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By not counting photos and links, Twitter will make it less cumbersome for users to post photos with their tweets, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. The tools used to shorten links often break anyway, creating more difficulty in generating traffic "Remo...

The phones are "affordable, good looking and provide a lot of value for the dollar," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, but "you can't actually buy them here yet." That could cost Motorola some ground, because competitors "could slip underneath this with...

Even if Facebook absolutely was unbiased, "folks who disagree with something on, or left off, of Facebook would conclude it's biased," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Arguing that Facebook is a business and therefore can't afford to antagonize governme...

Older people are more likely to refrain from going online, as they "tend to be far more concerned with this kind of thing than younger users," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group That said, "one large breach might scare a massive number of people off t...

Smartphones appear to be losing their luster, and the king of smartphones -- Apple -- clearly is not having a good year. Suddenly, I'm hearing that there is an upswing in flip phones, making this feel a bit like a Game of Thrones episode, when a believed-dead king returns to seize the throne by surprise. (We are still talking small numbers, so you Apple folks don't have to jump out of windows yet.) ...

Although the rumor seems credible, it's not likely that Google is going to raise the bar with the introduction of an Echo competitor, maintained Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "They really haven't been all that successful with new products, so I doubt [Ama...

Microsoft's Edge browser might seem to be the appropriate target since it's integrated into Windows 10, but "Chrome, as a non-OS-supplied browser, like Opera, is the natural target," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Chrome "is far easier to displace, li...

"Speech doesn't scale well," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "It works fine if you're sitting in an office by yourself -- but imagine a bunch of people in cubicles all trying to use speech at once," he told TechNewsWorld....

"But they weren't invited to happy hour! How humiliating," Al Le commented."There are analogs at other businesses where there can be an excessive use of temp workers to fill roles critical to a project with skills undervalued by the executive management of the firm," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group...

"The carriers are saying that maintaining a base of unique software features is more important than the consumer's safety and security," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "This shouldn't be an either/or problem, but since they make it that, safety and se...

Interacting with IBM's quantum system "should be far cheaper and easier than having to buy and provision your own hardware, with far less risk of obsolescence," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group In the Driver's Seat...

The existing array of digital assistants is a prelude to a world of digital robots or bots. "They're the first step toward having digital servants in our lives that are somewhat intelligent," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Interaction with those ser...

I spent last week at EMC World -- the last EMC World, by the way -- talking to customers and both Dell and EMC employees, on the lookout for interesting stories that others hadn't picked up. I got a bunch that I think are fascinating -- stories about women in technology, billions of dollars of currently untapped revenue, and why every EMC and Dell sales rep effectively will have a dartboard with Meg Whitman's picture on it. ...

Along with patient portals for family and physicians, health monitoring and alerting systems have been mainstays in homes refitted to keep elderly family members in place, observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group PERS, or personal emergency response systems...

SQL Server 2016 will let users host Microsoft's Azure cloud locally "so it will also run on premises on a local Azure instance," pointed out Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "This may be one of the strongest hybrid solutions we've seen so far, given the near...

"These are solid improvements, but they don't address the core problem -- that the platform is considered to be crippled," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "This is like taking a Smart car, which is largely seen as crippled, and wrapping it with gol...

One of the frustrating things for me during Steve Jobs' time was that most of the folks who watched Apple go from nearly dead to the most valuable company in the world didn't seem to see anything really unusual. It was more like they were watching a great tennis player win match after match and seemingly concluding, "damn, what luck!" ...

However, Cortana "is an AI interface to search, integrated as a feature in both Windows 10 and in Bing," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "It's basically a voice interface into Microsoft's search technology," he told TechNewsWorld, "and getting it to i...

The announcement of a new board structure is the first step toward necessary changes among the top management, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "One of Yahoo's problems is a board that really didn't understand Yahoo's business or could execute well on a...

"The idea is a good one, the execution less so," suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "What makes the Echo, Dot and even Tap good is that they are very easy to set up and use, and they are relatively attractive," he told TechNewsWorld....