Carl Weinschenk

The industry sort of hit the pause button this week as it enjoyed the end of a long weekend to start and in general continued to digest the two big acquisitions ,Time Warner Cable by Comcast and DirecTV by AT&T, that are sure to dominate the path forward. Here is some of the interesting and […]

Yesterday, I wrote about the changes in how technology is commercialized by vendors and service providers. Two small events — the recall of batteries by Panasonic and a potentially dangerous design flaw in the Nest Protect from Google — may or may not have actually been affected by the accelerating “velocity” of new services and […]

Why Enterprise Software Must Evolve In the Age of Apps Up until a few years ago, the consumer electronics and IT industries featured long periods between when a device was developed or a service dreamed up and when they actually were released for general use. The idea was to explore every nook and cranny and […]

Why Enterprise Software Must Evolve In the Age of Apps No doubt, areas with cellular and/or Wi-Fi coverage are growing. Attention must be paid to the bypassed areas, though, however small they are. And ways must be provided for people to continue doing necessary work offline, even if they are in areas that are covered. […]

SDN in 2014: More Adoption and More Money for Vendors Software-defined networks (SDNs) change networks at an extremely basic level. This is well understood. What logically follows, and what seems to be coming into focus now, is that this dislocation means that the business sector built upon the old regime must by definition change just […]

Memorial Day, a day that seemed unlikely to ever come during the long and cold winter just past, is upon us. This means that news will slow down as people head to the beach and fire up their barbeques. That’s as it should be, of course. It doesn’t mean, however, that the days leading up […]

Lots of things are scary on the Internet, from the Heartbleed vulnerability to the ability of hackers to flip switches on the power grid. Put facial recognition on that list. Actually, it’s been on many people’s list for a long time. It now is growing to a level of sophistication that should get the attention […]

Seven Tablets with a Business Edge Canalys, according to InformationWeek, says that phablets are selling with “frenzied fervor.” The firm found that these devices, which are characterized by screens larger than five inches across, grew by 369 percent during the first quarter of 2014 compared to the year-ago quarter. The category represented 34 percent of […]

Five Key Technology Trends at CE Week 2014 The voice over LTE (VoLTE) era is getting started in earnest. Light Reading reports that AT&T will launch the service on Friday in areas of Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota and Wisconsin. HD VoLTE will be available on the Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini. The carrier and vendor community is […]

Is Wi-Fi Better than Chocolate? A National Survey Says Yes In today’s environment, in which smartphones are ubiquitous and the emphasis is on using apps to perform just about every task imaginable, it is surprising that the mobile wallet category has struggled. It seems like a natural fit for the mobile world. Of course, it […]

How the Internet of Things Will Change Our Lives The biggest story this week is the fact that, for better or worse, the Federal Communications Commission has moved ahead on changing net neutrality. Huge unknowns remain in how this will play out: The step taken this week really is just the beginning of the process. […]

Is Wi-Fi Better than Chocolate? A National Survey Says Yes Telecommunications links to automobiles for entertainment, safety, maintenance and even productivity purposes are a quickly growing area. This week, General Motors said that it will provide AT&T LTE services to vehicles beginning later in the year. WirelessWeek said that 200MB of data capacity will cost […]