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Mercury is the most vexing problem with discarded electronics, said Rob Enderle, principal with the Enderle Group "Mercury can enter ground water and make it into the food and water supply," he told TechNewsWorld. It can cause "both brain defects, particularly in children, and...

This was the first chance since Steve Jobs returned to Apple that Microsoft had to slam-dunk Apple. The biggest thing at Macworld was Tony Bennett. Windows 7 was releasing in Beta and reports have been glowing, with a number of the folks I travel with actually living on the pre-beta code and raving about it so this should have been like shooting ducks in a barrel. Palm was bringing out a new phone and a lot of folks thought they were simply done and not worth seeing, good lesson in the dangers of preconceptions here. Cisco was going to take a run at the gold standard in home music -- Sonos -- and the PC vendors went to war.

"It's been incredibly popular for Ford, and one of the things that has differentiated it, and it's been phenomenal," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Gadget Mobile...

Like many companies in the technology sector, Lenovo's decision to slash employees is a response to the global recession, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "You're going to see this behavior across the entire segment," Enderle told the E-Commerce Times.

By opening the door to new domains, ICANN has created new considerations for startups, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group "The question is, should they take them? Customers default to '.com,' and getting around that tends to be rather difficult," he tol...

Well, this is CES week, and I am eagerly waiting to fly to Las Vegas, participate in the Tiger Build Your Own PC race, and spend the following three weeks relearning how to walk. This year should be interesting because I'm getting weekly notices that the hotels are lowering room rates, and one of the vendors is letting me use one of its pre-paid rooms for free...

Dell's reorganization was a much-needed step in its fight to close the distance with HP, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times "It's good to refresh the executive ranks, particularly when the company isn't performing to the expectations...

Consumers spent less even during a period that saw "some of the most aggressive discounting in history," according to Rob Enderle, principal analyst at The Enderle Group "This discounting -- in many cases well below the cost of the goods to the retailer -- has chewed up margin...

People don't like to change; particularly as we get older, we take comfort in the status quo and start avoiding things that are new and different. As we get older we gain more power and this generally places the most conservative people in positions of authority. ...

Some new cameras might include technology that can tell when people are smiling or SLRs that do "incredible video recording as well as stills," Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld While the list of options seems to be growing with each pro...

This year was likely the last of an era where vendors could afford to shotgun out products and services and hope that buyers would take them. 2009 will be much harsher on practices like this, as funding will be very short and misses will be career limiting, severely for some. Looking back, there were a number of products we covered that stood out as being amazing, and one I can't picture living without at the moment.

"I don't think consumers are yet equipped to make these investments wisely and likely will be defrauded more often than not, as a result," Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "Their better path would likely be to invest in lowering their own carbon footprint because, at least this way, they can be generally assured of the result."

It will be difficult to know just how strong Oracle is until the company announces its next quarterly results in early March, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "The financial performance of a business always looks backward, not forward," he told the E-Co...

How long it takes to develop is an unanswered question, particularly during a period of economic recession, Rob Enderle, principal with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times "This is a new area, and while it doesn't appear that difficult, there are significant concerns ...

The new president-elect for the U.S. isn't even in office yet and he is already wrapped in scandal. Fortunately we can live with this one as it had to do with whether he carried a Zune or an iPod, but given some were calling this -- and I'm not kidding -- "Zunegate," I thought the event was interesting ...

Judging from a live demo, the new virtual playground is like other online worlds such as Linden Labs' Second Life, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "It's interesting, but having seen a lot of these Second Life-like things flop, I'm not convinced this is...

"Single sign-on is important because it promotes loyalty to a site," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld, "but the goal is to be first out of the gate with something like this -- if you are using another system already, it is not likely you are going to switch."

The economic pressure continues to increase and there is a reasonably good chance that we'll be down to one large car company in the U.S. by this time next year -- Ford, which appears to be the only one that isn't saying it won't survive without a massive cash infusion from the U.S. government ...

Bundling is a key to control over customers, which may explain its proliferation, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group "Bundling is an old practice that has its roots in account control, likely before we even called it 'account control,'" Enderle told CRM...

One of the first jobs I ever held was as an auto mechanic and have had a passion for cars that predates my passion for technology. Watching the U.S. auto industry make mistake after mistake until it was nearly out of business has been particularly painful for any of us who love both cars and our country. I'm in the market for a new car myself, and there isn't a single one from any of the Big Three that excites me at the moment. Based on how well the Japanese and Korean car companies are doing, I'm guessing I'm not alone...