Wayne Rash

One has to assume that the workers at the Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco didn€™t get the memo to keep the iOS 6 banners under wraps until June 11. But because they didn€™t get that memo the site of the Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) does, in fact, have a number of […]

Virgin Mobile USA has entered the prepaid iPhone world just a few days after Cricket announced a similar arrangement with Apple. Virgin’s plan is different from Cricket’s in two ways. The phones cost more, but the monthly prepaid rates are lower. With Virgin Mobile, which is a subsidiary of Sprint and uses Sprint’s CDMA network, […]

Sure, you€™ve heard about IPv6. You may even have given some thought to whether your enterprise should be thinking about IPv6. But if you€™re like most companies, that€™s where it€™s ended. The reason most people and enterprises didn€™t go much beyond maybe thinking about IPv6 is there hasn€™t been a lot you could do with […]

It€™s taken nearly five years, but it looks like the iPhone will soon be running on nearly every segment of the U.S. wireless telephone network, including smaller regional carriers and prepaid cell phone services. It looks like even T-Mobile will soon be ready to carry the iPhone. Already two big prepaid cell phone services names […]

The blogosphere and the nontech media are all abuzz about Flame, the newly exposed malware that is apparently wreaking havoc with Iranian computers. It€™s also creating problems elsewhere in the Middle East, but apparently hasn€™t spread significantly beyond there. But is Flame really a new threat, or is it simply a newly discovered threat? Or […]

Samsung released the Galaxy S III in Europe on May 29, which means that the mobile clone wars will start any minute now. The difference between the release of the S3 and other Android devices is that this time, Samsung clearly has the Apple iPhone 4S in its sights, complete with a clone of Apple€™s […]

One of the secrets to really effective spying is to collect all available information about your target, no matter how mundane or trivial. This approach has been used by government intelligence agencies since the beginning of spies. The CIA and NSA collect vast quantities of such information, and they have been doing this since their […]

Google CEO Larry Page is going to have to mark the third week of May on his calendar, and he might be justified in observing it with an annual company celebration. For on this particular week, Google finally got all of the government approvals it needed and closed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility. The following […]

Verizon has come out swinging in response to a series of press announcements by the Alliance for Broadband Competition, which accused Verizon of conspiring with a group of cable companies to create an Internet cartel that would harm consumers. The Alliance complained strongly about a Joint Operating Entity, saying that this would enable Verizon and […]

A number of additional companies and consumer interest groups rose in opposition to the revelation that Verizon and several of the largest cable companies in the United States, including Comcast, Cox and Time Warner, were working together to create what looks like a non-competitive Internet market cartel. As I mentioned in my earlier column on […]

Verizon and the group of cable companies from which it is planning to buy a chunk of AWS spectrum don’t want you to know about a new Joint Operating Entity (JOE) that would control all aspects of how you get access to the Internet, what you can do online and how much it’s going to […]

LightSquared tried the business world€™s version of a Hail Mary pass by filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from its creditors. According to a statement released by the company, LightSquared needs time to resolve regulatory issues that have plagued the company since it first received conditional approval from the FCC to operate a terrestrial data […]