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Last week was one of those rare weeks when there was way too much going on to cover in one column. Microsoft stole E3 with what may be the closest thing to a "Star Trek" holodeck yet. ...

Last week, Microsoft announced its new search push at Google -- and unlike Live Search, which was a joke, Bing looks to have the right stuff. The question is, can Microsoft get people to move? Palm initially looked as though it was going to get iPhone users to move, but that hope started to sputter last week. It increasingly looked like Palm would follow Netscape and Transmeta in making the mistake of scaring a competitor into corporocidal (as in "homicidal," but with corporations) behavior. Rather than taking a bite out of Apple, it looks like Palm may be pwned. ...

Bing is the successor to Live Search and was indeed being developed under the codename "Kumo," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group It incorporates both semantic Web technology and a decision engine, which Enderle believes is a first. "Decision engines are ...

We all remember Sarah Palin. Like many, I too got excited about the difference she would bring to the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign. She showed well at events, and she looked good on paper. Then came her interviews, and suddenly she was the new Dan Quayle -- or, basically, another person who trades on looks and luck and doesn't figure doing homework is actually necessary. ...

Microsoft regards Kumo as its Google killer, according to analyst Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group, and the software company is banking heavily on it despite deep internal divisions over the project. Kumo will reportedly take over Microsoft's Live Search and incorporate seman...

For the last decade, the PC market has kind of sucked. Against the massive growth of the '90s, and with the exception of Apple, which didn't do well in that decade, the PC market has been a poor reflection of the excitement that once surrounded it. Part of the problem was the focus on computation and the lack of focus on things that make computing exciting. In this respect, Apple was the exception, and the fact that it put much more emphasis on the visual aspects of computing -- and recently put a graphics chip in every computer -- helps explain why users tend to be more excited about Apple products. They have, until now, virtually stood alone -- but that is about to change.

"Microsoft is getting into this very competitive stance, which we haven't seen for a while," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. The ad campaign escalates an increasingly vitriolic ad war between Apple and Microsoft, but it may backfire, E...

Last week, a number of Apple supporters took me to task for my comment that Apple made the technology equivalent of sugar water and that Steve Jobs gave up on his goal of changing the world. I'm hardly original in thinking this way. It does amaze me that not a single Apple fan cared about global warming, philanthropy or even Apple's lack of computing prowess. They earn their reputations every week.

It is both interesting and ironic that three of the major companies in tech each defined something early in their lives they didn't want to be and then became it. ...

"Wikis were too much work," Rob Enderle, principal with the Enderle Group told LinuxInsider. "That's always the problem with anything powered by volunteer labor. Folks for a while will do stuff for free, but they won't do it indefinitely. You can only sustain it if it's fun and interesting."

Stanza "has interesting capabilities, one of them being able to do purchases without launching a browser," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "The less distance between the person and the product, the higher the sell rate -- and this isn't about sellling e-books, this is about selling books. That alone had Amazon's interest."

"We're now looking at the computer as more than a calculating machine," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "When you can analyze what lies under the numbers and make educated guesses at what the causes are, that's a powerful tool. That capa...

Apple was having a good month until last week. Sales were up explosively -- at least, for the iPhone and iPod -- but all of that good news was trashed when the company first allowed a questionable application onto the iPhone and then killed it without explanation. Already, the tone surrounding Apple appears to be changing. ...

Containing a message to 140 characters is a challenge, to say the least, for companies looking to push a product or service. This raises the question of whether more than a link can be embedded in Twitter. "Currently, the medium doesn't lend itself to normal Web advertising, the ad being potentially longer than the twit, suggesting a level of creativity in line with Google's ad words," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld...

I was in Malta last week at the IFA 2009 conference, which is partially intended to drive interest into Malta as a technology center. This is one of the locations where people believe a new Silicon Valley might be born, and that certainly focuses us on the fact that the current Silicon Valley isn't what it once was. A few weeks ago, I was at a lunch with a large group of folks who helped found the Silicon Valley, and we discussed what killed it. ...

Last week, I wrote about the 3rd Rebirth of Computing. This change will lead to the potential for Google to be vastly more powerful than any company in the history of the world. Given the historical patterns associated with companies that get even a fraction of this power, current trends are frightening. ...

"It just showcases that the market is ready for a change, and Google (Android's developer) is positioning itself to be the architect of that change," Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group told LinuxInsider. "The power players aren't just the carriers. They are enablers, but Google is moving between them and discovering a channel that Microsoft doesn't have locked up yet."

The gaming market has been broken for a long time, and the Conficker worm is a reminder that the PC concept is also becoming unmanageable. Developers want one platform to develop to; they don't want three consoles, two portable gaming systems, lots of phones and a PC. Users want something vastly less complex and really would like to go back to a time when they only worried about the price and where the on switch was. ...

However, the planets may not be perfectly aligned for Nintendo, said Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle, who has a decidedly more bullish take on the game maker's prospects Shipping 50 million units is noteworthy, he told the E-Commerce Times, "but the bigger issue is...

With most large businesses slashing their IT budgets due to the global recession, software and hardware makers are looking to the small- and medium-sized business market to make up for the shortfall in revenue, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Small bu...