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If Facebook does intend on introducing a smarphone, it will be a bigger mistake than Microsoft launching the Zune, contended Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group. "Facebook is repeating the mistakes that other people have made," he told TechNews...

These apps will probably "dovetail with similar apps available on the Windows Phone and on PCs," suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Microsoft appears to be driving the three platforms together in closer harmony, and that's likely a good thing," Ende...

"I think this is a revenue issue," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "Book sellers have never really liked the idea of libraries because for every book that is lent out, they lose a potential customer," said Enderle. "At least the library purchased the books that were lent out, and the library wasn't capable of lending out the same book to more than one person at a time. That limited the risk."

Zuckerberg has been holding off on going public largely because he doesn't want the distraction or the regulatory headaches yet, Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group,told the E-Commerce Times. "However, investors are likely looking to pull their profits, and with the l...

Next year is an election year, and there is no doubt we will have plenty of examples of politicians who should have had their hormones either surgically removed or had someone wiser make their decisions for them. ...

"HP have an interesting spin on the product in that they're focusing on business users with their offering, whereas most people focus on consumers," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "HP's always been strong in business, so this is playing...

"The idea that Sony would aggressively move to Internet-based TV makes sense," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group told the E-Commerce Times. "They have the potential to do this right." Many new TVs already have access to Netflix and Amazon, Enderle noted. "The...

However, serious consideration should be given to the notion that Microsoft has become unwieldy, Rob Enderle, principal of the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times "As a company matures it often needs to be restructured," he said. "It is unusual for a company to hold all i...

The social networking site needs to do more, contended Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "This can only truly be stopped by better securing the services and clearly showcasing that those who violate a service like this are prosecuted to the full extent of the...

The current generation of smartphones is a bit of a kludge. They require a lot of text entry, but most don't have keyboards. As a result, they generally suck at it. Siri, Apple's new voice-command technology, points the way to a future that is more like the past, where phones are good at what phones have always been good at -- voice -- and typing may become, at least on smartphones, a thing of the past. ...

"The risk is both in terms of being found negligent if someone has had their identity stolen and significant damage is done, or being found to have not complied with disclosure rules, which cover both the information stolen and the potential materiality of the exposure to the company penetrated," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told TechNewsWorld...

"Apple doesn't like [Flash], Google doesn't like it, and Microsoft doesn't like it, and it's looking like a legacy technology," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld in a previous interview Microsoft announced earlier this year that it won't s...

"Japan is very serious about its industrial race to create the first robotic servant, and the company that gets this right first will be a national hero," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Made in the U.S.A....

The industry joke on the early MacBook Airs was that even though they had decent Intel processors, they stepped down in performance in order to keep from burning up. What was kind of funny was that Lenovo, which had a similar product in market with a slower processor but running at full speed (so it was actually faster), got dinged -- and Apple didn't. However, most folks I knew who had one of these early Airs quickly tired of their slow speed and blazing hot bottoms, and moved to other products -- mostly MacBook Pros. ...

"For public companies, a high-growth model can turn into a disaster because it results in point losses as the company builds out rapidly against its aggressive goal," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "LinkedIn has an aggressive m...

"This is the tractor beam we've been talking about for decades in science fiction," said Rob Enderle, sci-fi aficionado and principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "It's science fiction come true." Tech Details...

"Google's just shifting heavy industrial users to a fee arrangement," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "These are their most costly users, and they would just as soon these users use another service anyway." Only the top 0.35 percent of sites will ...

"Typically, hacker groups want to make a statement, and they're much more likely to attack Web pages, go after infrastructure, and do things that are very visible," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "Governments don't like to be identified...

On the other hand, perhaps Google hasn't funded app development efforts sufficiently, suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Another factor could be that few Android app devs are really making any money, Enderle told TechNewsWorld....