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It is both interesting and ironic that three of the major companies in tech each defined something early in their lives they didn't want to be and then became it. ...

"Wikis were too much work," Rob Enderle, principal with the Enderle Group told LinuxInsider. "That's always the problem with anything powered by volunteer labor. Folks for a while will do stuff for free, but they won't do it indefinitely. You can only sustain it if it's fun and interesting."

Stanza "has interesting capabilities, one of them being able to do purchases without launching a browser," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "The less distance between the person and the product, the higher the sell rate -- and this isn't about sellling e-books, this is about selling books. That alone had Amazon's interest."

"We're now looking at the computer as more than a calculating machine," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "When you can analyze what lies under the numbers and make educated guesses at what the causes are, that's a powerful tool. That capa...

Apple was having a good month until last week. Sales were up explosively -- at least, for the iPhone and iPod -- but all of that good news was trashed when the company first allowed a questionable application onto the iPhone and then killed it without explanation. Already, the tone surrounding Apple appears to be changing. ...

Containing a message to 140 characters is a challenge, to say the least, for companies looking to push a product or service. This raises the question of whether more than a link can be embedded in Twitter. "Currently, the medium doesn't lend itself to normal Web advertising, the ad being potentially longer than the twit, suggesting a level of creativity in line with Google's ad words," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld...

I was in Malta last week at the IFA 2009 conference, which is partially intended to drive interest into Malta as a technology center. This is one of the locations where people believe a new Silicon Valley might be born, and that certainly focuses us on the fact that the current Silicon Valley isn't what it once was. A few weeks ago, I was at a lunch with a large group of folks who helped found the Silicon Valley, and we discussed what killed it. ...

Last week, I wrote about the 3rd Rebirth of Computing. This change will lead to the potential for Google to be vastly more powerful than any company in the history of the world. Given the historical patterns associated with companies that get even a fraction of this power, current trends are frightening. ...

"It just showcases that the market is ready for a change, and Google (Android's developer) is positioning itself to be the architect of that change," Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group told LinuxInsider. "The power players aren't just the carriers. They are enablers, but Google is moving between them and discovering a channel that Microsoft doesn't have locked up yet."

The gaming market has been broken for a long time, and the Conficker worm is a reminder that the PC concept is also becoming unmanageable. Developers want one platform to develop to; they don't want three consoles, two portable gaming systems, lots of phones and a PC. Users want something vastly less complex and really would like to go back to a time when they only worried about the price and where the on switch was. ...

However, the planets may not be perfectly aligned for Nintendo, said Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle, who has a decidedly more bullish take on the game maker's prospects Shipping 50 million units is noteworthy, he told the E-Commerce Times, "but the bigger issue is...

With most large businesses slashing their IT budgets due to the global recession, software and hardware makers are looking to the small- and medium-sized business market to make up for the shortfall in revenue, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Small bu...

However, Google's problems don't mean the door is closed to Yahoo, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "When you're underpenetrated in a market, you have head room even in a down market, and the mobile advertising market is underpenetrated," he told TechNewsWorld. "Remember, Google took a hit because they're the market leader and can't grow any more. Yahoo can move in on Google's market."

I spent much of last week attending an event put on by HP, Intel and BMW, which launched HP's new professional workstation line on top of the new Nehalem processors from Intel. This took place at DreamWorks, where we were treated to an early screening of the "Monsters vs. Aliens" movie. This last was a showcase for DreamWorks' huge 3-D bet and one that I haven't been a believer in -- until now. Now, I think we are actually at the same kind of inflection point that led to movies, movies with sound, and movies with color -- all of which were thought to be passing fads initially but that we now can't do without. ...

Tesla's Model S does not stack up well against other green alternatives, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group. The Fisker, for instance, "is a more interesting automobile," Enderle told TechNewsWorld, "and for less money, gives you more car." Nissan will b...

Zeebo is taking a very big risk, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "I don't see the right end game here "We've had a lot of people try this thinking it would be a technology play, but it's all about the content, and that has been very ...

"They should either be afraid or seize the opportunity," Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It lowers the cost of the console to almost nothing, and these guys all lose money on the consoles, so it eliminates the Playstation 3 problem off the bat. You could give consoles away for free for something like this. So they either embrace it or it's a go-out-of-business scenario. It depends on how they treat it."

The U.S. stock market had a really happy week last week. The market was on a long rally, and a number of high-profile technology vendors made interesting moves. The first was the release of Dell's Adamo product -- the first laptop offering that really was rethought as more of an art project than a typical laptop. While expensive, it actually feels worth it. The second was the leak that Sun was about to be acquired by IBM for US$7 billion, which has to have old time IBMers dancing in the aisles. Sun pounded on IBM a lot in the '90s. ...

If a deal with IBM goes through, the first move Big Blue will probably make will be the shuttering of Sun's server business, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group That's because IBM already has a commanding position in the server market and a slew of its own...

A significant portion of customers return Linux netbooks to stores, perhaps unclear about what they were buying, said Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "And even the most aggressive estimates have their market share at under 20 percent," he told LinuxInsider.