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Here in the U.S., last week was a big week, where we had a minor revolution and tossed out the arrogant bums who should have seen this change coming. There is avideo that probably speaks to this better than I ever could. Interestingly enough, I found it on Technorati -- more on that later ...

The Linux folks must be feeling like they've walked into some kind of alternative universe. Last week, Oracle made its move to take Linux over by swiping Red Hat's revenue stream in a pre-Halloween surprise. This week, Novell and Microsoft are partnering in an event for the history books ...

Microsoft's change of heart is a direct response to gamers, a group that often has tremendous influence in the consumer and corporate markets, according to Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle "These guys may be gamers during the evenings, but they are often IT support ...

The iPod crowd may not be as constant as the Mac faithful, agreed Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group "The loyalty isn't there," Enderle said. "This is a CE audience and consumer electronics audiences tend to switch vendors about as often as peopl...

I spent most of last week in Las Vegas with IBM, learning about things that firm doesn't often talk about. While that was going on, Oracle implemented the first step in its latest world domination plan and I continued to hear chatter on Apple's planned surprise for Microsoft during its Vista launch. This is Halloween week -- and we are in store for a scary ride...

As we approach the end of the year, thoughts traditionally turn to the future. I thought I'd get an early start. Near term we have the widely rumored launch of the new Apple Newton, uh, I mean iPhone. A little further out we have the emergence of true telepresence -- which brings the possibility that companies will no longer reimburse business travel for most of us...

"The task ahead of Microsoft now is to generate interest in an upgrade that has been in the planning stages for so long that people may have become complacent," said Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle. "They have tried to keep potential customers on the edge of their seats for a long time, and now is the time to get them ready to buy."

Last week's happenings foreshadowed potential changes in the wind. With the stock option backdating scandal widening, it appears that Apple CEO Steve Jobs may have been caught in the net ...

The company also launched to much hype, with just a single customer on board, noted Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle. The result of the high-profile launch was little marketplace traction It did, however, prompt Intel to put "a massive amount of resources into creat...

Winter slowly drifted into Silicon Valley last week. In the aftermath of what appeared to many of us to be a largely politically motivated "scandal" surrounding HP, not only was HP's business largely unaffected but federal laws regarding the practice of pretexting were left in limbo ...

Enderle Group Principal analyst Rob Enderle claimed that's because observers seem to have been able to keep the scandal in perspective -- and noted that viewed alongside political scandals in Washington, D.C., it pales in comparison "The HP folks were motivated to stop a probl...

I visited two of the greatest cities in the United States last week. First, I was in San Francisco where Intel made a credible attempt to show that it intends to stay the market leader despite anything rival AMD has done. Then I went to New York to talk to folks about Hewlett-Packard's congressional hearings and to attend one of the most impressive HP product launches that firm has had in awhile...

A major brake on the spread of WiFi in consumer electronics devices was content, noted Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group "The ability to deliver content to devices has existed for awhile," Enderle told TechNewsWorld, "but the problem has been co...

Zune, though, offers something no other player has yet tried: wireless media sharing. That capability could turn heads, according to Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle. "Kids love to share music. They also love to discover new music. This does make the Zune platform unique," he told TechNewsWorld...

The scandal has had some unintentional but positive side effects for HP -- elevating Hurd to the Chairman post, for instance, and doing an almost complete make-over of the company's board of directors, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle said "The scandal has to be ver...

As we move into fall and approach the Intel Developer Forum this week, things show no sign of slowing down. Last week AMD fired an early volley at Intel by broadening an initiative designed to unite the entire slate of remaining non-Intel chip companies, making me wonder, had this happened earlier would Apple have made its Intel move? ...

"Hurd is driving HP's turnaround, so for him to be pulled into this mess is not good news for the company," said Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle. If nothing else, Hurd's credibility with Wall Street and with employees could be damaged, he added Dunn stepped down, H...

The AOL hook-up could be key, Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle said, because both Intel's Viiv and AMD's answer to it, known as Live, are bound to "live or die on content." A lack of true custom content for the Media Center PC has helped keep that Microsoft-based ef...

Last week we saw the two big guys go at it: First Apple showed off product updates for the iPod and iTunes, and then Microsoft had the coming-out party for Zune -- its so-called iPod killer ...

"This is a market that buys small and sexy devices and the Zune is neither small nor sexy," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told TechNewsWorld. "We know that people get iTunes through the iPod. They don't get the iPod because they love iTunes. While the Zune music service is arguably better than iTunes on a number of vectors, if folks buy [such services] because they like the player better, then the Zune player is not up to that standard."