Wayne Rash

In case you hadn€™t noticed, there€™s a huge outcry going on around the Internet right now regarding CISPA. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011, which has yet to be debated before the full House, is being called everything from the €œSon of SOPA€ to a dangerous invasion of First Amendment rights. In […]

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said the government will prove it in its lawsuit against Apple and major book publishers that €œexecutives at the highest levels€ of these companies €œworked together€ to reduce competition and raise the prices of ebooks purchased by millions of consumers. The U.S. Department of Justice filed suit in the U.S. […]

The strong early sales performance of Nokia’s Lumia 900 smartphone shouldn’t be surprising despite gloomy initial forecasts by industry analysts. This is a very nice phone as the Windows Phone 7.5 operating system works even better in the larger size and with a faster processor than it did in the Lumia 710. It€™s even clearer […]

Nokia Lumia 900 With Its Large Display This is what you get with the Nokia Lumia 900. Note that the large black display appears to be on the surface of the phone rather than recessed. The camera is at the top left, and the buttons that control screen selection are on the bottom. Windows Phone […]

Apple’s new third-generation iPad appears to be experiencing serious problems operating with WiFi, and many users are reporting they can’t use WiFi at all. After reports of problems with WiFi-only third-generation iPads, eWEEK started testing the devices at our lab in the Washington, D.C., area.The initial test was on a new iPad equipped with Verizon […]

The advent of BlackBerry Mobile Fusion could be the online service that enables Research in Motion to bring in an entire new population of customers while retaining the loyalty of its current users. If it proves highly successful, Mobile Fusion could enable RIM to reverse its plummeting revenue and profit. BlackBerry Mobile Fusion is a […]

My BlackBerry Bold 9900 has been buzzing since the earliest hours this morning, and it€™s continued to buzz with news of Research in Motion€™s stunningly steep decline. As I write this, the device rests in my shirt pocket and continues to buzz. The news from RIM is sobering at the very least. In a call […]

AT&T will start selling the Nokia Lumia 900 in its stores on April 8. This smartphone will be slightly less expensive than the 2-year-old Apple iPhone 4, which the carrier already sells. However, while the price is nearly the same, the differences are significant. Perhaps most important, this version of the Lumia supports Long-Term Evolution […]

The recent practice of employers and would-be employers requesting Facebook and other social network log-in information is probably a violation of equal employment laws, say two Senators. U.S. Senators Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) have asked the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the practice […]

Verizon€™s annual “Data Breach Investigations Report” includes some sobering findings that show just how pervasive social and political hacking has become. So-called €œhacktivism€ was responsible for 58 percent of all data stolen in 2011. Nearly 80 percent of attacks were opportunistic, and most significant of all, 96 percent were avoidable. The primary motive for external […]

Google’s Android mobile operating system continues to attract a growing number of malware threats as creators discover the ease of working with an open software environment. The result, as eWEEK noted, is a huge jump in malware over the last year. Some of these threats can be innovative in their efforts to extract financial data […]

Once I got my new iPad into my hands on the day they went on sale, March 16, I was eager to take it back to the office and put it through its paces. After all, the brief experience at the Apple Store was hardly enough to get any appreciation for the Retina Display, the […]