Search Results

I'm spending some time thinking about missed and anticipated opportunities this week. In looking at Windows Server, I've become convinced that it is the wrong product for the Unix displacement market. In fact, in my head, it really always has been -- I just don't talk about servers much, so it doesn't come up ...

"They've been talking about this for a while," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "This showcases that they really do want to place Flickr as a world-class product. China is one of most important markets, and one of the fastest-growing."

"There's been a relatively high level of distrust around Google and personal information," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. When the company refused to turn over its search log data to the government, citing privacy concerns, "it became clear they weren't trying to protect privacy at all, but were trying to prevent anyone from figuring out how they work."

Last year, Microsoft acquired PlaceWare, folding it into its LiveMeeting video conference offering. The market is still relatively evenly divided between WebEx and LiveMeeting, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times "However, Microsoft h...

"I think it is clear that this was largely politically motivated at the time. I mean, honestly, when has Congress really cared that much about the privacy of reporters? It isn't that they shouldn't, it's that they don't," Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times...

The immediate uses for this application are in mobile and phone search, Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group told the E-Commerce Times. "Those are the low hanging fruit." Now dominated by cellular network providers -- at US$1 per call -- cell phone search would likely prove very l...

"Built into the Windows model is a lot of money for support services and marketing and the product is a pass-through. In other words, the market accepts the (US)$100 over the hardware cost that Microsoft charges," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told LinuxInsider. "Linux is priced at cost and doesn't generate these funds and the services are vastly more limited ... so the OEM has to make up the gap, which comes out of its margin."

The chips, which use 12.5 watts of power for each of the four processing engines, are a significant advancement, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld, because they "provide more performance and use less power doing it "In effect, they are one...

Don't you get a sense that we are on the edge of some big changes? Whether it is the PC market, the consumer electronics market, the server market -- anyone notice Sun is actually getting stronger? -- the network market, or the world in general, we seem to be seeing a lot of change all of a sudden. Clearly, we can't talk about all of that this week, but we can chat about a few things...

"The core problem is accountability and quality control. The fact they didn't even do a background check when they hired [Jordan] suggests severe quality problems," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told LinuxInsider "I think this points to an ...

With "Home" and "LittleBigPlanet," Sony has chosen to go a different route than its competitors, Microsoft and Nintendo. Rather than offering a straightforward online community with an attached marketplace, the console maker is attempting to live up to its cutting-edge technology reputation, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld...

"There are strong arguments on both sides, and it will depend how things play out," agreed Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Google is being a wee bit arrogant. I have no argument that it may increase sales and produce a better result" than Microsoft's approach, Enderle told the E-Commerce Times, "but Google is trampling a lot of rights to get there."

Though Microsoft apparently is dedicating substantial resources to compete with Google, "I'm not sure it is a technology problem they need to overcome," said Rob Enderle, a principal analyst with the Enderle Group "Google is entrenched in the space, and it's hard to remove an ...

"Xbox Live is one of the sustaining parts of the Xbox experience," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "Those that sign up and use it are more likely to remain wedded to the product and support the ecosystem. ... Programming has been relatively light for this product -- particularly due to the lack of HD programming being released for download -- so every little bit helps."

There are two guilty pleasures I've developed of late ...

Dell must work hard to right itself in a tough, competitive environment where HP appears to have found some of the same secret sauce that enabled Dell to sell its PCs at lower price points, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times "Based on the tre...

"We clearly are at a premanufacturing phase, and that means they may not be able to find a way to mass produce this," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "But creating very small processors that don't leak, which has been a major problem with small processors, is critical for allowing the continued advancement of microprocessors, which are starting to reach size limitations. This is core to Moore's law and this law is what still drives much of the technology segment."

"The folks that are complaining about Microsoft's cooperation -- including IBM -- don't really want cooperation," agreed Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group. "Their goal is to cripple Microsoft, and they're probably not going to be happy until Microsoft goes under. Microsoft is in a bad position -- almost an impossible position to get out of."

"Two things to remember are they got caught, and not everyone is going to get caught," Rob Enderle, a principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "In every likelihood, there's more code out there that tracks where you go -- installed in everything from key loggers to tracking software."

Many online game players spend a lot of time in the virtual world -- buying and selling items and creating a strong economic component to what for many is much more than a game, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "It is the place to go to s...