Carl Weinschenk

Top 10 Technology Trends for 2014 The subtle shift toward better weather — the light at the end of the tunnel of this long winter – is here. That’s great news. It also is good news that there were a number of interesting and important bits of news and commentary this week. Here are some […]

Robotics: Humans Need Not Apply The last time most people thought about IBM’s Watson, it was thrashing Ken Jennings, the human champion of Jeopardy! Since then, the company has made a big push to transform the impressive parlor trick into a big part of its business, and a lot has happened. This week, InformationWeek reports […]

Seven Tips to Minimize Communications Downtime During Natural Disasters Happy U.S. National Severe Weather Preparedness Week! I’d have sent a card, but I couldn’t get to the post office due to the icy road conditions and five-foot snow drifts. Let’s hope the awful winter weather is behind us. In any case, winter is followed by […]

Mobile Development Trends for 2014 It is literally impossible to keep pace with the potential uses of computing and communications technology loosely categorized as the Internet of Things (IoT). Though definitions and predictions on the level of ubiquity vary, there is universal agreement that this class of equipment and services increasingly will permeate just about […]

Mobile Development Trends for 2014 The IEEE’s family of 802.11 wireless protocols has been one of the technical success stories of the past decade. It tends to get lost in the shadow of the cellular technology. But Wi-Fi is a winner, and the ecosystem keeps adding to its success. The latest hot spec in the […]

New Study Reveals Top Trends Driving Mobile Forensics No huge story captured the headlines this week, but I read lots of interesting smaller ones, particularly out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It seems that folks are starting to see the end of the long winter tunnel, except for the huge storm that is […]

Robotics: Humans Need Not Apply I rarely start off posts with personal anecdotes and, when I do, they are brief: Last night, I happened upon the movie “I, Robot” before I went to bed. It struck me that at least one of the big set pieces in the film – the battle between Will Smith […]

Five Things to Do Now for Greater Security and Compliance The random mix of consumer and corporate communications devices – the phones, tablets and other paraphernalia that folks use and the networks that connect them – is well established. Indeed, it won’t be long before the categories won’t be distinguished from each other at all. […]

Mobile Development Trends for 2014 New mobile devices come fast and furious every time the industry meets in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress. This year is no exception. Clearly, it takes a person with a high capacity for detail to categorize and discuss all the new items. But, instead, I want to focus on […]

SDN in 2014: More Adoption and More Money for Vendors Network functions virtualization (NFV) and its cousins, software-defined networks (SDNs) and network virtualization (NV), are shaping up to be topics du jour at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), which is being held this week in Barcelona. The good thing about technology is that despite the […]

It was an odd week for this winter: The weather wasn’t in the news and there were no megadeals. That lack of dramatics, however, didn’t stop the telecommunications and IT industries from generating a good bit of news and commentary. Here are some highlights: The Lowdown on Network Virtualization At Light Reading, Lee Doyle, the […]

Few State and Local Governments Prepared for the Impact of the Big Five IT Trends To bastardize a famous passage from John F. Kennedy: It’s not what Google can do for these 34 municipalities, it’s what these 34 communities can do for Google. When Google announced its first fiber project in Kansas City, the question […]