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Germany Could Ding Facebook for Fake News

Facebook's concern is driven by self-interest, suggested Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. Fake news shows how the company is being actively gamed, which damages its brand By serving as a repository for news stories, Facebook has "become a de facto media company" des...

CrateDB Launches Machine Data Innovations

Several factors recently have been driving interest in more effective management of machine data, and CrateDB is tapping into this growth, observed Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "First and foremost, as companies utilize cloud services and infrastructures, getting...

Trump, Tech Bigwigs to Meet Wednesday

"Ideally, the meeting will help quell concerns about Trump's anti-tech industry campaign trail blustering," observed Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "Trump's comments about technology during the election campaign demonstrated a notable lack of understanding or open ...

Microsoft and Intel’s Project Evo Ups the PC Game

"There are certainly aspects of Project Evo that are likely to compete directly with Amazon Alexa and Google Home," noted Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. However, it's likely that "Intel and Microsoft are after a fundamentally bigger game," he told TechNewsWorld....

New Smartwatch OS Debuts on GitHub

However, Revest's focus on smartwatches may give his OS a better chance of success than past open source efforts had, said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "There's certainly no guarantee that AsteroidOS can breathe life into so stagnant a market -- but at the same t...

Without Numbers, Cook’s Apple Watch Claims May Be Hollow

The controversy appears to be over little more than an outside firm's independent research failing to cater to corporate interests, observed Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "IDC is often vilified when the results of its research run counter to a company's marketing ...

Fitbit May Pick Up Pebble

"Despite Apple's continually cheery talk about sales of its watch, the broad wearables market seems to be faltering rather than gaining traction," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times The category is "struggling mainly because there's still a d...

Docker, Canonical Team on Enterprise Support

However, there is no reference to support services for those distributions, said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "From a practical standpoint, the agreement is pretty straightforward," he told LinuxInsider.

iPhone 8 Dreaming in Full Swing

"Historically, Apple likes to make a big deal out of decade-length anniversaries," observed Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "Since 2017 marks the 10th anniversary of the iPhone, it's easy to assume the company will use the opportunity to prove that it hasn't lost a ...

Apple Celebrates Itself in $300 Coffee Table Tome

"The new volume finds Apple following a fairly conventional messaging strategy -- delivering a high-profile document that reminds people just how great your products are, thus justifying their happiness and your own success," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "A ...

iPhone Call Logs Easy Pickings on iCloud, Says Russian Security Firm

"Apple doesn't seem to be walking its talk in the sense of actually doing what it publicly claims to be doing," noted Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT The other part of this is in the lack of transparency customers have into the process, and the fact that there is ...

Hype Video Broadcast App Has Niche Potential

Rich content and interactivity set Hype apart from its rivals, observed Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "One of Hype's biggest differentiators is support for mixed media, so during live streaming broadcasters can patch in preprepared content to enrich the overall ev...

Microsoft Sees 3D Future for Everyone

"Like its predecessor versions, Paint 3D is very much an entry-level product," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "To my mind, its purpose is to familiarize consumers, especially youngsters, with 3D technologies and help them become more comfortable using those ...

Tech Billionaire Thiel Aims to Justify His Trump Support

The Thiel donation came at a very sensitive time in Silicon Valley with regard to gender discrimination issues, noted Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. Pao's unsuccessful $16 million lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins last year exposed what many consider an unspoken tr...

Microsoft Open Sources AI Toolkit

"The toolkit's scalability and availability as an open source project are both pluses that should spur interest and use," noted Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT What It Does...

IBM’s Watson Smartens Up iOS Enterprise Apps

The extended relationship with Apple is the most interesting thing that IBM announced at the conference, according to Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "Given Watson's many powerful, often unique capabilities, the move will help MobileFirst apps stand out from the pac...

New MacBook Will Headline Apple’s Thursday Show

"Apple has been under increasing pressure from Dell, Lenovo and others in this space and needs to up its game considerably lest it be accused of neglecting notebook users and customers," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT Apple will make a play for corporations at...

Tesla: Everyone Gets a Self-Driving Car

Clearly, Tesla is doubling down on its self-driving bet in the belief that the technology represents the future of consumer and commercial vehicles, said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "What's particularly interesting is the company's evolutionary approach -- equip...

DoL Suit Highlights Asian Glass Ceiling in Tech

While companies do develop patterns of hiring certain groups of workers, there are larger concerns about the overall level of gender and racial imbalance in the technology industry, suggested Charles King, principal analysts at Pund-IT "It isn't unusual for regionally based i...

Consumers Warned of Exploding Samsung Washers

It's possible Samsung can weather its recent storms, suggested Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "Samsung appears to be following proper procedures in regard to working with consumer safety organizations and alerting customers about the problem," he told TechNewsWorld...

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