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Ballmer Pokes Apple to Stoke Microsoft’s Fire

"A call to action is what needs to happen here," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times "Creating the belief that you can succeed can enable you to succeed," he added....

BB10 Pep Rally Fails to Lift RIM Investors’ Spirits

"The problems with RIM starts with their board," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "If the board fundamentally doesn't either see the need for, or understand how to do, a turnaround, RIM won't be successful, and its board has not made the moves consistent with a successful effort. RIM is recoverable, but there is no trend we can point to yet that suggests recovery is in its future."

The Secret Life of Sequoia

Although 84 percent of the supercomputers on the Top500 list use the less power-hungry and lower-cost Intel and AMD Opteron processors, IBM's using the PowerPC because "this is the technology IBM owns and knows the most about so this is what they will be most competitive with," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld...

Jolla Keeps the MeeGo Dream Alive

That goal is reachable, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told LinuxInsider. "Apple did this in about the same length of time, and they started behind where Jolla is," he pointed out. "Apple had to overcome physical limitations with the first iPhone, and Jolla no longer has to do that. Off-the-shelf technology has improved massively since the iPhone was launched."

Scientists Get Robot to Walk Like a Man

"The only real reason to create legs that are human-like is to create either artificial limbs that looked real or simulate humans, which could range from robots that better operated machines that were made for humans or because they needed human-looking surrogates," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "The two groups aren't mutually exclusive, and emulation would serve both purposes."

OPINION

The Dirty Suicidal Secret of Facebook

The last time we had a major "social networking" type of effort it was with collaboration, and theposter child for the effort was Lotus Notes. It largely failed -- not because the idea wasn't a good one,but because the company fundamentally didn't understand that the market was being made hostile tothe concept. ...

Amazon’s Smartphone Ambitions Taking Shape

"Amazon doesn't use generic Android," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst of Enderle Group. "Their software group is mostly old disenchanted Microsoft guys who used to run and work on Windows," he pointed out. "They take Android as a starting point and turn it into what they ...

Amazon May Be Closing Its Map Gap

"Amazon and eBay have increasingly started to bump heads, and eBay started to move into retail promotion last year with an online service that could point to stock, specials and the like," Rob Enderle, principal of the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times Amazon's purcha...

Nexus 7: Economical, Yes; Repairable, Sure … but Profitable?

"At Google, they tend to do the product first and figure out the revenue later," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "They should get a percentage off of app sales and clearly will get money from the ads consumed with the device. But they don't have the retail engine Amazon has, so much of the revenue for this device will be developed over time." ...

OPINION

Google’s Nexus 7: Who’s Sweating Now?

The iPad is an interesting product. It is basically a light Mac netbook lacking a keyboard but with touch. Had any other company brought this to market, it probably wouldn't have sold. ...

SEC Lowers the Boom on Falcone

"From the outside, this appears to be another very wealthy person operating in a highly regulated area discovering that the related rules are enforceable even against the very privileged," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group. "The current environment does not favor a multibillionaire accused of self-dealing playing the victim card, and I doubt this will end well for him."

Banished Best Buy Founder Plots to Reclaim Throne

The road ahead will be tough for Schulze if he means to take over Best Buy, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group. "It's very hard for an individual to do a buyout like this unless they've got some board support," he told the E-Commerce Times. "In lieu of that,...

Google Makes Its Play in Tablets

"At 7 inches and a $200 price point, [the Nexus 7] is making a value play for the core of where the iPad currently is," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "Google is betting that a lot of folks are happier with their laptops for creation and would rather have a device that was focused on consumption, particularly if it was priced closer to a portable DVD player."

AI System Learns to Recognize Faces and Felines

This self-learning network "should also be able to read expressions and determine the breed of cat if given enough visual information," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Training the System...

Google TV Gets Do-Over With Vizio Co-Star

"To a certain extent, this is a way for people to get access to services very inexpensively," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Subscriptions will be required, however....

Facebook’s Email Bungle: Not What It Did but How It Did It

Facebook should have opened the debate before it made the change, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group "To make a move like this without discussing or explaining it is not a smart way to treat people and would tend to get existing customers to distrust ...

More Surface Rumors Bubble Up

"Right now, 85 to 90 percent of the market is using WiFi because data plans are so expensive, and it's probably a better solution to offer a WiFi-only tablet for use with a tethered smartphone than to have a tablet with its own data plan," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld...

OPINION

The Death and Rebirth of Microsoft

Last week, Microsoft effectively ended the model that created it. This shouldn't have been a surprise,as the model hasn't been working well for years and, as a result, Microsoft has been getting its butt kicked all over themarket by Apple. ...

WinPho 8 Update Gap: Microsoft’s Got Some ‘Splaining to Do

"Everybody faces this problem -- hardware capabilities are going through massive changes and new operating systems won't work on the older devices," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld However, he said, the way Microsoft handled it was unusu...

Google Embarks on Language Rescue Mission

"Projects like these have two purposes," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group. "One is to improve a company's image -- and Google, as the new 'evil empire,' definitely needs that at the moment. The other is so you can acquire and retain a key resource, and at the core of the man/machine interface is language."

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