Carl Weinschenk

Is Responsive Design Right for Your Mobile Customer? The long slog toward the establishment of a robust mobile wallet sector took a big (and sloggy?) step forward last week with the nationwide launch, after three years, of Isis. The company, which initially was backed by Verizon Wireless, AT&T and T-Mobile, went through significant changes. On […]

The Three Stages of Enterprise Mobility: Mapped Out It was a week that featured an early cold snap on the east coast, a terrible typhoon in the Philippines and a long list of problems for the new health care law. It also featured the usual amount of interesting news and insightful commentary. Verizon Slows in […]

Eliminating the CIOs’ BYOD Blind Spot The future of mobile device management (MDM) came a bit more into focus this week as IBM purchased Fiberlink. The story on the deal at CITEWorld suggests that MDM–which was seen as one of the key ways to seamlessly integrate bring your own device (BYOD) capabilities into the corporate […]

A good number of wireless technologies have been created for short distance use. I posted about one of these, 802.11ad, previously. Two of the others, Bluetooth and near field communications (NFC), appear to be forming a nice bond. Computerworld reports that the NFC Forum and the Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group) have signed a memorandum […]

Report Shows Mobile Devices Drive Quarterly Growth; Bing Continues to Gain Market Share Through its Visual Networking Index, Cisco is usually the company that makes news with studies projecting huge and intimidating growth in data traffic. While the goal implied message of these studies is clear—“You better buy more of our stuff”—it doesn’t detract one […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2014 White space technology, the much-anticipated approach that harnesses the high-quality spectrum between television channels, is making methodical progress. A milestone was reached last week when Google announced that a trial it conducted in South Africa was a success. New Statesmen was among the sites covering the end of […]

It’s Friday again, and one with quite a bit of news happening, including an unexpectedly upbeat jobs report for the U.S. and a record-breaking cyclone hammering the Philippines. It’s also a week that produced the usual amount of IT and telecom news and insights. Let’s review some of the highlights: Health Workers Really Do Love […]

Six Ways Wireless Technology Is Transforming Health Care The two emerging versions of the 802.11 wireless standards, 802.11ac and 802.11ad, are making significant progress. It is important to remember that the two standards, though they have similar names, do very different things. 802.11ac is more of a traditional extension of the Wi-Fi standards with which […]

Checking Email Anywhere, Anytime Is the New Norm for U.S. Work Force A creative implementation of Wi-Fi—one that has been in use for years in Europe—is gradually making its way to the United States. The idea is to enable home or small business access points (APs) to be partially used by the person controlling the […]

Report Shows Mobile Devices Drive Quarterly Growth; Bing Continues to Gain Market Share One of the favorite parlor games of folks in and around the mobile phone business is watching the relative success of Android and iOS. Highlights include waiting on the fate of BlackBerry, an issue that took another surprise turn this week, and […]

A bit of news was made on the Voice over LTE (VoLTE) front last week as Ericsson said that its platform will be used by SoftBank, a Japanese carrier. Converge! Network Digest said that Ericsson will provide SoftBank with telecommunication-grade high-definition voice and video calling over LTE. Currently, the story says, Ericsson is upgrading the […]

Halloween is behind us, the weather is definitely autumnal and the bickering—if not outright hostility—in Washington, D.C., continues. All is as it should be on November 1. This week produced, as usual, a tremendous amount of news and insightful commentary. The Smartphone March Continues IDC and Juniper Research released their smartphone numbers for the third […]