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"The FTC called up Google and said, 'You've been naughty boys,'" Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "Now Google is going down the same path Microsoft went down. Congress wanted to look at them as well, and they thumbed their nose at Congress. They said, 'No, we're not coming.' Instead, they sent their chief counsel. You don't snub Congress. As rich as they are, they're not a government yet."

"What we're seeing is a product that has Windows Phone 7 at the core but is uniquely Nokia," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "Think of it as a super-smartphone, a product with all of the connectivity and features of a WP7 phone, all of t...

Last week, HP started down the unfortunate path of taking Oracle to court over the statements it has made about Itanium, the technology HP shares with Intel. This is reminding me a lot of an ugly divorce -- and given that the 140,000 customers Oracle and HP share are kind of like their kids, I think some strong parallels can be drawn. ...

"Their Smart Cities initiative is impressive," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "It's a program for cities of the world, designed to make them more efficient and make their services more cost-effective. That's a major undertaking. They're looking at everything above and underneath the cities."

Apple and Microsoft are competitors, and while both companies are clearly more concerned with Google than each other at the moment, they serve as a great example of why good, well-funded marketing is important. ...

"Nintendo is the only one who is doing a console refresh for the living room," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "But the Wii U is getting called the 'P.U.' because of the difficulty players are having with the motion controller. It's been difficult for users because it's big. It has a five-inch screen."

"Just because someone posts the text of a Harry Potter book on the Web doesn't mean anyone else who copies it won't get sued for copyright infringement," Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group, pointed out "This doesn't affect ownership and might actually make it easier t...

"Even the applause seemed synchronized," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Enderle -- who watched the two announcements simultaneously -- picked Microsoft as the winner.

Last week marked the beginning of a big experiment for me: first living and then retiring outside of the U.S. I figure there are a lot of boomers like me who are exploring this idea as we become increasingly concerned about the costs of living in our chosen country and the inability of governments to balance budgets. ...

"Feedback from everybody I've talked to is very good, and the only downside is folks would like to see Windows 8 this year instead of in 2012," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Microsoft declined to provide further comment on Windows 8, w...

"Apotheker probably is thinking more along the lines of using webOS on alternative devices -- devices that HP won't be making," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "It's hard to believe they would license it for competing products,...

"People tend to put off doing things until the very end," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "We're talking about putting everything from washing machines to your kitchen stoves on the Internet, so the speed of Web acceptance is increasing dramaticall...

"Right now, the stated strategy is to have Windows 8 run on everything except smartphones," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "I'll be at Computex next week, so I'm hoping the rumors are true and that I'll get a sneak peek at some new Wind...

This is turning out to be an amazing decade, with companies getting a rebirth, other firms getting new identities, and still others sliding into delusional obscurity. I understand Bill Gates has wandered quietly back into Microsoft, and he is part of the reason a lot of kids are saying "Bing" instead of "Google" at the moment -- which is good, because both Apple and IBM have passed Microsoft in market capitalization this decade, something that should have been impossible. ...

"It gives you a social history of the person you're communicating with," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It's one of the more advanced communication features Google has produced. This is base-level contact management. It's the type of system a service person might use for corresponding with a customer. This hasn't been available for individuals until now...

"You can't always protect against theft, and you have to allow employees to do their work," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times What about making executives sign a non-compete clause so they can't join a competitor shortly after jumpi...

"Development tools are their expertise," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "At their core, Microsoft is a platform tools vendor and, if they can't do it, they're really screwed." Picking at the Mango Appdev Tools...

Even without the push to service brands, the acquisition should be a win for its users, or at least most of them, Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group told the E-Commerce Times "In general, this should result in better integration between Twitter and TweetDeck with improvements to...

"So long as the location-aware feature is opt-in, I don't think there is a problem," opined Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group The inclusion of the Do Not Track feature in browsers is not new, although perhaps Firefox 5 for Android is the first mobile browser ...

The Intel-Apple war has been on a break ever since Intel won and Apple moved its PCs to x86. However, Apple has clearly been itching for a rematch with the iPad, and it has been chewing up PC market share at an impressive rate while Intel's been caught napping. ...