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"The one thing that works well for Adobe is the fact that they've got the best Web authoring tools out there, period," Jim McGregor, a research director at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld Flash has critical mass, so "it's not going to go down overnight, although we're definitely i...

"Google needs the support of handset OEMs, wireless carriers, the financial institutions and the physical infrastructure at the store point of purchase, which is the most significant hurdle," Jim McGregor, a research director at In-Stat, told the E-Commerce Times Getting other...

"Social networking as a whole is still in its infancy compared to what we could possibly do with it. As this moves from being a communication tool to something more integrated in our lives, maybe combined with e-commerce, mobile devices or an augmented reality, then you can never really predict what's coming next," Jim McGregor, research director at In-Stat, told the E-Commerce Times...

"Yahoo still has brand recognition and eyes viewing it. Maybe not as many as before, but they still have eyes," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told the E-Commerce Times As for buyers, does Yahoo have the potential to be spiffed up and set right as a stan...

"Being able to run Android on TouchPads is about the only thing that will make those tablets usable at last," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told LinuxInsider. "HP was getting TouchPads returned from people who couldn't get them to run apps in the first place."

"It's so difficult to separate the consumer from the enterprise these days, especially with the consumerization of IT, that you have to pay attention to both sectors simultaneously," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told LinuxInsider Security Remains the S...

"I think that there is room for other social networking solutions, but they must be differentiated and offer something for specific segments," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. "I know many people who have stopped using Facebook because...

"This isn't like Microsoft Office or an operating system, where it makes sense to stay with an earlier version for compatibility or cost reasons," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld "You get Mozilla's software for free, and consumers shou...

"I think IBM's future lies in their current areas of strength: systems, software, and services," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told the E-Commerce Times. "However, with increasing competition, IBM must adapt to new segments of the market while continui...

"It's very possible to do this," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld. "All you have to do is create an open network using several hundred WiFi or cellular hotspots that have open access." This move builds upon the use by dissidents in sever...

"Facebook has been growing at such a rapid pace that it eventually would need to slow just because of the enormous numbers required to maintain the same level of growth," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told the E-Commerce Times. "Also, there is naturally going to be some saturation or maturity in certain markets...

"Microsoft has missed so many industry changes, you have to begin to wonder if a change in management would make a difference," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told the E-Commerce Times. "The investment in the Nokia partnership probably raised some eyebrows."

"Since Japanese companies do exceptionally well -- in terms of business -- within their own borders, I would think that a considerable amount of the data stolen was of Japanese customers," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told the E-Commerce Times. "So, t...

"The Chromebook is a twist on the thin-client model, except everything goes to Google," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld "It would be a good idea if there's unlimited bandwidth and everything's in the cloud, but we don't have unlimited b...

The future of news is the billion-dollar publishing question, according to Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat. "They may get to it from multiple paths," McGregor told the E-Commerce Times, "and as the Pew report highlights, enabling as many paths as possible...

Harvesting energy from sound could be combined with other solutions such as kinetic energy harvesting and solar panels, suggested Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat "That might be enough to recharge a handset or power a plethora of other low-power devices," M...

"Security is something our industry always has to think about, but consumers never want to," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told the E-Commerce Times Now that consumers are on high alert, Sony will have to rethink everything from a security standpoint, h...

"Well, it's taken 15 years longer than anyone expected, but it's clear that solid state storage is finally having an impact on HDDs," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told the E-Commerce Times. "Part of that is also due to the explosive growth of mobile devices. HDDs no longer satisfy every segment of the computing and CE market. The TAM is slowly shifting to the servers from the PCs."

That sharing of information will be good for companies with mega-data centers such as Facebook, Google and Yahoo, said Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat "In a lot of cases, people with very large data centers, like Yahoo, Facebook and Google, have to get cus...

"Once again, AMD's late," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld AMD views its positioning differently....