Carl Weinschenk

Why the Mobile ‘Pocket Office’ Is Inevitable and Good for Business The dog days are upon us. The biggest news items of the week were at Sprint. The carrier changed CEOs and abandoned its move to control T-Mobile. Here are some highlights of other pieces of news and worthwhile commentary this week: Cablevision: Wi-Fi a […]

Mobility: How It’s Changing Our Lives Wireless charging is a win for everyone. Device owners don’t have to find lost cables or figure out what to do when they realize they didn’t pack them. Manufacturers cut down on what is largely a lost expense and the material and energy wasted to produce new charging gear […]

Six Key Steps to Build a Successful Digital Business Unified communications (UC) is at one time a nebulous and fluid concept and something that is increasingly necessary as communications platforms and devices proliferate. UC also is changing over time, both in the technical approach and what is supported. It now incorporates social media and deals […]

Cybersecurity Grades Released for Key Industries Among the already scary global state of affairs, cybersecurity and critical infrastructure are also areas that have become increasingly tense. In July, The Economist ran a special section on cybersecurity, and one of the stories focused on critical infrastructure attacks. One passage explains perhaps the key issue driving the […]

Software-defined networks (SDNs) represent a massive shift in IT. The bottom line is simple and shows the potency of the SDN concept: Software has become so powerful that what formerly required physical changes to the network now can be achieved far more quickly by flipping a few virtual switches in a data center or other […]

Mobility: How It’s Changing Our Lives The news this week was about war in the Middle East and in Ukraine. At home, we saw a solid, if not spectacular, jobs report and news that the economy expanded at a healthy 4 percent rate during the second quarter. There was interesting news and commentary on the […]

What Can Augmented Reality Do? Two news stories this week illustrate the duality of 3D printing. In a way, 3D printing is no different than a number of technologies, from nuclear power to firearms: It can be used to do extreme good (e.g., printed food, for instance, seems on first glance to have huge transformational […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for Smart Government The explosion of sensors that make up the Internet of Things (IoT) is creating a world of smart appliances, smart TVs and related smart gadgetry. Outside the home, you’ll find smart businesses, smart government offices, smart law enforcement and smart roadways along with other infrastructure elements with […]

Mix of IT Initiatives Offer Compelling, Immediate Savings for Federal Agencies The fight over the right of municipalities to build their own networks seems like such a no-brainer that it takes some digging to even figure out why opposition to the idea exists. But exist it does. Laws in many states constrain municipalities from building […]

Five Considerations When Selecting Voice and Data Plans for Business The bloom has been off the rose for bring your own device (BYOD) for a while. One story this week reported that this is giving hope to struggling BlackBerry. The problems with BYOD, including clumsy and energy-hungry mobile device management (MDM) software and employee privacy […]

The Struggle to Manage the Complexity of Modern IT Cable operators, tethered to their legacy coaxial cable, have always had to struggle to offer enough upstream (home to headend) bandwidth to keep up. The industry is on the cusp of introducing the next version of its Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS). For those […]

Five Tips for Overcoming Mobile Security Challenges A minor firestorm has erupted in the mobile device world after claims made by Jonathan Zdziarski, who is described at MacRumors as a “forensic scientist and iPhone jailbreak expert,” that the Apple iOS operating system has hidden backdoors. The claims were made at the Hackers On Planet Earth […]