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So, is Second Life more like "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood" or an episode of "The Sopranos"? It's both -- and that's inevitable, said Enderle Group President and Principal Analyst Rob Enderle "People are going to behave badly wherever they go," he told TechNewsWorld....

Microsoft's handling of such a major integration will be closely watched given the unprecedented size of the acquisition. However, the deal was as much about defense as offense, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times "This is Microsoft chasing Go...

"Companies like Alliance Data tend to fare better under private equity ownership," Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told CRM Buyer, "assuming the company is an experienced one, such as Blackstone Group." Blackstone Group in particular has a string of invest...

The game market is really a second-half-of-the-year market, explained Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "The time you want for people to get really excited is as they approach vacation, and the September 25th launch gives you more time to convince parents to buy this for their kids," he told TechNewsWorld...

"People buy this class of phone for the cache of being distinctive, of being cool for having the next best thing and both phones cross over in that space," Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld The Razr 2 comes closer to what people have histo...

Michael Dell has recognized that he has a major task ahead of him if he hopes to restore the company to its former glory, said Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle, and has taken some aggressive steps to make changes, bringing in outside executives to help shake things up, for instance...

Any improvements in system security, however, will likely be met by counter moves by content bandits, cautioned Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group in San Jose, Calif., and a member of the Trusted Computing Group Advisory Council "Given time, yo...

"Their high-performance part is designed to be faster -- with more caches and a higher benchmark," Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "The important thing for AMD is putting lot of effort in what is a high-margin segment." The new platfo...

"Google has recently been able to have its way with Yahoo and Microsoft," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "It seems they come out on top of every merger talk or partnership discussion that happens in the space." Meanwhile, Google is not p...

Indeed, the move is part of a trend currently at work in the corporate world, Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "Right now, the big competition between companies is, who can be greenest?" Enderle explained. Al Gore's film, "A...

With the series having won the love of two decade's worth of fans and the release of "The Simpson Movie" right around the corner, the bar has been set very high for "The Simpsons Game." Adding to the pressure is EA's announcement Tuesday that it had lost some US$25 million during the last quarter and that "The Sims" creator Will Wright's highly anticipated game "Spore" would probably be delayed. Combined, these events have put the game software designer in a tough spot, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told TechNewsWorld...

Such a deal may be more in Microsoft's comfort zone than an outright acquisition of a major company, which it has done rarely, in part because the company's culture is unique and any large-scale integration would prove challenging, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. In addition, the minority stake and the close partnership with MSN may help keep rivals such as Google from considering buying the site...

"Anything typically loaded off a disc comes much faster; boot times, games -- everything is faster," Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It is a significant boost for the system." All of the models support wireless 802.11 Draft-n, accord...

In the past, UMPCs have taken criticism for being stuck in a no-man's-land between laptops and smartphones, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group "They are getting much better but still are not quite where they need to be," he told TechNewsWorld. "We are w...

HP probably can enjoy a couple more quarters of such gains before a revived Dell is ready to do battle again, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle said. The risk for Dell is that by then, it will face a steep uphill climb back to the top "Dell is committed to the turnar...

The low percentage of users taking full advantage of available technologies did not come as a surprise to Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Much of what we have is very difficult to use, which is why there are so few omnivores," he told TechNewsWorld. "I actually would have expected this number to be lower, which suggests the utility of these devices is forcing more folks to learn how to use them...

"The Novell-Microsoft partnership isn't particularly popular with Linux enthusiasts, but that market has been flat for several years now -- and these folks aren't likely to buy from Dell anyway," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told LinuxInsider...

Looking back at last week, I had a lot to choose from, but the two things that I thought were the most interesting were Sony's dropping the PSP (PlayStation Portable) price to a very attractive US$169, and the resignation ofPC World's editor in chief over a throwaway Apple piece, which got me thinking about ethics in technology journalism ...

Nevertheless, the Microsoft-Yahoo deal may be less likely to happen now that word of the talks have been leaked, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "Clearly it looks like the two parties are serious about talking to one another," he said Suc...

"If the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) hadn't proven this doesn't work well (lawsuits), I would say yes with certainty," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "I do still think it is likely, but they will probably try to be more surgical in their approach than the RIAA has been...