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The scandal may have roots that go back a couple years, but the immediate results may be a new board, one that Hurd can put his own personal stamp on, and one that no longer includes members who opposed the Compaq merger, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle said. Fiorina saw through the merger to the end, even though it may have helped hasten her exit...

Last week, HP launched an impressive array of new products -- but few noticed, because the news once again surrounded events that happened when their ex-CEO was still there, screwing up the company ...

"The difficulty of the stigma that surrounds Itanium is that of old iron. It never reached the breakout potential that it once had," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told TechNewsWorld. "Itanium was to be the future of Intel. Clearly Intel is now on a different track. When Dell exited, it wasn't a good sign."

It's "hard to tell" how far back the internal dispute may stretch, and whether it encompasses the Compaq merger or the ousting of Fiorina, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle said "What we can determine is that this appears to be a breach of trust with the departing bo...

"Unlike an Apple product where you don't get a chance to see it in all its glory until it reaches its final form, Microsoft has to give all sorts of warnings to its corporate customers, so we miss out on the surprise part," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told TechNewsWorld. "The surprise will have to come with the hardware when it shows up in the first quarter of next year."

Summer is the time to relax, take in the weather and drink a Mint Julep ... right? Someone should tattoo this information on the heads of a number of executives I know because this summer has been anything but relaxing and I still haven't even seen a Mint Julep ...

"Microsoft wants to put this chapter in its history behind it, as evidenced by the massive payouts it's made to settle private antitrust suits," said Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle While regulators and courts in the U.S. seem satisfied that Microsoft is making pro...

"The InterVideo acquisition further builds out Corel's content creation line with one of the strongest codecs and DVD playback engines on the market. InterVideo is the most visible brand in the segment. It competes with Cybermedia, which offers a lower cost alternative. InterVideo has the visibility, marketing muscle and the products that sell aggressively on retail," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times...

This summer has been amazing, and there isn't any letup. I was convinced last week that I'd be able to focus on some of the longer-term issues rather than big new news this week. Clearly that wasn't the case, and I had more to choose from than I have room to discuss. As a result, I'm picking two of the most interesting topics -- so I can leave room for specific product recommendations for back to school, as promised, at the end...

However, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle spoke with Microsoft product managers personally on Friday to clear up the matter. Microsoft told Enderle that Riley's comments were off the mark "There are DVD capabilities built into the system, but there was never a plan ...

Last week had its share of crazy news in what has become a very interesting period for the PC business. You only have to go to the Web to see the warning signs of an apocalyptic event, like spoofing on Apple and Intel, Microsoft and Lawrence Lessig launching a new open copyright tool together, and an Apple user going public about Apple problems and living to tell about it...

Last week was disappointing. I was expecting, as were others, much more out of Apple at its developer's conference, where the subtext was that with Steve Jobs not looking so well and with a lot of executives in his age group stepping down, is it time to imagine an Apple without him? ...

Now that it has cooled off in California, or at least it had until my wife saw our power bill for the month of July, it seems like it might be a good time to talk conservation, and touch on some of the technologies that can be used to reduce our use of fossil fuels as well as keep our power bills from resembling the national debt ...

Last week was one to write home about, particularly between AMD and Intel. The AMD folks effectively created a distraction during Intel's biggest launch since the original Pentium 13 years ago -- and Intel actually helped them do it. In addition, Microsoft met with a broad cross section of analysts and signaled that it is preparing for war, with Apple's iPod and Research in Motion's (Nasdaq: RIMM) BlackBerry as targets...

"Against IBM, HP is weak on software and services. They are taking the market lead, in terms of revenue, from IBM this year, and they want to sustain that lead," said Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle "HP, by all accounts, is now running well enough that they can foc...

"This fundamentally changes the dynamic in the PC processor space," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with The Enderle Group. "It is now clearly a platform battle going forward. This may very well mean that processor performance alone will be meaningless going forward, and it probably has been meaningless for some time."

This is becoming an interesting summer. As we cook under the effects of "mythical" global warming, tech vendors have been busy getting ready for the second half of the year ...

Of all the weeks for me to pick to take a vacation, last week was probably the worst. There was so much going on that my "vacation" became busier than a normal work week ...

"No matter how many resources and employees and money a company has, at some point all the legal issues start to become a distraction," said Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle. That, he added, is why Microsoft has spent billions settling private and state-level antitrust suits and other actions, such as patent disputes. "Given the competitive issues it faces, Microsoft needs to stay focused."

Microsoft traditionally has been leery of the device market. Xbox is the one successful exception. If Microsoft hopes to compete with iPod, it would require a full line of products, an enhanced media player and a back-end device for content, said Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle...