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There is no rest for the wicked, or anyone else this summer, as last week had a number of big events ...

Indeed, EarthLink was at a competitive disadvantage, noted Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle "The problem is the folks they are competing with actually own more of the tools they are using to compete," Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "EarthLink, which prospered du...

"HP Printing is a company within a company, and arguably the strongest single unit in the firm," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "This unit is the equivalent of a juggernaut, and its risk will likely come from outside of traditional printing from a move to e-paper, cell phones like the iPhone that may eliminate most photo printing over time, and ever lower cost digital displays."

Indeed, "Vista has been pulling bad news like a magnet pulls iron," Rob Enderle, principal analyst with Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "This is just one more thing on top of what has been string of bad news for that product. They clearly will fix it as fast as they can, but this doesn't help move more product."

While both Gateway and eMachines are "powerful U.S. brands," the deal may have been motivated at least as much by the European element, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times Packard Bell remains a "powerful premium brand" in Europe, and Acer was...

I think that, for all of us, the battle for the next generation of DVD technology has gotten really old. This is especially true for the studios, which are well off their revenue targets ...

"The circle of death is connected to the first generation of hardware, and not a whole lot of people bought [the console] that week -- it was kind of expensive -- so it is a problem but not a critical one," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "The bigger issue for the Xbox is that it is still priced high and doesn't address well the advantages that seem to be driving the Wii into the market."

"Microsoft hardware has been kind of a mixed bag over the last few years, and Logitech, their largest competitor in the segment, has largely dominated them," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "The most embarrassing part was they virtually exited PC gaming some time ago because they simply weren't competitive."

Richard was one of AMD's strongest assets, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times Recent issues with sales have stemmed mainly from the product side, so Richard may have grown frustrated with the way the company has been executing and possibly wi...

Blizzard engineers perhaps did not account for the vagaries of human behavior. The game developer had built a virtual quarantine area meant to contain the virus, but some gamers -- being gamers -- began working around it, healing themselves just long enough to leave the quarantined zone. Some then used the virus as a weapon to infect the online world's cities, according to Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle group and a WoW player...

Indeed, HD DVD players are priced significantly lower than Blu-ray players, with some already below $250 on the market and sub-$200 machines expected in the next few weeks, Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times As soon as th...

The pairing at least looks good on paper, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Between IBM and TDK, there is a rather massive amount of legacy intellectual property, and I can't think of any other two companies that combined would have more capability to p...

It is sometimes interesting what people get excited about, and the Apple loyalists evidently got really excited about a question, which some thought I had asked, surrounding why there is no "Intel Inside" sticker on Apple Notebooks (I wasn't actually there, and I already knew the answer) ...

"I think the market was expecting something worse. Because the financials had been delayed and it had looked like the problem had been very pronounced, I think the market was expecting something much more dramatic than it got," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. Dell is an advisory tech client of Enderle; however, Enderle does not own Dell stock...

However, the way that music is sold to online consumers is itself undergoing a sea change, Rob Enderle, principal analyst with Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. The shift can been seen in Universal's recent tougher negotiations with online music giant iTunes over contract renewal issues...

"They are trying to make you into a much better team manager," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld, "and kind of moving out of the head-to-head gaming aspects and into the sim realm "It is very much a combination of a simulation game than a typi...

The move likely will be enough to keep existing Hotmail users in the fold, Rob Enderle, principal analyst with Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. However, Hotmail service upgrades may not be enough to lure users away from competing services Need for Speed...

Last week, I was in San Francisco on a panel moderated by Rackable Systems at LinuxWorld, and not only did I walk away alive, I was impressed by the solid work that was being done at the event and amazed at how well Microsoft was fitting in ...

"'Halo 3' has a pretty strong franchise," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "'Halo' was the title that drove purchases for the original Xbox." Predictor of Future Success?...

Gambling has become a thorny problem for all online communities, added Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group in San Jose, Calif "There are often legalities that have to be dealt with across states, regions and countries," he told the E-Commerce Ti...