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Apple's rumored to be working on a new iMac built around Intel's i7 processor as well, but "the fully loaded XPS should be competitive with the coming iMac and should be faster than the one currently on the market," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, remarked...

"Likely, this will be another face plant," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "However, Opera has a strong mobile presence and may look attractive to Facebook." Still, getting a European acquisition to work is daunting for U.S. Companies -- even those th...

I've been up to my armpits talking about Facebook for most of this month, and maybe because I'munusually dense, just realized that Facebook is a new kind of dot-com. By this I mean its revenue andprofit are based on a series of false beliefs. ...

"Tablets, unlike traditional PCs, are still largely used for leisure, which means ads should have higher conversion rates per view than they do on PCs," Rob Enderle, principal of the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "This means tablet users are more likely in a shop...

"Whether SEC rules were violated or not, telling buyers one thing while believing another is simple fraud," Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "Allowing them to continue to believe something false once you have determined it is fa...

"I think [Yahoo] actually gets Bill Gates' multiple screen vision of nearly a decade ago better than anyone else at the moment," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "Creating a common experience which usurps the existing browsers is an excellent idea." ...

"Cable providers are [Motorola Mobility's] likely initial target because they haven't shown well against [Verizon Wireless's] FiOS or [AT&T's] U-Verse in terms of user experience, although they're better in terms of bandwidth," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "This could help them close a significant usability gap."

"Software companies running hardware companies haven't exactly been that successful," Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "The two engineering types don't work well together, and Google isn't that experienced doing big acquisitions like th...

"If you have to sign one contract with cable or DSL, you'd typically provide DSL because you have wider coverage," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "This gives you less reason to switch from cable to DSL for connectivity. It's more of a customer retention thing than a customer acquisition thing."

With Facebook now public, the search is on for that next big-idea company that can excite the market. Coincidently, Nvidia has its Emerging Companies Summit about this time of year, where it has a series of sessions that allow each firm the opportunity to present what makes them unique and powerful. ...

"Right now there is a shortage of capacity, and wherever there isn't enough of a thing it is generally better to charge for the use of it," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "That will help generate the funds to eliminate the bottlenecks." ...

"Google and Oracle are in two different spaces, and mobile is a platform that isn't part of Oracle's business," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "This could end up about nine lines of code in a product that in no stretch of the imagination is doing an...

"This is just a transmission method, so it could have wide utility, though I expect the cost will initially make it best for huge data streams," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld This technology "could end up changing much of the world" be...

"There's a huge amount of work being done to better blend people and machines, and this is one of those efforts," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "The idea of a better human-machine interface has been floating around for some time and we're getting close."

That "mugger" could well be Apple, sooner or later, speculated Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group. Right now, Nvidia is the top technology vendor in non-iPad tablets, largely because it has been able to create a powerful ARM-based platform with strong graphic...

"So much really depends on what other surprises might be out there," Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "The company really needs someone with media experience or solid leadership, and with Thompson they really had neither. Now they have someone who can run a company and get things done." ...

"It's bragging rights," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It helps establish you as a segment leader." "It's true that the leading names in WiFi connectivity are showing much interest in 5G WiFi technology," Broadcom spokesperson Henry R...

Last week was rather quiet except for the increasing drama surrounding Facebook and what was to be their $100B IPO. It could still be, but thanks to its young, inexperienced, and clearly still-maturing CEO, it found itself digging out of an avoidable hole. Its experienced executive team was by all reports doing a terrific job until Zuckerberg decided to show up at an IPO pitch in a hoodie, showcasing what was seen as massive disrespect for the financial analysts he was meeting with. ...

However, Windows RT, which is the ARM version of Windows 8, "is using Apple's iPad as a model, which means it's very tightly controlled with regard to user experience to provide a very high degree of consistency and reliability," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, pointed out. "The goal is zero problems and an incredibly low support cost so it can hit or beat iPad prices and margins."

"He put his IPO at risk unnecessarily, and that emphasizes his inexperience and makes him look like a loose cannon -- neither of which is good in any company, let alone a public one," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group. "He was mentored by Steve Jobs, wh...