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This summer has been amazing, and there isn't any letup. I was convinced last week that I'd be able to focus on some of the longer-term issues rather than big new news this week. Clearly that wasn't the case, and I had more to choose from than I have room to discuss. As a result, I'm picking two of the most interesting topics -- so I can leave room for specific product recommendations for back to school, as promised, at the end...

However, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle spoke with Microsoft product managers personally on Friday to clear up the matter. Microsoft told Enderle that Riley's comments were off the mark "There are DVD capabilities built into the system, but there was never a plan ...

Last week had its share of crazy news in what has become a very interesting period for the PC business. You only have to go to the Web to see the warning signs of an apocalyptic event, like spoofing on Apple and Intel, Microsoft and Lawrence Lessig launching a new open copyright tool together, and an Apple user going public about Apple problems and living to tell about it...

Last week was disappointing. I was expecting, as were others, much more out of Apple at its developer's conference, where the subtext was that with Steve Jobs not looking so well and with a lot of executives in his age group stepping down, is it time to imagine an Apple without him? ...

Now that it has cooled off in California, or at least it had until my wife saw our power bill for the month of July, it seems like it might be a good time to talk conservation, and touch on some of the technologies that can be used to reduce our use of fossil fuels as well as keep our power bills from resembling the national debt ...

Last week was one to write home about, particularly between AMD and Intel. The AMD folks effectively created a distraction during Intel's biggest launch since the original Pentium 13 years ago -- and Intel actually helped them do it. In addition, Microsoft met with a broad cross section of analysts and signaled that it is preparing for war, with Apple's iPod and Research in Motion's (Nasdaq: RIMM) BlackBerry as targets...

"Against IBM, HP is weak on software and services. They are taking the market lead, in terms of revenue, from IBM this year, and they want to sustain that lead," said Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle "HP, by all accounts, is now running well enough that they can foc...

"This fundamentally changes the dynamic in the PC processor space," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with The Enderle Group. "It is now clearly a platform battle going forward. This may very well mean that processor performance alone will be meaningless going forward, and it probably has been meaningless for some time."

This is becoming an interesting summer. As we cook under the effects of "mythical" global warming, tech vendors have been busy getting ready for the second half of the year ...

Of all the weeks for me to pick to take a vacation, last week was probably the worst. There was so much going on that my "vacation" became busier than a normal work week ...

"No matter how many resources and employees and money a company has, at some point all the legal issues start to become a distraction," said Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle. That, he added, is why Microsoft has spent billions settling private and state-level antitrust suits and other actions, such as patent disputes. "Given the competitive issues it faces, Microsoft needs to stay focused."

Microsoft traditionally has been leery of the device market. Xbox is the one successful exception. If Microsoft hopes to compete with iPod, it would require a full line of products, an enhanced media player and a back-end device for content, said Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle...

"Some of the subscription services, in the way that they allow you to manage large libraries, are a much better experience than if you tried to download and manage the stuff illegally," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group in San Jose, Calif., told the E-Commerce Times...

Two weeks ago CNBC asked me to cover problems that blogs pose for companies. To prepare I read official and unofficial blogs from a number of firms, and I found them fascinating reading. Google employees, for example, seem to be as outspoken about their management's lack of capability as anyone else on the blogs they contribute to ...

"Office has been in pretty good shape for a while now. There is nothing going on with it, other than compatibility work. Office has adjusted its delivery schedule to better match Vista," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told TechNewsWorld "People are not going to ge...

Last week, I attended the Dell advisory council meeting and the week before, a similar Hewlett-Packard event. These gave me a chance to look at how both companies are approaching similar problems and to observe that both are demonstrating improving capabilities ...

Microsoft may have no plans to cut the price of its next generation gaming console this year, but it's just a matter of time before the software giant relents, according to Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle "The fact of the matter is that as the game system ages it w...

Last week Hewlett-Packard, which is expected to pass IBM as the largest high-tech company in the world this year, put its new CEO on stage, and much of the behind-the-scenes discussion was on why Mark Hurd has been successful while predecessor Carly Fiorina crashed and burned ...

"Given his stature in the company -- in effect, he was in line to be the CEO one day -- whatever happened must have been significant," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times "Anyone can make a mistake, and my sense is, right now, given the Vista ...

"The way to run after Apple is not to compete with them where they're strongest, but where they're weakest, and through something people already use and which could be used for music," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group in San Jose, Calif., told TechNewsWorld. "The most likely device for that is the cell phone."