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Red Hat’s Virtual Summit Crowds Hint at Future Conference Models

It is not yet a given how the tech industry in general will respond with future conferences. The actual effectiveness of virtual gatherings is still an uncharted course, suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group In order of effectiveness, tech conferences h...

Salesforce Revamps Work.com to Help Businesses Address Pandemic

Most of the major HR solution vendors soon will offer competitors to Work.com, suggested Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Workday, for example, is helping its customers with things like critical staffing and resource management as well as connecting with emp...

Google Meet Aims to Head Off Zoom

Google Meet "is business class, meaning Google has done decent work to secure the platform," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Google Meet "will work with many of the cross-standard conferencing sites like those from Polycom and Cisco," he told the E...

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3 Improvements the COVID-19 Pandemic May Force

The pandemic may force certain improvements but I'm not sure that it will, because political distractions are doing a rather good job of drawing our focus away from fixing things now. ...

Bottom Line: iPhone SE Packs Great Value for the Money

"For those of us concerned about money right now -- and that's probably the vast majority -- and who need a new iPhone, the SE provides the greatest bang for the buck," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Right now the market either isn't buying or peopl...

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HP’s COVID-19 Response: There Should Be an Award for This

Some of the corporate responses to COVID-19 make me incredibly happy I don't work for a large company anymore. Some of the troubling reports from other companies include forced work in unsafe areas, not enough -- or any -- protection gear, massive layoffs and furloughs, and the sense that a critical mass of well-paid CEOs and politicians don't get that many people live paycheck to paycheck...

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Getting Back to Work: Could Intel’s Bunny Suits Be in Our Post COVID-19 Future?

The reason governments had to shut down economies is that in the face of a pandemic, we could not tell who was sick and who was not. While widespread testing followed by a vaccine eventually will curb this virus, what about the next one? ...

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How BlackBerry Could Make Voting From Smartphones Secure

Some states, including Colorado and Oregon, where I live, defaulted to mail-in ballots some time ago, and their elections are unconstrained by the pandemic. However, in many parts of the U.S., the prevailing attitude is that the Web lacks enough security for elections. That strikes me as odd, given that we now use the Internet to manage our finances, our healthcare, our businesses, our travel -- and increasingly our shopping, including for food...

Open COVID Pledge Makes Critical IP Freely Accessible for Pandemic Fight

The pledge likely will not have much impact, because "during an event like this, worrying about IP litigation is a very low priority," contended Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. Another issue to consider is whoat will happen to technology developed after t...

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Government COVID-19 Responses: 3 Massive Mistakes, 1 Huge Success

People don't trust their governments for a good reason. Governments lie to them regularly. In the ongoing COVID-19 event, we in the U.S. initially were told that there was little risk. The first 15 people who came to the U.S. with the virus soon would get well, and the event then would be over. ...

Coronavirus Threat Sparks Revolt at Amazon, Whole Foods, Instacart

The workers have no choice but to protest, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, because "in effect the firms are passing the risk on to them without adequate compensation." Their only other alternative is to refuse to work, which isn't a tolerable solution...

Zoom’s Soaring Popularity Is a Double-Edged Sword

Referring to the Facebook data sharing, Zoom "had an obligation to disclose that to its users," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Facebook has had many significant issues regarding protecting user privacy. For many, avoiding an application that shared d...

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Living in the COVID-19 World: TV Hosts Struggle at Home

Being stuck at home gives us all way too much time to think, and many of us are burning through online content very rapidly. One of the things I just noticed is that TV shows that typically have live audiences suddenly have become almost unwatchable. ...

3D Printers Join Arsenal of COVID-19 Weapons

"I've been watching this for several days now, and it's amazing how these people are stepping up," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group The involvement of companies from outside industries, like auto and aircraft manufacturing, "shows that these industries ...

Instagram Combats COVID-19 Misinformation, Social Isolation

"This effort is pretty impressive if they execute to plan," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "If they can, Instagram has set the new bar for what can and should be done with social media," he told TechNewsWorld....

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3 Things the Tech Industry Could Do to Mitigate Pandemic Problems

We are up to our armpits in COVID-19, also known as "coronavirus," concerns. While the technology market could be devastated by it, there are several things tech players could do to mitigate the damage. ...

Microsoft Leaves Necurs Botnet in Shambles

"Necurs is the named exploit that is most consistently used," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York last week issued an order enabling Microsoft to take control of the U.S.-based infrastructure N...

Reddit Challenges Twitter With Trending Takeover Ads

Trending Takeover ads offer better engagement with users, "which should be a more effective approach to drive people to engage with the brands and consider the related products," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group However, Reddit "is famous for extrem...

Robinhood Outages Anger Customers

"A service like this that is unavailable during big market movements is a liability and not an asset," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "People divest liabilities," he told the E-Commerce Times....

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COVID-19 and the End of Daily Life as We Know It

There are several questions and issues surrounding COVID-19. Did it mutate from a Pangolin virus, or was it manufactured and accidentally released? I thought the second possibility was a hoax, but I understand that the Department of Defense isn't so sure. (In any case, the controls around the Chinese labs were tightened.) ...

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