Carl Weinschenk

In a way, huge corporate news is boring. It’s not that the news that one big company has agreed to acquire another or that the top executive of a firm is leaving isn’t interesting. It’s that once the announcement is made, nothing much happens for a while as various details are sorted out. In the […]

Must-Know Facts Every Mobile User Should Know About Security Summer really is almost over. It’s back to school during the next week or so for many kids. But people in telecom and IT didn’t have much of a summer vacation. Our summer was filled with a fair amount of news and worthwhile commentary, both good […]

Seven Tips for Effective Unified Communications Security In about a decade, VoIP has gone from a hobby for geeks to a widely used platform that is in the process of replacing circuit switched service. It has become so pervasive that the less initiated may not even realize they are using VoIP when they make a […]

Tablets by the Numbers Health care is generally thought to be the poster child vertical for mobility. The work force is highly mobile; communications must be secure and extremely reliable. Form factors must be flexible enough to allow people to communicate while using their hands to do more important things—such as saving lives. Education, however, […]

The Latest Fashion – Wearable Computers Two pieces of news make it apparent that a key piece of wearable computing is gaining steam. Bloomberg reports that Samsung on September 4 will introduce the Galaxy Gear, described as an Android-powered “wristwatch-like” device that will offer phone service, Web surfing and email functionality. While Apple has not […]

The Seven Deadly Sins of Backup and Recovery Emergencies or outright disasters have a way of quickly forcing the most technology-centric and savvy into people struggling to find a way – very often a labor-intensive way – to get by. It’s been almost a year since Superstorm Sandy hit the east coast, but two similar […]

We have perhaps two more slightly less busy weeks left before the autumn onslaught hits. That said, this week saw some interesting, but not too positive, news from Cisco and some interesting commentary. Cisco’s Mixed Quarter Bloomberg offers an interesting analysis of the news this week that Cisco has cut 5 percent of its workforce, […]

Top Five Network Security Tips for 2013 The long ramp up to IPv6— the next iteration of the Internet Protocol addressing scheme—is characterized by periods of high and low visibility. For the past few months, it experienced very little coverage. But the topic is coming up again. IPv6, according to Neohapsis Labs, raises a host […]

The Evolution of Mobile: A Cultural Game Changer Four data points—actually three, with the one likely to occur soon—paint an interesting picture of the state of the mobile sector. The most striking is that for the first time, more smartphones were sold than feature phones. This is an imprecise measure because the line between the […]

Mobile Market Continues to Grow by Leaps and Bounds The mobile wallet segment has been struggling to gain traction, but two agreements by Isis—one with American Express and one with Chase—show that progress is being made. Isis is a joint venture of AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile USA and Verizon Wireless that plans to launch a nationwide […]

Keep an eye on the nasty fight that has broken out between Netgear and Asus regarding the latter’s new Wi-Fi router. Several sites reported late last week that Netgear filed complaints with the Federal Communications Commission and a lawsuit alleging that Asus’ RT-N65U and RT-AC66U 802.11n and 802.11ac routers, respectively, don’t follow FCC regulations. The […]

What BlackBerry 10 Means for the Enterprise It’s Friday again. Things seem to be slowing down at least a little bit. That’s what is supposed to happen in August, though it seemed for a while that it wouldn’t.   EAS Goes Wireless The horrific and ongoing murder and kidnapping case in California is one of […]