Carl Weinschenk

Many experts suggest that the future of smartphones may be in developing economies, because countries with more developed economies are becoming saturated and the lack of thrilling new features is slowing the refresh rate. Developing economies offer very different business environments. The focus is on mid- and low-cost devices. This context may explain why Apple […]

The smart home market is important for a couple of reasons. The most obvious is the value of the sector: Linking home health, office, entertainment, environment and appliances in an intelligent network will be a money machine. Perhaps even more importantly, smart homes and smart cities undoubtedly seek to use standards and technology that are […]

The Evolution of Communication Technology The age of drones, which has been sneaking up on us for several years, is fully here. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy yesterday announced a wide-ranging program to promote the commercial drone industry. Steps include a $35 million, five-year research funding project by the National Science […]

How to Create a Culture of Innovation Verizon this week said that it intends to acquire the Dublin-based Fleetmatics Group for $2.4 billion, in a very interesting deal. The prime clients of a fleet management company are organizations with lots of vehicles on the road. They demand cutting edge insights, and a world of software […]

Top 5 Places Your Enterprise Data Is at Risk The hack of the Democratic National Committee is not an attack on critical infrastructure. However, the audacity to try to monkey around with the American elections and the highly suspected involvement of the Russians raises it to nearly the same level of severity. The Russians are […]

IDC released its second quarter smartphone numbers this week. The firm reported that 343.3 million smartphones were shipped worldwide, which InformationWeek reports was “essentially flat” compared to the same period last year. Perhaps the most significant result was a 15 percent decline in iPhone shipments compared with the year-ago quarter. In real terms, unit shipments […]

Enterprise Mobility Management Myth Busters: Users vs. IT Reality The excitement over 5G technology focuses on the great benefits it will bring to mobility. That’s reasonable, but 5G will excel in another use case: fixed wireless. Indeed, fixed wireless is first on the agenda. Providing a service to a moving target, and one that is […]

Cyber Crime Report Finds Old Breaches Led to New Breaches Ransomware, or the encrypting of a victim’s data until a ransom is paid, is one of the scariest of the many scary things companies face. And health care organizations should be a bit more frightened because, for some reason, this sector is the main target […]

9 Critical Questions to Ask Your IT Service Provider Networking technologies get inexorably faster as they advance. LTE is faster than 3G, and 5G will beat the pants off LTE. Fast is king, right? Not always. The next big thing in Ethernet is IEEE P802.3bz, which defines – a fancy term for laying out the […]

Cameron Camp, a researcher for global security provider ESET, suggests that autonomous vehicles are very vulnerable to hacking. These vehicles typically use a Controller Area Network (CAN), a simple and reliable way to link all the elements necessary in a connected car. The problem is that it’s vulnerable, Camp says at Dark Reading: The basic […]

IoT Adoption, Emerging Tech Driving Tech Industry Revenue Growth One of the most important questions that must be answered as the Internet of Things (IoT) evolves is which basic underlying technology will be used to connect all of those tiny devices. The answer may be that the best option depends on precisely what the carrier, […]

The move from the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addressing scheme to the new and vastly more expansive IPv6 has been going on so long that it is becoming more like a tradition than a transition. Just about everybody, even those who are dragging their feet, understands that it is a vital technology upon which […]