Carl Weinschenk

Mobile Development Trends for 2014 BlackBerry. What ever happened to them? Are they still around? Well, yes, of course. I am being facetious. Everyone knows that they have pretty much hung in there, even though news reports during the past couple of years suggested that the moving vans were on the way and all that […]

Ten Top Tech Trends to Watch in 2014 Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler either is a shrewd inside player who sought to use a trial balloon to assess the fault lines in the battle over net neutrality or a bumbler who grossly misjudged the reaction to a fundamental change in how broadband is administered. […]

Five Predictions for the Connected Enterprise in 2014 In recent months, there has been a great increase in the buzz around the idea of making 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) networks the norm. Each piece of news should be carefully considered, however. One example is an announcement by C Spire. The firm said that it […]

Tips to Create an Effective Mobile Website We are at the end of another long week. Perhaps it is spring fever, but the news seemed a bit slow this week. Still, significant things happened, along with a good deal of strong analysis. Here are some highlights. It’s an Online World The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) […]

Fourteen Hot Gadgets for Your Mobile Lifestyle People will not buy Google Glass (or other wearable computing devices) because they think it will ease their day at the office. And, in most cases, a company will not make a huge investment in the technology before it is well established in the market. The bottom line […]

Top 10 Mobile Technologies and Capabilities for 2015 and 2016 Even the writers of the original Star Trek knew that voice was the ultimate user interface. Half a century later, folks are doing much the same thing as Captain Kirk did when he asked whether the planet below was “Type M” or not. Apple’s Siri […]

A good deal of news has been made recently by net neutrality. Or, rather, a lot of news has been made by the demise of net neutrality. What the issue comes down to is the amount of bandwidth a broadband user gets and under what condition that amount can be nudged up or down by […]

Top 10 Mobile Technologies and Capabilities for 2015 and 2016 Amidst the usual discussion of what smartphones can do, which operating systems and phones are thriving and which are struggling comes a discordant note: The ways in which these devices are made may be endangering workers’ health. This is not the first time that such […]

What International Conferencing Trends Tell Us About the World The Cable Show, the annual conference sponsored by The National Cable and Telecommunications Association, was held at the Los Angeles Convention Center this week. That venue is attached to Staples Center, which was a fascinating place on Wednesday: The convention day ended as fans gathered for […]

How the Internet of Things Will Change Our Lives Internet Protocol version 6, IPv6, is the wave of the future. It better be, lest the Internet run out of addresses. The Internet of Things would become the Internet of Thuds. Technologists have been pushing IPv6 for years. The resistance and inertia they always have dealt […]

Heartbleed: Eight Tips and Strategies for Keeping Safe The Heartbleed vulnerability is receding a bit from the headlines. Earlier in the month, however, it was at the center of news as no other Internet-based security issue has been for the past few years. The danger is far from over, however. Dark Reading reports that security […]

Five Tips for Motivating Virtual Teams Any new technology is a risk. Ultra HD television perhaps is more so because making it work requires upgrades and changes to virtually every part of the chain. John Morris at ZDNet reviewed the progress that was evident at the NAB Show and highlighted just how big an effort […]