablet, but it was still what we€™ve all come to expect at a tablet-related announcement these days. This time, Google product managers teamed up […]

The joint announcement by Verizon and T-Mobile that both companies had agreed to a complex spectrum purchase and swap arrangement will apparently eliminate T-Mobile€™s objections to the purchase by Verizon of Advanced Wireless Services spectrum from a group of cable companies. Statements made by T-Mobile to eWEEK indicate that the deal is contingent on regulatory […]

Five years ago, at the end of June 2007, the world of mobile IT changed forever, although few realized it at the time. Who could have guessed that the sales of the first iPhone would ultimately lead to significant productivity gains, new lines of business and new headaches for IT? At first all that the […]

If you€™ve used a smartphone running Windows Phone 7.5, then the latest version of the Microsoft mobile operating system, Windows Phone 8, won€™t be a huge surprise. The tiled interface will cover the entire screen, instead of about two-thirds of it. There will be more live tiles so that you can see what€™s going on […]

Here at eWEEK, we knew it would happen. Microsoft was going to announce a new tablet June 18, and it would be something that Apple couldn€™t really compete against. But the Microsoft Surface is much more than just a tablet, and it€™s much more than just another iPad clone. Microsoft, in what had to be […]

When Microsoft introduces its new Windows 8 tablet on Monday, June 18 at a media briefing in Los Angeles, the device it presents will be a technology preview device, not a finished product, said Craig Mathias, principal analyst for Farpoint Group. The new device will run Windows RT, which is a version of Windows 8 […]

ICANN€™s Big Reveal Day revealed what everyone expected. Thousands of applicants applied for thousands of new gTLDs (generic top-level domains). The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers revealed the list of who applied for which top-level domains. Some of the applicants and the names they applied for are no surprise. Large companies applied for […]

The opening keynote at the Apple World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco€™s Moscone Center West featured the usual hoopla, plus a few new touches. There was a stand-up comedy routine from Siri, the madcap personal assistant, which took shots at Android. There were the usual demos with the usual bombast. But contained in all […]