Carl Weinschenk

How the Internet of Things Will Change Our Lives One of the strangest realities of the past few decades has been the reliability of Moore’s Law. Gordon Moore in 1965 said that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit would double every year. Webopedia says that the prediction of the cycle soon stretched to […]

Mobility: How It’s Changing Our Lives LTE is just about deployed and the next iteration, LTE-Advanced, is starting to work its way into the network. Cellular providers and their vendors are nothing if not aggressive, however, and work is starting on the next big step: 5G. The pace is picking up. But much work remains […]

Top Challenges Network Engineers Face in Migrating to Faster Networks For every winner, someone must also be the loser. In the case of more efficient use of network resources, the short end of the stick is held by companies that make the Ethernet switching gear for those networks. As efficiency increases, the need for their […]

How the Internet of Things Will Change Our Lives Last week, I wrote about the Internet of Things (IoT) and how it relates to Big Data and chipset development. Both areas are significantly affected. The IoT represents a fundamental and intense shift that adds so much to the already monumental universe of messages and data […]

Two Supreme Court decisions, on cell phone privacy and, to a lesser degree, the status of Aereo, were the highlights of the week. It’s interesting that in an era of such intense partisanship, the decision was unanimous. There was other interesting news and commentary this week. Here are some highlights, starting with the high court: […]

Five Key Technology Trends at CE Week 2014 Most of the headlines are dominated by exciting cutting edge developments such machine-to-machine (M2M), the Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable computing. But important news is being made on more mundane topics. The newest member of the USB data transfer family of standards, USB 3.1, is a […]

Five Tips for Overcoming Mobile Security Challenges Enterprises appear to be methodically working through issues related to adoption of mobile applications. Apperian’s 2014 Executive Enterprise Mobility Report, prepared for the company by Gatepoint Research, suggests that good progress is being made. It also suggests that concerns remain. The survey found that more than 70 percent […]

Top 10 Mobile Technologies and Capabilities for 2015 and 2016 Numbers recently released by AppBrain, HandsetDetection.com and Google itself lay out the challenge facing the Android operating system: The variety of devices using the operating system is huge. The lion’s share of these devices is older and, consequently, lacks some of the important features that […]

M2M’s Disruptive Momentum Revealed The Internet of Things (IoT) is all about scale. The idea is that millions and millions of little transactions will be performed on an ongoing basis. If done correctly, the way just about everything is done will be transformed. Then again, if the telecom and IT industries drop the ball, the […]

Top 10 Mobile Technologies and Capabilities for 2015 and 2016 The last full week of spring brought no big announcements. As usual, however, we saw a smattering of interesting news and insightful commentary. Here are some highlights: Newcomers Aplenty in the ONF Software-defined networks (SDNs) have the potential to radically upset the networking apple cart. […]

Top 10 Mobile Technologies and Capabilities for 2015 and 2016 One of the major initiatives launched by the Obama administration during the dark days of the financial meltdown was a program aimed at bringing broadband services to rural areas. Now, the General Accounting Office (GAO) is taking the administration to the wood shed regarding how […]

Top 10 Mobile Technologies and Capabilities for 2015 and 2016 We haven’t seen a lot of headlines, but the next, and very potent, form of LTE is making good progress. Perhaps if they had given the standard a fresher name it would be generating more attention. LTE Advanced (LTE-A) sounds more like a tweak than […]