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The company also launched to much hype, with just a single customer on board, noted Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle. The result of the high-profile launch was little marketplace traction It did, however, prompt Intel to put "a massive amount of resources into creat...

Winter slowly drifted into Silicon Valley last week. In the aftermath of what appeared to many of us to be a largely politically motivated "scandal" surrounding HP, not only was HP's business largely unaffected but federal laws regarding the practice of pretexting were left in limbo ...

Enderle Group Principal analyst Rob Enderle claimed that's because observers seem to have been able to keep the scandal in perspective -- and noted that viewed alongside political scandals in Washington, D.C., it pales in comparison "The HP folks were motivated to stop a probl...

I visited two of the greatest cities in the United States last week. First, I was in San Francisco where Intel made a credible attempt to show that it intends to stay the market leader despite anything rival AMD has done. Then I went to New York to talk to folks about Hewlett-Packard's congressional hearings and to attend one of the most impressive HP product launches that firm has had in awhile...

A major brake on the spread of WiFi in consumer electronics devices was content, noted Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group "The ability to deliver content to devices has existed for awhile," Enderle told TechNewsWorld, "but the problem has been co...

Zune, though, offers something no other player has yet tried: wireless media sharing. That capability could turn heads, according to Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle. "Kids love to share music. They also love to discover new music. This does make the Zune platform unique," he told TechNewsWorld...

The scandal has had some unintentional but positive side effects for HP -- elevating Hurd to the Chairman post, for instance, and doing an almost complete make-over of the company's board of directors, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle said "The scandal has to be ver...

As we move into fall and approach the Intel Developer Forum this week, things show no sign of slowing down. Last week AMD fired an early volley at Intel by broadening an initiative designed to unite the entire slate of remaining non-Intel chip companies, making me wonder, had this happened earlier would Apple have made its Intel move? ...

"Hurd is driving HP's turnaround, so for him to be pulled into this mess is not good news for the company," said Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle. If nothing else, Hurd's credibility with Wall Street and with employees could be damaged, he added Dunn stepped down, H...

The AOL hook-up could be key, Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle said, because both Intel's Viiv and AMD's answer to it, known as Live, are bound to "live or die on content." A lack of true custom content for the Media Center PC has helped keep that Microsoft-based ef...

Last week we saw the two big guys go at it: First Apple showed off product updates for the iPod and iTunes, and then Microsoft had the coming-out party for Zune -- its so-called iPod killer ...

"This is a market that buys small and sexy devices and the Zune is neither small nor sexy," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told TechNewsWorld. "We know that people get iTunes through the iPod. They don't get the iPod because they love iTunes. While the Zune music service is arguably better than iTunes on a number of vectors, if folks buy [such services] because they like the player better, then the Zune player is not up to that standard."

The scandal may have roots that go back a couple years, but the immediate results may be a new board, one that Hurd can put his own personal stamp on, and one that no longer includes members who opposed the Compaq merger, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle said. Fiorina saw through the merger to the end, even though it may have helped hasten her exit...

Last week, HP launched an impressive array of new products -- but few noticed, because the news once again surrounded events that happened when their ex-CEO was still there, screwing up the company ...

"The difficulty of the stigma that surrounds Itanium is that of old iron. It never reached the breakout potential that it once had," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told TechNewsWorld. "Itanium was to be the future of Intel. Clearly Intel is now on a different track. When Dell exited, it wasn't a good sign."

It's "hard to tell" how far back the internal dispute may stretch, and whether it encompasses the Compaq merger or the ousting of Fiorina, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle said "What we can determine is that this appears to be a breach of trust with the departing bo...

"Unlike an Apple product where you don't get a chance to see it in all its glory until it reaches its final form, Microsoft has to give all sorts of warnings to its corporate customers, so we miss out on the surprise part," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told TechNewsWorld. "The surprise will have to come with the hardware when it shows up in the first quarter of next year."

Summer is the time to relax, take in the weather and drink a Mint Julep ... right? Someone should tattoo this information on the heads of a number of executives I know because this summer has been anything but relaxing and I still haven't even seen a Mint Julep ...

"Microsoft wants to put this chapter in its history behind it, as evidenced by the massive payouts it's made to settle private antitrust suits," said Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle While regulators and courts in the U.S. seem satisfied that Microsoft is making pro...

"The InterVideo acquisition further builds out Corel's content creation line with one of the strongest codecs and DVD playback engines on the market. InterVideo is the most visible brand in the segment. It competes with Cybermedia, which offers a lower cost alternative. InterVideo has the visibility, marketing muscle and the products that sell aggressively on retail," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times...