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The column I previously had written for today was focused on how Todd Bradley was trying to force HP into taking him as CEO and ended with my hope that the company would make a more strategic choice. Imagine my surprise when it gave me and its investors an early Christmas present by doing exactly that. ...

"RIM is between a rock and a hard place," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "If they do what India wants they will bleed customers. If they don't, they lose India -- one of the fastest-growing markets in the world. And India is hardly alone in this."

"Google is a force of nature on the Internet. If ever there was a company that could drive Internet standards, it's Google," Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "The only one in their vicinity is Microsoft, and Microsoft is not a major power in organizing and delivering images."

"I think you have to look at the combination of Apotheker and Lane," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "Together, they represent one of the strongest anti-Oracle brain trusts on the planet. Their appointments send a very strong signal that HP, like IBM, is calling out Oracle as the company they're most worried about."

Although AOL is putting a new bow on its business model, to some the model has a familiar look to it. "We're going back to the days of a Super Portal, a place where you go and live," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times "...

"No one has a lot of enterprise applications on their tablets yet, so the PlayBook is not as strongly focused on enterprise buyers as you might think," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times That could impact demand for the PlayBook....

The practice of collaborating directly with competitive firms helped created an environment in which companies started to worry about employees getting a look at the other side of the fence, observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group. "From the firms' pers...

Java Creator James Gosling explained why he quit Oracle in an interesting interview on eWeek. It is clear he had no understanding about what happens in an acquisition, particularly for an old school open source unit that has been the exact opposite of a profit center. ...

"Given that you are increasing storage density massively, you'll be able to both store and recover information at higher rates on any moving media while keeping the movement of the media at acceptably high speeds," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld...

The move will pave the way for "undoubtedly lower cost" plans for consumers who use wireless devices such as iPads or even smartphones in closely defined geographic areas, Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. In addition, those with Super-WiFi-enabled devices likely will be able to take advantage of higher bandwidth data plans than those available with their current devices...

Not at all, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "A terrorist attack's goal is to create fear," Enderle pointed out. "The goal of this attack wasn't fear, and it was probably launched by a nation-state in a state of undeclared war with anothe...

"This was Bill Gates' stump speech for years, and Steve Ballmer picked it up after he left so it's hardly a new idea," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told CRM Buyer "It's the direction the industry is going and the one consumers want it to go in, but thre...

"The problem we've seen with the Android tablet is that Android hasn't scaled well to the tablet size," Rob Enderle, principal with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "The end result is that RIM looked at that and decided they wanted to go for something that was specifically designed for the tablet size." ...

Not necessarily, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "Most of the large vendors are pointing out that, for certain kinds of jobs, these large systems provide better return on investment because they're purpose-built and designed," he said....

"California is a right-to-work state. That means it was going to be difficult, if not impossible, for HP to block Hurd going to work for Oracle after HP effectively had terminated him," Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "And while Mark Hurd clearly has intellectual property that HP is concerned about him sharing, they don't really have a case until they can show that he actually shared that information."

Oracle is a possible contender for the asset, if only to thwartIBM's acquisition, said Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group With its acquisition of Netezza, IBM is effectively putting Oracle onnotice that the fight for the top spot in software-led largeenterprise data products wil...

Reporting from an undisclosed location in Eastern Europe, this is Rob Enderle whose new motto is "feet don't fail me now." ...

"As far as financial days go, this was a good one," Rob Enderle, principal of the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "Both companies came in at or above expectations -- and given the problems both have, that is pretty amazing." Putting Out Fires...

The Galaxy's 7-inch screen is smaller than the iPad's but has benefits of its own. "The small screen of the iPhone or [an Android phone] make me feel like I should be wearing glasses," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "If you're someone who thinks a 3.5-inch screen is just fine, you'll probably want to stay with that."

Smartphone and computer users already have some negative experiences on which to base their opinions of such technology, Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "If people see [context-sensitive tools] as a creepy stalking thing by advertise...