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"This was one of the primary reasons heavy readers that didn't yet have a Kindle had for not buying one," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "Amazon wants to be THE company when it comes to e-book readers, and that means it can't just be for purchased content, but borrowed content as well. Eventually, they will have to deal with people that want to pass books around as well, though that is going to be a difficult balancing act."

Last week was a busy week that seemed to be filled with crazy people -- some in a good way, most not so much. The most annoying story was that Cisco, which currently has market share leadership in digital cameras with the Flip, is shutting down this half-billion-dollar acquisition after screwing it up. ...

"There have been concerns about Groupon's business model since the idea of an IPO came about," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "It seems like it would be easy to copy, but you have to have a competency in social networking, and that competency has been daunting for companies like Google. That has been the major challenge for companies trying to copy Groupon."

"Groklaw was created to fight SCO, and most of their funding came because of that," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "Once SCO lost, the funding dried up," he told TechNewsWorld. "Their reason for being has gone."

"This is an impressive acquisition which gives Level 3 a powerful market position," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "Yet large mergers tend to be relatively difficult to pull off, and the acquired company tends to have difficult...

Last week, another iPad competitor bit the dust, and so far no vendor has even come close to bothering Apple in the tablet space. In the smartphone space, the only thing that seems to hurt Apple is the carrier and the anticipation of its next phone, which is due shortly but rumored to be delayed. ...

"Given Facebook's needs are likely similar to what most companies will want when it comes to client-focused cloud computing, the result is likely better solutions sooner," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Facebook becomes an excellent lab where you ca...

"Chasing Intel wasn't working for them, and where they led Intel, in graphics, created the opportunity to change the battleground to one that better favors AMD," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, pointed out "Thus the need to create an APU where they could h...

"TI looks to be trying to corner the analog chip market and, if successful, this could make the price seem reasonable," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "However, mergers between two struggling companies often don't turn out well -- particularly if they are both of similar sizes. Big mergers are tough, and there are very few people who know how to do them well."

Two books came out last week: Idea Man, about (and by) Paul Allen; and The Steve Jobs Way, about (but not by) Steve Jobs. These books reveal differences in the approaches the two men took to achieving their goals, showcasing why Apple is so successful and why other companies just can't make the grade. ...

"A company that is sold has no interest in maintaining customers, which points to a substantial risk getting such services from companies that don't have a strong financial record," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Go with big players such as Amazon...

Last week, Oracle FUD-bombed the Itanium processor. Like Oracle's own SPARC chip and PowerPC at one time, Itanium was supposed to be the future for most everything -- but all of these chips ended up on the largest and most fault-tolerant systems each company supports. ...

Initially, the Motorola Xoom was seen as posing a real threat to the iPad. Several analysts, including Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, stated that its features went beyond those available in the original iPad The Xoom has two cameras, a dual-core processor...

Governments have to keep Google in check when its practices begin to ignore copyright and antitrust laws. "Google is having increasing trouble working with governments, this seems to reflect growing momentum to block their key efforts," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "Court process moves slowly and this apparently wasn't a high priority with the court."

"Honeycomb is very recent, and it is unlikely that Adobe has been able to test it across hardware platforms, so there will be some breakage," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, suggested "This tells folks to use the product at their own risk so that breakage ...

Right now, HP's software acquisitions are tied to the concept of HP as the cloud platform and are focused on management, reporting and ecosystem, Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group told the E-Commerce Times. "So far, it is avoiding business applications and appear to prefer to partner to get there." ...

"The situation is that of a developer trying to restore a feature that Sony in Japan at one time provided -- Linux -- and discontinued when it found that wasn't used too often," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Hotz originally shot to fam...

Last week, I was at the HP analyst event where DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg got up on stage and gave an example of what every speaker should do -- tell a story. Behind him slides went by, and we even saw a preview of one of the coming movies. Looking back, it was one of the two best presentations of the event. The other, by Chandrakant Patel -- on powering a data center using cow dung -- was actually just as fascinating for much the same reason. ...

Perhaps the difference in speed may not be all that important, suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "On this last cycle, other things have started to take precedence over speed -- safety and the ability to take advantage of the new multi-core processor...

Without a series of new releases, Firefox could fall to the wayside, much like the Opera browser. In fact, Opera has almost dropped off the map except for mobile products. And Opera's developers do not cycle new releases so fast, noted Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group. "The m...