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Microsoft has just brought out the physical representation of its fifth major evolutionary change, and this one may turn out to be the most dramatic. The technology, Live Mesh, may actually both help Microsoft's customer satisfaction issues and help move Apple and Linux onto desktops everyplace ...

North American fans of "GTA IV" bummed out that the bundle will remain a European offering can only blame the game's popularity in the U.S. and the troubled economic picture, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group "'GTA IV' is largely a U.S. institution. Also, wi...

The success of these efforts likely will be measured by a company's commitment to them, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group "Going forward, this can allow working groups to collaborate," he told the E-Commerce Times. "The difficulty with those efforts is...

The timing may be perfect for Blue Coat, Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times "During a time of recession, properties get devalued and, with acquisitions, there's less a risk of employees departing," he said. "Anybody with cash on re...

Over the last couple of weeks, I've been meeting with vendors all over the country that range from those that build PCs to those that build tools and parts, to those that build back-end solutions. One common message has come through. They all are targeting Apple as the company whose performance they most want to beat ...

Google's unexpectedly strong quarter may ratchet up the heat on Microsoft, which is hoping to bring its effort to acquire Yahoo to a close soon, said Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle "As long as that deal remains in flux -- in other words, between acceptance and rej...

STEC may have a point. "If somebody else gets the technology to market first, as is the case in this instance, the difficulty for the challenging firm is prior work. They might have a patent that can show this, but STEC might say they were working on it first. It will be interesting to see how this plays out," Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times...

This cuts close to the heart because I truly believe this Web anonymity thing actually helps criminals more than it protects honest citizens. Microsoft has released a white paper that lays out the problem and asks for feedback on a solution (asking our opinion first at the very least should be applauded) ...

Nevertheless, it would be wise to wait and see how the idea pans out, opined Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group "I think the market is kind of skeptical this will provide any difference, but until you see it in use, it's hard to tell how it's going to work,"...

Last week I was in Shanghai, China -- which is truly an amazing place -- attending Intel's IDF (Intel Developer Forum), where the company is officially launching its new Netbook and iPhone-like MID (mobile Internet device) platforms. This is actually the first time I've seen products that are based on Linux that may exceed Apple's vaunted user experience...

Google's main interest was in keeping as much of the new spectrum open as possible so it can declare a victory of sorts, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times "Their goal was to ensure some openness for their services in the future," he commente...

Too many of us -- and I include myself -- are too willing to go to war and not willing enough to find harder, but often more successful, collaborative ways to solve problems. I often look at both the U.S. and Microsoft as similar entities in their respective spaces, and I'm often fascinated by how examples of good and bad judgment can be applied to both...

I was working on two things last week. One was the impact of the recession on the tech market and what would likely happen to tech spending; and the second was the release of Windows Vista SP1, which I've been using for several months on a number of machines. On the recession side, I've been particularly focused on what is likely to be an adverse impact on some, but not all, "green" initiatives and how the recession will increase the number of hostile takeovers...

Palm has frittered away a prime opportunity it once had to dominate the smartphone market, commented Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group "Palm is a company that should own the space occupied by RIM and iPhone," Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "The reality h...

Quattrone "clearly does have a public perception problem that he'll have to recover from, but he was accused of something that was almost impossible for the general public to understand, and he was cleared," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "I think he's in reasonably good shape."

Over the last two weeks, I attended a huge HP lab event, watched Apple launch the iPhone SDK brilliantly, and saw one of the strongest consumer laptop lines launched by Acer. All three vendors are growing in the 30 percent range in the PC market; Acer just passed Dell for the No. 2 spot in the notebook market; and all three vendors have smartphone efforts in their infancy...

Similarly, the face-to-face meetings are a chance for Microsoft to soothe Yahoo's nerves about what a merged entity would look like, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times "The goal of these meetings is to make the acquisition target comfortable ...

Last week was filled with what could represent the beginning of one of the biggest overall changes to the cell phone market. The short-term change was the announcement of a solid and apparently well-controlled developer platform coupled with the long anticipated Exchange integration announcement. However, bigger than that and longer-term was the announcement of Intel's new Atom platform, which forecasts the death and rebirth of a better iPhone...

"Microsoft was clearly trying to block this deal but, because they are not in best graces with the EU, their ability to do this was badly compromised," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "It reflects on the fact that Microsoft's competitors, like Google, have access to tools that currently don't work for Microsoft," such as getting regulators to take their side...

I've been talking about heroes for several weeks now, most recently the folks at HP who are overcoming the company's internal bureaucracy to turn what had been a problem unit -- its PC unit -- into the most powerful PC entity in the world ...