Carl Weinschenk

Top 6 Trends that Impact Your Security Posture Any technology with the word “quantum” in the name is by nature impossible for lay people to understand and even difficult for scientists to get their arms fully around. However, though its workings are mysterious, quantum science offers very useful everyday tools. There has been a race […]

5 Trends Impacting the Future of Machine Data Intelligence The gradual adoption of robotics in industry is one of the dramatic and landmark technical developments of the 21st century. A key enabler of robotics is robotic process automation (RPA). It is, according to ZDNet, the use of robotics for such mundane tasks as data entry, […]

5 Best Practices for iOS Enterprise MDM The issue of the physical nature of smartphones has been front and center since the Galaxy Note 7 began catching fire and, eventually, forced a humiliating and costly recall by Samsung. Last week, a very interesting report focusing on device failure was released by the Blancco Technology Group. […]

Ericsson’s mobility report, which was released this week, says that there will be 550 million 5G subscriptions by 2022. One-quarter of those will be held by North Americans. Asia Pacific will be home to 10 percent of the subscribers. The report says that the Middle East and Africa will shift from today’s usage profile, which […]

2017 and Beyond: How Digital Innovation Will Impact the World The race to 5G has been heating up for some time. That’s to be expected since there is so much hype and money at the end of the rainbow. Two of the big early issues are the timing and the earlier form 5G will take. […]

5 DDoS Myths Debunked A lot has been written during the past couple of months about the dangers of Internet of Things-connected consumer devices, which is good, since it’s difficult to overestimate the dangers that the situation poses. Those dangers have reached their potential already with a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks […]

E-Commerce: 5 Strategies to Drive Revenue over the Holidays The folks who run Google’s search engine deserve a lot of credit for not being afraid to change things up, even when the current approach is working. The company is on the precipice of one of those changes. Last week, Google announced perhaps the biggest transition […]

There has been a run of acquisitions in the telecommunications sector, headlined by AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner and CenturyLink’s deal to acquire Level 3. Here is another to add to the list: Windstream and EarthLink are merging in a $673 million deal. EarthLink shareholders will receive 0.818 shares of Windstream common stock. Within three […]

5 DDoS Myths Debunked The vital question of security vulnerabilities connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) has been brought to the fore during the past few months. The drama has been caused by the Mirai botnet. It is using IoT-connected devices to create distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, among other things, and played […]

8 Uses of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality for the Enterprise Late last month, the Wi-Fi Alliance began certification of what is considered to be an important step in filling out the protocols that have revolutionized communications during the past decade. The 802.11ad standard has been given the catchier moniker of WiGig. It enables data […]

The Ubiquity and Danger of Web Scraping It’s all hands on deck in the fight against mobile and desktop malware. The good news is that artificial intelligence (AI) is proving to be as potent in this battle as it is in other endeavors in which massive amounts of data must be assessed, trends deduced, and […]

10 Myths About Virtual Mobile Infrastructure Thursday shapes up to be an important day for virtual reality (VR) as Google’s Daydream View VR headset, which integrates with the new Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones, goes on sale. The trio will be available through the Google Store and at Verizon and Best Buy physical locations, according […]