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It should be pretty clear by now that the level of effort devoted to manipulating our opinions is unprecedented at the moment. Granted, a lot of this has to do with the fact that most of the "free" online services we use aren't free at all. They are trading our ability to make measured opinions for advertisers' money, and some of these "advertisers" are foreign governments. ...

Bias is a nasty beast. A market research class I took in graduate school focused on the identification and elimination of bias. My final paper was on an intentionally biased piece of research. It was far easier to introduce bias and then talk about the bias than it would have been to attempt to do unbiased work and defend it as unbiased ...

I'm getting increasingly concerned that Tesla will go under and set back the electric car industry a decade or more. At the beginning of the last century, electric, steam and gas all competed for the automotive industry, resulting in far more advancements in gas cars than electric over the decades. Thankfully, no one has brought back steam. ...

Braavo's financing would be considered medium-risk, noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group The company "basically takes control of revenue and then pays itself, so their risk is far lower than if they were letting you collect and make payments," he told the ...

When I read the book Ready Player One, I really got excited about the future of virtual reality, but the movie really didn't do the book justice. Some blockbusters have succeeded in interspersing computer graphics with real people and making it hard to tell the difference. Still, a totally rendered movie still looks like animation and you just don't get the film quality you get from, well, film. ...

"It's likely not as good a deal as it appears," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, "because we often focus on the users and not the capacity -- or how Google will mine the data." Google One Features...

Amazon has about 45,000 skills while Cortana has only about 250, but "It isn't the skills, since most Alexa users use only a tiny fraction of them," noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "It's more that Alexa is the only interface for Echo devices, so peop...

Tesla is trending to fail spectacularly. (CEO Elon Musk actually has an impressive failure history.) Tesla has been burning cash at an unsustainable rate, and it keeps making avoidable mistakes that weaken it. ...

Apple is one of the most popular and powerful companies in the United States, and last week it became the most valuable as well. That news brought back some personal memories of my time at IBM, when it was the most powerful and valuable technology company in the world. For a long time, it seemed virtually untouchable. ...

The iPad "is better for entertainment -- but if that's what you want, I'd suggest the large Amazon Kindle is a far more economical choice than either," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "This Surface Go is far closer to what people seem to want in a smal...

I just finished The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity, and it was one hell of a read ...

For pretty much my entire career, CEOs have been almost invulnerable. Even when Steve Jobs, Apple's founder and lead spokesperson, tried to get then-CEO John Scully fired from Apple, he lost and got fired himself. ...

The first versions "will have issues that make them more niche than mainstream," predicted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "A lot of stuff needs to get resolved -- battery life, durability of the screen, and how well the device morphs between smartphone and...

"Most of the new wireless speakers we have seen of late have digital assistants built in," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group For example, Sonos recently launched both standalone speakers and a soundbar with digital assistant support, he told TechNewsWorl...

Microsoft Inspire is taking place this week in Las Vegas, and a huge number of my personal friends and I were prebriefed on what the big announcements would be. Strangely, the embargo on the news lifted last week, so I'm not going to get in trouble for sharing some of the revelations. ...

"On paper it is like Amazon for merchants, and it could go a long way to making distributors obsolete," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "We used to call this 'disintermediation,' and if executed well, it would better allow merchants to compete with Ama...

"Google sells information, so that makes them money," remarked Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "Apple generally doesn't, but it may depend on their relationship with carriers, who increasingly are selling this information," he told the E-Commerce Times....

It's interesting to compare Google and Amazon -- two of the most incredibly powerful companies in the world. Amazon brings out product after product, with more successes than failures. Google largely buys companies and then loses interest in what they do. ...

The indication that businesses owned by women use social media more "identifies a known personality difference between men and women," observed Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group "By nature, women tend to be more social," he told the E-Commerce Times....

Tech companies have been going through a lot of CEOs of late. Prior to its split, HP had a revolving door for CEOs with mistake after mistake. Yahoo's board kept making choices that made things worse, Uber's CEO almost took the company under (granted, he was a founder), and CEOs fired for ethical lapses jumped a whopping 36 percent. Intel's CEO was fired for an ethical lapse.