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"Their problem right now is that people are leaving Twitter because of the abuse they face, so they feel the need to address that issue," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. Twitter "needs to figure out a solution before attorneys figure out how to s...

Oracle "needs [Salesforce.com] more than Microsoft does, and already has a large investment in them, so the additional cost to Oracle would be lower," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Further, Salesforce "would make Oracle more trendy and would give th...

One of the movies I'm really looking forward to this month is Disney's Tomorrowland. My first real job was at Disneyland, and I was so in love with the place I often would come back and work a second shift for free. Epcot, the city of tomorrow, was supposed to be Walt's final legacy but his untimely death ended that vision. That city of tomorrow never came to be, except finally -- at least in concept -- in the Tomorrowland movie. ...

Edge is designed to be a Chrome killer, said Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group "I've been using Edge for some time, and one of the interesting things is that for websites that identify the browser and [tailor] what they present based on the browser they see, many see...

"Google has been looking at getting into the car business for some time, and Tesla basically borrowed the Apple model and moved it to cars," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Since Google partially copied the Apple model as well, and clearly has the fun...

These are aggressive programs designed to undercut competitors and reverse a revenue growth slide, but they will also erode margins, noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "They are apparently willing to take the margin hit in order to restore top-line grow...

Black Ops III is completely untethered from the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. That and the three-year cycle have enabled Treyarch to give the game the attention it needs, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "They want to make sure it's compelling and not a m...

The smartphone market "is ugly right now, and other than for Apple, Lenovo, ZTE and some other Chinese companies, everyone is hurting," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Going back into making smartphones "would represent an unknown risk for Nokia invest...

Microsoft is holding its Build event this week, marking the beginning of its major push to launch Windows 10. Build is in San Francisco this year, which effectively puts it right in the back yard of both Apple and Google -- a nice "in your face" move. I was the featured launch analyst for Windows 95 two decades ago and there, even though the post launch was hardly flawless, Microsoft ripped Apple a new rear orifice, wounding the company so badly that one of the founders eventually had to return to save it. ...

Virtual and augmented reality and holographic image technologies are coming at us with the speed of a freight train, and it won't be long until we'll no longer be able to distinguish between what is real and what isn't. How we are getting there is kind of interesting. There are some initiatives going on behind the scenes, as well as some breakthroughs, that shortly will make our experience of the world we are living in very different from what it is now. ...

"This is no more a problem for passengers than it likely was before," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "It is going to be a bigger problem for the 'drivers' as they could not be engaged in other activities when they're not actually driving," he told Tec...

"A weapon like this isn't naturally restricted by borders and could be used by a variety of entities to do massive amounts of damage," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "This is one of those things you really don't like to see, because the potentia...

To resonate with players, Guitar Hero Live's first-person perspective will have to feel realistic, noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. If the virtual audience's feedback addresses players' performances enough to shake or massage their egos, then it could be a winner...

"The government is so far behind the cyberthreat that it's pretty pathetic, and we might have a serious cyberevent," suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Dealing With the Threat...

I recently heard an amazing story about how an Apple shop had dumped Apple for Dell. Over most of the last two decades, the only time I've seen a move like this was when some change in IT forced it, and a lot of staffers subsequently would quit as a result. This move was largely user-driven. ...

For the venture to be successful, Lynda.com will need to retain much of its autonomy when it officially joins LinkedIn, suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Lynda.com predates LinkedIn, he pointed out. That means its culture is older, and LinkedIn will...

The hackathon "is basically a community set up to help train Watson to address some of the broad needs of NASA," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "If it takes a village to grow a child into a productive adult, it takes an AI community to properly tra...

"Given the advent of smart TVs, where cable programming and Internet programming can become equally easy to access, it is likely long past time when the rules surrounding Internet video and broadcast video, particularly with relation to children, were reconciled so that the same rules consistently protect kids," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group...

"The app thing showcases that the companies are talking and that IBM can deliver apps," said Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group "The real promise of the alliance," he told the E-Commerce Times, "will be the tools that IBM wraps Apple's systems ...

"I think this is an effort to boost their presence in marketing, which has been one of the largest pools of money for targeting analytics," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "They are mining for that marketing they've been missing." Granted, smaller CRM...