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I've been struggling with the Google model, which survived the dot-com mess, but its success seems based largely on the belief that advertising can fund everything. If the users are unhappy, well it doesn't really matter. In fact, Google's customers (the folks paying them money) and the folks they actually serve are quiet different, causing me to question the viability of many of their non-search efforts. Often we look at Microsoft's struggle to expand out of Windows and Office and find the result troubling, but if we look at Google's ...

Sony might win out against the Wii, contended Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "The price disparity between the Nintendo Wii and the PS3 has closed, and folks have high-definition television sets that the Nintendo doesn't make good use of," he pointed out.

Last week I was asked to comment on a study of CEOs. It found that young ones do better than old ones do, which kind of pissed me off. At the same time, like a lot of folks in my business, I've been looking back at the lessons learned from Steve Jobs, who is kind of the CEO gold standard, and comparing him to Eric Schmidt, who appears to be the most highly paid empty suit since John Sculley, and thinking about the differences. ...

"The problem with video is, because it's not a text medium, it's awful hard to index or match ads to the medium unless you can add something that a program could read and analyze," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "Auto-captions could help index the content and also help align ads more effectively with the content."

"TiVo is good at making things easy. I think it could make a lot more of this stuff go mainstream," Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Under the Hood...

"This appears to be a system software problem that may extend back to the beginning of the line," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. " "They are likely using different firmware and a different software image for the newer machines because they use different core hardware than the early PS3s did."

"The patent's pretty general, so I wonder if it's defensible," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "Clearly, Google and News Corp. will try to break it right off the bat." News Corp. owns MySpace, which launched its own news feed-type feat...

This isn't to ask whether it will be successful. Apple is a master at setting goals and then exceeding them, and a lot of folks are clearly excited about the iPad -- but the first generation iPhone was kind of a mistake that got corrected in later versions. As I look at similar products that seem better thought through, I'm increasingly thinking that Steve Jobs' initial concerns with this offering were well founded and that, at least initially, the iPad will have trouble reaching its potential. ...

While it may seem as though Google is being singled out, there is a case to be made for the EU's request regarding Street View, Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "The belief that Google Maps was being used by burglars was widespread in E...

Indeed, the problem with existing fuel cell technology has been price, said Enderle Group President and Principal Analyst Rob Enderle. "You can actually buy one for your home, but it will set you back $80,000, and the payback isn't that great." A blended solution of solar and fuel cells from Panasonic that's in the works could be another interesting green energy solution, he added, so Bloom Energy needs to strike while the hype is hot...

This past week, two rather interesting events got me thinking about how Apple, Google and Microsoft seem to be changing places. Microsoft announced Windows Phone Series 7, and Google announced Buzz (also known as "Buzz Kill") into the market. ...

"As long as the technology we know is 'good enough,' the vast majority of us won't move despite how good the replacement is," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst of Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "The challenge for any competitor is to make the existing dominant product appear undesirable. You saw Apple do this with their PC vs. Mac campaign, Verizon with the coverage wars and Android, and GM has recently been pounding on Honda and Toyota."

"Microsoft took a look at both Android and the iPhone OS, figured out what the next generation might be and built it," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It's both simple and elegant; it's kind of hard to believe it came from Microsoft." ...

"This scenario is a how-to for bringing the U.S. to its knees," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "The reality is worse than the test identified because network traffic isn't properly monitored at the moment. Anything that uses a common network, from smart traffic lights to newer power distribution systems, would cease to function properly or fail outright," he told TechNewsWorld...

I spent last week at the annual Intel analyst conference and was impressed by what I saw, but I started connecting the dots between what Apple is doing with the iPad, Google is doing with the Nexus one, Microsoft is doing with the Zune and Xbox, and Intel is doing with its Atom/Moblin efforts, and I had an epiphany. ...

How Aardvark will mesh with Buzz or the other pieces of Google's expanding social media structure isn't yet clear, but it seems likely the search giant will combine the various elements into a socially oriented search system, Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times...

Optimus could prove to be a game-changing technology, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "When Intel set Larrabee back, graphics went back to being a battle between Nvidia and ATI," he pointed out. "When Intel comes back at graphics in a couple of years, expect a technology like this to be baked into their solutions and into AMD's Fusion when that arrives as well." ...

With Hathaway's appointment, Cisco is taking what appears to be a stronger, lobbyist-style approach to getting government business, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. Cisco's focusing on government business because it's potentially a str...

The iPad has captured much of the technology coverage so far this year. It is a poorly named copy of a product that Microsoft launched nearly a decade ago, based on a concept Steve Jobs personally thought was stupid: the tablet computer. Yet Apple has effectively convinced the market that its device is new, different and desirable -- and managed to create a major industry event around it. ...

"Yes and no," said Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Consumers may pay more, but they should also get more hot titles earlier, and competition should eventually kick in where there will be more variety of book prices and specials to get people to buy, but it may take a few years for that to work itself out. Initially, consumers will pay more. Eventually, once we fully convert to e-books, they may pay less."