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In San Jose, California, the city IT organization started an aggressive program to build the most advanced city hall in the state. The department's leaders thought they grasped the technology, and there wasn't a hot buzzword that was missed in the proposal. The local paper, The Mercury News, took an in-depth look at the bid, and the end result was an embarrassing investigation into city technology acquisition practices and a call for the resignations of a number of high-ranking officials. Meanwhile, the construction on the city hall was embarrassingly delayed. Further review indicated the city was overpaying by millions and had violated its own polices by single-sourcing to one vendor, Cisco...

I mentioned last week that I was expecting the other shoe to drop this week at the Game Developers Conference 2005. That shoe was the next generation of the Xbox game machine, and it dropped like an atomic bomb. The collateral damage from the resulting explosion could be extensive. It may even take out Apple, forcing the company to exit the PC business...

However, Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle said making the deal work for all involved will be a "huge challenge" for IBM and Lenovo alike The deal has the best chance of succeeding, he said, if the new unit makes a clean break from IBM corporate culture, policies and...

Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld this not the first time Danger and T-Mobile have experienced performance issues. In a high-profile case last month, online thieves stole addresses, e-mail and images from the Sidekick of celebrity heiress Paris Hilton. The cause of the latest outage remains unknown...

Last week was a busy week. It started with the Intel Developer Forum and ended with an American Press Institute roundtable on the future of media. We'll cover the second event another week because there were two things I saw while at the Intel event that I believe are potentially market breakers. ...

Still, Yahoo could become a huge friend of the wireless industry if it can develop addictive games, according to Rob Enderle, chief analyst at the Enderle Group Mobile carriers love such games because users can become hooked and use up potentially lucrative calling time, Ender...

As we move well into the spring semester, more and more kids are thinking about life after college. Those that prepared wisely already know where their first jobs will be. Those that didn't may, at least for a while, need to get used to the question, "Do you want fries with that?" ...

This last month saw a number of dramatic changes, not the least of which was the involuntary departure of HP's CEO, Carly Fiorina, and the voluntary departure of her closest supporter, Alison Johnson, who was largely responsible for turning HP into a marketing powerhouse ...

This week is the RSA Conference 2005, and today I'm doing one of the opening talks at a Trusted Computing Group lunch. I'm trying to find a nice way to say that I think the most common approach to security problems these days is completely whacked, but I have struggled with the "nice" part. Here are some of the things that are bothering me ...

Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times that the resignation came about because Fiorina might have under-estimated the board of directors' resolve to improve operations at HP "There were too many internal problems coming up. The board was behind t...

Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle told the E-Commerce Times the move is not a surprise given Microsoft's penchant for buying companies with ""good technology but [that] lack a strong sales channel to move it to market." That's particularly true in the security space, he added...

2005 will see two big waves of new laptop computers. The first, based on Intel's new Sonoma platform, rolled in last week. The second, based on AMD's new Turion processor, is still several weeks off ...

"U.S. and European courts have indicated [interoperability is] something Microsoft will haveto do," said analyst and TechNewsWorld columnist Rob Enderle. "They had the choice offighting or getting behind it. This is probably where they should have beenall along because this i...

Last week we talked about a number of platform companies that could drive the future of the personal computer. This week we look at PC hardware, and we will talk a bit about some of the unusual products that are already on the market ...

But the program will continue to expand beyond where it is now, analystRob Enderle told TechNewsWorld "I believe that by the time Longhorn is released, all of these offeringswill be turned off for anyone who doesn't have a registered copy," he said."Eventually, anyone who sell...

This month we've seen a number of vendors present their views of the next generation of the personal computer, starting with the traditional PC vendors at CES and ending with Apple at MacWorld. Let's spend this week talking a bit about the different camps. While it goes without saying that each is absolutely convinced it's right, each also has issues that need to be addressed...

Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle said if current trends continue, Microsoft might have no choice but to substantially upgrade its browser in order to answer much stronger competition from Firefox and others. A new version of the Netscape browser that Microsoft displaced for market dominance is also in the works...

It was rather hard to find true convergence products at CES. Most vendors are still too enamored with technology and not excited enough about building a truly consumer-oriented, appliance-like offering. I wasn't particularly excited about Apple's announcements either, but I'll leave that to another time and focus on the companies and products that stood out at CES...

Enderle Group principal analyst Rob Enderle said the move might be more evidence that the software giant is moving into a different mode, one of acquisition, with the company acquiring smaller firms for their intellectual property and technology in order to maintain its edge over competitors...

As I was working up my impressions of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week, one thing became painfully clear: The most important vendor, from the standpoint of interest, wasn't even there ...