Wayne Rash

McLEAN, Va.—A warm summers day and light breezes made it a perfect day for the experiments that Miss Rashs physics students at McLean High School in McLean, Va., had been assigned. The task: to create a container or delivery vehicle that would safely carry a raw, fresh egg to a target far below the top […]

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is only restricting liquids and gels on all flights originating in the United States, a spokesperson told eWEEK Aug. 10. But that doesnt mean you can take electronic devices on all flights as carry-on luggage. As a result of the change in the terrorist threat level to Code Red, or […]

The US Department of Transportation has announced that a laptop computer containing names, addresses and social security numbers of 133,000 Florida residents was stolen two weeks ago. According to a letter sent to Congress on August 9, the theft of the laptop happened on July 27 in Doral, Fla., a suburb of Miami. The theft […]

Firetide, the Los Gatos, Calif., maker of mesh networking infrastructure, has announced that the company has started shipping new Wi-Fi access points designed to work in conjunction with its mesh networking hardware and management software. The new line of HotPoint APs are designed for enterprise and municipal networks, and are offered in both an indoor […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs is hiring ID Analytics to perform data breach analysis to ensure that information on 26.5 million veterans contained on a stolen laptop was not compromised. The laptop has since been recovered. According to a release from the VA, ID Analytics will look for patterns of misuse and suspicious activity related […]

Sprint Nextel will begin offering a high-bandwidth wireless service to customers by the end of 2007 that will use WiMax technology and operate in the 2.5GHz band, where Sprint has extensive spectrum holdings. The company expects the 4G service to reach 100 million people in the United States in 2008, according to a Sprint spokesperson. […]

WASHINGTON—FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell met with reporters Aug. 8 to explain his thoughts and concerns regarding issues he expects to come before the Federal Communications Commission over the next several years. During a press conference, the commissioner said that he believes strongly in the power of the marketplace, and that he believes that consumers have […]

Wavion of San Jose is announcing a new spatially adaptive, beam forming Wi-Fi access point aimed at the municipal and metro wireless markets. The new Wavion WS410 is designed to use its ability to direct RF (radio frequency) energy on a packet by packet basis to double the range of standard Wi-Fi APs, as well […]

WASHINGTON—Officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs announced this afternoon that a VA contractor has discovered that a computer containing information on as many as 38,000 veterans is missing. Matthew Burns, spokesman for the department, said the contractor, Unisys, told the VA that the computer was missing from its Reston, Va., offices on Thursday, Aug. […]

Its hard to imagine a company with less to worry about in the net neutrality debate than Siemens. With $75 billion in annual revenue, the global industrial giant has the pricing power to keep any Internet carrier in line. A move to charge more for some services, or to restrict access in any way, would […]