Carl Weinschenk

How to Choose the Right Mobile Device: Five Considerations You don’t have to be a public relations specialist to understand that a company that takes out newspaper advertisements around the world assuring people that it is solvent is not in good shape. That’s what happened today. The text of the ad essentially says that the […]

Study Reveals Abuse of Mobile App Permissions One of the current versions of common wisdom is that Android apps essentially are a cauldron of malware, waiting – like the plot of a sci-fi film – to be released and cause havoc (at least for 90 minutes). Apple’s security, on the other hand, is like a […]

Alternate Chargers for Mobile Devices The Washington, D.C., crisis-a-thon (or crisis-palooza) continues, which is good for nobody. While the markets react rationally to an irrational situation—meaning that they go up and down drastically—the world of IT and telecommunications soldiers on. This week, we saw the usual amount of interesting news and commentary. Here are some […]

The Latest in Voice and Speech Technology It’s a bit counterintuitive to think of home networks as a key to the future of telecommunications networks. After all, how much data does a home consume compared to a business? That is, of course, the wrong way to look at it. The correct way is to consider […]

Tech Gadgets We Love The ability to be stunned by technology is limited in a world in which it is possible to travel from New York City to Spain in less than half a day and get information about anything instantaneously delivered to a device the size of a pack of cigarettes. 3D printing, however, […]

Leadership Scorecard: The Top Six Telecom Vendors People no doubt are shocked—shocked!—to learn that most of the major smartphone vendors have apparently cheated on performance tests of their devices. Ars Technica and AnandTech found that smartphone makers were using a trick to speed up their devices when they were being clocked by benchmarking software. Though […]

Last week, I blogged about the two ways to meet the increasing demands the wireless world is making on spectrum: Open more for consumer use and improve the efficiency in what already is in use. I mostly dealt with the latter, and focused on small antenna technology. I made a passing reference to white space […]

The Evolution of Mobile: A Cultural Game Changer This week, and perhaps many others going forward, was consumed with the political drama playing out in Washington, D.C. Let’s hope it will all get squared away before its effects are felt by the Federal Communications Commission and other agencies that impact telecommunications and IT. Despite this […]

What Microsoft’s Acquisition of Nokia Will Mean for Enterprises It is one thing to have a competitive mobile operating system and a lineup of snazzy phones. Microsoft is there on both those scores. Those assets will help buttress its marketplace position, both in developed and developing regions, by the acquisition of Nokia’s phone business. The […]

Only a limited amount of radio frequency spectrum is capable of supporting wireless communications. A subset of that is available to mobile companies. At the same time, the number of mobile devices is increasing radically, the types of content they are being used for is growing more demanding, and the average amount of time the […]

The Mobile Revolution…Starting with the Apple App Store Tablet computers existed long before Apple unveiled the iPad. It was only when Cupertino got into the mix, however, that the category exploded. Likewise, phones were gradually getting smarter for years—led by then Research in Motion’s BlackBerry—but the move from niche to preeminence really began with the […]

M2M’s Disruptive Momentum Revealed Home automation will be a big business. A very big business. The potential market is every home and, in reality, a huge number of small businesses. The types of services that can be offered range from security, energy management, non-security monitoring (nanny cams for youngsters and seniors), data management, health care […]