Carl Weinschenk

10 Myths About Virtual Mobile Infrastructure Proponents have long extolled the potential of small cells. These devices, which represent a new layer inserted between end users and legacy macro cell towers, are flexible and seem to respond to a number of challenges facing mobile operators. One of the ways in which small cells will be […]

2016 Business Communications: Changing the Way We Work 5G is a massive effort that requires players to cooperate on a number of levels. This week, AT&T said that it is talking with powerful companies about working together on the technology. Computerworld says that Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei, Qualcomm, Intel, Samsung and LG are among the possible […]

5 Core Components for Successful App Development The modern worlds of IT and telecommunications offer across-the-board challenges and benefits to small businesses. Many of these revolve around providing employees with the best and most secure platforms with which to do their jobs. An issue that sometimes doesn’t generate as much attention is the relationship between […]

Software-Defined Networking and the Enterprise Technical advances invariably have unintended negative impacts. The ramifications may be more than compensated for by the good the technology brings, but they must be recognized and dealt with nonetheless. Computer Reseller News reports that networking giant Cisco is about to become a bit less of a giant: The company […]

Virtual reality and augmented reality (VR and AR) are fairly familiar ideas. The former features the immersion of the participant in a non-real environment. The latter adds elements to the real environment of the user. The new twist is mixed reality (MR) which, according to VentureBeat, is close to AR. The difference, the story suggests, […]

It is difficult to keep secrets for long in the computer world. Developers and the media that follow them are brilliant and most of those involved love to puzzle things out. So it is no surprise that just a small posting led to conjecture that Google apparently is planning a third major operating system (OS) […]

When it launched, the question was whether Google Fiber was a serious project or a way to goad telcos and cable companies into creating networks fast enough to support their products and services. Of course, Google Fiber was serious and has rolled out in many venues. Now, it seems, Google may be anticipating a significant […]

6 Reasons Why Business Resiliency Is Within Reach The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which had been on a bit of a winning streak under Chairman Tom Wheeler, was dealt a significant blow this week. The 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction over Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan and Tennessee, found that the FCC couldn’t […]

5 Trends Impacting the Future of Machine Data Intelligence Acquisitions of startups by two industry giants were announced this week, suggesting the attention generated by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning is accelerating. First, Siri is saying hello to Turi. More specifically, Apple has acquired the AI and machine learning startup, for $200 million. Turi, […]

Enterprise Mobility Management Myth Busters: Users vs. IT Reality The bring your own device (BYOD) work arrangement is a half-decade old, and it seems that five years is a good time to take stock. A lot has changed and a lot has stayed the same. The changes are to the types and sophistication of security […]

There were 7.125 billion people on earth as of 2013, according to the World Bank. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) claims that 8.2 billion devices have shipped that support the Bluetooth standard. In short, Bluetooth is everywhere. People who have it don’t necessarily use it, but it is there for those who want it. […]

Top 5 Tips for Building a Fail-Safe Network Disaster-recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) is difficult to distinguish from disaster recovery/business continuity (DR/BC). It seems that it is more of a semantic change: The ideas behind both appear similar. They offer an organization a way to simplify life by farming out backup and redundancy functions to specialists with geographically […]