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The problem of fake reviews goes well beyond Amazon and even well beyond online retailing, said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. The problem has been around in other industries as well -- for example, with respect to movie releases -- and done damage to brand credi...

"Overall, the details may be a bit too technically obscure for most folks to care about," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "Plus, Apple's truest fans and [most loyal] customers appear willing to forgive the company for any self-inflicted embarrassment," he tol...

Craigslist's approach to mobile could both hurt and help it in competition with Marketplace, noted Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "The fact that Marketplace is integrated into the Facebook mobile app is significantly different from Craigslist, which prefers to empl...

The GE and Bosch partnership is an interesting development, said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. If the Internet of Things is going to work as envisioned, it needs to be based on open technologies supporting collaborations like the one announced by GE and Bosch, h...

Anonymity has been a hot button issue for just about the entire life of the Internet, and although there is no 100 percent solution in sight, the situation is not entirely hopeless, according to Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "So long as public sites enable user an...

At this point, Apple appears content at incrementally upgrading the iPhone rather than reimagining it, said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "Replacing the industry standard headphone jack with proprietary technology demonstrates that the company is also willing to c...

"Killing the headphone jack and pushing customers toward Apple-made AirPods seems like a fundamental mistake to me," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. However, "doing so is likely the only way that the company could ever fully profit from its (US)$3 billion Bea...

With the design changes in the new Fitbit products, fitness tracking can become a 24-hour-a-day process, noted Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "Fitbit should be congratulated for upping its overall game, but these moves are also critically important from a competiti...

"Apple might consider Gliimpse a critical technology to an overarching healthcare service, or it may simply see it as complementary to other Apple health and fitness solutions," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "At this point, it's impossible to say." Purchasi...

The Instant App function is a potential game changer, as it will allow users to sample new apps in the Google Play Store prior to downloading, said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. It's also possible Nougat will drive new hardware sales, he suggested....

"The main significance is the legitimacy that becoming a Linux Foundation project confers on PNDA," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "Bringing it into the foundation may also speed integration of new features, such as Hadoop distribution independence, containe...

"In purchasing Beam, Microsoft is acquiring the core assets it needs to quickly build and offer in-house streaming that supports participatory play," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "That's a critical point in attracting younger gamers who love Let's Play video...

Cook's blandness impressed Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "What's most interesting about the interview to me is how uninteresting and unrevealing it is," he told the E-Commerce Times....

From Russia's perspective, an investigation into price-fixing could be reasonable, observed Pund-IT Principle Analyst Charles King On the other hand, "it could also simply be that the Russian government is trying to show that it can push around any company it likes, even Apple...

"Overall, GV has grown into a formidable organization under Maris, with about $2.5 billion of assets and investments," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "GV's leadership of Uber's Series C funding is probably its investment high point, so far as on-paper asset ap...

The Linux server is the go-to platform for orchestrating DDoS attacks because of its latent vulnerabilities, said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. A common problem is that they are not protected by reliable security solutions "That makes them prime targets for hacke...

Similarities aside, Stories will enhance the Instagram user experience, said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "Stories allows Instagram users to easily create narratives using a variety of content and multimedia," he told TechNewsWorld. "The result is a far more dy...

For the first time in 10 quarters, Apple offset depressed iPhone sales with increased revenue from iPad sales, services revenue and App Store purchases, noted Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "With the company subjected to shifting trends and increasing competition i...

"It's entirely possible that the new phone will help BlackBerry stem the tide of customers leaving its platform for other devices, but I expect that attracting new customers will continue to be a challenge for the company," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "That...

The question of which sources will be included in Knowledge Graph searches is a big issue, observed Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "Microsoft says that it will continue expanding Researcher's body of reference materials," he told TechNewsWorld. "That's great, but i...