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No technology has kept pace with the fast-changing way we work, play and communicate than Wi-Fi. But wireless networking isn’t resting on its laurels. In fact, the emerging Wi-Fi 7 standard is just around the corner.

Wi-Fi 7 is the first Wi-Fi standard designed specifically to make the most of the new 6GHz band. What makes Wi-Fi 7 different? It has so many tricks up its sleeve that give the network much greater chance of establishing – and maintaining – super-high bandwidth, low-latency connections.

High-performance bandwidth connections that you can bank on open up a whole new set of applications.

Watch our new three-part YouTube video series, where I talk with Qualcomm’s Andy Davidson about how Wi-Fi 7 can deliver high-bandwidth, low-latency connections – and what that enables today, and in the future.

Watch the video series HERE.

No, this isn’t some new Cosmo Quiz. But as the young, fast-growing market for foldable smartphones starts to gain its footing with buyers, patterns are emerging as to who wants what. So are you a flip or a fold, a la Samsung’s latest Galaxy Z Flip4 and Galaxy Z Fold4? If you’re wondering what foldable type folks like you tend to buy, then check out my latest column in the Tech section of USA Today.

But wait, there’s more! Samsung set out to dominate the foldables market since its inception less than four years ago. And it does! But it doesn’t own the market outright. There are other players, with more jumping in from the sidelines.

Want to know how the market started, which electronics makers also compete – and who else might join the fold, so to speak? Read my companion piece on the foldables market in USA Today’s Tech section.

Against a backdrop of summer fires, floods and heat waves, the world’s journey to net zero emissions continues down an uncertain path.

To boost our chances, industry needs a forceful push or two. And guess where one of those nudges is coming from? Industry. That’s right: big buyer is leaning on big seller to go green or find other customers. And thus far, it seems to be working.

Read more in my latest MarketWatch Opinion piece.

My take on Cloudera’s move to integrate Apache Iceberg’s open lakehouse platform into its own enterprise data platform, CDP.

Read about it HERE.

IBM spin-off Kyndryl and enterprise data platform provider Cloudera team up to help companies modernize. They’ll also help ease the transition to hybrid data cloud. Read why that matters in my latest DataDrivenInvestor column.

Samsung is the king of high-res smartphone photography in daylight.But Apple owns the night. At least, that’s how it used to be.

Now Samsung believes it can still produce the most refined detail – and still beat Apple in low-light performance.

Can the Galaxy S22 Ultra camera really deliver the best camera, 24/7? Find out. Read my latest in USA Today HERE.

Feb 25: If you’d like to read how the S22 Ultra performs against last year’s S21 Ultra – as well the S22 Plus – then click HERE to go to my LinkedIn post.

Everyone knows that older data systems aren’t built for the volume and velocity of data telecom providers have to deal with. That’s what digital transformation is all about.

Now, factor in growth rates for new uses and users in developing markets, and you start to get an idea of what MTN, Africa’s largest telecom provider, has been up against.

MTN responded by making hybrid data cloud the information engine of its new corporate mission – and it’s already producing returns. Find out how. Read my latest on DataDrivenInvestor, via Medium.

Apple claims it’s able to squeeze more out of Mac laptops because it controls both the processor and the operating system. But Intel and Microsoft believe they’ve leapfrogged any advantages Apple may have cobbled together with the M1 and Mac OS.

Indeed, Windows 11 running on 12th-generation Core processors presents a rare opportunity to leapfrog opponents with a new level of performance and battery life. Read how they do it – and what to expect in laptops coming out starting next month – in my column in the Tech section of USA Today.

In-store shopping is back. And a lot of it is happening online.

It may sound confusing. But it’s not. Learn more in my column in the Money section of USA Today, The Best of Both.

In a few years, your wearable likely will be able to monitor your blood pressure. And it might even be able to track your blood sugar.

Of course, that’s great news. Blood pressure and blood sugar are two critical biometrics, and a device that’s always on the lookout for early signs of hypertension and diabetes could help improve – even save – millions of lives.

Even better news: we won’t have any more metrics to track and interpret. Our smartwatches, hearables, rings and other wearables will take care of that for us.

Want to know how that will work? Read my column in the Tech section of USA Today, Apple, Fitbit Emerge as First Responders for Healthcare HERE.

As everyone knows, it’s important to choose a router capable of meeting the fast-changing demands of the hybrid-work era. But don’t forget the other end of the connection.

Taking a cue from PC gamers, consumers and enterprise IT buyers increasingly understand that the best networks are built with both wireless routers and laptops with the most advanced Wi-Fi 6 technologies.

Be sure that four key Wi-Fi 6 capabilities are in every new laptop you specify. To learn more, download the latest FeibusTech Report, It Takes Two to … Network.

*** Produced in cooperation with Qualcomm ***

If you’ve done everything you can think of to improve your work-from-home communications but Zoom calls still cut out, then check out my latest column in the Tech section of USA Today. In it, I share pointers for helping to ensure that your work collaboration doesn’t take a a backseat to any other network traffic. Even if you have a gamer at home clamoring for every bit.

Update: the column is now live on Medium. See it HERE.

Many IT architects who resisted the rush to the public cloud now find themselves adopting hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, as their first step toward hybrid cloud.

Here’s why fast-growing Azure Stack HCI from Microsoft on Intel 3rd-Gen Xeon Scalable is emerging as the preferred platform – and why more decisionmakers are choosing DataON to deliver the platform.

