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I'm not asking the question, "Could Apple follow?" because the amount of cash that would need to be raised would be mind-boggling. Most thought that taking Dell private was impossible, and once you get past "impossible," degree doesn't make that much difference. ...

"The Surface Pro has full-on Windows 8 with all the bells and whistles, but it's still a Surface tablet with an Intel core processor," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "It's heavier than the RT and the battery life is only 4-5 hours," End...

That emphasis on going as local as possible is what helped Yelp thrive when it launched, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group. Its heavyweight competition, however, is also growing "Going local was really their forte, and being able to offer close-proximity inf...

"I think what's happening is the president's setting up to move unilaterally in case he sees a pending threat," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "In a cyberthreat, the nature of the attack is it will happen when you see it, and he wants to be able to shut down the attacking nation, which would involve a preemptive strike. Given the case that governments are likely to be involved in these attacks, it's likely our government is looking at cyberdetente."

"HP had their own OS when they bought Palm, so why didn't they do something with webOS?" asked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "It seems kind of silly to go with an inferior OS. Free is great, but they already had one they paid for, so the move seems kind of foolish."

What folks who haven't read any of the early Steve Jobs biographies don't know is that Steve Jobs -- atleast, the way he was seen in public -- wasn't any more real than Ronald McDonald. ...

"Sony just released a new special edition PS3, so if this is a PS4 announcement it is horribly timed because the announcement will kill the special edition," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group However, Sony had continued to support the original PlayStatio...

Apple is still doing relatively well, but its valuation is falling like a rock, while Nokia and RIM areascending from catastrophically low levels. Yet judging from Twitter feeds and relevant articles, it appears the people who disbelieve that Apple can fall are matched by those who can't believe RIM and Nokia will recover ...

However, the laws of a country supersede the private rules of a company only if the company is physically in that country, contended Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. With the Internet, "things become fuzzy," he said, because a company may not have a physi...

Marketing toward corporations is the direction the company has long been taking, observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, even if it's at the expense of consumer-based operations. "Enterprise is the direction it's been headed since the first part of the last ...

"[This is] incredibly durable tagging for living things -- tagging that could transcend generations," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "The most obvious use would be to record rights into genetically created plants and animals to preserve rights and prevent illegal cloning/copies."

Part of the fun after CES is to weave the various announcements and showcases together to get a view of a future that might result from a blend of them. The goal, if you can call it that, is like imagining the cars of the 1950s and '60s, but from a 1920s perspective with then-recent developments such as compact hydraulic pumps and air conditioners in the forefront.

"Nokia's old advantage was they were the one company that seemed to get that folks didn't want to have identical phones and theirs were designed to have their appearance changed by users," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "This would be particularly important if you were competing against a one-size/look-fits-all strategy like Apple has."

"Most are decades out of date," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. Extending Jabber would be a way to address integrated thin client communications with a solution that's compliance-friendly, he told TechNewsWorld.

"Windows 8 had a nasty problem. Most of the hardware that was to have launched with 8 was delayed until this quarter because of a severe shortage of touchscreen displays," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. There's been "a lot of finger pointing as to w...

While the announcements at CES tend to eclipse everything else at the show, including the prior announcements, often the bigger events are going on behind the scenes. This year, Nvidia, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and a bunch of Chinese companies you've never heard about -- and one you have -- were far more interesting than the headliners. ...

"Samsung and other companies have been showing flexible screens for over a decade in one form or another, but getting them to volume has been problematic," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, commented "The difficulty isn't making the screen work, it's making ...

Given that national WiFi expansion is a presidential priority, the FCC is likely going to do all it can to free up the spectrum, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. The one agency that might be able to put a wrench in the FCC's plan, however, would be the Department of Defense...

Apple may well have primed the pump for companies like Pebble, suggested Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group. A market arose for iPod nano wrist holders, although Apple killed it with its recent nano redesign, he pointed out.

"Nvidia kicked a lot of butt in their CES opener," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, remarked About the Tegra 4...