Wayne Rash

Dish Networks is going to have some tough sledding in its efforts to squelch the planned acquisition by SoftBank of 70 percent of Sprint. Sprint and SoftBank announced on May 29 in an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that their merger had received approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in […]

The imagery couldn’t be more blatant in the full-page ad that Dish Networks is running in The Washington Post. In the ad, a picture of container cranes at a seaport is positioned above the image of an Ethernet router, with the port marked “Internet” pointedly left empty. The ad says that the security of the […]

PALO ALTO, Calif.—There in front of me were the first boxy Ethernet transceivers that Dave Boggs built by hand 40 years ago when he and Bob Metcalfe invented Ethernet. One of them was attached to a length of RG-8 coaxial cable using a vampire tap, a type of connector that pierced the insulation on the […]

“So, are you still over at eWEEK, causing trouble?” Bob Metcalfe was chuckling as he shook my hand at the reception before the two days of sessions heralding the 40th anniversary of Ethernet at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. I’d been covering Ethernet since around 1980, when 3Com, a company Metcalfe helped […]

The Chinese Army suddenly stopped their cyber-attacks on the U.S. almost immediately after their actions became public in February. Then, a Pentagon report revealed that a People’s Liberation Army unit on the outskirts of Shanghai and known as Unit 61398—which works out of a fortified, heavily guarded 12-story white building—was behind the broad series of […]

Suppose you were at a cocktail party, and someone approached you wearing a strange-looking pair of glasses, one side of which had a thick aluminum frame. Then you notice there were no lenses on those glasses. Would you know from the outset that the person approaching was wearing Google Glass? Perhaps more important, would you […]

From all accounts, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins is enjoying himself at this year’s BlackBerry Live. This should be no surprise, especially compared with last year when the then-new CEO found himself at a conference filled with questions, but no answers. Then we got to see a prototype of a new BlackBerry phone. This year, Heins […]

Figured out how many minutes or megabytes of data you need for your smartphone every month? Neither has anyone else, meaning most people overpay, except for those who get throttled when they least expect it. When eWEEK’s Michelle Maisto alerted me to ItsOn’s Zact, the first thing I did was go to my mobile phone […]

Samsung bills its new Galaxy S 4 smartphone as a Life Companion. According to the company’s publicity material, this phone will give you a “richer, simpler and fuller life.” Samsung also claims that this phone has a camera so good that it yields professional results and touts its effortless experience. Folks, this is a smartphone, […]

Samsung Galaxy S 4: Taking a Close Look at the Next iPhone Challenger by Wayne Rash Galaxy S 4 Fits Easily in the Hand The white case on this Samsung Galaxy S 4 shows off how slim the borders on the screen actually are. Despite the 5-inch screen, this phone is only marginally larger than […]