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"A good chunk of the $200,000 bill is cost to them that gets passed through to whatever carrier handled the roaming," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told CRM Buyer "So T-Mobile will still have to pay a portion of this bill even though the subscriber has b...

"That's the same mistake IBM made with its OS2 operating system," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "They focused on Windows support in OS2 for so long they basically gave control of the platform to Microsoft." "Wherever yo...

"Amazon is doing the same thing starting with Android that Apple did with Unix BSD as the core of the iOS. It appears Amazon's strategy from now on is to make it a full fork," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told LinuxInsider In doing this, ...

"It's too little too late," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "RIM should've done something before the iPhone 4S came out, and customers began switching to it," Enderle added....

Google's earnings knocked one out of the park last week but in other areas, things aren't going as well. Over the last few weeks, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt had to testify in front of Congress that Google wasn't like Microsoft, and the rules that applied to that company didn't apply to his. ...

The fake Netflix app "showcases what may be a critical flaw in Google's open strategy," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "Netflix was an obvious choice because it wasn't available on Android at all until recently and still isn't available...

"Often a new CEO takes a position before fully understanding the problems she faces," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times "Whitman was able to quickly reverse herself once she saw the numbers just didn't move, and how little in-depth ...

"They are clearly struggling with their present and future," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "Sony's problems are a result of a complete lack of focus. They could do with some revitalized leadership." Enderle noted that Sony is a compan...

"Supercomputing really is the next big frontier and the one area where no level of performance is enough," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Reshaping the Jaguar...

With Steve Jobs' passing, last week was a sad one for the technology industry, which owes much of its current success to him and will remain forever diminished by this event. Even as people talk about his uniqueness, they also don't seem to get that he can't be replaced like you would replace a shoe or a shirt. Teams are complex, and the team that ran Apple was uniquely successful and powerful. Without Jobs, it is diminished; we just don't know how much yet...

"Genachowski's ideas make a lot of sense," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "The FCC really wants to connect people to the Internet and provide broadband. They are going to take the digital homeless and try to get them homes." ...

"The Nexus line never seemed to catch on," mused Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "The first one seemed to go to the geeky crowd, and after that, there wasn't much. The bloom is off the rose." It's not clear whether the new Nexus device will do anything fo...

Oracle "recognizes their strength is selling large corporations big ideas and pushing in business intelligence," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times Why Big Data?...

"There's always a balance between privacy and monetizing data, and at this moment folks are trying to find the balance, which is why there's litigation against Facebook," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "On the other hand, vendors have to explore the limits, and that's what Facebook and Google are doing."

Last week was another big week for technology as Amazon announced a new line of Kindles and Microsoft released its Mango product into the wild. Many of us are thinking these products target Google's gains and missed opportunities more than they do Apple's. I'll share my thoughts on the potential for these products and why Google, rather than Apple, may be the initial target...

One way to think of the Kindle Fire, Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group told the E-Commerce Times, "is as a device optimized to be an electronic Amazon catalog." Cannibalizing E-Ink Devices?...

"Amazon isn't trying to out-iPad the iPad; it's trying to change the dialog," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "I think this is a better strategy." By declining to confront the iPad directly, Amazon has avoided setting up preconceptions ...

With Windows Phone, Microsoft has developed a state-of-the-art interface for smartphones, contended Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group. "The icon-based interface that Apple pioneered and Android copied was certainly appropriate for the last de...

"This [focus on the low-volume, high-margin market] is an interesting idea, but Oracle can't be selective because the majority of the market is in the high-volume, low-margin space," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, pointed out "If you're General Motors, tr...

Yes it can, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, given that Amazon subsidizes the Kindle, even though that device has an expensive ePaper display and built-in free 3G "This suggests Amazon could hit more aggressive prices with a more interesting tablet pro...