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Not everyone thinks the partnership represents a major strategy shift for Dell. The deal sounds more like a one-time promotion, the type that Wal-Mart often runs around the holidays, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times The Dell machines will b...

"This is a huge one for them. ... We're talking about a material win. Even for a company of HP's size, this could make the quarter for them," Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times "This is a very nice win," Roger Kay, prin...

Lenovo may be poised to launch a growth strategy that involves it rolling out more non-PC products in America and other markets, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. In its home market, Lenovo sells a variety of consumer electronics but could launch a broader lineup that mirrors those of Dell and HP...

Cisco's migration into the surveillance industry signals a larger trend toward convergence of traditional physical security with information technology security, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group "Under current security conditions, it's definitely an e...

Cameras with bells and whistles such as zoom and anti-blur technology were big and clunky. Only professional photographers were willing to lug around all the equipment required to take the best pictures, Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld...

IBM's direct processor business has taken some hits in recent years, most notably when Apple said it would shift its PCs away from PowerPC processors to chips made by Intel, commented Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle Still, IBM continues to be a major player in the ...

Last week was busy:Microsoft supposedlythreatened open source with patent infringement, and it supposedlysaid Linux was dead. I'll come back to the word "supposedly" in a moment ...

So, is Second Life more like "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood" or an episode of "The Sopranos"? It's both -- and that's inevitable, said Enderle Group President and Principal Analyst Rob Enderle "People are going to behave badly wherever they go," he told TechNewsWorld....

Microsoft's handling of such a major integration will be closely watched given the unprecedented size of the acquisition. However, the deal was as much about defense as offense, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times "This is Microsoft chasing Go...

"Companies like Alliance Data tend to fare better under private equity ownership," Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told CRM Buyer, "assuming the company is an experienced one, such as Blackstone Group." Blackstone Group in particular has a string of invest...

The game market is really a second-half-of-the-year market, explained Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "The time you want for people to get really excited is as they approach vacation, and the September 25th launch gives you more time to convince parents to buy this for their kids," he told TechNewsWorld...

"People buy this class of phone for the cache of being distinctive, of being cool for having the next best thing and both phones cross over in that space," Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld The Razr 2 comes closer to what people have histo...

Michael Dell has recognized that he has a major task ahead of him if he hopes to restore the company to its former glory, said Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle, and has taken some aggressive steps to make changes, bringing in outside executives to help shake things up, for instance...

Any improvements in system security, however, will likely be met by counter moves by content bandits, cautioned Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group in San Jose, Calif., and a member of the Trusted Computing Group Advisory Council "Given time, yo...

"Their high-performance part is designed to be faster -- with more caches and a higher benchmark," Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "The important thing for AMD is putting lot of effort in what is a high-margin segment." The new platfo...

"Google has recently been able to have its way with Yahoo and Microsoft," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "It seems they come out on top of every merger talk or partnership discussion that happens in the space." Meanwhile, Google is not p...

Indeed, the move is part of a trend currently at work in the corporate world, Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld "Right now, the big competition between companies is, who can be greenest?" Enderle explained. Al Gore's film, "A...

With the series having won the love of two decade's worth of fans and the release of "The Simpson Movie" right around the corner, the bar has been set very high for "The Simpsons Game." Adding to the pressure is EA's announcement Tuesday that it had lost some US$25 million during the last quarter and that "The Sims" creator Will Wright's highly anticipated game "Spore" would probably be delayed. Combined, these events have put the game software designer in a tough spot, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told TechNewsWorld...

Such a deal may be more in Microsoft's comfort zone than an outright acquisition of a major company, which it has done rarely, in part because the company's culture is unique and any large-scale integration would prove challenging, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. In addition, the minority stake and the close partnership with MSN may help keep rivals such as Google from considering buying the site...

"Anything typically loaded off a disc comes much faster; boot times, games -- everything is faster," Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It is a significant boost for the system." All of the models support wireless 802.11 Draft-n, accord...