Wayne Rash

It was about 7:15 a.m. the first day of sales of the new iPad €“ March 16 €“ and the line at the Apple store in Fairfax, Va., was already more than 100 people deep. They were orderly and friendly as an Apple employee passed out vouchers for the iPad people wanted. The idea was […]

In a legal Hail Mary that seems unlikely to produce positive results, Philip Falcone, the billionaire investor behind the LightSquared broadband data service, has hired two of Washington’s highest profile lawyers to try to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s decision not to let the company operate its network. The FCC withdrew approval after a series […]

Apple€™s iPad has always had the potential for being the ideal cloud device. It€™s easy to use, and it has good communications capabilities. Plus, it has a screen that€™s large enough to be useful, and it€™s easy to keep with you so it€™s there when you need it. But can you use the iPad for […]

When users buy Apple’s new iPad (the company has deliberately shied away from calling it the iPad 3), the device will be a world-class tablet in more than one way. Not only will it have world-class resolution on its much-hyped Retina Display, but it will be faster and have better app support than most other […]

Real-Time Ball The European passion for football (what we in the United States call soccer) brought about the creation of a wireless location system that can tell exactly where the ball is in real time. This has proven to be a great help in training, and in knowing when a ball is out of bounds […]

HANNOVER, Germany €” Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt addressed this year’s CeBIT theme of “managing trust” by pointing out that you can only manage trust in technology for people who have access to it. In a speech delivered during the March 7 opening ceremonies of CeBIT, Schmidt speculated about how good the Web might be […]

Microsoft Windows 8 is supposed to be a real threat to both the current iPad 2 and the upcoming iPad. While most people understand that it resembles the tiled interface that runs on Windows Phone 7, and while most people also know that Windows 8 was developed for a touch-screen interface, the fact is that […]

After the 2012 Mobile World Congress wraps up in Barcelona, Spain, this week, the mobile world€™s attention will turn to San Francisco, where Apple is likely to announce the iPad 3 March 7. While the iPad 3 isn€™t really a product yet, at least in theory, it€™s clear that the rest of the tablet industry […]

The White House announcement on Feb. 23 that the Obama administration is going to start pressing for a consumers’ Bill of Rights was welcomed by privacy advocates, but others question whether the effort will lead to any important changes. Running the administration’s effort is the Federal Trade Commission, which is also responsible for enforcing the […]

Perhaps the best thing to come out of AT&T€™s failed bid for T-Mobile was the breakup fee, spectrum and roaming deals that AT&T had to give T-Mobile as part cost of the merger breakup. On Feb. 23, CEO Philipp Humm announced that T-Mobile would launch its Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network starting in 2012, and would […]

Sprint has quietly put plans to deploy LightSquared’s terrestrial Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network on hold until the Reston, Va., company finds a way to work past a series of regulatory roadblocks. Originally, Sprint agreed to provide tower space or to build new infrastructure in support of LightSquared’s wholesale 4G mobile data delivery service, assuming that […]

The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, in a rare show of bipartisan action, have approved a bill that would continue the payroll tax cut of 2011 for all of 2012. The bill, known as the €œMiddle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012€ (HR3630), includes a spectrum auction provision as a way […]