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Last week was the 25th anniversary of the biggest and most critical launch in computing history. Steve Jobs was on a forced hiatus after being fired from Apple, and that platform wasn't doing well. OS/2 the supposed successor to DOS/Windows, wasn't selling well either, and DOS/Windows was way out-of-date and aging poorly. ...

"The cost of a major change like this is always very high upfront and much of what is initially done will have to be redone once the trucks, charging infrastructure and technology matures," Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Funding for EV purchase...

One of the enormous changes coming to us that has accelerated significantly of late is drone delivery, which promises to provide more speedy fulfillment of online orders. First for small items like meals or medicines, both of which are critical during the pandemic, and eventually for larger items -- and even people ...

The U.S. has a history of killing companies critical to its future. With the original Standard Oil, that company had gained too much political power, but in breaking up the company, the U.S. government gave control of the oil market to the Middle East. RCA had too much power, and when the U.S. broke up the company, it gave that consumer market to post-war Japan...

Holographic transportation is "an extension of mixed reality, a new use case if you will," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It's more a variant on telepresence." ...

2020 began a decade that I think will be defined by irony. I'll skip over the prominent political examples and jump right into social media and drill down to focus on Facebook ...

"Amazon is an e-tailer. If you can't connect to the network, you can't buy anything from them," said Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group "Think of it as a retailer opening up branch offices," he told TechNewsWorld. "In this case, though, they're...

This initiative is very significant, agreed Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group. It showcases that the LF and the OpenSSF are taking these threats seriously and stepping up sharply to deal with them. Enderle noted that given the growing number of...

Like a lot of you, last week I watched the congressional testimony from the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google -- and there were a lot of apparent things that were problematic ...

Personalization is critical for an app like Alexa mobile, maintained Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group "They should learn who you are, what you want, and to deal with the nuances in your speech," he told TechNewsWorld. "Once they learn how to de...

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 ...

I've been covering video conferencing since before we called it video conferencing. I became interested in it when I was a kid at Disneyland around 1965. ...

IBM is chasing two of the three technology areas that I think will change the world as we know it over the next two decades. Granted, we are currently experiencing a level of unprecedented change, thanks to the pandemic, and it is dramatically accelerating at least one of these efforts ...

Last week must have been car week because I was getting news releases that had Tesla last on the latest JD Power survey while the company again became the most valuable car company in the world. That report was pretty interesting because I think it spoke more to expectations than absolute initial quality, but I'll get to that ...

Some of the corporate responses to COVID-19 make me incredibly happy I don't work for a large company anymore. Some of the troubling reports from other companies include forced work in unsafe areas, not enough -- or any -- protection gear, massive layoffs and furloughs, and the sense that a critical mass of well-paid CEOs and politicians don't get that many people live paycheck to paycheck...

Twitter had a data security problem last week that might sound trivial. Email addresses, phone numbers, and the last four digits of the credit cards used to buy ads on Twitter were left in the browser cache after the transaction, and that cache was not secured ...

Cisco Live was last week, and this was their first large-scale virtual event. What made this event very different from the other games was the amount of effort they put into socially responsible projects ...

Qualcomm "is pretty reliable in their predictions," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at The Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "They're used to a smartphone cadence and this timeframe would easily fit within the 6-month smartphone window." The RB5's main selling point is that it...

I've been working from home for nearly 20 years, but being locked up at home due to the pandemic still drove me a little nuts. Several technology products have been particularly helpful while sheltering in place, making this semi-forced timeout feel less like a punishment and more like something I could endure ...

There can be substantial backlash toward a company that makes a product that says it's providing privacy but is mining information, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Oregon. "It's disingenuous, and people can lose tru...