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Perhaps Canonical is in need of money, suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Revenue generation isn't Linux's strength; collaboration and cooperation is," Enderle told LinuxInsider. "Monetizing Linux has proven elusive at the user level. Making money h...

Today Microsoft launches Windows Phone 7, and I've been thinking about this phone a lot over the last month. The closest metaphor to what makes this phone different from others is Superman. This isn't because when Superman launched, this hero was the underdog but rose to be the most powerful, in terms of movies, TV shows and branding of all that proceeded and followed him -- too early by far for that connection. ...

RIM had a couple of options to get out of the ban threatened by the UAE, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. One was to set up a redundant server in the UAE that would capture all encrypted messages. That server would be under the control of the government, Enderle said...

Some of the signs necessary to indicate a merger are simply not present with Microsoft and Adobe, Rob Enderle, principal of the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "I think it's really doubtful. When you have two large companies talking about merging, both companies are...

"I think we're seeing the industry struggling to meld the Web experience designed for PCs into one designed for homes and TVs," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "The two come at the market from different ways -- one assumes you need a keyboard and the other assumes you don't. Logitech is the best in the market with remote controls right now, and it's difficult to imagine anyone could do it better, but it still isn't good enough," he added...

"Apple TV is slightly more constrained than Google TV," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld The differences between the offerings are more than slight, according to Laura DiDio, principal analyst at ITIC.

"You can, in theory, extend graphene beyond the boundaries set by the limitations of silicon, and thus make devices smaller," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "This could create vastly more complex microcomputers with huge implications fo...

"Tests on this approach have had surprisingly good results," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group The integral imaging system reproduces the design and tracks of beams of light by sampling light at several angles, then combining them into one smooth, contin...

"Live Mesh is one of Microsoft's strongest cloud offerings, and by itself, it's likely Microsoft's most valuable feature in this suite," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, remarked. "It's vastly better than what Apple or Google currently offer." More on Live ...

The column I previously had written for today was focused on how Todd Bradley was trying to force HP into taking him as CEO and ended with my hope that the company would make a more strategic choice. Imagine my surprise when it gave me and its investors an early Christmas present by doing exactly that. ...

"RIM is between a rock and a hard place," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "If they do what India wants they will bleed customers. If they don't, they lose India -- one of the fastest-growing markets in the world. And India is hardly alone in this."

"Google is a force of nature on the Internet. If ever there was a company that could drive Internet standards, it's Google," Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "The only one in their vicinity is Microsoft, and Microsoft is not a major power in organizing and delivering images."

"I think you have to look at the combination of Apotheker and Lane," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "Together, they represent one of the strongest anti-Oracle brain trusts on the planet. Their appointments send a very strong signal that HP, like IBM, is calling out Oracle as the company they're most worried about."

Although AOL is putting a new bow on its business model, to some the model has a familiar look to it. "We're going back to the days of a Super Portal, a place where you go and live," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times "...

"No one has a lot of enterprise applications on their tablets yet, so the PlayBook is not as strongly focused on enterprise buyers as you might think," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times That could impact demand for the PlayBook....

The practice of collaborating directly with competitive firms helped created an environment in which companies started to worry about employees getting a look at the other side of the fence, observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group. "From the firms' pers...

Java Creator James Gosling explained why he quit Oracle in an interesting interview on eWeek. It is clear he had no understanding about what happens in an acquisition, particularly for an old school open source unit that has been the exact opposite of a profit center. ...

"Given that you are increasing storage density massively, you'll be able to both store and recover information at higher rates on any moving media while keeping the movement of the media at acceptably high speeds," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld...

The move will pave the way for "undoubtedly lower cost" plans for consumers who use wireless devices such as iPads or even smartphones in closely defined geographic areas, Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. In addition, those with Super-WiFi-enabled devices likely will be able to take advantage of higher bandwidth data plans than those available with their current devices...

Not at all, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "A terrorist attack's goal is to create fear," Enderle pointed out. "The goal of this attack wasn't fear, and it was probably launched by a nation-state in a state of undeclared war with anothe...