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It is almost the New Year, and I'm sure many of us will be glad to say goodbye to 2004. It is traditional to make New Year's resolutions, and I'd like to suggest some for the companies that make up the high technology segment ...

Rob Enderle, principal of the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times that these moves indicate that Microsoft is managing game properties much more dynamically than it initially did when it launched Xbox Console Business...

The end of this year marks the halfway point in the first decade of the twenty-first century, and the tech industry has already gone through a number of dramatic changes ...

"It surprised me to find there were still HP guys involved in it," EnderleGroup principal analyst Rob Enderle told TechNewsWorld Doomed Effort...

2005 will see the next big battle for the home. The concept of the digital hub is slowly becoming reality, and both TiVo and Microsoft are making a run for the gold ...

Nearly four years ago I predicted that IBM would leave the PC business, and it took IBM two years to convince me that I was wrong. Imagine how surprised I was this week when IBM actually sold its PC business to Lenovo ...

Project MegaGrid has a mega-goal, but analysts said it is also an achievable one. Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times that whenever world-class players come together to focus on one goal, the potential to accomplish that goal is great...

Once again we are on countdown for Christmas, and many of you will take the easy way out and give cash, checks or one of those pre-paid cards that allow recipients to buy what they want at an after-Christmas sale. But for me there is something of a letdown in getting cash for Christmas, and I tend not to remember the gift or associate the purchase with the gift giver. As a result, the only time I give cash is when cash is the thing the recipient most needs...

Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times that the market dynamics are changing. Sure, he said, Microsoft will make a major impact on the antivirus market once its product is through beta testing and is officially launched In the meantime,...

The Insane World of Home Electronics 2: Media DistributionLast week we chatted about home automation. This week we move on to home media distribution ...

First, when users play games online, carriers receive the per minute charges. "There are some cases where users get hooked on a particular game, play it repeatedly, and are surprised when the month's cell phone bill arrives," said Rob Enderle, chief analyst at the Enderle Group...

As a guest of AMD, I went to Indianapolis to watch the top Ferrari team once again whomp the other nine teams in what remains one of the most expensive sports in the world. This racing team has been winning for so long and is so dominant in this sport that I often wonder why anyone watches these races anymore. The outcome often seems preordained ...

Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld this is a big win for Microsoft in its battle against Linux Ever since the Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation (IIA) report titled "PC Management Best Practices: A Study of the Total Cost o...

I'm a home automation nut. When I moved into my home a friend and I spent a week and $2,000 replacing all of the wall switches and many of the plugs with remote switches. I can now turn on and off my lights and sprinklers from my bed. (The latter is a handy anti-barking tool: Wet dogs bark less.) ...

Enderle Group analyst Rob Enderle said Microsoft has traditionally not liked to let its innovations and advances leak out before it releases software upgrades, especially in the case of a release as major as Longhorn is expected to be Improvements to the browser are likely alr...

"What really irks them is that they believe a lot of the stuff that allows Linux to interoperate with Windows is their own intellectual property. Whether it's true or not is another question," TechNewsWorld columnist and IT analyst Rob Enderle said "The problem they're up agai...

Rob Enderle, principal analyst with the Enderle Group, told LinuxInsider that Microsoft is using a strategy similar to its NetWare play, providing a way for its products to co-exist with other vendor's products and then using that as a way to migrate folks from those other products to its own over time...

Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told the E-Commerce Times that India is a great location for very talented, relatively low-cost labor "What Microsoft, as well as a number of other countries, have discovered is having localized resources in a particular geo...

The two major initiatives in the consumer market this year have to do with digital media, and they are from Microsoft and Apple. Microsoft's is the broad Media Center Edition that encompasses the home and provides your music on a variety of products, while Apple's is more targeted at just PCs (both Apple and Windows) and the iPod. The two companies overlap in only one area -- the Windows PC -- and even here they differ in approach. Apple is mostly music (although it just added still images to the iPod) and Microsoft has consistently pushed the envelope with music, pictures and video...

Analyst and TechNewsWorld columnist Rob Enderle said that Dell and Intel have danced this dance before, only this time the tune has changed "Historically Dell has done this because they aren't getting the response they want from Intel and then Intel steps up and Dell doesn't m...