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I'm writing this just before New Year's Day, and like many of you, I'm hoping to reach my one remaining goal for 2020, which is to be alive in 2021. I'm looking forward to putting 2020 behind me, and while the pandemic has been painful, it has caused things to accelerate in several areas impressively rapidly. Two of those areas are robotics and artificial intelligence, which we'll see adapted broadly this decade, with a considerable bump in 2021...

Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore. explained that Remote ID only allows drone traffic to be monitored "We're not ready to manage traffic yet," he told TechNewsWorld. "When there are more drones in the sk...

Much of my time these last few weeks has been spent looking at schools and companies that tried and often failed to pivot to remote work and education ...

Every year I look back at all of the Products of the Week I've selected during the year and pick the one that made the most significant impression on me to crown the Product of the Year ...

Qualcomm recently took an in-depth look back at the history of the mobile phone, which it was mostly responsible for creating. This turned out to be a personal retrospect because my family owned an electronics company in the 1960s, which was when I used my first mobile phone in my father's Studebaker Avanti ...

Crashes in cloud services cannot be prevented because "these are complex systems undergoing maintenance at a component level and almost always under attack," Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times For example, AWS' Nov. 20 crash occurred because...

Qualcomm last week launched its Snapdragon 888 platform which will show up in premium phones next year -- and this promises to take the high-end of Android smartphones to levels of performance they've never seen before ...

Although Slack "was overmatched competing with Microsoft," its acquisition by Salesforce "provides the potential for a more even fight going forward, assuming the merger is successful," Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times Slack's open platfor...

"One issue is compatibility between systems. A lot of the stuff that works on one system doesn't work with another," observed Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore While headset makers like to talk about immer...

Today is Cyber Monday, which doesn't mean as much this year because the related sales have been going on for much of November as retailers try to milk every available dollar they can. However, like you, I'm doing a lot of shopping, both for others (yes, I'm going to cheat and mostly give Amazon gift cards but some gifts) and myself ...

This month we decided to retire my wife's 2008 Infiniti FX35 and find something else. This swap isn't an easy task because her SUV has a Stillen Stage 2 supercharger in it (a video of the car is here), so we wanted something green and quick ...

The @sign approach addresses privacy and places user data tied to the solution initially within the user's control. However, this is kind of like closing the barn door after the cows have escaped, according to Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group. "Much of this data is already i...

At $300 billion, the online prescription market was just too big to be ignored. "The online pharmacy business is very lucrative, and given Amazon's size, they have a negotiating position with regard to prices that is unmatched next to Walmart," said Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore...

Last week Apple announced a partial pivot away from x86 to ARM with one of those claims so outrageous it could have only come from Apple. ...

Healthcare is a mess, not just here in the U.S., but in most countries. Some of the biggest problems in this data-rich era are the lack of interoperability and fact-based advice. Two companies that stand out as aggressively trying to fix this are IBM and Microsoft. ...

I'd typically argue that having a significant event or announcement anywhere near an election is foolish. Well, four vendors decided to prove me wrong by having events and making announcements that have a material impact that, at times, goes well beyond the technology market and the U.S ...

Retailers have a different purpose for the data they collect than social media platforms, which is why they may need to collect less of it. "They use it to create better products and better present their products," observed Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group in Bend, Ore...

Dell World was last week, and it sure was different this year because it was done virtually. One of the most interesting parts of Dell World is the session on the future. In past years they surfaced the coming of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the coming wave of robotics ...

Google and Facebook make money off ads, and "when you create a conflict between doing what's right and making money, the money generally wins," Rob Enderle, principal at business advisory group The Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Cybersecurity Is a Group Effort...

This subject is one of those things that drives me nuts. We could build homes that stand up to hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, and other natural and human-made disasters. We could build cars that are lighter and more fuel-efficient ...