Carl Weinschenk

Embracing the Mobile Development Trends of 2016 It can be said at any given point in time that Google is nearing the release of a new version of the Android operating system (OS), while recently introduced iterations are struggling to gain wider acceptance. The statement would have been accurate a year ago, two years ago, […]

2016 Business Communications: Changing the Way We Work For a long time, one of the dramas in the smartphone market was whether a third major operating system (OS) would catch on to pose a real threat to the Apple iOS/Google Android duopoly. It’s pretty much settled that those two main players are dominant, and niche […]

Security Threats: 5 Common Network Blind Spots Wearables are coming to work. Indeed, wearables are at work. As with the group’s older cousin, bring your own device (BYOD), folks are simply going to use what works for them in their private lives as they go about their vocational duties. There are differences between how BYOD […]

The 5 Essential Traits of Digital Innovators The “smart city” covers a lot of real estate — literally and figuratively. It involves myriad systems and subsystems, all with their own standards and other distinguishing characteristics. Some are far more advanced than others. For the expansive version of the smart city concept to work, however, all […]

The road to electronic health records (EHR) has been a long one. It is, however, getting closer to completion for many organizations; others still have a ways to go, according to a survey released this week at the 2016 annual meeting of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). The survey […]

Security Threats: 5 Common Network Blind Spots Concern about our reliance on the Internet of Things and Industrial Internet of Things (IoT and IIoT) continues to grow, as does concern about the lack of attention being paid to securing mission-critical devices and networks. A couple of surveys released during the past few days point to […]

5 Defining Tech Trends that Will Shape Business One of the issues that the telecom and IT industries follow closely is the state of capital investment. The thinking a few months ago was that capex was experiencing heavy weather. More recently, a less turbulent period was forecast. A big reason that investors began to feel […]

Last week, we learned about tests of what is called OpenG technology. The testing, which involves six companies, is being done under the umbrella of a coalition called the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) Alliance. The goal is to use the technology to improve indoor wireless communications, Computerworld says. The issue is thorny because it […]

The move by Google to enable all Android Play Store apps to work on Chromebooks – which was announced last week – is a really big deal, according to Computerworld’s JR Raphael: Think about it: With Android apps in the equation, Chromebooks will gain the ability to offer things like Microsoft’s full suite of Office […]

Augmented reality and virtual reality technology have an almost limitless potential. They can start new categories – holographic meetings, anyone? – or add a new dimension to established categories. Indeed, these two platforms, which share much underlying technology, join the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence as technologies that excite the imagination of manufacturers, entrepreneurs, […]

2016 Business Communications: Changing the Way We Work We’ve seen a lot of back and forth during the past year on the use of unlicensed spectrum for LTE. The current users of the spectrum, mostly Wi-Fi folks, were adamantly opposed. The fear was that cellular players didn’t have the ability (and most likely, the desire) […]

8 Uses of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality for the Enterprise The worlds of augmented reality and virtual reality (AR and VR) are moving ahead quite aggressively, though they are at different stages. AR is already well established and growing, while VR is the next big thing. While the loudest noises are coming from gaming […]