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Carl Weinschenk

February 2012

February 28, 2012

LTE Supporting Only 5 Percent of Verizon Wireless Subscribers

What if they built a network and nobody (or one out of 20 people) came?   The Wall Street Journal made an interesting find in the response to a question posed by Deutsche Bank analyst Brett Fel... More >

February 27, 2012

Features Phones and Smartphones Increasingly Overlap

Lots of the ink (or electrons) spent discussing smartphones quite naturally look at the more expensive, feature-rich and glitziest of the devices being offered. The reality is, however, that there is... More >

February 24, 2012

The Time to Deal with National Emergency Network Voice Issues Is Now

Now is the time for the telecommunications industry and the government to hash out precisely where it is going on public safety and emergency communications. And, according to the Government Accounta... More >

February 23, 2012

Augmented Reality Already Is the Next Big Thing

Somebody doesn’t have to be an advanced planner to see the possibilities, on the consumer and business sides, of augmented reality (AR). The good news: AR already is here.   As the name implies,... More >

February 22, 2012

RIM (Finally) Adds Email to PlayBook

One of the more dramatic ongoing mobile tech stories is the fate of Research In Motion. The company’s BlackBerry, of course, deserves a lot of the credit for making the smartphone era what it has evo... More >

February 21, 2012

IT Departments: Plan for Millennials

IT departments and C-level executives by now understand that advanced mobility in general and bring your own device (BYOD) in particular are part of the permanent corporate landscape. Indeed, the ent... More >

February 17, 2012

The Very Public Privacy Debate Heats Up

Deep privacy questions are growing more pointed as the devices people carry are more powerful and the personal and corporate data stored on them grows more sensitive and valuable — to both the device... More >

February 16, 2012

Don't Panic About, or Ignore, IPv6 Security

The move from IPv4 to IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 4 and 6) has gotten a tremendous amount of interest. The transition will be in the news more often as we approach the Internet Society's IPv6 la... More >

February 15, 2012

NTIA, FCC Deal a Deep Blow to LightSquared

LightSquared is a big concept project that aims (or perhaps aimed) to provide 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) to third parties. It is backed by well-known hedge fund manager Philip Falcone, and had sign... More >

February 14, 2012

Ultrabooks Move Center Stage, but Doubts Persist

It can be difficult to keep all the new gadgets (or form factors, in industry parlance) straight as the worlds of telecommunications, consumer electronics and IT merge and grow.   One of the mor... More >

February 13, 2012

Google Responds to Google Wallet Concerns: Is it Enough?

The big issue emerging from the twin hits to Google Wallet's security is what impact the resulting uncertainty will have on the fledgling category.   Last week, many sites reported and I posted... More >

February 10, 2012

Two Ways to Pickpocket Google Wallet Emerge

The electronic wallet sector has generated a lot of hype. Google Wallet and ISIS — which is ramping up — offer the extravagant prospect of using near-field communications (NFC) technology embedded ... More >

February 9, 2012

The Feds and Others Come to Grips with BYOD

The consumerization of IT/bring-your-own-device movements — they are largely the same trend, with some differences around the edges — is the big story in corporate communications. Just about everythi... More >

February 8, 2012

Fiber at the Cutting Edge

It’s quite understandable that the vast majority of coverage of IT and telecommunications deals with the here and now — what is happening in technology, business and the meeting of the two today and ... More >

February 7, 2012

Smartphones — at Least Some Types — Continue to Rise

An important milestone was reached during the fourth quarter of 2011 when smartphones outsold personal computers, according to Canalys.   According to the story at eWeek on its findings , 158.5 ... More >

February 6, 2012

Google Making Progress on Kansas City Project

Cable industry veterans will get a chuckle out of the fact that apparently one of the biggest issues facing Google as it makes final preparations for its ultra-fast network in Kansas City , Kan., co... More >

February 3, 2012

The Android Community Responds to Security Challenges

Android seems to be constantly in the process of discovering and defining itself. That’s part and parcel of both of the specifics of how open source works and, more generally, that a massive deployme... More >

February 2, 2012

Voice Over LTE Set to Roll in 2012

All of the hubbub about Long Term Evolution (LTE) during the past couple of years has been about data. Voice, to date, has not been part of the 4G LTE experience.   That is about to change. The... More >

February 1, 2012

Views Differ on the Dangers of Android Fragmentation

The opinions on Android fragmentation are, well, fragmented.   The basic idea is that the open source platform will be specialized to such an extent that versions will be incompatible. Instead o... More >

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