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"Google's latest financials showcase that their massive number of moonshot products are starting to dramatically hurt their financial performance," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "You'd think they'd bring on board a function that could bring products to market, not another moonshot or incubation function."

"As we move farther and farther from traditional PBXs and wired phone lines to VoIP services, many of which are either very cheap or free, telecom companies are going to lose this revenue," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "They've had plenty of warnin...

The Chinese government may have been looking to send a message to any company that stands up to its censorship policies, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "China doesn't have an anti-Apple agenda, but there are a lot of books and films they don't want th...

Every time the "PC is dead" topic comes up, an old Monty Python movie comes to mind, and I'll bet you can guess which one. PCs are on almost every desk, and the installed base is measured not in the hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands -- it is measured in the hundred millions. ...

Gurley has sounded the alarm about a potential dot-com bubble with pre-IPO -- not post -- implications, observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group One result is that he's become enmeshed in a bit of a social media war with Marc Andreessen, who has dismissed G...

"Building in a VPN isn't a bad idea, but most users don't know what to do with a VPN," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group For that reason, the new feature isn't likely to be something that will enhance Opera's place in the browser standings....

Red Hat is "considered the best hardware-independent enterprise Linux platform," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group It plays best with companies using generic hardware or those that pit hardware vendors against each other, so "they often have one of the ...

"Basically, all of the innovation for this new notebook came from Intel, not Apple," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group The Skylake processor "is Intel's strongest effort to get their arms around the need to blend performance and mobility," he told Tech...

If Google were to promote books it has digitized and use excerpts to introduce readers to authors and get them to buy their books, Google Books "could actually become a powerful book-selling tool," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group When someone buys ...

Two interesting events took place this month. Tesla announced its Model 3, a relatively affordable electric car, and it attracted around 180K preorders on the same day. That was before the company actually revealed the car. There were more than 250K preorders in the first 36 hours. Oh, and the run rate is about 1,500 per hour of preorders for this car right now. ...

"From a macro perspective, it's incredibly stupid" to work with the gray hats, argued Rob Enderle principal analyst at the Enderle Group "It's in line with negotiating with terrorists or kidnappers," he told the E-Commerce Times. "The larger outcome is generally worse than the...

"I'm not sure they hit the right mix here," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group The ePaper products typically have been toward the bottom of the price range -- not toward the top, he pointed out.

"There's clearly a willingness to take the risk of getting caught in China," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "There are simply too many connections between the West and the East for a strategy like this to work." Beijing's best strategy would have be...

Despite the ambitious plans, it may prove difficult for Facebook to get a large number of customers to switch from their existing messaging habits, suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "This is where Facebook's lack of marketing skills will likely hu...

Marketo is "way aggressive in terms of the timeline," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "To get where they say companies will be by 2020, we have to be much further than we already are. The direction is correct, but the timing's off by an order of mag...

"What Brave intends to do is technically theft, but the laws, as they currently exist, don't clearly make that same determination, and Google has clearly been getting away with very similar behavior," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "However, Brave...

At Nvidia's GTC, GPU Technology Conference last week, I saw a variety of new technologies showcased. From deep learning systems -- computers that arguably are smarter than we are -- to self-driving cars that can drive better than we can, the technological advances on display made me feel just a tad inadequate. ...

As a legacy Internet search and content provider, Yahoo has developed a recognized brand name and does generate revenue, observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. The firm also has managed to keep a large number of loyal customers for several of its Web b...

Still, the browser "is a 1.0 product suitable for folks who are willing to take some risk," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "I expect the 2.0 version will be far more mature and acceptable to more users," he told TechNewsWorld....

Facebook's technology "layers on top of a massive self-learning AI capability that has been advancing incredibly quickly," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "For instance, this week Nvidia announced a massively improved AI processor and AI server to specifically do work like this and make this kind of capability possible."