Search Results

Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times that the market dynamics are changing. Sure, he said, Microsoft will make a major impact on the antivirus market once its product is through beta testing and is officially launched In the meantime,...

The Insane World of Home Electronics 2: Media DistributionLast week we chatted about home automation. This week we move on to home media distribution ...

First, when users play games online, carriers receive the per minute charges. "There are some cases where users get hooked on a particular game, play it repeatedly, and are surprised when the month's cell phone bill arrives," said Rob Enderle, chief analyst at the Enderle Group...

As a guest of AMD, I went to Indianapolis to watch the top Ferrari team once again whomp the other nine teams in what remains one of the most expensive sports in the world. This racing team has been winning for so long and is so dominant in this sport that I often wonder why anyone watches these races anymore. The outcome often seems preordained ...

Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld this is a big win for Microsoft in its battle against Linux Ever since the Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation (IIA) report titled "PC Management Best Practices: A Study of the Total Cost o...

I'm a home automation nut. When I moved into my home a friend and I spent a week and $2,000 replacing all of the wall switches and many of the plugs with remote switches. I can now turn on and off my lights and sprinklers from my bed. (The latter is a handy anti-barking tool: Wet dogs bark less.) ...

Enderle Group analyst Rob Enderle said Microsoft has traditionally not liked to let its innovations and advances leak out before it releases software upgrades, especially in the case of a release as major as Longhorn is expected to be Improvements to the browser are likely alr...

"What really irks them is that they believe a lot of the stuff that allows Linux to interoperate with Windows is their own intellectual property. Whether it's true or not is another question," TechNewsWorld columnist and IT analyst Rob Enderle said "The problem they're up agai...

Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told LinuxInsider that Microsoft is using a strategy similar to its NetWare play, providing a way for its products to co-exist with other vendor's products and then using that as a way to migrate folks from those other products to its own over time...

Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times that India is a great location for very talented, relatively low-cost labor "What Microsoft, as well as a number of other countries, have discovered is having localized resources in a particular geo...

The two major initiatives in the consumer market this year have to do with digital media, and they are from Microsoft and Apple. Microsoft's is the broad Media Center Edition that encompasses the home and provides your music on a variety of products, while Apple's is more targeted at just PCs (both Apple and Windows) and the iPod. The two companies overlap in only one area -- the Windows PC -- and even here they differ in approach. Apple is mostly music (although it just added still images to the iPod) and Microsoft has consistently pushed the envelope with music, pictures and video...

Analyst and TechNewsWorld columnist Rob Enderle said that Dell and Intel have danced this dance before, only this time the tune has changed "Historically Dell has done this because they aren't getting the response they want from Intel and then Intel steps up and Dell doesn't m...

Enderle Group analyst Rob Enderle said one lesson of the Netscape turnaround is that Microsoft is capable of pouring as much time, talent and money into a sector as necessary to make itself a player "The track record of coming from behind is there," he said. Other companies th...

"They have done a great job of reducing their exposure and the risk involved with having these cases go to trial," Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle said. "But each time they settle a case, it's also a reminder of how many more are still out there." Recent settlement...

Last week I wrote about three companies that had either followed an Apple-like strategy (Gateway), utilized ex-Apple employees (OQO), or executed on a founding Apple principle (AMD/Microsoft) ...

The timing of the two events underscores the work that lies ahead for Microsoft in the security space, analyst Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group said "It must get frustrating for them to move what seems like one step forward and one step back," he said. "The good news is that t...

Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, said Microsoft's ability to bring different companies together behind the media center PC has been key to advancing the digital home movement. He noted that Dell, Hewlett-Packard and others all make competing media center machines...

Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle said the level of e-voting will likely approach 80 percent by the next presidential election "The concerns were largely unfounded, which should speed up the adoption of this technology," Enderle said. "Remember, ATM's and online bank...

There are many "what if" stories surrounding Apple, and one of them is this: What if, when Microsoft asked Apple to license its OS, Apple had done so, becoming the core technology in Windows instead of a closed platform ...

When I first started college I bought a calculator. It was from Radio Shack, and it was hand-held, did basic math functions, had an LED display and cost, if you adjust for inflation, about what a laptop computer costs today. There are pre-kindergarten children today using technology that is vastly more advanced then what I had access to, and the pace is still accelerating...