Find out more. Read the latest FeibusTech report, Stairway to Hybrid,

*** produced in association with DataON ***

At its flagship industry event last week, Cloudera unveiled CDP Private Cloud, which brings on-premises the same platform that shuttles data and workloads between the major public clouds. If that sounds like what you’ve been dreaming of, you’re not alone.

Read more about it in my latest column on Medium.

A deafening call to modernize the data center is driving the next wave of hybrid cloud demand. The cloud ecosystem would do well to deliver that.

Read about it in my latest column, via CIO Magazine.

It’s been a disappointing smartwatch upgrade season thus far, with mostly minor updates to wearables lineups from the big consumer electronics makers. Which helps make otherwise modest refinements to Fitbit’s go-to tracker lineup stand out.

I’ve been evaluating the new Fitbit Charge 5 , which is available to pre-order today for shipment by month’s end. Here’s my take, via LinkedIn.

Why are engineers working so hard to teach computers what we do really well, and forcing us to do tasks we’ll never perform as well as computers?

Autonomous driving technology needs a reset. Or accidents like the ones the US government are now investigating will continue.

My latest, via MarketWatch.

What will you drive in ’35? A gas-powered vehicle, most likely.

After the years-long push for EV, that’s kind of a sobering thought. But that’s the reality.

Backed by government initiatives, investors hope they can change the outlook. Can they?

In my latest column – my first for MarketWatch – I examine the biggest areas for investment in sustainable fuels, and their prospects. Check it out!

I left my SLR camera home on our trip to the British Virgin Islands this summer. The ante was high. It was our first time to the BVI – and our first time anywhere since the pandemic. Did I regret using a high-end phone like the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra as my only camera?

Find out in my latest column in the Tech section of USA Today

The pandemic sparked a wave of cloud-native deployments like no one has ever seen. But when all is said and done, 2020 will become known more for shining a light on what’s to come than what was accomplished.

In my latest CIO Magazine column, The Rise of the Cloud Data Platform, I detail what’s next on CIOs’ and CDOs’ to-do lists.

There’s a lot of noise over whether the US should raise the minimum wage to $15. But the actual impact would barely be noticeable. Find out why in my op-ed piece in The Mercury News.

Just as Capitol Hill is trying to turn back the clock on some of the past decade’s most predatory Big Tech buyouts, a new deal is making its way through the same regulatory process that is every bit as anti-competitive: Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion acquisition of Arm. If consummated, the deal will give one company undo power over a technology platform that is critical to countless competitors, ecosystem partners and markets.

Do regulators have the tools to spot the perils of this acquisition? Find a framework for assessing the potential harm in FeibusTech’s latest report, Nvidia and Arm: The Perils of Technology Platform Acquisitions.

Update: Is the deal a national security threat? And if so, for what nation? Read my latest column in Venture Beat.

Business-class ultraportables have always been sleek and sexy. But the little computers were never very good at, you know, computing.

That’s all changed now. Driven by Intel’s 11th-generation Core processors (code-named Tiger Lake), the latest little laptops come in big on performance. I’ve even been using them as my desktop PC – and they perform great, even on heavier-duty tasks like video editing.

I evaluate three of the latest – the HP Elite Dragonfly G2, the ThinkPad X1 Nano from Lenovo and Microsoft’s Surface Pro 7+. Read about it in my latest for USA Today’s Tech section.

Intel’s new CEO is hitting the ground running. For starters, he just launched a $20 billion investment in new Arizona manufacturing  facilities. And that wasn’t even the company’s biggest announcement that day.

Intel also revealed it is dedicating capacity in Arizona for US-based semiconductor companies – even competitor Qualcomm. Dr. Randhir Thakur (pictured above), Intel’s Chief Supply Chain Officer, will head the new operation, called Intel Foundry Services.

Find out why. Read my analysis in the Tech section of USA Today.

Contrary to popular belief, the path between on-premise data centers and the public cloud is actually a two-way street. Indeed, for all the seemingly endless storage and performance, the cloud isn’t always the best option for every dataset and every workload.

So how do you decide what belongs in the cloud, and what should stay on-premise? Read FeibusTech’s latest report, To the Cloud and Back, and find out what companies large and small are doing, and how their experiences can help shape your rent-or-buy computing decisions.

Produced in association with Intel.

Many of tech’s stalwarts believe Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s proposed buyout of ARM – one of the biggest and most consequential tech acquisitions ever – is bad for business.

Find out why. And find out why so few of them are speaking out publicly. In my latest column, in EE Times.

It’s not all gloom and doom on Main Street USA. Because out of the trauma of lockdowns and social distancing a playbook is emerging for how mom-and-pop shops can succeed in the post-pandemic era. My latest, via the Money section of USA Today.

As if on cue, Dell, HP and Lenovo all unveiled new business-class laptops at CES that seem custom-designed for working from home. They’re not only more secure. They’re also faster, more responsive and last longer on a single charge.

They’re especially good at what most work-from-home types are doing: productivity apps like Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, editing video and – of course – video conferencing.

The foundation for the systems is Intel’s new 11th-generation Tiger Lake Core processors with vPro, which also were announced at CES. Read more in my latest CIO Magazine column HERE.

The potential for deriving great insights from streams and stores of data – wherever they may be – is very real. But realizing that potential demands a holistic approach to the data lifecycle.

Allow me to explain. Read my latest column in the Data-Driven Investor, via Medium.