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Investors seem to have confidence in Chime's business model because "it's very clean with extremely low overhead," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Chime also appears to be where other banks need to go, and investors tend to invest in the future,...

The most popular show on ABC was canceled last week because the star of the show, Roseanne Barr -- known for saying and writing stuff that would get most of us fired -- did exactly what she was known for doing and got fired. ABC now looks like it is run by idiots because, really, who didn't see this coming? ...

"Apple has built one hell of a speaker, but it's for a market that wants one hell of a digital assistant," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Siri-ously Challenged...

I got a view of the future when I visited HP's Innovation Center in Barcelona, Spain, last week. The company has made some aggressive moves to blend its printing and imaging technologies to create products that will redefine our near-term future. ...

Google "has a reputation of taking excessive risks with people's data," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. However, Google Cloud does not have access to the data users bring to it, Google's Corkery pointed out. That data "is contro...

"Offerings that are more enterprise-focused -- like Microsoft Azure, IBM SoftLayer and Dell Virtustream -- should have a significant advantage because of their higher focus on security," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group On the other hand, smaller co...

Cisco has reduced the poaching of endangered rhinos in Africa by a whopping 96 percent. This success comes at a time when kids appear to be increasingly at risk from rogue school shooters and the United States government seems deadlocked on gun control. ...

"Particularly as we move to technologies like virtual reality, gaming can be one of the few ways a disabled person can step away from their disabilities, depending on what they are," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "For instance, someone without legs o...

"The expectation was that they would likely shift the offering's iPad-focused products to Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor to be more in line with their Always Connected PC efforts," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "However, I was expecting this to hap...

I've become convinced that too many of us don't prioritize our employment choices properly. What recently drew my attention to this was a conversation I had with Dell's CFO Tom Sweet at Dell Technology World. We were chatting about Dell's problem attracting employees. Because Dell is a private company, few employees get stock or stock options -- they get cash instead. It seems that has put Dell at a disadvantage when competing for top folks. ...

Spotify "is more aggressively deciding what to promote, and have clearly decided they will not promote artists they believe behave badly," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. Crackdown on R. Kelly...

"Google is making the product far more user-friendly and directly addressing at least some of the problems associated with smartphone addiction," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group That strikes a contrast with Android's chief competitor, iOS.

I recently attended Dell Technology World in Las Vegas, which shone a light on one of Michael Dell's passions: addressing the lack of gender diversity in the tech industry. Some time back he asked the most powerful woman at Dell, Chief Customer OfficerKaren Quintos, to spearhead an effort to fix the problem. ...

"The Fedora Project is one of the most important validation platforms for Red Hat Linux," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "The modularity of the effort makes it uniquely capable of providing the right capability needed for the specific purpose throug...

I'm not making a prediction here -- I'm pondering a possibility. I spent a day with BlackBerry last week and it brought back memories of how Apple displaced the company around a decade ago. I, like a lot of folks at the time, thought what Apple was attempting was impossible. However, after the fact, it didn't even look difficult. ...

"Often the most successful salespeople are those that have assistants that help them dot the i's and cross the t's," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Typically, only the highest-performing sales reps get these, thus creating a cart/horse problem," ...

What we do about fake news today could have a major impact on our future. Two new initiatives -- a concerted effort by Apple and a massive educational effort called the "Pro-Truth Pledge" -- could help eliminate much of the fake news BS that is really messing up the United States at the moment. ...

After reading Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony, and viewing some video clips of his appearances before Senate and House committee hearings last week, it became very clear to me -- and I expect many in Congress (these were unprecedented events, and it's an election year) -- that social media companies need to be regulated. ...

"Mozilla is trying to stand out as an organization with the user's best interests at heart," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "This is well-timed, given that the issues Facebook has with data collection -- and Cambridge Analytica -- likely have people c...

Intel "can deliver on CPU functionality, which has dropped in performance, but still lags on GPUs and modems," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Much of the performance these days is gated by the modem and the GPU, not the CPU, which just isn't as imp...