Carl Weinschenk

Five Tips for Executing a Winning Mobile Strategy Federal workers and private industry use the same mobile devices and systems. However, they seem to be in different places in terms of how well they handle security. Cisco and The Mobile Work Exchange have released research that suggests that neither people in private industry nor in […]

Mobile Development Trends for 2014 For once this winter, the weather gods have smiled and the forecast for the Super Bowl here in the New York/New Jersey area (I get a kick out of people referring to the game as being in New York) is for the temperature to be at an almost tropical 45 […]

SDN in 2014: More Adoption and More Money for Vendors Let the real battle about software-defined networks (SDN) begin. Human nature is as constant and predictable in tracking technical evolutions as it is in tracking the rise and fall from grace of kid stars. At one point, Miley Cyrus is a cute kid, the next, […]

Wearable Computing: Creativity from Head to Toe The most dramatic task with which IT departments have had to deal during the past decade or so was, and still is, the impact of mobility. The untethering of communications has huge ramifications on employees and outsiders. The latter group includes partners, suppliers and, ultimately, the public. The […]

Five Predictions for the Connected Enterprise in 2014 Yesterday, I posted a blog highlighting a few of the many broadband projects that are ongoing in rural areas. The implication of the post is that the projects are a small sampling of the good news that is happening more widely and on an ongoing basis. Another […]

Top Five Business Communications Trends for 2014 It is easy to overlook the many advances being made in broadband connectivity that aren’t the work of Verizon’s FiOS, Google Fiber or AT&T’s U-verse. These projects are smaller, as are the marketing departments of the service providers sponsoring them. It would be a mistake, however, to not […]

Ten Approaches to Protecting Mobile Data It’s Friday, and much of the country is still in the deep freeze. No single news story has dominated the IT and telecommunications sectors during the past week. That doesn’t mean, however, that important things aren’t happening (hopefully indoors). I’ve compiled some of the worthwhile news and commentary that […]

Five Tips for Executing a Winning Mobile Strategy Mobile apps are the big thing, and the next really big thing. A report by Gartner says that mobile apps are set to explode even beyond where they are today. By 2017, the firm says, mobile apps will be downloaded 268 billion times and will be responsible […]

Five Tips for Executing a Winning Mobile Strategy When carriers, consumer electronics companies and often consumers themselves think about the batteries that their mobile lives depend upon, the general thought is trepidation: Will there be enough juice? At the higher level, however, something interesting is going on in the world of batteries, according to a […]

Five Reasons Wi-Fi Will Overtake Traditional Telecoms The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) certainly deserves credit: The outfit seems to introduce wireless standards at a rate appropriate for the pace at which innovative wireless products are being introduced. In other words, they are churning out standards at a fast rate. The latest entry is […]

What Can Augmented Reality Do? A tremendous amount of attention is being paid to Ultra high definition (Ultra HD) television. Most recently, it was one of the stars of the CES in Las Vegas. As usual, the hype is way ahead of the reality. And, as usual, the question is whether the hype will build […]

Don’t Let CES Tech Bring You Down The big story of the week was that the net neutrality laws were thrown out. The ramifications will not be felt immediately, but eventually will be significant. One interesting issue is the impact on equipment that is used to monitor and control networks, because changes in the laws […]