Wayne Rash

“The Chinese would have a lot less trouble in the U.S. if they would just release their source code,” David Burgess told me over breakfast in the quiet Palm Court restaurant near Washington, D.C. “But they can’t do that,” he said, explaining that if cellular equipment provider Huawei were to release their source code, they’d […]

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any more complicated in Sprint’s three-way merger drama between the wireless carrier, Japanese wireless carrier Softbank and satellite television company Dish Network, they got even more tangled. Two things happened in rapid succession on May 6 that at first seemed at odds. First, Clearwire announced that the company […]

Even if it accomplished nothing else, the Middle Eastern governments’ crackdowns on communications during the Arab Spring movement two years ago demonstrated how much governments, in general, and repressive governments, in particular, hate encryption—particularly in the hands of private citizens. This is why governments from Egypt to Oman to India have tried to ban BlackBerry […]

When T-Mobile CEO John Legere rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on May 1, he signified more than a new listing—TMUS on the NYSE. Legere’s bell ringing also opened up a new period of competition by a company that had always been the fourth-largest in the United States and by many […]

Every spring about this time, you see teens in strangely colored formal wear, stretch limos the size of ocean liners and couples who are too young to order wine in fancy restaurants. Yes, it’s prom season again. And right in the thick of prom season is Sprint, trying to decide which of two serious “promposals” […]

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson took T-Mobile to court because he believed the wireless service provider’s calling plans that are clearly different from standard practices of the biggest wireless service providers in the United States were somehow “deceptive.” On April 25, Ferguson entered into a court-ordered agreement with T-Mobile that requires the wireless carrier […]

BlackBerry Q10 Contains New and Comfortably Familiar Features by Wayne Rash The Bold Face of the BlackBerry Q10 If this smartphone looks familiar to you, that’s because it closely resembles its predecessor, the BlackBerry Bold 9900. The biggest differences are that the Q10’s screen is larger, and the top row of the keyboard—which held the […]

When BlackBerry launched its much anticipated Z10 smartphone, the company also broke new ground by introducing its first touch-screen device that lacked the iconic BlackBerry physical keyboard. For those millions of BlackBerry users who were used to that keyboard, this was a rude awakening and not one that all BlackBerry users liked. While eWEEK found […]

The little good news that came out of Boston in the wake of the April 15 Patriots’ Day marathon bombing—beside the apprehension of the suspects—was that crowd-sourcing was a huge success in helping to identify the suspects. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Boston Police started what might reasonably be called the biggest crowd-sourced […]

Apple’s revelation to Wired that it stores for two years the voice clips for the questions that Siri users ask the automated assistant at least clarifies some details about Siri that Apple hasn’t revealed previously. While Apple has made it clear that Siri actually works by digitizing your voice when you ask Siri a question […]