Carl Weinschenk

2016 Business Communications: Changing the Way We Work The fear for the telephone industry a few years ago was that its copper infrastructure wouldn’t be able to keep pace and a massively disruptive and expensive transition to last-mile fiber would be necessary. The industry doesn’t have to worry. The telcos and their vendors began finding […]

9 Rules for Digital Transformation in the Enterprise The march of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) 802.11 family of Wi-Fi standards continues apace. It’s important to track progress, however. And a milestone denoting that progress occurs when the first products based on a new iteration of the specification make it to the marketplace. […]

The huge data breach that compromised as many as 500,000 user accounts was bad news on a number of fronts for Yahoo. The aggravation stemming from the hack continues as Verizon suggests that it may back out of or seek changes to the $4.8 billion deal to buy Yahoo. Yesterday, Verizon General Counsel Craig Silliman […]

6 Tips for Leveraging Open Source Technology AT&T is in the process of introducing a sophisticated network creation and management platform. It’s also promoting it to other carriers. The Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management & Policy (ECOMP) platform is comprised of 8.5 million lines of computer code. It is, according to Chris Rice, the vice president […]

The unprecedented explosion in telecommunications technology in general and the Internet of Things (IoT) and mobility specifically is revolutionizing the fleet management sector. It is happening on the business side as well: The tie between fleet management and telecommunications is being cemented with Verizon’s purchase of an important fleet management vendor. The evolution of the […]

9 Rules for Digital Transformation in the Enterprise Verizon last week announced an ambitious effort to leverage LTE in aerial applications. The program, Airborne LTE Operations (ALO), is set for two years and will include testing of manned and unmanned aircraft (aka drones) on its LTE network; a demonstration in Cape May, New Jersey, of […]

9 Rules for Digital Transformation in the Enterprise The new reality created by the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, software-defined networks (SDNs) and other advances has many ramifications. One of those riding slightly under the radar is that municipalities, even big cities, can essentially be programmed. Smart cities can just as easily be called […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a hot topic. The latest news is that Samsung is acquiring the AI and personal assistant platform Viv, which was developed by the trio that created Siri for Apple. TechCrunch says that Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer and Chris Brigham sold their initial entry to Apple in 2010 and founded Viv two […]

5 Ways to Ensure Secure Executive Communication Two things are known about the spectrum that will be used for 5G: A lot will be needed and great advances in current technology must be made for it to be suitable for use. Both of these factors raise issues. Earlier this week, WirelessWeek reported that Verizon has […]

Software-Defined Networking and the Enterprise AT&T said today that it is working with VeloCloud to provide software-defined wide-area network (SD WAN) services to its business customers. The press release says that the carrier will offer SD-WAN in a hybrid networking scenario that can be accessed through multiple types of networking. It will be available next […]

The governance of the internet underwent an historic change during the past week. Since the late 1990s, the internet had been governed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which was created by the U.S. Commerce Department in 1998. ICANN was working under a contract with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration […]

5 Social Media Listening Tips for Retailers Facebook has been working on an enterprise version of its platform for a couple of years. It will be introduced on October 10 in London. The immediate question, of course, is whether the platform will succeed. In the bigger picture, it is important to see how social networking […]