Carl Weinschenk

Sprint’s plan to acquire the 49 percent of Clearwire that it doesn’t already own – as the company prepares to itself be sold to Japanese firm Softbank –

David Bowie has just released new music for the first time in a decade. That is appropriate during this year’s Consumer Electronics Show -- which is

The Consumer Electronics Show, always the first convention of the year, is set for this week in Las Vegas. It’s a massive affair. For that reason, there

My colleague Don Tennant offered a very well written and interesting post on Jan. 7 on Google’s removal of a feature that let users in China know when a

Predictions on what will happen during the year ahead – in sports, IT or telecommunications – are most useful not for their predictive value, but for what

The use of electronic devices on airplanes always has been a sticky topic. While cellular communications still is off limits in the United States, Wi-Fi

One of the things to watch for in 2013 is if the free market actually works.Well, sort of. One of the oft-repeated arguments of the folks who want to

To a great extent, people employ a sort of personal unified communications platform without knowing it. The saturation of wired and wireless devices lets

The big picture of the Internet also has included a heavy emphasis on how it is administered. That, ultimately, leads to who has control.For instance, the

Futurists and bloggers — and blogging futurists — talk about the “Internet of things.” Part of the attraction is simply that it’s an evocative phrase,

The New York Times has an interesting story in its Dealbook section floating the premise that venture and investment money is flowing into less glitzy

The worlds of telecommunications and IT — taken as both separate sectors and where they overlap — are vast and complex. Big carriers and vendors offer