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Just how important the Tizen operating system will be for Samsung is anyone's guess. Overall, India is a safer and more likely profitable bet for the company than some other, more mature markets, according to Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "Any time a major vend...

There are two main reasons that a vendor develops a standalone OS. One is to make its products more competitive. The other is to tighten the strings tying it to customers, according to Charles King, Principal Analyst at Pund-IT "I expect that Samsung's efforts around Tizen re...

"The University of Alberta's effort is particularly interesting in that it uses a computer to play and win an imperfect information game -- as opposed to perfect information games like chess, checkers and tic-tac-toe, where both players have access to all game-related information," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT.

This past year saw, on one hand, "a generational shift in attitudes towards homosexuals and the right to marry," and on another, "missteps such as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's harrowing 'karma' comment, to the harrowing treatment some women suffered relating to Gamergate," commented Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT...

The questions and responses were "about free-floating anxieties," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "Given the massive attention that data thefts this year at Home Depot and Target received, I'm not really surprised that credit card theft was top of mind for so...

"The Web has been and remains one of the most remarkable conduits for sharing information and knowledge between people," said Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT. Free access to information and education has "long been known as a key to personal and societal betterm...

Hawking seems most fearful of classes of machines capable of spontaneous or self-guided evolution, and "I believe that there are some good reasons for his concern," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT Computers are already far better at many kinds of sustained, hi...

BitTorrent appears to be positioning Sync as "something of an 'anti-cloud' in that it supports most or all of the same premium functions and ease of access to information that Dropbox, Google and other services do, but without their performance limitations and at a significantly lower cost," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT.

"I was struck by the point that IBM made about understanding the importance and sanctity of enterprise security, and promising that none of the data created by users would be used in any way but to support the customer," said Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT "Googl...

There's a "wide disparity" in users' expectations that's informed by their experience and that of people close to them, Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told TechNewsWorld "The Snowden case certainly opened up the window on the shadowy dealings of ... government sur...

Musk's venture appears "largely speculative," noted Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT "If they can come up with a workable, durable design that can be manufactured at the planned cost, the venture could successfully get off the ground -- no pun intended," he told T...

"I don't think it will be," said Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT. "It's more in the line of a value-add for Prime members than it will be a serious competitor for services that specialize in online photo storage," he told the E-Commerce Times.

"The decision to halt W8 sales reflects the forward-thinking leadership Microsoft hoped to achieve under Satya Nadella," Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times "It is far easier for an executive with a clean slate to make an objective judgment...

On the other hand, "from the polling and survey numbers I've seen, younger consumers ... by and large represent a sizable proportion of Apple's customers," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. Younger people "see homosexuality as far less of a stigma than their p...

"Google recognizes people are using their phones for email and creating an email experience that has additional alerts, memos and reminders will make their lives a lot easier," said Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT. Where Google has a leg up on competitors trying ...

"They should be able to keep the billions they've socked away overseas," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, told the E-Commerce Times That's a lot of billions -- the 307 largest US MNCs held nearly US$2 trillion outside the U.S. last year, Bloomberg reported. ...

"Google's new Helpouts chats with doctors is meant to address one of healthcare's most pressing problems: determining if or when a patient should schedule time for an actual office visit," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT "At this point, the issue is handled in ...

It would be difficult to find "a more startling case of what might be called C-level pedal-oral impaction -- that is, an executive planting his foot so firmly in his mouth that surgical intervention appeared necessary," said Charles King, principal analyst with Pund-IT. Whet...

"This is common among IT products, where they deliver a cool, interesting, innovative product but it includes numerous mistakes that are only fixed in the next version," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "It is a typical one step forward followed by one-step-ba...

One of the most valuable things about the Pi-Top process is that its assembly leads users to appreciate computing more viscerally and intimately than a simple trip to Best Buy or Amazon does, noted Charles King, principal analyst for Pund-IT "Just because personal computing h...