Carl Weinschenk

Five Predictions for the Connected Enterprise in 2014 One of the questions surrounding the evolution of Google Fiber is whether the company’s idea is to become a dominant owner of infrastructure or to do just enough to goad the telephone companies and cable operators into accelerating their high-speed rollouts. In one view, Google can make […]

Tips to Create an Effective Mobile Website When folks look back on this time years from now, one of the most important issues they will study is how administration of broadband evolved. It is a long-term transition, but a significant change is under way. Nothing definitive will be known until mid-May, but this week it […]

Five Reasons Wi-Fi Will Overtake Traditional Telecoms The next step in the transition of net neutrality to something else will be taken on May 15, when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) votes on a draft proposal of new rules. Passage would begin the process of creating permanent rules. If early reports are accurate, the draft […]

Top Predictions for Big Data in 2014 It all doesn’t happen in a flash: The next big thing gradually and imperceptibly becomes the current thing. A great example of this is the “smart machine.” The precise definitions of smart machine differ, but one sensible and simple understanding is that these are systems that can synthesize […]

Mobile Development Trends for 2014 A milestone will be reached at the end of the week when Nokia’s Devices and Services business officially becomes a part of Microsoft. The date for the closing was announced on the Official Microsoft Blog in a post by Brad Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel and executive vice president for legal […]

Ten Top Tech Trends to Watch in 2014 The enterprise application store concept always made sense. The category continues to grow, and now the concept is broadening. John Mathon’s list of 10 reasons that the stores are a good idea, at CloudRamblings, gives us a look at how we arrived at the current state of […]

22 Android Apps for Meeting Success It was one of those weeks in which no blockbuster technology stories claimed the headlines. As is common, however, a good share of interesting, smaller stories and insightful commentary was available. Here are some highlights. Time Warner Cable Moves to Hotspot 2.0 One of the goals of the Wi-Fi […]

Five Key Considerations for Backup & Recovery Cloud computing and disaster recovery/business continuity (DR/BC) fit well together. Indeed, the very nature of the cloud approach accomplishes the distribution of assets and de facto redundancy that DR/BC experts have always advocated. In a post at Markets Media, James Russell, principal in the information technology group at […]

Top 10 Mobile Technologies and Capabilities for 2015 and 2016 The handset vendor and carrier industry sectors have come around on smartphone kill switches, at least to some extent. The rise of smartphone theft has led to pressure to install circuitry on smartphones that “bricks,” or ends operations, of a phone. The logic is simple: […]

Top 10 Mobile Technologies and Capabilities for 2015 and 2016 To some extent, the screens of mobile devices hide in plain sight. They are, of course, the center of attention. But the tasks of which they are capable, their size and related issues are a big deal that at times is under-reported. Small screens are […]

Cloud Adoption Practices Raising Concerns Around Identity Management, Governance and Complexity It’s no surprise that whether you think that the plan to end U.S. control of the Internet domain name system (DNS) is a big deal or not may depend upon your political affiliation as a republican or a democrat. Beyond the usual theatrics, however, […]

The big news of the week is the Heartbleed bug. It’s unfortunate that the industry and, more importantly, end users still have to worry about such things. But bugs seem to be a constant in the technology world. Here are some of the other interesting bits of news and commentary for this week:   Fragmentation […]