Carl Weinschenk

Ten Approaches to Protecting Mobile Data The potential compromise of credit card data of 40 million Target customers is a reminder that the online world remains a dangerous and evil place. It is, sadly, just the way things are. Much of the attention paid to security focuses on devices that people have and use. That […]

Five Tips to Keep Employees Connected During the Holidays Never before has what can be called a regulatory advance been met with such a resounding chorus of folks suggesting that progress be halted and the old way of doing things maintained. I am not talking about 3D printing, unsettling wearable computers, frightening robotics or, for […]

Ten Approaches to Protecting Mobile Data Technology companies are accustomed to identifying the categories in which their products exist by acronyms. This can get rather complicated and even a bit funny as the various categories morph and increasingly bleed into each other. Next year, Dell will release products into what Datamation refers to as the […]

Leadership Scorecard: The Top Six Telecom Vendors The telephone and cable industries need to fight against their legacies as much as against each other. The telcos perhaps faced an even more fundamental challenge: The very substance that the industry is built upon, copper, is hard pressed to operate at the great speeds necessary to support […]

Ten Productivity Gadgets to Prepare for the New Year Siri is not alone. Apple’s voice-activated search engine will face more competition on iOS from Google Now in 2014, according to Computerworld and other sites. The Computerworld story said that the company is planning to upgrade its iOS mobile app to make it perform as well […]

Wearable Computing: Creativity from Head to Toe On first glance, the smart home category seems to have little to do with business. Of course, home offices will be impacted, so a sort of direct connection exists. But, in the overview, it seems safe to assume that anything that happens between consenting electronic devices in the […]

Seven Tips to Minimize Communications Downtime During Natural Disasters Many folks take the days between Christmas and New Year’s off. Others, of course, have to work, despite the consumption of too much egg nog. If you do have to work, it makes sense to be as productive as possible. This year, keep in mind that […]

Five Policies to Ensure Secure Medical Mobile Apps The holiday break beckons, and things finally are slowing down a bit. But slowing down does not mean stopping. Despite people’s desire to wrap things up for 2013, a good bit of noteworthy news and commentary was available this week. Here are some highlights: Telemedicine Prospers It […]

Robotics: Humans Need Not Apply One of the biggest stories of 2013 was the progress made by 3D printing. It is an amazing development in two ways: It allows the functional recreation of objects over great distances and it has been very quickly commercialized. All technologies, to greater or lesser degrees, seem intensely good or […]

Seven Tablets with a Business Edge Yesterday, I wrote about the $38 UbiSlate 7Ci tablet that will be offered next year by Datawind through as-yet unnamed physical and online retailers. The stated reason for the product and its price, according to Datawind CEO Suneet Singh Tuli, is that budgetary constraints shouldn’t keep anyone offline. A […]

Mobility exploded onto the business scene during the past decade and, needless to say, is here to stay. Now, important and sensitive tasks are as likely to be performed on smartphones, tablets and other non-PC devices as on big machines sitting on office desks. Security has been a bit of a game of catch up. […]

Children play games to learn. For that reason, it makes perfect sense that games can be used to learn in business scenarios, too. This is proving to be true: Business Insider says that consultancies MarketandMarkets and M2 both put the size of the gamification sector at between $400 million and $500 million by the end […]