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Given the pandemic, we are likely to have a new record for online shopping this year. The combination of concerns about COVID-19 and the continued shut down of brick and mortar stores, particularly big-box stores, will push a record number of us to shop online. ...

"The rules surrounding where and when you can fly drones are always changing, and the liability, should one crash into a car or plane, could be catastrophic," Rob Enderle, principal at The Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Privacy is one of the major legal issues facing drone ...

The benefit of video conferencing, particularly during this COVID-19 pandemic, is not having to leave home. Unless you have people bringing the virus into your house, the odds of catching the virus fall if you can cut down on going to the office or school and stay off of planes and public transportation ...

I've been following Microsoft since before it was called Microsoft. This is because back in the 1970s, I was approached to go to work for the company but had already taken another job and never took the interview ...

Nvidia last week announced they are buying Arm for US$40 billion -- to be met through a combination of Nvidia shares and cash. This will result in some exciting changes. ...

I've been using the Microsoft Surface Duo for over a week now, and it is my new favorite smartphone ...

Last week had presentations from three of the significant processor companies, each planning to revolutionize the PC market. This revolution was an immense change from just a couple of years ago when everyone and their brother seemed to think that PCs were dead ...

"It is potentially both a lower cost and faster last-mile delivery system, keeping people shopping at Amazon and reducing the immediate need that might otherwise push them to a local store," added Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group Not only will...

Last week was the 25th anniversary of the biggest and most critical launch in computing history. Steve Jobs was on a forced hiatus after being fired from Apple, and that platform wasn't doing well. OS/2 the supposed successor to DOS/Windows, wasn't selling well either, and DOS/Windows was way out-of-date and aging poorly. ...

"The cost of a major change like this is always very high upfront and much of what is initially done will have to be redone once the trucks, charging infrastructure and technology matures," Rob Enderle, principal at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld Funding for EV purchase...

One of the enormous changes coming to us that has accelerated significantly of late is drone delivery, which promises to provide more speedy fulfillment of online orders. First for small items like meals or medicines, both of which are critical during the pandemic, and eventually for larger items -- and even people ...

The U.S. has a history of killing companies critical to its future. With the original Standard Oil, that company had gained too much political power, but in breaking up the company, the U.S. government gave control of the oil market to the Middle East. RCA had too much power, and when the U.S. broke up the company, it gave that consumer market to post-war Japan...

Holographic transportation is "an extension of mixed reality, a new use case if you will," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld. "It's more a variant on telepresence." ...

2020 began a decade that I think will be defined by irony. I'll skip over the prominent political examples and jump right into social media and drill down to focus on Facebook ...

"Amazon is an e-tailer. If you can't connect to the network, you can't buy anything from them," said Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with the Enderle Group "Think of it as a retailer opening up branch offices," he told TechNewsWorld. "In this case, though, they're...

This initiative is very significant, agreed Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group. It showcases that the LF and the OpenSSF are taking these threats seriously and stepping up sharply to deal with them. Enderle noted that given the growing number of...

Like a lot of you, last week I watched the congressional testimony from the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google -- and there were a lot of apparent things that were problematic ...

Personalization is critical for an app like Alexa mobile, maintained Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group "They should learn who you are, what you want, and to deal with the nuances in your speech," he told TechNewsWorld. "Once they learn how to de...

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 ...

I've been covering video conferencing since before we called it video conferencing. I became interested in it when I was a kid at Disneyland around 1965. ...