Carl Weinschenk

How the Internet of Things Will Change Our Lives The media has discussed the promise of the Internet of Things (IoT) at great lengths. The bottom line is pretty simple: Slapping computer and communications functionality into and/or onto everything offers a revolution in how things are done. Commentators who have been encouraged, no doubt, by […]

Top 10 Mobile Technologies and Capabilities for 2015 and 2016 Home networks may end up being the gift that keeps on giving to vendors and service providers. ABI Research released projections this week that predict that one-third of homes worldwide will have networks by 2018, an increase of 8.4 percent over the current 24.8 percent. […]

Five Tips for Successful Telecommuting The second, less dramatic but ultimately decisive phase of Comcast’s $45.2 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable is under way: the legislative and regulatory reviews that will determine if it can be consummated and, if so, what conditions the government will demand. In a blog post, Comcast Executive Vice President […]

Five Reasons Wi-Fi Will Overtake Traditional Telecoms The Wi-Fi standards that have played a big role in changing the way in which people communicate are on the precipice of a jump that could make hotspots in crowded venues far more accessible. Two interrelated concepts that are pushing Wi-Fi to new speeds are Multiple Input Multiple […]

Top 10 Mobile Technologies and Capabilities for 2015 and 2016 The baseball season has opened, though apparently the Mets didn’t get the email, and things truly are warming up. It’s been another week of interesting news and good commentary. Here are some highlights: 2014 the Year of Deferred IT Spending IT spending never stops due […]

Seven Tablets with a Business Edge Employees use mobile services and apps everywhere, including stressful areas such as construction sites, fire and accident scenes and oil rigs. For that reason, the availability of devices that can take a pounding is assumed to be important. Uncertainty abounds, however, about whether the ruggedized device market is expanding […]

Five Rules of Modern Application Development The problem of Android fragmentation won’t easily be solved. The danger is that the best developers will get tired of dealing with it and wander off to other operating systems. The challenge is inherently difficult because it involves millions of operating systems that already are out the door. Doing […]

Six Free Apps That Boost Your iPhone’s Security Whether or not kill switches, or automated systems for transforming smartphones, tablets or similar devices from telecommunications tools into paperweights, become mandatory will have a big impact on business due to ever-wider acceptance of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) approaches. Smartphones are expensive and relatively easy to […]

Robotics: Humans Need Not Apply The sci-fi nature of 3D printing is the first thing that comes to many people’s minds when considering a technique that enables replication of objects. The second thing that comes to mind, particularly for people in the 3D industry or telecommunications, is its vast potential. Canalys has released research today […]

New Study Reveals Top Trends Driving Mobile Forensics The winter that won’t quite end hasn’t stopped the telecommunications and IT industries from making news and generating interesting commentary. Here are some highlights from this week: Smartphone Central Computerworld reports on research from IDC that may have caught an incipient trend. The firm says that while […]

Top 10 Mobile Technologies and Capabilities for 2015 and 2016 The rollout of telecommunications technologies by nature starts in neighborhoods where the most likely customers live. After years of development, carriers and their investors naturally want to start making money sooner rather than later. That leaves rural folks out in the cold. This was an […]

Top 10 Mobile Technologies and Capabilities for 2015 and 2016 Three things can be said about high-definition voice: It is being widely deployed by carriers, it is surrounded by a bit of uncertainty and good audio is a very important thing. The third point is important to understand. Studies have shown that audio is one […]