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Carl Weinschenk

Data and Telecom

Companies’ communications strategies must be agile in a rapidly evolving market

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May 22, 2012

Simple Billing Plans Fall Short in a Complex World

Two recent moves — both analyzed by CNET’s Marquerite Reardon — rest on the reality that the explosion of traffic and the greater variety of services are driving innovations in the way carriers and... More >

May 21, 2012

Gartner: Apple, Samsung Score in First Quarter

Gartner’s numbers on mobile phones were released last week.   The firm outlined a quarter that could have been better. Overall device sales of 419.1 million represented a 2 percent decline comp... More >

May 18, 2012

Mobility in Health Care Settings Increases — as Do the Risks

Two trends — one good and one bad — should get the attention of IT and security departments. It’s pretty stark: An increasing number of doctors are using tablets (which, with their functionality, pre... More >

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Optimizing Storage for Better TCO in Oracle Environments: Performance and Scalability

Read this executive brief to learn how a storage management solution, designed with extreme performance and scalability features, can help organizations with heavy transaction workloads and protect the investment in storage infrastructure.

May 17, 2012

Google Manages Its Empire — and Tries to Nudge Carriers and Vendors

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google is planning some interesting moves that potentially will nudge wireless carriers and vendors a bit to the side.   Google, according to eWeek’s r... More >

May 16, 2012

Getting Smart with Cells

There are lots of very smart people working in the telecommunications and IT spheres. Thus, when a fundamental presents itself — one that threatens the health of the interrelated industry segments — ... More >

May 15, 2012

Great Snakes! Phones on a Plane a Tiny Bit Closer

Coordinating technology, lawmaking/rulemaking and marketing never was easy. A good example of the discontinuity between the three is the age-old — or at least seemingly so — issue of the use of cell ... More >

Kaspersky's Grebennikov Raises Questions About Apple Security

Some pretty interesting questions are raised by this story at Computing.co.uk that describes Kaspersky’s Lab’s CTO’s take on how serious Apple is about security.   The first question deals sim... More >

May 11, 2012

Wi-Fi, Already a Hit, Grows More Sophisticated

People have a tendency to speak about businesses: SOHOs, small business, medium-size businesses and enterprises. That level of abstraction certainly is necessary. But it is just that: a level of abst... More >

May 10, 2012

Google Hasn't Lost Its Drive

Once in a while, a story posts somewhere (or, more likely, in a number of places) that is a stretch to be covered in a blog that has a mandate of covering mobile communications. A while ago, for inst... More >

May 9, 2012

The Wireless Industry and the Administration Volley on Spectrum

Jeffrey Burt at eWeek offers a good overview of the essential tension between the government and the wireless industry over spectrum in this report on the keynote of CTIA Wireless 2012 in New Orlean... More >

May 8, 2012

Seamless Wireless Gets a Boost Next Month

Some big changes come in a bit under the radar. But, once they are here, it quickly becomes apparent precisely how significant they are. That may be the case with the Wi-Fi Alliance's Passport.  ... More >

May 7, 2012

Complexity, Lack of Urgency Likely Will Slow e-Wallets

The early signs for electronic wallets — that the marketplace is taking a long time to develop and that these initiatives won’t be overnight sensations — are to be expected. They shouldn't be the cau... More >

May 4, 2012

Smart Grid: A Challenging $65 Billion Industry in Five Years

The numbers, when it comes to the overall smart grid category, are big. This week, for instance, ABI Research released a report that said the sector will reach $65 billion annually by 2017.   ... More >

May 3, 2012

Text Messaging May Be Slowing, but Its Problems Are Not

The tide — and a big tide it is — may be turning against text messaging.   The New York Times reports on a study by analyst Chetan Sharma that suggests that the rate of increase in text emails ... More >

May 1, 2012

Microsoft, Comcast — and Others — Make Themselves at Home

The concept is simple: The best approach to home automation is to perceive the domicile as one big PC, with each function — security, entertainment, heating/cooling, etc. — being treated as a periphe... More >

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