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Apple’s Futuristic Flying Saucer HQ Already Out of Date

In Silicon Valley where Apple is located, burglaries are up more than 30 percent, largely because police havestopped responding to them. If you are reasonably well off, particularly if you are Asian, and you likenice stuff, the chance you'll get burglarized near Apple's new headquarters is approaching 50 percent odds. If things continue, it will be virtually certain by the end of the decade.

Twitter Wants to Keep Devs’ Hands Out of the Cookie Jar

"I think they don't want a Facebook problem," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "They want to control the experience. They want to make sure they are getting advertising credit, and they don't want to be cherry picked." Twitter doesn't want third-party...

Fin Failure Spells Doom for Hypersonic Jet Test

"Every one of these things is hand-built," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "They're very complex, and they're going so incredibly fast that any kind of a minor error could result in catastrophic problems." "One of my favorite quotes fro...

Twitter Founders Debut 2 New Channels for Speaking Up Online

"Both projects are attempting to take something that exists and improve it into something unique," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group The Obvious Corporation did not respond to our request for further details.

Microsoft Reveals Windows RT Who’s-Who and What’s-What

On the other hand, Acer, which recently criticized Microsoft for working on its own Surface tablets, "is one of the firms that isn't happy and they also don't like early announcements either, either of which could have kept them off the list," speculated Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "I think this was a decision by Acer, not Microsoft."

OPINION

The Windows 8 Generation Gap: Size Matters

I was reading James Kendrick's column on Windows 8 tablets over on ZDNet last week, and he is clearly having trouble adapting to what is becoming a tablet world. James and I came from the first age of personal computers. I'm pretty sure he's younger than I am, and I think he is showcasing what will be a problem for many of us who grew up on PCs. Bigger is better, and tablets aren't bigger. [*Correction - Aug. 13, 2012] ...

Lenovo’s Thinkpad 2: Microsoft’s Nightmare – or Dream?

Lenovo "is one of the first to realize that they need to kill the Surface effort or they'll be out of the PC business," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "They have really upped their game with this tablet, and it will give Surface a run for the money."

Are RIM and Samsung Ready to Do the Deed?

On the other hand, Samsung's litigation with Apple "is getting old, and RIM has the largest defensible mobile intellectual property portfolio that may be available," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group www.enderlegroup.com, pointed out Apple and Samsung are loc...

Acer’s Anger Rises to the Surface

"Most of the initial tablet designs from the OEMs didn't appear competitive with the iPad, so Microsoft felt they had to step out and create a halo product or lose the market," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "The OEMs ... are getting beaten up in the ...

ARM Reaches Out With Muscular 2nd-Gen GPUs

"GPU technology typically moves faster than CPU technology," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld About the Sons of Mali...

‘Hack’ Attack on Journo Was Just a Simple Engineering Feat

"Actually social engineering -- phishing or pretexting -- preceded technology and remains the easiest way to get through most security systems, physical or electronic," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group. "It is well past time we should have fixed this."

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How Twitter Could Trigger a US Revolution

We watch citizens overthrow governments and assume the same thing couldn't happen here. But we have had one big civil war in the U.S., and several states -- including California, where I live --have been talking about getting out of the U.S. for decades. What appears to keep us together isn'tthe political structure; I think you could argue the USSR's was actually stronger, and it fell. It is theappearance that the government is representative. What if a majority, or even a massive minority,believed it wasn't -- much like what happened in the Civil War?...

Microsoft’s Not Stuck on ‘Metro’

"'Metro' is the code name for the user interface in Windows 8. 'Aero' was -- and remains -- the code name for the prior interface," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group. "Code names aren't product names; typically, though, Apple actually brands their dif...

AT&T Snatches More Spectrum With NextWave Buy

With smartphone and tablet use on the rise, demand for fast and reliable Internet connectivity is growing at a pace that wireless providers have a difficult time matching, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. If AT&T and Sirius' proposal can make the WCS waves available for increased wireless mobility, it's certainly worth the effort to fix the technical problems, he said...

AT&T Snatches More Spectrum With NextWave Buy

With smartphone and tablet use on the rise, demand for fast and reliable Internet connectivity is growing at a pace that wireless providers have a difficult time matching, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. If AT&T and Sirius' proposal can make the WCS waves available for increased wireless mobility, it's certainly worth the effort to fix the technical problems, he said...

Twindex Tracks Pols’ Twitter Temperatures

"This will be more of a real-time measure and may accurately showcase whether a candidate is waning or surging much more quickly than more traditional firms," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Cutting Through the Political Dirt and Grime...

SAP Lets Enterprises See What Customers Really Feel – in Real Time

It "is a real time analytics package that's all about providing information from massive datasets at near-instant speeds," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told CRM Buyer. "Its biggest advantage is likely performance." About SAP's Ubermarketing Solution...

FCC Pushes Verizon to Allow Tethering at No Extra Charge

"It is unusual to apply a rule like this to only one company, so I expect efforts to drive the other carriers in the same direction will now commence," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group. "From a competitive standpoint, if played right, Verizon could ge...

Microsoft Ices Hotmail, Warms Up Outlook.com

People "don't like to switch interfaces," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "This move better protects Hotmail, Outlook and Exchange and makes them a more powerful, cohesive set." Outlook.com's Features...

DeepField Maps the Intricacies of the Cloud

"If you can accurately map and attribute traffic by type and volume, you can identify bottlenecks, often locate spreading viruses, locate entities that are abusing or stressing the network, and then optimize the result for performance and cost," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group.

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