Wayne Rash

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has begun circulating a draft order that would refer the proposed transfer of T-Mobile’s licenses to AT&T to an administrative law judge for trial on the grounds that the transfer isn’t in the public interest and should be denied. According to sources at the FCC who spoke on the […]

Ladies and gentlemen, in this corner is the undefeated champion of the world, the Apple iPad. In the opposite corner is the challenger, the lightweight but scrappy Amazon Kindle Fire. Come on out and shake hands, then get ready to, er…hmmm not exactly rumble. Oh, I know, get ready to eat market share! And now […]

When I visited the data center for1&1 Internet, a huge hosting and cloud services provider located in Lenexa, Kan., I was struck by the size of the emergency generating system. The Caterpillar diesels that power the generators are the size of locomotive engines. The four generator sets power the 40,000 servers in an N+1 configuration, […]

LENEXA, KANSAS – Somewhere in an anonymous building located in a cluster of equally nondescript buildings on the Kansas prairie, 1&1 Internet has built a vast data center to serve the needs of small and midsized businesses. Although 1&1 is probably best known as an Internet hosting provider, the company has expanded its offerings to […]

As long as you don’t examine the details, the Stop Online Piracy Act (HR 3261) might sound like a good idea. Many people agree that using illegal copies of movies or music is a bad idea. That’s the reason we have copyright laws, and that’s the reason you see that FBI warning about illegal reproduction […]

Bowing to demands by the European Union, Google has now published how it plans to let people opt out of having their location data collected by Google. This location data is used for all sorts of things, but for people with Android phones, it shows up in Google Goggles, which has an augmented reality function. […]

For most people it’s hard to believe that the recession officially is over and that the economy is recovering, but it’s true. Companies are getting more business, profits are up and the need for reliable employees grows every day. IT departments are finding that recruiting an employee who can show up on time, demonstrate leadership […]

WASHINGTON – The steady drumbeat of advertisements by AT&T claiming huge job growth if the merger with T-Mobile is allowed to go through is impossible to escape in Washington. The ads appear daily in everything from newspapers to bus signs to broadcast commercials. Each time, the claim is the same-if AT&T is allowed to acquire […]

The call for a radio interview was fairly routine. For whatever reason, I get calls from time to time from radio stations asking for a comment on something involving current technology news. Less often, I appear on networks such as NPR to talk about technology. The call I got Nov. 7 was a little unusual […]

U.S. District Court Judge Ellen Huvelle has handed AT&T a defeat in its quest to prevent the antitrust suits filed by Sprint and Cellular South seeking to prevent the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile. AT&T had filed motions to dismiss the suits by both companies on the grounds that they didn’t have standing to […]

One of the most sobering things I had to do during my naval career was to check the aim on the big guns on the ship to make sure that the explosive shells fell on the target with sufficient accuracy that they eliminated the target and as little else as possible. I did this by […]

The news from Symantec that acyber-attacker used an off-the-shelf Trojan called PoisonIvy to extract intellectual property fromU.S. chemical and defense industries as reported by eWEEK‘s Fahmida Rashid is more depressing than anything else. The ease with which the hacker, named “Covert Grove” by Symantec, used crude social engineering to get employees at his target companies […]