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"Feedback from everybody I've talked to is very good, and the only downside is folks would like to see Windows 8 this year instead of in 2012," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Microsoft declined to provide further comment on Windows 8, w...

"Apotheker probably is thinking more along the lines of using webOS on alternative devices -- devices that HP won't be making," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "It's hard to believe they would license it for competing products,...

"People tend to put off doing things until the very end," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "We're talking about putting everything from washing machines to your kitchen stoves on the Internet, so the speed of Web acceptance is increasing dramaticall...

"Right now, the stated strategy is to have Windows 8 run on everything except smartphones," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "I'll be at Computex next week, so I'm hoping the rumors are true and that I'll get a sneak peek at some new Wind...

This is turning out to be an amazing decade, with companies getting a rebirth, other firms getting new identities, and still others sliding into delusional obscurity. I understand Bill Gates has wandered quietly back into Microsoft, and he is part of the reason a lot of kids are saying "Bing" instead of "Google" at the moment -- which is good, because both Apple and IBM have passed Microsoft in market capitalization this decade, something that should have been impossible. ...

"It gives you a social history of the person you're communicating with," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It's one of the more advanced communication features Google has produced. This is base-level contact management. It's the type of system a service person might use for corresponding with a customer. This hasn't been available for individuals until now...

"You can't always protect against theft, and you have to allow employees to do their work," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times What about making executives sign a non-compete clause so they can't join a competitor shortly after jumpi...

"Development tools are their expertise," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "At their core, Microsoft is a platform tools vendor and, if they can't do it, they're really screwed." Picking at the Mango Appdev Tools...

Even without the push to service brands, the acquisition should be a win for its users, or at least most of them, Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group told the E-Commerce Times "In general, this should result in better integration between Twitter and TweetDeck with improvements to...

"So long as the location-aware feature is opt-in, I don't think there is a problem," opined Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group The inclusion of the Do Not Track feature in browsers is not new, although perhaps Firefox 5 for Android is the first mobile browser ...

The Intel-Apple war has been on a break ever since Intel won and Apple moved its PCs to x86. However, Apple has clearly been itching for a rematch with the iPad, and it has been chewing up PC market share at an impressive rate while Intel's been caught napping. ...

"What we're seeing in the high stock price of LinkedIn is the mechanism of supply and demand at work," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "What's driving the price is not the financial performance of LinkedIn. It's that people want to get into the social networking market. It's creating a fairly significant bubble."

"If I had to guess, I would say because e-book costs are less, Amazon's top-line revenues are likely higher," the Enderle Group's Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "I would guess that its revenues of e-books haven't crossed over yet [to the point where they exceed the revenues of print books] but profits probably have." ...

"We could be seeing the end of the Sony network and perhaps the end of the PlayStation Network until Sony fixes this problem," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "It's very clear that Sony's ecosystem is not up to where it needs to be to se...

However, that doesn't necessarily mean open source tools are the answer to analyzing today's plethora of data, warned Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "The fact of the matter is that data's growing faster but analytics tools are also behind," Enderle told Li...

There's speculation that Apple might use Samsung's new WQXGA display in the iPad 3, but that's unlikely for two reasons, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld First, the two companies are locked in litigation....

Last week was a really interesting week. Google brought out its Windows-killer product, the Chrome OS, to generally good reviews -- but most of the folks I know who have covered the desktop for years are convinced it will fail. Google also brought out a home automation product and announced a robotic car technology, all of which could benefit from some Apple magic. ...

Google probably caches music by mirroring its service on the user's device, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, suggested "You hit a slim mirror of the service when you're offline, and when you come online, that mirror probably syncs with the Web host updating...

"This is yet another attempt to automate the home inexpensively," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told LinuxInsider. "We've been attempting this since the early '80s, initially with x-10 and more recently with technologies like Insteon and ZigBee." The ide...

"It isn't uncommon, particularly in politics, and Facebook is overmatched against Google and likely thinks they are fighting for their lives," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "Best guess was that that this idea came up during an election period. It is one of the ways to take down a more powerful/popular opponent, particularly one that doesn't do PR well themselves. But it needs to be done by experts, as the risk of doing it wrong or getting caught can undo much of what is done. That lesson was demonstrated here."