Carl Weinschenk

Seven Tablets with a Business Edge For years, mobile phones got smaller and smaller, starting from the shoebox-size brick Michael Douglas toted around in “Wall Street” and ending in the miniscule devices common today. A funny thing happened on the way to the shrinking devices, however: The explosion of video is leading to bigger devices […]

Top Predictions for Enterprise IT in 2014 A tremendous amount has been written during the past 24 hours about the eviscerating of the net neutrality rules by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. An extremely well-done review of the issues and commentary on the reasoning behind the court’s decision and […]

Wearable Computing: Creativity from Head to Toe Google, which has been on a fascinating and to some extent disconcerting shopping spree, has agreed to acquire Nest, a vendor of connected home thermostat and smoke/carbon monoxide detector technology. Here is Bloomberg’s take on the $3.2 billion Nest deal: While Google dominates Web search and has grabbed […]

Five Predictions for the Connected Enterprise in 2014 To date, LTE platforms carry only non-voice data. Voice is transitioned back to 3G networks. Clearly, great efficiencies will be gained when LTE carries both data and voice. The near completion of the initial rollout of LTE networks was the big story of 2013. The year ahead […]

Five Reasons Wi-Fi Will Overtake Traditional Telecoms After a couple of days in the office following the holidays, this was the week that people really got down to beginning their 2014 schedules. The first item of business, as in other years, is CES. Here is some news and commentary from Las Vegas and elsewhere: Device […]

Seven Tablets with a Business Edge During the past half-decade or so, Android has emerged as the predominant operating system, in terms of numbers installed, in mobile devices. Windows has remained king of the gradually shrinking desktop kingdom. Windows has had marginal impact on mobility and Android even less in PCs. One of the trends […]

Eight Critical Forces Shaping Data Center Strategy On December 11, IT Business Edge posted a slideshow that focused on IBM Watson, the super computer that famously beat Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings in 2011. The main theme was that IBM is seeking ways to transform Watson from a clever (and, to most of us, somewhat depressing) […]

The Battle for Sales: Five Reasons Showrooming Will Always Win The way in which smartphones connect with the infrastructures of various venues, retailers in most cases, will be a vastly lucrative sector. After a multiyear ramp up, 2014 is the year in which winners and losers will be anointed. The vague phrase with which I […]

It seems that the last thing the telecommunications world would need is a standards fight over the best way to provide a much needed boost in compression capabilities. But that is precisely what may be on the verge of happening. The current standard is MPEG-4, an International Telecommunication Union standard that uses the H.264 coder/decoder […]

Five Reasons Wi-Fi Will Overtake Traditional Telecoms The week between Christmas and New Year’s is known as a time that nothing much happens. This year, however, the holidays were on Wednesdays, which created more opportunity for some news and commentary to sneak through at both the beginning and end of the week. Here are some […]

The current common wisdom on Bring Your Own Device (BYOD): It is here to stay, despite some significant issues with its efficacy. The issue on the table now is how best to incorporate BYOD in the enterprise over the long haul. To IT and telecom executives, it is perhaps a case of making lemonade out […]

Five Reasons Wi-Fi Will Overtake Traditional Telecoms Ina Fried pointed out in a Christmas Eve story at All Things D that the 4G/LTE map of the United States is just about filled in. The same can be said, to a greater or lesser degree, about the other developed economies. Developing regions are not too far […]