Carl Weinschenk

The ABCs of BYOD Somehow, the term “digital divide” seems a bit antiquated. The gap between the tablet/smartphone/Google Fiber have and have-nots doesn’t make the news as much as in the past. But the digital divide certainly is still with us. Datawind is aware of this; the company said this week that early next year […]

Top Five Business Communications Trends for 2014 Bring your own device (BYOD) has a lot going for it. The simplicity of the approach of letting Jane and Joe use their own devices at work and compensating them in some manner is so simple and so rooted in common sense that the case against it is […]

It has been bone-chillingly cold in New York, and winter doesn’t even start for a week or so. Much of the country already has had a few brushes with snow and other conditions that are more common in January and February. Despite this discomfort, the usual amount of news and commentary has materialized during the […]

The Internet of Things (IoT) is like the air: It is so ubiquitous that it tends to be overlooked. But the reality of the IoT, and the machine-to-machine (M2M) sensors that are its heart and soul, is that it is transforming much of what we do and how we do it. Strategy Analytics released a […]

Top Challenges Network Engineers Face in Migrating to Faster Networks The race to implement Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), the addressing scheme that gradually is replacing the almost exhausted IPv4, has been a marathon, not a sprint. Indeed, the effort has been ongoing for about a decade. And while progress has been made, the deployment […]

IBM’s Watson, which rose to fame by trouncing Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings (who set the record with 74 straight wins against human competition) is being put to more productive uses than game shows. Watson, according to the company, is a cluster of 90 IBM Power 750 servers, each utilizing a 3.5 GHz POWER7 eight-core processor. […]

Five Ways to Avoid Connectivity Perils and Improve Employee Productivity Content delivery networks (CDNs) can best be described as the shadow networks that provide enterprises and carriers with the bandwidth and flexibility, through savvy remote storage of content, to keep up with the growth in demand. Dan Rayburn, the executive vice president of Streaming Media, […]

Seven Reasons Why Mobile Enterprise App Development Should Happen in the Cloud Milestones are funny things: They are important signifiers of what a category or a technology has accomplished, but they don’t necessarily show an explosion of recent progress. Numbers from StatCounter about the use of mobile browsers show both. The milestone is that for […]

Wearable electronics are nothing new. After all, wristwatches and hearing aids are the same as the emerging technology that is generating so many headlines (minus the connectivity, of course). Providing telecommunications functionality to things we wear is the huge step. The most noteworthy devices so far are networked glasses, and the biggest player is Google, […]

Seven Reasons Why Mobile Enterprise App Development Should Happen in the Cloud One of the myriad ramifications of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) approaches is that they push mobile enterprise apps to the forefront. Andrew Conry Murray, in a story hyping InformationWeek’s study of mobile enterprise apps, suggested that the focus indeed is shifting from […]

Five Mobile Payment Companies to Watch in 2014 The passing yesterday of Nelson Mandela, the last surviving political giant of the twentieth century, overshadowed everything else this week. It is interesting to note the role telecommunications played in the effectiveness of the protests against his incarceration and his subsequent release. The trend of eliminating geography […]

It’s clear that telecommunications networks are getting faster. An important question, which is the subtext of this interesting article by Jon Brodkin at Ars Technica, is just how fast these networks have to be. The world of technology moves quickly. A few years ago, carriers, mostly cable operators and telcos, with a few others types […]