Carl Weinschenk

Embracing the Mobile Development Trends of 2016 The emergence of wearables at work as a distinct category offers great challenges and significant benefits to businesses. The developers who are charged with writing applications for enterprise wearables are aware of the upside – and wary of the difficulties. Today, Kony released a survey of 230 people […]

9 Successful Digital Disruption Examples Microsoft has upgraded the Windows 10 IoT Core. The lightweight platform now includes an extension for Visual Studio Code, which is Microsoft’s new code editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, according to Silicon Angle. Windows 10 IoT Core now offers a Universal Windows Platform application for the Raspberry […]

Top 6 Trends that Impact Your Security Posture Device security was, is and always will be a big issue. The main security tool to date, of course, is the password, but to put it bluntly, not too many people are fans. Fingerprint scanning has made some headway over the years. Iris scanning is another approach […]

The commercial and industrial potential of drones has just begun to become obvious. In June, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released rules for commercial use of drones. The rules, which apply to drones as heavy as 55 pounds, are collectively known as “Part 107,” seem fairly benign: They mandate that drones only operate in daylight, […]

2016 Business Communications: Changing the Way We Work Carrier Ethernet (CE) offers big advantages: It enables carriers to use the same basic family of common local-area network (LAN) protocols that are used in homes and offices. It also allows bandwidth to be delegated in small increments, which enables a closer match between customer need and […]

Enterprise Mobility Management Myth Busters: Users vs. IT Reality The smart companies are the ones that anticipate change and react accordingly. This is difficult in a corporate environment because things are often going well when strategic changes should be made. Therefore, it takes foresight and courage to take steps that can cut into profits and […]

10 Myths About Virtual Mobile Infrastructure Ericsson said this week that it has introduced the first 5G NR (New Radio). Systems featuring the technology will be ready for deployment in 2017. The AIR 6468 5G NR radio supports massive multiple in, multiple out (Massive MIMO) and multiple user MIMO (MU MIMO), the company said. It […]

Productivity suites and unified communications offer great benefits. They can be a bit difficult to use, however, and being able to ask a question verbally and have somebody (or, in this case, something) answer is a great solution. That makes them a perfect target for natural language processing (NLP) and virtual assistants. Cisco and NLP […]

10 Trends Making Enterprise App Stores Work The mobile news is full of stories tracking the drive to 5G. Vendors, service providers, and the rest of the ecosystem are gearing up for testing, standards development and eventual deployments. At the same time, the current dominant platform, LTE, is experiencing an evolution of its own. The […]

9 Critical Questions to Ask Your IT Service Provider A key to the remarkable success of cellular during the past 20 years is the ability of subscribers to roam freely without having to re-authenticate and log in whenever they switch networks. Indeed, if this wasn’t assumed, it is likely that cellular communication would be far […]

2016 Telecommunications Trends: More Choices, Less Lock-In Comcast has been using the open source OpenStack cloud platform for four years. Light Reading’s Mari Silbey compiled some stats of its use: Comcast has used to the platform to traffic 1 petabyte of data across 34 national data centers and has experienced a 400 percent year-over-year growth […]

Endpoint Backup: 5 Ways to Stave Off a Data Catastrophe Two related pieces of commentary on biometrics may put the security and development community at odds. The first is that mobile developers like biometrics; an Evans Data study released last month and reported upon this week at eWeek says that developers’ preferred approach to security […]