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"We didn't have tracking before the Internet and did just fine without it," Rob Enderle, principal at analyst firm The Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "We can far more easily survey people now, which might end up with a better metric anyway, like their propensity to buy."

Last week I was on a panel discussing how 3D-printed home building could help emerging countries more rapidly deal with homeless issues, reduce the discrepancies between the poor and rich, and create a more sustainable future ...

As I write this, a growing number of companies have either announced plans to move out of California to a more "friendly" state or have already done so ...

Jeff Bezos last week announced he will be stepping down from his role of CEO Amazon. Bezos is following Microsoft's lead and putting his cloud executive Andy Jassy in charge of the company. Given that Microsoft was exceedingly successful with putting Satya Nadella in the same role, it would seem that this would be a slam-dunk success. ...

With Bezos stepping out of daily operations, the executive team will have to figure out where they want to expand, according to Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group. They are already exploring more vertical integration focused on buyer delivery and using drones "Product lines like...

Qualcomm last week announced several products that will be used to enhance next-generation automobiles. These future cars will most certainly be electric and increasingly autonomous ...

Huawei has events where it pulls together key analysts to focus on problems it thinks are critical to the future. At its last event, Huawei spoke about two areas that need considerable work. ...

"People are living on their mobile devices a lot more than they used to. Having that kind of power in mobile is handy," observed Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore "The desktop segment is locked up," he tol...

With the attack in Washington, D.C. happening right before CES, I was worried that I wouldn't focus on the show and, I expect, that distraction and the coming inauguration did split attention. However, one of the nice things about working from home is being able to watch TV while you are working. For many of us, the TV has become much more of a companion during the pandemic. ...

"The high tech vendors whose businesses are thriving are those that have doubled down on their R&D spending like Amazon, Alphabet, Huawei, IBM, Invidia, Microsoft and Samsung, to name a few," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group in Bend, Oregon Thriving vs....

Like a lot of folks, I'm torn about CES this year. It is a show I've attended for decades and hated for nearly as long. One year I ripped the soles off of both my feet from walking so much on concrete, and, trust me, that made for a memorable trip ...

Part of the problem is finding a secure place to leave packages, particularly in densely populated areas, said Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore "Drone delivery will address part of the problem for some ar...

I'm writing this just before New Year's Day, and like many of you, I'm hoping to reach my one remaining goal for 2020, which is to be alive in 2021. I'm looking forward to putting 2020 behind me, and while the pandemic has been painful, it has caused things to accelerate in several areas impressively rapidly. Two of those areas are robotics and artificial intelligence, which we'll see adapted broadly this decade, with a considerable bump in 2021...

Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore. explained that Remote ID only allows drone traffic to be monitored "We're not ready to manage traffic yet," he told TechNewsWorld. "When there are more drones in the sk...

Much of my time these last few weeks has been spent looking at schools and companies that tried and often failed to pivot to remote work and education ...

Every year I look back at all of the Products of the Week I've selected during the year and pick the one that made the most significant impression on me to crown the Product of the Year ...

Qualcomm recently took an in-depth look back at the history of the mobile phone, which it was mostly responsible for creating. This turned out to be a personal retrospect because my family owned an electronics company in the 1960s, which was when I used my first mobile phone in my father's Studebaker Avanti ...

Crashes in cloud services cannot be prevented because "these are complex systems undergoing maintenance at a component level and almost always under attack," Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times For example, AWS' Nov. 20 crash occurred because...

Qualcomm last week launched its Snapdragon 888 platform which will show up in premium phones next year -- and this promises to take the high-end of Android smartphones to levels of performance they've never seen before ...

Although Slack "was overmatched competing with Microsoft," its acquisition by Salesforce "provides the potential for a more even fight going forward, assuming the merger is successful," Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times Slack's open platfor...