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This approach "is smart, as it should keep them out of the gunsights of the regulators who have been pissed about Facebook's cryptocurrency," commented Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Entering directly into banking "would be catastrophic for Google and woul...

"A lot of people on the service make a living on it," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore. "I don't think Google gets that," he told TechNewsWorld. "When you're dealing with people's income, you not only have to be...

Today is Veterans Day. I got a note last week from Joe Sestak, one of the shrinking field of United States presidential candidates, reminding me that we should observe a moment of silence in recognition of our veterans today. ...

Usability over the previous IE and earlier Edge versions are a big advantage, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group After using Edge versions for the last few months, he can rely on this browser, he told LinuxInsider, whereas previously he had to switch betw...

There recently has been a lot of rumbling about Twitter deciding not to take political ads, and Facebook deciding -- and this was stupid -- that it would run political ads even if they were untrue. I'm becoming convinced that Zuckerberg is trying to put Facebook out of business. ...

The employees' bid to set company policy "is very dangerous, and the path is through unionization -- which is coming back at the moment -- so the game being played has very high stakes," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group The letter "is focusing regulato...

Support for Dolby sound can be very important to owners of 4K TVs, noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Oregon "Dolby is basically table stakes for a good 4K TV, so if you want to do 4K well you have to have Dolby for so...

Though they're often made fun of, millennials arguably are making a bigger impact on saving the planet than the generations that preceded them. It does seem strange to me that our governments haven't been more aggressive about protecting the environment, given that the cost of not doing so poses an existential risk to the human race. ...

It makes sense for GoPro to build a 360-degree camera, even though watching 360-degree video is limited to virtual reality hardware, observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Oregon "GoPro doesn't want to have somebody mov...

I was moved by the recent news about a woman being shot in her home by a police officer who had come to check up on her. Once again, I found it frustrating that people immediately jumped to apply blame before all the facts were in, which tends to do more damage than good. ...

One of the interesting and somewhat underappreciated aspects of the Qualcomm wireless event in San Diego a few weeks back is that 5G will make realistic augmented reality avatars possible. This advance will be possible because with high bandwidth and very low latency, processing could shift from the device to the cloud. ...

The issue with open source is that there is not one camp. The definition of what "open source" means can vary from person to person, noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "This lack of consistency makes it very difficult to balance open source and closed...

"Like any rental, you could end up paying more for the speakers than if you bought them," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Oregon "There are also issues with extra charges if the speakers are damaged, and the probabi...

One of the last major initiatives former CEO Steve Ballmer launched before he left Microsoft was its Surface effort. It was designed to address the concern that the iPod would take over the PC world. ...

"Laptop screens prevent them from becoming as small as we want to carry and as big as we need to work," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "The Surface Neo is an attempt to fix that problem." The Neo "brings back Microsoft as the innovator in hardware," ...

Last week, I attended a Qualcomm event that took me through the coming wave of both 5G and Wi-Fi 6 products, touched on the millimeter wave, and at least spoke to 6G. From this, I think I can begin to picture the world as it will exist by the middle of the next decade, and it is kind of fascinating ...

Apple and Facebook "aren't good at partnering, and Google has the attention span of a 4-year-old on sugar, so they may have simply not gotten around to it yet," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group Further, Google and Facebook "have horrid reputations w...

If every country expected its laws to apply globally, "enforcing those laws would not only be a nightmare, but the laws would stack, making it nearly impossible for firms or individuals to comply with them while remaining in business," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group...

Watching Brazil's rain forest burn is causing a lot of us to freak out a bit. Referring to it as "the world's lungs" may be an overstatement, but the rain forest is a critical global resource, and its destruction undoubtedly will do even more ugly things to global warming. ...

The Portal TV blends the functionality of a set-top box with social media and video conferencing, observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "It's light on the set-top box part, lacking Netflix, but the other two features are unique," he told TechNewsWorld....