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In Microsoft's quest to make the Xbox 360 a must-have device for the living room, the tie-up with Disney is a significant gain for the Redmond, Wash.-based company, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. The deal should also bump up the Xbox 360's lead over Sony's PlayStation 3 in terms of compelling content, although consumers have still not fully come around to the idea of a gaming console as a set-top box in the den or living room, he added...

"The industry has been suffering through too many poor sequels and badcopies of good games of late," concurred Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group. "It faces competition for the buyingdollar from hot phones, media devices and for time from onlineproperties like Facebook and YouTube [in terms of] both creation andenjoyment," he told TechNewsWorld...

Let's just say the iPhone is the best generation-one product I can recall in the tech market -- ever -- in terms of hardware design and execution. But, much as Japan did in World War II, Apple merely stung the heck out of a number of big companies -- and most of Asia as a geographical region. It wasn't, by any means, a killing blow ...

"Proprietary products are tied to a company, and around the company is wrapped secrecy," Rob Enderle, principal analyst with Enderle Group, told LinuxInsider. Makers of proprietary software don't want competitors to know what they're doing, he noted."Given enough time, you can get around any patent or copyright, so a proprietary company lives on secrets," said Enderle...

Indeed, "any product out there is likely to be a target," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "We now live in an environment where patching is a fact of life "Luckily, it's getting a lot easier to do," he added. "Offi...

The mystery that remains is what caused the Xbox 360 problems, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle. It could have been a batch of bad components, a problem with the factory or any number of things "Nobody knows the cause, although the product had some heating issues," ...

Considering the DS's demographic in the U.S., which skews heavily toward young males, the camera accessory will probably not be that popular here, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. Although the company seems to be on to something with its "Brain Age" games, "Face Training" takes the company too far outside its core demographic, he pointed out...

Oracle recently posted strong quarterly earnings, though the company's true growth rate can be hard to decipher given the continued acquisition spree, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times While such a strategy is rife with risks due to the need...

In the U.S., a lot of folks are off this week because the 4th of July, which marks the Independence Day holiday, comes on a Wednesday this year. An impressive number of Americans have been spending the last few days scrambling to buy a US$3,000 phone, and I think it is time to begin talking about the impact of this event ...

With WiiWare, Nintendo is following in the footsteps of Microsoft, which released the final version of its XNA game development tool in December 2006, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. Releasing game creation tools is a way for a console maker to generate interest among young programmers to develop for their platform...

"It's not a bad idea, because YouTube is clearly picking up most of the market right now," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "The reason you go through a relaunch is to get people to think of you as a new and trendy offerin...

"If you understand the tools, you can go in and create a character that looks quite a bit different than anyone else's. And for games that provide the ability to create special maps to enjoy and share so that you get a difference experience in the game," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld...

Developers can certainly make the games richer, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "A higher clock speed means you can do more things because the processor can now handle more things -- so it makes for better games. It gives them some head room they didn't previously have."

"Flash-based memory drives represent the future of the laptop market," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "They pull less power and generate less heat, and you don't have to shield them as heavily, so they result in a smaller overall form factor."

Though it appeared Millard's departure was mutually agreeable to both sides, Yahoo can't afford to risk a brain-drain situation in which key people leave amid the turmoil at the portal, said Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle "You worry about who leaves in the wake of...

This week, if forecasts are to be believed, 19 million of you will line up to buy fewer than one million first-generation iPhones from Apple. Given Apple's history with first-generation products, I'm not so sure that beating each other silly in a line at an AT&T store is going to be worth the trouble ...

"This is Nvidia trying to redefine a PC and make themselves more relevant to it," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for The Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "In the current market, the way it's evolving, you've got Intel and AMD as the two major platform owners, with Intel being...

The changes at Yahoo this week were aimed at both appeasing restless shareholders tired of seeing Google rack up market share, stock price gains and key acquisitions, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. Some of those shareholders are likely interested in a more dramatic move, however, including a sale or the spinning off of some noncore assets...

"John is taking exception to the Apple view that they can eliminate all of the IE alternatives and get people to used the Safari Browser instead," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told LinuxInsider. "As COO of Mozilla, you can understand why he would be against this change and likely think it impossible. However, Mozilla and the derivative products including Navigator and Firefox don't enjoy Apple's marketing budget, and no one enjoys Apple's marketing excellence in this space, so there is some risk that Steve could be right."

By tapping Yang as CEO, Yahoo's board may be hoping for the type of renewed focus and energy that came when former company founders such as Apple's Steve Jobs and Dell's Michael Dell returned to lead the companies they birthed, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times...