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The age of the computer started in the 1950s, and one of the first things that happened to a then relatively tiny IBM was it got nailed by the Department of Justice. The result was competition and the modern age of computing. That was the age of the mainframe, and that age is long gone, or so you would think. However, last week, the DoJ opened another, very similar, investigation of IBM. It was -- you'd never guess -- on the mainframe. This technology still accounts for an impressive amount of IBM's revenue, and it has really been the only player in the space for some time. What makes this interesting is that there is another vertically integrated company that regularly engages in the same kind of behavior, and that is Apple. ...

Beauty may not be enough, however, contended Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "This is certainly a nice piece of personal jewelry, but in a market class that's being defined at under $400, a product at this price is going to be very difficult to sell," he told TechNewsWorld...

Both the console and PC game markets are suffering at the moment, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. Hardcore gaming is declining in general, he said, in much the same way that the traditional TV market is fragmenting "The problem for both gaming segment...

By not issuing an explicit ruling, the EC will have left the door open for future action against Microsoft. "Once a government body like this gets it teeth into something, it's like a dog with a bone, and it won't let go unless something else distracts it," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "I expect the European Commission will be making Microsoft's life miserable for several more years just because they can."

WinMo 6.5's improvements are slight because it is really designed as a place holder for Windows Mobile 7, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group and a Windows Mobile smartphone user himself. "It's better than Windows Mobile 6.1, but it's a point release, which means minor, largely cosmetic improvements," he told TechNewsWorld. "Windows Mobile 7 will be a full release and move the bar further."

Last week, I was at the first GPU developer's conference put on by Nvidia, along with around 1,500 people trying to change the future of computing. What was both troubling and amazing was the number of times people were telling me stories about things people had said were impossible that they were now doing as a matter of course all because of this change. ...

Fermi will change the face of computing, contends Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. Over the years, GPUs have been used more often to run applications that require massive amounts of parallel processing and have been redesigned and retuned for this, he told TechNewsWorld.

Google Wave's multiple functionality is very similar to that of Lotus Notes. "Wave's very capable and imagines a future where people collaborate much more often than they do today," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "But, like Lotus Notes was, it will be a really hard product to sell."

Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to watch Andy Grove talk about saving the U.S., and I was once again taken with what made him a truly great CEO. It isn't that he is articulate or simply on message -- it's that he conveys a combination of intelligence and passion rarely found in any current leaders. It is also fascinating to see he can still make ex-Intel executives sweat at an Intel alumni reunion, even though many of them now run their own companies. ...

"Sidewiki appears to give Google ownership of comments, but it also potentially improves the usefulness of those comments," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "That may be a strong enough offsetting benefit for the loss of control by Web page owners."

Larrabee's success is open to question. "Intel has promised great graphics repeatedly since the 1990s, so I'm a little jaded here," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. However, it's still too early to tell whether the architecture will garner support from the gaming or professional graphics sectors, or the Microsoft, Apple or Linux communities, he said.

Thanks to its Surface research, Microsoft has done the software leg work required to bring the Courier to market this year if it wanted to, according to Enderle Group president and principal analyst Rob Enderle. The technological hurdle would lie with multi-touch screen developers and other hardware companies.

With Moblin, meanwhile, "people are more willing to take Intel's Atom and do something interesting with it," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told LinuxInsider "Intel will do lots of heavy lifting to make sure Moblin and the hardware work to...

Over the years, I've had long "discussions" with Apple fans on why Apple can't actually put Microsoft out of business. Many seem to think the event is imminent, while I clearly believe it is impossible. To make a point like this, however, you need a reverse example, and the new Zune is likely the best product for the purpose. By all measures, it is a better media player than Apple has ever produced, but with Apple as dominant as it is in this area, there is virtually no chance that Microsoft will displace it. In this market, the seats are reversed -- but the rule still holds. To take out a dominant vendor, building a better product simply won't get the job done. ...

"It makes sense to offer lightweight apps, because they don't want to cannibalize their Office suite revenue," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "They want to give people access to good online apps but have them still be willing to pay for an offline office suite." Microsoft's Office suite provides a good chunk of its revenue, he told TechNewsWorld.

However, the technology is sound, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. It might depend on one's point of view -- is it some sort of hobbled tablet netbook, or is it a pumped-up digital photo frame? In Enderle's view, it's the latter. "They are the most capable, enhanced digital picture frames currently on the market that I know of, not something else which has been de-featured," he said...

The approach is novel, but it may not work, contends Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "This moving media around the house category with AppleTV and products like this has been problematic, and Seagate's approach is to take a hard drive sneakernet product focus," he told TechNewsWorld. "That's unique, but I'm not convinced the market gets it. It's a tough product to sell, and the entire category is troubled."

"On a tablet form factor, where you can work on a flat surface, four-finger touch may actually make more sense, because that makes it easier to collaborate," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Lenovo optimized the firmware for both devices ...

You couldn't help but feel for the U.S. president last week as he tried to sell an unpopular health plan. Sometimes you have to realize the foundation of something is just so bad that no amount of patching or selling will fix it, and while it looks like you are close to done, you'd actually get done more quickly if you started over properly. ...

I'm atIFA as I write this, and in Europe, green clearly does matter. Here, they even have a viableGreen Party, but in the U.S., I sometimes wonder whether we care. This was showcased in a presentation in which Sony ranked geographical areas in terms of the importance of green, and the U.S. came in last. ...