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"The DARPA funding alone suggests the technology will work," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "This is still very early in the development cycle, but the technology has pulled impressive levels of funding from organizations that are competent, capable and have a history of doing deep analysis before funding."

I spent last week on Mark Hurd's firing, er involuntary resignation, and watched the backstory develop, and it isn't pretty. Hurd was likely the third-hardest guy to fire in Silicon Valley behind Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison -- and yet, at least initially, he seemed to be fired as a result of a false accusation of sexual harassment leading to a global WTF moment.

"Google has a lot of ex-Sun Java folks who likely brought stuff along with them, thinking correctly that Sun wouldn't care," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told LinuxInsider. "I doubt Google ever expected to be threatened by Sun." Perhaps the highest-rank...

"The capability to generate keys is not controlled by RIM but by the client organizations," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. Thus, in Russia, the carrier generated the secure keys that encrypt communications over BlackBerries on its network...

"That"s a pretty good price for a portable 3D Blu-ray player," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Portable Blu-ray players are not new; Panasonic has had one out for about one and a half years, and RCA came out with one some time later, End...

Indeed, "nobody is in charge at this point, and that is creating a problem," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "The expectation among Open Internet Coalition members is that action at the FCC is the best way to pro...

"When you give someone a lot of power, free up their time, and provide little oversight, they will almost always get into trouble," Rob Enderle, senior analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times "This man was one of the highest paid executives in the world, and wa...

Last week, there was uproar about a rumored secret negotiation between Google and Verizon that, if successful, would result in Google customers getting better bandwidth. ...

The definition of the term "Net neutrality" isn't consistent among all interested parties, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld One concept of Net neutrality holds that all lawful Web-based content, applications and services should be treated...

"Microsoft's repeated mistake is to put Windows in places where it doesn't seem to belong or, when creating a blend, to not complete it," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It either needs to come up with something unique or take Windows where it needs to go to be competitive."

"Institutionally, Google doesn't understand people, it doesn't know how to generate demand, and it used the 'throw mud against the wall and see what sticks' method of product development and release," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "Google Wave exemplified all three problems."

"In general, both the satellite and the cable guys have not been very aggressive with streaming," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "They've always wanted you on their network. But with Verizon doing this FiOS-Motorola thing, I think we're going to see them opening up quite a bit."

An alternative possibility is that such a tablet TV device "likely will network with the FIOS DVR system in the home and either cache or stream content from it," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "So it will get access to digital TV content -- not by going directly to the source, but by using the existing home video capture system."

Last week, Microsoft held its Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM). Companies hold these to showcase their offerings and initiatives to the analysts that take positions on the firm, and given how regularly Apple and Google have appeared to be kicking Microsoft around lately, it is well past time Microsoft got up and told its own story. ...

"The Kindle has always had a limited browser -- it is just getting a bit more capability this time," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It lends itself to specialized and text-focused kinds of content." Eventually, the tab...

However, smartphones still constitute only a fraction of the overall mobile phone market. That situation is not likely to change until at least 2015, when there's enough bandwidth to sharply cut the cost of accessing data wirelessly, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, pointed out...

"With this kind of information, an attacker can better appear to be someone you trust and send you links that you shouldn't click on," Rob Enderle, founder and principal of Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. In addition, "they can better impersonate you and attack othe...

"The Kindle remains focused on ebooks, and this will likely remain the case until something like the Qualcomm Mirasol display hits the right price and size points," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Qualcomm's Mirasol technology consumes v...

"The kind of change this speed increase could cause could exceed our collective imaginations," Rob Enderle, principal with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It effectively could make the location of most everything in the technology space irrelevant." Where in the World ...

"FISMA is a process review and not an in-depth audit," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, pointed out. "It may be a requirement for certain kinds of work, but it is minimal and likely not strong enough on its own for most government agencies." Security Fears...