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OK, I know you are just back from Thanksgiving vacation, if you are in the U.S., and you likely are still stewing about what your drunk uncle said during dinner. So, since you probably are in the mood, I thought I'd toss out an idea that has been percolating in my brain that I plan to annoy folks with at my Thanksgiving dinner: What if Jaguar and Tesla merged? ...

I attended Demo in Silicon Valley last week and, as always, it showcased things likely to mature in the market 12 to 14 months into the future. The presenters are small companies, hand-selected because they offer something unique and forward-looking. ...

"This was a good move that both enhances Yahoo's position in the market and gives them a useful partner in Mozilla," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group It also will save Yahoo the expense of reviving its moribund search engine. It would cost too much, End...

"BitTorrent can offer this more cheaply because you supply the storage on your hardware," Rob Enderle, principal analyst with Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "This is a peer-to-peer solution, and ideal for folks that are concerned with what third parties are doing with their data and where that data is moving."

The Jolla tablet campaign "is about selling to the technology geeks," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told LinuxInsider. "This tablet promises the app support of Android but with a level of flexibility more in line with Linux ... and at a price that reduces the risk."

"It's the most advanced effort to blend social aspects with collaboration and email, and create something that companies might actually use," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times Better Privacy...

Google "has effectively killed this product, but it could be revived with a substantial marketing effort and a more finished, better priced, attractive product," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "However, they now have to dig themselves out of the hole...

"There are two Nokias now, the cellphone unit, which Microsoft bought, and the networking unit, which this [N1] announcement seems to have come out of," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. Microsoft is migrating away from the Nokia name, having just brou...

There was an announcement last week that I think is far bigger than folks realize: Nvidia announced a free Netflix-like streaming gaming service for its Shield products. I think this is a precursor to an event that is similar to what cable did to TVs years ago, and that it will change not only how we use these devices, but also what we use them for. ...

"This is mostly a messaging exercise," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "They are making it simpler to avoid misunderstandings and reduce concerns associated with confusion." Such simplification "could leave out important elements...

Nevertheless, "Musk tends to get things done, and given he has a company that has been successful launching satellites into space and he has learned to manufacture complex things in volume -- Tesla -- he has a huge advantage over Google," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group.

I was at Dell World last week, and it is kind of amazing how far the company has come since it went private. Interestingly, much of the big tent content was less about Dell's technology and more about how technology was being used to change the world. ...

"Microsoft is doing the leading work on scaling apps up and down, and changing the interface dynamically when required," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "You should see an interface that's appropriate to the screen size as a result."

"Given Facebook trends Democratic, and the Democrats' sweeping losses, it would appear Facebook's [efforts] failed badly this time," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "Sadly, this may focus the company even more tightly on manipulating use...

"Prime users are pretty big shoppers," said Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst for the Enderle Group. "Amazon wants as many Prime users as they possibly can, so it's adding incentives so everybody wants to be Prime," he told the E-Commerce Times. "When you're Prime,...

It is hard to imagine Monster overtaking LinkedIn, but it doesn't have to, said Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group. "This is not an either/or proposition. A job seeker will be active on as many sites as he or she thinks is necessary. No one wan...

Project Harmony "is about creating a collaboration platform, and connecting that platform to the tools that craft the content would seem to be a natural step," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times Why Microsoft, Dropbox Are Smoking the...

"Nearly a decade ago, HP bought Voodoo Computers to compete with Dell's Alienware unit, noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Tom Bradley, the guy running HP PCs at the time, systematically destroyed it," he told TechNewsWorld. "This product is pretty m...

"When a point release is put out, it isn't unusual for them to pull the non-patched copy," explained Rob Enderle, principal analyst with Enderle Group. "Windows 8 as a class will still remain in retail until 10 ships, but in its 8.1 version." Windows 8.1 was a comprehensive p...

Apple CEO Tim Cook has announced he is gay. Typically, when a CEO's personal life becomes a major issue, it is a bad thing. ...