Carl Weinschenk

Leadership Scorecard: The Top Six Telecom Vendors The drive to upgrade cellular networks to LTE is not limited to the United States, of course. Indeed, activity in Europe on LTE and LTE-Advanced—as the name implies, the next iteration of the protocol—appears to be accelerating. British carrier EE seems to be active on both LTE and […]

Is Responsive Design Right for Your Mobile Customer? Its proponents say that small cell technology is a win-win-win-win: It helps end users, carriers, enterprises and vendors. Sarah Reedy at Light Reading does a nice job of explaining precisely how: These mini-base stations can be deployed pretty much anywhere to bolster network density, increase data speeds, […]

The Most Famous Advanced Persistent Threats in History The Internet is increasingly involved in maintenance of power grids in general and smart grids in particular. This, of course, leads to great advances, and equally great security concerns. Making energy management smarter is a work in progress. The good news is that great progress is being […]

The Impact of Technology on e-Commerce Over the Past Decade On November 13, I wrote about the growing convergence of Bluetooth and NFC. That’s good news for vendors and consumers, since the two wireless techniques are complementary. In the bigger picture, it is worthwhile to look at how Bluetooth has evolved. Indeed, since the technology […]

The Three Stages of Enterprise Mobility: Mapped Out Nothing stings a company more than a piece of bad news that is widely shared. Not only must it reckon with the bad news internally, but the ramifications almost certainly mount as more people learn of the problem. No, this post isn’t about healthcare.gov. Last week, the […]

Report Shows Mobile Devices Drive Quarterly Growth; Bing Continues to Gain Market Share Wireline telecommunications executives who want to have a peaceful and happy Thanksgiving are advised to wait until Black Friday—which, in this case, could be renamed Blue Friday—to read the report released this week by the Telco 2.0 Initiative. The bottom line is […]

The Impact of Technology on e-Commerce Over the Past Decade The transition to an all-IP network, with the related growth in services and applications, has made it possible for a single provider to offer and/or control essentially all the services a home owner needs. These services include video, voice and broadband, of course, but also […]

It’s interesting that smart home technology gets so much attention while smart cities remain in the background. It’s also strange: If you have enough smart homes, it is easy to somehow link them together into a citywide or regional initiative. The two initiatives should be proceeding hand in hand. Perhaps they are, but under the […]

SMBs Take Cues from Major Retailers with Early Holiday Promotions It was a week that saw a nuclear option—happily, only figuratively—in Washington and winter arrived in the Midwest. And the usual amount of news and commentary was presented in the telecommunications and IT worlds. Law Controlling 3D Printing of Firearms Nears Expiration 3D printing technology […]

The Struggle to Manage the Complexity of Modern IT It’s pretty common: A concept is easy to understand and seems to make great sense. What flies below the radar is the fact that actual execution is frightfully difficult, because of both the technology itself and the jostling behind the scenes as vendors look to make […]

Perhaps telecommunications companies should being referring to Carrier Wi-Fi as “Carrier Wi-Fi, M.D.” For them, it is just what the doctor ordered. The idea is pretty simple: Wi-Fi operates in unlicensed and thus essentially free spectrum. To the extent carriers can use it in place of expensive cellular spectrum, they save money and, in the […]

Eliminating the CIOs’ BYOD Blind Spot Anyone who feels safe about their mobile apps should recognize that they have a false sense of security about their security. That’s really the takeaway from a survey that was released this week by HP Fortify. The firm reported that 90 percent of mobile apps they tested contained at […]