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How Industry Analysts View the Changing Tech Marketplace

Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, said "most all of the metrics I'm seeing right now are pointing up. The overall trends are looking very positive." That sounds good, but "we are also clearly at the front end of a massive change," continued Enderle. "We go...

Windows Phone Growing Pains Cause Update Headache

However, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, thinks WinPho 7 device owners will get the upgrade "All phones that are currently running Windows Phone 7.5 and, maybe 7, will get Windows Phone 8," Enderle told TechNewsWorld. "Engineers are not known for being tha...

Ellison Fumbles Testimony in High-Stakes Java Case

In this instance, Ellison can be forgiven his outspokenness -- the suit is likely a deeply personal one for him, Rob Enderle, principal of the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "When Steve Jobs pledged to take out Google, Larry was on board with that. Both men have a...

Sergey Brin Pounds Fists Against Walled Gardens

"Freedom is something a challenger typically asks for; what it wants is an easier path to accessing [the dominant party's] consumers," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "This [concept of openness] is pro-consumer, but it needs to be applied equally."

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On Innovative Ways to Conquer the World

One of my favorite lines from the original "Conan" movie came when he was asked "what is the best in life?" Conan's response: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!" ...

Best Buy Plot Thickens

"I can't say I am surprised," Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group told the E-Commerce Times. "We see this on and off with CEOs across all industries. [Former HP CEO] Mark Hurd comes to mind as the most recent high-profile case. They just think the rules simply don't apply to them." ...

Researchers Leap Into Quantum Networking

Still, the research seems to be "a substantial refinement," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It appears to more directly address the issues of data density and scalability, and it appears to have security advantages as well." What the R...

Will a Different Yahoo Be Good Enough?

The "vision thing" is still missing for Yahoo, said Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group. He has other issues with the reorganization plan as well. "Finance-based CEOs have a nasty habit of being overly tactical and killing their companies because they can't think long term," he...

Tweaks to Chrome OS Stir Up Existential Questions

Chrome OS is an anomaly in the market, according to Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group "The market has largely rejected Chrome OS," he told TechNewsWorld. "It isn't picking up much interest with OEMs and certainly not very much in the consumer...

Studybook Puts Intel Inside Classrooms

"This is tied to [Intel's] older Classmate initiative to make sure it's never forced out of education," suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Education is a seed corn market -- things that come out of it often move into business." Studybook Specs...

Microsoft, AOL Do a Billion-Dollar Patent Waltz

"AOL has most of the early core patents that surrounded social networking and most of the browser patents that Microsoft didn't have," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "The combination could be used to slam Google in similar areas and protect Microsoft partner Facebook."

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How Amazon and Nokia Are Channeling Jobs to Unseat Apple

The top technology company of the 80s was IBM, 90s was Microsoft, last decade Apple. No company made it across more than one decade as the top company and the trend was away from IT (IBM) and toward the consumer/buyer, suggesting that RIM's refocus on IT is clearly pushing upstream. ...

Diamonds Are a Quantum Scientist’s Best Friends

"This is just to demonstrate that the approach could be viable," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "We're still a long way from something that will actually run in production." Diamonds Are Forever Quantum...

Larry Page: The Year of the Big Cleanup

"They were really out of control," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group told the E-Commerce Times. Overall, Page said homing in on Google's core business will continue and promised the company will pursue the innovative, big-picture goals....

Anonymous Launches Cyberattack Salvo on China

Anonymous "is an amorphous organization that lacks leadership, so motives are often difficult to determine," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, remarked The "thorough PWNing" by what appears to be "a loosely organized group of young hackers suggests that the ...

Google Glass Project Sees the World Through AR-Tinted Glasses

"The question is whether [AR glasses] will initially be more helpful or more annoying," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "Let's say you are driving, and just before the guy in front of you hits his brakes a note pops up warning you of t...

Yahoo Serves Mojito to Liven Up the Mobile Web Party

Mojito is "optimized for content publishers, which is what Yahoo is, and switches dynamically between hosting and client execution depending on bandwidth and client power," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, said. "It's actually pretty impressive on paper and could lead to a much better user experience across a variety of devices and networks for Yahoo's kind of content."

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An Analyst’s Ad Hominem Hell

I clearly hit a nerve last week when I comparedMeg Whitman's moves at HP to Tim Cook's at Apple. I do sincerely think Tim Cook was set up to fail. Steve Jobs didn't hire Cook to replace him -- he hired him to do the jobs he didn't want to do. This is why a lot of great companies slide. The existing CEOs see replacement candidates as rivals, so they make sure they don't have the skills or otherwise can't do the CEO's job. ...

Microsoft, Google Race to Speed Up the Web

"At this early stage, neither [proposal] is complete, and the battle is typically one of influence rather than technical competence," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld However, "every part of the Microsoft proposal looks friendlier," Ender...

PlayStation 4 to Sport Big Graphics Muscle

It's possible that Sony will indeed use the AMD processors, as "AMD hits a price/performance point that Sony should like and clearly the Cell processor was a huge mistake," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Cell is a microprocessor archite...

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