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"Negative reviews can get people motivated to disagree with them, and that drives sales; positive reviews also can drive controversy, and clearly people will buy on them, but lukewarm reviews don't drive any controversy and don't excite people about the product either," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld...

"When used for security, you are trying for a high confidence match, and are not searching to see if there's anyone else like you in the world," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Most biometric security systems are designed on a probabilis...

"This is HP trying to get back into the smartphone market," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "This is why HP acquired Palm." However, can HP make a dent in a market so heavily dominated by Research In Motion, Android and Apple, where com...

"Quite a few free apps are selling user data," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "You're paying for the free applications with personal information." The catch is whether the user understands that the sale of personal data is the ...

With U.S. citizens getting shot on U.S. borders -- and the folks investigating them literally losing their heads, with Facebook and Twitter friends using location information to determine when your home is vacant and available for looting, and with the U.S. being named as botnet capital of the world, I expect we all are feeling less than secure at the moment. ...

"When you develop a behavior as a child, you will likely carry it into adulthood," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "If that theory holds, the texting children will be texting adults, and we will be very thankful to Google for getting cars to drive themselves."

"Microsoft and Facebook really want to know their users intimately so they can serve up better services, offer up more targeted advertisements and make themselves more valuable to advertisers," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "In the end, they'll create a virtual you and, if that virtual you is highly modeled, it will have a very high value to advertisers."

Students who use library computers or PCs in a computer room in school, and travelers who use PCs at cyber cafes and at hotels, are likely to need the temporary password protection, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld The temporary password ...

"I expect the rise of intelligent interfaces shortly through focusing on the extra processing power being provided by graphics chips to make interfaces more intelligent," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. However, intelligence will probably lag behind computer-based products by about a decade, he added...

"This is just another on a list of interesting projects Google is participating in," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It does have a high energy requirement, though, and advancements in green generation could eventually offset some of its energy costs."

"People are increasingly distracted while driving. Having a car that could take over and keep you from having an accident could save your life," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "Google is doing very important work How Do You Monetize It...

Perhaps Canonical is in need of money, suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Revenue generation isn't Linux's strength; collaboration and cooperation is," Enderle told LinuxInsider. "Monetizing Linux has proven elusive at the user level. Making money h...

Today Microsoft launches Windows Phone 7, and I've been thinking about this phone a lot over the last month. The closest metaphor to what makes this phone different from others is Superman. This isn't because when Superman launched, this hero was the underdog but rose to be the most powerful, in terms of movies, TV shows and branding of all that proceeded and followed him -- too early by far for that connection. ...

RIM had a couple of options to get out of the ban threatened by the UAE, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. One was to set up a redundant server in the UAE that would capture all encrypted messages. That server would be under the control of the government, Enderle said...

Some of the signs necessary to indicate a merger are simply not present with Microsoft and Adobe, Rob Enderle, principal of the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "I think it's really doubtful. When you have two large companies talking about merging, both companies are...

"I think we're seeing the industry struggling to meld the Web experience designed for PCs into one designed for homes and TVs," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "The two come at the market from different ways -- one assumes you need a keyboard and the other assumes you don't. Logitech is the best in the market with remote controls right now, and it's difficult to imagine anyone could do it better, but it still isn't good enough," he added...

"Apple TV is slightly more constrained than Google TV," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld The differences between the offerings are more than slight, according to Laura DiDio, principal analyst at ITIC.

"You can, in theory, extend graphene beyond the boundaries set by the limitations of silicon, and thus make devices smaller," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "This could create vastly more complex microcomputers with huge implications fo...

"Tests on this approach have had surprisingly good results," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group The integral imaging system reproduces the design and tracks of beams of light by sampling light at several angles, then combining them into one smooth, contin...

"Live Mesh is one of Microsoft's strongest cloud offerings, and by itself, it's likely Microsoft's most valuable feature in this suite," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, remarked. "It's vastly better than what Apple or Google currently offer." More on Live ...