Carl Weinschenk

The usual way in which the media approaches emerging markets is to use the competitive paradigm: Companies A, B and C are jumping in and the race is on, and may the best business plan win. While there is an element of truth to such an interpretation, it’s not as cut and dried. Business sectors […]

Is Wi-Fi Better than Chocolate? A National Survey Says Yes The 802.11 family of standards is an extraordinary success story. It was basically unknown in the 1990s and now is a co-leader, with LTE, as the way in which people around the world communicate wirelessly. It is fundamentally different from cellular techniques. In the U.S., […]

Five Key Technology Trends at CE Week 2014 The bustling graduation season is upon us. Things are slowing down perceptively in the telecom and IT space as the summer approaches, however. Still, interesting news and commentary from the tech sector was available online this week—from Cisco’s always mind-bending numbers on Internet traffic to a good […]

Ten Tips to Help Businesses Prepare for Severe Weather Business disruptions can happen at any time and have an almost limitless number of causes. Among the biggest disrupters, of course, are big storms with names (a.k.a. hurricanes). The start last week of the Atlantic hurricane season makes this a good time to see what the […]

Top 10 Mobile Technologies and Capabilities for 2015 and 2016 The desktop computer, PC or Mac, has been under onslaught from phablets, tablets, smartphones and other devices. It’s dead, a relic of an important but antiquated stage in the evolution of communications technology. An office-bound piece of gear can’t hope to survive in a world […]

22 Android Apps for Meeting Success It wasn’t too long ago that Apple wasn’t much of a player in the enterprise sector. That has changed, of course, with incredible speed due to two interrelated transitions: the consumerization of business devices and increasing popularity of mobility. The extent of Apple’s success in the enterprise is illustrated […]

Five Predictions for the Connected Enterprise in 2014 The relationship among players in the telecommunications industry and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that oversees it has been a lot more interesting since Tom Wheeler became chairman. The net neutrality issue is certainly one big area of debate. In that area, the FCC seems to hold […]

It makes sense to stay away from IT and telecommunications rumors for a few reasons, including the simple idea that there is so much real news that it makes little sense to focus on what may happen in the future. However, the prospective acquisition of T-Mobile by Sprint is worthy of note before it happens. […]

Is Wi-Fi Better than Chocolate? A National Survey Says Yes One of the great things for vendors in the wireless local-area network (WLAN) sector is that new iterations of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ 802.11 are frequently released. These releases lead to new rounds of buying. The latest vendor pleaser is 802.11ac, which is […]

Ten Top Tech Trends to Watch in 2014 The two dominant mobile operating systems are Android and iOS, of course. BlackBerry and Windows Phone are right behind. The third level of mobile OSes consists of lesser-known platforms such as Jolla’s Sailfish, Tizen, the Firefox OS and Ubuntu Touch. Tizen is front and center. The mobile […]

Is Wi-Fi Better than Chocolate? A National Survey Says Yes The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which is shoulder deep in the net neutrality debate, looks like it is going to take on a related hot button item: the definition of broadband. Right now, the legal definition of broadband download is a measly 4 megabits per […]

Five Strategies to Avoid Crisis in the Contact Center It’s easy to feel a bit sorry for enterprise videoconferencing vendors: While their business is down, the popularity of what they offer is up. It would be natural for them to think that life is a bit unfair. The news that they are struggling was the […]