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Last week a number of surprising issues flared in the press ...

Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle noted that the recent endorsement of HD DVD by Hewlett-Packard, which cited the limitations on legal copying of discs in Blu-ray, was a major boost for the HD standard In the end, however, Enderle said that standard may not be as im...

We are constantly manipulated by statistics, some from the government, some from vendors, often from those we trust. However, sometimes those parties are not worthy of that trust. Sometimes they are being manipulated themselves and so the figures they present can be dangerously misleading ...

"By the end of the decade, it's going to be Microsoft and Linux on the mobile phone," said Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle But which flavor of Linux? Unlike Windows, Linux is generic, with a variety of players looking to build the Linux mobile ecosystem. PalmSource...

Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle said Nokia has also excelled at what he calls mass customization, with Nokia churning out phones that users can make their own by applying changeable skins ...

A lot of interesting things happened last week. RIM finally released its plan to work around NTP's patents, Google decided to use some of the massive amount of cash it got from investors to buy real estate on desktop PCs, and ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina stepped back into the limelight, talking about how she screwed up at the company. After all that, it's hard not to feel somewhat dizzy...

"For all the marks against it and the stumbles it's had, Microsoft is still a massive company with deep pockets that isn't afraid to put its cash to use," Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. "They can use their size strategically." Power of S...

A few years ago the music player device space was incredibly boring. The Sony Walkman CD player was the last big thing in music players, and it had long since become irrelevant. Products from RIO, which was going through a bankruptcy, and Creative Labs were anything but exciting. Then, from left field a PC company, Apple Computer, entered the marketplace with its iTunes MP3 players. The rest is history...

Microsoft's efforts to make its products work with other platforms are being viewed with skepticism -- which is not a surprise, given the company's history, said Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle "A lot of the open-standards effort that's gone on in the past has been...

Last week I was in Monte Carlo to speak at a conference for distributors in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Traditionally these regions have been referred to as "emerging markets," but with sales in the tens of billions of dollars and growth rates in the high double digits, I think it's safe to say they have already emerged to some degree ...

Despite facing increasing competition from "free" rivals in the open-source community, Microsoft has some advantages over some other vendors such as Intel, said Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle "They are protected somewhat by enterprise agreements that assure the re...

Microsoft still needs to avoid distraction heading into the Vista launch. The company is now facing the most competitive pressure in its history, with open-source software, a rejuvenated Apple and Google's growing Web-services empire posing threats to the software giant over the long term, noted Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle...

This is the final installment of my three-part series covering this year's Consumer Electronics Show, so this week let's focus on the future ...

Apple should have no trouble clearing out existing Macs to make room for the new family of Intel-powered machines, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle said "The new wave of products could really knock consumers' socks off," Enderle told the E-Commerce Times. Given Appl...

Cisco, like other technology companies, will face the challenge of entering the consumer market without becoming distracted from its core business, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times "The markets are vastly different and the result can be a d...

Many products that will be developed for emerging Asian economies will be developed in India, Enderle Group Principal Analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times "India offers lower-cost living conditions, lower-cost labor, and a proximity to other third-world locations," En...

As the first of my three-part report on this year's Consumer Electronics Show, I'll focus on the big companies and a number of the cool products that were announced early in the show. Next week, Part Two will loop in the late announcements and contrast what happened at MacWorld the following week. In Part Three, I'll point out what vendors are missing in their pursuit of Consumer Electronics opportunities...

The Consumer Electronics Show kicks off this week in Las Vegas and I'll be there with the crowd, hoping it won't rain this year and praying I can get from meeting to meeting in one piece. This is a massive show covering the broad spectrum of consumer electronics. This year's show will be amazing, the most spectacular yet. This week I'll share my expectations, and next week I'll chat about what actually happened...

While Microsoft was not willing to talk about its efforts, many others in the industry had plenty to say about the software giant's efforts to focus on small to mid-sized companies. Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group in San Jose, Calif., for one, said this area of the market is seen as a "huge untapped opportunity." But he said Microsoft might face obstacles...

Another year is about to bite the dust and this is my opportunity to look back and ahead broadly and cover the things I haven't already touched on in this column during the last few weeks. The month began with my discussion of five companies -- Sony, Google, IBM, Oracle and Apple -- and how four of them would probably drop into decline in 2006. Then I brought up the major technology trends and companies to watch in 2006, and last week's column focused on the major software and hardware battles of 2005 and 2006...