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Last week should have been a bigger week than it was with E3, but that show is now a shadow of what it once was, and many of us struggled to pull anything meaningful out of the event ...

"EMI is the driver here," Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "If they can showcase that this works, other are likely to follow." EMI on the Rise?...

Having executives depart as options messes are addressed can help a company get a fresh start after such a scandal, said Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle "The company can get a fresh start and say that everyone who benefited or may have had a hand in this is no long...

The problem Sony faces with the 60 GB PS3, Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld, is that the 60 GB drive is simply no longer cost-effective. Phasing out the 60 GB PS3 makes more sense than a generic $100 discount because the consoles are nearly twice as expensive as they need to be. Just cutting $100 would not have done much but hurt Sony's margins, he contended...

"I'm really impressed with this mouse," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It uses a better technology than the Nintendo Wii game controllers to transform 3-D movement into mouse screen movement. It is arguably one of the best looking mice I've ever seen and has kind of a future look with an edge."

"Wii Fit" is "brilliant," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. The game will likely do very well for Nintendo, as it is consistent with their already successful strategy, he noted. The question, however, is whether the implementation is good enough...

"This is pretty big," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "It really furthers the overall concept of Software as a Service (SaaS) for the consumer market," he said "Facebook is a rocket right now," added Paul Gillin, auth...

In Microsoft's quest to make the Xbox 360 a must-have device for the living room, the tie-up with Disney is a significant gain for the Redmond, Wash.-based company, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. The deal should also bump up the Xbox 360's lead over Sony's PlayStation 3 in terms of compelling content, although consumers have still not fully come around to the idea of a gaming console as a set-top box in the den or living room, he added...

"The industry has been suffering through too many poor sequels and badcopies of good games of late," concurred Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group. "It faces competition for the buyingdollar from hot phones, media devices and for time from onlineproperties like Facebook and YouTube [in terms of] both creation andenjoyment," he told TechNewsWorld...

Let's just say the iPhone is the best generation-one product I can recall in the tech market -- ever -- in terms of hardware design and execution. But, much as Japan did in World War II, Apple merely stung the heck out of a number of big companies -- and most of Asia as a geographical region. It wasn't, by any means, a killing blow ...

"Proprietary products are tied to a company, and around the company is wrapped secrecy," Rob Enderle, principal analyst with Enderle Group, told LinuxInsider. Makers of proprietary software don't want competitors to know what they're doing, he noted."Given enough time, you can get around any patent or copyright, so a proprietary company lives on secrets," said Enderle...

Indeed, "any product out there is likely to be a target," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times. "We now live in an environment where patching is a fact of life "Luckily, it's getting a lot easier to do," he added. "Offi...

The mystery that remains is what caused the Xbox 360 problems, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle. It could have been a batch of bad components, a problem with the factory or any number of things "Nobody knows the cause, although the product had some heating issues," ...

Considering the DS's demographic in the U.S., which skews heavily toward young males, the camera accessory will probably not be that popular here, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. Although the company seems to be on to something with its "Brain Age" games, "Face Training" takes the company too far outside its core demographic, he pointed out...

Oracle recently posted strong quarterly earnings, though the company's true growth rate can be hard to decipher given the continued acquisition spree, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times While such a strategy is rife with risks due to the need...

In the U.S., a lot of folks are off this week because the 4th of July, which marks the Independence Day holiday, comes on a Wednesday this year. An impressive number of Americans have been spending the last few days scrambling to buy a US$3,000 phone, and I think it is time to begin talking about the impact of this event ...

With WiiWare, Nintendo is following in the footsteps of Microsoft, which released the final version of its XNA game development tool in December 2006, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. Releasing game creation tools is a way for a console maker to generate interest among young programmers to develop for their platform...

"It's not a bad idea, because YouTube is clearly picking up most of the market right now," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "The reason you go through a relaunch is to get people to think of you as a new and trendy offerin...

"If you understand the tools, you can go in and create a character that looks quite a bit different than anyone else's. And for games that provide the ability to create special maps to enjoy and share so that you get a difference experience in the game," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld...

Developers can certainly make the games richer, Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "A higher clock speed means you can do more things because the processor can now handle more things -- so it makes for better games. It gives them some head room they didn't previously have."