Carl Weinschenk

The Ten Commandments of BYOD It will be interesting to watch how the issue of unlocking smartphones and other cell phones plays out over the remainder of the year. Reprogramming – or unlocking – a smartphone or cell phone enables it to run on a network other than the one for which it was intended. […]

AT&T reported very good results from its Wi-Fi business last year. The carrier completed more than 2.7 billion connections, more than doubling the previous year, and now exceeds 32,000 hotspot locations. Other numbers are just as robust: AT&T’s footprint grew 10 percent, more than triple the data traffic was handled (more than 5.2 Megabits), 40 […]

Killer apps come in all shapes and sizes. Here’s a new one: A good number of doctors and medical professionals don’t like typing into mobile computer devices. That, combined with the new world of electronic medical records and electronic health records (EMR and EHR) and the peripatetic nature of medical work, makes medicine a killer […]

Many commentators have weighed in on Marissa Mayer’s ill-conceived ban on telecommuting. Rob Enderle, my colleague here at IT Business Edge, suggests that Mayer is a victim of her inexperience. He writes that being the top gun is a lot different from being a high-level underling, and that Mayer will need to reverse direction if […]

Mobile World Congress (MWC) is in full swing this week in Barcelona. Of course, most of the action is about faster phones, glitzier features and sharper displays. Another trend that is unavoidable, though perhaps a bit less dramatic, is that vendors recognize security must be dealt with as increasing amounts of valuable data ends up […]

The world had just settled into 802.11n. Now, a couple of new standards – 802.11ac and 802.11ad – are around the bend. We are on the verge of seeing 802.11ac smartphones. PC World and other sites reported last week that the HTC One has been approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The phone offers […]

One of the most potentially powerful approaches to organizing and protecting a company’s data and applications on an employee’s smartphone is giving the device a split personality. In the age of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), dividing a smartphone into business and consumer profiles has several significant advantages. It’s a new concept, however, and the […]

The healing of the economy – albeit as fragile as it is – is encouraging growth in many sectors. That’s the theme this week as mobile gaming on tablets takes off, cable does well in the business Ethernet sector, Samsung raises it profile and the lithium-ion battery segment generates more juice. Hopefully, the sequestration – […]

On a daily basis, tablets are becoming more deeply enmeshed in how the world works and plays. Whether it is tablets for kids in the Los Angeles Unified School District or growth in Malaysia and Latin America, tablets are rapidly superseding PCs, smartphones and other forms of electronic communications. The numbers in this slideshow show […]

On Monday, I wrote a post that looked at research from three sources suggesting that the window for a third mobile operating system (OS) is diminishing. In the big picture, the research indicates that Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS are dominate now and are likely to increase their cumulative share over time. That may be […]

Unified communications (UC) remains a fuzzy and complex topic. On one level, the big prize that UC promises to provide – collaboration and all the good things that come with it – is organically springing up from the tablets and smartphones that are being released on a daily basis. The new reality is that a […]

The operating system vendors angling to become the third choice after Android and Apple’s iOS better get busy. Results from three analysts’ firms suggest that the dominance of the top two players is getting deeper. This, it seems at this point, will be a hard trend to reverse. CNET reports that IDC last week said […]