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A social component may not work for every game, but the inclusion of such a mechanic seems to be QuizUp's natural progression, observed Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. With QuizUp's vast collections of topics, users reveal their personal interests to others based ...

Apple's position in the PC market today has a certain irony to it, noted Charles King, the principal analyst at Pund-IT. "The new MacBook starts at nearly twice the cost of equivalent laptops -- and, innovations aside, luxury pricing means that Apple's market focus is far nar...

"Success would make a fairly significant impact on the go-to market plans of numerous IT vendors. We are seeing the beginnings of similar efforts in China, a market that has long been central to many vendors' future plans and hopes," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT.

"Coherent is well known for the navigation and geolocation work that it's done with companies like Boeing and Iridium, which has resulted in products and services that are more precise than consumer-grade solutions," said Charles King, principal at Pund-IT Apple "could certain...

"The initiative fits in with the company's long term search and advertising strategy," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "In essence, Google is incorporating the new functions into search results for restaurants that already have relationships with Seamless, Grub...

A deal "could fundamentally supercharge Oracle's cloud computing services but would probably be interpreted as an admission of that homegrown effort's failure," pointed out Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT Also, there's an overlap between the offerings of Oracle and...

If Night Terrors only maps out an architectural layout, then the game's online aspect shouldn't be too much of a worry for players, said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "But if the files include photographs of personal possessions, then I think how the files are bei...

Further, Japan "has been aggressive in building out its wired and wireless Internet infrastructure, meaning that the IBM/Apple devices should be supportable most anywhere," noted Charles King, principal at Pund-IT Research "That's certainly not the case in the U.S., where rura...

Cook and company cited the products Apple sold as the reason for its strong second quarter, but just as important may be where it's selling them, according to Pund-IT Principal Analyst Charles King In the second quarter of Apple's 2015 fiscal year, revenue from Greater China o...

In a real sense, these two new projects represent VMware's preparing itself and its customers for a future in which cloud-native, containerized applications will be as important and widely used as traditional business applications, according to Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT...

The popularity of the Apple Watch could benefit many companies besides Apple, noted Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. Those uninvested in Apple's ecosystem won't have access to the Apple Watch, so there will be plenty of opportunity for outsiders to leverage Apple's...

"The idea was that the two of them together could mount a more serious challenge to Google," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "From what I've seen, they have grown their advertising revenues a bit," he told the E-Commerce Times, "but they haven't been anything l...

Music and TV "constitute two of [Apple's] biggest future growth opportunities," noted Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "One of the biggest questions will be what, if any, announcements are made around Apple TV," he told TechNewsWorld. "Competitors have been moving mu...

While some of the best and brightest U.S. security professionals have fingered foreign states as being behind certain attacks, the executive order doesn't formalize how the administration will deal with bad actors funded by, say, the Chinese or Russian governments, noted Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT...

"The price/performance of Chromebooks is becoming so compelling that they could and should put increasing pressure on lower-end PCs and laptops," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told LinuxInsider Chromebook Specs...

"It really benefits from Intel's Atom x7 processor, which delivers the best combination of performance and energy efficiency Intel has achieved in the Atom line," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "It's the best and most compelling Microsoft Surface product that...

"A large part of the problem with 66(A) was that it was so badly drawn that it left room for authorities to exercise poor or even idiotic judgment," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "For example, the BBC noted that 66(A) had been used several times to arrest peo...

That promise of an alternative mobile OS is partly responsible for the strong interest on the part of high-profile investors, noted Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "As Android has grown and evolved, interest in a version of the OS that would be developed and upda...

Amazon's new plans address the typical consumer dilemma of having a lifetime of birthdays, vacations, holidays and everyday moments stored across numerous devices, noted Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. An unlimited plan makes sense, because people rarely know how...

"The venture capital world is a small world within Silicon Valley culture," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "It's likely that the gender discrimination cases pending against Twitter and Facebook are potentially more damaging, because they would affect a larger ...