Wayne Rash

You can tell that Apple’s newest iPad is different from the minute you take it out of the box. For one thing, the home button is gone. On the back is a row of three tiny contacts. Turn it on, and it’s essentially all screen.  Apple has brought many of the latest changes from the […]

If you were to believe the lofty ideals of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, we’d have entered a world in which our personal information is treated like the valued thing that it is. It would be carefully hidden away, free from the prying eyes of hackers, telemarketers or corporate spies. Every company that has business […]

When the FCC approved opening up the 6GHz frequency band to unlicensed use on April 23, it was immediately clear from the comments of the commissioners that they expected that WiFi would be the major beneficiary. This was no surprise if only because the use of the band and WiFi have been intermingled for months […]

The Federal Communications Commission took the long-awaited vote on April 23 to open up the entire 6GHz band to unlicensed use, including WiFi and other types of unlicensed communications. Users will have to share the band with existing users, which includes newsgathering, satellite communications and telecom backhaul. Equipment for the new uses at 6GHz is […]

What’s happening is complex, and it’s due in part to sudden changes in demand for some items and a sudden drop in demand for others. Adding to the complexity is a lack of some sources of material to provide supplies at the normal level; then there’s a lack of transport for some types of materials. […]

By now you know about COVID-19, commonly known as the coronavirus, and you know that it’s wreaking havoc on any gathering of people, already leading to cancellations of conferences, sporting events and social gatherings. Those gatherings of people are now including people at work, leading authorities in the state of Washington to ask their employees […]

The approval of the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint by U.S. District Court Judge Victor Marrero on Feb. 11, 2020 removed the last major hurdle to the massive telecom buy. In his decision, Judge Marrero found that the merger is lawful. Attorneys general for 14 states had sued to stop the merger, claiming that it […]

By now you know about the chaos caused by the Iowa Democratic Party’s decision to use a mobile app to tabulate the results of that state’s caucuses. The caucus method of choosing nominees for delegates to the party’s national convention has long been viewed as complex and difficult to manage, but it worked for Iowans […]

The concept behind Cisco’s Meraki line of networking products is to manage everything in the cloud. That line consists of the regular Meraki line of products which are much like other enterprise networking products, but cloud managed. The other line is Meraki Go, which is intended to be used in small businesses without any IT […]

When you get as many 5G-oriented press releases as I do, especially around the time of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, you’ll hear all sorts of claims, many dubious. Those claims are frequently absurd, often wrong and sometimes propose violations of the laws of physics. Mostly, though, they’re simply self-serving marketing blather. Unfortunately, some of […]