Carl Weinschenk

Six Tips for Creating a Productive Work-from-Home Program The first wave of 802.11ac products certainly is having an impact. For instance, ZDNet Senior Technical Editor Jason Perlow, in the course of describing his use of the Linksys RE6500 range extender, discusses the differences between 802.11ac on one hand and 802.11g and 802.11n on the other. […]

Five Strategies to Avoid Crisis in the Contact Center At one point – and not too long ago in anything but telecommunications and IT years – Microsoft dominated. Microsoft’s new leadership showed this week that it fully understands that its iconic status doesn’t mean anything outside of the PC museum. It took three steps – […]

Mobility: How It’s Changing Our Lives The other shoe dropped this week on Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia, and it was a big one. The company announced that its restructuring will require its deepest manpower reduction ever, 18,000 jobs, and that about two-third of the cuts will come from the workforce that came over with the […]

Five Tips for Overcoming Mobile Security Challenges The importance of mobile device management (MDM) and the subcategories it has generated can’t be questioned. Indeed, MDM is a vital enabler of mobility as bring your own device (BYOD) and related non-traditional work structures become the rule rather than the exceptions. The growth of the overall market […]

Mobility: How It’s Changing Our Lives Lots of decisions will impact a device manufacturer’s success. For example, sometimes the pull of outside conditions is stronger than at other times. In the case of smartphones and tablets, the saturation of markets in developed countries and the migration of the focal point to developing economies will be […]

Five Reasons Wi-Fi Will Overtake Traditional Telecoms It’s been a few months since two mega-deals were announced. First, on February 13, Comcast said it would acquire Time Warner Cable. About three months later, on May 18, AT&T announced that it would take over DirecTV. Huge acquisition headlines inevitably are followed by long periods of silence. […]

Mobility: How It’s Changing Our Lives In a week that saw no major tech news, perhaps the most interesting tidbit was that Samsung says that its second quarter was slower than anticipated. This is important both for what it says about the category in general and Samsung in particular. A few other interesting bits of […]

Is Wi-Fi Better than Chocolate? A National Survey Says Yes The world’s telecommunications networks increasingly are dominated by fiber, which controls the core of the network and in many cases extends to homes and businesses. For most of the life of the telephone industry, however, that last mile of wire was copper. Although it all […]

Mobility: How It’s Changing Our Lives Yesterday, I wrote about small cells and the enterprise. Another important new technology is making waves as well. Beacons are radios in portable electronic devices that call out to nearby radios integrated into advertising displays, products or just about anything else. They are increasingly common in commercial establishments. This […]

Mobility: How It’s Changing Our Lives Small cell technology appears to be a potent tool as service providers and enterprises battle to keep ahead of the inexorable increase in data traffic. This class of technology can fundamentally change the operational and financial structure of an enterprise approach to on-premise mobility. Small cells include picocells, metrocells […]

Why the Mobile ‘Pocket Office’ Is Inevitable and Good for Business When BYOD first established itself, IT and telecommunications departments, and the higher-ups who sign their checks, were rightly concerned that the new trend would have fundamental and widespread effects. They acknowledged that a tremendous amount of hard work would be necessary to leverage the […]

Holiday weeks rarely produce news both because they are short and because companies don’t want their message to get lost as folks leave work, or at least have their minds on doing so. But there was some news and interesting commentary nonetheless. Here are some highlights: Not Exactly Utopia Visitors to telecom and IT sites […]