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Last week, we looked back at the largely untold (or under told) stories of 2014. This week, let's look ahead to some of the stories that are coming in 2015. ...

However, "we've left in place unsecure magnetic card readers a decade or more after we knew they weren't secure enough," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group That behavior "could limit adoption of any new, more secure technology for cards," he told Tech...

"SS7 was created before there was an Internet and was never designed to be secure in today's world," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Its security was based on the fact that no one other than carriers and some governments could access it," he told Tech...

It is time to look back at 2014, so I'll focus here on a series of stories I thought were interesting but didn't seem to catch much or any real air. Some, like what is really behind Sony's decision to pull The Interview still might take off. ...

"This is a bit of fascinating drama, and it does come down to a major difference of opinion between the MPAA, which focuses on protecting studio rights, and Google, who has always believed that all information should be free -- except the information it deems private, which it protects with vigor," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group...

"Sanctions against North Korea are already pretty strong, so making them stronger probably wouldn't have much impact," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "The risk for Sony if the U.S. reacts strongly is that North Korea releases the material Sony doesn...

The combination of physical and electronic attacks is likely to be a growing trend in 2015, predicted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "You can't address this kind of threat by just beefing up ops and security," he told TechNewsWorld. "You have to better in...

"Where there is enough need, a market will always develop, and this site was very popular," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times "When Napster went down, did that stop file-sharing?" asked Adam Kujawa, head of malware intelligence at M...

Several of the World Wide Web Foundation's conclusions reflect "a certain amount of naivet," suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst with Enderle Group. "The reason many countries don't want free access is that the sitting government doesn't want their population polluted b...

This has been an interesting quarter. After Andy Grove left, Intel often seemed to struggle with its place in the world and seemed at odds with the computing OEMs. Now, though, it seems more and more like it did when it was 20 years younger. It's not alone, either. Microsoft, which seemed to have forgotten why there were OEMs in the first place for the last 15 or 20 years, suddenly is acting much more like the firm we knew in the early 90s...

The publishers are "really hurting for revenue, and part of the problem is that people can get the content for free off the Web," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Google "focused on making the content available and in securing their own revenue but did...

NIST and the NSA "are different organizations, but it does seem counterproductive to spend millions to create security holes and thousands to figure out how to fill and prevent them," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld NSA Backdoors and Se...

Turla Trojans originate in Russia and are believed to be government-funded, remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group They "are very elegant and extremely easy to place, and incredibly difficult to discover," he told LinuxInsider. "People haven't been aggre...

Uber "has a massively high valuation and is a young and relatively inexperienced company," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. (The company last week raised US$1.2 billion in its latest round of funding based on a valuation of $40 billion.)

One element "that seemed to survive him was the concept of keeping games simple," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Angry Birds likely had Pong as a distant linear ancestor," he told TechNewsWorld.

I was at Dell's thin client briefing earlier this week at its new facility in California's Silicon Valley, and it clearly is feeling very confident, in light of HP's plan to split its company. ...

Several organizations already have begun formulating defenses for what Hawking is anticipating, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group "There are a number of folks who are very concerned that we're moving aggressively toward AI and there aren't a lot of co...

"Given how annoying CAPTCHA was, I actually think this is a step in the right direction," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Google also unveiled new CAPTCHA technology for mobile users that requires them to match a given image to a gallery...

Lenovo has been using robots in its warehouse for years, noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "It was massive ... and designed to be automated," he told the E-Commerce Times. "What we're seeing with Amazon is more of a retrofit."

"If you're buying a system as a gift, the bundle is the best way to get it," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Nothing is worse than getting a system and having nothing to play "Kids or families want to play it on Christmas Day, and a bundle typicall...