Carl Weinschenk

The 5 Essential Traits of Digital Innovators The PC market has been slowing down for years. Updated numbers are in from Gartner and IDC – and they are not good. Gartner found that PC shipments totaled 64.8 million, which was a steep 9.6 percent decline from the first quarter of last year. IDC brought more […]

2016 Telecommunications Trends: More Choices, Less Lock-In The rollout of FiOS, Verizon’s fiber and coax-based telecommunications platform, was thought to be about over. That common wisdom, according to Light Reading, has turned out to not be the case. In what Mari Silbey calls a surprise announcement, the telco said that it will roll out the […]

10 Things to Get Excited About in Android Marshmallow New versions of mobile operating systems (OS) are constantly released. An important factor that sometimes rides under the radar is how proactively and effectively manufacturers work to get these OSes onto their devices. This is an especially important factor in the Android world. Fragmentation – the […]

5 Mobile Development Trends for 2016 When people disagree, it could be that they are seeing different data, come to the discussion from different perspectives or have different agendas. For a few years, the common wisdom has been that the smartphone sector was transitioning. The idea is that the high end is saturated and, since […]

WhatsApp, the messaging platform that is perhaps the most widely used in the world, certainly carries a lot of business data.  That data has become a bit more secure: WhatsApp is now using end-to end-encryption, according to ITWeb. Of course, the U.S. government and Apple have had a showdown over the rights of authorities to […]

3D printing is arguably the most interesting, useful and potentially disruptive of the exciting array of technologies gradually becoming available. Its claim to being disruptive is a potent one: Supply chains are predicated on the idea of getting the parts and eventually the finished products from here to there. Indeed, moving things around pervades the […]

Players in the telecommunications industry spend their time on games of one-upmanship. The telcos continue improving on ways to squeeze ever faster services from their digital subscriber line (DSL) techniques, cellular and wireless push toward the 5G starting line, and cable operators test their data over cable service interface specification (DOCSIS). The cable operators have […]

The Internet of Things: Just a Fad or Worth the Buzz? Two news items were released in the past couple of days that seem to contradict each other. Or, perhaps, they don’t. The first is that Verizon thinks that the Internet of Things (IoT) is here. The company released a report that suggested that the […]

2016 Telecommunications Trends: More Choices, Less Lock-In Things seem to be continuing apace for BlackBerry. That fact is a lot better than the old status quo – that the company is doomed – but it doesn’t mean that it is smooth sailing ahead. For what seemed like an interminable amount of time, it looked like […]

Yesterday, The Federal Communications Commission, in a party line, 3-2 vote, approved proposed privacy regulations that would limit the ability of Internet service providers (ISPs) to collect and share some forms of data without subscriber consent. WirelessWeek said that rules would create three categories of data. ISPs would also be required to make public how […]

The Evolution of Information Management: What to Expect in 2016 The explosion of communications channels during the past few years makes it possible that those charged with security – particularly, mobile security – will accidentally overlook something that actually poses big risks. It is important to guard against this. Instant messaging (IM) is a great […]

4 Enterprise Technology Trends to Be Mindful of in 2016 Though it is still a long way off, the race to develop 5G is heating up. This week, T-Mobile asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a license to test millimeter wave radios in the 28GHz and 39GHz frequencies. According to FierceWireless: Its proposed operations […]